Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Consternation : DISMAY

4-across – Resentment : PIQUE

7-across – Help : ASSIST

8-across – Disavow : RECANT

9-across – Lord of the realm : PEER

10-across – Blissful : ECSTATIC

12-across – Practical, no-nonsense : DOWNTOEARTH

17-across – Hostile : INIMICAL

19-across – Make a home : NEST

20-across – Narcotics pipe : HOOKAH

21-across – Disturber of the peace, looter : RIOTER

22-across – Out of date : PASSE

23-across – Parsimonious : STINGY

1-down – Swell : DISTEND

2-down – Squalid urban district : SKIDROW

3-down – Genuine : AUTHENTIC

4-down – Fold of material : PLEAT

5-down – Foursome : QUARTET

6-down – Allure : ENTICE

11-down – Sense something suspicious : SMELLARAT

13-down – Foreboding : OMINOUS

14-down – Dilapidated : RUNDOWN

15-down – Socks/stockings : HOSIERY

16-down – Accident : MISHAP

18-down – Incensed : IRATE

7-across – Chooses one position then another to suit one’s argument : HASITBOTHWAYS

8-across – Small piece, especially of something cut down or worn away : STUB

9-across – Touchy subject: bruise, perhaps : SORESPOT

10-across – Members of an ascetic Jewish sect around the time of Jesus : ESSENES

11-across – Radius : SPOKE

13-across – Grinding tooth in the back of a mammal’s mouth : MOLAR

15-across – Compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry : BITTERN

18-across – Branch; spin-off : OFFSHOOT

19-across – Rein in : CURB

20-across – All over one’s body : FROMHEADTOTOE

1-down – First experience of a severe ordeal, especially a first taste of military combat : BAPTISMOFFIRE

2-down – Snack : NIBBLE

3-down – Caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious : ABASHED

4-down – Severe and unremitting: area of a ship : STERN

5-down – Admits : OWNSUP

6-down – In any way necessary : BYHOOKORCROOK

12-down – Strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore : RIPTIDE

14-down – Appropriate : ASSUME

16-down – Not coy? : TYCOON

17-down – Welsh peninsula : GOWER

1-across – Situated or occurring farthest within : INMOST

4-across – Frowns with displeasure : SCOWLS

9-across – Name used colloquially for any yellow daffodil : JONQUIL

10-across – Plot again : REMAP

11-across – Personnel: rod : STAFF

12-across – Competition : TOURNEY

13-across – Concur; in accord : SEEEYETOEYE

18-across – Characteristic of gender, not 6 : MANNISH

20-across – Units of weight of 1000 grams : KILOS

22-across – Remove computer errors : DEBUG

23-across – River linking Lakes Ontario and Erie : NIAGARA

24-across – Compact; concordat : TREATY

25-across – It’s a-coming in December! : ADVENT

1-down – Jocularly : INJEST

2-down – Kind of ray : MANTA

3-down – Sniff or smell enquiringly : SNUFFLE

5-down – In anatomy, any horn-shaped structure : CORNU

6-down – Characteristic of gender, not 18 : WOMANLY

7-down – Indian troops in the army of the Raj : SEPOYS

8-down – Height of fashion today : ALLTHETHING

14-down – Raise to the aristocracy : ENNOBLE

15-down – Californian city on the opposite side of the Bay from San Francisco : OAKLAND

16-down – During; within : AMIDST

17-down – Leaning; out of plumb : ASLANT

19-down – Bar of precious metal : INGOT

21-down – Property rental agreement : LEASE

1-across – Storming about, behaving wildly : ONTHERAMPAGE

9-across – Come to pass : ENSUE

10-across – Brittle grey-green semi-metal, atomic number 33 : ARSENIC

11-across – Magic charm or power in African-American culture, as heard in R&B music : MOJO

12-across – Group of individuals who share common DNA characteristics : GENOTYPE

14-across – Opposite of creditor : DEBTOR

15-across – Ancient Greek city, site of a famous oracle : DELPHI

18-across – Omit, overlook : LEAVEOUT

20-across – Supreme god of ancient Greek mythology : ZEUS

22-across – Publish again : REISSUE

23-across – Morbidly overweight : OBESE

24-across – This to one’s liking? : YOURCUPOFTEA

2-down – Rhinoplasty : NOSEJOB

3-down – Garden tools : HOES

4-down – University lecturer, the highest rank below a professor : READER

5-down – Is Norm me? : MISNOMER

6-down – Pester; irritate : ANNOY

7-down – Old Testament book that reflects on human vanity : ECCLESIASTES

8-down – Cromwell’s well-trained military machine after 1645 : NEWMODELARMY

13-down – Relating to the application of scientific methods in criminal investigation : FORENSIC

16-down – Come before : PRECEDE

17-down – Adjust for better functioning : TUNEUP

19-down – Farewell : ADIEU

21-down – Sport in which the Ryder Cup features : GOLF

1-across – Children’s game, a variation on catch or tag : BLINDMANSBUFF

8-across – Adversary : FOE

9-across – Kitchen gizmo : EGGBEATER

10-across – Garden entrance support that shares a secret with you and me? : GATEPOST

11-across – Engrave; fix firmly : ETCH

13-across – Wartime set piece : BATTLE

14-across – Cry of dismay : OHDEAR

16-across – Place in France that sounds agreeable? : NICE

17-across – One quarter of an old penny: measure of land in old England : FARTHING

20-across – Place for useless or redundant people or things : SCRAPHEAP

21-across – Samovar : URN

22-across – One of the sixteen compass points : WESTSOUTHWEST

1-down – Envelop in mist: confuse : BEFOG

2-down – Items bearing personal data to establish who the holders are claiming to be : IDENTITYCARDS

3-down – Legal document by which a person may change his or her name : DEEDPOLL

4-down – Grand, lordly : AUGUST

5-down – Turn or place at an angle; bias : SKEW

6-down – Tie up the mount? : UPTOTHEMINUTE

7-down – To, or at, a greater extent, degree, or a more advanced stage : FURTHER

12-down – Unbelievable gall; impudence : CHUTZPAH

13-down – Tool used by a carpenter or joiner : BANDSAW

15-down – Gooey cake : GATEAU

18-down – Old World carnivorous animal related to the civet : GENET

19-down – Creative work, eg in writing, art or music : OPUS