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1-across – Fortress : STRONGHOLD

7-across – Briefly and clearly expressed : SUCCINCT

8-across – Hard by : NEAR

9-across – Sulky expression : POUT

10-across – Dignity : TIDYING

12-across – One employed to look after a golf course : GREENKEEPER

14-across – Grapple : WRESTLE

16-across – Two-masted square-rigged sailing ship : BRIG

19-across – Unreliable old car : HEAP

20-across – Drying-up cloth : TEATOWEL

21-across – Ornamental stand for plants : JARDINIERE

1-down – Baffle : STUMP

2-down – Hermit : RECLUSE

3-down – Grandma : NANA

4-down – Direct telephone links for use in an emergency : HOTLINES

5-down – Island in the Bristol Channel : LUNDY

6-down – Leather worker — old coin : TANNER

11-down – Blown up : INFLATED

12-down – Precious stone, usually red : GARNET

13-down – Intention : PURPOSE

15-down – Reddish-brown : SEPIA

17-down – Long-necked, migratory aquatic birds : GEESE

18-down – Farm outbuilding : BARN

1-across – Snide remarks : DIGS

3-across – Countrywide : NATIONAL

8-across – Equipment : GEAR

9-across – ___ Dali, painter : SALVADOR

11-across – Gondolier’s song : BARCAROLLE

14-across – Sea cow — gun dog : DUGONG

15-across – Senior nursing officer of old : MATRON

17-across – Small melon with ribbed skin : CANTALOUPE

20-across – Dirty : UNWASHED

21-across – Fine : BRAW

22-across – Summer frock : SUNDRESS

23-across – Wharf : QUAY

1-down – One given menial tasks to do : DOGSBODY

2-down – Best bib and tucker : GLADRAGS

4-down – Female warrior : AMAZON

5-down – Priceless : INVALUABLE

6-down – Affirmative gestures : NODS

7-down – Hang around in a secretive way : LURK

10-down – Wagner opera : TANNHAUSER

12-down – : FROUFROU

13-down – In motion : UNDERWAY

16-down – Horses : STEEDS

18-down – Worry unnecessarily : FUSS

19-down – Long-necked bird : SWAN

1-across – Central America country : COSTARICA

8-across – Be quiet! : HUSH

9-across – Start : BEGINNING

10-across – Metal : IRON

13-across – God of love : CUPID

15-across – Offensive remark : INSULT

16-across – Knife for stabbing : DAGGER

17-across – Apparitions : GHOSTS

19-across – Inhuman : BRUTAL

20-across – Hirsute : HAIRY

21-across – Wild cat with tufted ears : LYNX

24-across – Miss Italy? : SIGNORINA

25-across – Undersea ridge : REEF

26-across – Wesleyan : METHODIST

2-down – Comply with orders : OBEY

3-down – Castor or Pollux? : TWIN

4-down – Expire : RUNOUT

5-down – Frank : CANDID

6-down – Substitute fulfilling the role of another : SURROGATE

7-down – Imaginary paradise on earth : SHANGRILA

11-down – Feudal superior : LIEGELORD

12-down – Gobsmacked : ASTOUNDED

13-down – Fabric : CLOTH

14-down – Produced from milk : DAIRY

18-down – Language saying one thing but implying the opposite : SATIRE

19-down – Offshoot : BRANCH

22-down – Style of jazz : TRAD

23-down – Taverns : INNS

1-across – Great embarrassment and shame : MORTIFICATION

8-across – Total : SUM

9-across – Difficult situation : TIGHTSPOT

10-across – US legislative body : CONGRESS

11-across – Jacques — , Belgian singer, d. 1978 : BREL

13-across – Priggish people : PRUDES

14-across – Jolly japes : CAPERS

16-across – Equal — look searchingly : PEER

17-across – Overconcerned with correctness : PEDANTIC

20-across – Comparable : ANALOGOUS

21-across – Wager : BET

22-across – Become reconciled : KISSANDMAKEUP

1-down – Harmonious sounds : MUSIC

2-down – I, V, X etc : ROMANNUMERALS

3-down – Buried : INTERRED

4-down – Absorb mentally : INGEST

5-down – Book of the New Testament : ACTS

6-down – Too slight to be noticed : IMPERCEPTIBLE

7-down – Stinging plants : NETTLES

12-down – Federal monarchy of South-East Asia : MALAYSIA

13-down – Encouraging chat : PEPTALK

15-down – Log — disc : RECORD

18-down – Distressed — dissected : CUTUP

19-down – Very small amount : IOTA

5-across – Sanctified : CONSECRATED

7-across – Make tea : BREW

8-across – In good spirits : CHEERFUL

9-across – Cautionary advice : WARNING

11-across – Paunch : BELLY

13-across – Code for I : INDIA

14-across – Church cushion : HASSOCK

16-across – Waterfall — eye complaint : CATARACT

17-across – Needy : POOR

18-across – Deep cuts or tears in the flesh : LACERATIONS

1-down – Bite persistently : GNAW

2-down – Ancestry — downward movement : DESCENT

3-down – Set of containers for salt, pepper, oil, vinegar etc : CRUET

4-down – Naked : STARKERS

5-down – Appearance of performers on stage to acknowledge applause : CURTAINCALL

6-down – Swindle : DOUBLECROSS

10-down – Pain in the neck : NUISANCE

12-down – Musical setting of a text : CANTATA

15-down – Raced : CADRE

17-down – Story line : PLOT

1-across – Person or thing doomed to failure : DEADDUCK

5-across – Pretentious words : BLAH

