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1-across – : DEMURE

4-across – Change : SWITCH

9-across – Bullfighter : MATADOR

10-across – Form of linguistic expression : IDIOM

11-across – Do a puzzle : SOLVE

12-across – An American football : PIGSKIN

13-across – Playwright : SHAKESPEARE

18-across – Divine spokesman or forecaster : PROPHET

20-across – Mountain ash : ROWAN

22-across – Exhausted – with no holds barred : ALLIN

23-across – The Moor of Venice : OTHELLO

24-across – The Prince of Denmark : HAMLET

25-across – Magnate : TYCOON

1-down – Cloth, originally Syrian : DAMASK

2-down – Material detectable in the ground : METAL

3-down – Ignorant bigot : REDNECK

5-down – Extract moisture from : WRING

6-down – Subject of Rodin statue : THINKER

7-down – Kind and civilised : HUMANE

8-down – Premise – suggestion : PROPOSITION

14-down – Petty gangster : HOODLUM

15-down – Terrestrial : EARTHLY

16-down – Effect of hitting water : SPLASH

17-down – Still in the womb : UNBORN

19-down – Fastening for door etc : HINGE

21-down – Low ad : WALDO

1-across – Fussy and prudish : PRISSY

4-across – Exercise – bore a hole : DRILL

7-across – More’s perfect place : UTOPIA

8-across – Batter cake cooked in an iron – speak about nothing in particular : WAFFLE

9-across – Let it remain : STET

10-across – Ecstatic feeling : EUPHORIA

12-across – American tree with silvery catkins : PUSSYWILLOW

17-across – And so on : ETCETERA

19-across – Den : LAIR

20-across – November’s days : THIRTY

21-across – Person acting on behalf of another : DEPUTY

22-across – Heavy, colourless and odourless gas : XENON

23-across – Feeling of resentment : GRUDGE

1-down – Time taken in motor racing to fit a 3, for instance : PITSTOP

2-down – Momentum : IMPETUS

3-down – Extra fat around the waist : SPARETYRE

4-down – The grim reaper : DEATH

5-down – Raging fire : INFERNO

6-down – Room for free movement : LEEWAY

11-down – Flirt with women : PHILANDER

13-down – Ointment : UNCTION

14-down – Pond feature upon which a frog may sit : LILYPAD

15-down – Shape wood with a knife – inventor of the jet engine : WHITTLE

16-down – Highest point : VERTEX

18-down – Giant : TITAN

1-across – Tendency to infidelity : SEVENYEARITCH

8-across – Something eliciting distaste : TURNOFF

9-across – Small crustacean : PRAWN

10-across – Meat – complaint : BEEF

11-across – Chastity : CELIBACY

13-across – Secretion that can impair hearing : EARWAX

14-across – Panda’s staple diet : BAMBOO

17-across – German airship : ZEPPELIN

19-across – Utter while sobbing : BLUB

21-across – Asian tree, whose nuts and leaves are chewed as a narcotic : BETEL

22-across – Peruke : PERIWIG

24-across – Marks gained for good behaviour : BROWNIEPOINTS

1-down – Place – become rigid – adjust – group of tennis games – fixed – clique – fall beneath the horizon : SET

