Help will be appreciated for the following, please:
ACROSS:
23 ----- Declaration statement issued in 1917 calling for the establishment of a unified Yugoslav state(5):
C?R?U
24 Parliamentarian soldier(9): ??U?????D
DOWN:
16 Colonel ----, nickname of brewer Sir W.E. Younger(1905-92)(8): ?C???T?P
19 Ancient region corresponding to central Austria and Bavaria(7): N???C?M
25 John---- (d.1812), poet and playwright(5): ??L?P
Many thanks for the help in advance!