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1-across – Ability in the management of national affairs : STATESMANSHIP

8-across – Select as a preferable alternative : OPT

9-across – Reach adult status : COMEOFAGE

10-across – Read through briefly : LOOKOVER

11-across – Item of footwear : SHOE

13-across – Amorous embrace? : CLINCH

14-across – Dance around excitedly : CAVORT

16-across – Patriarch who saved his family and all the animals from drowning : NOAH

17-across – Death : CURTAINS

20-across – Stirring — anxiety : AGITATION

21-across – Star that provides light and heat for a solar system : SUN

22-across – Absence : NONATTENDANCE

1-down – Seat without a back : STOOL

2-down – Oppressively strict : AUTHORITARIAN

3-down – Intrude gradually : ENCROACH

4-down – Person belonging to a particular group : MEMBER

5-down – Midday : NOON

6-down – Ridiculously over-complicated in design and/or construction : HEATHROBINSON

7-down – Rule of conduct : PRECEPT

12-down – Secured : FASTENED

13-down – Hold within : CONTAIN

15-down – Pointless : FUTILE

18-down – From that time : SINCE

19-down – Handle of an axe : HAFT

1-across – Throw someone out of a window : DEFENESTRATE

9-across – Cause someone to feel embarrassed : ABASH

10-across – Gather together : COLLECT

11-across – Large leathery brown seaweed : KELP

12-across – Campaigner — rude scar : CRUSADER

14-across – Improve the quality of : ENRICH

15-across – Balkan region joined with Herzegovina : BOSNIA

18-across – Put into effect : ACTIONED

20-across – Gradually deprive the young of its mother’s milk : WEAN

22-across – Discharge of fluid through a small gap : LEAKAGE

23-across – Come together in agreement : ALIGN

24-across – Beastly long time : DONKEYSYEARS

2-down – Someone who makes it possible for another to do something : ENABLER

3-down – Code word for E : ECHO

4-down – Chaperone — Cortes : ESCORT

5-down – Speak about one’s work : TALKSHOP

6-down – Up in front : AHEAD

7-down – Delightful : ENTERTAINING

8-down – Reversed one’s previous position : BACKPEDALLED

13-down – Praise publicly given : ACCOLADE

16-down – More disadvantaged : NEEDIER

17-down – Insurgents : REBELS

19-down – Pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, d. 1910) : TWAIN

