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1-across – Sprat or Sparrow? : JACK

3-across – Bun spice : CINNAMON

9-across – One fails to keep up : LAGGARD

10-across – One’s not in a mainstream religion : PAGAN

11-across – Sheriff’s men : POSSE

12-across – Common expression : SAYING

14-across – Highly unusual : EXTRAORDINARY

17-across – Colourless fluid part of blood : PLASMA

19-across – Y is sometimes considered one : VOWEL

22-across – Deceitful : LYING

23-across – Temporary : INTERIM

24-across – Ponder : COGITATE

25-across – Spiteful : MEAN

1-down – Old bangers : JALOPIES

2-down – Irritating substance used to temporarily incapacitate : CSGAS

4-down – Diarist insult : INDUSTRIALIST

5-down – Cold : NIPPY

6-down – One of the base shades used in four-colour printing : MAGENTA

7-down – Office worker’s traditional start time : NINE

8-down – Recording device : CAMERA

13-down – Perennial flowering plant which grows from a tuber : CYCLAMEN

15-down – Revealing : TELLING

16-down – Give it to a guest : INVITE

18-down – : SIGHT

20-down – Not so well : WORSE

21-down – Group : BLOC

1-across – Powerful — stringy : SINEWY

4-across – German playwright, author of Mother Courage and Her Children, d. 1956 : BRECHT

9-across – African country — ruin dub : BURUNDI

10-across – Administered corporal punishment : CANED

11-across – Bottomless chasm : ABYSS

12-across – It’s impossible to see without one! : EYEBALL

13-across – Buffet-style meal : SMORGASBORD

18-across – Type of quadrilateral : RHOMBUS

20-across – Nothing : ZILCH

22-across – Dislike intensely : ABHOR

23-across – Affair : LIAISON

24-across – Minutes for a football match : NINETY

25-across – Repulsive : ODIOUS

1-down – Passage underground : SUBWAY

2-down – Excitable : NERVY

3-down – A royal house : WINDSOR

5-down – Explore — scout : RECCE

6-down – Man with a body like a horse? : CENTAUR

7-down – Little — squiffy : TIDDLY

8-down – Buried container for future discovery : TIMECAPSULE

14-down – Mainly black aquatic rail : MOORHEN

15-down – Most common UK bird of prey : BUZZARD

16-down – Take into holy orders : ORDAIN

17-down – Cheers : THANKS

19-down – Exploded : BURST

21-down – Horse-catching rope : LASSO

5-across – Founder of the Mongol empire, d. 1227 : GENGHISKHAN

7-across – A good deal : MANY

8-across – Comprehend : PERCEIVE

9-across – US lexicographer — Jacobean playwright : WEBSTER

11-across – Decorate : ADORN

13-across – Furious : LIVID

14-across – 29 February : LEAPDAY

16-across – American aubergine : EGGPLANT

17-across – Spruce up : TIDY

18-across – Ordinary soldiers : RANKANDFILE

1-down – Begrudge : ENVY

2-down – Something huge : WHOPPER

3-down – Seize wrongfully : USURP

4-down – Disinfectant used by farmers : SHEEPDIP

5-down – One of two nameless, but important, roles in Hamlet, Act V, scene 1 : GRAVEDIGGER

