1-across – Be indecisive : DITHER

4-across – People who guide ships going into or out of a harbour : PILOTS

8-across – Governor in India during the Mogul empire : NABOB

9-across – Enthusiast : AMATEUR

10-across – Adorn with gems : BEJEWEL

11-across – Simulacrum : IMAGE

12-across – Become mad or furious : GOBANANAS

17-across – Concentration of attention or energy : FOCUS

19-across – Regardless of, in defiance of : DESPITE

21-across – Malevolent look : EVILEYE

22-across – Spokes : RADII

23-across – Cheque signatory : DRAWER

24-across – Thoroughfare : STREET

1-down – River flowing from the Black Forest to the Black Sea : DANUBE

2-down – Drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a tricorn : TOBYJUG

3-down – Sharp bend in a road or river : ELBOW

5-down – Works of Verdi and Puccini, for example : ITALIAN

6-down – See 5 : OPERA

7-down – Versed : SERVED

9-down – Very nervous : ALLONEDGE

13-down – Encircle as a military tactic : BESIEGE

14-down – Stick or pin used to twist yarn in spinning : SPINDLE

15-down – Act in disregard of the law : OFFEND

16-down – Give a description of : DEPICT

18-down – High quality porcelain : CHINA

20-down – Small herring-type fish : SPRAT

7-across – Designation of God, as in the Book of Daniel : ANCIENTOFDAYS

8-across – Combustible heap : PYRE

9-across – Swinging blow directed at an opponent’s chin : UPPERCUT

10-across – Place of business : OFFICE

11-across – French missile used by Argentina in the Falklands War : EXOCET

13-across – Borneo sultanate : BRUNEI

15-across – Unique : ONEOFF

16-across – Submarine : UNDERSEA

18-across – Parts of London and New York City with the same name : SOHO

19-across – Through military strength : BYFORCEOFARMS

1-down – Retaliation in kind : ANEYEFORANEYE

2-down – Oven used to reduce CaCO3 into powder : LIMEKILN

3-down – Bring on : INDUCE

4-down – Fall over : TOPPLE

5-down – German river that empties into the Baltic Sea : ODER

6-down – Through an accurate estimate based on experience : BYRULEOFTHUMB

12-down – Save 17 : OVERSEAS

14-down – Small air-breathing arthropod : INSECT

15-down – Public speaker : ORATOR

17-down – Son of Aphrodite : EROS

1-across – Emblem worn to signify a position : BADGEOFOFFICE

8-across – Become or cause to become obstructed : CONGEST

9-across – Poured forth : SPILT

10-across – Indolent : IDLE

11-across – Blatant or sensational promotion : BALLYHOO

13-across – Difficult question or challenge : TESTER

14-across – Nebula : UNABLE

17-across – Cut or impressed into a surface : ENGRAVED

19-across – Steep : BREW

21-across – Sea-ear, an abalone found near the Channel Is : ORMER

22-across – Instrumental keyboard : CLAVIER

23-across – Coveted role or office secured for life : DEADMANSSHOES

1-down – Return to a group after an absence : BACKINTHEFOLD

2-down – Computer plug-ins for using external software : DONGLES

3-down – At any time : EVER

4-down – : FATCAT

5-down – Style of living categorised by recklessness and dissipation : FASTLANE

6-down – Gaelic language : IRISH

7-down – Retracts what one has said when forced : EATSONESWORDS

12-down – Star-shaped figure : HEXAGRAM

15-down – Filled tortilla : BURRITO

16-down – Cleric : DEACON

18-down – Third letter of the Greek alphabet : GAMMA

20-down – Lowest register of the male voice : BASS

4-across – French blackcurrant mixer : CASSIS

8-across – Comic hero played on screen by Robert Downey, Jr : IRONMAN

10-across – Action taken which results in a disadvantage to the taker : OWNGOAL

11-across – Soaking receptacle : BATHTUB

12-across – Edge tool used in shaving : RAZOR

13-across – Allusive reference to sagacity : THEWISDOM

17-across – See 13 : OFSOLOMON

19-across – All-time low : NADIR

20-across – Old Iran : ORDINAL

22-across – Spanish painter, nicknamed for his place of birth : ELGRECO

23-across – Light in a transparent protective case : LANTERN

24-across – Liverpudlian : SCOUSE

1-down – Commune : KIBBUTZ

2-down – Colour with blotches of different shades : MOTTLE

3-down – Bypass : OMIT

5-down – Unnatural : ABNORMAL

6-down – Forty winks : SNOOZE

7-down – Relating to the sun : SOLAR

9-down – Shrewd or prudent person : NOBODYSFOOL

14-down – Ordained : INORDERS

15-down – Have a tendency to do or be something : INCLINE

16-down – Slow movement : ADAGIO

18-down – Any of various long-tailed primates : MONKEY

19-down – Demands : NEEDS

21-down – Depression : DENT

1-across – Jamaican cult follower : RASTA

4-across – Unkempt : SCRUFFY

8-across – Harden up : TOUGHEN

9-across – West African country, formerly Dahomey : BENIN

10-across – Sign in to a computer : LOGON

11-across – Grant remission of a sin : ABSOLVE

13-across – Can’t see a thing : ASBLINDASABAT

16-across – Boycott : EMBARGO

18-across – Join forces : UNITE

20-across – Ludicrous, foolish : SILLY

21-across – Turkish address now comparable to ‘Mr’ : EFFENDI

22-across – Lacking sense, understanding or judgment : WITLESS

23-across – Parts of the academic year : TERMS

1-down – Take revenge for a perceived wrong : RETALIATE

2-down – Threw out : SLUNG

3-down – West African tribe : ASHANTI

4-down – DH Lawrence novel : SONSANDLOVERS

5-down – Puzzle where pictures represent syllables and words : REBUS

6-down – Admiration society : FANCLUB

7-down – Pine : YEN

12-down – The nice US? : EUTHENICS

14-down – Small decorative object without practical utility : BIBELOT

15-down – Pop one’s clogs! : SNUFFIT

17-down – Versification : RHYME

19-down – Target next to the bull’s-eye on a dart board : INNER

20-down – Stitch up : SEW