1 Across and 45 Across form a phrase, and the other unclued entries form a word ladder linking them, by changing one letter at a time, always forming real words. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Across
11 Weary junkie’s eaten mollusc (10)
13 Everything taken into account, at last, endlessly (5, two words)
14 Holiday son’s taken from country in empty spaces (5)
15 Everybody in work makes useful by-product (7, two words)
17 Cheat I rumbled beginning to look honest (7)
19 Colonnade to put in square area (4)
22 Stones swapping vocal parts – they make records fast (6)
24 Shrinking, like clothes after dry-cleaning? (9)
25 Take us...
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