I found this on the easy side, solving time, 14 mins
* = anagram < = reversed
ACROSS
1 IN SIDE doing time = in prison
4 MEDIUM Double definition
8 S (first letter) KILLS
9 PUG I LIST
10 B LUDGEON (lounged)*
11 TOO K IN
12 TURF ACCOUNTANT Cryptic definition
15 STUDIO AUDIENCE (cautious indeed)*
18 S (MY RN) A s.a. = sex appeal = it
20 TEN i.e. eleven with one sent off A (Bristol) CITY
22 FOURTEEN Roman numeral XIV (hidden)
23 SK(INN)Y
24 REP (m)UTE m = maiden (over) – cricket
25 AD HERE
DOWN
1 INK-BLOT (to blink)* standardised test
2 SALA D alas<
3 DESPERADO (Dear dopes)*
5 (h)EIGHT
6 I L L – GOTTEN (to gent)* &lit
7 MISSION O in missing less g
9 PANIC BUTTON Cryptic defintion using two meanings of ‘pressed’
13 R A DAR T RAP
14 UNIONISED un-ionised
16 TAMBO UR
17 ENT ENT E
19 AN(ci)ENT CI = 101 in Roman numerals My last entry, dialect word for ‘about’
21 C LIVE
Re 19 ac I was surprised to learn that ‘anent’ is a dialect word. I just now looked up Chambers where it’s parenthetically mentioned as Scot.
The first time that I came across this word was in the late Fifties when I (a boy of some 15 years) was near Calcutta and we were getting the hoary newspaper The Statesman.
Many letters in the editorial page began with “Anent your correspondent’s etc. etc.”
Probably the editor in those years immediately after Independence was a Scot!
There again! I meant 19dn.
You’re quite right it’s Scottish. My ‘dialect’ reference was meant to cover that, but I maybe should have just said ‘Scottish’. Interesting examples, you quote – I can’t recall meeting ANENT in ‘real life’.