6-down – Refuse to give up : NEVERSAYDIE

10-down – Jumping : SKIPPING

12-down – Groups or sets of seven : HEPTADS

15-down – Commonplace : BANAL

17-down – Tease — nincompoop : TWIT

1-across – Put information on the internet : POST

3-across – Confuse : BEWILDER

8-across – Strong liquor from fermented toddy palm sap or molasses : ARAK

9-across – Intense — sharp : PIERCING

11-across – Excited — exhausted : BREATHLESS

14-across – Deadlock : LOGJAM

15-across – Claim : ALLEGE

17-across – Reconsider : THINKTWICE

20-across – A common person : PLEBEIAN

21-across – Make bread, say : BAKE

22-across – It’s not really important : NOMATTER

23-across – Retained : KEPT

1-down – Work willingly with others : PLAYBALL

2-down – Rummage through rubbish for something useful : SCAVENGE

4-down – Fit for consumption : EDIBLE

5-down – Hesitant — Tories rule : IRRESOLUTE

6-down – Act now! : DOIT

7-down – Tattered clothing : RAGS

10-down – File sent with an email : ATTACHMENT

12-down – In need of careful handling : DELICATE

13-down – Run-down building divided into flats : TENEMENT

16-down – Insecure : UNSAFE

18-down – Distance from one end to the other : SPAN

19-down – Consider : DEEM

1-across – Brief overview : SNAPSHOT

5-across – Notion : IDEA

9-across – North-east Indian state, noted for its tea : ASSAM

10-across – Disciple — to lapse : APOSTLE

11-across – Hunt the thimble or charades, perhaps : PARLOURGAMES

13-across – Best bib and tucker : FINERY

14-across – Historic port of north Brittany : STMALO

17-across – Left out of pocket : SHORTCHANGED

20-across – Binge : OVEREAT

21-across – Wryly caustic language : IRONY

22-across – The alternative to this? : THAT

23-across – Less than popular high street fundraisers : CHUGGERS

1-down – Drawback : SNAG

2-down – Choose not to do something : ABSTAIN

3-down – Points in common : SIMILARITIES

4-down – Lacking transparency? : OPAQUE

6-down – Factual information : DATUM

7-down – Antipathy : AVERSION

8-down – Well established : LONGSTANDING

12-down – By-product : OFFSHOOT

15-down – Solvent used to remove nail polish : ACETONE

16-down – Roof straw : THATCH

18-down – Last Greek letter : OMEGA

19-down – Runs but not off the bat : BYES

1-across – One seeking a free ride : HITCHER

8-across – Copy : EMULATE

9-across – Resin from an insect used by French polishers : SHELLAC

10-across – Rubbish : EYEWASH

11-across – Fairly sizeable : AMPLE

13-across – Subject to further scrutiny : REEXAMINE

15-across – Familiar : WELLKNOWN

18-across – Common : USUAL

21-across – Extended short story : NOVELLA

22-across – Sailor’s sword : CUTLASS

23-across – Author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, Willy ___ : RUSSELL

