November 2021 Puzzles and Solutions

Across

• 1 Long part of unlit chasm (4)
• 3 Segment of moth or a cicada’s upper body (8)
• 9 Cars abandoned in front of a vacant showroom - oh, the irony! (7)
• 10 Unusually chatty after time ran out for Britannia, perhaps (5)
• 11 Plenty to draw? (5)
• 12 Chicken or canary? (6)
• 14 Weight is not returning (3)
• 16 Fifty invested in free ointment (5)
• 17 Asking prisoners to go downhill (3)
• 18 Slang or aphorism gets goat (6)
• 19 Four in Daniel's bed? (5)
• 22 Dyeing in Helsinki tableau retrospective (5)
• 23 University insinuated in spring rebellion calls (5,2)
• 24 Canine study also touches half of this (3-5)
• 25 Buck is a good way in front (4)

Down

• 1 Use a utensil to protect (8)
• 2 Wagon carrying a weight (5)
• 4 Joint actor (3)
• 5 Dowry dealing unexpectedly creates cause for celebration (5,7)
• 6 Monster merry-go-round mostly works (7)
• 7 Municipality's computers stored in crinkly wrappers (4)
• 8 Roomy USA so loosely inviting UK capital (12)
• 12 Conference town's betrayal takes guts (5)
• 13 Rush in to secure, for example, city in Canada (8)
• 15 Girl's grandma devoured, so the story goes (7)
• 20 With any luck, Santa might pay one to have meeting after five (5)
• 21 Alumnus has extremely obscure pipe (4)
• 23 Wrote after we left rubbish (3)