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5-across – Travel by road without paying : HITCHHIKE

8-across – Character from an ancient Germanic alphabet : RUNE

9-across – Polite behaviour towards others : CHIVALRY

10-across – Persuade with flattery : CAJOLE

11-across – Alter : MODIFY

13-across – Musical composition played slowly and gracefully : ADAGIO

15-across – Difficult : TAXING

16-across – Someone excluded from the group : OUTSIDER

18-across – Mechanical repetition of something to be learned : ROTE

19-across – Defining ideas and beliefs of a particular historical period : ZEITGEIST

1-down – Lasting one’s whole existence : LIFELONG

2-down – Spike of frozen water : ICICLE

3-down – Belief in a god : THEISM

4-down – Edible green pods : OKRA

6-down – Utter : OUTANDOUT

7-down – Swear word : PROFANITY

12-down – Naturally occurring sugar : DEXTROSE

14-down – Strange eccentricity : ODDITY

15-down – Painter of Rain, Steam and Speed : TURNER

17-down – Small duck found in northern Eurasia, which nests in tree holes : SMEW

1-across – Secondary consequence : KNOCKONEFFECT

8-across – Small fry : TIDDLER

9-across – Make less severe : RELAX

10-across – Wander without a fixed destination : ROAM

11-across – Shabby — much read : DOGEARED

13-across – Where Marie Curie was born : POLAND

14-across – Tommy or Alice? : COOPER

17-across – Bogus medication : SNAKEOIL

19-across – Broadway accolade : TONY

21-across – Banishment : EXILE

22-across – Mobster : HOODLUM

24-across – Fogeyish — Kentish dictum : STICKINTHEMUD

1-down – Sports gear : KIT

2-down – Eccentric : ODDBALL

3-down – Coarse curly-leafed cabbage : KALE

4-down – Get thinner : NARROW

5-down – Frill — flounce : FURBELOW

6-down – Hugely influential Swiss mathematician, d. 1783 : EULER

7-down – It makes dead animals look lifelike — timed x-ray : TAXIDERMY

10-down – Take : REPOSSESS

12-down – Reflex reaction : KNEEJERK

15-down – Issue : PROBLEM

16-down – Plant-like organism which thrives on rocks, walls and trees : LICHEN

18-down – It puts one in the clear : ALIBI

20-down – Tease one another : JOSH

23-down – Old rocker’s rival : MOD

1-across – Eccentrics : ODDBALLS

5-across – Careless mistake : SLIP

9-across – Wailing alarm : SIREN

10-across – Long pillow : BOLSTER

11-across – You can’t get colder than this : ABSOLUTEZERO

13-across – Long narrow depression in the ocean bed : TRENCH

14-across – Dies down : ABATES

17-across – Determination despite setbacks : PERSEVERANCE

20-across – Abdominal organs : VISCERA

21-across – Not seriously : INFUN

22-across – Impetuous : RASH

23-across – Land-locked east Asian country : MONGOLIA

1-down – City 1,400 miles east of Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway : OMSK

