6-across – Member of a British army parachute display team : REDDEVIL

8-across – Another name for the Jamaican tangelo : UGLI

9-across – Sky News presenter : KAY

10-across – What the French might shout for "stop thief!" : AUVOLEUR

11-across – Greenpeace ship sunk by French intelligence officers in Auckland in 1985 : RAINBOW

13-across – See 3 Down : MYRIE

15-across – See 19 Down : DAVIS

17-across – Dutch city, home to the Cathedral of Saint Bavo : HAARLEM

20-across – Konrad __, West German chancellor, 1949-1963 : ADENAUER

21-across – See 5 Down : GAY

23-across – __ Chapman, Russian spy deported from the US in 2010 : ANNA

24-across – Nickname given to Arthur Wellesley : IRONDUKE

1-down – Storm that brought flooding to Britain in the first week of 2024 : HENK

2-down – The __, 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, starring Leonardo DiCaprio : AVIATOR

3-down – BBC newsreader and host of Mastermind : CLIVE

4-down – See 9 Across : BURLEY

5-down – Harvard president forced to stand down in January 2024 : CLAUDINE

7-down – Moshe __, Israeli defence minister during the 1967 six-day war : DAYAN

12-down – Chocolate cake filled with caramel and cream : AMANDINE

14-down – See 11 Across : WARRIOR

16-down – __ Sea, section of the Mediterranean between Greece and Southern Italy : IONIAN

18-down – __ transformation; in geometry this maintains the distance between every pair of points : RIGID

19-down – Writer and star of the BBC’s 2004 hit, Nighty Night : JULIA

22-down – Tartary oxen : YAKS

7-across – Russian newspaper for which Anna Politkovskaya wrote before she was murdered in 2006 : NOVAYA

8-across – Andi __, children’s TV presenter on BBC and ITV : PETERS

9-across – London street joining Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace : THEMALL

10-across – Tim __, punning comedian : VINE

11-across – Israeli newspaper known for its left-liberal politics : HAARETZ

13-across – See 21 : HEBDO

15-across – See 4 Down : DAILY

17-across – French newspaper founded in 1944 : LEMONDE

20-across – Sarah __, Private Eye’s satirical name for columnist Sarah Vine : VAIN

21-across – French satirical magazine, several of whose staff were murdered in 2015 : CHARLIE

23-across – See 7 : GAZETA

24-across – Pierre-Auguste __, French impressionist : RENOIR

1-down – The Washington __, paper that made its name during the Watergate scandal : POST

2-down – Self-styled elegant dresser from Kinshasa or Brazzaville : SAPEUR

3-down – Hindu greeting : NAMASTE

4-down – Hong Kong newspaper founded by Jimmy Lai and closed under pressure from the Chinese government in 2021 : APPLE

5-down – __ Smith, author of Not Waving but Drowning : STEVIE

6-down – Caribbean island : TRINIDAD

12-down – Examples of a literary genre of novels set in middle-class village life : AGASAGAS

14-down – French city and UNESCO world heritage site on the Seine : LEHAVRE

16-down – Type of finch whose wings, according to Yeats, filled the evenings at Innisfree? : LINNET

18-down – Chinese tea produced by sun-drying leaves : OOLONG

19-down – Theologian known for his ‘razor’ – the idea that the solution with the fewest elements is the best : OCCAM

22-down – The fourth of the Great Lakes : ERIE

5-across – Brandy from Charente and Charente-Maritime : COGNAC

8-across – Swift’s "brutes in human form" : YAHOOS

9-across – Organisation representing 13 oil-exporting nations : OPEC

10-across – Martin __, director of the movie from which 11/15 is taken : SCORSESE

11-across – See 21 : RAGING

13-across – Polly __, producer and screenwriter and key figure in 21/23/11/15 : PLATT

