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1-across – Ordination : INVESTITURE

9-across – Steep rock face : PRECIPICE

10-across – Spoil : MAR

11-across – Small picture inserted within a larger one : INSET

13-across – Eccentric : ODDFISH

14-across – Smile affectedly : SIMPER

15-across – Stared : TRADES

18-across – North American reindeer : CARIBOU

20-across – Person who attends to a dependent adult : CARER

21-across – Meshwork : NET

22-across – Inter : LAYTOREST

24-across – Make someone appear guilty : INCRIMINATE

2-down – Originally called : NEE

3-down – Missive : EPISTLE

4-down – Drop it : TRIPOD

5-down – Moulded part of a tyre : TREAD

6-down – Leftovers : REMAINDER

7-down – Very brief moment of time : SPLITSECOND

8-down – Arrange : ORCHESTRATE

12-down – Kindly person who helps another in distress : SAMARITAN

16-down – North American mammal with a ringed tail : RACCOON

17-down – One of the Three Little Maids from School — that’s tasty! : YUMYUM

19-down – Farm machine : BALER

23-down – Consume : EAT

1-across – Slightly mad — bird : CUCKOO

4-across – Passed through a screen : SIEVED

8-across – Find an answer : SOLVE

9-across – Keep — castle : CITADEL

10-across – Led a run : LAUNDER

11-across – £1,000 : GRAND

12-across – Oddball : ECCENTRIC

17-across – Execrate : ABHOR

19-across – Dead body : CADAVER

21-across – St Andrew’s cross : SALTIRE

22-across – Make cloth with strands of wool or cotton : WEAVE

23-across – More impetuous — slice of meat : RASHER

24-across – Salad vegetable : CELERY

1-down – Expensive : COSTLY

2-down – : CULTURE

3-down – Upright : ONEND

5-down – Whole number : INTEGER

6-down – Alcoholic spirit : VODKA

7-down – Make someone believe something that’s not true : DELUDE

9-down – Continuous record of events in order of time : CHRONICLE

13-down – Light automatic rifle : CARBINE

14-down – Avarice : CAVIARE

15-down – Roman emperor : CAESAR

16-down – Having a voracious appetite : GREEDY

18-down – Brings to an end : HALTS

20-down – Look for water with a divining rod : DOWSE

1-across – Style of 5-door car : HATCHBACK

8-across – Deception : HOAX

9-across – Oojamaflip : THINGUMMY

10-across – Marjoram, say : HERB

13-across – Talent seeker — boy on a jamboree : SCOUT

15-across – Pimply : SPOTTY

16-across – The beautiful game? : SOCCER

17-across – Madness : LUNACY

19-across – Pink shade? : SALMON

20-across – Eccentric : KOOKY

21-across – White or Blue river of Africa : NILE

24-across – Tied kit in : IDENTIKIT

25-across – Bread — gravy — dough : DOSH

26-across – Vigorous argument : ARGYBARGY

2-down – Feel pain : ACHE

3-down – Head — nose : CONK

4-down – Buoyant and elastic : BOUNCY

5-down – University area : CAMPUS

6-down – Structure of hexagons : HONEYCOMB

7-down – Abounding in vitality : EXUBERANT

11-down – Open, level space for walks or drives : ESPLANADE

12-down – Futile — blunt : POINTLESS

13-down – Pile of hay : STACK

14-down – Now : TODAY

18-down – Over there : YONDER

19-down – Underweight : SKINNY

22-down – Type of bread : PITA

23-down – Warble? : SING

1-across – Savant : SATNAV

4-across – Triangular upper part of a wall under a roof : GABLE

7-across – Offensive about a particular gender : SEXIST

8-across – Burrowing rodent of north and central America : GOPHER

9-across – Magic stick? : WAND

10-across – Person of wide-ranging knowledge : POLYMATH

12-across – Theatrical make-up : GREASEPAINT

17-across – Space made by burrowing creatures in fruit, wood, books etc : WORMHOLE

