Complete
00:00:00
1 9 11 16 18 22 24 13 2 14 3 19 8 12 23 4 25 5 10 15 20 6 21 7 17
  1. 1a Overcast (6)
  2. 4a German dramatist and poet who wrote The Threepenny Opera, d.1956 (6)
  3. 9a Knock down (3,4)
  4. 10a Climbing plant of the pea family, cultivated as fodder (5)
  5. 11a Fault (5)
  6. 12a Dashing and debonair young man (7)
  7. 13a Regular failure to turn up for work (11)
  8. 18a Ceremonially impure (7)
  9. 20a Tree of the birch family (5)
  10. 22a Immature form of an insect before metamorphosis (5)
  11. 23a Flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture (7)
  12. 24a Highly motivated (6)
  13. 25a Committed to memory (6)
  14. 1d Large wader of the sandpiper family (6)
  15. 2d Possessor (5)
  16. 3d Varied (7)
  17. 5d Bolero composer, d. 1937 (5)
  18. 6d Short curved naval sword (7)
  19. 7d South Pacific island where both Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin spent time (6)
  20. 8d Causing alarm (11)
  21. 14d White rum, first produced in Cuba (7)
  22. 15d Specimen (7)
  23. 16d Greek mathematician, d. mid-3rd century BC (6)
  24. 17d Out-and-out (6)
  25. 19d Fill with high spirits (5)
  26. 21d Discourage (5)