Crossword 5
by Mackem

Solutions will appear soon, but you can send your answers to mackems_xwords@hotmail.com and we'll tell you if they're right.

Across

1 Nuptial railway sounds lazy (6)
6 Contest every fourth year left Dukakis without a cent (7)
9 Labour wives in the office (9)
11 Smart Prime Minister and king (5)
12 Spread seed at grave (6)
14 Quickly breathes in nitrogen or oxygen as afterthought (5)
15 Short address for moderate drink (3)
16 Prepared to study? Yes! (5)
18 Bill wounded a skier (6)
21 Large meeting for the right-wing at North London palace (5)
23 Her mystic mixture of strange potions in glass jars (9)
24 Naive gobstopper addicts (7)
25 One who sits patiently, and one who serves him (6)

Down

1 Proverbial place for piss-ups (were organised by Russians, intially) (7)
2 CIA need Blair. Corrupt, but he can't be wiped out (12)
3 IT? I'm so involved in any non-friendliness (9)
4 Pamper chief of staff over games of tennis (6)
5 Pretended to be electric bear .... (5)
7 .... famous bear, a final aid to relaxation (4)
8 Has difficulty breathing with cocktail of heroin, coke and speed (6)
10 Stir nice stew. Isn't consumed by boffins. (3,9)
13 Claim to be somewhere else when boxer swung both ways (5)
14 Fighter captured Che's head, and Cilla's rear (with a lot of middle, as she would say) (9)
16 About Shearer - unsatisfactory playing again and again (6)
17 Large chemical compound discovered by Mackem right under outdated college (7)
19 A short object. Apply like Zola does (6)
20 Hard backside (5)
22 Stops people getting in to University (4)