Across
Vessel goes round island in pleasure trip (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CRUSE [vessel – as in the widow’s cruse of oil] around I[sland]; a rather unfortunately topical introductory clue 6 POTTER : two cryptic definitions: a snooker player is one who pots and Harry Potter is the wizard schoolboy 9 MASHIE : MAS [well-qualified people] + HIE [run] 10 ACCIDENT : anagram [change] of DICE CAN’T 11 BEAU : BE [live] + A + U [socially acceptable] 12 TIEBREAKER : double / cryptic definition, which I would have expected to be hyphenated 13 SHADOW-BOXER : two meanings of ‘dog’ 18 APPRENTICE : cryptic definition, as in the the first line of the song, ‘The Lincolnshire Poacher’: ‘When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire’ 21 ORBS : cryptic definition, ‘orbs’ being a poetic word for ‘eyes’, 22 FURLOUGH : FÜR [German ‘for’] + LOUGH [Irish lake] 23 BACK UP : double definition 24 GANNET : GAN [reversal of NAG – ‘horseback!] + NET [catch] 25 PROSIT : anagram [drunk] of PORT IS – nice surface
Snooker player who went to a wizard school (6)
Old club well qualified people run (6)
Dice can't change your bad luck (8)
Live with a socially acceptable boyfriend (4)
Decisive court action for one seeking a divorce? (10)
Dog goes after dog, but he won't fight seriously (6-5)
He's bound to learn (10)
Spheres in sight (4)
Leave for German lake (8)
Support in reverse (4,2)
On horseback, catch the bird (6)
Port is drunk for good health (6)
Down
Twice give a quiet admonition — it's confidential (4-4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
self-explanatory, I think 2 ASCENT : A SCENT [trail] 3 CONCERTO : CO[mpany] + anagram [puts out] of CORNET – another satisfying surface 4 STADIA : ST[reet] [way] + reversal [to mount] of AIDA [Verdi opera] 5 CHAPEL : double definition, with further play on the double meanings of ‘press’ and ‘oratory’ – a clever clue 7 RUNNER : double definition 8 PAPERWEIGHT : cryptic definition: I really liked this typical Rufus nautical reference! 14 DENTURES : cryptic definition 15 EXORCISM : and another 16 SPRUNG : double definition – but aren’t the two very close? 17 ABDUCT : AB [sailor] + DUCT [tube] 19 RULING : double definition 20 EMBARK : M [a thousand] in [accepted by] E BARK [bay – as hounds do]: this one made me smile. [I don’t think I’d come across ’embark’ as a transitive verb before; Collins doesn’t have it but Chambers does – as the first meaning, in fact.]
A trail that leads to the summit (6)
Company puts out cornet piece for orchestra and soloists (8)
A way to mount opera in arenas (6)
Press union members for oratory (6)
Athlete or climber (6)
Sheet anchor (11)
Plates used for eating (8)
The banning of spirits (8)
A trap may be, in two ways (6)
Kidnap a sailor on the tube (6)
One way of underlining a decision (6)
Take it on board — there's a thousand accepted by eBay (6)
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