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4d, Determine the value of quarry? (7). E?T???T.
12a. What a shoplifter does in and out of jail? (5,5) ???E? S???K. Takes stock?
25a? Having lost heart to wife, I must pay. (3). O?E.

4d) extrat
12a) takes stock (in terms of thinks about in jail)
25a) owe.... I ..one loses heart n to w (wife)

extract that was meant to be..sorry

Thank you, andyc. Still don't understand the first two!

12a : "takes stock" is a double definition
Steals the goods; make an overall assessment of a situation,

Extract

To determine the value of (Mathematical) and (to) quarry

Thank you, elle and mamya. I hadn't heard the expression "steal the goods".

"Steals the goods" is just my explanation of taking (pinching ) the stock (goods)!

Thank you again, elle.
I got the shoplifting bit but for reason I had a blind spot and couldn't see the stocktaking aspect of the solution!