1-across – Last Greek letter : OMEGA

4-across – Widespread coniferous trees of distinctive conical shape : SPRUCES

8-across – Informed estimate : EDUCATEDGUESS

9-across – Its capital is Bridgetown : BARBADOS

11-across – ‘Spumanti’ wine town : ASTI

13-across – At work : ONDUTY

14-across – Into stones,crystals etc : NEWAGE

16-across – Event with paces,pistols and seconds : DUEL

17-across – Ruby anniversary : FORTIETH

19-across – Composure : STIFFUPPERLIP

21-across – From the late 1940s,say : POSTWAR

22-across – Contract the brows in a threatening or angry manner : SCOWL

1-down – Bedouins’ loops : ONESBLOODISUP

2-down – Largest living bird after the ostrich : EMU

3-down – <span>Alternative to </span><i>prix fixe</i> : ALACARTE

4-down – I’m off! : SEEYOU

5-down – Starting point on road to riches? : RAGS

6-down – Match with mates : CHESSGAME

7-down – Location for frescoes by Botticelli : SISTINECHAPEL

10-down – Parachute regiment or Man U : REDDEVILS

12-down – Like some modern ‘beefburgers’ : MEATLESS

15-down – Lethargy : TORPOR

18-down – Not many : AFEW

20-down – Card game – facilities : LOO

1-across – Muscle : BICEPS

4-across – Like this clue : ACROSS

9-across – Forty winks : SHUTEYE

10-across – It’ll show you the world : ATLAS

11-across – Rica,Brava or Blanca : COSTA

12-across – In proportion : TOSCALE

13-across – I’m a novelist : LOVEINAMIST

18-across – On occasions : ATTIMES

20-across – Hot drink – I should ___ : COCOA

22-across – So as to be heard : ALOUD

23-across – Perform surgery : OPERATE

24-across – Lose light : DARKEN

25-across – Creditable – obliging – far from obscene : DECENT

1-down – Cut in half : BISECT

2-down – Black suit : CLUBS

3-down – Forebode : PRESAGE

5-down – Disorder – ___ theory : CHAOS

6-down – Joan of Arc city : ORLEANS

7-down – Prince Harry’s dukedom : SUSSEX

8-down – Bookmaker’s location : BETTINGSHOP

14-down – Up to our : OUTPOUR

15-down – Heavy knife or cutlass of Central and S America : MACHETE

16-down – French duck – hoax : CANARD

17-down – Arrive : MAKEIT

19-down – Pop’s Ure – gnat’s kin : MIDGE

21-down – Fruit container – decrepit vehicle : CRATE

1-across – Oscillates : SEESAWS

8-across – Ape : IMITATE

9-across – Well-reasoned : LOGICAL

10-across – Culture Club hit – those sacrificed,eg : VICTIMS

11-across – Day,pipe or American : DREAM

13-across – Analogies : PARALLELS

15-across – Jutting-out land strip : PENINSULA

18-across – Dressed to the ___ : NINES

21-across – Stab : ATTEMPT

22-across – Evening wear? : IRONING

23-across – Peculiar – unheard-of : STRANGE

24-across – Cranachan,pandowdy or cobbler? : DESSERT

1-down – Leaves for lunch? : SALAD

2-down – Two under par : EAGLE

3-down – What supports a solo? : ACCOMPANIMENT

4-down – Ag : SILVER

5-down – Sundry : MISCELLANEOUS

6-down – Remain : MARINE

7-down – 20d and four others : SENSES

12-down – <span>City setting for </span><i>Tosca</i> : ROME

14-down – Delicate ornamental fabric made by looping,knotting,plaiting or twisting threads : LACE

15-down – ‘I come to bury Caesar,not to ___ him’ : PRAISE

16-down – Good,human or second : NATURE

17-down – Loosened a 14d,perhaps : UNTIED

19-down – Sound of any kind : NOISE

20-down – Eye-guide on a gun or optical instrument : SIGHT

1-across – Charitable : PHILANTHROPIC

8-across – Cause of obsessive anxiety : BUGBEAR

9-across – Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument : CELLO

10-across – Boasted – aircraft personnel : CREW

11-across – Den casts : DESCANTS

13-across – Tyrant : DESPOT

14-across – Computer key deployed after an error : DELETE

17-across – Galore : INSPADES

19-across – Wafer – emcee : HOST

21-across – Swimming stroke – teem : CRAWL

22-across – Whoppers : PORKIES

24-across – Pecuniary allowance : SPENDINGMONEY

1-down – Alehouse : PUB

2-down – Entrance : INGRESS

3-down – Dark,Stone and Middle? : AGES

4-down – Gobbling – and gobbled – bird : TURKEY

5-down – Rebound from a surface : RICOCHET

6-down – Tower-like structure supporting cables : PYLON

7-down – Boat’s lookout location : CROWSNEST

10-down – 15th- or 16th-century accompaniments to breeches : CODPIECES

12-down – Styled thus : SOCALLED

15-down – David Cameron or James Bond,say : ETONIAN

16-down – ___ bowling : TENPIN

18-down – Prince Harry’s autobiography – term in 16d : SPARE

20-down – ___ and proper : PRIM

23-down – It’s up there! : SKY

1-across – Face-to-face with : UPAGAINST

8-across – Fourth planet from the sun : MARS

9-across – Dug up : UNEARTHED

10-across – <span>Painter,</span><i>Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening</i> : DALI

13-across – Ovine constellation : ARIES

15-across – Opening period : LEADIN

16-across – Cease’s counterpart : DESIST

17-across – Figure ___ : SKATER

19-across – Old-fashioned term meaning to find a radio or TV broadcast : TUNEIN

20-across – Hindu queen also spelled with an ‘i’ : RANEE

21-across – Bird – bar – banter : RAIL

24-across – Pertaining to buccaneers : PIRATICAL

25-across – <i>Lion King</i><span> baddie – injury reminder</span> : SCAR

26-across – Pollinate,perhaps : FERTILISE

2-down – Glazier’s unit : PANE

3-down – Tennis’s Steffi : GRAF

4-down – One after another : INTURN

5-down – ___ prunes – inebriated : STEWED

6-down – Organisms living on or in others : PARASITES

7-down – This person is here to help : ASSISTANT

11-down – Losers’ hub : BLUSHROSE

12-down – There’s a Good one in the bible : SAMARITAN

13-down – Qualified first-___ : AIDER

14-down – Transition from one piece of music to another : SEGUE

18-down – Steep-sided valley : RAVINE

19-down – Rent-payer : TENANT

22-down – Pickling herb : DILL

23-down – <i>The Lovely ___ o’ Inverness</i><span> : LASS