19-across – Car — river crossing : FORD

20-across – Expose : DEBUNK

21-across – Courageous : DARING

22-across – Eccentric — like nougat? : NUTTY

23-across – Hanging limply — animated dog created by Tex Avery : DROOPY

1-down – The whole thing? : SHEBANG

2-down – Twirl : TWIDDLE

3-down – Italian hors d’oeuvre : ANTIPASTO

4-down – Sticky : GOOEY

5-down – Gulf sheikhdom : BAHRAIN

6-down – : EARTHY

11-down – Person interpreting from mouth movements : LIPREADER

13-down – Melted cheese on toast : RAREBIT

14-down – : INFERNO

15-down – Oppression : TYRANNY

16-down – Home of ABBA, Volvo and smorgasbord : SWEDEN

18-down – : HUNKY

1-across – Anxious — concerned : SOLICITOUS

7-across – Eccentric : ODDBALL

8-across – Lock of hair : TRESS

10-across – Semi-precious variety of agate : ONYX

11-across – Royal Air Force College in Lincs : CRANWELL

13-across – Confer — impart : BESTOW

15-across – Reddish brown : RUSSET

17-across – Occasionally : OFFANDON

18-across – Moue — sulk : POUT

21-across – Chosen few : ELITE

22-across – Spanish sausage : CHORIZO

23-across – Uncertainty principle physicist : HEISENBERG

1-down – Unfortunately : SADLY

2-down – Jump : LEAP

3-down – Its leaf stalks are used in salads or as a vegetable : CELERY

4-down – Metal used in lightweight alloys : TITANIUM

5-down – Ineffectual : USELESS

6-down – Gamble everything : GOFORBROKE

9-down – Greeting : SALUTATION

12-down – Earl’s wife : COUNTESS

14-down – Be enough : SUFFICE

16-down – Bird with a large brightly-coloured beak : TOUCAN

19-down – Due : OWING

20-down – Jupiter : JOVE

1-across – Recounted in : BLOWBYBLOW

7-across – Lacking freedom : CONFINED

8-across – Road tax : TOLL

9-across – Appearance : MIEN

10-across – Move like a snake : SLITHER

12-across – Quickly! : ATTHEDOUBLE

14-across – French composer, d. 1869 : BERLIOZ

16-across – Over-abundance : GLUT

19-across – Disparaging remark : SLUR

20-across – Territorial division : PROVINCE

21-across – White wine grape : CHARDONNAY

1-down – Flower : BLOOM

2-down – Eccentric : OFFBEAT

3-down – Curve : BEND

4-down – Ill will : BADBLOOD

5-down – Group of eight : OCTET

6-down – Wool coat : FLEECE

11-down – Out of sorts : BELOWPAR

12-down – Lasting from long ago : AGEOLD

13-down – Gold or silver in bars : BULLION

15-down – Move abruptly to one side : LURCH

17-down – In bad taste : TACKY

18-down – Small design used as a company emblem : LOGO

1-across – Table tennis equipment : PINGPONGBALL

9-across – Peaceful area away from trouble : OASIS

10-across – Solicit votes : CANVASS

11-across – 26 fortnights : YEAR

12-across – Wrapper used to make dolmades : VINELEAF

14-across – Very eccentric type : NUTTER

15-across – Light single-breasted : BLAZER

18-across – Whale’s diet : PLANKTON

20-across – Barmy : LOCO

22-across – Shuffle along awkwardly : SHAMBLE

23-across – Not silently : ALOUD

24-across – Nice to look at : EASYONTHEEYE

2-down – Second : INSTANT

3-down – Catch one’s breath in astonishment : GASP

4-down – Lady’s slipper, for example : ORCHID

5-down – With extreme care and delicacy : GINGERLY

6-down – Lessen : ABATE

7-down – Speechless : LOSTFORWORDS

8-down – Computer technique for moving blocks of text : COPYANDPASTE

13-down – : PEEKABOO

16-down – Animal study : ZOOLOGY

17-down – Large densely wooded area : FOREST

19-down – Accumulate : AMASS

21-down – Vigil before : WAKE

1-across – South American animals related to camels but humpless : LLAMAS

4-across – Baker Street detective : HOLMES

8-across – Remove a top : UNCAP

9-across – Ghost : SPECTRE

10-across – Wine from Tuscany : CHIANTI

11-across – Something worth having : ASSET

12-across – Wacky : ECCENTRIC

17-across – In a strange way : ODDLY

19-across – Fate : DESTINY

21-across – Surrendered : GIVENUP

22-across – Vagrant : TRAMP

23-across – Labour PM : ATTLEE

24-across – Soft fluffy wool : ANGORA

1-down – Set up — found : LAUNCH

2-down – Collection of documents : ARCHIVE

3-down – Colorado ski resort : ASPEN

5-down – Alfresco : OPENAIR

6-down – Pals : MATES

7-down – Afternoon snooze : SIESTA

9-down – Swim naked : SKINNYDIP

13-down – Red pepper : CAYENNE

14-down – The Windy City : CHICAGO

15-down – Roofed arcade or gallery : LOGGIA

16-down – Short-sightedness : MYOPIA

18-down – Bed quilt : DUVET

20-down – Old Nick : SATAN

1-across – Type of cheese : FETA

3-across – TV programme genre : CHATSHOW

8-across – Ready : RIPE

9-across – Very unpleasant : GODAWFUL

11-across – Place of ill repute : WHOREHOUSE

14-across – Fix firmly and stably : ANCHOR

15-across – Japanese martial art similar to judo : AIKIDO

17-across – Moveable garbage container : WHEELIEBIN

20-across – Exceptional person : RAREBIRD

21-across – Predatory northern seabird : SKUA

22-across – Person working to settle disputes : MEDIATOR

23-across – Cow’s mate : BULL

1-down – Retract — recant : FORSWEAR

2-down – First-rate : TOPNOTCH

4-down – Fetish — charm with magical powers : HOODOO

5-down – Willingness to work together : TEAMSPIRIT

6-down – Sulky fit : HUFF

7-down – Predatory canine : WOLF

10-down – Fear or dislike of foreigners : XENOPHOBIA

12-down – Any distant or outlandish place : TIMBUKTU

13-down – Local government building : TOWNHALL

16-down – Unpleasantly strange or eccentric person : WEIRDO

18-down – Too proper : PRIM

19-down – This crossword structure : GRID

1-across – Relating to the universe : COSMIC

4-across – Expensive violin : STRAD

7-across – Fungus causing decay of timber : DRYROT

8-across – Ship’s officer attending to the welfare of passengers : PURSER

9-across – Thread — tale : YARN

10-across – Blissful : ECSTATIC

12-across – Somnambulist : SLEEPWALKER

17-across – Skimpy women’s clothing : HOTPANTS

19-across – System of : YOGA

20-across – Plump : CHUBBY

21-across – Rehearse — exceed : GOOVER

22-across – Skilful : ADEPT

23-across – Useful things : ASSETS

1-down – Dead body : CARCASS

2-down – Eccentric : STRANGE

3-down – Made public : INTHEOPEN

4-down – Inhibit — exploit : STUNT

5-down – To steer : ROSETTE

6-down – Straightforward : DIRECT

11-down – Areas into which the zodiac is divided : STARSIGNS

13-down – Salad vegetable : LETTUCE

14-down – Principal theme : KEYNOTE

15-down – Lapse : REGRESS

16-down – Latin American ballroom dance : CHACHA

18-down – Head of a religious community : ABBOT