No 10300, Friday 04 Nov 11, Sankalak

WOW!! Especially for the long answers.
ACROSS

1   - Entrancement by a male python is unusual (9) - HYPNOTISM {M+PYTHON+IS}*

5   - Net surfer's go-between! (5) - MODEM [CD]

8   - Oriental, toxic preparation that is way out (6) - EXOTIC {E}{XOTIC}*

9   - Machine part with an eccentric fastener (5-3) - CRANK PIN {CRANK} {PIN}

11 - The Bard's flower (4) - AVON [GK}

12 - The rest, captured by returning English crowd, are exasperating (10) - BOTHERSOME {B{OTHERS}OM)(E<-}

14 - Announcements of the passing of people, originally orotund pieces (5) - OBITS {O}{BITS}

15 - Tourist attraction inspires a musical mode, trendy, reversed (7) - NIAGARA {NI}{AGAR}{A}<-

16 - Concerning a professional stance cut short (7) - APROPOS {A}{PRO}{POSe}

17 - Birthmarks seen on people in China evidently (5) - NAEVI [T]

19 - Method of power transmission for bikers (5,5) - CHAIN DRIVE [CD]

20 - Render an animal infertile for small reward (4) - SPAY {S}{PAY}

22 - Lively, like Mickey Mouse, say (8) - ANIMATED [DD]

23 - Six about to trap one French ruminant mammal (6) - VICUNA {VI}{C{UN}A}

24 - Good man on way back, is taken in by salary — a fall guy … (5) - PATSY {PA{TS<-}Y}

25 - … fed in our shed clandestinely (9) - NOURISHED [T]

DOWN

1   - What you hear from a donkey (3-3) - HEE-HAW [E]

2   - Just released in post office, magazine is beginning to tempt pressman (15) - PHOTOJOURNALIST {P{HOT}O}{JOURNAL}{IS}{T}

3   - Nil racket from this Norse god (4) - ODIN {O}{DIN}

4   - But sailors in it are not necessarily traders (8,4) - MERCHANT NAVY [CD]

5   - Be wary of the lecturer, he knows what you are thinking (4-6) - MIND-READER {MIND}-{READER}

SEE THIS CARTOON

6   - Homicidal cop put off by bag of letters for the embassy (10,5) - DIPLOMATIC POUCH*

7   - A new medal fabricated for Nobel laureate (7) - MANDELA {A+N+MEDAL}*

10 - Medical officer from head office exploits stimulus in operation (5,7) - HOUSE SURGEON {HO}{USE S}{URGE)(ON}

13 - Daily journal about southern writers in a place where drugs can be had (10) - DISPENSARY {DI{S}{PENS}ARY}

16 - Welders tool, a somewhat rigid gripping device (3,4) - ARC LAMP {A}{R}{C LAMP}

18 - Manual delivered by messenger (2,4) - BY HAND [DD]

21 - Two soldiers in a 1958 movie (4) - GIGI {GI}{GI}

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