2-down – Long lasting : DURABLE

3-down – Henry VIII’s fourth wife : ANNEOFCLEVES

4-down – Childbirth : LABOUR

6-down – Espresso with steamed milk : LATTE

7-down – Marine mammal : PORPOISE

8-down – Encompassing everything : ALLEMBRACING

12-down – Break in a journey : STOPOVER

15-down – Diplomatic : TACTFUL

16-down – : LEGATO

18-down – Hybrid tea, floribunda etc : ROSES

19-down – Old Andean : INCA

1-across – They direct drivers — right at cliffs : TRAFFICLIGHTS

8-across – Fast-running, flightless bird : EMU

9-across – Celebratory drink : CHAMPAGNE

10-across – Valuable : PRECIOUS

11-across – Substitute : SWAP

13-across – Song by The Doors : THEEND

14-across – Died down : ABATED

16-across – Greek letter I : IOTA

17-across – Ruminated : PONDERED

20-across – Popular drama : SOAPOPERA

21-across – Social insect : ANT

22-across – Mock : TAKETHEMICKEY

1-down – Fool : TWERP

2-down – Fun place for thrill-seekers : AMUSEMENTPARK

3-down – Splinter groups : FACTIONS

4-down – Stop talking : CLAMUP

5-down – Observational game for children : ISPY

6-down – Apex : HIGHWATERMARK

7-down – Saturated : STEEPED

12-down – Capital of the United Arab Emirates : ABUDHABI

13-down – Matching knitwear : TWINSET

15-down – Sailor, b. 1929, who ate spinach : POPEYE

18-down – Eccentric : DOTTY

19-down – Foundation : ROOT

1-across – Perennial Alpine plant — we see lids : EDELWEISS

8-across – Shop selling processed food products : DELI

9-across – Saccharin, for example : SWEETENER

10-across – Editing instruction that matter marked for deletion is to be retained : STET

