Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Brief passing look : CURSORYGLANCE

8-across – Stronghold : BASTION

9-across – Beg, borrow : CADGE

10-across – Ancient queen of Carthage : DIDO

11-across – Source of wealth : RESOURCE

13-across – Breakfast cereal : MUESLI

14-across – Evaluate : ASSESS

17-across – Standing still : STAGNANT

19-across – In this way : THUS

21-across – In darkness : UNLIT

22-across – Large house : MANSION

24-across – Cause of the Black Death : BUBONICPLAGUE

1-down – Male swan : COB

2-down – Remainder : RESIDUE

3-down – Leave out : OMIT

4-down – Native of northern US : YANKEE

5-down – Racket-and-ball game : LACROSSE

6-down – Lowest point : NADIR

7-down – Mid-morning meal : ELEVENSES

10-down – Disappointment : DAMPSQUIB

12-down – Whale food : PLANKTON

15-down – Reverberant : ECHOING

16-down – Aphoristic : GNOMIC

18-down – Improvise : ADLIB

20-down – Blue dye : ANIL

23-down – Maiden name indicator : NEE

1-across – Hurt, harmed : INJURED

5-across – English 15th century gold coins worth about ten shillings : RYALS

8-across – Make an unreasonable, unattainable request : ASKFORTHEMOON

9-across – Bird of prey : OWL

10-across – Bring back : RESURRECT

12-across – Egyptian site of Akhenaten, also called el- or Tel el —— : AMARNA

13-across – See 20 : BUTLER

15-across – Unimaginable : UNDREAMED

16-across – Mischief-maker; little devil : IMP

18-across – Unfurled flags; triumphant success : FLYINGCOLOURS

20-across – Leading male character in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind : RHETT

21-across – Reserve : SHYNESS

1-down – Amigo? : IMAGO

2-down – Split personality reference from RL Stevenson characters : JEKYLLANDHYDE

3-down – Natural barrier forming part of the USA-Mexico border : RIOGRANDE

4-down – Can’t stand, hate thoroughly : DETEST

5-down – Fish eggs : ROE

6-down – In your own time : ATONESLEISURE

7-down – Member of US Congress’ upper house : SENATOR

11-down – Song with a refrain; dance in a circle : ROUNDELAY

12-down – Natural underground reservoir : AQUIFER

14-down – Delivers an open-handed blow : SMACKS

17-down – Propounds: pretends : POSES

19-down – Hard fruit of a plant : NUT

1-across – Wet blanket : KILLJOY

5-across – Strike a chord : STRUM

8-across – Carried a torch : PINED

9-across – Recognising: cunning : KNOWING

10-across – Beyond understanding : ABOVEONESHEAD

11-across – Put on a pedestal; favour : ESTEEM

12-across – Physicist Fermi : ENRICO

15-across – Wind strength gauge : BEAUFORTSCALE

18-across – One of a broken set; scrap : ODDMENT

19-across – Eastern potentate : AMEER

20-across – Stretch of gently undulating seaside land associated with golf : LINKS

21-across – Sending off symbol : REDCARD

1-down – Tenth letter of the Greek alphabet : KAPPA

2-down – Restart function in rugby : LINEOUT

3-down – Infamous 17th century Chief Justice of the King’s Bench : JUDGEJEFFREYS

4-down – Crosspiece linking a pair of oxen in harness : YOKING

5-down – Discloses plans; reveals cards : SHOWSONESHAND

6-down – Pay increase : RAISE

7-down – Biblical battle site, ‘Armageddon’ in Hebrew : MEGIDDO

11-down – Draw into; involve deeply : EMBROIL

13-down – Rio waterfront next to Copacabana Beach : IPANEMA

14-down – To roar? : ORATOR

16-down – Extension; computer peripheral : ADDON

17-down – Made a mistake : ERRED

7-across – Well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables : RAGOUT

8-across – Dome : CUPOLA

9-across – Breakers : SURF

10-across – Cloudy; depressing : OVERCAST

11-across – Lasting a day : DIURNAL

13-across – Boast: cliff : BLUFF

15-across – Secure with rope : BELAY

16-across – Capital of Libya : TRIPOLI

18-across – Scattering or interspersing like dots: kind of sail : STUDDING

19-across – On pins and needles; nervously irritable : EDGY

21-across – Idle; slothful : OTIOSE

22-across – Character who gives a play, etc its title : EPONYM

1-down – Azerbaijan’s capital : BAKU

2-down – Bill Forsyth film : COMFORTANDJOY

3-down – Turkish dynasty for over 600 years: linen basket : OTTOMAN

4-down – Sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff : SCREE

5-down – Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as envisaged by Francis Ford Coppola : APOCALYPSENOW

6-down – Completely happy and contented : BLISSFUL

12-down – Personality profile : IDENTITY

14-down – Set off : TRIGGER

17-down – Kind of call: temptress : SIREN

20-down – Francisco de —- : GOYA

7-across – French impressionist painter : RENOIR

8-across – Embodiment; personification : AVATAR

9-across – Brazilian football legend : PELE

10-across – Group of islands off SW England : SCILLIES

11-across – One of the 2 by DH Lawrence : SONSANDLOVERS

13-across – History 18 by Shakespeare : HENRYTHEFIFTH

16-across – I, another? : ANTIHERO

17-across – Insect in the inactive stage of development : PUPA

19-across – Second most holy city of Islam : MEDINA

20-across – Of a bone, towards a point furthest away from its attachment to the body : DISTAL

1-down – Daughter of Zeus, goddess of youth : HEBE

2-down – Examples of book-length fictional prose : NOVELS

3-down – Comedy 18 by George Bernard Shaw : ARMSANDTHEMAN

4-down – One of the 2 by George Eliot : DANIELDERONDA

5-down – Russian neurophysiologist who involved canines : PAVLOV

6-down – Vole: member of a UK showbusiness charity organisation : WATERRAT

12-down – Ornamental poisonous shrub with evergreen leaves and white to red flowers : OLEANDER

14-down – Check; arrest : REININ

15-down – Mischievous; naughtily playful : IMPISH

18-down – Latitude; compete against : PLAY