2-down – Dutch painter, 1673-75 : VERMEER

3-down – Midday : NOON

4-down – Creator of a Paris landmark, built in 1889 : EIFFEL

5-down – Act of retaliation : REPRISAL

6-down – Small crown : TIARA

7-down – Natural formation of hexagons : HONEYCOMB

10-down – Old Nick : BEELZEBUB

12-down – Portuguese navigator, killed 1521 : MAGELLAN

15-down – British PM three times between WWI and WWII : BALDWIN

16-down – Indentation on the chin : DIMPLE

18-down – Paved area alongside a house : PATIO

20-down – Liveliness : BRIO

23-down – Vapour : GAS

1-across – Warhol’s style : POPART

4-across – Plumlike fruit : DAMSON

8-across – Whacked : TIRED

9-across – Old-time dance : TWOSTEP

10-across – Strain : TENSION

11-across – Granny Smith? : APPLE

12-across – Pizza topping : PEPPERONI

17-across – Revolving blade : ROTOR

19-across – US state : INDIANA

21-across – Crush : CRUMPLE

22-across – Maxim : AXIOM

23-across – Water ice : SORBET

24-across – Old pub : TAVERN

1-down – Maris Piper? : POTATO

2-down – Root vegetable : PARSNIP

3-down – Spokes – arm bones : RADII

5-down – Alligator pear : AVOCADO

6-down – Exercise designed to strengthen stomach muscles : SITUP

7-down – Male relative : NEPHEW

9-down – Orange-type fruit : TANGERINE

13-down – Meaty snack : PORKPIE

14-down – Conceive : IMAGINE

15-down – Spring flower : CROCUS

16-down – Parr or grilse : SALMON

18-down – More faithful : TRUER

20-down – Stage production : DRAMA

1-across – Small cake, often decorated with marzipan : PETITFOUR

8-across – Fuss : HOOHA

9-across – Dummy pill : PLACEBO

10-across – Dormancy : INACTION

11-across – Semiprecious stone – exhaust : JADE

13-across – Wimbledon sport : TENNIS

14-across – Peninsula in today’s Ukraine, site of an 1853-6 war : CRIMEA

16-across – Dish of diced meat etc – cannabis : HASH

17-across – Talk : CONVERSE

19-across – Get-together of old friends : REUNION

20-across – Part of a flight : STAIR

21-across – Where the principals dine : HIGHTABLE

1-down – Banana-like fruit : PLANTAIN

2-down – Move stealthily : TIPTOE

3-down – Someone from Bangkok, perhaps : THAI

4-down – Village in Bavaria, famous for its Passion Play : OBERAMMERGAU

5-down – Brazilian city : RIODEJANEIRO

6-down – New Zealand city : CHRISTCHURCH

7-down – South African city : JOHANNESBURG

12-down – Glacial fissure : CREVASSE

15-down – Socialise informally : HOBNOB

18-down – Leave at the altar : JILT

1-across – Agricultural dwelling : FARM

3-across – In the open air : ALFRESCO

9-across – Neanderthal person : CAVEMAN

10-across – Gemstone : TOPAZ

11-across – Exterior : OUTER

12-across – Insect section : THORAX

14-across – Attachment to one’s mother : UMBILICALCORD

17-across – Jacket : BLAZER

19-across – Balloon – dandy : SWELL

22-across – Tower of London bird : RAVEN

23-across – Encourage to develop : NURTURE

24-across – More lethal : DEADLIER

25-across – Remain – rope : STAY

1-down – Handyman : FACTOTUM

2-down – Short metal fastener : RIVET

4-down – Most extreme members of an organisation : LUNATICFRINGE

5-down – Measure expressed as a proportion : RATIO

6-down – Female singing voice : SOPRANO

7-down – Seep : OOZE

8-down – Without principles : AMORAL

13-down – Extramarital bedroom antics : ADULTERY

15-down – South American country where Che Guevara was killed : BOLIVIA

16-down – Sheen : LUSTRE

18-down – Regional : ZONAL

20-down – Break forth : ERUPT

21-down – Poke : PROD

1-across – Status : STANDING

5-across – Platform : DAIS

9-across – Arithmetic etc : MATHS

10-across – Keyboard instrument : CLAVIER

