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1a
Track (4)
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3a
Drink before dinner (8)
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9a
___ Man (1965 Beatles song) (7)
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10a
Young women (5)
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11a
Spring-blooming perennial flower (from Amsterdam?) (5)
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12a
From Kolkata, perhaps (6)
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14a
Author of Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) (8,5)
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17a
Mountainous region of central Italy (6)
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19a
Embodiment of perfection (5)
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22a
Noblemen (5)
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23a
Annoying — tedious (7)
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24a
Unable to make a decision (8)
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25a
Attempt (4)
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1d
Inflicting punishment (8)
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2d
Cloth for drying (5)
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4d
Rain, snow, sleet or hail (13)
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5d
Fixed (5)
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6d
Violent local windstorm (7)
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7d
Bunch of fives (4)
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8d
Ancient temple, home to Greece's foremost Oracle (6)
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13d
Wealthy (8)
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15d
Comments (7)
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16d
Scotch (6)
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18d
Trees (anag) (5)
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20d
Historical era (5)
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21d
Interlaced structure (4)