Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Exempt from postal charge : POSTFREE

5-across – Converted stables : MEWS

9-across – Clothes-drying frame : AIRER

10-across – Glacial : ICECOLD

11-across – Freelance : SELFEMPLOYED

13-across – Loss of liquid from evaporation or leakage : ULLAGE

14-across – Small inexpensive restaurant : BISTRO

17-across – South-seeking pole of a magnet : NEGATIVEPOLE

20-across – Lager beer : PILSNER

21-across – Fashionable elegance : STYLE

22-across – The rise and fall of the sea : TIDE

23-across – Group of symptoms : SYNDROME

1-down – Beseech : PRAY

2-down – Bizarre, outlandish : SURREAL

3-down – Dealing with problems as they arise, rather than planning to avoid them : FIREFIGHTING

4-down – Mystery : ENIGMA

6-down – Dark-brown or black wood : EBONY

7-down – Not the main entrance : SIDEDOOR

8-down – Sympathetic, friendly : WELLDISPOSED

12-down – Person or device rotating cooking meat : TURNSPIT

15-down – Huntsman’s cry : TALLYHO

16-down – Excessively : OVERLY

18-down – Extremely cold : GELID

19-down – Give way : CEDE

1-across – Arabian camel : DROMEDARY

8-across – Blind person’s ‘seeing eye’ : GUIDEDOG

9-across – Brief respite : LULL

10-across – Bird’s bill : BEAK

11-across – Unclear : OBSCURE

13-across – Completely settled : CUTANDDRIED

15-across – Impede : INHIBIT

17-across – Copy : CRIB

20-across – Chinese dynasty : MING

21-across – Start : COMMENCE

22-across – Female traffic warden : METERMAID

2-down – Shining : RADIANT

3-down – Manner, method : MODE

4-down – Menial worker : DOGSBODY

5-down – Artefact : RELIC

6-down – Deprived of feeling : NUMB

7-down – Ruddy : FLORID

12-down – Surround : ENCIRCLE

13-down – Frank, straightforward : CANDID

14-down – Middle Eastern native : ISRAELI

16-down – Fireplace : INGLE

18-down – Small stream : BECK

19-down – Mosque prayer leader : IMAM

1-across – Campaigner for women’s rights : SUFFRAGETTE

9-across – Victorian taxi : HANSOMCAB

10-across – Age, eon : ERA

11-across – Word puzzle : REBUS

13-across – Muscle weakness : PARESIS

14-across – Small crustacean : SHRIMP

15-across – Just outside the medal places : FOURTH

18-across – Stomach, midriff : ABDOMEN

20-across – Pulsate : THROB

21-across – Hostelry : INN

22-across – Joint pain related : RHEUMATIC

24-across – Temporary failure of the thought process : MENTALBLOCK

2-down – Ashes container : URN

3-down – Floating naval wreckage : FLOTSAM

4-down – Receive : ACCEPT

5-down – Residue of a fire : EMBER

6-down – Financial manager : TREASURER

7-down – Charming, fascinating : CHARISMATIC

8-down – Shift responsibility : PASSTHEBUCK

12-down – Informal country social gathering : BARNDANCE

16-down – Best : OPTIMAL

17-down – Harden by heat : ANNEAL

19-down – Worth : MERIT

23-down – Nervous twitch : TIC

1-across – Acute infectious disease : CHOLERA

8-across – Entrance, captivate : BEWITCH

9-across – Trailblazer : PIONEER

10-across – Intimidate, daunt : OVERAWE

11-across – White heron : EGRET

13-across – No longer needed : REDUNDANT

15-across – Well-organised : EFFICIENT

18-across – Custom : HABIT

21-across – Male relative : BROTHER

22-across – Official pardon : AMNESTY

23-across – Foremost : LEADING

24-across – Greek letter : EPSILON

1-down – Growth of small trees : COPSE

2-down – Smell : ODOUR

3-down – Form of capital punishment : ELECTRICCHAIR

4-down – Overseas : ABROAD

5-down – Terms of endearment : SWEETNOTHINGS

6-down – Layers : STRATA

7-down – Menace : THREAT

12-down – Fish-landing implement : GAFF

14-down – Former German National Socialist : NAZI

15-down – Preserve for burial : EMBALM

16-down – Relating to flowers : FLORAL

17-down – Incense, madden : ENRAGE

19-down – Culinary herb : BASIL

20-down – Attempt to fool or deceive : TRYON

1-across – Accomplice : ACCESSORY

8-across – Bay, inlet : COVE

9-across – Wear informal clothes : DRESSDOWN

10-across – Rabbit’s tail : SCUT

13-across – Seize power : USURP

15-across – Horrified : AGHAST

16-across – Fold of skin on the throat : DEWLAP

17-across – Comment : REMARK

19-across – Sleeveless jerkin : TABARD

20-across – Crave, desire : YEARN

21-across – Unoccupied : IDLE

24-across – With one voice : UNANIMOUS

25-across – Pall, become tiresome : CLOY

26-across – Type of country music : BLUEGRASS

2-down – Brusque : CURT

3-down – Effortlessness : EASE

4-down – One deriving pleasure from inflicting pain : SADIST

5-down – Recompense : REWARD

6-down – Clerical neckwear : DOGCOLLAR

7-down – Multi-legged arthropod : CENTIPEDE

11-down – Wig, toupee : HAIRPIECE

12-down – Colour-changing lizard : CHAMELEON

13-down – Money-lending : USURY

14-down – Nut similar to a walnut : PECAN

18-down – Edible part of a nut : KERNEL

19-down – Hypnotic state : TRANCE

22-down – Middle Eastern ruler : EMIR

23-down – Ado : FUSS