24-across – Unlimited : ENDLESS

1-down – Shade-loving plant with striking foliage, much enjoyed by slugs : HOSTA

2-down – Fasten : TIEUP

3-down – 1968 Beatles song, written by Paul McCartney : HELTERSKELTER

4-down – Fall back : RECEDE

5-down – Out of date — and pure Austen : SUPERANNUATED

6-down – Trip to Arica to see animals in the wild : SAFARI

7-down – A tittering laugh : TEEHEE

12-down – Device that softens the tone of a wind insrument : MUTE

14-down – Twit : NANA

15-down – Cold and cheerless : WINTRY

16-down – Give profusely : LAVISH

17-down – Person with all the answers? : ORACLE

19-down – Amount consumed : USAGE

20-down – Endures : LASTS

1-across – Let’s shake hands! : PUTITTHERE

7-across – Roundhead leader : CROMWELL

8-across – Food for carnivores : MEAT

9-across – Gripped : HELD

10-across – Less expensive : CHEAPER

12-across – Grave offence : CARDINALSIN

14-across – Sumptuous meal : BANQUET

16-across – Collapse : FLOP

19-across – Ignoble — HQ : BASE

20-across – European country since 1993 : SLOVAKIA

21-across – US highway — it entreats : INTERSTATE

1-down – Spiny-finned freshwater fish : PERCH

2-down – Drinking vessel — part of a lock : TUMBLER

3-down – In that case : THEN

4-down – Welsh ferry port : HOLYHEAD

5-down – Syncopated dance music : RUMBA

6-down – Large dark enclosed space : CAVERN

11-down – One authorised to sell alcoholic drinks : LICENSEE

12-down – Item of neckwear : CRAVAT

13-down – Seedless raisin : SULTANA

15-down – Chess piece : QUEEN

17-down – Amount to be paid : PRICE

18-down – Common sense : NOUS

1-across – Oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine : SUMP

3-across – Freeloader : HANGERON

9-across – Relating to the immediate surroundings : AMBIENT

10-across – Clio and Thalia, for instance : MUSES

11-across – Urge : EGGON

12-across – Get-up : OUTFIT

14-across – Notice — I vet tradesmen : ADVERTISEMENT

17-across – Nasty skin condition, especially common with children : ECZEMA

19-across – UK government committee for handling emergencies : COBRA

22-across – Surrounded by : AMONG

23-across – Rough and ready : INEXACT

24-across – Losers : ALSORANS

25-across – Impose — tax : LEVY

1-down – Characterless feature of the keyboard : SPACEBAR

2-down – Crime boss : MRBIG

4-down – Dictatorial : AUTHORITARIAN

5-down – Spectrum : GAMUT

6-down – Temporary relief : RESPITE

7-down – Keep it clean to avoid trouble : NOSE

8-down – Jane Austen’s note : TENNER

13-down – Secretive : STEALTHY

15-down – Brutal : VICIOUS

16-down – Be greater than : EXCEED

18-down – English classical composer, d. 1934 : ELGAR

20-down – Cutting edge : BLADE

21-down – Facts and figures : DATA

1-across – Woman’s buttoned top : BLOUSE

4-across – Device for cutting food into small cubes : DICER

7-across – Drum used in jazz bands : TOMTOM

8-across – Flabbergasted : AMAZED

9-across – Thin coating : FILM

10-across – Chronic sleeplessness : INSOMNIA

12-across – Very poorly fed : HALFSTARVED

17-across – Fuse : COALESCE

19-across – Unfeigned : REAL

20-across – Pinpoint : LOCATE

21-across – Hardy’s other half : LAUREL

22-across – Senior member of a group : DOYEN

23-across – Monstrous female : OGRESS

1-down – Coarse and ill-mannered : BOORISH

2-down – Best possible : OPTIMAL

3-down – Mutually beneficial relationship : SYMBIOSIS

4-down – Walt Disney’s flying pachyderm : DUMBO

5-down – French post-impressionist painter : CEZANNE

6-down – Branching out from a common centre : RADIAL

11-down – Look lively! : SHAKEALEG

13-down – Lawlessness : ANARCHY

14-down – Greenery : VERDURE

15-down – Underwear : DRAWERS

16-down – Climbed : SCALED

18-down – Dine at home : EATIN

1-across – Teach : INSTRUCT

5-across – Only — fair : JUST

9-across – State of disgrace : ODIUM

10-across – Hermit : RECLUSE

11-across – Inventor of the ‘dambuster’ bouncing bomb : BARNESWALLIS

13-across – Urge on : EXHORT

14-across – Looking glass : MIRROR

17-across – Braggadocio : BOASTFULNESS

20-across – Brought back to life : REVIVED

21-across – France’s longest river : LOIRE

22-across – UK sea area west of Plymouth : SOLE

23-across – Small bright coloured beetle : LADYBIRD

1-down – Graven image : IDOL

2-down – Leaf vegetable : SPINACH

3-down – Moneymaking : REMUNERATIVE

4-down – Blood-red : CERISE

6-down – Common : USUAL

7-down – Government department dealing with finance and the economy : TREASURY

8-down – Now and then : OCCASIONALLY

12-down – Three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades : CERBERUS

15-down – Italian composer of 39 operas, d. 1868 : ROSSINI

16-down – Arctic plain : TUNDRA

18-down – Heavy block on which hot metal is shaped by hammering : ANVIL

19-down – Lifeless : DEAD