11-across – George IV, before he became King : PRINCEREGENT

13-across – Group of six : SEXTET

14-across – Harmless : BENIGN

17-across – Preparation claiming to reverse alopecia : HAIRRESTORER

20-across – Grapple on canvas : WRESTLE

21-across – Hanging cloth : DRAPE

22-across – Elizabethan stringed instrument : LUTE

23-across – Full of beans : SPIRITED

1-down – A few : SOME

2-down – Disease associated with sheep : ANTHRAX

3-down – Shatter : DISINTEGRATE

4-down – Five cents : NICKEL

6-down – Stage whisper : ASIDE

7-down – Close examination : SCRUTINY

8-down – Machine for preserving sounds on cassette : TAPERECORDER

12-down – Avoidance : ESCHEWAL

15-down – Imprecise : INEXACT

16-down – In the Land of Nod : ASLEEP

18-down – Inactive : INERT

19-down – Gone to meet one’s Maker : DEAD

1-across – Charity event where second-hand goods are bought : JUMBLESALE

7-across – Toy flute : OCARINA

8-across – Ancient Peruvians : INCAS

10-across – And : ALSO

11-across – Craftily prearranged deed : PUTUPJOB

13-across – Wax pencil : CRAYON

15-across – Get the better of by cunning : OUTWIT

17-across – Eyebrow plucking tool : TWEEZERS

18-across – Minor argument : SPAT

21-across – Farewell : ADIEU

22-across – Succeed as heir : INHERIT

23-across – Preparation swallowed by patient before an X-ray : BARIUMMEAL

1-down – Denim trousers : JEANS

2-down – Chief – sea … : MAIN

3-down – … and three sea miles : LEAGUE

4-down – That which produces a response : STIMULUS

5-down – Tetanus : LOCKJAW

6-down – Canadian peninsula : NOVASCOTIA

9-down – Replacement : SUBSTITUTE

12-down – Greek stringed instrument : BOUZOUKI

14-down – Continent named after Vespucci : AMERICA

16-down – Platitude : TRUISM

19-down – Danger : PERIL

20-down – Indian butter : GHEE

1-across – Interpretation by following mouth movements : LIPREADING

7-across – Coffee-flavoured trademarked liqueur : TIAMARIA

8-across – Type of meat : VEAL

9-across – Delight : GLEE

10-across – Draw out : PROLONG

12-across – Edible invention comparable with the best thing? : SLICEDBREAD

14-across – Feast : BANQUET

16-across – Unfeeling : NUMB

19-across – American wildcat : PUMA

20-across – Pollution from the sky : ACIDRAIN

21-across – A delicacy in Saudi Arabia : SHEEPSEYES

1-down – Prone : LYING

2-down – Site of an Italian disaster of AD79 : POMPEII

3-down – Nobleman : EARL

4-down – Lengthy harangue : DIATRIBE

5-down – Bellybutton : NAVEL

6-down – Bronzed : TANNED

11-down – Demote : RELEGATE

12-down – Position in society : STATUS

13-down – Royal attendant : EQUERRY

15-down – Suppress : QUASH

17-down – Ecstasy : BLISS

18-down – Act of osculation : KISS

1-across – Play an instrument on the street for money : BUSK

3-across – Frivolous : SKITTISH

8-across – Cunning : ARCH

9-across – Producing in abundance : PROLIFIC

11-across – Undersized : DIMINUTIVE

14-across – Crazy : SCREWY

15-across – Towards the back : ASTERN

17-across – Lowest possible level : ROCKBOTTOM

20-across – Advance showings : PREVIEWS

21-across – River at Bristol and Bath : AVON

22-across – Regularity of shape : SYMMETRY

23-across – Association of countries : BLOC

1-down – Wield : BRANDISH

2-down – Tree : SYCAMORE

4-down – Martial art : KARATE

5-down – The box : TELEVISION

6-down – Dodgy : IFFY

7-down – Chop roughly – mediocre journalist : HACK

10-down – Winter vehicle : SNOWMOBILE

12-down – Gala : FESTIVAL

13-down – Memory aid : MNEMONIC

16-down – Spike on which kebab is cooked : SKEWER

18-down – : OPUS

19-down – Wide grin : BEAM