Across
| 1 | Elaborate garden pieces going first? (12) |
| 9 | Ray’s plate holding bad piece of fruit (9) |
| 10 | Silver Street plant (5) |
| 11 | Recluse’s substitute transportation described (5) |
| 12 | Doctor Roger Fine, visitor from abroad (9) |
| 13 | Misty ran, capturing attention (7) |
| 15 | Artists return small prize (7) |
| 16 | Caviar-covered sea lettuce (7) |
| 19 | Sly’s hit “Rocky” is popular (7) |
| 21 | Wild terrapins develop (9) |
| 22 | Anger about loud weapon (5) |
| 23 | State of uncertainty lowering the bar? (5) |
| 24 | Roget’s book, “The Second Gold Rush”, nearly finished (9) |
| 25 | Off-season classes lose so much, Mr. Hurt (6,6) |
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Down
| 2 | Be sorry about fair proceeds (7) |
| 3 | Donor with change of heart to eventually quell sorrow (5) |
| 4 | College student has, if female, arranged hair (7) |
| 5 | Stuck here, enthralled by Count (7) |
| 6 | I’m a soldier, no? Unreal (9) |
| 7 | Female relative Ann overcome by endless woe (7) |
| 8 | Dotty herself wires rides at the expo (6,6) |
| 9 | Bet die really rolls slowly (12) |
| 14 | Come up with ideas after start of bridal shower (9) |
| 17 | Poisonous atmospheres upsetting Mr. Walton’s intention (7) |
| 18 | Ultimately extreme depravity surrounding the heartless ousted person (7) |
| 19 | Ridicules case of schlock vases (7) |
| 20 | Conflagration crosses mountain fern oasis (7) |
| 22 | Get to run separately (5) |
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