2025 Themeless Fives #1

1A: ||**outcast**: HA[-un]TED||\
4A: ||**a subject**: LIE ("get down") + [a]GE[s]||\
5A: ||**that scares me**: YES ("prog  band") around I ("one") + K ("track at the end")||\
1D: ||**rolling**: [hig]H[way] + ILLY ("badly")||\
2D: ||**adjustment**: TWE{r ("right") -> A ("left in adept")}K||\
3D: ||**to decorate a tree**: (paSSER Domesticus)<||

Great stuff! I was going to comment with my favourite clues but I honestly loved them all, great surfaces and clever wordplay throughout :)

I agree with Nate - really gratifying solve!

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