I found this one quite easy – solving time, 13 mins
* = anagram < = reversed
ACROSS
6 PR (O F) ESS OR
8 IMP thE L
10 1 C EBERG (grebe)<
11 S (ADD) ENS(e) Shortage of = take off last letter (not seen that too often)
12 CARIBBEAN (Bare cabin)*
14 CO (WE) R
15 THOMAS (HARD) Y (a myth so)*
18 ADAMS Hidden reversal
19 IMP (ER) IOUS
21 CAT ALAN
22 ATHEISM (his team)*
24 T HOLE Dialect for ‘to suffer’
25 SUNDOWNER (nursed now)*
DOWN
1 POSEUR (rose up)*
2 MERE hidden
3 PRISON CHAPLAIN Cryptic definition
5 S (P EED) WAY Dee<
6 PR IN CE
7 SEGREGATIONIST (Get signatories)*
9 LU (ST) RE
13 BOOKSELLER Cryptic definition
15 TR(y) ACTION
16 MA’S COT
17 ISOMER “Is a certain amount of grain brought into compound?” Think this has to be right, ?S?M?R, but don’t quite see why – “a certain amount” is maybe ‘some’ Thanks, Geoff, for explaining this in comment 1 below = IS OMER
20 OR IE N T (last letters)
23 HOOP cf HOP (dance)
17d IS OMER – an omer is a Hebrew dry measure containing about 2.25 litres, 1/10 epha.
It is also a period in the Jewish calender when an omer of grain or a sheaf of corn is offered as a sacrifice.
nmsindy, you seem to have accidentally put this in the Azed category.
Many thanks, Andrew, corrected now – a bit easy for an Azed!