7  Veto agreement about contributions (6)

 8  Cross, shout aloud for some food (8)

 9  Maybe Edison has a bit of space for new funder (8)

10 Old name for fire (6)

11 Harmonica playing's not hard for dandy (8)

12 Frames lady in soldiers' embrace (6)

13 Times starts to embrace movement (11)

18 Essentially Dominic has temperament to be single (6)

20 Game or trout and eel pie (8)

22 Player's hackneyed, almost half-cut (6)

23 Fancy cutting wages after the end of July (8)

24 Promising person pinches bribe returned for author (8)

25 The French said Europe is to invade Croatia - tremble (6)

 2  T-twist and dance (4,4)

 3  Sharpe's gardener ought to be very drunk (6)

 4  Write and ask about sport's equipment (5,3)

 5  Tablet computer (6)

 6  Copper's territory includes many a schemer (7)

 8  Grief received over request in office (7,6)

14 Home Counties heartlessly redeveloped for cold storage facility (3,5)

15 I enter trying to break up this ring (8)

16 Nondescript item of furniture (7)

17 H-head embroiled in Latin affairs raised a sensation (7)

19 Cuts up heroin for messenger (6)

21 Country affected on the borders of Gambia (6)