Solution in January

ACROSS
9 …and please mince along the seafront (9)
10 Odd errand pilot missed in transmission (5)
11 Irate old queen gets lost in the country (7)
12 Rather badly stained (7)
13 Yearly loss: a void (5)
14 Laid down following drunken DT episode (9)
16 Worried, I left heavy lolly buried in a shady garden (4,2,3,6)
19 PS Lurches clumsily into tomb (9)
21 A fish, it’s said, is a pitch expert (5)
22 Two vehicles collide with a third (7)
23 Pod is definitely in house (7)
24 Human gods have a heart of stone (5)
25 Plant in element, or else (5,4)

DOWN
1 Five over, G Bale tees off and finds greens (10)
2 Working with long period absent – take it or leave it (7)
3 Real British: disturbed, wooden and bulging (6)
4 Celebration when old crook is locked up (4)
5 On the edge, perish horribly, the end of half the world (10)
6 I fucked his arse on the west Wales coast! (5,3)
7 Plughole entrance (6)
8 Climate made a pair of ducks nest in an upturned boot (4)
14 Stern critic of Johan (for his own good) (5,5)
15 Wandering made dreary time-waster (10)
17 Forgotten former pupil played violin (8)
18 Rentier capitalist living off unearned income? (8)
20 Traditional sperm-donor’s method: damage, entrap? (6)
21 At the mercy of 18 due to tiny creepy-crawly at Number 10 (6)
22 Theatrical clique (4)
23 Femme fatale seduced politician at the V&A (4)