Author name: crosswordanswers

5-across – Literature for the blind : TALKINGBOOK

7-across – Conservative : TORY

8-across – Accolades : TRIBUTES

9-across – Impatient : ITCHING

11-across – Demise : DEATH

13-across – Place in ordered pile : STACK

14-across – Hobby : PASTIME

16-across – Perpendicular : VERTICAL

17-across – Flat-bottomed boat : PUIT

18-across – Noteworthy points; collectables : MEMORABILIA

1-down – Ruse, stratagem : PLOY

2-down – Remote : DISTANT

3-down – One more time : AGAIN

4-down – Paper, form : DOCUMENT

5-down – Fishing location : TROUTSTREAM

6-down – Compulsion to steal : KLEPTOMAINA

10-down – Great quantity of victims : HECATOMB

12-down – Native antipodean marsupial : WALLABY

15-down – Group of 20 : SCORE

17-down – Wan : PALE

5-across – Former unit of frequency : MEGACYCLE

8-across – Ability to speak fluently, often wittily : GIFT

9-across – See 8 : OFTHEGAB

10-across – Garden cutters : SHEARS

11-across – Defile : RAVINE

13-across – Wood of cricket bats : WILLOW

15-across – Stroke gently : CARESS

16-across – Having a ball : WHOOPING

18-across – See 16 : ITUP

19-across – Pre-birth : ANTENATAL

1-down – Lamb tale? : MEATBALL

2-down – Local dialect : PATOIS

3-down – Edible mollusc : OYSTER

4-down – Depressed : BLUE

6-down – Underline or italicise, perhaps : HIGHLIGHT

7-down – Silvery-white metallic element : MAGNESIUM

12-down – Perpendicular : VERTICAL

14-down – Scribe : WRITER

15-down – Brandy of the French Charente : COGNAC

17-down – Animal sound : OINK

1-across – Thick roll, usually toasted : MUFFIN

4-across – Choux pastry cream cake : ECLAIR

8-across – Large wall painting : MURAL

9-across – In baseball, it allows batter to move through all bases : HOMERUN

10-across – Material between surface and bedrock : SUBSOIL

11-across – Make void : ANNUL

12-across – Take something on, eschewing any help : GOITALONE

17-across – Disney classic of 1941 : DUMBO

19-across – Unrecoverable sum of money owed : BADDEBT

21-across – Codger : OLDFOGY

22-across – Final stage of insect development : IMAGO

23-across – Complain loudly and persistently : YAMMER

24-across – Stick one’s nose in : MEDDLE

1-down – Plant genus popularly extended to the Acacia : MIMOSA

2-down – Arsonist : FIREBUG

3-down – Inuit ice house : IGLOO

5-down – Harpsichord : CEMBALO

6-down – Pinafore : APRON

7-down – Gnaw away at : RANKLE

9-down – Prevent an approach : HOLDATBAY

13-down – Bed having metallic element in… : IRONORE

14-down – …re medal? : EMERALD

15-down – Foolish act : IDIOCY

16-down – Serving no useful purpose : OTIOSE

18-down – Precocious little girl : MADAM

20-down – Propel : DRIVE

1-across – Velocity of a plane or missile : AIRSPEED

5-across – Man-eating giant : OGRE

9-across – Book of the Old Testament : HOSEA

10-across – Relating to stretching : TENSILE

11-across – November the First : ALLSAINTSDAY

13-across – Pact : TREATY

14-across – Creatures troublesome to man : VERMIN

17-across – Compiled only by yours truly! : ALLMYOWNWORK

20-across – Chivalrous : GALLANT

21-across – Period of a monarchy : REIGN

22-across – Highly-flavoured : RICH

23-across – Stick or leaf insects that use camouflage : PHASMIDS

1-down – Continuous dull pain : ACHE

2-down – Find the solution : RESOLVE

3-down – Proceeds instinctively : PLAYSITBYEAR

4-down – Demand : ENTAIL

6-down – Abrade : GRIND

7-down – All : EVERYONE

8-down – Put it another way : INOTHERWORDS

12-down – Alien : STRANGER

15-down – Italian renaissance painter : MARTINI

16-down – Change course : SWITCH

18-down – Purplish in colour : LILAC

19-down – Burden : ONUS

1-across – Everywhere : FARANDWIDE

7-across – Flexible : ELASTIC

8-across – Chew : CHAMP

10-across – Cheeky child : TYKE

11-across – Small amphibious rodent : WATERRAT

13-across – : FATCAT

15-across – Husband : OLDMAN

17-across – Light bluish-purple : LAVENDER

18-across – Destroy : RUIN

21-across – Evergreen S American tree, also called maté : YERBA

22-across – Valedictory : ELEGIAC

23-across – A demand or claim on one : CALLOFDUTY

1-down – Open : FRANK

2-down – Register of names for duties : ROTA

3-down – Delicious drink : NECTAR

4-down – In a mischievous way : WICKEDLY

5-down – A grid, Ma? : DIAGRAM

6-down – Flaw in an otherwise admirable character : FEETOFCLAY

9-down – Pretend : PUTONANACT

12-down – Central piece of rigging : MAINSAIL

14-down – Greek inn : TAVERNA

16-down – Concerning this : HEREOF

19-down – Federate : UNIFY

20-down – Bill of fare : MENU