15-across – See 21 : BULLS

17-across – Tom __, satirist known for poisoning pigeons in the park? : LEHRER

20-across – Currency union including 20 EU member states : EUROZONE

21-across – Peter Biskind’s history of 1960s and 1970s Hollywood : EASY

22-across – Half-__, rhyming slang for stolen : INCHED

23-across – See 21 : RIDERS

1-down – Dennis __, director of the movie from which 21/23 is taken : HOPPER

2-down – Region straddling northern Italy and western Austria : TYROL

3-down – Ski resort and town near Vancouver : WHISTLER

4-down – County bordered by Hampshire and Devon : DORSET

6-down – Where 10 set many of his movies : NYC

7-down – 10 movie starring Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone : CASINO

12-down – Another name for Calvary : GOLGOTHA

14-down – Streak of light that can be found in a celestial shower : METEOR

16-down – Political manoeuvres familiar to car drivers – and to students of the current government? : UTURNS

18-down – Christian prayer that begins with the Apostles’ Creed : ROSARY

19-down – Peter __, star of the movie from which 21/23 is taken : FONDA

21-down – __ al-Fitr, Muslim celebration marking the end of Ramadan : EID

6-across – The __, large-scale installation artwork by Judy Chicago : DINNER

8-across – See 10 : GOTHIC

9-across – Lifestyle brand created by Gwyneth Paltrow : GOOP

10-across – Grant Wood’s 1930 portrait of a daughter and her father : AMERICAN

11-across – See 17 : KAHLO

12-across – A native of Juneau? : ALASKAN

15-across – Artist known for her Stripe Paintings and Cupid’s Quiver : BRIDGET

17-across – Mexican artist known for her self-portraits : FRIDA

20-across – Picasso’s 1937 protest at an atrocity of the Spanish Civil War : GUERNICA

22-across – Superman’s biological mother? : LARA

23-across – Popular hiking destination in the Austrian Alps – or a 1973 hit song for Elton John? : DANIEL

24-across – __ Swift, musician : TAYLOR

1-down – Mythical creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man : MINOTAUR

2-down – Trojan king and the father of Cassandra : PRIAM

3-down – The author of The War of the Worlds : HGWELLS

4-down – Eponymous low-carb diet popular in the 2000s : ATKINS

5-down – Italian city on the Arno : PISA

7-down – Country bordered by Tibet and India : NEPAL

13-down – Thomas A. __, birth name of Neo in the Matrix films : ANDERSON

14-down – Spanish city known for the Alcázar palace complex : SEVILLE

16-down – __ Medal, awarded by the Royal Society for contributions to biology : DARWIN

18-down – See 15 Across : RILEY

19-down – See 6 Across : PARTY

21-down – __ Beach, D-day landing site for Allied troops : UTAH

6-across – Ian __, author of the Rebus novels : RANKIN

8-across – Thomas __, US pioneer of electronic technologies : EDISON

9-across – Chris __, MP who resigned as Tory deputy chief whip after groping allegations : PINCHER

10-across – River flowing through Dundee : TAY

11-across – Sir __, ceramic artist : GRAYSON

12-across – __ Monsoon, character played by Jennifer Saunders in Absolutely Fabulous : EDINA

15-across – Welsh peninsula reaching into the Bristol Channel : GOWER

16-across – Frederick __, author of The Day of the Jackal : FORSYTH

18-across – Polish national airline : LOT

20-across – Family on whose story Succession is said to be based : MURDOCH

21-across – Asiatic wild ass : ONAGER

22-across – Planet whose rings so fascinated W.G. Sebald? : SATURN

1-down – US publisher owned by the 20’s News Corporation : HARPERCOLLINS

2-down – South Korea’s third city : INCHEON

3-down – See 11 Across : PERRY

4-down – Eartha __, singer who made a hit out of Santa Baby : KITT

5-down – Extraterrestrial beings who invaded Santa Mira, CA in 1956? : BODYSNATCHERS

7-down – Scottish peninsula which ends in its eponymous Mull : KINTYRE

13-down – 1981 German film set on a submarine : DASBOOT

14-down – __ Gump, character played by Tom Hanks : FORREST

17-down – Any one of several characters from a Belgian cartoon franchise by Peyo : SMURF

19-down – Country bordered by Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso : TOGO