Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Looks after No 1 in time of trouble : SAVESONESSKIN

8-across – Collaborator : PARTNER

9-across – U-shaped piece attached to cattle yoke : OXBOW

10-across – Mariner’s challenge : AHOY

11-across – Container for still-wanted meal leftovers : DOGGYBAG

13-across – Jacket : CASING

14-across – Shipworm: a boring insect? : TEREDO

17-across – Letters, symbols used in a writing system : ALPHABET

19-across – Raw, cracked patch on skin : CHAP

21-across – Interrogate : GRILL

22-across – Type of car hire : MINICAB

24-across – Issue instructions authoritatively : LAYDOWNTHELAW

1-down – Thimbleful : SIP

2-down – Manifold : VARIOUS

3-down – Arenaceous material : SAND

4-down – Constricted : NARROW

5-down – Shedded : SLOUGHED

6-down – Brochette : KEBAB

7-down – Email forum : NEWSGROUP

10-down – Russian port on the White Sea : ARCHANGEL

12-down – Art of incised carving : INTAGLIO

15-down – Moral : ETHICAL

16-down – Homily : SERMON

18-down – Participating in the knowledge of something secret : PRIVY

20-down – Scottish island: unit of length : INCH

23-down – Genuflect : BOW

5-across – Inflammation of the intestine : ENTERITIS

8-across – Make hazy : BLUR

9-across – Training : TEACHING

10-across – Become a member again : REJOIN

11-across – Mythical monster : DRAGON

13-across – : JETSET

15-across – Miasma : VAPOUR

16-across – Breakfast favourite : FRIEDEGG

18-across – Make angry : RILE

19-across – Wacky baccy : MARIJUANA

1-down – Gargantuan : ENORMOUS

2-down – Held in limbo : LEFTIN

3-down – Exuberant energy : VIMAND

4-down – Deep breath : SIGH

6-down – North American soft fruit : BLUEBERRY

7-down – Mystifying : INSOLUBLE

12-down – Partisan : ASPIRANT

14-down – See 2 : THEAIR

15-down – See 3 : VIGOUR

17-down – Hard Dutch cheese : EDAM

1-across – A supporter of literature? : BOOKSHELF

8-across – Icon : IMAGE

9-across – Black-headed small European songbird : COALTIT

10-across – Jumps farther : OUTLEAPS

11-across – Welsh river : TAFF

13-across – Deserved : EARNED

14-across – Citizen of a former Soviet republic : KAZAKH

16-across – Give off : EMIT

17-across – Precipitation : RAINFALL

19-across – Sprites : FAIRIES

20-across – Cheat or trick : COZEN

21-across – Agent : NEGOTIANT

1-down – Travel guide book : BAEDEKER

2-down – Take possession : OCCUPY

3-down – False : SHAM

4-down – Lavish display : EXTRAVAGANZA

5-down – Best that is obtainable : FATOFTHELAND

6-down – Become personally entrenched : DIGONESELFIN

7-down – Debasing : BASTARDISING

12-down – Lining of a wood-panelled wall : WAINSCOT

15-down – Biliousness : NAUSEA

18-down – Nub : GIST

5-across – Schedule : TIMETABLE

8-across – Worry : FRET

9-across – Gloomy : OVERCAST

10-across – Add, annex : APPEND

11-across – Ape-like : SIMIAN

13-across – Small private room : CLOSET

15-across – Wax light : CANDLE

16-across – Swampy marsh : QUAGMIRE

18-across – Gaping wound : GASH

19-across – Curse, profane : BLASPHEME

1-down – Sadden : DISTRESS

2-down – See, observe : BEHOLD

3-down – Fondle, stroke : CARESS

4-down – Political coalition : BLOC

6-down – Suffering from drunkenness : CRAPULOUS

7-down – Found : ESTABLISH

12-down – Having one partner : MONOGAMY

14-down – Craving : THIRST

15-down – Day nursery : CRECHE

17-down – Bitterness : GALL

1-across – Oracular : DELPHIC

8-across – Domestic cock : ROOSTER

9-across – Tropical disease : MALARIA

10-across – Evening service : VESPERS

11-across – Right-hand page : RECTO

13-across – Unfrequented : UNTRODDEN

15-across – Recurrent theme : LEITMOTIF

18-across – Egg-shaped : OVATE

21-across – Counsellor : ADVISOR

22-across – Upshot, result : OUTCOME

23-across – Of the earth, worldly : TERRENE

24-across – Snake : SERPENT

1-down – Cavil, dispute : DEMUR

2-down – Pale mauve : LILAC

3-down – Person in charge of anchorage : HARBOURMASTER

4-down – Male neckwear : CRAVAT

5-down – Ineffectual sympathiser : JOBSCOMFORTER

6-down – Listen to : ATTEND

7-down – Confinement : PRISON

12-down – Sharpness : EDGE

14-down – Send out : EMIT

15-down – Shed, outbuilding : LEANTO

16-down – Turn upside down : INVERT

17-down – Violent pains : THROES

19-down – On top of : ABOVE

20-down – Throw out : EJECT