July 2018

1-across – 1948 Cole Porter musical : KISSMEKATE

7-across – Baked mixture of egg whites and sugar : MERINGUE

8-across – Court order : WRIT

9-across – Gentlewoman : LADY

10-across – Science of animal life : ZOOLOGY

12-across – Solid figure with five plane faces : PENTAHEDRON

14-across – Web access program : BROWSER

16-across – Pound : QUID

19-across – Feral — crazy : WILD

20-across – Instruction : TEACHING

21-across – Construction worker : BRICKLAYER

1-down – Funereal bell sound : KNELL

2-down – Large Wiltshire railway town : SWINDON

3-down – Gullible people : MUGS

4-down – Capsize : KEELOVER

5-down – Drying cloth : TOWEL

6-down – Maiden : VIRGIN

11-down – Regal — grand : MAJESTIC

12-down – Official document giving authorisation : PERMIT

13-down – Approximately : ROUGHLY

15-down – Broader : WIDER

17-down – Small US restaurant : DINER

18-down – Toad ___ : HALL

1-across – Endorse : BACK

3-across – Buildings : EDIFICES

8-across – Exceedingly : VERY

9-across – Sudden sharp increase in the birth rate : BABYBOOM

11-across – Baker’s tool : ROLLINGPIN

14-across – Confused and slow to react : GROGGY

15-across – Acrobatic feat — schisms : SPLITS

17-across – Industrial city on the Ohio river : CINCINNATI

20-across – Something difficult to say or understand : MOUTHFUL

21-across – Oral examination : VIVA

22-across – Divided — distinct : SEPARATE

23-across – Light toboggan : LUGE

1-down – Liquid refreshment : BEVERAGE

2-down – Set of musical bells : CARILLON

4-down – ___ Reinhardt, French jazz guitarist, d. 1953 : DJANGO

5-down – Unauthorised disposal of waste materials : FLYTIPPING

6-down – Wooden-soled shoe : CLOG

7-down – Japanese wrestling : SUMO

10-down – Colourful bird seen by streams and rivers : KINGFISHER

12-down – Dessert — is it arum? : TIRAMISU

13-down – Rough calculation : ESTIMATE

16-down – Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges : ACQUIT

18-down – Old Testament prophet : AMOS

19-down – Witticism : QUIP

1-across – Receptacle for dirty linen : LAUNDRYBASKET

8-across – Evil spell : JINX

9-across – Mathematics of points, lines, curves and surfaces : GEOMETRY

10-across – Anyway : INANYEVENT

12-across – Heaps : STACKS

14-across – Accept a loan : BORROW

15-across – Rebuked : ADMONISHED

19-across – Minor engagement — his smirk : SKIRMISH

20-across – Cornish resort : BUDE

21-across – Dull : UNINTERESTING

2-down – Estrange : ALIENATE

3-down – 37th president of the United States, resigned 1974 : NIXON

4-down – Return to a former or less developed state : REGRESS

5-down – Liquor : BOOZE

6-down – Jumper : SWEATER

7-down – Continental currency : EURO

11-down – Greek sea god : POSEIDON

13-down – Feeling of vexation : CHAGRIN

14-down – Wailing spirit : BANSHEE

16-down – New England state : MAINE

17-down – Carved shoe — boats : SABOT

18-down – Devotional painting in Eastern Churches : IKON