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1-across – Rib-tickler : JOKE

3-across – Arrogant – sprang? : JUMPEDUP

8-across – Wildcat : LYNX

9-across – Noteworthy celebration : OCCASION

11-across – Rotavator, for example : PALINDROME

14-across – RC rank : NUNCIO

15-across – Inculpate : ACCUSE

17-across – Angling where the line’s weight casts the lure : FLYFISHING

20-across – Bonfire Night month : NOVEMBER

21-across – Move along slowly : INCH

22-across – Bleach : PEROXIDE

23-across – Sob : WEEP

1-down – Fiery spice : JALAPENO

2-down – Fire starter? : KINDLING

4-down – Open : UNCORK

5-down – Drugs dispenser : PHARMACIST

6-down – Platform : DAIS

7-down – Paltry : PUNY

10-down – Letdown : ANTICLIMAX

12-down – Listeners : AUDIENCE

13-down – Fly close to the ground : HEDGEHOP

16-down – Wound : OFFEND

18-down – Bargain – cut : SNIP

19-down – Rave : AVER

1-across – Upset the applecart – and make waves? : ROCKTHEBOAT

9-across – Fight invisible opponent? : SHADOWBOX

10-across – ____ Maria : TIA

11-across – Nebraska city : OMAHA

13-across – Degenerate : IMMORAL

14-across – Setting : LOCALE

15-across – Delicate and refined : SVELTE

18-across – Don’t spill the beans! : KEEPMUM

20-across – Flinch or tremble : COWER

21-across – Climber : IVY

22-across – Traditional Welsh county : GLAMORGAN

24-across – Golden boy or girl at school : TEACHERSPET

2-down – Female gametes : OVA

3-down – Wiseacre : KNOWALL

4-down – Excessive belief in oneself : HUBRIS

5-down – Ample of figure : BUXOM

6-down – Euphoria following pleasurable experience : AFTERGLOW

7-down – Comedy from the Bard : ASYOULIKEIT

8-down – Steel sphere : BALLBEARING

12-down – Quintessence : ARCHETYPE

16-down – Dopey : VACUOUS

17-down – Run through : IMPALE

19-down – Spells : MAGIC

23-down – Zowie! : GEE

1-across – Writer’s right to take liberties : POETICLICENCE

8-across – Small lump, e.g. of butter : KNOB

9-across – Signal that danger has passed : ALLCLEAR

10-across – Unworldly academic’s dwelling? : IVORYTOWER

12-across – Small quake : TREMOR

14-across – Roman emperor : CAESAR

15-across – Suspenseful : NAILBITING

19-across – The ___ table : PERIODIC

20-across – Cunning : WILY

21-across – Politically unscrupulous, as in The Prince : MACHIAVELLIAN

2-down – Consumer of plants and animals : OMNIVORE

3-down – Potato, say : TUBER

4-down – Part of a book : CHAPTER

5-down – Relative by marriage : INLAW

6-down – Blow up : ENLARGE

7-down – Show appreciation of : CLAP

11-down – Tree which may have white or pink flowers : MAGNOLIA

13-down – Masculine : MANNISH

14-down – Small, walled-off part of a room : CUBICLE

16-down – Location of Lucknow and Bhopal : INDIA

17-down – It gets wetter as it dries : TOWEL

18-down – Queen of the Olympian gods : HERA

1-across – Conventional response to ‘thank you’ : YOUREWELCOME

9-across – Overturn : UPEND

10-across – Covetous : ENVIOUS

11-across – Club – legendary warrior : AJAX

12-across – Plot outline : SCENARIO

14-across – Nocturnal, spotted wildcat : OCELOT

15-across – Desert to the other side : DEFECT

18-across – Suddenly collapse : KEELOVER

20-across – Woodwind instrument : OBOE

22-across – It’s neither sharp nor flat : NATURAL

23-across – Off-white colour : IVORY

24-across – Have a tantrum : THROWAWOBBLY

2-down – Impress in an inhibiting fashion : OVERAWE

3-down – Uncouth : RUDE

4-down – Yank – painful parting : WRENCH

5-down – Pale purple : LAVENDER

6-down – Scent : ODOUR

7-down – Attractive : EASYONTHEEYE

8-down – Stop talking! : PUTASOCKINIT

13-down – It never comes : TOMORROW

16-down – Entangle or involve : EMBROIL

17-down – Laid-back : MELLOW

19-down – Kind of apple : EATER

21-down – Branch : LIMB

1-across – Embarrassing blunder : FAUXPAS

8-across – Procession : CORTEGE

9-across – Principality in the Pyrenees : ANDORRA

10-across – Encounter : MEETING

11-across – Wheat variety often used to make pasta : DURUM

13-across – Slow-cooked dish made with lamb or mutton and potatoes : IRISHSTEW

15-across – Bridal gear : TROUSSEAU

18-across – Top of one’s head : SCALP

21-across – Mechanism allowing movement in only one direction : RATCHET

22-across – Gaunt : ANGULAR

23-across – Martin or Morgan? : FREEMAN

24-across – Herbal infusions : TISANES

1-down – 3, for instance : FRAUD

2-down – Source of dairy milk : UDDER

3-down – Business – often illegal – where money is generated by recruiting new members : PYRAMIDSCHEME

