Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Purgative : CATHARTIC

8-across – Decorate : ADORN

9-across – Affable : CORDIAL

10-across – Safe : NONTOXIC

11-across – Common sense : NOUS

13-across – Cuban capital : HAVANA

14-across – All together : INTOTO

16-across – Teenage skin blemish : ACNE

17-across – Relating to trees : ARBOREAL

19-across – Holiday-maker : TOURIST

20-across – Blend : MERGE

21-across – Scold : DRESSDOWN

1-down – Perplex : CONFOUND

2-down – Stratagem : TACTIC

3-down – Crookedly : AWRY

4-down – Branch of mathematics : TRIGONOMETRY

5-down – Cut, ignore : COLDSHOULDER

6-down – Timid : FAINTHEARTED

7-down – Shared enterprise : JOINTVENTURE

12-down – Rare : UNCOMMON

15-down – Cavern : GROTTO

18-down – Partiality : BIAS

1-across – Put to one side : SHELVE

4-across – Kidnap : ABDUCT

8-across – Mediterranean appetisers : TAPAS

9-across – Gradual escape : LEAKAGE

10-across – Pillage : RANSACK

11-across – Stadium : ARENA

12-across – Attempt : ENDEAVOUR

17-across – Reddish-brown : SEPIA

19-across – Gaunt : HAGGARD

21-across – Tolerant : LENIENT

22-across – Hackneyed : TRITE

23-across – Illness : MALADY

24-across – Cold symptom : SNEEZE

1-down – Medical stitching : SUTURE

2-down – Erase : EXPUNGE

3-down – Distant view : VISTA

5-down – Show of bravery : BRAVADO

6-down – Common practice : USAGE

7-down – Surgical instrument for the skull : TREPAN

9-down – Eagerly : LIKEASHOT

13-down – Impasse : DEADEND

14-down – Bring to fruition : REALISE

15-down – Sanctuary : ASYLUM

16-down – Cling to : ADHERE

18-down – Jury : PANEL

20-down – Make progress : GETON

5-across – Upset the status quo : ROCKTHEBOAT

7-across – Surfeit : GLUT

8-across – Moderate : MITIGATE

9-across – Inert : DORMANT

11-across – Angler’s basket : CREEL

13-across – Spectacular exploit : STUNT

14-across – Established : WELLSET

16-across – Swamp : QUAGMIRE

17-across – Ceremony : RITE

18-across – Riddle : BRAINTEASER

1-down – Rabbit’s tail : SCUT

2-down – Staying power : STAMINA

3-down – Billet : BERTH

4-down – Trivial verse : DOGGEREL

5-down – Rough-and-ready practice : RULEOFTHUMB

6-down – Literal : TOTHELETTER

10-down – Motif designed around letters : MONOGRAM

12-down – Arbiter : REFEREE

15-down – Devil : FIEND

17-down – Endanger : RISK

5-across – More recent : LATTERDAY

8-across – Dry river bed : WADI

9-across – Menace : THREATEN

10-across – Careless : REMISS

11-across – Rugby full time : NOSIDE

13-across – Frustrate : THWART

15-across – Scarcity : DEARTH

16-across – Well-off : AFFLUENT

18-across – Floating ice : FLOE

19-across – Iron pyrites : FOOLSGOLD

1-down – Palatial church : BASILICA

2-down – Standing, rank : STATUS

3-down – Rehearsal, test : DRYRUN

4-down – Fete : GALA

6-down – Cobbled together : MAKESHIFT

7-down – Damnation : PERDITION

12-down – Gibbet : SCAFFOLD

14-down – Times three : TREBLE

15-down – Senility : DOTAGE

17-down – Plunder : LOOT

1-across – Hydromassage facility : SPA

3-across – Beyond control : OUTOFHAND

8-across – Cause a complete reversal of circumstances : TURNTHETABLES

9-across – Christian in communion with the see of Canterbury : ANGLICAN

10-across – Scissors cut : SNIP

12-across – Tie up : TETHER

13-across – Savoury appetiser, often accompanied by Champagne : CANAPE

15-across – Mountain defile : PASS

16-across – Simmer on : MISNOMER

18-across – Failing; eliciting no successful response : DRAWINGABLANK

20-across – Not marked by the use of reason : SENSELESS

21-across – Jaws or gullet of a voracious animal : MAW

1-down – Drunkard : SOT

2-down – Perfectly fit and well : ASRIGHTASRAIN

3-down – Improbable winner : OUTSIDER

4-down – Inhabitant of an ancient Egyptian capital : THEBAN

5-down – Ground-to-air attack: verbal abuse : FLAK

6-down – Of extreme length : ASLONGASMYARM

7-down – Go missing : DISAPPEAR

9-down – Opposite sides of a sphere: Down Under : ANTIPODES

11-down – Most commonly used : CANNABIS

14-down – Small wooded hollow : DINGLE

17-down – Give as an example : CITE

19-down – Location of the Royal Botanic Gardens in London : KEW