Missed My Bus

**Hello solvers**, and thanks once again for trying my puzzles. I think these clues are pretty straightforward, but I'd love to know how you got on - I know my style of cryptic can be tricky to get to grips with. While you're here, feel free to follow https://crosshare.org/tuber for more like this. Here comes the wash-up for the perplexed:

ACROSS.  1A. ||"Small" = S + "prickly fruit" = PEAR.|| 5A. ||Containment of "also" = AND in "father" = PA.|| 6A. ||Hidden in deRELICt.|| 7A. ||Central letter of "putin" = T + anag. HURT.||

DOWN. 1D. ||Containment of "pence" = P in "kind" = SORT.|| 2D. ||Containment (again, sorry) of "copy" = APE inside "advertising dept" = PR.|| 3D. ||Double def.|| 4D. ||"Managed" = RAN + "church" = CH.||

Nice and straightforward clues. In a variation of @CrackingTheCryptic lingo, it's a GAP (Genuinely Approachable Puzzle).

A very entertaining cryptic; many thanks.

I very much enjoyed 1D and 2D and found the whole thing to be a breezy, fun solve.

Cryptic 5x5 #22 by tuber

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