4-down – Seafood dish : SCAMPI

5-down – It causes global warming by trapping the sun’s heat : GREENHOUSEGAS

6-down – Stop doing that : DESIST

7-down – Worthless ornament : GEWGAW

12-down – App-based ride-hailing service : UBER

14-down – Eye, genius or hour? : EVIL

15-down – Tax on imports : TARIFF

16-down – Start : OUTSET

17-down – Still in existence : EXTANT

19-down – CS Lewis’s lion : ASLAN

20-down – Urban green spaces : PARKS

1-across – Attempt to kill James I : GUNPOWDERPLOT

8-across – Carpenter’s bits : SAWDUST

9-across – Rubber liquid : LATEX

10-across – Dutch South African : BOER

11-across – Route around town : RINGROAD

13-across – Round white/cream root vegetable : TURNIP

14-across – Pig : PORKER

17-across – In clandestine manner : ONTHESLY

19-across – Pallid : ASHY

21-across – Brazilian dance : SAMBA

22-across – Row : QUARREL

24-across – Stuff : PARAPHERNALIA

1-down – Carbon dioxide, e.g. : GAS

2-down – Time after Hogmanay : NEWYEAR

3-down – Egg : OVUM

4-down – Dilate : DETAIL

5-down – Faith : RELIGION

6-down – Raffle : LOTTO

7-down – Prep and mounting of dead animals for show : TAXIDERMY

10-down – Your health! : BOTTOMSUP

12-down – Discontinuity and shift in fourth dimension – line dance : TIMEWARP

15-down – Small falcon : KESTREL

16-down – Cabal : CLIQUE

18-down – Mitre : TIMER

20-down – Start : DAWN

23-down – Meadow : LEA

1-across – Act : PERFORM

8-across – Hole : ORIFICE

9-across – Outside the body : INVITRO

10-across – Killer ‘sparkling’ for Agatha Christie : CYANIDE

11-across – Decoration : MOTIF

13-across – Municipal record keeper : TOWNCLERK

15-across – Typeface – evil cheat : HELVETICA

18-across – Significant other? : LOVER

21-across – Green liquid food : PEASOUP

22-across – Space : OPENING

23-across – Country on the Pacific coast of South America : ECUADOR

24-across – Husky and rasping : THROATY

1-down – Refracting polyhedron : PRISM

2-down – Pin : RIVET

3-down – No longer in mortal danger – away from trees? : OUTOFTHEWOODS

4-down – Bovine animal : MOOCOW

5-down – Fiscal period : FINANCIALYEAR

6-down – Interact : LIAISE

7-down – Adorn : BEDECK

12-down – Wind instrument : OBOE

14-down – Incantation – ancient Germanic character : RUNE

15-down – Beer plant gatherer : HOPPER

16-down – Union – nautical measure : LEAGUE

17-down – Significance : IMPORT

19-down – Ta-da! : VOILA

20-down – Rucks and scrums sport : RUGBY

1-across – Hairnets yearn : TYRRHENIANSEA

8-across – Christmas sweet? : PUD

9-across – Scenic and sweeping : PANORAMIC

10-across – Nicked : PILFERED

11-across – Voice : ALTO

