Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Unforeseeable : UNPREDICTABLE

8-across – Great happiness, exhilaration : ELATION

9-across – Fabulist : AESOP

10-across – Reverberate : ECHO

11-across – Grappled : WRESTLED

13-across – Manly : VIRILE

14-across – Tribe of native Americans : APACHE

17-across – Lees : SEDIMENT

19-across – Fluid-filled sac in the body : CYST

21-across – Man-made fibre : RAYON

22-across – Arched garden structure : PERGOLA

24-across – Cheap popular literature : PENNYDREADFUL

1-down – Employ : USE

2-down – Illegal game hunter : POACHER

3-down – Discharge : EMIT

4-down – Refuse to acknowledge : IGNORE

5-down – Part of a church : TRANSEPT

6-down – Aromatic herb : BASIL

7-down – Convenient : EXPEDIENT

10-down – Secretly listen in : EAVESDROP

12-down – Mercy : CLEMENCY

15-down – Call for help unnecessarily : CRYWOLF

16-down – Hidden shooter : SNIPER

18-down – Prominent respected person : DOYEN

20-down – Operatic song : ARIA

23-down – Carpenter’s tool : AWL

1-across – Platitude, commonplace comment : CLICHE

4-across – Outcast, pariah : LEPER

7-across – Attractively unusual : QUAINT

8-across – Punch repeatedly : PUMMEL

9-across – Debatable : MOOT

10-across – Desperate : HOPELESS

12-across – Drunken Roman celebrations : BACCHANALIA

17-across – Social response to a sneeze : BLESSYOU

19-across – In proximity : NEAR

20-across – Develop gradually : EVOLVE

21-across – Fire or light warning : BEACON

22-across – Take an oath : SWEAR

23-across – Main route : ARTERY

1-down – Unit of electrical charge : COULOMB

2-down – Stupid : IDIOTIC

3-down – Go to bed : HITTHEHAY

4-down – Parasitic insect : LOUSE

5-down – City buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius : POMPEII

6-down – Piquant sauce : RELISH

11-down – Bank card identifier : PINNUMBER

13-down – Asounding : AWESOME

14-down – Direct descent, pedigree : LINEAGE

15-down – Comparison, relationship : ANALOGY

16-down – Preoccupy : OBSESS

18-down – Break off : SEVER

1-across – In conflict : ATODDS

4-across – Adroit, intelligent : CLEVER

9-across – Addition to a Will : CODICIL

10-across – Carnivorous lizard : GECKO

11-across – Middle Eastern country : SYRIA

12-across – Collection of historical records : ARCHIVE

13-across – Means of identifying acidity or alkalinity of a substance : LITMUSPAPER

18-across – Bacterial infection : CHOLERA

20-across – Legal ruling on a point of Islamic law : FATWA

22-across – Top level of celebrity : ALIST

23-across – Thrift : ECONOMY

24-across – : EVENLY

25-across – Purloined : STOLEN

1-down – Charge with an offence : ACCUSE

2-down – Command : ORDER

3-down – Orate : DECLAIM

5-down – Science of reasoning : LOGIC

6-down – Substance conferring immunity : VACCINE

7-down – Engaged in a vioent public disturbance : RIOTED

8-down – Unbearded : CLEANSHAVEN

14-down – Worship : IDOLISE

15-down – Insult, offence : AFFRONT

16-down – Abrade : SCRAPE

17-down – Deep gorge : CANYON

19-down – Sing the praises of : EXTOL

21-down – Ugly creature in folklore : TROLL

1-across – Friendly, affable : SOCIABLE

5-across – Secular, non-clergy : LAIC

9-across – Contagious viral disease : MUMPS

10-across – Decaying animal flesh : CARRION

11-across – Sleepwalker : SOMNAMBULIST

13-across – Punctual : ONTIME

14-across – Foment : STIRUP

17-across – Traditional English breakfast fare : BACONANDEGGS

20-across – Middle Eastern native : ISRAELI

21-across – Apportion : ALLOT

22-across – Bridge or road charge : TOLL

23-across – Person of wide learning : POLYMATH

1-down – Identical : SAME

2-down – Decaying organic material; fertilizer : COMPOST

3-down – Forgetful, pre-occupied : ABSENTMINDED

4-down – Temporary substitutes : LOCUMS

6-down – Plea of being elsewhere : ALIBI

7-down – Memorial to the dead : CENOTAPH

8-down – Treatment of several people at the same time : GROUPTHERAPY

12-down – Professional working to influence legislators : LOBBYIST

15-down – The trappings of monarchy : REGALIA

16-down – Dark blue colour : INDIGO

18-down – Shade of deep pink : CORAL

19-down – Yen, hankering : ITCH

1-across – The attempt to flee reality : ESCAPISM

5-across – Ado : FUSS

9-across – Instrument of Rostropovich or Ma : CELLO

10-across – Settle : INHABIT

11-across – That is to say : INOTHERWORDS

14-across – Remove cargo from : UNLOAD

15-across – Worthless : NOGOOD

18-across – Washington Irving story : RIPVANWINKLE

21-across – Tiny pieces of shiny material : GLITTER

22-across – Irritation : PIQUE

23-across – Text error : TYPO

24-across – Unable to function independently : HELPLESS

1-down – A head : EACH

2-down – Senior officer : COLONEL

3-down – Expert : PRO

4-down – Whine tearfully : SNIVEL

6-down – Brown pigment : UMBER

7-down – Reserve for future use : SETASIDE

8-down – Final confrontation : SHOWDOWN

12-down – Social gathering attended by Alice : TEAPARTY

13-down – Completely : OUTRIGHT

16-down – Slanting – indirect : OBLIQUE

17-down – Veer off course : SWERVE

19-down – Dress or groom oneself finely : PRIMP

20-down – Hardy’s Miss Durbeyfield : TESS

22-down – Youthful setter? : PUP