Crossword No 6687

Across 1. Book covering part of North Africa (7) 5. The price of a suit (5) 8. Appeal to a domestic help to confess (4,5) 9. Half afraid to give a hand (3) 10. Perhaps every church includes one (4) 12. Unwelcome visitors on a ship, but they pay for their keep (8) 14. They have a case for those seeking a rise (6) 15. Hasten to provide foreign capital (6) 17. Avoid a tackle from the team and stride on (8) 18. Back sports clubs in an attempt (4) 21. I write a note and leave (3) 22. and 2 Down: Roman investors' device for coating fish with butter (9-3) 24. Wood spirit (5) 25. An empty new setlement (7)

Down 1. I object to 200 going over a place of pilgrimage (5) 2. See 22 Across 3. Prepare a gun to shoot a bird (4) 4. No robe for a king (6) 5. Study an island made of sand and cement (8) 6. New testament used in evidence? (9) 7. Presumably they like painstaking people (7) 11. Offers resistance and doesn't go unnoticed (6,3) 13. Helps to define the goal of angry lawyers (8) 14. Members of the family, I stress, are difficult (7) 16. Confine a sheep that's repressed (4-2) 19. Making a loop needs great height (5) 20. Tax it out of frivolity (4) 23. Not hot diamonds? (3)

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