21-down – Confine — US composer, d. 1992 : CAGE

1-across – One who owes money : DEBTOR

4-across – Alcoholic pick-me-up : BRACER

9-across – One Ford : DONEFOR

10-across – Part of the cricket wicket : BAILS

11-across – Promiscuous : LOOSE

12-across – Set going : ACTUATE

13-across – Ruse designed to disguise one’s real intentions : SMOKESCREEN

18-across – Inner distinctive nature of anything : ESSENCE

20-across – Step : STAIR

22-across – Person acting as a judge? : TRIER

23-across – Catastrophic : RUINOUS

24-across – Depict artistically : RENDER

25-across – Courteously : NICELY

1-down – Deprive by deceit : DIDDLE

2-down – Stringed instrument : BANJO

3-down – At a time when demand is less : OFFPEAK

5-down – Disprove : REBUT

6-down – Short section of sharp bends on a motor-racing track : CHICANE

7-down – More impetuous — slice of meat : RASHER

8-down – Full-bodied sweet fortified wine : CREAMSHERRY

14-down – Assignment — calling : MISSION

15-down – Italian operatic composer, d. 1868 : ROSSINI

16-down – Person who rouses game birds to be shot : BEATER

17-down – Liking to wear fancy or formal clothes : DRESSY

19-down – Treat carefully : NURSE

21-down – Got up : AROSE

1-across – Skill with a blade : SWORDSMANSHIP

8-across – Choose not to vote : ABSTAIN

9-across – Social customs : MORES

10-across – Title given in parts of Asia to important people : KHAN

11-across – Second-largest Mediterranean island, after Sicily : SARDINIA

13-across – Descendant of French settlers in Louisiana : CREOLE

14-across – Back scrubber : LOOFAH

17-across – Rep : SALESMAN

19-across – Norwegian city, formerly Kristiania : OSLO

21-across – Irk : ANNOY

22-across – Set on fire : KINDLED

24-across – Severe reprimand : TONGUELASHING

1-down – Salt water : SEA

2-down – Visible to the theatre audience : ONSTAGE

3-down – Having two distinct functions : DUAL

4-down – Handbook : MANUAL

5-down – Casually mention famous people you know : NAMEDROP

6-down – Great Lake : HURON

7-down – Green nut : PISTACHIO

10-down – Stimulate : KICKSTART

12-down – Gesundheit! : BLESSYOU

15-down – Spiral pasta : FUSILLI

16-down – Wild dog-like animal : JACKAL

18-down – Cloth made from flax : LINEN

20-down – Social insects : ANTS

23-down – Turn up earth : DIG

1-across – Permit to do something : TICKET

4-across – Potential oaks? : ACORNS

8-across – Put down on paper : WROTE

9-across – Dominance : PRIMACY

10-across – Vehicle seen on the roads in wintery conditions : GRITTER

11-across – Synthetic silk-like fabric : RAYON

12-across – Bogus trap : GASTROPUB

17-across – Ghastly : AWFUL

19-across – Convey : DELIVER

21-across – Out of order — erratic : HAYWIRE

22-across – Cause of computer failure? : VIRUS

23-across – One suffering for their beliefs : MARTYR

24-across – Very dull : DREARY

1-down – Hauling something with a rope : TOWAGE

2-down – Nauseating : CLOYING

3-down – Happening : EVENT

5-down – Twitter : CHIRRUP

6-down – All set to go : READY

7-down – Proverb : SAYING

9-down – Game bird : PARTRIDGE

13-down – In a suave way : SILKILY

14-down – Largest German state, home of BMW cars : BAVARIA

15-down – Six feet down? : FATHOM

16-down – Worthless : TRASHY

18-down – Entrance hall : FOYER

20-down – Beau : LOVER

1-across – Aromatic herb used as seasoning : DILL

3-across – Sloppy : SLIPSHOD

9-across – Ice cream flavour : VANILLA

10-across – Secure room — spring over : VAULT

11-across – Test : ASSAY

12-across – Fool : NITWIT

14-across – Understanding : COMPREHENSION

17-across – Fasten securely : ANCHOR

19-across – Kind of crossing? : ZEBRA

22-across – Truth assumed to be self-evident : AXIOM

23-across – Involving controversy — compile : POLEMIC

24-across – Woman on the prowl, like the goddess Diana? : HUNTRESS

25-across – Open grassland of southern Africa : VELD

1-down – Aberration : DEVIANCY

2-down – Connections : LINKS

4-down – Study how to do a job : LEARNTHEROPES

5-down – Swivel : PIVOT

6-down – Escape artist, d. 1926 : HOUDINI

7-down – Sweet fruit with a long woody seed : DATE

8-down – Actor — musician : PLAYER

13-down – Improved : ENHANCED

15-down – Make reference to : MENTION

16-down – Rub noses : NUZZLE

18-down – Old Greek epic poet : HOMER

20-down – Dome-shaped dessert : BOMBE

21-down – Whip : LASH

1-across – Ear membrane — my MP a nut : TYMPANUM

5-across – Sudden sharp feeling : PANG

9-across – Tycoon — ski slope mound : MOGUL

10-across – Gulf sheikhdom : BAHRAIN

11-across – Grouchy : CANTANKEROUS

13-across – Expresses audibly : UTTERS

14-across – Calm : SEDATE

17-across – Dinosaur with a long neck and tail : BRONTOSAURUS

20-across – In the open air : OUTDOOR

21-across – Dirty : GRIMY

22-across – Boot : KICK

23-across – No 1 in the periodic table : HYDROGEN

1-down – Hours clocked up? : TIME

2-down – Person moving abroad : MIGRANT

3-down – Poetic rhyming device using words with the same initial letter : ALLITERATION

