Shattered Silence
By teamcrazymatt
(Originally published as MyCrossword #1457.)
Across
| 1 | Is MIT here ensuring capturing atoms? (11) |
| 9 | Arms previously used to crush revolutionary and resistance (8) |
| 10 | Column by 6 insiders from Maine is unsuccessful (2,4) |
| 11, 22 | 11, 22Rev. Spooner's delivery to trouble prayer (4,4) |
| 12 | Stone-faced king comfortable losing head is a damn criminal (10) |
| 13 | Work with queen after standard error of page - he ruins the fun (5,6) |
| 17 | Action hero charging tense old American as a traitor (11) |
| 20 | Carlsen in the opening castled strangely without rook active in strung-out game (4,6) |
| 22 | See 11a |
| 23 | Regulars to receive stuffing, blue and disgusting (6) |
| 24 | Holy men after decapitation left buried in grave (8) |
| 25 | Characters in silent pose time and again in these? (11) |
Down
| 2 | Stone illuminated by night with love falling close to death (8) |
| 3 | Dance in circle and kick first (5) |
| 4 | At times of trouble, ultimately so negative, stick with the new (5,3,3,4) |
| 5, 18 | 05, 18Actor and director breaking bleak habits with Zen (9,5) |
| 6 | State Russian's approval to travel north through river in St. Petersburg (6) |
| 7 | A year wasted going over a wide passage (7) |
| 8, 21 | 08, 21Often spring tests in the end; Amazon woman has exhausted muscles (5,5) |
| 14 | Settle work put up following bad half-hearted performance (9) |
| 15 | Opening Rome's borders after collapse of empire (8) |
| 16 | As children turned up, finally became upset (7) |
| 18 | See 5d |
| 19 | Agree with bum at hospital department (6) |
| 21 | See 8d |