13-across – Musical interval from A to F, say : SIXTH

15-across – : TURGID

16-across – Risk : HAZARD

17-across – : DOGLEG

19-across – Eccentric : CRANKY

20-across – Rubber boot : WELLY

21-across – Acceptable : OKAY

24-across – Inlaid decoration used on furniture : MARQUETRY

25-across – Trees : ELMS

26-across – Post-matrimonial holiday : HONEYMOON

2-down – Out of sorts : DOWN

3-down – Dregs : LEES

4-down – Ocular shutter : EYELID

5-down – Detective : SLEUTH

6-down – Controlling measure : RESTRAINT

7-down – Annual events : BIRTHDAYS

11-down – Card gambling game — Turk’s dope : STUDPOKER

12-down – Radio or TV show : PROGRAMME

13-down – Tough connective tissue : SINEW

14-down – Torment : HARRY

18-down – Italian ice cream : GELATO

19-down – Close-knit exclusive group : CLIQUE

22-down – Microbe : GERM

23-down – Bee Gees, Supremes or Andrews Sisters, say : TRIO

1-across – Landlocked Asian country : AFGHANISTAN

9-across – Official in charge of finances : TREASURER

10-across – Anger : IRE

11-across – Reduce by 50% : HALVE

13-across – Eccentric : ODDBALL

14-across – Take in : DIGEST

15-across – Spending time doing nothing : IDLING

18-across – Wild : UNTAMED

20-across – Person with legal title to something : OWNER

21-across – Name taken by 13 popes, the last dying in 1903 aged 93 : LEO

22-across – Make a lot of trouble : RAISECAIN

24-across – Regardless of what may have happened : ATALLEVENTS

2-down – Charge for professional services : FEE

3-down – Female entertainer : HOSTESS

4-down – Very limited : NARROW

5-down – Tear to pieces : SHRED

6-down – Liveliness : ANIMATION

7-down – Quickly : ATTHEDOUBLE

8-down – Aggressive : BELLIGERENT

12-down – Bedtime command : LIGHTSOUT

16-down – Bishop’s jurisdiction : DIOCESE

17-down – Hold in high regard : ADMIRE

19-down – Wall painting : MURAL

23-down – Do something : ACT

1-across – Japanese professional sport — mustering owls : SUMOWRESTLING

8-across – Pro : FOR

9-across – Before league games begin : PRESEASON

10-across – Norwegian polar explorer, d. 1928 : AMUNDSEN

11-across – Hurt : ACHE

13-across – Keep silent : HUSHUP

14-across – Walkout : STRIKE

16-across – Appearance : MIEN

17-across – Gob : CAKEHOLE

20-across – Logic : REASONING

21-across – Eccentric : ODD

22-across – Horse that jumps : STEEPLECHASER

1-down – Bulgarian capital : SOFIA

2-down – French libertine, d. 1814 : MARQUISDESADE

3-down – Obliterated : WIPEDOUT

4-down – 1 and 1? : ELEVEN

5-down – Youth : TEEN

6-down – Having a diet of ants etc : INSECTIVOROUS

7-down – From the capital of the Liguria region of Italy : GENOESE

12-down – Potency : STRENGTH

13-down – Arm bone : HUMERUS

15-down – Dog — tooth : CANINE

18-down – Type of duck : EIDER

19-down – Liquid food : SOUP

1-across – Join the opposing side in Parliament : CROSSTHEFLOOR

8-across – Lamentable : PITIFUL

9-across – Object surviving from the past : RELIC

10-across – Partly open : AJAR

11-across – Bullfighter : TOREADOR

13-across – Harsh order, allowing no discussion : DIKTAT

14-across – Coterie : CLIQUE

17-across – Eccentric : CRACKPOT

19-across – Something owed : DEBT

21-across – More mature : OLDER

22-across – Chic — fashionable : STYLISH

24-across – With an exaggerated sense of self-importance : SWOLLENHEADED

1-down – Edible mushroom : CEP

2-down – Remote and sparsely populated parts of Australia : OUTBACK

3-down – Easily yielding to pressure : SOFT

4-down – Wait a bit! : HOLDON

5-down – Hitherto : FORMERLY

6-down – Eyed lecherously : OGLED

7-down – Occurring repeatedly : RECURRENT

10-down – Brazen : AUDACIOUS

12-down – Oily fish : MACKEREL

15-down – Expressed doubt about : QUERIED

16-down – Deteriorate : WORSEN

18-down – Electronic sound reproduction : AUDIO

20-down – Funeral fire : PYRE

23-down – Concealed : HID

1-across – One who deals with an author’s affairs : LITERARYAGENT

8-across – Coarse moorland fern : BRACKEN

9-across – Professional criminal : CROOK

10-across – Broken : BUST

11-across – Eccentricity : ZANINESS

13-across – Excessively fond : DOTING

14-across – Considered : DEEMED

17-across – Long-lasting : ENDURING

19-across – Scottish girl : LASS

21-across – Gain knowledge : LEARN

22-across – Offensive — insulting : ABUSIVE

24-across – Looking back : WITHHINDSIGHT

1-down – A high ball : LOB

2-down – Pass through : TRANSIT

3-down – Debauchee : RAKE

4-down – Letting : RENTAL

5-down – Attributes : ASCRIBES

6-down – Eat away : ERODE

7-down – Come off the fence? : TAKESIDES

10-down – Colleague : BEDFELLOW

12-down – Dig in : ENTRENCH

15-down – Definition : MEANING

16-down – Without success : INVAIN

18-down – Distributed the cards : DEALT

20-down – Cat : PUSS

23-down – Consume : EAT

1-across – Taking without permission of the owner : APPROPRIATION

8-across – Pointed front part of a vessel : PROW

9-across – Tourists visiting sights of interest : TRIPPERS

10-across – Solid earth — dry land : TERRAFIRMA

12-across – Legal : LAWFUL

14-across – Modern substitute for a map : SATNAV

15-across – Small — exclusive : RESTRICTED

19-across – Drink : BEVERAGE

20-across – Similar : AKIN

21-across – Wearing clothes intended to make one look drop-dead gorgeous : DRESSEDTOKILL

2-down – Hard dry cheese, often grated : PARMESAN

3-down – Person using 7 : ROWER

4-down – Sad — wretched : PITIFUL

5-down – Even more frozen : ICIER

6-down – Most apt : TOPMAST

7-down – Blades : OARS

11-down – Relevant — fabric : MATERIAL

13-down – Surgical instrument : FORCEPS

14-down – Excess : SURFEIT

16-down – Food fish : SKATE

17-down – Person of eccentric habits : CRANK

18-down – Give birth to — large mammal : BEAR