4-down – Cultured : URBANE

6-down – Where Davy Crockett died, 1836 : ALAMO

7-down – Hoodlum : GANGSTER

8-down – Fast food — begs cure here : CHEESEBURGER

12-down – Skin cream to filter out ultraviolet light : SUNBLOCK

15-down – Droll : AMUSING

16-down – Up the garden path? : ASTRAY

18-down – Device for measuring out spirits : OPTIC

19-down – Bluish green : CYAN

1-across – Vehicle carrying a ladder and hoses : FIREENGINE

7-across – Filmed scene that ends on the cutting-room floor : OUTTAKE

8-across – Old church tax : TITHE

10-across – Dip in liquid : DUNK

11-across – In a careless manner : SLAPDASH

13-across – Attacker : RAIDER

15-across – Convenient : USEFUL

17-across – Thawed : UNFROZEN

18-across – Begin to move : STIR

21-across – Comedy of the absurd? : FARCE

22-across – Three-pronged spear : TRIDENT

23-across – Where glass containers can be recycled : BOTTLEBANK

1-down – Kind of mattress : FUTON

2-down – Horse with reddish-brown coat : ROAN

3-down – Uniformly : EVENLY

4-down – Support for a hinged barrier : GATEPOST

5-down – Absolutely! : NOTHALF

6-down – Cosmetic pad : POWDERPUFF

9-down – Thrill : EXHILARATE

12-down – Evocative : REDOLENT

14-down – Great fire : INFERNO

16-down – Grinding tool : PESTLE

19-down – Make minor adjustments : TWEAK

20-down – Oral examination : VIVA

1-across – Criminal backslider : RECIDIVIST

7-across – From Honolulu? : HAWAIIAN

8-across – Ancient Greece harp : LYRE

9-across – Device for converting sound waves to an electronic signal : MIKE

10-across – Depository for records and documents : ARCHIVE

12-across – Line of cloud following an aeroplane : VAPOURTRAIL

14-across – Rough strong cider : SCRUMPY

16-across – Solicit : TOUT

19-across – Metallic element, Zn : ZINC

20-across – Three fourteens : FORTYTWO

21-across – Pens, pencils, paper etc : STATIONERY

1-down – Royal domain : REALM

2-down – Laugh without restraint : CRACKUP

3-down – Murder : DOIN

4-down – Regard with reverence : VENERATE

5-down – Graceful lass : SYLPH

6-down – Fawn : GROVEL

11-down – Adipose tissue disappearing in adolescence : PUPPYFAT

12-down – Unfortunate person : VICTIM

13-down – Follower : ACOLYTE

15-down – Full-length : UNCUT

17-down – Yellowish-brown : TAWNY

18-down – Three together : TRIO

1-across – Substance aiding the production of suds : WATERSOFTENER

8-across – Stopper : BUNG

9-across – Loose dressing gowns — paper coverings : WRAPPERS

10-across – French school of painting and architecture of the 1880s : ARTNOUVEAU

12-across – Passage from the mouth to the stomach : GULLET

14-across – Celtic language : GAELIC

15-across – Earlier : BEFOREHAND

19-across – What may go up when the rain comes down : UMBRELLA

20-across – Without feeling : NUMB

21-across – Large herbivorous animal native to India, Nepal, Myanmar, Borneo and Sumatra : ASIANELEPHANT

2-down – Fish-viewing tank : AQUARIUM

3-down – Encourage : EGGON

4-down – Fine particles from cut wood : SAWDUST

5-down – Snow crystal : FLAKE

6-down – Marry — take on as a cause : ESPOUSE

7-down – Spanish currency unit : EURO

11-down – Aromatic bark used as a spice : CINNAMON

13-down – Africa’s oldest independent country : LIBERIA

14-down – Trash : GARBAGE

16-down – Erroneous : FALSE

17-down – Guess — sit with bad posture : HUNCH

18-down – Christmas : XMAS