1-across – Experience indecision or conflicting emotions : BEINTWOMINDS

9-across – Happen : OCCUR

10-across – Large, powerful short-haired dog : MASTIFF

11-across – Akin; alongside : NEAR

12-across – Writ; summons : SUBPOENA

14-across – Voracious : HUNGRY

15-across – Make colourless : BLEACH

18-across – English county town : HERTFORD

20-across – Unfermented soya-bean curd : TOFU

22-across – Submitting for consideration : TABLING

23-across – Garden implement : SPADE

24-across – ‘…that bit one’ completes a hangover nostrum : HAIROFTHEDOG

2-down – Chennai? : ENCHAIN

3-down – Average; everyday : NORM

4-down – Shells used as money by some Native Americans : WAMPUM

5-down – Appropriate for the wrong use : MISAPPLY

6-down – Sound, often loud or offensive : NOISE

7-down – Thoroughly secure : SAFEASHOUSES

8-down – 24’s toast, perhaps! : DOWNTHEHATCH

13-down – Scratching on walls, pottery, etc : GRAFFITO

16-down – Dull greenish colour : AVOCADO

17-down – Properly : ARIGHT

19-down – Jewish spiritual leader : RABBI

21-down – Eyot; cay : ISLE

1-across – Hat made of plaited palm leaves : PANAMA

4-across – Constitution : MAKEUP

9-across – Grow less : DWINDLE

10-across – Inexpensive : CHEAP

11-across – Mostly French-speaking city of Belgium : LIEGE

12-across – Coat? Yes : TEACOSY

13-across – Appear as old as you really are : LOOKONESAGE

18-across – Blade set into a frame under tension : HACKSAW

20-across – Addictive narcotic : OPIUM

22-across – Planet recently reclassified as a ‘dwarf’ planet : PLUTO

23-across – American plant of the genus Nicotiana : TOBACCO

24-across – Flamboyant : DRESSY

25-across – Vouchsafes : GRANTS

1-down – Small rain-filled pool : PUDDLE

2-down – Green : NAIVE

3-down – Calendar section comprising working day : MIDWEEK

5-down – Capital of Ghana : ACCRA

6-down – Soon : ERELONG

7-down – Caribbean fruit : PAPAYA

8-down – Feel a strong connection to somebody or something : BEATONEWITH

14-down – Block up : OCCLUDE

15-down – Dribble : SLOBBER

16-down – Fashioned : SHAPED

17-down – Mould or decorate a surface with a raised design : EMBOSS

19-down – Picks out : SPOTS

21-down – Of an ancient Andean culture : INCAN

1-across – Strongly intent : HELLBENT

5-across – Emperor of Russia : TSAR

9-across – Very cold : GELID

10-across – Support, strengthen : SHOREUP

11-across – Smart, tidy looking : SPICKANDSPAN

13-across – Undergo : ENDURE

14-across – Place of worship : SHRINE

17-across – Manufacture in quantity : MASSPRODUCED

20-across – Overlook : NEGLECT

21-across – Preliminary copy : DRAFT

22-across – Neuter an animal : SPAY

23-across – With huge appetite : ESURIENT

1-down – French author of ‘Les Miserables’ : HUGO

2-down – Traditional resting place of frog : LILYPAD

3-down – Historical romantic fiction : BODICERIPPER

4-down – Capital of the Bahamas : NASSAU

6-down – Precipitous : STEEP

7-down – Felt remorseful : REPENTED

8-down – Snub : COLDSHOULDER

12-down – Final destination : TERMINUS

15-down – Repeat : ITERATE

16-down – Unborn baby : FOETUS

18-down – Eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet : SIGMA

19-down – Printer’s instruction – let it stand : STET

1-across – Comparatively rich : BETTEROFF

8-across – Small firework : SQUIB

9-across – Relaxed : RESTFUL

10-across – Reflect : LOOKBACK

11-across – Milk by-product : WHEY

13-across – Sheep meat : MUTTON

14-across – Unit of Scouts : PATROL

16-across – Fencing sword : EPEE

17-across – Translucent : PELLUCID

19-across – Measure of explosive power : KILOTON

20-across – Laconic : TERSE

21-across – Having inflamed joints : RHEUMATIC

1-down – Period of increased birth rate : BABYBOOM

2-down – Three times : THRICE

3-down – Uncomplicated : EASY

4-down – Not for publication : OFFTHERECORD

5-down – Completely developed : FULLYFLEDGED

6-down – Refugee : ASYLUMSEEKER

7-down – Unexpected : OUTOFTHEBLUE

12-down – Graceful, dancer-like : BALLETIC

15-down – Curdled milk : RENNET

18-down – Stalk : STEM

5-across – Reach maturity : COMEOFAGE

8-across – Improvised jazz singing : SCAT

9-across – Well-meaning falsehood : WHITELIE

10-across – Funereal or other accolade : EULOGY

11-across – In the distance : YONDER

13-across – Written caption : LEGEND

15-across – Semidivine maidens : NYMPHS

16-across – Prepares for an operation : SCRUBSUP

18-across – Depression, concavity : DENT

19-across – Beneficiary of a Will : INHERITOR

1-down – Refuge : BOLTHOLE

2-down – Room for negotiation : LEEWAY

3-down – Image, likeness : EFFIGY

4-down – S-shaped line : OGEE

6-down – Go along with : ACQUIESCE

7-down – : HIREDHAND

12-down – Affect familiarity with the rich and famous : NAMEDROP

14-down – Drive away : DISPEL

15-down – Serviette : NAPKIN

17-down – Bone of the forearm : ULNA