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1-across – Commitment that may be shown by author at the start : DEDICATION

6-across – Newts somewhat bereft, sadly : EFTS

9-across – Tradespersons related fables about hair? : LOCKSMITHS

10-across – Blessed ecclesiast, divine educator primarily? : BEDE

12-across – Author’s representation of corrupt males : MARCELPROUST

15-across – Run, with good reason, heading off forcefully : ROUNDLY

16-across – Somewhere on the Rhône, American wanting six starters of grits and nachos receiving disagreeable response : AVIGNON

17-across – Honey, perhaps, that one may give to boxer : PETNAME

19-across – Crow, lazy sort, leaving island: one’s slow to move : DAWDLER

20-across – Bizarrely, our tree sloth is to be in control : RULETHEROOST

23-across – Where to drink in Nova Scotia : INNS

24-across – Flower arrangement of lupin with heads of marguerite daisy, English iris and hollyhock : DELPHINIUM

25-across – Shop regularly; shop in the centre where Carnaby St.’s found : SOHO

26-across – Bachelor with fair feature to smarten up – because he’s this : BRIDEGROOM

1-down – I ordered up hams, cheeses etc : DELI

2-down – Lay out 52 cards : DECK

3-down – Darts star cut out pastries : CUSTARDTARTS

4-down – Easy to spook with tail of newt, cackling and casting spells? : TWITCHY

5-down – Catastrophe. Liaison. She’s part of both? : OPHELIA

7-down – Haunt deserted library many a time : FREQUENTLY

8-down – We see rent’s adjusted, suggesting bribery : SWEETENERS

11-down – Means of making people believe lingerie not ready to wear? : BRAINWASHING

13-down – Characteristics? They’re sometimes detached : PROPERTIES

14-down – Having stopped work to eat bananas : OUTTOLUNCH

18-down – In the auditorium, Everyman becomes tedious, displaying spectacles etc : EYEWEAR

19-down – Doctor’s operation on pedestrian that’s fallen : DROPPED

21-down – Flooring – as nothing, twice, is recalled : LINO

22-down – This person is seen around opening of mosque? : IMAM

1-across – I make flamingos tipsy: it’s a medicinal preparation : MILKOFMAGNESIA

8-across – First nothing, then terrible noise revealing Norse god : ODIN

9-across – Uncle Pat, a merry entertaining old fruit : CANTALOUPE

10-across – Décor neatly provides something to help with the vision : CORNEA

11-across – Sun blanket earlier offering protective clothing : OVERALLS

12-across – Stood on both sides of stream, not half confused : STRADDLED

14-across – By the sound of it, Siamese’s collars may be attached to these : TIES

15-across – Everyman’s beginning to get a stout chassis, finally – as he does this : EATS

16-across – Having some creamer, I can overlook serving of black coffee : AMERICANO

20-across – What follows Dot? Clearly, grouse : COMPLAIN

21-across – Container for gunpowder that may bring you your fortune? : TEACUP

23-across – It’s the sick clowning, least tasteful : KITSCHIEST

24-across – Australian timid, being pallid : ASHY

25-across – Wise men proliferate in Civil Service: they’re picked to change minds? : MAGICMUSHROOMS

1-down – In report, might have questions – understood? : MADEOUT

2-down – Socialist, 9:50, getting up : LENIN

3-down – Where to find fruit – or vegetable : ORCHARD

4-down – Be good to take exception to your customs? : MINDONESMANNERS

5-down – German scores, perhaps causes irritation : GRATES

6-down – Come again – horrible narcissist? : EGOMANIAC

7-down – Abruptly run through gutted, artless antelopes : IMPALAS

13-down – Against having French apéritif endlessly for starters : ANTIPASTI

15-down – Republican replacing kiss in foreign art, titillating material : EROTICA

17-down – It goes round and round, up and down : ROTATOR

18-down – What 1900s and 2020s have in common? : NOUGHTS

19-down – Twig, a unit of distance : FATHOM

22-down – Primarily: abandoned landmark, American mission once? : ALAMO

1-across – Once again, sketches vermillion vessels? : REDRAFTS

5-across – Needing no introduction, criticises remains : ASHES

9-across – Poet’s socially acceptable, did you say? : DONNE

10-across – Primarily sparse and neat style, spurning excess rococo in fonts? : SANSSERIF

11-across – Pasta in Colombian ware needing preparation : ELBOWMACARONI

13-across – Verdant meadow frantically evacuated : LEAFY

14-across – Pretentious type recalled the writer’s name: old George Eliot? : PSEUDONYM

15-across – Soaks took a stool, perhaps getting university prices : SATURATES

17-across – What might be represented as ‘Anticipating bits of my advice, do good’? : DOGMA

18-across – Entertaining soldiers, comically take up arms in recreational venue : AMUSEMENTPARK

21-across – Pursue Ms. Beauregarde with scentless flower : DOGVIOLET

22-across – Keen-eyed one seeing golfer’s achievement : EAGLE

23-across – Detective given largely small piece of food : MORSE

24-across – Reconstituted rat’s skin and tongue : SANSKRIT

1-down – Lacking direction, run like a bull? : RUDDERLESS

2-down – ‘Stay in touch, fellow tense and savage forest warden’ : DONTBEASTRANGER

3-down – Consumed a fish supper, maybe without a fork in the end : ATEAWAY

4-down – Engineer making contribution to Mariotte’s law : TESLA

5-down – To scuttle away is part of crabs’ conditioning : ABSCOND

6-down – Disrupting genre, arming hero, one with magical powers : HERMIONEGRANGER

7-down – On foot, very quietly : SOFT

8-down – Those who move furtively in sportswear : SNEAKERS

12-down – Emma, Ben and Kelvin rebuilt National Trust mound : EMBANKMENT

14-down – Parrot made to swallow tablet regularly, showing sign of overeating : POTBELLY

16-down – Pedestrian comic’s act : ROUTINE

17-down – Everyman, ultimately terrified, rises before the Royal Society in quaking fits : DITHERS

19-down – Run for one in the crowd? : EXTRA

20-down – First man’s Australian, flipping furious : ADAM