Cryptic #10 - by Symptomatic

Across 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1 Fabric with 9
butter around
10 11
cheese (7)
5 No rules for one
bridge assembly, 12 13
in the end (7)
10 Tether in
disarray - 14 15 16
unlucky for some
(8)
17 18
11 Bullies heard
liquids (6)
12 Exchange with 19 20 21
tailor, perhaps
(6)
13 Locks Grant in 22 23
arenas (8)
14 Drugs in game?
24 25
Not at first (8)
16 Afterthought
about so-so,
"smart" slang (6) journalist mis- 7 Ordering the
17 Poor, torn purdah spells "geist" (7) return of
(4,2) everyone inside -
Down cringe-generating
18 Picture of child
(9)
weighs nothing? 2 Whence is that
(8) lovely fragrance 8 A novel black
wafting? An old suit? (5,2,8)
19 Timeless truths
about collapse of book (1,9,5) 9 Makes sharp
platform (8) 3 Wild time in criticism about
Florida (5) tin boats (6)
20 Stab sage-topped
lambs' legs (6) 4 Book draft on 15 Fees in peril after
wild theories communist
22 People initially
(3,5,7) changes the law
put a number in a
(9)
classification, 6 A novel response
making a leap (6) to "Is Douglas' 18 Poor feeling is
home on the top to this
23 Stole sodium and
mainland?" person? (6)
technetium; put
inside garage (8) (2,3,2,2,6) 21 Like 102
encoded
24 Locks away sole
characters? (5)
criminal in courts
(7)
25 Most nervous

Symptomatic