Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Coincide temporally : SYNCHRONISE

9-across – Vain : CONCEITED

10-across – Film special effects : CGI

11-across – Broadcasting : ONAIR

13-across – Area of land : ACREAGE

14-across – Church service : MATINS

15-across – Obsession : FETISH

18-across – Having made up one’s mind : DECIDED

20-across – Statement of belief : CREED

21-across – Also : TOO

22-across – Incognito : ANONYMOUS

24-across – Cursory : PERFUNCTORY

2-down – Itch, desire : YEN

3-down – V-shaped design : CHEVRON

4-down – Ceremony : RITUAL

5-down – Lowest point : NADIR

6-down – One of the fashionable classes : SOCIALITE

7-down – Oblige : ACCOMMODATE

8-down – Fall, die : BITETHEDUST

12-down – Vegetable : ARTICHOKE

16-down – Put into code : ENCRYPT

17-down – Neighbour : ADJOIN

19-down – Tower over : DWARF

23-down – Row : OAR

1-across – Up-to-the-minute : STATEOFTHEART

8-across – Decompose : ROT

9-across – Object beyond criticism : SACREDCOW

10-across – Takings : PROCEEDS

11-across – Notion : IDEA

13-across – Idiosyncrasy : FOIBLE

14-across – Base of column or statuary : PLINTH

16-across – Prey on one’s mind : GNAW

17-across – Sentimental fondness : SOFTSPOT

20-across – Given to sensual enjoyment : EPICUREAN

21-across – Possess : OWN

22-across – Hoard of valuables : TREASURECHEST

1-down – Oddment : SCRAP

2-down – Vested with power or influence : AUTHORITATIVE

3-down – Invariably cold wind : EASTERLY

4-down – Outward appearance : FACADE

5-down – Pay attention to : HEED

6-down – Given to mishaps : ACCIDENTPRONE

7-down – Canal walkway : TOWPATH

12-down – Purely spiritual : PLATONIC

13-down – Imagined object : FIGMENT

15-down – Watcher : VOYEUR

18-down – Principle : TENET

19-down – Ado : FUSS

1-across – Large van : PANTECHNICON

9-across – Unspoken : TACIT

10-across – Settled : INORDER

11-across – Summit : PEAK

12-across – Mobile carpentry station : SAWHORSE

14-across – Glib : FACILE

15-across – Short and thickset : STUMPY

18-across – Unnaturally generated male soprano : CASTRATO

20-across – Playfully superior : ARCH

22-across – Mistreated : ILLUSED

23-across – Hatred : ODIUM

24-across – Laughing gas : NITROUSOXIDE

2-down – Antiquated : ARCHAIC

3-down – Carry : TOTE

4-down – Culmination : CLIMAX

5-down – New convert : NEOPHYTE

6-down – Apple-based beverage : CIDER

7-down – Children’s verse : NURSERYRHYME

8-down – Astonishment : STUPEFACTION

13-down – In the open air : ALFRESCO

16-down – Closely linked : MARRIED

17-down – In conflict : ATODDS

19-down – Diverge : SPLIT

21-down – Deception : HOAX

1-across – Bowman : ARCHER

4-across – Opening manoeuvre : GAMBIT

9-across – Condense : COMPACT

10-across – Scrimmage : SCRUM

11-across – Overwhelm : SWAMP

12-across – Courtly, cultivated : GENTEEL

13-across – Member of mutual help fraternity : FREEMASON

17-across – Reading desk : LECTERN

19-across – Celebration : REVEL

21-across – Unrefined : CRUDE

22-across – Brief view : GLIMPSE

23-across – Widen : DILATE

24-across – Detritus : DEBRIS

1-down – Charge : ACCUSE

2-down – Punctuation mark : COMMA

3-down – Instance : EXAMPLE

5-down – criminal fire-raising : ARSON

6-down – Develop rapidly : BURGEON

7-down – Hubbub : TUMULT

8-down – Arrange a performance : STAGEMANAGE

13-down – Based on real events : FACTUAL

14-down – Fawning, slavish : SERVILE

15-down – Serene : PLACID

16-down – Gripping tool : PLIERS

18-down – Establish : ERECT

20-down – Venomous snake : VIPER

1-across – The Derby or The Oaks, for example : CLASSIC

8-across – Skipped over : HURDLED

9-across – Art originally created in simple materials to design bird forms : ORIGAMI

10-across – Conveying for a specific period : LEASING

11-across – Jejune : NAIVE

13-across – Producing eggs hatching outside the body : OVIPAROUS

15-across – Aged boats : SABOTAGED

18-across – Attempt: piece of writing : ESSAY

21-across – Lose ground : REGRESS

22-across – Crumple : SCRUNCH

23-across – Japanese, probably not one into 9! : SAMURAI

24-across – Covered walkway : PORTICO

1-down – Sing in a soft low tone : CROON

2-down – Legal term from the Latin ‘elsewhere’ : ALIBI

3-down – Technologically up-to-date : STATEOFTHEART

4-down – Hot pepper : CHILLI

5-down – Experimentation through experience : TRIALANDERROR

6-down – Last month : ULTIMO

7-down – Proverbs: saws : ADAGES

12-down – Verdi opera : AIDA

14-down – Bone in the human forearm : ULNA

15-down – Emphasis: result often of being under pressure : STRESS

16-down – In law, having two spouses at the same time : BIGAMY

17-down – Prate, chatter : GOSSIP

19-down – Mountain source of Mosaic Law : SINAI

20-down – Human-looking beast in Gulliver’s Travels: search engine conglomerate : YAHOO