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1-across – Condemnation : CRITICISM

8-across – Be brave enough : DARE

9-across – Unexpected but vivid recall of a past experience : FLASHBACK

10-across – Finished : DONE

13-across – Alarm — temptress : SIREN

15-across – Soldier serving on land and sea : MARINE

16-across – Unearth : DIGOUT

17-across – Holiday centre : RESORT

19-across – Pinched : STOLEN

20-across – Showing signs of wear and tear : TATTY

21-across – Kernel : CORE

24-across – Fortifying alcoholic drink : STIFFENER

25-across – Badger’s burrow : SETT

26-across – Method of execution : BEHEADING

2-down – Govern : RULE

3-down – Nonsense : TOSH

4-down – Taxi driver : CABBIE

5-down – Holy : SACRED

6-down – Latin American dance : PASODOBLE

7-down – Contrite : REPENTANT

11-down – Inexact : IMPRECISE

12-down – Lying face downwards : PROSTRATE

13-down – Inhale a recreational drug : SNORT

14-down – Particularly good : NIFTY

18-down – Gossip : TATTLE

19-down – Repress — itself : STIFLE

22-down – Put right : MEND

23-down – Stitched up : SEWN

1-across – In the intervals separating other activities : BETWEENTIMES

9-across – Scope : AMBIT

10-across – Confusion : TURMOIL

11-across – Small island in a river : EYOT

12-across – Impoverished — ending it : INDIGENT

14-across – Protective headgear : HELMET

15-across – Grapes : GASPER

18-across – Much employed : WELLUSED

20-across – Immeasurably long period of time : AEON

22-across – Blighty : ENGLAND

23-across – Customers : USERS

24-across – Schoolchildren who return to an empty home : LATCHKEYKIDS

2-down – Involve : EMBROIL

3-down – Unit of power — Scottish engineer, d. 1819 : WATT

4-down – Stretch out : EXTEND

5-down – Deadly : TERMINAL

6-down – North American elk : MOOSE

7-down – Isolation : SOLITARINESS

8-down – Assume control of a situation : TAKETHEWHEEL

13-down – Hand down : BEQUEATH

16-down – Make believe : PRETEND

17-down – Coastal department of western France : VENDEE

19-down – Illumination : LIGHT

21-down – Perform in the street for money : BUSK

5-across – Three-stringed instrument used to play Russian folk music : BALALAIKA

8-across – Forearm bone : ULNA

9-across – Federal prison in California, 1934-63 : ALCATRAZ

10-across – Prone to chuckling : GIGGLY

11-across – One or the other : EITHER

13-across – Not a good person! : BADEGG

15-across – Glitch : HICCUP

16-across – Night light? : MOONBEAM

18-across – Master : LORD

19-across – Seemingly without limit : BOUNDLESS

1-down – Tirade : HARANGUE

2-down – Bright yellow shade : CANARY

3-down – Lacking social polish : GAUCHE

4-down – Parody : SKIT

6-down – Croc’s close relative : ALLIGATOR

7-down – Preserve : SAFEGUARD

12-down – : TICKLISH

14-down – The Quiet American author : GREENE

15-down – Lecture on a moral topic : HOMILY

17-down – Gas used in fluorescent lighting : NEON

5-across – The 18-yard box : PENALTYAREA

7-across – Green fruit — green colour : LIME

8-across – Monument honouring the fallen : CENOTAPH

9-across – Blue cheese : STILTON

11-across – Tired : WEARY

13-across – Fail : FLUNK

14-across – Succession of rulers from the same family : DYNASTY

16-across – Light cooking pot for camping : BILLYCAN

17-across – Thai currency unit : BAHT

18-across – Inability to remember something that you normally can : MENTALBLOCK

1-down – At a previous time : ONCE

2-down – Someone with the right to vote : ELECTOR

3-down – On the way out : DYING

4-down – Abnormal redness of the skin — my heater : ERYTHEMA

5-down – Late 19th-century French style of painting using dots of colour : POINTILLISM

