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1-across – Very nervous or volatile : HIGHLYSTRUNG

9-across – Passage : AISLE

10-across – Speech : ORATION

11-across – Cupid : EROS

12-across – One deliberately damaging equipment etc : SABOTEUR

14-across – Pups – bedding – stretcher : LITTER

15-across – Don”t forget – come again : RECALL

18-across – Throaty : GUTTURAL

20-across – Inter : BURY

22-across – Stress : TENSION

23-across – Proportion : RATIO

24-across – Raise and keep up speed of competition : FORCETHEPACE

2-down – Briefly : INSHORT

3-down – Not the sole – scoundrel : HEEL

4-down – Beefeater : YEOMAN

5-down – Drying cloth : TEATOWEL

6-down – Combine : UNITE

7-down – Governing body of the Church of England : GENERALSYNOD

8-down – Treats as unimportant : MAKESLIGHTOF

13-down – Delegate : DEPUTISE

16-down – Marine : AQUATIC

17-down – Craft – project : LAUNCH

19-down – Male singer : TENOR

21-down – Short cut – taken when hunting! : CROP

1-across – Immediately : ATONCE

4-across – Danger : HAZARD

9-across – Continual routine competitive activity : RATRACE

10-across – Precise – demand : EXACT

11-across – Surrounded by : AMONG

12-across – Understand – cash in : REALISE

13-across – Good news : GLADTIDINGS

18-across – Recorded – snub : PUTDOWN

20-across – Sweet – nonsense : FUDGE

22-across – Pledge, especially of marriage : TROTH

23-across – Exercise – period : STRETCH

24-across – Over there : YONDER

25-across – Saunter : STROLL

1-down – Out of doors – in foreign parts : ABROAD

2-down – Excel : OUTDO

3-down – Altered – substituted : CHANGED

5-down – Stadium : ARENA

6-down – Astounding : AMAZING

7-down – Be indecisive : DITHER

8-down – Give testimony : BEARWITNESS

14-down – Failed – deflate : LETDOWN

15-down – Doomed to receive trouble : INFORIT

16-down – Indifference : APATHY

17-down – Deadly : LETHAL

19-down – Yellow-orange pigment : OCHRE

21-down – The same : DITTO

1-across – Happen to : BEFALL

4-across – Having two beats in the bar : DUPLE

7-across – Shelter : ASYLUM

8-across – Ridiculous : ABSURD

9-across – Agitate : STIR

10-across – Devoid of energy or interest : LISTLESS

12-across – Fruit : POMEGRANATE

17-across – Place for idol, or basin : PEDESTAL

19-across – Letters – armour : MAIL

20-across – Newspaperman : EDITOR

21-across – Good enough : WORTHY

22-across – In the altogether : NAKED

23-across – Believe : CREDIT

1-down – Where to get picked up : BUSSTOP

2-down – Pivot for lever : FULCRUM

3-down – : LIMELIGHT

4-down – Opposite of 23 across : DEBIT

5-down – Sensible : PRUDENT

6-down – First-born : ELDEST

11-down – See 18 : SWALLOWER

13-down – The devil : OLDNICK

14-down – Approved – wondered at : ADMIRED

15-down – Descriptive adjective : EPITHET

16-down – Organ – that is vented! : SPLEEN

18-down – Performer whose throat is in danger? : SWORD

1-across – Play by Chekhov : CHERRYORCHARD

8-across – : DEPOSIT

9-across – Farewell : ADIEU

10-across – Fruit : PEAR

11-across – Small monkey : MARMOSET

13-across – It has a hole for the head : PONCHO

14-across – Squirm : WRITHE

17-across – Bird : REDSTART

19-across – The woman’s : HERS

21-across – Means of exerting force : LEVER

22-across – Supply with table and chairs etc : FURNISH

24-across – Where everyone is scared and frenetic : PANICSTATIONS

1-down – Fish : COD

2-down – Show the whys and wherefores : EXPLAIN

3-down – Hasty : RASH

4-down – Expenditure : OUTLAY

5-down – Scottish sword : CLAYMORE

6-down – Wrong : AMISS

7-down – Intrepid : DAUNTLESS

10-down – Fastener for documents etc : PAPERCLIP

12-down – Art of public speaking : RHETORIC

15-down – Lee, golfer : TREVINO

16-down – Gain : PROFIT

18-down – Sofa – bed : DIVAN

20-down – Determination : GRIT

23-down – The man’s : HIS

5-across – Linguistics : PHILOLOGY

8-across – Gracious gift : BOON

9-across – South American country : PARAGUAY

10-across – Use : EMPLOY

11-across – Achieve one’s objective : MAKEIT

13-across – Means of access : ENTREE

15-across – Lengthy piece of writing : SCREED

16-across – Pacified : ASSUAGED

18-across – Dumb : MUTE

19-across – Hats : MILLINERY

1-down – Dealer in ships’ supplies : CHANDLER

2-down – Type of disk : FLOPPY

3-down – Warning bell : ALARUM

4-down – Eagerly expectant : AGOG

6-down – Document of 1848 . . . : COMMUNIST

7-down – See 6 : MANIFESTO

12-down – . . . written by : KARLMARX

14-down – . . . and his friend, Friedrich : ENGELS

15-down – Not the main line : SIDING

17-down – Single entity : UNIT