| 1 | Playing lone chip in card game (8) |
| 2 | Unsavory character of money-back offer penetrated by expert (9) |
| 3 | Husband located missing female dog (5) |
| 4 | Rapidity of ocean’s rise (5) |
| 5 | Seedy cakes spur woodpecker (9) |
| 6 | Athens, say, is static, yet changing (4-5) |
| 7 | White guy stumbling along (5) |
| 8 | Nun running across tigress is terrified (6) |
| 14 | Proverbs holding out hope, oddly, for certain pitchers (9) |
| 15 | Determine sectarian’s rent (9) |
| 17 | Greeting singer Mel, for the most part, is initially somewhat haphazard (3-2-4) |
| 18 | Paid athletes accepting skinflint’s endless assurances (8) |
| 21 | Division of second-rate cattle farm (6) |
| 23 | Mr. Reiner covers love song (5) |
| 24 | Swiss mathematician’s ship described (5) |
| 25 | Company soldier hugs red dog (5) |
