Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Disclose a personal plan : SHOWONESHAND

9-across – Discomfit : UPSET

10-across – Sign posted in a public place as an advertisement : PLACARD

11-across – Small branch : TWIG

12-across – Member of a local legislative body : ALDERMAN

14-across – Two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage : HANSOM

15-across – Cyprus town visited by the apostle Paul : PAPHOS

18-across – Junior variant of baseball : SOFTBALL

20-across – Audio effect : ECHO

22-across – Feeling of joy and pride : ELATION

23-across – Inclines : LISTS

24-across – Everyone’s different! : EACHTOHISOWN

2-down – Jute clothing : HESSIAN

3-down – Light bulb unit : WATT

4-down – Petroleum jelly used in bombs and flame-throwers : NAPALM

5-down – NASA PC, me! : SPACEMAN

6-down – Consternation : ALARM

7-down – Effected as much damage as an individual could : DIDONESWORST

8-down – Leave; die : QUITTHESCENE

13-down – One devoted to a spare-time activity : HOBBYIST

16-down – Blade in a frame under tension : HACKSAW

17-down – Statue base : PLINTH

19-down – European currency until the end of 2001 : FRANC

21-down – Positive sign? : PLUS

5-across – Isolate, separate : SEGREGATE

8-across – Smart, fashionable : CHIC

9-across – Ladies’ underwear : LINGERIE

10-across – Culmination : CLIMAX

11-across – Agreement : ACCORD

13-across – Spring-like : VERNAL

15-across – Old age, senility : DOTAGE

16-across – Unknowing : IGNORANT

18-across – Funeral fire : PYRE

19-across – Without purpose : AIMLESSLY

1-down – Collaborator, sidekick : HENCHMAN

2-down – Wordy, verbose : PROLIX

3-down – Schedule, order of business : AGENDA

4-down – Eye infection : STYE

6-down – Defy, confront : CHALLENGE

7-down – Neglect, ignore : DISREGARD

12-down – Slingshot : CATAPULT

14-down – Responsible, answerable : LIABLE

15-down – Loathe, hate intensely : DETEST

17-down – Leave out : OMIT

5-across – Cursory, careless : PERFUNCTORY

7-across – Warrant, court order : WRIT

8-across – Upmarket shop : BOUTIQUE

9-across – Gratify, spoil : INDULGE

11-across – Recess : NICHE

13-across – Scold : CHIDE

14-across – Mechanical record player : JUKEBOX

16-across – Alienate : ESTRANGE

17-across – Behind time : LATE

18-across – Carpenter’s tool : SPIRITLEVEL

1-down – Jog : TROT

2-down – Backache : LUMBAGO

3-down – Happen : OCCUR

4-down – Residence : DOMICILE

5-down – Bracket : PARENTHESIS

6-down – Lodging place for young travellers : YOUTHHOSTEL

10-down – Support from beneath : UNDERPIN

12-down – German measles : RUBELLA

15-down – Blacksmith’s block : ANVIL

17-down – Charge, tax : LEVY

1-across – Hairless : BALD

3-across – Board game : SCRABBLE

9-across – Mothball ingredient : CAMPHOR

10-across – Style of music/dancing : DISCO

11-across – Make up for : ATONE

12-across – Unremarkable : NORMAL

14-across – Formation of stars : CONSTELLATION

17-across – Causing strain, annoying : TRYING

19-across – Musical drama : OPERA

22-across – Refuse from threshing : CHAFF

23-across – Nunnery : CONVENT

24-across – Countermand : OVERRULE

25-across – Remain : STAY

1-down – Accidentally : BYCHANCE

2-down – Intermediate state; obscurity : LIMBO

4-down – In order of occurrence : CHRONOLOGICAL

5-down – Viper : ADDER

6-down – Variety of rice : BASMATI

7-down – Greek god of love : EROS

8-down – Menace : THREAT

13-down – Foot soldiers : INFANTRY

15-down – Tell a story : NARRATE

16-down – Consecrate : ANOINT

18-down – Deduce : INFER

20-down – Strain : EXERT

21-down – Reverberate : ECHO

1-across – Get to the point : CUTTOTHECHASE

8-across – Agitate : STIR

9-across – Lacking teeth : EDENTATE

10-across – Lottery : SWEEPSTAKE

12-across – Established beyond doubt : PROVEN

14-across – Blunt instrument : CUDGEL

15-across – Salvation, deliverance : REDEMPTION

19-across – Assign : ALLOCATE

20-across – Similar : AKIN

21-across – In secret : UNDERTHETABLE

2-down – Improper : UNTOWARD

3-down – Brusque, concise : TERSE

4-down – Betrayal : TREASON

5-down – Rectal medicine : ENEMA

6-down – Tearaway : HOTHEAD

7-down – Badger’s home : SETT

11-down – Monument : MEMORIAL

13-down – Prolix : VERBOSE

14-down – M.C. : COMPERE

16-down – Rough version : DRAFT

17-down – Headdress : TIARA

18-down – Stratagem : PLAN