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25a I'm neutral: figure it out (7) n?????? 21d The old, old song (5) a???? 15d Cocktail cooler (7) s?i???? Thanks

25 Numeral - I'm neutral minus 'it'

15 Slammer would fit 'cocktail' and 'cooler' (prison).

15 D. A 'stinger' is a cocktail, I'm unsure about the 'cooler'.

I've already sent off my entry, so don't know where your rogue "I" came from in 15d, but the answer was indeed SLAMMER. Likewise, your "a" at the start of 21d is wrong. Answer is an anagram of "old" and an old word for "the."

Pedants' corner: "The old" doesn't give a Y, but an old rune called "thorn" (pronounced "th")!

Hi, ChrisE. I was taking "the old" to be "ye" which, with the second "old" in the clue, gives anagram fodder for the answer.

(Sorry. You obviously realised that :-) )

It was pedantic, but most don;t realise that the "ye" in "Ye Olde Tea Shoppe" would have been pronounced "the" (though it wouldn't have been called that at the time, tea being a later introduction!)