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1-across – Wretchedness : MISERY

4-across – Wooden-headed hammer : MALLET

9-across – Become shrunken and wrinkled : SHRIVEL

10-across – Unaccompanied : ALONE

11-across – Scare : ACRES

12-across – Passage selected from a larger work : EXTRACT

13-across – Three-card trick : FINDTHELADY

18-across – Beethoven piano concerto, Op. 73 : EMPEROR

20-across – Breast : BOSOM

22-across – Speedy : SWIFT

23-across – Amelia __ , aviator, d. 1937 : EARHART

24-across – Most unrefined : RUDEST

25-across – State capital of New South Wales : SYDNEY

1-down – Unlucky accident : MISHAP

2-down – More certain : SURER

3-down – Prepared for exams : REVISED

5-down – Change to suit a new purpose : ADAPT

6-down – Skin-tight garment : LEOTARD

7-down – Pact : TREATY

8-down – Lincolnshire seaside resort — lecher’s poet : CLEETHORPES

14-down – Stated indirectly : IMPLIED

15-down – Freedom : LIBERTY

16-down – Gas-fired water heater : GEYSER

17-down – Forge : SMITHY

19-down – Evaluates the importance : RATES

21-down – Killed : SLAIN

1-across – Death : DEMISE

4-across – Funeral song : DIRGE

7-across – Long tapering flag : PENNON

8-across – Wonderful or astonishing person : MARVEL

9-across – Too : ALSO

10-across – Grannie’s : EARNINGS

12-across – Instrument for determining the distance of an object : RANGEFINDER

17-across – Generosity : LARGESSE

19-across – Spindle : AXLE

20-across – Showy ornamental shrub : AZALEA

21-across – Descend a cliff by rope : ABSEIL

22-across – Something valuable to have : ASSET

23-across – Historical records : ANNALS

1-down – Resident : DWELLER

2-down – Rainy season in southern Asia : MONSOON

3-down – Foolish : SENSELESS

4-down – Haggard : DRAWN

5-down – Government’s income : REVENUE

6-down – Take the Queen’s shilling : ENLIST

11-down – Create a commotion : RAISECAIN

13-down – Safety features in a motor car : AIRBAGS

14-down – Lowest lake in the world : DEADSEA

15-down – Extended exchanges of tennis strokes : RALLIES

16-down – Llama-like domesticated animal, valued for its wool : ALPACA

18-down – Upstanding : ERECT

5-across – Military training exercise : MANOEUVRE

8-across – Fastener : BOLT

9-across – Diving apparatus : AQUALUNG

10-across – Go back to a former practice : REVERT

11-across – Followed : TAILED

13-across – State of health : FETTLE

15-across – Perplex : BAFFLE

16-across – Pimp : PROCURER

18-across – Is in session : SITS

19-across – Portrayal : DEPICTION

1-down – Most spiteful : CATTIEST

2-down – Lauren Bacall’s first actor husband, d. 1957 : BOGART

3-down – Majestic — month : AUGUST

4-down – Viva : ORAL

6-down – Become disillusioned : LOSEHEART

7-down – As a matter of fact : INREALITY

12-down – Brew : INFUSION

14-down – Eavesdrop : EARWIG

15-down – Scold : BERATE

17-down – Masticate : CHEW

5-across – Gave in : CAPITULATED

7-across – Tie : KNOT

8-across – Pass across : TRAVERSE

9-across – Enduring energy : STAMINA

11-across – Playing card : HEART

13-across – Leather strap once used on Scottish schoolchildren : TAWSE

14-across – Steer : BULLOCK

16-across – Tending : INCLINED

17-across – Post : MAIL

18-across – Low-cut neckline : DECOLLETAGE

1-down – Notice — fictional puppy : SPOT

2-down – Drugs taken to reduce blood cholesterol : STATINS

3-down – Offering little hope : BLEAK

4-down – Heavenly : ETHEREAL

5-down – Reticent : CONSTRAINED

6-down – Very damaging : DESTRUCTIVE

10-down – Lose — limp case : MISPLACE

12-down – Turned sour : CURDLED

15-down – Human joint : ANKLE

17-down – Flesh as food : MEAT

1-across – Advocate : RECOMMEND

8-across – Disordered state : CHAOS

9-across – Destroy completely : ROOTOUT

10-across – Originator : DESIGNER

11-across – Young salmon — a wife of Henry VIII : PARR

13-across – Repaired : MENDED

14-across – Concealed : HIDDEN

16-across – Charitable donations to the needy : ALMS

17-across – Tepid : LUKEWARM

19-across – Rouses from sleep : AWAKENS

20-across – Hymn of praise : PAEAN

21-across – Abandonment : DESERTION

1-down – Calmly submissive : RESIGNED

2-down – Vocation : CAREER

3-down – Natural satellite of a planet : MOON

4-down – Painter of A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, d.1883 : EDOUARDMANET

