Daily Answers

1-across – Be revealed : COMETOLIGHT

9-across – Not averse : RENOVATES

10-across – Pitch : TAR

11-across – Cud-chewing mammal of desert regions : CAMEL

13-across – A word opposite in meaning to another : ANTONYM

14-across – Take possession of : OCCUPY

15-across – Portugal’s second city : OPORTO

18-across – Conscript : DRAFTEE

20-across – ‘Per —–‘: yearly : ANNUM

21-across – ‘— of Bayeaux’, probable commissioner of the Tapestry : ODO

22-across – State of being satisfactorily full : REPLETION

24-across – As fast as you can! : ATTHEDOUBLE

2-down – Control : OWN

3-down – Give all-round cover : ENVELOP

4-down – Amount spent : OUTLAY

5-down – Photographic cameo superimposed on to another print : INSET

6-down – Kind of motor accident : HITANDRUN

7-down – Thunder peal of the Day of Judgement : CRACKOFDOOM

8-down – Mental or emotional state : FRAMEOFMIND

12-down – Behave in a silly or aimless way : MUCKABOUT

16-down – Flat-topped upland : PLATEAU

17-down – Piled up : HEAPED

19-down – Small portable battery-powered electric lamp : TORCH

23-down – Under the weather : ILL

1-across – Lose enthusiasm : RUNOUTOFSTEAM

8-across – Nigerian tribesman : IBO

9-across – Kind of plantation : TEAGARDEN

10-across – Without noise : SILENTLY

11-across – Questionable : IFFY

13-across – Crib : CRADLE

14-across – Systematic way of doing something : METHOD

16-across – Female relative : AUNT

17-across – Reckless and impetuous person : TEARAWAY

20-across – Small thin sausage : CHIPOLATA

21-across – Drowned coastal valley : RIA

22-across – Bang on time : RIGHTONTHEDOT

1-down – Checks : REINS

2-down – Unattractive : NOOILPAINTING

3-down – Extricate : UNTANGLE

4-down – Seer : ORACLE

5-down – Smelting or coal waste : SLAG

6-down – Unpleasant or disastrous destiny : ENDOFTHEWORLD

7-down – Well-to-do : MONEYED

12-down – Rebuke or criticism : REPROACH

13-down – English poet : CHAUCER

15-down – Take into confinement : DETAIN

18-down – Leavening agent in bread-making : YEAST

19-down – Propel through the air : LOFT

1-across – Accepted humiliation : ATEHUMBLEPIE

9-across – Approaches : NEARS

10-across – Improper, wicked or immoral behaviour : MISDEED

11-across – Lift or hold something to assess its weight : HEFT

12-across – To deafen? : TONEDEAF

14-across – Naked : UNCLAD

15-across – Significant language of Belgium, Switzerland and Canada : FRENCH

18-across – Fibrous mineral, used as an insulator, now deemed harmful : ASBESTOS

20-across – Knitting stitch : PURL

22-across – Spoiled the appearance of : DEFACED

23-across – Grey or white long-legged wading bird : HERON

24-across – Ironic expression of disbelief or impossibility : PIGSMIGHTFLY

2-down – Trade : TRAFFIC

3-down – Metal fastener : HASP

4-down – Wealth regarded as an evil influence : MAMMON

5-down – Old Cornish stannary and market town : LISKEARD

6-down – Irritate : PEEVE

7-down – Point beyond which it is useless or impossible to proceed : ENDOFTHELINE

8-down – Steadily improving : ONTHEUPANDUP

13-down – Sweet red or green pepper : CAPSICUM

16-down – Having no decided colour : NEUTRAL

17-down – Leader of a group : TOPDOG

19-down – Obscure : BEFOG

21-down – Out of business : SHUT

1-across – Repartee : BANTER

4-across – Make dependent : ADDICT

8-across – Rope with noose : LASSO

9-across – Gesticulate, sign : GESTURE

10-across – Serious, intent : EARNEST

11-across – Ward off : AVERT

12-across – Authoritative : MASTERFUL

17-across – Vagrant, hobo : TRAMP

19-across – Apathetic state : INERTIA

21-across – Extend : PROLONG

22-across – Razor sharpener : STROP

23-across – Connect : RELATE

24-across – Fanatic : ZEALOT

1-down – Credo : BELIEF

2-down – Remedy : NOSTRUM

3-down – Call to mind : EVOKE

5-down – Female line : DISTAFF

6-down – Accustom : INURE

7-down – Pact : TREATY

9-down – Assembly : GATHERING

13-down – Back : SUPPORT

14-down – Word for word : LITERAL

15-down – Daze : STUPOR

16-down – Engine part : TAPPET

18-down – Coral island : ATOLL

20-down – Follow : ENSUE

1-across – Unending : INTERMINABLE

9-across – Indeterminate state : LIMBO

10-across – Concise, terse : LACONIC

11-across – Flat-bottomed boat : PUNT

12-across – Dead set : HELLBENT

14-across – Compel, bind : OBLIGE

15-across – Put paid to : SCOTCH

18-across – Waiting area : ANTEROOM

20-across – Possesses : OWNS

22-across – Way in : INGRESS

23-across – Feline sound : MIAOW

24-across – Free hand : CARTEBLANCHE

2-down – In name only : NOMINAL

3-down – Roman god of love : EROS

4-down – Small wooden hammer : MALLET

5-down – Throt adornment : NECKLACE

6-down – Drinking spree : BINGE

7-down – Chacun a son gout : EACHTOHISOWN

8-down – Compulsive thief : KLEPTOMANIAC

13-down – Pain, distress : AGGRIEVE

16-down – Canal-side walkway : TOWPATH

17-down – Small piece : MORSEL

19-down – Carnivorous large cat : TIGER

21-down – So be it : AMEN