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1-across – Blasphemous act : SACRILEGE

8-across – Common addition to a Martini : OLIVE

9-across – Lie back : RECLINE

10-across – From Khartoum, say : SUDANESE

11-across – Wee : TINY

13-across – Where an aircraft may be kept : HANGAR

14-across – Overall : INTOTO

16-across – Lengthy yarn : SAGA

17-across – Character introducing e.g. the left-hand part of a piano score : BASSCLEF

19-across – In metallurgy, treats with heat : ANNEALS

20-across – Pillage : RIFLE

21-across – Muscle important in respiration : DIAPHRAGM

1-down – German piano manufacturer : STEINWAY

2-down – A soft touch? : CARESS

3-down – Move slowly – imperial measure : INCH

4-down – Potion conferring immortality : ELIXIROFLIFE

5-down – Now and again : EVERYSOOFTEN

6-down – Stay-at-home dad, perhaps : HOUSEHUSBAND

7-down – Ulterior motive : HIDDENAGENDA

12-down – Swedish physicist, d. 1874 – Mrs Tonga : ANGSTROM

15-down – Feeling of sickness : NAUSEA

18-down – St Matthew Passion composer : BACH

1-across – Briefing note : MEMO

3-across – Established procedure : PROTOCOL

9-across – Equid – stupid person : JACKASS

10-across – Like certain angles or accents : ACUTE

11-across – Author Clive Staples – British Olympian Denise : LEWIS

12-across – Public address system : TANNOY

14-across – Display impatience : CHAMPATTHEBIT

17-across – Unsophisticated : GAUCHE

19-across – Designate, perhaps wrongly or restrictively : LABEL

22-across – Mediterranean tree with edible pods : CAROB

23-across – Fish tanks : AQUARIA

24-across – Feign : SIMULATE

25-across – Sharpen : WHET

1-down – Colourful, decorated earthenware; I jam coal : MAJOLICA

2-down – Long-tailed parrot : MACAW

4-down – Respond following provocation : RISETOTHEBAIT

5-down – Songstress Shania or author Mark : TWAIN

6-down – Electric charge unit : COULOMB

7-down – Last bit of wine : LEES

8-down – Decline to take advantage of : PASSUP

13-down – Staunch supporter : STALWART

15-down – As Usain Bolt is of ablutions : ANAGRAM

16-down – He : HELIUM

18-down – Secretive coterie : CABAL

20-down – Tree the twigs of which were used to whip people : BIRCH

21-down – NT book : ACTS

1-across – Sleep-like state sometimes attempted in therapy : HYPNOSIS

5-across – Snatch : GRAB

9-across – Shoo! : SCRAM

10-across – Hand over : DELIVER

11-across – Question posed at the end of October : TRICKORTREAT

13-across – Period of greatest success or popularity : HEYDAY

14-across – Make numb : DEADEN

17-across – Slow down and stop working : GRINDTOAHALT

20-across – Change : INFLECT

21-across – New version of a song : REMIX

22-across – Fast-running animal – playwright David : HARE

23-across – Bound as e.g. bricks : CEMENTED

1-down – # : HASH

2-down – Depict : PORTRAY

3-down – Novel set in America’s Great Depression : OFMICEANDMEN

4-down – Not al fresco : INDOOR

6-down – Variety show : REVUE

7-down – Low singing voice : BARITONE

8-down – Someone overly keen on fashionable attire : CLOTHESHORSE

12-down – Like a violent hooligan : THUGGISH

15-down – Establish the boundaries of : DELIMIT

16-down – Pointed beard : GOATEE

18-down – Deduce : INFER

19-down – Cancelled : AXED

1-across – Nitwit : SILLYBILLY

7-across – Remove the fastenings from : UNCLASP

8-across – Smallish, colourful songbird : FINCH

10-across – Twilight : DUSK

11-across – Bright red mineral – ran cabin : CINNABAR

13-across – Attractive house, in adspeak : DESRES

15-across – Somnolent : DROWSY

17-across – Hallucinatory, altered state of mind : DELIRIUM

18-across – Language, source of ‘khaki’ and ‘purdah’ : URDU

21-across – Roughneck : YOBBO

22-across – Complicated geometrical figure or pattern : FRACTAL

23-across – Minuscule : TEENYWEENY

1-down – Dismisses : SACKS

2-down – Pb : LEAD

3-down – Affluent young banker, e.g. : YUPPIE

4-down – Foot soldiers : INFANTRY

5-down – Medieval weapon : LONGBOW

6-down – Old-fashioned person : FUDDYDUDDY

9-down – Loud commotion : HURLYBURLY

12-down – Erode : WEARDOWN

14-down – As salt is in water : SOLUBLE

16-down – Hearty laugh : GUFFAW

19-down – Irritable : RATTY

20-down – Roué : RAKE

1-across – Breeches worn in e.g. Bavaria : LEDERHOSEN

7-across – Regard for one’s own happiness : SELFLOVE

8-across – Speaker’s platform : DAIS

9-across – Arrest – where a criminal may be taken : NICK

10-across – Bar selling draught beers etc. : TAPROOM

12-across – Flabbergast : KNOCKFORSIX

14-across – What Paul wrote to the Romans, say : EPISTLE

16-across – Intensive publicity : HYPE

19-across – Wooded valley : DELL

20-across – Over the moon : THRILLED

21-across – Financial area of Manhattan : WALLSTREET

1-down – Relaxing start to the day : LIEIN

2-down – In reality, if not officially : DEFACTO

3-down – Chess piece worth five pawns : ROOK

4-down – Sign used in mathematics : OPERATOR

5-down – Senior : ELDER

6-down – Jewels or trinkets : BIJOUX

11-down – Extremely bony : SKELETAL

12-down – Cured fish : KIPPER

13-down – Azure : SKYBLUE

15-down – Dance – dip : SALSA

17-down – Apply e.g. a force : EXERT

18-down – Curses! : DRAT