1-across – Kowtow : BOWANDSCRAPE

9-across – Fashionable again : RETRO

10-across – Bond booze : MARTINI

11-across – ___ apparent : HEIR

12-across – Gives another coat to : REPAINTS

14-across – It stretches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea : SAHARA

15-across – Plane that can fly without an engine : GLIDER

18-across – Classical jurisprudence : ROMANLAW

20-across – One-dimensional : FLAT

22-across – Hone – ideal : PERFECT

23-across – Nasal quality of speech : TWANG

24-across – Hotel-room amenity facilitating smartness : TROUSERPRESS

2-down – Largest living bird : OSTRICH

3-down – Maritime salutation : AHOY

4-down – <span>Dickensian shipping firm owner,or his titular </span><i>Son</i> : DOMBEY

5-down – Panaceas : CUREALLS

6-down – Relating to our feathered friends : AVIAN

7-down – Plan to get out : EXITSTRATEGY

8-down – Source of a musical’s music : ORCHESTRAPIT

13-down – Fairy-tale rescuee,often : PRINCESS

16-down – Currency in Canberra : DOLLARS

17-down – Liquid destined to become a pancake : BATTER

19-down – Italian-named protagonist of Nintendo games : MARIO

21-down – Our sun,e.g. : STAR

1-across – Camel,e.g. : BEASTOFBURDEN

8-across – Part of a circle’s circumference : ARC

9-across – Taverner : INNKEEPER

10-across – Modernity sceptics : LUDDITES

11-across – End of the symphony : CODA

13-across – Start of the working week : MONDAY

14-across – Nearest French port to mainland Britain : CALAIS

16-across – Move with a long swinging stride : LOPE

17-across – Boxes for tots : SANDPITS

20-across – Zorro,e.g. : SWORDSMAN

21-across – Feathers around the neck : BOA

22-across – Common currency among pirates : PIECESOFEIGHT

1-down – Rowdy fight : BRAWL

2-down – Predisposed to mishaps,like Miranda or Gerald Ford : ACCIDENTPRONE

3-down – W Indies island : TRINIDAD

4-down – Yellow-flowered umbelliferous plant providing culinary seeds and leaves : FENNEL

5-down – Manipulates – employs – values : USES

6-down – Where the ambassador may stow secrets : DIPLOMATICBAG

7-down – They effected a Conquest : NORMANS

12-down – Haka,e.g. : WARDANCE

13-down – Weakling : MILKSOP

15-down – Begin to appreciate : WARMTO

18-down – Jump – dawn : START

19-down – Jigsaw piece often tackled early on : EDGE

1-across – As if! : FATCHANCE

8-across – Hired ___ – Peter Sellers,e.g. : GOON

9-across – The hat trade : MILLINERY

10-across – Provider of wifi and babyccinos : CAFE

13-across – Big Mama Thornton’s musical genre : BLUES

15-across – Island home of the poets Alcaeus and Sappho : LESBOS

16-across – African animal-watching : SAFARI

17-across – Harvest,money or water : SPIDER

19-across – Past : BYGONE

20-across – Serbian currency : DINAR

21-across – Amorphous,usually iridescent,mineral used as a gemstone : OPAL

24-across – Board for riding on water : AQUAPLANE

25-across – Stagger – Irish dance – length of material : REEL

26-across – Ne’er-do-well : REPROBATE

2-down – Oleic,lactic or amino : ACID

3-down – One of Manx or Cornish descent,e.g. : CELT

4-down – Record of events year by year : ANNALS

5-down – The crumbling of a tooth : CARIES

6-down – Palindromic soil machine : ROTAVATOR

7-down – Pending : UNDECIDED

11-down – Golfing gear : PLUSFOURS

12-down – They are not precise calculations : ESTIMATES

13-down – Overcome with ennui or tedium : BORED

14-down – Artsy : SATYR

18-down – Bordering on unseemly : RISQUE

19-down – Persian for ‘market’ : BAZAAR

22-down – Undesirable flatmate : SLOB

23-down – Tiny mosquito relative : GNAT

1-across – Increase in strength or quantity,sometimes economic : UPSWING

8-across – Footballer’s nightmare : OWNGOAL

9-across – It goes from the shoulder to the elbow : HUMERUS

10-across – Droopy-eared,silky-coated companion : SPANIEL

11-across – They’re performed on the boards : PLAYS

13-across – Aspiration unlikely to transpire : PIPEDREAM

15-across – Talk about the old days : REMINISCE

18-across – Roman form of transport? : VESPA

21-across – Legs,so to speak : STAMINA

22-across – Hee-hawers : DONKEYS

23-across – Simple BMX trick : WHEELIE

24-across – The point of the church? : STEEPLE

1-down – Not trendy : UNHIP

2-down – Lively modern ballroom dance : SAMBA

3-down – Reckless : IRRESPONSIBLE

4-down – ___monger : GOSSIP

5-down – NZ equivalent to HMRC : INLANDREVENUE

6-down – Eco-bid : BODICE

7-down – Zigzag race : SLALOM

12-down – Mojito fruit : LIME

14-down – Straddling : ATOP

15-down – Stitched once again : RESEWN

16-down – Protected by a watery trench : MOATED

17-down – Ghosts – eyewear – hues : SHADES

19-down – Brush – extend – Sooty’s pal : SWEEP

20-down – Part of a church or a supermarket : AISLE

1-across – Cardigan Bay resort and university town : ABERYSTWYTH

9-across – Fixing a stiletto,perhaps : REHEELING

10-across – Initials in a hospital when body tissue imaged : MRI

11-across – Male mallard? : DRAKE

13-across – They get absolutely smashed at parties : PINATAS

14-across – Loquacious : CHATTY

15-across – Fizzy pop – fairylike creature : SPRITE

18-across – Mogadishu residents,e.g. : SOMALIS

20-across – Bloke : FELLA

21-across – Iron ___ : ORE

22-across – Wise he was not : MORECAMBE

24-across – Bleeding-edge : ULTRAMODERN

2-down – Scroogean outburst : BAH

3-down – Put once more into office : REELECT

4-down – Of little material,as some undergarments : SKIMPY

5-down – Closed railway van – informal term for car : WAGON

6-down – e.g. cycling event against the clock : TIMETRIAL

7-down – One who came before : PREDECESSOR

8-down – Wrap for delicate objects : TISSUEPAPER

12-down – It sounds a warning : ALARMBELL

16-down – Grim of countenance : POFACED

17-down – A marsh : ASHRAM

19-down – Madagascar mammal : LEMUR

23-down – Damage – Costa del ___ : MAR