Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Variety? : SPICEOFLIFE

9-across – Shrew, scold : TERMAGANT

10-across – Large vase : URN

11-across – Lowest point : NADIR

13-across – Parvenu : UPSTART

14-across – Rectangular : OBLONG

15-across – : SOVIET

18-across – Disc plaything : FRISBEE

20-across – Underground vault : CRYPT

21-across – Trespass : SIN

22-across – Appetiser, starter : ANTIPASTO

24-across – In the limelight : CENTRESTAGE

2-down – Standard : PAR

3-down – Mortification : CHAGRIN

4-down – Incomprehensible, impenetrable : OPAQUE

5-down – Aquatic plant : LOTUS

6-down – Thrift : FRUGALITY

7-down – Reserved, aloof : STANDOFFISH

8-down – Foundation : INSTITUTION

12-down – Dawdling : DALLIANCE

16-down – The back of the skull : OCCIPUT

17-down – Nerve, courage : METTLE

19-down – Brag : BOAST

23-down – Droop, flag : SAG

1-across – Sweet aromatic grape used for raisins, wine : MUSCATEL

5-across – Roswell sightings? : UFOS

9-across – Pertaining to the ear : AURAL

10-across – Abandon : CALLOFF

11-across – Take back what has been said : EATONESWORDS

13-across – In a hasty and foolhardy manner : RASHLY

14-across – Have as a logical consequence : ENTAIL

17-across – Do what you like! : SUITYOURSELF

20-across – To summarise very briefly : INAWORD

21-across – Should : OUGHT

22-across – 50-50 : EVEN

23-across – Place of pain and turmoil : HELLHOLE

1-down – Average : MEAN

2-down – Go one better : SURPASS

3-down – Sporting cliche: the game, prize, etc, is still there to be won : ALLTOPLAYFOR

4-down – Ignore : ESCHEW

6-down – Knock down with force : FLOOR

7-down – Suggestive or persuasive advertising : SOFTSELL

8-down – Become angry or agitated : BLOWONESCOOL

12-down – Pint, sire? : PRISTINE

15-down – Musically, in a lively fashion : ALLEGRO

16-down – Go bad or sour : CURDLE

18-down – Enraged : IRATE

19-down – Infection on the edge of the eye : STYE

1-across – Situated or occurring farthest within : INMOST

4-across – Indulge : PANDER

8-across – Thick and tightly-packed : DENSE

9-across – Document viewable by anyone connected to the internet : WEBPAGE

10-across – One of Mozart’s ‘da Ponte’ operas : COSIFAN

11-across – See 10 : TUTTE

12-across – Be sure to encounter trouble : BEINFORIT

17-across – Computer language : BASIC

19-across – Levy limiter : RATECAP

21-across – British regional savoury snack : CORNISH

22-across – See 21 : PASTY

23-across – Member country of the European Union : SWEDEN

24-across – In public : OPENLY

1-down – Accept into an exclusive society or group : INDUCT

2-down – Vessel for up to two persons for underwater work : MINISUB

3-down – Ledge : SHELF

5-down – Rarebit? : ARBITER

6-down – Carried out business : DEALT

7-down – Marijuana cigarette : REEFER

9-down – Departed : WENTFORTH

13-down – Lean : INCLINE

14-down – Fixes upon : TACKSON

15-down – Counting frame : ABACUS

16-down – In a nimble or agile manner : SPRYLY

18-down – Dish up : SERVE

20-down – Replenished drink : TOPUP

1-across – Misshapen : MALFORMED

8-across – Legal excuse : ALIBI

9-across – Gleam or glow intermittently : TWINKLE

10-across – Patiently allow something unpleasant to pass : SITITOUT

11-across – Plunder : LOOT

13-across – Forceful forward flow : ONRUSH

14-across – Withdraw from an organisation : SECEDE

16-across – Muslim holy man : IMAM

17-across – Clear soup usually of beef, veal or chicken : CONSOMME

19-across – Direct telephone link between two officials : HOTLINE

20-across – White heron : EGRET

21-across – Pull yourself together – get organised! : SORTITOUT

1-down – Omit sets? : MOISTEST

2-down – Colouring material used as a rough acid-base indicator : LITMUS

3-down – Scandinavian war god : ODIN

4-down – Have a lasting or significant effect : MAKEONESMARK

5-down – Failed to get the response of an audience : DIEDTHEDEATH

6-down – Story that tells of someone’s progression from poverty to wealth : RAGSTORICHES

7-down – Sound of little feet : PITTERPATTER

12-down – Make one’s presence felt once more : REASSERT

15-down – Maurice Ravel’s most famous work : BOLERO

18-down – Local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive : WIFI

1-across – Fossil fuel : COAL

3-across – Instrument for measuring the distance between two points : CALLIPER

9-across – Erasmus? : MASSEUR

10-across – Long for : CRAVE

11-across – Dog-like carrion-feeding mammal : HYENA

12-across – See 21 Down : ENDERS

14-across – Egotistic : FULLOFONESELF

17-across – S American rodent : AGOUTI

19-across – Small and delicately worked : BIJOU

22-across – Athenian Greek : ATTIC

23-across – The Orient : FAREAST

24-across – Substance that colours metals : TINCTURE

25-across – Russian leader : TSAR

1-down – Car part : CAMSHAFT

2-down – Extension of the nave in a church : AISLE

4-down – Mutually : AGREETODIFFER

5-down – Compos mentis : LUCID

6-down – Continental grassland of N America : PRAIRIE

7-down – Vigorous dance : REEL

8-down – : LEGATO

13-down – Nervous, twitchy : AFLUTTER

15-down – Reduce weight : LIGHTEN

16-down – Put to sea : EMBARK

18-down – Not edited : UNCUT

20-down – Trousers made of strong cotton, usually dyed blue : JEANS

21-down – Cockneys, broadly : EAST