Not The Saturday Prize Puzzle

NTSPP - 055 by Radler
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The crossword includes a phrase (related to 5 down) which has been split across a number of separately clued solutions, each of which holds one or more words from the phrase.  Some of those solutions hold two or more words that would not normally constitute a phrase in themselves.

Thank you to Prolixic for test-solving this puzzle, and for suggesting a better and more suggestive 16d than I had originally clued.

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  •  1  Universal Cinema production featured in cryptic clue (10)

  •  7  Turn on radio (4)

  •  9  Doctor arrested East German for careless talk (6)

  • 10 Stuck heading for Pole? (8)

  • 11 Most sylphlike: perhaps Pussy Galore? (10)

  • 13 Johnny's ready (4)

  • 14 Seven meandering hand-free during bicycle race (5,3,4)

  • 17 Given what was meant by 14 20, nerd gets irritated then goes inside (12)

  • 19 Stole and received sentence (4)

  • 21 On edge in figure 20, it's said (2,8)

  • 22 Product of a generic businessman (8)

  • 23 Echo Zero Charlie Echo Foxtrot? (1,5)

  • 24 Grant produced every piece (4)

  • 25 Work's dreadfully tiresome, but instrumental in determining vision (10)

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  •  2  Settle down on bedding to talk amorously (4,2)

  •  3  Parasite: use wrong name to point it out (9)

  •  4  Sweep up and down (3)

  •  5  9 apocryphally accredited with 7ac 14 20 12 23 (7,8)

  •  6  Bananas eaten in lust, producing number twos (11)

  •  7  Against invading, so resigned (5)

  •  8  Northbound station commuting time to go astray but not a problem (3-5)

  • 12 Our goal is “Win or get drunk”, swallowing one's pride (4,5,2)

  • 15 Sweet skirt and coat (5,4)

  • 16 Fantasise when male gets end caught in steamroller (8)

  • 18 Lover's afterthought on unknown man giving cold embrace (6)

  • 20 13 or one of the 13 states surrounded by water (5)

  • 23 Individual drive back (3)

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