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1-across – Crush underfoot : TRAMPLE

8-across – Kindred, related : COGNATE

9-across – Rudimentary, influential : SEMINAL

10-across – Mediocre, commonplace : AVERAGE

11-across – Admission : ENTRY

13-across – Motorcycle race circuit : DIRTTRACK

15-across – Arrest, grasp : APPREHEND

18-across – Bay, cove : INLET

21-across – Praise, accolade : PLAUDIT

22-across – Put into effect : ENFORCE

23-across – Hermit : RECLUSE

24-across – Cattle plague : MURRAIN

1-down – Discernment : TASTE

2-down – Confess : ADMIT

3-down – Cheap pulp novel : PENNYDREADFUL

4-down – Cream cake : ECLAIR

5-down – Tolerate one another’s opinion : AGREETODIFFER

6-down – Fruit : BANANA

7-down – Festoon, adorn : BEDECK

12-down – Low : NEAP

14-down – Remedy : CURE

15-down – Hope, dream : ASPIRE

16-down – Flatfish : PLAICE

17-down – Good opinion : ESTEEM

19-down – Immature stage of an insect : LARVA

20-down – Association, connection : TIEIN

1-across – Get into trouble with : FALLFOULOF

7-across – Performance : RECITAL

8-across – Be mean with, scamp : SKIMP

10-across – This month : INST

11-across – Royal attendant : COURTIER

13-across – Picturesque : SCENIC

15-across – Addendum : ANNEXE

17-across – Egg-based dish : OMELETTE

18-across – Agreement, treaty : PACT

21-across – Religious minister’s house : MANSE

22-across – Violent storm : TORNADO

23-across – Narrow escape : CLOSESHAVE

1-down – Concentrate : FOCUS

2-down – Behind time : LATE

3-down – Pursue : FOLLOW

4-down – Emotionally distressed : UNSTRUNG

5-down – Opening : ORIFICE

6-down – Sudden inspiration : BRAINSTORM

9-down – Faultlessness : PERFECTION

12-down – Inanimate : LIFELESS

14-down – Everlasting : ETERNAL

16-down – Standing, position : STATUS

19-down – Conscious, sentient : AWARE

20-down – Zone : AREA

1-across – Elaborate and systematic plan of action : SCHEME

4-across – Novelist who portrayed the complexity of 19th century French society : BALZAC

8-across – Impressive exhibition : ARRAY

9-across – Into an even less happy situation : FROMBAD

10-across – See 9 : TOWORSE

11-across – Frost : GLAZE

12-across – Total absence of mercy in battle : NOQUARTER

17-across – Additional : EXTRA

19-across – Sharp reproof : AFLEAIN

21-across – See 19 : ONESEAR

22-across – Fact of being elsewhere : ALIBI

23-across – Ill-disposed : AVERSE

24-across – Pay homage to : REVERE

1-down – Slum ghetto : SHANTY

2-down – Having been obtained with effort : HARDWON

3-down – City leader : MAYOR

5-down – In the middle of : AMONGST

6-down – Fleet striped African equine : ZEBRA

7-down – Brutish club : CUDGEL

9-down – Unfettered, untroubled : FREEASAIR

13-down – Society of Friends : QUAKERS

14-down – Become aware of : REALISE

15-down – Felt hat much loved by 1930s gangsters : FEDORA

16-down – Interior : INSIDE

18-down – Leitmotif : THEME

20-down – Rental agreement : LEASE

1-across – Court instrument : WRIT

4-across – Slats : STAVES

8-across – Wooded region between the Rivers Wye and Severn : FORESTOFDEAN

10-across – Those distinguished and worthy : THEGREATAND

11-across – In dispute : ATLOGGERHEADS

14-across – Welsh gatherings of poetry and song : EISTEDDFODS

17-across – Meet a bad end : COMETONOGOOD

18-across – Leave : DAYOFF

19-across – Big jerk! : YANK

2-down – Replace or repair equipment as part of a general overhaul : REFIT

3-down – Sea-borne missile : TORPEDO

5-down – Walkie-talkie : TWOWAYRADIO

6-down – Spirit made from rye, wheat or potatoes : VODKA

7-down – Burned with a hot liquid or steam : SCALDED

9-down – Brushed aside : SHRUGGEDOFF

12-down – See 10 Across : THEGOOD

13-down – Me coy? No! : ECONOMY

15-down – Shabby and a bit dubious : SEEDY

16-down – In cars, an alternative name for ‘saloon’ : SEDAN

1-across – Cash register : TILL

3-across – Causing to feel self-conscious : ABASHING

8-across – Drink made of fermented honey and water : MEAD

9-across – Loose material worn away from rocks : DETRITUS

11-across – Gain distinction : WINONESSPURS

13-across – Placental mammal having a single pair of incisor, ‘gnawing’, teeth : RODENT

14-across – Incarcerate : ENTOMB

17-across – Accepts a new idea or piece of advice : TAKESONBOARD

20-across – Open clue? : OPULENCE

21-across – Riviera resort locals call ‘La Cote d’Azur’ : NICE

22-across – Subatomic particle : ELECTRON

23-across – Single undivided entity : UNIT

1-down – Imaginary distortion of space which allows travel to different periods : TIMEWARP

2-down – Erudite : LEARNED

4-down – Outer thorax : BREAST

5-down – Barely managing : SCRAPINGBY

6-down – Put into the ground : INTER

7-down – Long cut : GASH

10-down – No matter what : INANYEVENT

12-down – Acquiescent : OBEDIENT

15-down – Power of speech : ORATION

16-down – Blanket-like cloak with a hole in the centre for the head : PONCHO

18-down – Divert : AMUSE

19-down – Ossified material : BONE