| 1 | | Understanding how to be avaricious? (8) |
| 6 | | Some fizzy drink for father (3) |
| 9 | | Trainee soldier, a rotter, meets
an alien (5) |
| 10 | | Give insincere praise that's less sparkling (7) |
| 11 | | One who makes you pay for a horse (7) |
| 13 | | Saint Raymond the Wanderer (5) |
| 14 | | Odd petals, delicately coloured (6) |
| 15 | | I can't answer, I'm here and there (6) |
| 19 | | Bring tea round in porcelain (5) |
| 21 | | Take a rest, having drunk old wine? (3,4) |
| 22 | | A chap one takes on - or a very
large number (7) |
| 23 | | An Arabian chieftain turned me
back, always poetically (5) |
| 24 | | At present there's a gap between V and X (3) |
| 25 | | Hustlers, crooked and without pity (8) |
