Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Stop in transit : INTERCEPT

8-across – Place, stead : LIEU

9-across – Abominable : EXECRABLE

10-across – Irritation : ITCH

13-across – Become, suit : BEFIT

15-across – Choice : OPTION

16-across – Minor earthquake : TREMOR

17-across – Regal seat : THRONE

19-across – Formal warning : CAVEAT

20-across – Sing the praises of : EXTOL

21-across – Half open : AJAR

24-across – Hopeless : DESPERATE

25-across – Peal, chime : TOLL

26-across – With time to spare : ATLEISURE

2-down – Following in sequence : NEXT

3-down – Engrave : ETCH

4-down – Cowardly : CRAVEN

5-down – Church lectern : PULPIT

6-down – Disease of dogs : DISTEMPER

7-down – Power, influence : AUTHORITY

11-down – With great speed : POSTHASTE

12-down – Forever : ETERNALLY

13-down – Carried : BORNE

14-down – Legal hearing : TRIAL

18-down – Anticipate : EXPECT

19-down – Dead body : CORPSE

22-down – Part of the eye : IRIS

23-down – Agitate : STIR

1-across – Revealing slip of the tongue : FREUDIANSLIP

9-across – Normal, habitual : USUAL

10-across – Sirius : DOGSTAR

11-across – Reverberation : ECHO

12-across – Keep in check : BOTTLEUP

14-across – Survey : CENSUS

15-across – Madman : MANIAC

18-across – Plaintiff : LITIGANT

20-across – Smart, fashionable : CHIC

22-across – Self-inflicted damage : OWNGOAL

23-across – Extent : LIMIT

24-across – Anticipated return of God : SECONDCOMING

2-down – Abrade : ROUGHEN

3-down – Unattractive : UGLY

4-down – Under cover : INDOOR

5-down – Drink before bedtime : NIGHTCAP

6-down – Supple : LITHE

7-down – Insight, perception : PERSPICACITY

8-down – Arrogant and disdainful : SUPERCILIOUS

13-down – Too big or mature for : OUTGROWN

16-down – Cruel, bestial : INHUMAN

17-down – All together : ENBLOC

19-down – Smock : TUNIC

21-down – Morose : GLUM

1-across – Enjoy a first success, perhaps after several failures : BREAKONES

8-across – See 1 : DUCK

9-across – Complete change of opinion or attitude : ABOUTFACE

10-across – Mother of Horus : ISIS

13-across – Sound : INLET

15-across – Conveniently near : ATHAND

16-across – Style of architecture, art, etc associated with the time of Louis XV : ROCOCO

17-across – Call to account : HAULUP

19-across – Senior male member of a royal family after the sovereign : PRINCE

20-across – Commotions : TODOS

21-across – Central point : NODE

24-across – Maintain a watch : KEEPVIGIL

25-across – Husband : LORD

26-across – See 25 : ANDMASTER

2-down – Comes into contact with, physically or metaphorically : RUBS

3-down – Acute fever; shivering fit : AGUE

4-down – Act in disregard of the law : OFFEND

5-down – Artist who likes to make an impression? : ETCHER

6-down – Temporarily stops work : PUTSTOONE

7-down – Pistes : SKISLOPES

11-down – Move by human effort alone : MANHANDLE

12-down – See 2 : SHOULDERS

13-down – Contribution : INPUT

14-down – Capital of France’s Indre-et-Loire department : TOURS

18-down – Unlawfully distilled Irish whiskey : POTEEN

19-down – Quick-firing anti-aircraft gun; decoration in the form of a ball : POMPOM

22-down – Auction actions : BIDS

23-down – See 6 : SIDE

1-across – Resigned : CALLEDITQUITS

8-across – Biblical high priest : ELI

9-across – Gun dog : RETRIEVER

10-across – Asian country, originally the Arabic Serendib or Serendip : SRILANKA

11-across – —- Cantona, Manchester Utd favourite of the 1990s : ERIC

13-across – Thickset : STOCKY

14-across – Genre of slow-tempo Latin music associated with Spain and Cuba : BOLERO

16-across – Make a mental or written reminder : NOTE

17-across – Wholesale slaughter : MASSACRE

20-across – Tiny airer? : ITINERARY

21-across – Blemish : MAR

22-across – Tenaciously, with great determination : LIKEGRIMDEATH

1-down – Ancient war game whose name may have derived for the Persian for ‘king’ : CHESS

2-down – Grossly exaggerated or over-emphasised something : LAIDITONTHICK

3-down – Allocates; reserves : EARMARKS

4-down – New recruits : INTAKE

5-down – Bon mot : QUIP

6-down – In writing, it may open up a quotation : INVERTEDCOMMA

7-down – Hot Saharan wind blowing into the Mediterranean : SIROCCO

12-down – Out of true : BOSSEYED

13-down – Timepiece read by the shadow a gnomon casts : SUNDIAL

15-down – 50th state of the USA : HAWAII

18-down – Badger’s burrow : EARTH

19-down – Alban —-, composer of the incomplete opera ‘Lulu’ : BERG

5-across – Medium sweet, semi-sparkling Italian red or white wine : LAMBRUSCO

8-across – Leave : PACK

9-across – See 8 : ONESBAGS

10-across – Finale : ENDING

11-across – Takes back something previously voiced : UNSAYS

13-across – Protozoan life-form : AMOEBA

15-across – Brush up : POLISH

16-across – ——– slip, perhaps revealing an unconscious thought : FREUDIAN

18-across – Low platform : DAIS

19-across – Kill : FINISHOFF

1-down – Rebound : BACKFIRE

2-down – Plane figure that deviates from a square by elongation : OBLONG

3-down – The ——, familiar name of the FBI : BUREAU

4-down – Blackleg : SCAB

6-down – I understand the implication! : SAYNOMORE

7-down – Particularly repulsive or objectionable : UGLYASSIN

12-down – Harden : SOLIDIFY

14-down – Actual state of affairs, often contrary to expectations : ASITIS

15-down – Latin American cloak : PONCHO

17-down – Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement : UNIT