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Cryptic crossword #15

ACROSS

1 Express disapproval about British leader putting his country before Europe (6)

4 Headless rodents grab physiotherapist鈥檚 tool (3,3)

9 Microbiologist finding sticky substance by old city (7)

10 Boy eating last of supper with zero fat (5)

11 Audibly put together joint when necessary (2,3)

12 Vehicles鈥� gas emission reversed by first generation, adding carbon (7)

13 Large animal at university 鈥� this might help her find her way around (11)

18 Complex pattern of French law on aluminium (7)

20 Implied sensitivity, myself included (5)

22 Climbing plants with drug moving back in tubes (5)

23 Silver and spirit found in Turing鈥檚 coat, adding information (7)

24 Look to pull queen backwards (6)

25 Northern Ireland and Gibraltar initially stay in the European Medicines Agency? Turing鈥檚 cracked it! (6)

DOWN

1 Withdraw record held by Madrid club (6)

2 Chemist had some of Garbo鈥檚 children (5)

3 Bone in neck ape broke (7)

5 Cellular features said to be more humorous (5)

6 Fowl took off, it鈥檚 reported, fleeing this? (4,3)

7 Lover or church? Astronauts feel it intensely (1-5)

8 Nuclear reaction鈥檚 ability to sustain itself, sceptics would have it? (11)

14 鈥淥ne is getting older,鈥� as American writes: this could reveal the workings of her mind (7)

15 Recklessly augment harmful chemical (7)

16 Illness causing passion for waiting in line? (1,5)

17 Part of flower that is viewed negatively (6)

19 Heads of Turing鈥檚 agency sought every reason to develop shocking weapon (5)

21 Hold cold fish (5)

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