"ATTAINT" IS THE Answer TO THE FOLLOWING CROSSWORDS

1. To be a teetotaller is not some sort of contamination, by the sound of it
2. Win time for convict, once
3. A teetotaller isn't one one might outlaw
4. Reach the parting of the ways? convict of treason
5. A sober type isn't subject to loss of rights
6. So to make one an outlaw sounds as if it isn't
7. Outlaw historically needing to gain time

OTHER CLUES

1. A couple of people may wo
2. One of hollywoods hemsworths
3. Boat with less cargo?
4. Tax evasion investigators, quaintly
5. Nippers co
6. Creep (along)
7. Be theatrical
8. Blake of jazz