Daily Answers

1-across – Writer : SCRIBE

4-across – Hidden, secret : COVERT

9-across – Early settler : PIONEER

10-across – Saloon car : SEDAN

11-across – Famous : NOTED

12-across – Make out, distinguish : DISCERN

13-across – Student of diseases : PATHOLOGIST

18-across – Tableland : PLATEAU

20-across – Ingenuous : NAIVE

22-across – Straight lines from centre of a circle : RADII

23-across – Having a will : TESTATE

24-across – Offer : TENDER

25-across – Climb : ASCEND

1-down – Lying on back : SUPINE

2-down – Perch : ROOST

3-down – Latitude, broadness : BREADTH

5-down – Fertile spot : OASIS

6-down – Eternal : ENDLESS

7-down – Resident : TENANT

8-down – Honeymoon venue : BRIDALSUITE

14-down – Desert : ABANDON

15-down – Birth, beginnings : GENESIS

16-down – Phantom, ghost : SPIRIT

17-down – Decapitate : BEHEAD

19-down – Omit a vowel : ELIDE

21-down – Foolish : INANE

1-across – Try : ATTEMPT

8-across – Nuclear energy producer : REACTOR

9-across – Tough flexible tissue : GRISTLE

10-across – Foretell : PREDICT

11-across – Topic, leitmotif : THEME

13-across – Scene of Magna Carta’s signing : RUNNYMEDE

15-across – Clan leader : CHIEFTAIN

18-across – Eat greedily : GORGE

21-across – Infected cavity : ABSCESS

22-across – Affecting, moving : EMOTIVE

23-across – Go on too long : OVERRUN

24-across – Occupancy : TENANCY

1-down – Jargon, patois : ARGOT

2-down – String, cord : TWINE

3-down – Nacre : MOTHEROFPEARL

4-down – Cranial surgical instrument : TREPAN

5-down – Accept tamely : TAKELYINGDOWN

6-down – Conflict : STRIFE

7-down – Squirm : WRITHE

12-down – Quieten : HUSH

14-down – Animal excrement : DUNG

15-down – Coloured pencil : CRAYON

16-down – Part of the foot : INSTEP

17-down – Agreement : ASSENT

19-down – Rule : REIGN

20-down – Each, all : EVERY

1-across – Hold answerable : CALLTOACCOUNT

8-across – Remain : STAY

9-across – Unaccompanied part song : MADRIGAL

10-across – Teenager : ADOLESCENT

12-across – Tension : STRESS

14-across – Railway marshalling area : SIDING

15-across – Popular vote : PLEBISCITE

19-across – Interior : INTERNAL

20-across – Cook : CHEF

21-across – Short-lived success : FLASHINTHEPAN

2-down – Counteracting remedy : ANTIDOTE

3-down – Faithful : LOYAL

4-down – Diffusion of liquid through porous membrane : OSMOSIS

5-down – Nucleus, framework : CADRE

6-down – Left out : OMITTED

7-down – Close by : NEAR

11-down – Abomination, bugbear : ANATHEMA

13-down – Put into words : EXPRESS

14-down – Frying pan : SKILLET

16-down – Boredom : ENNUI

17-down – Secret hiding place : CACHE

18-down – Blue dye : ANIL

1-across – Paid what’s due : FOOTEDTHEBILL

8-across – Site of numerous battles or campaigns : COCKPIT

9-across – Dog-like carrion-feeding mammal : HYENA

10-across – Deep vascular inner layer of the skin : DERMA

11-across – Legendary siren and rock in the R Rhine : LORELEI

12-across – Left home : HOPPEDTHETWIG

15-across – UK, smart? : MUSKRAT

17-across – Body’s circumference around the middle : GIRTH

19-across – Warhorse : STEED

20-across – Put out of action by illness : LAIDLOW

21-across – Is victorious or successful : CARRIESTHEDAY

1-down – Carried the can : FACEDTHEMUSIC

2-down – Take place : OCCUR

3-down – Atone : EXPIATE

4-down – Gossips, talks about nothing important : TITTLETATTLES

5-down – Colourless volatile highly inflammable liquid : ETHER

6-down – Movement of glaciers : ICEFLOW

7-down – In the van : LEADINGTHEWAY

13-down – French chemist and biologist : PASTEUR

14-down – International language, by assumption : ENGLISH

16-down – Straight lines from the centre of a circle : RADII

18-down – Made angry : RILED

1-across – Cut into with a sharp knife : INCISE

4-across – Rice and raw fish wrapped in seaweed : SUSHI

7-across – Plant fibre used in weaving : RAFFIA

8-across – Tax on imports or exports : TARIFF

9-across – Fairway warning : FORE

10-across – Approach very cautiously : EDGEUPTO

12-across – Reveal secrets or intimacies about others : DISHTHEDIRT

17-across – Anne Spode : SENNAPOD

19-across – Colossal : EPIC

20-across – On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle : ABOARD

21-across – Sad : TRISTE

22-across – —– Springfield, 1960s pop star : DUSTY

23-across – Member of a Christian group practising celibacy : SHAKER

1-down – To summarise : INAWORD

2-down – Treasury box : COFFERS

3-down – Radically, drastically reorganise something : SHAKEITUP

4-down – Metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers : SLATE

5-down – Indoor shoe : SLIPPER

6-down – Arrival of air or water : INFLOW

11-down – Pays half : GOESDUTCH

13-down – Category of rock, solidified molten magma : IGNEOUS

14-down – Weapon that killed Trotsky : ICEPICK

15-down – Make high-pitched sounds, as of birds : TWITTER

16-down – Piece of land smaller than a continent : ISLAND

18-down – Impressive display : ARRAY