9-across – English diarist and naval administrator, d. 1703 : PEPYS

10-across – Food : EDIBLES

11-across – Strand of man-made fibre : MONOFILAMENT

13-across – Grasp tightly : CLENCH

14-across – Remove the moisture from : DRYOUT

17-across – Lacking sufficient oomph : UNDERPOWERED

20-across – Melissa : AIMLESS

21-across – Salty water : BRINE

22-across – The colour of unbleached linen : ECRU

23-across – One barely running in public : STREAKER

1-down – Marijuana — fool : DOPE

2-down – Think well of : APPROVE

3-down – Disturbed the composure of : DISCONCERTED

4-down – Person ordained to the Christian ministry : CLERIC

6-down – University city in French Flanders : LILLE

7-down – Delay making a decision : HESITATE

8-down – Offensive — peevish : DISAGREEABLE

12-down – Error free : ACCURATE

15-down – Tall tapering pillar : OBELISK

16-down – Overindulge : COSSET

18-down – Raise objections : DEMUR

19-down – Apprehension : FEAR

1-across – Excessively sentimental : SACCHARINE

7-across – Left — late : DEPARTED

8-across – Small brook : RILL

9-across – Put down : LAID

10-across – Accelerate : SPEEDUP

12-across – Without delay : ATTHEDOUBLE

14-across – Hard-hearted : CALLOUS

16-across – First-class — fruit : PLUM

19-across – Engage by written agreement : SIGN

20-across – Good-natured : AMICABLE

21-across – Device to help breathing : VENTILATOR

1-down – Explosive projectile : SHELL

2-down – Two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in battle : CHARIOT

3-down – Raps — successful recordings : HITS

4-down – Assign to a new task : REDEPLOY

5-down – Brass neck : NERVE

6-down – Refer to indirectly : ALLUDE

11-down – Childishly sulky : PETULANT

12-down – Slow movement in a musical work : ADAGIO

13-down – Heavy material used to stabilise a ship : BALLAST

15-down – Sudden thrust in fencing : LUNGE

17-down – Grinding tooth : MOLAR

18-down – Plug : FILL

1-across – Photograph — card game : SNAP

3-across – Polite form of address for a woman in India : MEMSAHIB

8-across – Depend : RELY

9-across – Means of saving time or effort : SHORTCUT

11-across – The goal with respect to a marriage proposal? : INTENTIONS

14-across – Lengths of yarn, loosely coiled : SKEINS

15-across – Fastening device : STAPLE

17-across – Crowning point : APOTHEOSIS

20-across – In my opinion : ASISEEIT

21-across – Have affection : CARE

22-across – Made unhappy : SADDENED

23-across – Castrate : GELD

1-down – Most regretful — resistor : SORRIEST

2-down – Confused : ALLATSEA

4-down – Culturally-based : ETHNIC

5-down – Reinforce : STRENGTHEN

6-down – Journalistic drudge : HACK

7-down – One and the other : BOTH

10-down – Uninjured : INONEPIECE

12-down – Someone who has abandoned their religion : APOSTATE

13-down – Frame used for supporting a mattress : BEDSTEAD

16-down – Clothing : ATTIRE

18-down – Singing voice — fish : BASS

19-down – Tender-hearted : KIND

1-across – In the main : PREDOMINANTLY

8-across – Quick and agile : SPRY

9-across – Scaremonger : ALARMIST

10-across – Bewilders : NONPLUSSES

12-across – Wheel and deal : SCHEME

14-across – Wound : LESION

15-across – Allure : ATTRACTION

19-across – Arithmetic operation : DIVISION

20-across – Osculate : KISS

21-across – Alone and unaided : INDEPENDENTLY

2-down – Censure : REPROACH

3-down – Forget one’s lines : DRYUP

4-down – Quantify : MEASURE

5-down – Approaches : NEARS

6-down – Retribution : NEMESIS

7-down – Missing : LOST

11-down – Gigantic : COLOSSAL

13-down – Deliberately vague : EVASIVE

14-down – Well-read : LEARNED

16-down – Race : TRIBE

17-down – Kidnapped : TAKEN

18-down – Industrial oven : KILN

1-across – Lower tidal part of a river : ESTUARY

8-across – Feeling such as joy, sorrow and fear : EMOTION

9-across – Compulsive talkers : GASBAGS

10-across – Properly deserved : MERITED

11-across – Senior male figure in a profession : DOYEN

13-across – Consciousness — ten nieces : SENTIENCE

15-across – Group of convicts coupled together while working : CHAINGANG

18-across – Underworld : HADES

21-across – Very young child : TINYTOT

22-across – Difficult to find : ELUSIVE

23-across – Last longer than scheduled : OVERRUN

24-across – Regarded with great apprehension : DREADED

1-down – Moved slowly and cautiously : EDGED

2-down – Easily annoyed : TESTY

3-down – Perverted — immoral : AGAINSTNATURE

4-down – Sycophants : YESMEN

5-down – Place providing food and lodging for paying guests : BOARDINGHOUSE

6-down – Lend an ear : LISTEN

7-down – Nervously excited : ONEDGE

12-down – That hurt! : OUCH

14-down – Walking stick : CANE

15-down – Natural fabric : COTTON

16-down – Temporary cessation of breathing, when asleep : APNOEA

17-down – Concentrate carefully : ATTEND

19-down – Desiccated : DRIED

20-down – Pay out : SPEND