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1-across – Emissary : LEGATE

4-across – Change course : SWITCH

9-across – Surgeon’s tool : SCALPEL

10-across – Musical piece accompanying a stage drama or comedy : OPERA

11-across – Australian marsupial which lives on eucalyptus leaves : KOALA

12-across – Stalemate : IMPASSE

13-across – Eager and alert; full of high spirits : FULLOFBEANS

18-across – Israel’s administrative capital : TELAVIV

20-across – Optical device producing an intense beam of light : LASER

22-across – Walk heavily, as when weary, or through mud : TRAMP

23-across – Pressing importance requiring speedy action : URGENCY

24-across – Stick or hold together and resist separation : COHERE

25-across – Go back on one’s word : RENEGE

1-down – Capital of Zambia : LUSAKA

2-down – Tropical shrub bearing small yellowish fruit : GUAVA

3-down – Uppermost attachment of a vessel’s rigging : TOPSAIL

5-down – Shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm : WHOOP

6-down – One’s art? : TREASON

7-down – Animated : HEATED

8-down – Motion carried unanimously : ALLINFAVOUR

14-down – Loose : UNLEASH

15-down – Pastoral poem : ECLOGUE

16-down – Not in physical motion : STATIC

17-down – Old Scottish county; part name of a W Country football team : ARGYLE

19-down – Deadly-venomous snake : VIPER

21-down – From that time : SINCE

1-across – Made to realise one is not as great as one thought : TAKENDOWNAPEG

8-across – Harmonious state of things : CONCORD

9-across – Originally, a round up of cattle : RODEO

10-across – Jacques —-, French filmmaker : TATI

11-across – Abort use : SABOTEUR

13-across – Naive type: shoot : SUCKER

14-across – Multiple collisions of vehicles : PILEUP

17-across – Of a sword sharpened on both sides : TWOEDGED

19-across – Donkey call : BRAY

21-across – Popeye’s nemesis : BLUTO

22-across – One who moves about aimlessly : DRIFTER

24-across – Old-fashioned type : STICKINTHEMUD

1-down – Localised habitual twitch, especially to the face : TIC

2-down – Pertaining to motion : KINETIC

3-down – Secluded spot : NOOK

4-down – Severe trial : ORDEAL

5-down – Drug that produces numbness or stupor : NARCOTIC

6-down – Military chaplain : PADRE

7-down – Science of the surface of the earth and its inhabitants : GEOGRAPHY

10-down – Glass cylinders closed at one end, used in laboratory work : TESTTUBES

12-down – Situation in which no progress can be made : DEADLOCK

15-down – Mistake : ERRATUM

16-down – Dampen : DEADEN

18-down – Eyes; eye-like opening in architecture, like a round window : OCULI

20-down – Friends and acquaintances : KITH

23-down – River, its source in the US, flowing north to empty into L Winnipeg : RED

5-across – Louis’ hair! : HILARIOUS

8-across – Accept the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions : FACE

9-across – See 8 : THEMUSIC

10-across – Swap positions or roles : CHANGE

11-across – See 10 : PLACES

13-across – Everyone : ALLAND

15-across – See 13 : SUNDRY

16-across – Unexpected extension of life : BORROWED

18-across – See 16 : TIME

19-across – Informal chat : TETEATETE

1-down – Emerald Isle, historically, poetically : HIBERNIA

2-down – —— and daub, primitive wall structure : WATTLE

3-down – Array : LINEUP

4-down – Name given to the each of the first ten leaders of the Sikh religion : GURU

6-down – Seize : LAYHOLDOF

7-down – Limited period allotted for an event : TIMEFRAME

12-down – Provide interlinear or marginal comments in a book : ANNOTATE

14-down – Divining rod : DOWSER

15-down – Put under : SEDATE

17-down – S American bird resembling an ostrich : RHEA

1-across – Tempter of mankind; master of Hell : BEELZEBUB

8-across – Fibre of polymeric amides : NYLON

9-across – Nostrum : PANACEA

10-across – Rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen : HAYFEVER

11-across – See 16 : DICK

13-across – Dried red grape : RAISIN

14-across – Thorny desert plant : CACTUS

16-across – 19th century novel by Herman Melville : MOBY

17-across – Disease caused by a thiamine deficiency : BERIBERI

19-across – Song title shared by Sondheim-Bernstein and Paul Simon among others : AMERICA

20-across – The only son of Abraham : ISAAC

21-across – Transport : ENRAPTURE

1-down – UK’s highest mountain : BENNEVIS

2-down – Spotted : ESPIED

3-down – Blue-white metallic element, atomic number 30 : ZINC

4-down – At some earlier time : BACKINTHEDAY

5-down – Pict backlash? : BLACKASPITCH

6-down – Storming about, behaving violently : ONTHERAMPAGE

7-down – Proceeds instinctively : PLAYSITBYEAR

12-down – Bordering on the sea : MARITIME

15-down – Illusion that a new experience had occurred previously : DEJAVU

18-down – Curling bit of smoke, hair, etc : WISP

1-across – Red figures on a balance sheet or ledger : LOSS

3-across – Expressing extreme contempt : SCORNFUL

9-across – Pause or interruption : CAESURA

10-across – Spanish for ‘fox’ giving name to a fictional aristocratic outlaw of old California : ZORRO

11-across – Mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated : DITTO

12-across – Disperse widely : SPREAD

14-across – Came to nothing : WENTUPINSMOKE

17-across – Habitually wicked : SINFUL

19-across – Impure form of quartz with banded chalcedony, used as a gemstone : AGATE

22-across – Any property detected by the olfactory system : ODOUR

23-across – See opus : ESPOUSE

24-across – Not rigid : FLEXIBLE

25-across – Rain cats and dogs : PELT

1-down – Act of confining prisoners to their cells : LOCKDOWN

2-down – US version of a shooting sport involving clay pigeons : SKEET

4-down – Pedigree or style wins through in the end : CLASSWILLTELL

5-down – Edge tool used in shaving : RAZOR

6-down – Motley assortment of things : FARRAGO

7-down – Plunder : LOOT

8-down – Numeric puzzle : SUDOKU

13-down – Reject a serving politician from standing again : DESELECT

15-down – Foul; putrid : NOISOME

16-down – Apt to speak irritably: smart and fashionable : SNAPPY

18-down – Enrico —–, Italian nuclear physicist : FERMI

20-down – Divert : AMUSE

21-down – Top covering of a building or vehicle : ROOF