November 2009

1-across – Big payout : JACKPOT

8-across – Action that backfires : OWNGOAL

9-across – Austrian physicist : DOPPLER

10-across – Indication : POINTER

11-across – Orate : ERATO

13-across – Wind blowing south : NORTHERLY

15-across – Minor female role on stage — tout beers : SOUBRETTE

18-across – For most, the time for sleep : NIGHT

21-across – Against the flow? : UPRIVER

22-across – Lift : ELEVATE

23-across – See 24 : HOPKINS

24-across – Best Actor Oscar winner 1991, for The Silence of The Lambs : ANTHONY

1-down – Best Actress Oscar winner 1991, for The Silence of The Lambs : JODIE

2-down – Refreshing brew : CUPPA

3-down – Lungs-to-heart vessel : PULMONARYVEIN

4-down – Apathetic state : TORPOR

5-down – Awareness of the truth : ENLIGHTENMENT

6-down – See 1 : FOSTER

7-down – Light rush of snow, for example : FLURRY

12-down – Decorate : REDO

14-down – Succulent — heavy drinker : LUSH

15-down – Searched for : SOUGHT

16-down – Still green? : UNRIPE

17-down – Mother of Calcutta, 1910-97 : TERESA

19-down – Manure from birds — artificial fertiliser from fish : GUANO

20-down – Very little : TEENY

1-across – Sylvia’s French composer, 1836-91 : DELIBES

8-across – Self-propelled submarine weapon : TORPEDO

9-across – Hot pepper sauce : TABASCO

10-across – Sweetheart : DARLING

11-across – Fungus used in baking : YEAST

13-across – Something startling : EYEOPENER

15-across – Carthorse : ORCHESTRA

18-across – Precise : EXACT

21-across – Capital of Sicily : PALERMO

22-across – Mythical and heraldic beast : UNICORN

23-across – Intoxicating beverage looking like a soft drink : ALCOPOP

24-across – Dignified and graceful : ELEGANT

1-down – Simple song : DITTY

2-down – Sign of the zodiac : LIBRA

3-down – Means of spreading gossip : BUSHTELEGRAPH

4-down – Filling food : STODGE

5-down – Painter such as Millais : PRERAPHAELITE

6-down – Plot : DESIGN

7-down – Old and eccentric chap : CODGER

12-down – Continuously : EVER

14-down – Of heroic proportions : EPIC

15-down – Child such as Harry Potter or Jane Eyre : ORPHAN

16-down – White cotton fabric : CALICO

17-down – Company of theatrical performers : TROUPE

19-down – Scent : AROMA

20-down – Opinion held to be true : TENET

1-across – One who enjoys the good things of life : BONVIVEUR

8-across – Leave at the altar : JILT

9-across – Incline of a hill : DOWNSLOPE

10-across – Send to Coventry : SHUN

13-across – See 15 : SMITH

15-across – 1969 Best Actress Oscar winner for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : MAGGIE

16-across – Cricket delivery aimed at the feet : YORKER

17-across – Long dissertation : THESIS

19-across – More uncanny : EERIER

20-across – Labourer, originally digging the canals : NAVVY

21-across – : TRIP

24-across – 1969 Best Actor Oscar winner for True Grit : JOHNWAYNE

25-across – : OPUS

26-across – Place for actors to relax : GREENROOM

2-down – Oxfordshire : OXON

3-down – Indicator of wind direction : VANE

4-down – Book — loudness : VOLUME

5-down – Full of oneself : UPPITY

6-down – : TIGHTKNIT

7-down – Record of a journey : ITINERARY

11-down – Copy : IMITATION

12-down – Very, very bad : EGREGIOUS

13-down – Occupation of a place as a protest : SITIN

14-down – Sweet darling? : HONEY

18-down – Taste and enjoy : SAVOUR

19-down – Show clearly : EVINCE

22-down – Young salmon : PARR

23-down – Intelligence : INFO

1-across – Regular boyfriend : STEADY

4-across – Juvenile form of insect : LARVA

7-across – Long slender sword : RAPIER

8-across – Introductory textbook : PRIMER

9-across – River flowing from the Czech Republic to the North Sea : ELBE

10-across – Sudden short spell of bitter weather : COLDSNAP

12-across – In every detail : TOTHELETTER

17-across – Confused excitement : FLATSPIN

19-across – Shivering fit : AGUE

20-across – Safe to eat : EDIBLE

21-across – Mammal related to the llama : ALPACA

22-across – Understanding : SENSE

23-across – Robust : STURDY

1-down – Species of onion : SHALLOT

2-down – Readily apparent : EVIDENT

3-down – Ridiculously inexpensive : DIRTCHEAP

4-down – Glaringly bright : LURID

5-down – Make up stories — Menorca : ROMANCE

6-down – Brusque : ABRUPT

11-down – Prepare an ambush : LIEINWAIT

13-down – Enthusiastic reception : OVATION

14-down – One who catches animals for their fur : TRAPPER

15-down – Salacious : RAUNCHY

16-down – Dessert : AFTERS

18-down – Soothing ointment : SALVE

1-across – Performance confined to a single evening : ONENIGHTSTAND

8-across – Fool : MUG

9-across – Improvised : IMPROMPTU

10-across – Intensify : HEIGHTEN

11-across – Round seed capsule, as in cotton : BOLL

13-across – Angora : MOHAIR

14-across – Negligent : REMISS

16-across – 1987 Best Actress Oscar winner for Moonstruck : CHER

17-across – Best bib and tucker : GLADRAGS

20-across – Partial correspondence : ASSONANCE

21-across – Cubes in a drink : ICE

22-across – Political fanatics : LUNATICFRINGE

1-down – Get-up-and-go : OOMPH

2-down – Language class for foreigners? : ENGLISHLESSON

3-down – Dance in Limerick? : IRISHJIG

4-down – Container carrying seed for sowing : HOPPER

5-down – Betray — purchase : SHOP

6-down – Likeness — guess : APPROXIMATION

7-down – See 13 : DOUGLAS

12-down – Hat : HEADGEAR

13-down – 1987 Best Actor Oscar winner for Wall Street : MICHAEL

15-down – Medical centre : CLINIC

18-down – Landscape — tantrum : SCENE

19-down – Small bloodsucker : GNAT