Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Pre-performance nerves : STAGEFRIGHT

9-across – Make worse : AGGRAVATE

10-across – Coalmine : PIT

11-across – Rope fibre : SISAL

13-across – Part of aircraft wing : AILERON

14-across – Halogen compound : HALIDE

15-across – Struggles : THROES

18-across – Two-wheeler : BICYCLE

20-across – Blood sucker : LEECH

21-across – Infant’s bed : COT

22-across – Italian ham : CARPACCIO

24-across – Study of birds : ORNITHOLOGY

2-down – Label : TAG

3-down – Twisted : GNARLED

4-down – Noisy quarrel : FRACAS

5-down – Optimum : IDEAL

6-down – Exaggeration : HYPERBOLE

7-down – Shift the blame : PASSTHEBUCK

8-down – Short distance : STONESTHROW

12-down – Legal advisor : SOLICITOR

16-down – Large bag : HOLDALL

17-down – Severe lack : DEARTH

19-down – Succulents : CACTI

23-down – Machine wheel : COG

1-across – Conspicuously clean : SPICKANDSPAN

9-across – Horrible : AWFUL

10-across – Opposite : ANTONYM

11-across – At one time : ONCE

12-across – Doctor photographs etc : AIRBRUSH

14-across – Boredom : TEDIUM

15-across – Sanctuary : ASYLUM

18-across – Honorific title : EMERITUS

20-across – Concuss : STUN

22-across – Diverting : AMUSING

23-across – Additional : EXTRA

24-across – State of affairs : KETTLEOFFISH

2-down – Disapproving : POFACED

3-down – Young horse : COLT

4-down – Slow : ADAGIO

5-down – Information store : DATABASE

6-down – Cartoon penguin : PINGU

7-down – Woman with great sexual appetite : NYMPHOMANIAC

8-down – Plaudit : PATONTHEBACK

13-down – Legal : JUDICIAL

16-down – Rhetorical understatement : LITOTES

17-down – Eager, zealous : GUNGHO

19-down – Be jubilant : EXULT

21-down – Hard of hearing : DEAF

1-across – Few and far between : SPARSE

4-across – Design of glass, stone etc. : MOSAIC

9-across – Moral : ETHICAL

10-across – Cavalry sword : SABRE

11-across – Indian religious adherent : HINDU

12-across – Facial veil : YASHMAK

13-across – Intermediary : GOBETWEEN

17-across – Deny : GAINSAY

19-across – Over excited : HYPER

21-across – Edition : ISSUE

22-across – Former pupil : ALUMNUS

23-across – Violent disturbance : MAYHEM

24-across – Standing : STATUS

1-down – Boil : SEETHE

2-down – Pale : ASHEN

3-down – Capitulate : SUCCUMB

5-down – Refuge : OASIS

6-down – Egg white : ALBUMEN

7-down – Impertinent : CHEEKY

8-down – Extemporise : PLAYITBYEAR

13-down – Deny : GAINSAY

14-down – Tire out : EXHAUST

15-down – Discrimination against the elderly : AGEISM

16-down – Calamity : CRISIS

18-down – Root vegetable : SWEDE

20-down – Wine-making grape : PINOT

1-across – Organic fertiliser : BONEMEAL

5-across – Blazonry; weaponry : ARMS

9-across – Church assembly : SYNOD

10-across – Oily-tasting Greek white wine : RETSINA

11-across – Symbolic boulder in New England associated with the Pilgrim Fathers : PLYMOUTHROCK

13-across – Sushi condiment : WASABI

14-across – Rearward : ASTERN

17-across – Emergency at sea : MANOVERBOARD

20-across – Submerge : IMMERSE

21-across – Accessory : EXTRA

22-across – Sound of astonishment : GASP

23-across – Slimy act? : MYSTICAL

1-down – Shindig, function : BASH

2-down – Bamboozle : NONPLUS

3-down – Flaubert’s debut novel : MADAMEBOVARY

4-down – Weapon that propels a projectile by compressed air : AIRGUN

6-down – Powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate, informally : RHINO

7-down – Quick and energetic : SPANKING

8-down – Now : ATTHISMOMENT

12-down – Filled with tears : SWIMMING

15-down – Unpredictable : ERRATIC

16-down – Quick and energetic : BREEZY

18-down – City in southern France, giving its name to denim : NIMES

19-down – Sailing vessel with two masts : YAWL

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