13-across – __ boot, wheel clamp : DENVER

14-across – Topkapi Palace country – awful film : TURKEY

16-across – Ride waves : SURF

17-across – Fulfilment : FRUITION

20-across – Brown, Dartmouth etc : IVYLEAGUE

21-across – Meat : HAM

22-across – The __, scratched occasionally Monroe film? : SEVENYEARITCH

1-down – Refill : TOPUP

2-down – Ballet great : RUDOLFNUREYEV

3-down – Came into being : HAPPENED

4-down – French city on the Loire : NANTES

5-down – Wary : AWRY

6-down – Monroe film where vindaloo is preferred by a few? : SOMELIKEITHOT

7-down – Pizza-topping fish : ANCHOVY

12-down – Fletcher Christian, for example : MUTINEER

13-down – Defrock : DISMISS

15-down – Accent : BROGUE

18-down – Immature insect form : NYMPH

19-down – Silver __, plant symbolic of New Zealand : FERN

1-across – Cinders’ lost property : GLASSSLIPPER

9-across – Salutation : HOWDY

10-across – Ox : BUFFALO

11-across – Cloudy darkness : MURK

12-across – Rebel : GUERILLA

14-across – ‘And …?’ : SOWHAT

15-across – A hound : BASSET

18-across – Trashy : RUBBISHY

20-across – Swallow drop? : DIVE

22-across – Temporary stay : SOJOURN

23-across – First few notes : INTRO

24-across – Charged cumulonimbus : THUNDERCLOUD

2-down – Uncultured : LOWBROW

3-down – Portree’s Scottish isle : SKYE

4-down – Placate : SUBDUE

5-down – Damned : INFERNAL

6-down – Paler : PEARL

7-down – John Braine novel – attic? : ROOMATTHETOP

8-down – Science kit for kids : CHEMISTRYSET

13-down – Tired : FATIGUED

16-down – Kneading and stretching Japanese therapy : SHIATSU

17-down – Black eye – light? : SHINER

19-down – Snug and elegant – chic : BIJOU

21-down – __ pickle, herby cucumber : DILL

1-across – Tale of woe : HARDLUCKSTORY

8-across – Ditch – derisive or amused expression : HAHA

9-across – Dormant : INACTIVE

10-across – It put an end to Louis XVI : GUILLOTINE

12-across – The ___ Cometh, O’Neill play : ICEMAN

14-across – Anise-flavoured drink : PASTIS

15-across – Eccentric or dozy person – escaped cat : SPACECADET

19-across – Perform an aquatic sport : WATERSKI

20-across – Prank : HOAX

21-across – Insect which practises sexual cannibalism : PRAYINGMANTIS

2-down – Mexican resort : ACAPULCO

3-down – Speak slowly : DRAWL

4-down – Mythical beast – highly profitable new business : UNICORN

5-down – Military uniform material : KHAKI

6-down – Walks unsteadily – stretto : TOTTERS

7-down – Wild party : RAVE

11-down – Cultured folk : LITERATI

13-down – Baffling phenomenon : MYSTERY

14-down – Insurance payment : PREMIUM

16-down – Incendiarism : ARSON

17-down – Deathly pale : ASHEN

18-down – Hippy musical : HAIR