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1-across – Buckingham or Blenheim : PALACE

4-across – Overseas : ABROAD

8-across – Total : ADDUP

9-across – Group of cyclists in race : PELOTON

10-across – Mastication : CHEWING

11-across – End post of staircase : NEWEL

12-across – Informers – mice : SQUEAKERS

17-across – Savoury,satisfying taste : UMAMI

19-across – Urge : IMPULSE

21-across – Lost and neglected : FORLORN

22-across – A Spanish friend : AMIGO

23-across – Air-dried sausage : SALAMI

24-across – Dogs pants? : BOXERS

1-down – Flatfish : PLAICE

2-down – They’re seen with snakes on a board : LADDERS

3-down – Ford – Italian island : CAPRI

5-down – Amount in account : BALANCE

6-down – Pulled-vehicle warning sign : ONTOW

7-down – Bounce : DANDLE

9-down – <span>Play forming basis for </span><i>My Fair Lady</i> : PYGMALION

13-down – Alike all over : UNIFORM

14-down – Retails : SALTIRE

15-down – Swept-up and slicked-back hair styles : QUIFFS

16-down – They’re paired with oranges in a nursery rhyme : LEMONS

18-down – Heard : AURAL

20-down – Keyboard instrument – softly : PIANO

1-across – Pilgrims’ ship – blooming now? : MAYFLOWER

8-across – Twin brother of Romulus : REMUS

9-across – Stretchy : ELASTIC

10-across – Ballet movement – controlled snowy descent : GLISSADE

11-across – ‘Bother!’ : DRAT

13-across – Sesame seed paste : TAHINI

14-across – Empty talk – dragon’s breath? : HOTAIR

16-across – Lacking feeling : NUMB

17-across – Bright yellow spice : TURMERIC

19-across – Light fuelled by kerosene or paraffin : OILLAMP

20-across – Pause in working of machine – reside – brood : DWELL

21-across – Spiral locks : KISSCURLS

1-down – Applying incorrectly or improperly : MISUSING

2-down – Gives way under pressure : YIELDS

3-down – Pass time idly : LOAF

4-down – Aquarius or aqueduct : WATERCARRIER

5-down – It indicates earthquake magnitude : RICHTERSCALE

6-down – Graham Greene book – seaside stick? : BRIGHTONROCK

7-down – Blemish moans : OMNISHAMBLES

12-down – Stuffed Mediterranean leaves : DOLMADES

15-down – Flea or top : JUMPER

18-down – Cram : MARC

1-across – Shakespearean actor Will or either of Spandau Ballet’s brothers : KEMP

3-across – Carroll’s cat’s county? : CHESHIRE

9-across – Delightful place or state : ELYSIUM

10-across – His ‘razor’ recommends simplest explanations : OCCAM

11-across – Cads – follows obediently : HEELS

12-across – Four score and ten : NINETY

14-across – Italian composer : GIUSEPPEVERDI

17-across – Eavesdrop – on insect? : EARWIG

19-across – Drive off : REPEL

22-across – Examination of financial records : AUDIT

23-across – Obsolete : OUTWORN

24-across – Pleasure-seeker : HEDONIST

25-across – King or Edward : LEAR

1-down – Sock – to a grasshopper? : KNEEHIGH

2-down – Possibly : MAYBE

4-down – Birds trained to return : HOMINGPIGEONS

5-down – Greasy,wooden or runcible : SPOON

6-down – Provocateur : INCITER

7-down – Eg wych or Dutch : ELMS

8-down – Receives blows : TISSUE

13-down – Tile-maker? : MILLINER

15-down – Without assistance : UNAIDED

16-down – Truth : VERITY

18-down – A town : WOTAN

20-down – Allow : PROVE

21-down – ___ number : MACH

1-across – Literary grub : BOOKWORM

5-across – Citrus fruit : UGLI

9-across – UK Aid : ADUKI

10-across – Rotten : CORRUPT

11-across – All square – straightness on the washing-line? : LEVELPEGGING

13-across – Not acute : OBTUSE

14-across – Mystery : ENIGMA

17-across – Coated : PEBBLEDASHED

20-across – Imitator : COPYCAT

21-across – Reeks : ESKER

22-across – Baking,club or caustic : SODA

23-across – Guard : SENTINEL

1-down – Scrounge : BLAG

2-down – Luxuriant : OPULENT

3-down – Author’s temporary lack of inspiration : WRITERSBLOCK

4-down – Directions for making something : RECIPE

6-down – Spanish architect : GAUDI

7-down – Relating : INTEGRAL

8-down – Hang back deliberately : DRAGONESFEET

12-down – Areas of managed woodland : COPPICES

15-down – Small cucumber : GHERKIN

16-down – <i>Swan Lake</i><span> princess</span> : ODETTE

18-down – Two-footed animal : BIPED

19-down – Unwritten : ORAL

1-across – Very large lorry : JUGGERNAUT

7-across – Disconcert : UNNERVE

8-across – From Athens? : GREEK

10-across – Rich and succulent – very attractive : LUSH

11-across – Unguent : OINTMENT

13-across – French novelist : BALZAC

15-across – Queasiness : NAUSEA

17-across – Armchair for two : LOVESEAT

18-across – Impressive,large-scale : EPIC

21-across – Small weight – big cat : OUNCE

22-across – Lafite,Margaux or Petrus : CHATEAU

23-across – Racy hot ape : APOTHECARY

1-down – Two-faced Roman god : JANUS

2-down – ___ one’s loins : GIRD

3-down – Blinker or winker? : EYELID

4-down – Nocturnal bird – dark container? : NIGHTJAR

5-down – No good at all : USELESS

6-down – Uproar : HULLABALOO

9-down – C18th society that sounds like it served chocolate biscuits? : KITCATCLUB

12-down – Crime-movie term for a criminal record : RAPSHEET

14-down – Make more exciting : LIVENUP

16-down – Clumsy,tactless : GAUCHE

19-down – Devoutness : PIETY

20-down – Doolally – Lady ___ : GAGA