1-across – Ability to see in the dark : NIGHTVISION

9-across – Can? – eat corn in : CONTAINER

10-across – Bath or Cheltenham? : SPA

11-across – Troubled : UPSET

13-across – Find one by the canal : TOWPATH

14-across – Growing season : SPRING

15-across – Continue for too long : DRAGON

18-across – Table support : TRESTLE

20-across – Meet the required standard : CUTIT

21-across – Drink : ONE

22-across – Reprimand : TALKINGTO

24-across – Lovers’ meeting : ASSIGNATION

2-down – Fleming or Rankin? : IAN

3-down – Cheer : HEARTEN

4-down – Fair,project or case? : VANITY

5-down – Twisted bit of ironmongery : SCREW

6-down – Barrage : ONSLAUGHT

7-down – Purchase made – I quit casino : ACQUISITION

8-down – Scheme : MACHINATION

12-down – Morgan le Fay,for instance : SORCERESS

16-down – Proof of purchase : RECEIPT

17-down – Russian-born American songwriter Irving _____ : BERLIN

19-down – For all the orchestra to play : TUTTI

23-down – Sticky substance : GOO

1-across – Common in a specific area : ENDEMIC

8-across – Read it as a rebuke : RIOTACT

9-across – Number 13 : UNLUCKY

10-across – Go where one’s not welcome : INTRUDE

11-across – Entertaining place outdoors? : PATIO

13-across – Elevated position of church music? : ORGANLOFT

15-across – Section of text : PARAGRAPH

18-across – Complete change in policy : UTURN

21-across – Sports shoe : TRAINER

22-across – Minor role : BITPART

23-across – London football club – or New York hotel? : CHELSEA

24-across – Dish decoration : GARNISH

1-down – Provide : EQUIP

2-down – Vermeer’s hometown : DELFT

3-down – Tiny living thing : MICROORGANISM

4-down – Sound of distress : CRYING

5-down – Mercenary individual : FORTUNEHUNTER

6-down – Mozambique’s capital : MAPUTO

7-down – <i>Positively 4th _</i><span>___,1965 Bob Dylan song</span> : STREET

12-down – Picnic or penalty? : AREA

14-down – Fantastic figure? : FOUR

15-down – Uprising : PUTSCH

16-down – Bookish individual : READER

17-down – In-car safety feature : AIRBAG

19-down – Taste of miso : UMAMI

20-down – V-shaped cut : NOTCH

1-across – Quickly recite : RATTLEOFF

8-across – Money : DOSH

9-across – Perspective : VIEWPOINT

10-across – Tent,tower or jar? : BELL

13-across – Watery liquid,esp when separated from coagulating blood : SERUM

15-across – Sharp and perceptive : SHREWD

16-across – Standard : NORMAL

17-across – Natural : INBORN

19-across – Be successful : PAYOFF

20-across – Government,anaesthetic or radio? : LOCAL

21-across – Carry : TOTE

24-across – One’s foolish – or amusing : IGNORAMUS

25-across – Place to retreat to : NOOK

26-across – The bottom of something : UNDERSIDE

2-down – Extremely dry : ARID

3-down – Alternative to the country : TOWN

4-down – Secretly married : ELOPED

5-down – Charity race : FUNRUN

6-down – Harmonious start : HONEYMOON

7-down – How long food can be stored for : SHELFLIFE

11-down – One should help : ASSISTANT

12-down – Testing period : PROBATION

13-down – Twisting shape : SWIRL

14-down – What a story teaches us : MORAL

18-down – Head : NOGGIN

19-down – Early release from prison : PAROLE

22-down – 1975 film directed by Steven Spielberg : JAWS

23-down – It’s used to make cheese : CURD

1-across – Undemanding music : EASYLISTENING

8-across – Sharp pull : TUG

9-across – The other way round : VICEVERSA

10-across – Family,town or meal? : PLANNING

11-across – Newspaper section with personal comment : OPED

13-across – Cup-holder? : SAUCER

14-across – : BREEZE

16-across – Who Wants to be a Millionaire?,for instance : DUET

17-across – Suggestible state of mind : HYPNOSIS

20-across – Pitch border : TOUCHLINE

21-across – Bath or Chelsea? : BUN

22-across – Insomniac’s problem : SLEEPLESSNESS

1-down – Tuck in : EATUP

2-down – <span>Frank Sinatra’s </span><i>My Way,</i><span> say</span> : SIGNATURETUNE

3-down – Fragrant mauve plant : LAVENDER

4-down – Support – subordinate : SECOND

5-down – Desire for what another has : ENVY

6-down – Ebullient : IRREPRESSIBLE

7-down – Powerful individual : GRANDEE

12-down – Fairytale character : PRINCESS

13-down – Administers anaesthetic to : SEDATES

15-down – Journalist’s credit : BYLINE

18-down – Hollow space in the skull : SINUS

19-down – Talk – or shut up : SHOP

1-across – Ability to endure – partying woes : STAYINGPOWER

9-across – Lowest point : NADIR

10-across – Fake – credit card : PLASTIC

11-across – Count : RELY

12-across – Dangerous building : FIRETRAP

14-across – What one aims for : TARGET

15-across – Vicar’s standpoint? : PULPIT

18-across – Direct : EXPLICIT

20-across – Register – drumbeats : ROLL

22-across – Give apparent legitimacy to : LAUNDER

23-across – Evident : OVERT

24-across – Feeling : WRETCHEDNESS

2-down – Little fish : TIDDLER

3-down – Long story : YARN

4-down – Table cloth? : NAPKIN

5-down – Gradually stop using : PHASEOUT

6-down – Bed,buffalo or bill? : WATER

7-down – To sum up : RECAPITULATE

8-down – Generally accepted,but not official,rule : UNWRITTENLAW

13-down – Occasional : PERIODIC

16-down – Accepted method : PROCESS

17-down – Intense : FIERCE

19-down – One may be pregnant : PAUSE

21-down – Blue – feathers : DOWN