1-across – Capital of the UK : LONDON

4-across – Capital of Germany : BERLIN

8-across – Capital of France : PARIS

9-across – Device for unblocking drains : PLUNGER

10-across – A letter : EPISTLE

11-across – Outcome : ISSUE

12-across – Felicity : HAPPINESS

17-across – Capital of Egypt : CAIRO

19-across – List of goods sold : INVOICE

21-across – View : OPINION

22-across – Capital of India : DELHI

23-across – Capital of Portugal : LISBON

24-across – Capital of Spain : MADRID

1-down – Branch cutter : LOPPER

2-down – Administrative centre of Norfolk : NORWICH

3-down – Start – attack : ONSET

5-down – Difficult to pin down : ELUSIVE

6-down – Former capital of Nigeria : LAGOS

7-down – Tended : NURSED

9-down – Accuracy : PRECISION

13-down – Condition : PROVISO

14-down – Glib salesman : SPIELER

15-down – Group of porpoises – place of education : SCHOOL

16-down – Stretch – cycle : PERIOD

18-down – Climbing evergreen plants : IVIES

20-down – Russian spirit : VODKA

1-across – Spanish gentleman : CABALLERO

8-across – Playing card – pity : HEART

9-across – Coal container for fireside : SCUTTLE

10-across – Renovated : RESTORED

11-across – Poetic name for Ireland : ERIN

13-across – In music, leisurely : ADAGIO

14-across – Amorous : LOVING

16-across – Drunken revel : ORGY

17-across – Coloured handkerchief : BANDANNA

19-across – External : OUTWARD

20-across – Dent : NOTCH

21-across – Former county of England : YORKSHIRE

1-down – Universal : CATHOLIC

2-down – Container for shopping : BASKET

3-down – Oaf : LOUT

4-down – Of prices, excessive : ESTORTIONATE

5-down – Study of the sea : OCEANOGRAPHY

6-down – Study of drugs : PHARMACOLOGY

7-down – Homicide without malice aforethought : MANSLAUGHTER

12-down – Concentrate : CONDENSE

15-down – Indian leader, Indira, assassinated 1984 : GANDHI

18-down – Large fish – singer : BASS

1-across – Join – friend : ALLY

3-across – Card game : CRIBBAGE

9-across – Three-cornered hat : TRICORN

10-across – Grant : AWARD

11-across – Emblem : BADGE

12-across – Modernise : UPDATE

14-across – Enjoy yourself! : HAVEAGOODTIME

17-across – For nothing : GRATIS

19-across – Natural ability : FLAIR

22-across – Change – 1960s’ dance : TWIST

23-across – Inspect carefully : EXAMINE

24-across – Wide view : PANORAMA

25-across – Muddle : MESS

1-down – German motorway : AUTOBAHN

2-down – Scottish landowner : LAIRD

4-down – Not as team four : RANOUTOFSTEAM

5-down – Uninteresting : BLAND

6-down – Prickly plants : ACANTHI

7-down – Whirlpool : EDDY

8-down – Wine shop : BODEGA

13-down – Intrepid : FEARLESS

15-down – Translation : VERSION

16-down – Beat : DEFEAT

18-down – Teacher : TUTOR

20-down – Linen rectangle worn by priests : AMICE

21-down – Pack it in – bar : STOP

1-across – Likely customer – search for gold : PROSPECT

5-across – Stork-like bird : IBIS

9-across – Entertainment with sketches and songs : REVUE

10-across – Keep apart : ISOLATE

11-across – Drink prepared from roots : SARSAPARILLA

13-across – Team – number : ELEVEN

14-across – Republic in North America : MEXICO

17-across – In proportion : COMMENSURATE

20-across – Deadlock : IMPASSE

21-across – Person minding another’s child : NANNY

22-across – Paradise : EDEN

23-across – Staunch follower : ADHERENT

1-down – Harbour : PORT

2-down – Make unnecessary : OBVIATE

3-down – Official announcement made to newspapers : PRESSRELEASE

4-down – Happy – like a bird? : CHIRPY

6-down – Fracas : BRAWL

7-down – English furniture maker : SHERATON

8-down – Tuned for race : TOURDEFRANCE

12-down – Give detailed account of : DESCRIBE

15-down – Deep : INTENSE

16-down – Port in Belgium : OSTEND

18-down – Tree: its leaf the Canadian emblem : MAPLE

19-down – Sac or vesicle : CYST

1-across – Harmonica : MOUTHORGAN

7-across – Opening : ORIFICE

8-across – Flower – lit up : TULIP

10-across – Support on which ship is built : KEEL

11-across – Stronghold : FASTNESS

13-across – Eraser : RUBBER

15-across – Base : BOTTOM

17-across – Greenhouse : ORANGERY

18-across – Prison – commotion : STIR

21-across – Tally : MATCH

22-across – Large tent : MARQUEE

23-across – Suffering from insomnia? : LYINGAWAKE

1-down – Type of corn : MAIZE

2-down – Single person – group of people : UNIT

3-down – Braying sound of donkey : HEEHAW

4-down – Cycle – revolution : ROTATION

5-down – Illness : AILMENT

6-down – Where gym users get changed : LOCKERROOM

9-down – Autopsy : POSTMORTEM

12-down – Stretch out : LENGTHEN

14-down – Brutal : BEASTLY

16-down – Peninsula, scene of war 1853-56 : CRIMEA

19-down – Cessation of hostilities : TRUCE

20-down – Opera song : ARIA