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1-across – Sloped access : RAMP

3-across – Fast and furious : FRENETIC

8-across – Say it when you’ve had enough? : WHEN

9-across – Woolf or Wade : VIRGINIA

11-across – Mollify : PROPITIATE

14-across – One and only : UNIQUE

15-across – : CREDIT

17-across – Grim : DEPRESSING

20-across – Judge : APPRAISE

21-across – Uneaten bits of apple : PIPS

22-across – Place in society : POSITION

23-across – Windsor, for example : KNOT

1-down – Screwholder : RAWLPLUG

2-down – Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, say : MNEMONIC

4-down – Rum accompaniment? : RAISIN

5-down – What to wear in retirement? : NIGHTDRESS

6-down – Manner of speaking : TONE

7-down – Government policy adviser : CZAR

10-down – Pinkerton or Columbo : LIEUTENANT

12-down – Extra feature : ADDITION

13-down – Background to the drama : STAGESET

16-down – Wall painting : FRESCO

18-down – Door fastening : HASP

19-down – Creative work : OPUS

1-across – Top GP’s intense : STEPPINGSTONE

8-across – Cream or Crosby, Stills & Nash : TRIO

9-across – Surveillance operation : STAKEOUT

10-across – Probability : LIKELIHOOD

12-across – Scoundrel : BADEGG

14-across – Sad story or film : WEEPIE

15-across – Hurdle : DIFFICULTY

19-across – Agent of change : CATALYST

20-across – Grow sickeningly sweet : CLOY

21-across – Globe-trotting – Etonian griper : PEREGRINATION

2-down – The end of the line : TERMINAL

3-down – It’s not poetry : PROSE

4-down – Giving out : ISSUING

5-down – Bird and bat droppings used as fertiliser : GUANO

6-down – Foot-operated lever : TREADLE

7-down – Common sense : NOUS

11-down – Demonstrating exceptional skill : VIRTUOSO

13-down – Last stages of a contest : ENDGAME

14-down – Set down on paper : WRITTEN

16-down – Cinema or theatre lobby : FOYER

17-down – Not censored : UNCUT

18-down – Bones or necessities? : BARE

1-across – Broken stone path or driveway : CRAZYPAVING

9-across – Surgical procedure – open to air : OPERATION

10-across – ___ Belongs to Me, 1965 Bob Dylan song : SHE

11-across – Same here : DITTO

13-across – Taking away : REMOVAL

14-across – Homespun : FOLKSY

15-across – : CHOLER

18-across – One has skeletons : OSSUARY

20-across – Requirements : NEEDS

21-across – Time or tone? : TWO

22-across – Prudent : ADVISABLE

24-across – Like competitors in a close race : NECKANDNECK

2-down – Paris street : RUE

3-down – Fanatical : ZEALOUS

4-down – Religious house : PRIORY

5-down – Spite : VENOM

6-down – 1975 film directed by Robert Altman : NASHVILLE

7-down – Conversational communication : WORDOFMOUTH

8-down – Nicely turned out : WELLDRESSED

12-down – Source of a heavenly view? : TELESCOPE

16-down – Practically involved : HANDSON

17-down – Wooded : SYLVAN

19-down – Old-fashioned expression of dismay : ALACK

23-down – Broadcaster with a mission to inform, educate and entertain : BBC

1-across – Make them before leaving : EXCUSES

8-across – Use it to secure locks? : HAIRPIN

9-across – When to rest : BEDTIME

10-across – Crested ground-nesting bird : LAPWING

11-across – Sea snail : WHELK

13-across – Boringly similar : IDENTIKIT

15-across – Section of text : PARAGRAPH

18-across – What birds do at 9 : ROOST

21-across – Express derision : SCOFF

22-across – Experienced individual : OLDHAND

23-across – Mrs Hinch, for example : CLEANER

24-across – Parker or Wordsworth? : DOROTHY

1-down – Grease, room or patch? : ELBOW

2-down – Get something for nothing : CADGE

3-down – Obstacle to negotiations : STICKINGPOINT

4-down – Postpone : SHELVE

5-down – Motorcycle messenger : DISPATCHRIDER

6-down – Rise : UPTICK

7-down – Gawain or Galahad? : KNIGHT

12-down – Skirt or hoop? : HULA

14-down – ___ Murdoch, novelist died 1999 : IRIS

15-down – Create an opening : PIERCE

16-down – Fried : RASHER

17-down – Provide : AFFORD

19-down – Bridget Riley’s work, for instance : OPART

20-down – Any time before midnight : TODAY

1-across – Timekeeper : STOPWATCH

8-across – Serious player? : MUSO

9-across – Computer background : WALLPAPER

10-across – Stunning achievement – perhaps military? : COUP

13-across – Not long : SHORT

15-across – Ninth sign of the Chinese zodiac : MONKEY

16-across – Solemnly declares : SWEARS

17-across – Acid produced by exercise : LACTIC

19-across – Charge : INDICT

20-across – All ____ the Watchtower, 1967 Bob Dylan song : ALONG

21-across – Checkout : TILL

24-across – Speared vegetable : ASPARAGUS

25-across – Strip of old wall? : LATH

26-across – Woodland home? : TREEHOUSE

2-down – People who work and play together : TEAM

3-down – Influence : PULL

4-down – Lack of interest : APATHY

5-down – Toast – US sitcom : CHEERS

6-down – Car or gun : AUTOMATIC

7-down – MOT copies : COMPOSITE

11-down – Polite chitchat : SMALLTALK

12-down – Protect with a vaccine : INOCULATE

13-down – Pigment derived from cuttlefish : SEPIA

14-down – Pluck a guitar string : TWANG

18-down – More intimate : CLOSER

19-down – Natural : INNATE

22-down – One way to stop a fight? : KAYO

23-down – Timid type : WUSS