Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Shooting target : CLAYPIGEON

7-across – The morning after? : HANGOVER

8-across – Do away with : KILL

9-across – Tax : TOLL

10-across – Mild, gentle : CLEMENT

12-across – Cautious, prudent : CIRCUMSPECT

14-across – Disbelief in god : ATHEISM

16-across – Work of art : OPUS

19-across – Place; stead : LIEU

20-across – Only half-formed : INCHOATE

21-across – Public relations expert : SPINDOCTOR

1-down – Song : CHANT

2-down – Bony, awkward : ANGULAR

3-down – Dress with stone etc : PAVE

4-down – Stupid : GORMLESS

5-down – Fibrous material from rope : OAKUM

6-down – Heavenly body : PLANET

11-down – Interrogate : QUESTION

12-down – Lemony : CITRIC

13-down – Heroic feat : EXPLOIT

15-down – Outfit : EQUIP

17-down – Indian musical instrument : SITAR

18-down – Reverberate : ECHO

1-across – Gardening tool : DUTCHHOE

5-across – Epic story : SAGA

9-across – Egg-shaped : OVOID

10-across – Type of barometer : ANEROID

11-across – Self-reliance : INDEPENDENCE

13-across – Room for manoeuvre : LEEWAY

14-across – Aphoristic : GNOMIC

17-across – Anti-subversion force : SECRETPOLICE

20-across – Cricketer : FIELDER

21-across – Artfulness, cunning : GUILE

22-across – Swimming pool : LIDO

23-across – Robe, official garment : VESTMENT

1-down – Destiny; ruin : DOOM

2-down – Thrash : TROUNCE

3-down – Sub-text, unstated objective : HIDDENAGENDA

4-down – Wild ass : ONAGER

6-down – Embellish, decorate : ADORN

7-down – Formal interview : AUDIENCE

8-down – Influential member : LEADINGLIGHT

12-down – Joyous, rapt : BLISSFUL

15-down – Mechanical device : MACHINE

16-down – Few and far between : SPARSE

18-down – System of belief : CREED

19-down – Examine : TEST

1-across – Demand persistently : INSIST

4-across – Severe : STRICT

9-across – Passenger seat : PILLION

10-across – Drive back : REPEL

11-across – Vivid, sensational : LURID

12-across – Repeat : ITERATE

13-across – Dramatic nerves : STAGEFRIGHT

18-across – Walk leisurely : SAUNTER

20-across – Services’ chaplain : PADRE

22-across – Federation : UNION

23-across – Patent medicine : NOSTRUM

24-across – Obtain by force : EXTORT

25-across – Seemly, respectable : DECENT

1-down – Pierce, run through : IMPALE

2-down – Of the sun : SOLAR

3-down – Noisy disturbance : SHINDIG

5-down – Curt, concise : TERSE

6-down – Arraign : IMPEACH

7-down – Bank employee : TELLER

8-down – Uninterested : INDIFFERENT

14-down – Tripper, sightseer : TOURIST

15-down – Deadlock, stalemate : IMPASSE

16-down – Take for granted : ASSUME

17-down – Allow : PERMIT

19-down – Male voice : TENOR

21-down – Lament : DIRGE

1-across – Initiation ordeal : BAPTISMOF

8-across – See 1 : FIRE

9-across – Scuttle : BEETLEOFF

10-across – Combine : MELD

13-across – Have an accident : CRASH

15-across – Loathsome : ODIOUS

16-across – Here : HITHER

17-across – Showy herbaceous perennial : DAHLIA

19-across – Second son of Jacob and Leah, and his tribe : SIMEON

20-across – Puts together : EDITS

21-across – Aroma : NOSE

24-across – Columnist dealing with readers’ problems : AGONYAUNT

25-across – Willing sport : GAME

26-across – See 25 : FORALAUGH

2-down – Matured : AGED

3-down – Ballet dress : TUTU

4-down – Large scissors : SHEARS

5-down – Bone-headed : OAFISH

6-down – Record of work : TIMESHEET

7-down – Body odour neutraliser : DEODORANT

11-down – Most flourishing and outstanding period : GOLDENAGE

12-down – Supple : LITHESOME

13-down – Unit of radioactivity : CURIE

14-down – Music systems : HIFIS

18-down – Slow movement : ADAGIO

19-down – Group of lines in a poem, play, etc : STANZA

22-down – Volcanic flowing rock : LAVA

23-down – Comfy : SNUG

1-across – Protozoan life form : AMOEBA

4-across – Art of growing miniature trees : BONSAI

9-across – Block : EMBARGO

10-across – Former European currency : FRANC

11-across – English town with a declining automotive industry : LUTON

12-across – Organ membrane : EARDRUM

13-across – In agreement : BEATONEWITH

18-across – Looks forward to : EXPECTS

20-across – Checks : REINS

22-across – Incongruity : IRONY

23-across – Fancier : AMATEUR

24-across – Extremely unconventional : WAYOUT

25-across – Guard : SENTRY

1-down – Ancient : AGEOLD

2-down – Area of influence : ORBIT

3-down – Lowest British hereditary title : BARONET

5-down – Present : OFFER

6-down – North Sea haar, for instance : SEAFRET

7-down – Coin me! : INCOME

8-down – Snap : LOSEONESRAG

14-down – Agreeable sound : EUPHONY

15-down – Conflict : WARFARE

16-down – Write a critique of : REVIEW

17-down – Marine bird of prey : OSPREY

19-down – S American rodent inadvertently introduced into Europe : COYPU

21-down – Apathetic : INERT