6-down – Soviet Communist Party bureaucrat : APPARATCHIK

10-down – Home phone : LANDLINE

12-down – Eventually : BYANDBY

15-down – Get out of here! : SCRAM

17-down – Lout : BOOR

1-across – Radiant — clever : BRIGHT

4-across – Vinegary : ACETIC

8-across – Thin biscuit : WAFER

9-across – Make stronger : FORTIFY

10-across – In a moderately slow tempo : ANDANTE

11-across – Say baa! : BLEAT

12-across – One who talks in an offensive way : LOUDMOUTH

17-across – Muse of love poetry : ERATO

19-across – Edible root, eaten cooked — fils, say : SALSIFY

21-across – Hard-wearing twilled cloth — it’s faun : FUSTIAN

22-across – Glasses : SPECS

23-across – Coming from Aden? : YEMENI

24-across – Small animal with a pouch : POSSUM

1-down – Archer : BOWMAN

2-down – Unbeliever : INFIDEL

3-down – Wading bird : HERON

5-down – North American reindeer : CARIBOU

6-down – Very short time : TRICE

7-down – North American wild dog : COYOTE

9-down – Forenames : FREEMASON

13-down – Perfect : UTOPIAN

14-down – Woman likely to succeed? : HEIRESS

15-down – Launch an attack on someone, verbally : LETFLY

16-down – Mineral used to make plaster of Paris : GYPSUM

18-down – Tea-growing state in north-east India : ASSAM

20-down – Cattle-catching rope : LASSO

1-across – Diminutive folk hero : TOMTHUMB

5-across – Serious break in friendly relations : RIFT

9-across – From the Italian capital : ROMAN

10-across – Mobster : HOODLUM

11-across – 16th-century Spanish adventurer : CONQUISTADOR

13-across – Warm up again : REHEAT

14-across – Keen insight : ACUMEN

17-across – One way to leave a pirate ship for ever? : WALKTHEPLANK

20-across – Vibrating membrane in the head : EARDRUM

21-across – Regular : USUAL

22-across – Bluish shade of green : TEAL

23-across – Lineage : ANCESTRY

1-down – Sour — acid : TART

2-down – Enormous : MAMMOTH

3-down – Animal’s rear : HINDQUARTERS

4-down – Fabric made with angora wool : MOHAIR

6-down – Did little or nothing : IDLED

7-down – Large tropical seedpod with tangy pulp — mad train : TAMARIND

8-down – Gardening : HORTICULTURE

12-down – Bully : BROWBEAT

15-down – Search for a fugitive : MANHUNT

16-down – Dirty rats? : VERMIN

18-down – Insect’s feeding stage : LARVA

19-down – Have fun — theatrical work : PLAY

1-across – Self-governing American commonwealth in the Caribbean : PUERTORICO

7-across – Person bringing charges : ACCUSER

8-across – Bout : SPREE

10-across – The Garden of England : KENT

11-across – American thriller or detective movie style of the ’40s and ’50s : FILMNOIR

13-across – Drink of the gods : NECTAR

15-across – 11am meal? : BRUNCH

17-across – Defamed : MALIGNED

18-across – You in olden times : THOU

21-across – Cheeky : LIPPY

22-across – President of Egypt, 1981-2011 : MUBARAK

23-across – In a position to reach a goal without much further difficulty : HOMEANDDRY

1-down – Nut tree of the southern United States and Mexico : PECAN

2-down – Direction taken when going from the US towards Ireland : EAST

3-down – Pompous and boring : TURGID

4-down – Herb with narrow leaves : ROSEMARY

5-down – Witty drawing : CARTOON

6-down – Mule, for example : PACKANIMAL

9-down – Strong tremor : EARTHQUAKE

12-down – Spout ending in a grotesquely carved figure : GARGOYLE

14-down – Improvised song of the Caribbean : CALYPSO

16-down – Address of a religious nature : SERMON

19-down – Annoy continually : HARRY

20-down – Retired : ABED

1-across – Ridiculous combination of two figures of speech : MIXEDMETAPHOR

8-across – Gob : SPIT

9-across – Scornfully mocking : SARDONIC

10-across – Unquenchable : INSATIABLE

12-across – Yes-man : STOOGE

14-across – Champagne : BUBBLY

15-across – Financial security — teeters, say : EASYSTREET

19-across – Large church building : BASILICA

20-across – Early stringed instrument : VIOL

21-across – Clean-and-jerk sport : WEIGHTLIFTING

2-down – Exemption from punishment : IMPUNITY

3-down – Additional : EXTRA

4-down – Projectile : MISSILE

5-down – Palpitate : THROB

6-down – Adage : PROVERB

7-down – Roman poet, d. about AD17 : OVID

11-down – Lunar occurrence : BLUEMOON

13-down – First — beginning : OPENING

14-down – Kind of long-grained rice : BASMATI

16-down – Canonised person : SAINT

17-down – Fasten — engross : RIVET

18-down – Open jar for holding flowers : VASE

1-across – Charades, for example : PARLOURGAME

9-across – Embedded : IMPLANTED

10-across – Junk : TAT

11-across – Soil’s organic component : HUMUS

13-across – Ledger for recording transactions as they occur : DAYBOOK

14-across – Sudden arrival : INRUSH

15-across – Kiss and cuddle : SMOOCH

18-across – US state — Black Sea state : GEORGIA

20-across – Regal : ROYAL

21-across – Sign of the zodiac : LEO

22-across – Large broad-bladed weapon : BATTLEAXE

24-across – Men’s underwear : BOXERSHORTS

2-down – Snake : ASP

3-down – Negotiates between parties : LIAISES

4-down – Disordered : UNTIDY

5-down – Devout : GODLY

6-down – Legends and sagas, in general : MYTHOLOGY

7-down – The Lady with the Lamp, d. 1910 : NIGHTINGALE

8-down – Person or organisation with an interest in something : STAKEHOLDER

12-down – Venetian travel writer, who may : MARCOPOLO

16-down – Dark cherry : MORELLO

17-down – Carnivorous insect, which rests as if in prayer : MANTIS

19-down – Part between sloping sides of a roof : GABLE

23-down – Relevant : APT

1-across – Absolute belter : HUMDINGER

8-across – Card — raiser : JACK

9-across – Potential cause of harm from micro-organisms : BIOHAZARD

10-across – Killer whale : ORCA

13-across – Put to the sword : SLAIN

15-across – Setting : LOCALE

16-across – Evil imp : GOBLIN

17-across – Order restricting movements after a set time : CURFEW

19-across – White whale : BELUGA

20-across – Three-note chord — Chinese criminal gang : TRIAD

21-across – Candle cord : WICK

24-across – Powered equipment : MACHINERY

25-across – Father : SIRE

26-across – Deserted urban area : GHOSTTOWN

2-down – Separate part : UNIT

3-down – James and the Giant Peach author : DAHL

4-down – Rub noses : NUZZLE

5-down – Pincered insect : EARWIG

6-down – Chatty : GARRULOUS

7-down – From Kiev, say? : UKRAINIAN

11-down – Moving as hands do? : CLOCKWISE

12-down – Item filled in by a golfer : SCORECARD

13-down – Mixed rain and melting snow : SLEET

14-down – Moved slowly and cautiously forward : NOSED

18-down – The war : WREATH

19-down – Trite anticlimax : BATHOS

22-down – Biting fly : GNAT

23-down – Extract : DRAW