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This House Believes solution

The unclued answers (including –STITUTION) could all be preceded by both PRO- and CON-.  (While pro and con are opposites, they clearly aren’t when considered as prefixes!)  Superfluous definitions in clues indicated 4 PROs and 3 CONs, hence the motion was carried, and Y was to be shaded.

ACROSS

4              TANKFUL; anag.

9              PEPERONI; pep er on I

10           RAYS; ‘raise’ (up vb.); direct = CONDUCT

11           STEAD; T,e in sad; admit = CONFESS

12           SIGNEE; anag. – s

13           SMOLDER; S,m older

17           SEVERAL; sever al(l); object = PROTEST

19           NOEL; no(v)el; extravagant = PROFUSE

21           TRIFID; cf. Triffid

22           DOLIN; l in do in; Anton D, pseudonym of Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay (and one can see why he wanted one…)

23           AIDE; cf. idea

24           TICK-TOCK; tick + tock (=t)

25           ELEMENT; el em en t

DOWN

1              FIRST ESTATE; test in firs ate

2              URATE; U rate

3              SLYEST; l yes in St; to persuade = CONVINCE

5              APISM; is in a PM

6              NESIOT; I 0 in nest

7              UNSEEN; N,S in (Q)ueen

8              LIBERALNESS; anag; no longer hold out = PROTEND

14           SERAIL; Ar in lies (all rev.)

15           TRISTE; s in trite

16           OOLITE; (the)o(d)olite

18           ADD-ON; ad don; intense = PROFOUND

20           EIDOS; so die (all rev.)

 
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