6-across – Of what Anne Fine’s 1 was made? : BONES

7-across – See 1 Down : TOWIGAN

9-across – __ Lipstadt, historian who correctly accused David Irving of Holocaust denial : DEBORAH

10-across – Bird found on Iain Banks’s 1? : CROW

11-across – US town, host to one campus of the University of Massachusetts : AMHERST

13-across – Timothy __ , star of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Mr Turner : SPALL

15-across – Spectre found on Pat Barker’s 1? : GHOST

17-across – Anarchic state of Graham Greene’s 1s? : LAWLESS

20-across – Television’s equivalent of an Oscar : EMMY

21-across – Artform exemplified by Blur, Oasis and Pulp? : BRITPOP

23-across – 1 in which Helene Hanff found her favourite bookshop : CHARING

24-across – Mountain range separating Chile and Argentina : ANDES

1-down – The __, Orwell book recounting the development of his political consciousness : ROAD

2-down – Character played by Robert Carlyle in Trainspotting : BEGBIE

3-down – Host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics : SOCHI

4-down – 1996 golfing comedy starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo : TINCUP

5-down – Sicilian courtier who learned the hard way that to wield power is to have enemies : DAMOCLES

8-down – See 23 Across : CROSS

12-down – Another name for dorado or common dolphinfish : MAHIMAHI

14-down – Port city in Andalucia : CADIZ

16-down – Dorothy L __, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey : SAYERS

18-down – Chinese prime minister, 1987-1998 : LIPENG

19-down – Hardwood known for its dark grain : EBONY

22-down – See 1 : PIER

7-across – Balkan republic; capital Pristina : KOSOVO

8-across – 9 owned by Flaubert, according to Julian Barnes : PARROT

9-across – See 3 Down : BIRD

10-across – Jack __, author of On the Road : KEROUAC

11-across – Doris __, author of The Grass is Singing : LESSING

13-across – Condition in which Maya Angelou’s 9 nevertheless sings? : CAGED

15-across – Franciscan friar known for his law of parsimony in problem solving : OCCAM

17-across – Nationality of Dashiell Hammett’s 9? : MALTESE

19-across – Video game featuring a girl called Madeline climbing a mountain : CELESTE

21-across – Stage name of singer Marie Lawrie? : LULU

22-across – Country – and one of the so-called Brexit options? : NORWAY

23-across – Edna __, author of The Country Girls trilogy : OBRIEN

1-down – Alabama city where Bob Dylan got the Memphis Blues : MOBILE

2-down – The colour of Donna Tartt’s 9? : GOLD

3-down – Ceature used by Harper Lee as a metaphor for innocence : MOCKING

4-down – A quality or feature found in moments, railway lines and cowboy boots? : SPUR

5-down – Francis __, lead character in House of Cards, played by Ian Richardson : URQUHART

6-down – Acknowledgment that one has been hit in fencing : TOUCHE

12-down – 9s made up of the Walker family, according to Arthur Ransome : SWALLOWS

14-down – Walter __, journalist known for his 1867 work, The English Constitution : BAGEHOT

16-down – 9 over whose nest Randle Patrick McMurphy flew? : CUCKOO

18-down – The colour of Tayari Jones’s 9? : SILVER

20-down – Hebridean island : SKYE

21-down – 9 plucked in the children’s song Alouette? : LARK

7-across – The second self? : ALTEREGO

8-across – Units of measurement, roughly the length of a human arm : ELLS

9-across – Children’s TV series whose characters include Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch : SESAME

10-across – See 9 : STREET

11-across – John __, British explorer and the first European to reach Lake Victoria : SPEKE

13-across – Children’s books and TV series named for its hero, Horatio : CAPTAIN

15-across – See 13 : PUGWASH

17-across – Ralph __, US campaigner and frequent presidential candidate : NADER

20-across – Venetian bridge over the Grand Canal : RIALTO

21-across – Children’s TV series whose stars included Chris Tarrant and Sally James : TISWAS