5-down – Toppling of a king : DETHRONEMENT

6-down – Oscar : ACADEMYAWARD

7-down – Resources for achieving something : WAYSANDMEANS

12-down – Gaping : WIDEOPEN

15-down – Breakfast cereal with fruits : MUESLI

18-down – Make very hot and dry : SEAR

1-across – Socially pretentious woman : LADYMUCK

5-across – Party — clobber : BASH

9-across – Thrash about : FLAIL

10-across – Lustful : AMOROUS

11-across – Unfair : BELOWTHEBELT

13-across – Major blood vessel : ARTERY

14-across – Doctor-priest working with magic : SHAMAN

17-across – Surfaced area for parking vehicles : HARDSTANDING

20-across – Most tidy : NEATEST

21-across – Brideshead Revisited author, d. 1966 : WAUGH

22-across – Adam and Eve’s third son : SETH

23-across – One who’s owed money : CREDITOR

1-down – Vitality : LIFE

2-down – Vernacular : DIALECT

3-down – Starved : MALNOURISHED

4-down – Morally pure : CHASTE

6-down – Love deeply : ADORE

7-down – Indecisive : HESITANT

8-down – Presaged : FORESHADOWED

12-down – Great quantity : LASHINGS

15-down – Organised search for a fugitive : MANHUNT

16-down – Synagogue official who conducts the liturgical part of the service : CANTOR

18-down – Reprimand — cook : ROAST

19-down – Make a humming noise : WHIR

1-across – Written works of merit : LITERATURE

7-across – Case for holding a light : LANTERN

8-across – Publication : ISSUE

10-across – Eat : NOSH

11-across – Struggle clumsily : FLOUNDER

13-across – Deep sleep-like state : TRANCE

15-across – Knight of the Round Table — the rag : GARETH

17-across – Loaded with regret : RUEFULLY

18-across – Uncritically admired object : ICON

21-across – Quaintly amusing : DROLL

22-across – Contagious skin infection : SCABIES

23-across – Parched : DEHYDRATED

1-down – School punishment : LINES

2-down – Rain cats and dogs : TEEM

3-down – Cause continuing irritation : RANKLE

4-down – Court of arbitration : TRIBUNAL

5-down – What’s left : RESIDUE

6-down – Mean-spirited : ILLNATURED

9-down – Quality of being gross : EARTHINESS

12-down – In fact : ACTUALLY

14-down – One name : ANEMONE

16-down – More intimate : CLOSER

19-down – Wept : CRIED

20-down – Stop : HALT

1-across – Shortcoming : DEFICIENCY

7-across – The First State : DELAWARE

8-across – Sly look : PEEK

9-across – Unpleasantly moist : DANK

10-across – Losing one’s hair : BALDING

12-across – In unison : ALLTOGETHER

14-across – Curtains : DRAPERY

16-across – Stretch over : SPAN

19-across – Clubs : BATS

20-across – Disease — a side bet : DIABETES

21-across – With great courage : FEARLESSLY

1-down – Great fear : DREAD

2-down – Facecloth : FLANNEL

3-down – Applaud : CLAP

4-down – Lofty : ELEVATED

5-down – Managed well enough : COPED

6-down – More eager : KEENER

11-down – Passage : CORRIDOR

12-down – Out of the country : ABROAD

13-down – Unlucky — he slaps : HAPLESS

15-down – Outdated : PASSE

17-down – Poor : NEEDY

18-down – Plinth : BASE

1-across – Film or book making huge profits : BLOCKBUSTER

9-across – Staying power : ENDURANCE

10-across – Yellowish-brown : TAN

11-across – See how the land lies : RECCE

13-across – Put in order — organise : ARRANGE

14-across – The man : ANTHEM

15-across – Intellectual capacity : BRAINS

18-across – Can be upheld : TENABLE

20-across – Groom : PREEN

21-across – Mongrel : CUR

22-across – Volume of liquid used in cooking : TEACUPFUL

24-across – Has an unhappy outcome : ENDSINTEARS

2-down – Boy : LAD

3-down – Funeral procession : CORTEGE

4-down – Author of Pilgrim’s Progress, d.1688 : BUNYAN

5-down – Remove fleece : SHEAR

6-down – Far-reaching : EXTENSIVE

7-down – Coronary : HEARTATTACK

8-down – All the time : INCESSANTLY

12-down – Make a rapid escape : CUTANDRUN

16-down – Ecstasy : RAPTURE

17-down – Take into custody : DETAIN

19-down – Public swimming pool : BATHS

23-down – Distant : FAR

1-across – Fabled one-eyed giant : CYCLOPS

8-across – Body of troops arranged in a line : ECHELON

9-across – Most humble : MEEKEST

10-across – Means of execution : THEROPE

11-across – First premier of the Soviet Union, d. 1924 : LENIN

13-across – Based on personal accounts, possibly unreliable : ANECDOTAL

15-across – Stinks : CHEMISTRY

18-across – Praise : EXTOL

21-across – Person from Barcelona? : CATALAN

22-across – Young children’s horses? : GEEGEES

23-across – Unintentional self-inflicted harm : OWNGOAL

24-across – Give someone the right : ENTITLE

1-down – Beast of burden : CAMEL

2-down – Innocent : CLEAN

3-down – Quite exceptional person : ONEINAMILLION

4-down – Light upon : SETTLE

5-down – Equestrian competition : THREEDAYEVENT

6-down – Very nearly : ALMOST

7-down – Introduce publicly for the first time : UNVEIL

12-down – Per head : EACH

14-down – Florence’s river : ARNO

15-down – Slightly crazy — bird : CUCKOO

16-down – Still in existence : EXTANT

17-down – Confused interwoven mass : TANGLE

19-down – : TWEET

20-down – : LISLE