May 2000 - 15 x 15 Standard Cryptic Crossword

Clues - Across

1. Godless robbery in heartless American story (9)

5. Union leader about to take action on finding rust in the plant (5)

8. Envelopes surplus to requirements in the Civil Service? (6)

9. What one solicitor might charge for salt? (8)

11. Close approach (4)

12. Final notices (10)

14. Cheer-leaders song for Windsor, perhaps (5)

15. Agree it could be different in town (7)

16. Dramatist's restraint beginning to deteriorate in audition (7)

17. Dagger marks in the middle of a tapestry (5)

19. Brigade member, one captured by European turning up with Opposition leader in port (10)

20. Die, we hear, from an Asian illness (4)

22. Little churchwomen I might find dishy? (4-4)

23. Yes, pop round to get fruit (6)

24. Muslim ruler always seen around the Middle East (5)

25. Sort of love that can never last for long? (9)

Clues - Down

1. Mysterious bit of the vernacular can explain it (6)

2. A scale howsoever constructed can be somewhat unbalanced (4,1,5,5)

3. Jumbo production, nothing less, on a French battlefield (4)

4. School teacher takes hours restoring order ... (12)

5. ... although legally beyond his powers? (5,5)

6. Cut up motorway to country house for test place (11,4)

7. Be responsible for putting poetry into Old English (7)

10. UFO, for example, flying around above Britain (12)

13. Device for a sailor to criticise (10)

16. Raw fish in lime juice - immoral habit changed by revolutionary (7)

18. Ruminant found in well-scattered US states (6)

21. A pound of potatoes? (4)