23-across – Poem by 24 which begins, ‘Come to me in the silence of the night…’ : ECHO

24-across – Christina Georgina __, poet whose works include 23 : ROSSETTI

1-down – Children’s TV series first presented by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams : BLUE

2-down – New York’s third airport? : NEWARK

3-down – See 1 : PETER

4-down – East German city where allied leaders met in July 1945 : POTSDAM

5-down – The capital of Lebanon : BEIRUT

6-down – Section of Africa’s longest river which rises in Lake Tana : BLUENILE

12-down – Former England footballer who won 53 caps from 1992-2000 : PAULINCE

14-down – Artist known for his paintings of industrial Lancashire : LSLOWRY

16-down – Fay __, author whose works include The Life and Loves of a She-Devil : WELDON

18-down – Cassandra __, painter and elder sister of the more famous Jane : AUSTEN

19-down – The East German secret police : STASI

22-down – CGI animated film starring Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez and many others : ANTZ

7-across – Town on the north shore of the Mersey : BOOTLE

8-across – The second book of the Old Testament : EXODUS

9-across – Predatory seabird also known as a jaeger : SKUA

10-across – Ohio’s capital city : COLUMBUS

11-across – Pacific 2 separating Sakhalin from mainland Asia : TARTARY

13-across – A resident of Tashkent? : UZBEK

15-across – The __, 2 separating the mainland Scotland from Lewis and Harris : MINCH

17-across – 2 separating Cuba and Mexico : YUCATAN

20-across – 2 separating mainland South America and Tierra del Fuego : MAGELLAN

21-across – The __, 2016 film starring Idris Elba, released in the UK as Bastille Day : TAKE

23-across – 2 separating Siberia and Alaska : BERING

24-across – The Russian currency : ROUBLE

1-down – 2 separating New Zealand’s North and South Islands : COOK

2-down – A narrow passage of water connecting two seas : STRAIT

3-down – An element, a god or a planet? : MERCURY

4-down – A tool used by fire and rescue service for forcible entry : KELLY

5-down – 2 separating Oman and Iran : HORMUZ

6-down – South African trumpet made popular : VUVUZELA

12-down – Style of language in which Mr Collins wished to inform Elizabeth Bennet of the violence of his affection? : ANIMATED

14-down – Whither Hamlet would have Ophelia go? : NUNNERY

16-down – Beach in Dorset : CHESIL

18-down – Tidal 2 separating New Jersey from Staten Island : ARTHUR

19-down – Irish county in Connacht : SLIGO

22-down – See 18 : KILL

6-across – Alan __, computer scientist portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in the award-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game : TURING

8-across – Area subject to 13 by Russia in February-March 2014 : CRIMEA

9-across – Biblical figure who murdered his brother : CAIN

10-across – Blefuscu’s neighbouring island : LILLIPUT

11-across – The BBC’s main weeknight chat and magazine programme : THEONESHOW

13-across – The forcible acquisition of one state’s territory by another : ANNEXATION

16-across – The time – according to John Berendt’s Pulitzer prize-nominated book – in the Garden of Good and Evil : MIDNIGHT

18-across – Area subject to 13 after the 1975 move known in Indonesia as Operation Lotus : EAST

19-across – The capital of Tasmania : HOBART

20-across – City that became Ho Chi Minh City after the effective 13 of South Vietnam by the North : SAIGON

1-down – Country subject to 13 after invasion by Iraq in 1990 : KUWAIT

2-down – Irish republican political party founded in 1905 : SINNFEIN

3-down – One of the Old Testament books of Wisdom : ECCLESIASTES

4-down – Nickname sometimes used for Israeli prime minister, Netanyahu : BIBI

5-down – Figure in Roman mythology murdered by his brother : REMUS

7-down – Area subject to 13 by Israel in 1981 : GOLANHEIGHTS

12-down – Product imported by the Corleone family? : OLIVEOIL

14-down – The second episode in Joyce’s Ulysses : NESTOR

15-down – See 18 Across : TIMOR

17-down – A type of leavened flatbread : NAAN