November 2009

1-across – Inverted : UPSIDEDOWN

7-across – Leave in the lurch : ABANDON

8-across – : CLASH

10-across – Skin : PEEL

11-across – Own : PERSONAL

13-across – Holiday town : RESORT

15-across – Small beard : GOATEE

17-across – : BALLPARK

18-across – Hint : CLUE

21-across – Sycophant : TOADY

22-across – Wine merchant : VINTNER

23-across – See 3 : WASHINGTON

1-down – Tradition — rate of consumption : USAGE

2-down – Lumps of earth : SODS

3-down – Best Actor Oscar winner 2001, for Training Day : DENZEL

4-down – Judgment : DECISION

5-down – Portable stand with shelves : WHATNOT

6-down – Nocturnal bloodsucker : VAMPIREBAT

9-down – Best Actress Oscar winner 2001, for Monster’s Ball : HALLEBERRY

12-down – Three-panelled painting : TRIPTYCH

14-down – Dried fruit — Muslim ruler’s consort : SULTANA

16-down – Without backbone : CRAVEN

19-down – Sheets, pillowcases etc : LINEN

20-down – Granny or reef, perhaps? : KNOT

1-across – Unreliable selling outlet : BUCKETSHOP

7-across – Uncomfortable thing in a cat’s stomach? : HAIRBALL

8-across – Grains by the sea : SAND

9-across – Catastrophe : DOOM

10-across – Obsessed : SMITTEN

12-across – Best Actress Oscar winner 1976, for Network : FAYEDUNAWAY

14-across – Edible organ — hero tax : OXHEART

16-across – Story line — bit of land : PLOT

19-across – Revered mentor : GURU

20-across – Pass quickly and be forgotten : BLOWOVER

21-across – Best Actor Oscar winner 1976 : PETERFINCH

1-down – Insipid : BLAND

2-down – Hasty and superficial : CURSORY

3-down – Online marketplace : EBAY

4-down – Deep pit containing a white substance : SALTMINE

5-down – Start : ONSET

6-down – Dwarf : SNEEZY

11-down – Delightful : ADORABLE

12-down – Baby : FOXCUB

13-down – French-speaking Belgian : WALLOON

15-down – Exhibit : EXUDE

17-down – Gnashers : TEETH

18-down – : DOFF

1-across – Curved part of stone bridge, perhaps : ARCH

3-across – Use of excessive words : VERBIAGE

8-across – Praise : LAUD

9-across – Dance hall : BALLROOM

11-across – Satirical magazine — undercover detective : PRIVATEEYE

14-across – Short and broad : CHUNKY

15-across – Person in charge of : WALLAH

17-across – Rabbit’s foot, for example : LUCKYCHARM

20-across – Prosperous place : BOOMTOWN

21-across – Snake’s sound : HISS

22-across – Due proportion : SYMMETRY

23-across – Cut of meat from the lower back and sides : LOIN

1-down – Aromatic dried fruit of a Caribbean tree : ALLSPICE

2-down – Prudent : CAUTIOUS

4-down – Tooth surface : ENAMEL

5-down – Sensuous performance of Middle Eastern origin : BELLYDANCE

6-down – Excitedly eager : AGOG

7-down – Best Actress Oscar winner 1992, for Howard’s End : EMMA

10-down – Drab : LACKLUSTRE

12-down – Best Actor Oscar winner 1992, for Scent of a Woman : ALPACINO

13-down – See 7 : THOMPSON

16-down – Long pin for meat : SKEWER

18-down – Flows back — declines : EBBS

19-down – Wriggly creature : WORM

1-across – Looney Tunes cartoon sign-off line : THATSALLFOLKS

8-across – German wife : FRAU

9-across – Operational parts of chopping tools : AXEHEADS

10-across – Best Actor Oscar winner 1956, for The King and I : YULBRYNNER

12-across – Thinly scattered : SPARSE

14-across – Variety of domestic fowl : BANTAM

15-across – Blistering vapour from a poisonous liquid : MUSTARDGAS

19-across – Calling out of list of names : ROLLCALL

20-across – Golf club : IRON

21-across – Best Actress Oscar winner 1956, for Anastasia : INGRIDBERGMAN

2-down – Noise of throat clearing : HARRUMPH

3-down – Digit : THUMB

4-down – Separate : ANALYSE

5-down – Extra time in bed : LIEIN

6-down – Infest — defeat totally : OVERRUN

7-down – Children : KIDS

11-down – Curve — Arab opal : PARABOLA

13-down – Kind of climbing rose : RAMBLER

14-down – Liberal : BRAILLE

16-down – Injure with steam : SCALD

17-down – Performing : DOING

18-down – Twelve during the day : NOON

1-across – Programming language — named choice : MACHINECODE

9-across – By that very act : IPSOFACTO

10-across – Wildebeest : GNU

11-across – Claptrap : HOKUM

13-across – See 15 : SEYMOUR

14-across – Verdict : RULING

15-across – Best Actor Oscar winner 2005, for Capote : PHILIP

18-across – Round flat liquorice sweet — Asian food fish : POMFRET

20-across – Less common : RARER

21-across – Not at home : OUT

22-across – Shoulder decoration : EPAULETTE

24-across – Ability to make fortunate discoveries by accident : SERENDIPITY

2-down – Donkey — fool : ASS

3-down – See 15 : HOFFMAN

4-down – Most pleasing : NICEST

5-down – Friend : CRONY

6-down – Canine or clerical accessory : DOGCOLLAR

7-down – See 19 : WITHERSPOON

8-down – Trainee journalist : CUBREPORTER

12-down – 0.621 of a mile : KILOMETRE

16-down – Facial disfigurement : HARELIP

17-down – Yarn — thread : STRAND

19-down – Best Actress Oscar winner 2005, for Walk The Line : REESE

23-down – Add : TOT