Daily Answers

1-across – Coy : BASHFUL

8-across – Controversial : EMOTIVE

9-across – Black diving ducks of northern parts : SCOTERS

10-across – Kiss him : SIKHISM

11-across – Get one’s —–: it’s a P45 nowadays! : CARDS

13-across – Care provided to improve a situation : TREATMENT

15-across – Free from obligation, blame : EXONERATE

18-across – Dotty! : BATTY

21-across – Crown’s chief executive in a county : SHERIFF

22-across – Missionary : APOSTLE

23-across – Italian dumplings : GNOCCHI

24-across – Countermand : RESCIND

1-down – Fundamental : BASIC

2-down – Comb : SCOUR

3-down – Starts to experience financial hardship : FEELSTHEPINCH

4-down – Tenant : LESSEE

5-down – Falsifies accounts : COOKSTHEBOOKS

6-down – Work together : LIAISE

7-down – Recluse : HERMIT

12-down – Highest point : APEX

14-down – Immediately following in time or order : NEXT

15-down – In British infantry, a colours bearer : ENSIGN

16-down – American wild cat : OCELOT

17-down – Vaguely specified concern : AFFAIR

19-down – Bantu speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi : TUTSI

20-down – Income : YIELD

1-across – Dutifully polite commonly-spoken American valediction : HAVEANICEDAY

9-across – Audacious robbery : HEIST

10-across – North American reindeer : CARIBOU

11-across – Flip in the air : TOSS

12-across – Diabolical : DEVILISH

14-across – ‘Uniform’ often associated with ASBO offenders : HOODIE

15-across – Prehistoric communal Native American culture : PUEBLO

18-across – Those who manage property, etc for someone else : STEWARDS

20-across – Midge, mosquito : GNAT

22-across – Is Annie? : ASININE

23-across – Shoulder wrap : SHAWL

24-across – Act meekly and apologetically : EATHUMBLEPIE

2-down – Italian Renaissance poet : ARIOSTO

3-down – Victuals : EATS

4-down – Scored : NICKED

5-down – Intricate twist : CURLICUE

6-down – One of the UAE and its capital : DUBAI

7-down – Inexpensive supervised lodgings : YOUTHHOSTELS

8-down – Lazy designation when a title eludes : WHATSHISNAME

13-down – Italian sponge pudding : TIRAMISU

16-down – Ethnic group and language of NE Indian subcontinent : BENGALI

17-down – Word that modifies something other than a noun : ADVERB

19-down – Declaration : EDICT

21-down – —- of Dogs, Thames peninsula : ISLE

1-across – Three-time : THRICE

4-across – Kind of heavy jacket : PARKA

7-across – Fictitious name : ANONYM

8-across – Shard : SLIVER

9-across – ‘Cogito, —- sum’ : ERGO

10-across – Privately : INCAMERA

12-across – Abandoned in battle : LEFTFORDEAD

17-across – Dreamy piano peace popularised by Chopin : NOCTURNE

19-across – Charge : TASK

20-across – Walk with long steps : STRIDE

21-across – Body of artistic work : OEUVRE

22-across – Saltpetre : NITRE

23-across – Dessert : AFTERS

1-down – Natural thread climbing plants produce to attach to a support : TENDRIL

2-down – End a phone call : RINGOFF

3-down – Receive as one’s share, or receive incidentally : COMEINFOR

4-down – Bohemian dance : POLKA

5-down – I arrive! : RIVIERA

6-down – Aviator : AIRMAN

11-down – Hauled away : CARTEDOFF

13-down – Passage selected from a larger work : EXCERPT

14-down – Force out : EXTRUDE

15-down – Walks out on : DESERTS

16-down – Complete agreement : UNISON

18-down – Excessive : UNDUE

1-across – Pen : AUTHOR

4-across – Outcome : UPSHOT

8-across – Represses an emotion : BITES

9-across – See 8 : ONESLIP

10-across – Form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers : CANASTA

11-across – Slacker : IDLER

12-across – Sing Holst? : SLINGSHOT

17-across – Deeply distressed : CUTUP

19-across – Syrup-like substance : TREACLE

21-across – Exaggerate or overemphasise something : LAYITON

22-across – See 21 : THICK

23-across – Hate a lot : DETEST

24-across – Merriment : GAIETY

1-down – Jurisdiction of a Father Superior : ABBACY

2-down – Lockjaw : TETANUS

3-down – A place of safety or sanctuary : OASIS

5-down – Sulky : PEEVISH

6-down – Meat slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law : HALAL

7-down – Diminishes gradually : TAPERS

9-down – Ape of Borneo and Sumatra : ORANGUTAN

13-down – Force that moves something along : IMPETUS

14-down – Haptic : TACTILE

15-down – Surmounted : SCALED

16-down – Hebdomadal : WEEKLY

18-down – Pre-arranged : TRYST

20-down – Sundry : EXTRA

1-across – Flock of birds, girls or other groups : BEVY

3-across – Roomy : SPACIOUS

9-across – Diadem : CORONET

10-across – Overturn : UPEND

11-across – Sharp : SALTY

12-across – Brigand : OUTLAW

14-across – In the position of greatest danger : ATTHESHARPEND

17-across – Sport : TENNIS

19-across – Meaninglessness : HOKUM

22-across – Optical device producing an intense beam of light : LASER

23-across – Major speech : ORATION

24-across – Awning or parasol, for example : SUNSHADE

25-across – Units of resistance : OHMS

1-down – Secondary or inferior status : BACKSEAT

2-down – Pertaining to an ultramicroscopic infection : VIRAL

4-down – Kill : PUTTOTHESWORD

5-down – Hard exterior : CRUST

6-down – Gormandised : OVERATE

7-down – Team : SIDE

8-down – Cell-produced protein : ENZYME

13-down – Motley assortment of things : ODDMENTS

15-down – Senator? : TREASON

16-down – Bring back to the boil, for instance : REHEAT

18-down – Lord Frederick —–, 18th century PM : NORTH

20-down – —– Floyd, TV cook and raconteur : KEITH

21-down – Bonus : PLUS