1-across – Defer : POSTPONE

5-across – Stylish : CHIC

9-across – Amuse oneself with : FLIRT

10-across – Lap, revolution : CIRCUIT

11-across – Woman’s one-piece undergarment : BODYSTOCKING

13-across – Brawl : AFFRAY

14-across – Agree : CONCUR

17-across – Freedom from slavery : EMANCIPATION

20-across – Wine merchant : VINTNER

21-across – Praise : EXTOL

22-across – Part in a play etc. : ROLE

23-across – Ill at ease, fidgety : RESTLESS

1-down – Small piece of advertising : PUFF

2-down – By-product : SPINOFF

3-down – Minor theft : PETTYLARCENY

4-down – Subtlety, nuance : NICETY

6-down – Beautiful young Muslim woman : HOURI

7-down – Class or group : CATEGORY

8-down – Children’s Halloween activity : TRICKORTREAT

12-down – Complete transformation of one’s appearance : MAKEOVER

15-down – Noisy laugh : CHORTLE

16-down – Few and far between : SPARSE

18-down – Invalidate : ANNUL

19-down – With the addition of : PLUS

1-across – Spirit of the time : ZEITGEIST

8-across – Mendacious : LYING

9-across – Jeer, heckle : BARRACK

10-across – Fairground ride : CAROUSEL

11-across – Improvised jazz singing : SCAT

13-across – Seem : APPEAR

14-across – Intricate structure, web : TISSUE

16-across – Obligation, responsibility : DUTY

17-across – Member of a Parliamentary reform movement of the mid-19th Century : CHARTIST

19-across – Generous : LIBERAL

20-across – Northern Italian city : MILAN

21-across – Typify, epitomise : EXEMPLIFY

1-down – Rectangular stepped tower : ZIGGURAT

2-down – Innate : INBRED

3-down – Gruesome, bloody : GORY

4-down – Unreachable : INACCESSIBLE

5-down – Testify at trial : TAKETHESTAND

6-down – Heavily bruised : BLACKANDBLUE

7-down – Of bad reputation : DISREPUTABLE

12-down – Card game : GINRUMMY

15-down – Hot variety of capsicum : CHILLI

18-down – Support, shore up : PROP

5-across – Postponement : ADJOURNMENT

7-across – Impetus : SPUR

8-across – Greek stringed instrument : BOUZOUKI

9-across – Comfort : CONSOLE

11-across – : TITHE

13-across – Fit of resentment : PIQUE

14-across – Mediaeval chemistry : ALCHEMY

16-across – Tangible : PALPABLE

17-across – Manage : COPE

18-across – Not harmful to the environment : ECOFRIENDLY

1-down – Slightly open : AJAR

2-down – Trivial argument : QUIBBLE

3-down – Animal’s projecting nose : SNOUT

4-down – Flatten, destroy : DEMOLISH

5-down – Come close to : APPROXIMATE

6-down – Earnings after tax : TAKEHOMEPAY

10-down – Artist in solid materials : SCULPTOR

12-down – Electrical signalling device : BLEEPER

15-down – Bring to a premature end : ABORT

17-down – Concluding passage of a piece of music : CODA

5-across – Not privy to information : INTHEDARK

8-across – Search thoroughly : COMB

9-across – Short amusing story : ANECDOTE

10-across – Most strange : ODDEST

11-across – Quality of voice : TIMBRE

13-across – Supplication : PRAYER

15-across – Essential part : MARROW

16-across – Fraud : IMPOSTOR

18-across – Stringed musical instrument : HARP

19-across – Inappropriate, outside the rules : OUTOFLINE

1-down – Pretentiousness : SNOBBERY

2-down – Frustrate : THWART

3-down – Coming, arrival : ADVENT

4-down – Rectangular nail : BRAD

6-down – Small greenhouse : COLDFRAME

7-down – Right side of a ship : STARBOARD

12-down – Tradesman : MERCHANT

14-down – Allotment : RATION

15-down – Spirit, enthusiasm : MORALE

17-down – Egg : OVUM

1-across – : SAFARI

4-across – Trinket : BAUBLE

9-across – Childish : PUERILE

10-across – In the midst of : AMONG

11-across – Take an exam again : RESIT

12-across – Fortress : CITADEL

13-across – Drawback : SHORTCOMING

18-across – Ennui : BOREDOM

20-across – American sweets : CANDY

22-across – Provide : CATER

23-across – Temporary prohibition : EMBARGO

24-across – Inviolable : SACRED

25-across – Humiliate : DEMEAN

1-down – Magnificent : SUPERB

2-down – Worries : FRETS

3-down – Revel, be boisterous : ROISTER

5-down – Modify : ADAPT

6-down – Enlarge : BROADEN

7-down – Swallow up : ENGULF

8-down – Shoreline scavenger : BEACHCOMBER

14-down – Noncomformist : HERETIC

15-down – Eerie : MACABRE

16-down – Early form of computer : ABACUS

17-down – Powerful businessman : TYCOON

19-down – Funereal tune : DIRGE

21-down – Scandinavian : NORSE