1-across – Tangible : PALPABLE

5-across – Shortage : LACK

9-across – Stand-offish : ALOOF

10-across – Precarious : PARLOUS

11-across – Causing cancer : CARCINOGENIC

13-across – Confer holy orders : ORDAIN

14-across – Wild ass : ONAGER

17-across – Place in brackets : PARENTHESIZE

20-across – Driving force : IMPETUS

21-across – Legally bar or preclude : ESTOP

22-across – Small whirlpool : EDDY

23-across – Insincere praise : FLATTERY

1-down – Summit : PEAK

2-down – Garment for working out : LEOTARD

3-down – Loving : AFFECTIONATE

4-down – Relating to a wolf : LUPINE

6-down – Fruit of the oak : ACORN

7-down – Lock of hair curving onto the face : KISSCURL

8-down – Be deliberately slow to act : DRAGONESFEET

12-down – Medical drug derived from opium : MORPHINE

15-down – Journal, newspaper : GAZETTE

16-down – Cheat or swindle : CHISEL

18-down – Speedy : RAPID

19-down – Sterilize a female animal : SPAY

1-across – Equine luggage : SADDLEBAG

8-across – Scottish landowner : LAIRD

9-across – Illusion, fantasy : CHIMERA

10-across – Fenced enclosure : PALISADE

11-across – Footwear for snow : SKIS

13-across – Get the better of : OUTWIT

14-across – Golf club : MASHIE

16-across – So be it : AMEN

17-across – Legal instrument for, e.g. name change : DEEDPOLL

19-across – Copy : IMITATE

20-across – Inert gas : ARGON

21-across – Command over a team, ship etc. : CAPTAINCY

1-down – Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain : SADISTIC

2-down – Ten-year period : DECADE

3-down – Wild animal’s den : LAIR

4-down – Important discovery : BREAKTHROUGH

5-down – Barrier to professional advancement : GLASSCEILING

6-down – Compulsive thief : KLEPTOMANIAC

7-down – Phosphorescent light at night over marshes etc. : WILLOTHEWISP

12-down – Female lodgings keeper : LANDLADY

15-down – Longest river in Britain : SEVERN

18-down – Maori ceremonial war dance : HAKA

1-across – Measure of capacity equal to 8 gallons : BUSHEL

4-across – Descend vertical surface by rope : ABSEIL

8-across – Male relative : UNCLE

9-across – Advice : COUNSEL

10-across – Corrosive : CAUSTIC

11-across – Lived : DWELT

12-across – Miscellaneous ornaments : BRICABRAC

17-across – Kingdom : REALM

19-across – Ear pain : OTALGIA

21-across – Root vegetable : PARSNIP

22-across – Unsharpened : BLUNT

23-across – Marijuana cigarette : REEFER

24-across – Tension, strain : STRESS

1-down – Breakfast and lunch combined : BRUNCH

2-down – Fail to resist pressure : SUCCUMB

3-down – Throw out : EJECT

5-down – Mistake : BLUNDER

6-down – Follow : ENSUE

7-down – Sexually precocious girl : LOLITA

9-down – Extremely pleased : COCKAHOOP

13-down – Massive : IMMENSE

14-down – Waterproof jacket : CAGOULE

15-down – Seemly : PROPER

16-down – Succulent plant : CACTUS

18-down – Concur : AGREE

20-down – Scope, extent : AMBIT

5-across – Unconcern : NONCHALANCE

7-across – Strike breaker : SCAB

8-across – Squinting : BOSSEYED

9-across – Ceremonial flourish : FANFARE

11-across – Mythological woodland god : SATYR

13-across – Bedeck : ADORN

14-across – Boring tool : BRADAWL

16-across – Grounding : BEACHING

17-across – Decisive point : CRUX

18-across – Action betokening certain failure : KISSOFDEATH

1-down – Rebuff : SNUB

2-down – Edible fruit of the dock family : RHUBARB

3-down – Sheen, lustre : GLOSS

4-down – Sought after : INDEMAND

5-down – Level in a race : NECKANDNECK

6-down – English journalist and author of ‘Decline and Fall’ : EVELYNWAUGH

10-down – Prediction : FORECAST

12-down – Military unit : BRIGADE

15-down – Prejudiced person : BIGOT

17-down – Large Scottish family grouping : CLAN

1-across – Cross-shaped : CRUCIFORM

8-across – Drug : NARCOTIC

9-across – Period of economic growth : BOOM

10-across – Group of three : TRIO

11-across – Spouse of a reigning monarch : CONSORT

13-across – In logical sequence : CONSECUTIVE

15-across – Metal stand in a fireplace : ANDIRON

17-across – Practise boxing : SPAR

20-across – Appearance; demeanour : MIEN

21-across – Hard work : INDUSTRY

22-across – Athlete on a rink : ICESKATER

2-down – Disturbance or quarrel : RUCTION

3-down – Quote : CITE

4-down – Odd-job man : FACTOTUM

5-down – Picture/word puzzle : REBUS

6-down – Unit of power : WATT

7-down – Force, compel : COERCE

12-down – Vigorous exercises : AEROBICS

13-down – Frank : CANDID

14-down – Deadlock : IMPASSE

16-down – Classical order of architecture : IONIC

18-down – Uncommon : RARE

19-down – Notion : IDEA