Daily Answers

1-across – Australian marsupial : WOMBAT

4-across – Ability, facility : KNACK

7-across – Caper, cavort : FROLIC

8-across – Drinking salutation : PROSIT

9-across – Avoid : SHUN

10-across – Bandage : LIGATURE

12-across – Quibble, equivocate : PREVARICATE

17-across – Cripple, incapacitate : PARALYSE

19-across – Ferment, concoct : BREW

20-across – Lessen : REDUCE

21-across – Resident : INMATE

22-across – Artist’s canvas suppot : EASEL

23-across – Ten-pound note : TENNER

1-down – Adore : WORSHIP

2-down – Mixture : MELANGE

3-down – Accessory, auxiliary : ANCILLARY

4-down – Fate : KARMA

5-down – Sudden attack : ASSAULT

6-down – Young cat : KITTEN

11-down – Directing rule or principle : GUIDELINE

13-down – Ornamental altar screen : REREDOS

14-down – Egg white : ALBUMEN

15-down – Voter : ELECTOR

16-down – Few and far between : SPARSE

18-down – Regional, parochial : LOCAL

1-across – Essentials : WHEREWITHAL

9-across – Able : COMPETENT

10-across – Garland : LEI

11-across – Entice, lure : TEMPT

13-across – Supporting board : TRESTLE

14-across – The Spring legal term : HILARY

15-across – White grape variety : CHENIN

18-across – Hermit : RECLUSE

20-across – Ward off : AVERT

21-across – Couple, brace : TWO

22-across – Fixed point, criterion : BENCHMARK

24-across – Kill : ASSASSINATE

2-down – Border : HEM

3-down – Come in again : REENTER

4-down – Floral tribute : WREATH

5-down – Tenth : TITHE

6-down – Suddenly : ALLATONCE

7-down – Beef and vegetable soup : SCOTCHBROTH

8-down – Compromise, mutual conceding : GIVEANDTAKE

12-down – Malevolent, spiteful : MALICIOUS

16-down – Pagan : HEATHEN

17-down – Court-based sport : TENNIS

19-down – Region of shadow : UMBRA

23-down – Suitable, appropriate : APT

1-across – Leave : DEPART

4-across – Nape of neck : SCRUFF

8-across – Tear to pieces : SHRED

9-across – Shorten : ABRIDGE

10-across – Equestrian foot support : STIRRUP

11-across – By ear : AURAL

12-across – Infamy : NOTORIETY

17-across – Perfect happiness : BLISS

19-across – Clothing : APPAREL

21-across – Casual, curt : OFFHAND

22-across – Colloquial language : SLANG

23-across – Exchange, bargain : BARTER

24-across – Send for trial : COMMIT

1-down – Cease : DESIST

2-down – Share, helping : PORTION

3-down – Supplementary clause : RIDER

5-down – Flower worn on bodice : CORSAGE

6-down – Cow’s teat : UDDER

7-down – Weak, frail : FEEBLE

9-down – The sign & : AMPERSAND

13-down – Having a valid will : TESTATE

14-down – Site of naval hangings : YARDARM

15-down – Assimilate, integrate : ABSORB

16-down – Insult, affront : SLIGHT

18-down – Deduce, conclude : INFER

20-down – Basil-based sauce : PESTO

1-across – Lose prestigious position : FALLFROMGRACE

8-across – Ruminant’s regurgitated food : CUD

9-across – Sudden overwhelming quantity : AVALANCHE

10-across – Incentive, provocation : STIMULUS

11-across – Delightful place : EDEN

13-across – Alloy of tin and lead : PEWTER

14-across – Yellow-flowered herb : FENNEL

16-across – Attack, foray : RAID

17-across – Scots musical instrument : BAGPIPES

20-across – One living near : NEIGHBOUR

21-across – Boat propellant : OAR

22-across – Portraits of criminals : ROGUESGALLERY

1-down – Concentrate, zero in : FOCUS

2-down – Queen’s attendant : LADYINWAITING

3-down – Characteristics; parts of face : FEATURES

4-down – Impenetrable : OPAQUE

5-down – Spur; torment : GOAD

6-down – Given to misadventure : ACCIDENTPRONE

7-down – Everlasting : ETERNAL

12-down – Secular : TEMPORAL

13-down – Colleague, bedfellow : PARTNER

15-down – Asian skirt-like garment : SARONG

18-down – Regretful : SORRY

19-down – Footwear : SHOE

1-across – Sang or played for somebody special : SERENADED

8-across – Clothes horse : AIRER

9-across – Francis ——-, French composer : POULENC

10-across – Showy but worthless trifle : FALDEROL

11-across – Direction in printing to cancel a correction or deletion : STET

13-across – Hopeless : NOGOOD

14-across – Pay homage to : REVERE

16-across – Identical : SAME

17-across – Barricaded part of a city in conflict : NOGOAREA

19-across – Shaped like a ring : ANNULAR

20-across – Do well at : EXCEL

21-across – Fun vehicle with large tyres, used on beaches : DUNEBUGGY

1-down – Engineer who provides map-making data : SURVEYOR

2-down – Parrot? : RAPTOR

3-down – Knowledge, experience : NOUS

4-down – Achieves a required result : DOESTHETRICK

5-down – Carol based on a 16th century Welsh tune : DECKTHEHALLS

6-down – Large landmass off Canada’s NE coast : BAFFINISLAND

7-down – Formal, critical introduction to a lengthy text : PROLEGOMENON

12-down – Return to an original state : RECOVERY

15-down – Contemptible person… : TOERAG

18-down – …slovenly type : SLOB