Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Vulnerable point : ACHILLESHEEL

9-across – Upper room window : ORIEL

10-across – Repository for post : MAILBOX

11-across – Refute : DENY

12-across – Momentous : HISTORIC

14-across – Altitude : HEIGHT

15-across – Air travel fatigue : JETLAG

18-across – Universality : UBIQUITY

20-across – Porch : STOA

22-across – Deform : DISTORT

23-across – Grating : HARSH

24-across – Everyday : RUNOFTHEMILL

2-down – Italian wine : CHIANTI

3-down – Unoccupied : IDLE

4-down – Clear : LIMPID

5-down – Button on keyboard for capitals : SHIFTKEY

6-down – Glowing cinder : EMBER

7-down – The compilation of dictionaries : LEXICOGRAPHY

8-down – Treat with indifference : COLDSHOULDER

13-down – Dismiss as unimportant : SHRUGOFF

16-down – Verbatim : LITERAL

17-down – Pain in the side : STITCH

19-down – Norwegian dramatist : IBSEN

21-down – Counterfeit : SHAM

1-across – Opportunity to progress : FOOTINTHEDOOR

8-across – Feature : ITEM

9-across – Hard work : INDUSTRY

10-across – Vigilant attentiveness : WEATHEREYE

12-across – Depressing : GLOOMY

14-across – Mineral oil refined as fuel : PETROL

15-across – Lift and reset in another soil or situation : TRANSPLANT

19-across – Sleeve : ENVELOPE

20-across – Scrape, as the knee : SKIN

21-across – Outside the limit of personal knowledge : BEYONDONESKEN

2-down – Furtively : ONTHESLY

3-down – Allure : TEMPT

4-down – Navy tie? : NAIVETY

5-down – Try to avoid answering questions or dealing with issues : HEDGE

6-down – Analyse : DISSECT

7-down – Lady’s fingers, gumbo : OKRA

11-down – Obsolete instrument: naval dance : HORNPIPE

13-down – Busy, busy : ONTHEGO

14-down – Small gate in the rear of a fort or castle : POSTERN

16-down – For all to hear : ALOUD

17-down – Catalogues : LISTS

18-down – ‘—- of Green Gables’, novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery : ANNE

1-across – Definitive; of recognised excellence : CLASSIC

8-across – Angle between vertical plane containing a celestial body and plane of the meridian : AZIMUTH

9-across – Turkish empire of over 600 years : OTTOMAN

10-across – Loser : NOHOPER

11-across – Sign up : ENROL

13-across – En route : INTRANSIT

15-across – Astir; afoot : INTHEWIND

18-across – Bouquet : AROMA

21-across – Bath at 1? : HABITAT

22-across – Cheer : HEARTEN

23-across – Be in line : CONFORM

24-across – Someone who does not acknowledge your god : INFIDEL

1-down – Prevent from getting air : CHOKE

2-down – Lemmon in 3, for instance, or Mastroianni in 5 : ACTOR

3-down – Billy Wilder 1 movie, 1959 : SOMELIKEITHOT

4-down – Defeatist’s word? : CANNOT

5-down – Federico Fellini 1 movie, 1963 : EIGHTANDAHALF

6-down – Hullabaloo : RUMPUS

7-down – Strong desire for something : THIRST

12-down – Indian leavened bread : NAAN

14-down – Mosque leader : IMAM

15-down – Last location of Homer’s Odyssey : ITHACA

16-down – Pipe-work : TUBING

17-down – Geographical name for narrow strips of land which link two larger areas : ISTHMI

19-down – Group of eight : OCTAD

20-down – Repeal, rescind : ANNUL

1-across – Ne’er-do-well : REPROBATE

8-across – Verve : BRIO

9-across – Exercised authority, was in charge : CALLEDTHE

10-across – Water collector : SUMP

13-across – See 9 : SHOTS

15-across – Tincture of mountain tobacco, good for bruises, etc : ARNICA

16-across – Slowly makes one’s way : INCHES

17-across – Sake, part : BEHALF

19-across – Athlete on blades : SKATER

20-across – Ski run : PISTE

21-across – Extremely disappointed : SICK

24-across – See 21 : ASAPARROT

25-across – 14-like fish : EELS

26-across – Handsomeness : GOODLOOKS

2-down – Flamboyance : ELAN

3-down – Be dependent : RELY

4-down – Alternatively, Gautama Siddhartha : BUDDHA

5-down – Pacific island, the largest in French Polynesia : TAHITI

6-down – Punished for a crime : BROUGHTTO

7-down – Self-possession : COMPOSURE

11-down – Belts Adam : LAMBASTED

12-down – Release from chains : UNSHACKLE

13-down – Cut hair very short : SCALP

14-down – Chinese zodiac animal : SNAKE

18-down – Shambles : FIASCO

19-down – Idiotic : STUPID

22-down – Ensemble musical piece, eg Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ : TRIO

23-down – See 6 : BOOK

1-across – Old-fashioned type : STICKINTHEMUD

8-across – Coastline feature, a drowned valley : RIA

9-across – Of course : NATURALLY

10-across – One of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing : BALUSTER

11-across – Large American feline resembling a lion : PUMA

13-across – Thick roll, usually toasted : MUFFIN

14-across – Relax : UNWIND

16-across – A deadly sin : LUST

17-across – Head puns? : UNSHAPED

20-across – Having or involving three colours : TRICOLOUR

21-across – Peculiar : RUM

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

1-down – Scour : SCRUB

2-down – Within a difficult situation or dilemma : INACLEFTSTICK

3-down – Sovereignty : KINGSHIP

4-down – Asian tree whose aromatic seed is used as spice when grated or ground : NUTMEG

5-down – Principal male character in a play, movie, novel or poem : HERO

6-down – Motto for the tiny county of Rutland where much happens! : MULTUMINPARVO

7-down – Terra firma : DRYLAND

12-down – Small, remote and insignificant : ONEHORSE

13-down – Civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army : MILITIA

15-down – By shanks’s pony : ONFOOT

18-down – Fallen angel : DEMON

19-down – Once notorious part of central London : SOHO