Puzzle 9

Month when Mexican Independence Day is celebrated.

First British feature film with sound.

Focused on the task in hand.

Creating new fashions from disposed-of clothing.

Fit furniture or car seats with cushions/stuffing.

Situations, either real or envisaged.

Singer Dickie Valentine chart topper: Finger of __.

Spider that gives the creeps, hairy legs.

Czech tennis player with 8 Grand Slam titles.

Point something towards the wrong destination.

Rubbing vigorously with a sponge.

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, aka Madame de __.

Richard __, the original John Shaft.

Third book in Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy.

Wood worker, cabinet maker.

Large, firm tomato variety.