ACROSS&DOWNZHMK1.2c@@.H.H.C.E.L.C.F.MARATHON.ENOSIS.M.L.A.O.N.N.R.BLOODCOUNT.SOSO.E...O.N.I.I.T.STREWN.COLOSSAL...X.N.E...T.I.ANOTHER.CALENDS.A.I...O.N.N...OPERAHAT.ATTEND.O.P.I.T.T...O.ELLA.TOOTHPASTE.E.T.M.M.E.C.I.POPEYE.ARMSRACE.N.D.N.N.A.E.E..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.--------.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.----------.----.-...-.-.-.-.-.------.--------...-.-.-...-.-.-------.-------.-.-...-.-.-...--------.------.-.-.-.-.-...-.----.----------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.--------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Cryptic Crossword #8Michael Curl(c) Michael CurlRole a bad actor is permitted? (6)A little means such a lot as an indication of holiness (4)No chance to dance old dance (8)Have no uncertainty - speak out (7)A little illness preceded by fast pulse (6)Free from self-contradiction - what's inside is outside and centre of outside is inside (10)Emergency treatment making tree steady? (5,3)Running battle? (8)Strange noises in Greek union (6)A medical test for Dracula? (5,5)Nothing more than a distress signal, neither good nor bad (2-2)Heads of television and radio in sort of news broadcast (6)Exit. Depart, Ruined. Totally destroyed. (10)Huge depletion in fuel supplies (8)Someone else embraced by Deianeira, not Heracles (7)Emperor turning pale? No, no! (8)Date for Roman candles to be ordered (7)Accursed thing in Montana. The Mafia? (8)Turk's seat (7)Butterfly watcher's headgear? (5,3)Hired guns with explosive in them (3,3)Listen to a tiptop nurse (6)Mark's warning (6)Miss Fitzgerald with one note turned everyone on (4)Mashed potato's the stuff for dental hygiene (10)Expert holding right amount of land (4)Church leader, you found, is a sailor-man (6)Running battle? (4,4)008