Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Conscious, aware : AWAKE

4-across – Move restlessly : FIDGET

8-across – Stiff, unbending : RIGID

9-across – Sideways, awry : ASKANCE

10-across – Wanderer : PILGRIM

11-across – Corpulent : OBESE

12-across – French cheese : CAMEMBERT

17-across – Passageway : AISLE

19-across – Shiver : TREMBLE

21-across – Electrical connector : ADAPTOR

22-across – Perch : ROOST

23-across – Use : EMPLOY

24-across – Be evasive : HEDGE

1-down – Brusque, curt : ABRUPT

2-down – Cherubic : ANGELIC

3-down – Breed of duck : EIDER

5-down – Tiresome, irritating : IRKSOME

6-down – Literary type, species : GENRE

7-down – American Indian tent : TEEPEE

9-down – One’s place of education : ALMAMATER

13-down – Orchestral conductor : MAESTRO

14-down – Populist newspaper : TABLOID

15-down – Savoury snack : CANAPE

16-down – Middle : CENTRE

18-down – Bog, marsh : SWAMP

20-down – Fox’s lair : EARTH

1-across – Occasionally : NOWANDAGAIN

9-across – Not made-to-measure : OFFTHEPEG

10-across – Astrological sign : LEO

11-across – Omit : ELIDE

13-across – Understatement for rhetorical effect : LITOTES

14-across – Supply : PURVEY

15-across – Prepare for burial : EMBALM

18-across – Symbol-based branch of mathematics : ALGEBRA

20-across – Sediment, lees : DREGS

21-across – Mountain pass : COL

22-across – Stew associated with Liverpudlians : LOBSCOUSE

24-across – Fix a limit : DRAWTHELINE

2-down – Lout; dolt : OAF

3-down – Accomplish : ACHIEVE

4-down – Mark with spots : DAPPLE

5-down – Leg of lamb : GIGOT

6-down – Nervous, uncomfortable : ILLATEASE

7-down – Just retribution : COMEUPPANCE

8-down – MC at formal dinner : TOASTMASTER

12-down – Out of the ordinary : IRREGULAR

16-down – Health check : MEDICAL

17-down – North African citadel : CASBAH

19-down – Local authority regulation : BYLAW

23-down – Receptacle for ashes : URN

1-across – Relaxing : RESTFUL

8-across – Mechanical process of wearing something down : EROSION

9-across – Military set pieces : BATTLES

10-across – Field of study : SUBJECT

11-across – Stack, bundle : SHEAF

13-across – Chosen to represent once more : REELECTED

15-across – Exeter ham? : HEXAMETER

18-across – Hinder or prevent : QUEER

21-across – Terms during which some positions are held : TENURES

22-across – Emotionally aroused : STIRRED

23-across – Supplement to a will : CODICIL

24-across – Attempted : ESSAYED

1-down – Puzzle consisting of pictures representing syllables and words : REBUS

2-down – Erik —–, French early minimalist composer : SATIE

3-down – Backslide; become out of favour : FALLFROMGRACE

4-down – Tenant : LESSEE

5-down – Offer to gamble the same again to cancel a debt : DOUBLEORQUITS

6-down – Split exactly in two : BISECT

7-down – Leeds, Sheffield or Manchester, perhaps : UNITED

12-down – Lack of definition or precision : HAZE

14-down – Hamburg’s river : ELBE

15-down – Electronically advanced : HITECH

16-down – Winter palace of the Kubla Khan, according to Coleridge : XANADU

17-down – Go at it : TUSSLE

19-down – New-season : EARLY

20-down – Made over : REDID

1-across – Leave dangerously late : CUTITFINE

8-across – Scottish island from where Christianity spread in 563 AD : IONA

9-across – Court of the Papacy : SEEOFROME

10-across – Offshoot from the choir, nave or aisle in a church : APSE

13-across – Of greater importance or stature : MAJOR

15-across – Infuse slowly into the mind : INSTIL

16-across – Cruel and oppressive dictator : DESPOT

17-across – Vinegary : ACETIC

19-across – Italian resort on the Gulf of Sorrento : AMALFI

20-across – Category : CLASS

21-across – Tariff : DUTY

24-across – According to the Bard, Caesar’s final words : ETTUBRUTE

25-across – Straddling : UPON

26-across – Grow up : COMEOFAGE

2-down – Brought into play : USED

3-down – False god : IDOL

4-down – Befitting a person in authority : FORMAL

5-down – One of Elgar’s Enigma Variations : NIMROD

6-down – Belief or sentiment shared by most people : VOXPOPULI

7-down – Become very successful or famous : MAKEITBIG

11-down – Kind of motor accident : HITANDRUN

12-down – Notarises : ASSERTION

13-down – Imitate, especially for satirical effect : MIMIC

14-down – Large quantity of written matter : REAMS

18-down – Greek goddess of fate who spins the thread of life : CLOTHO

19-down – Give one’s word : ASSURE

22-down – Carl —-, German composer of Carmina Burana fame : ORFF

23-down – Adult male deer : STAG

1-across – In an unfair manner : BELOWTHEBELT

9-across – Rafael —–, winner of 13 tennis Grand Slam titles : NADAL

10-across – Braid : ENTWINE

11-across – Place of origin : HOME

12-across – Words set to music, especially opera : LIBRETTO

14-across – Straighten out : UNCOIL

15-across – Wander and feed : FORAGE

18-across – The land of the long white loud? : AOTEAROA

20-across – Delineate : ETCH

22-across – Taking a series of rhythmical steps and movements in time to music : DANCING

23-across – Go past the normal finishing time : RUNON

24-across – Pay the bill : PICKUPTHETAB

2-down – Native : ENDEMIC

3-down – Scandinavian capital : OSLO

4-down – Man’s ornamental accessory : TIEPIN

5-down – Retire ox : EXTERIOR

6-down – Pronouncement : EDICT

7-down – That which is conventional, acceptable and desirable : THEDONETHING

8-down – Steadily improving : ONTHEUPANDUP

13-down – Italian dessert : TIRAMISU

16-down – Transmitting aerial : ANTENNA

17-down – Made a strenuous or laboured effort : FOUGHT

19-down – Loose fitting light cloak extending to the hip or lower : TUNIC

21-down – Genealogist’s graphic : TREE