February 2009

1-across – Small quantity : MODICUM

8-across – Simian : APELIKE

9-across – Student discussion group — remains : SEMINAR

10-across – Small format newspaper : TABLOID

11-across – Fashion : STYLE

13-across – 100th anniversary : CENTENARY

15-across – Range : AMPLITUDE

18-across – Improve morally : EDIFY

21-across – Fruit — nuts : BANANAS

22-across – Take off : IMITATE

23-across – Invade conclusively — extend beyond limit : OVERRUN

24-across – Cockney’s part of London : EASTEND

1-down – Prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt : MOSES

2-down – Baby’s comforter : DUMMY

3-down – Sweets : CONFECTIONERY

4-down – Kind of swallow : MARTIN

5-down – Creeps : HEEBIEJEEBIES

6-down – Sensitive tree or shrub with globular clusters of yellow flowers : MIMOSA

7-down – Time of greatest popularity : HEYDAY

12-down – Abound — pour : TEEM

14-down – Circular pleated collar — trump : RUFF

15-down – Britain : ALBION

16-down – Shallow fruit basket : PUNNET

17-down – Bearlike : URSINE

19-down – Overcome with wonder : INAWE

20-down – Surrender : YIELD

1-across – Overwhelming electoral victory : LANDSLIDE

8-across – Shapely fruit? : PEAR

9-across – Very small : MINUSCULE

10-across – Ready money : CASH

13-across – Lure : DECOY

15-across – Group with a shared characteristic — unit of Roman legion : COHORT

16-across – Medical : POTION

17-across – Work out by instinct : INTUIT

19-across – Dress : ATTIRE

20-across – Nick : NOTCH

21-across – Hand warmer — bungle : MUFF

24-across – Compulsive habit : ADDICTION

25-across – Domesticated animal supplying milk, meat and wool : GOAT

26-across – Honesty — tiny tiger : INTEGRITY

2-down – Very dry : ARID

3-down – Sullen : DOUR

4-down – Ornamental case on necklace for memento : LOCKET

5-down – Squidgy lump : DOLLOP

6-down – Inflammation of liver — I hate pits : HEPATITIS

7-down – Divine messenger — Russian port : ARCHANGEL

11-down – Confused tussle : SCRIMMAGE

12-down – Signal of truce or surrender : WHITEFLAG

13-down – Exhaust : DRAIN

14-down – Young man : YOUTH

18-down – Sneaked : TOLDON

19-down – Busy : ACTIVE

22-down – Luminary : STAR

23-down – Drink — left at sea : PORT

1-across – One arranging dance routines : CHOREOGRAPHER

8-across – Variety of lettuce : COS

9-across – Forever : ETERNALLY

10-across – Temporary runway : AIRSTRIP

11-across – Genuine : REAL

13-across – Deadly epidemic : PLAGUE

14-across – Cheap and ostentatious : FLASHY

16-across – Precipitation : RAIN

17-across – Unnecessary : NEEDLESS

20-across – Reacting to external stimuli : SENSITIVE

21-across – Levy : TAX

22-across – Organisation founded by William Booth : SALVATIONARMY

1-down – Bean used in making chocolate : COCOA

2-down – Derived from visual examination — noble aviators : OBSERVATIONAL

3-down – Containing many incidents : EVENTFUL

4-down – Celtic language : GAELIC

5-down – Female relative : AUNT

6-down – High spiral slide at fairground : HELTERSKELTER

7-down – With magnificent style : ROYALLY

12-down – Club : BLUDGEON

13-down – Sticklers for traditional rules : PURISTS

15-down – Historically powerful Florentine family : MEDICI

18-down – Three score : SIXTY

19-down – Capital of Peru : LIMA

1-across – Myopic : SHORTSIGHTED

9-across – Not warranted : UNDUE

10-across – Impish troublemaker : GREMLIN

11-across – Well-behaved : GOOD

12-across – In these times : NOWADAYS

14-across – Ridiculous : ABSURD

15-across – Parody : SENDUP

18-across – The Granite City : ABERDEEN

20-across – Defeat : LOSS

22-across – African spear : ASSEGAI

23-across – Tree — having lived longer : ELDER

24-across – Longest digit : MIDDLEFINGER

2-down – Ghastly : HIDEOUS

3-down – Stink : REEK

4-down – Register as unemployed : SIGNON

5-down – Small bombs : GRENADES

6-down – City in Oklahoma : TULSA

7-down – Doughy confection with filling of jam, apple etc : DANISHPASTRY

8-down – Device to warn of intruders : BURGLARALARM

13-down – Wasteful — gold pair : PRODIGAL

16-down – Involving a final desperate attempt : DOORDIE

17-down – Removal of stress : RELIEF

19-down – Abated : EASED

21-down – Seabird : TERN

1-across – Modest : DEMURE

4-across – Line on map connecting places of equal atmospheric pressure : ISOBAR

9-across – Abrupt in manner : BRUSQUE

10-across – Effective : VALID

11-across – In that place : THERE

12-across – Slaughter : CARNAGE

13-across – Serpent with noisy tail : RATTLESNAKE

18-across – Burial mound : TUMULUS

20-across – Indian prince : RAJAH

22-across – Peer : EQUAL

23-across – Instance : EXAMPLE

24-across – Substance used for misty stage effects : DRYICE

25-across – Attractive piece of metal : MAGNET

1-down – Discussion : DEBATE

2-down – Small rodent — computer attachment : MOUSE

3-down – Ask for : REQUEST

5-down – Break off : SEVER

6-down – Defensive wall : BULWARK

7-down – Long narrow stretch of water between Africa and Arabia : REDSEA

8-down – Favoured pupil : TEACHERSPET

14-down – Weapon store : ARMOURY

15-down – Blissful Buddhist state : NIRVANA

16-down – Be present at : ATTEND

17-down – Menacing words : THREAT

19-down – Light purple — flowering tree : LILAC

21-down – Far Eastern island country : JAPAN