Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – : PSYCHOSOMATIC

8-across – Peacock’s outstanding feature : PLUMAGE

9-across – Means of searching underwater : SONAR

10-across – : TOGS

11-across – Solidly constructed : WELLMADE

13-across – Pop or Philip? : LARKIN

14-across – Prawns in breadcrumbs : SCAMPI

17-across – Social butterfly : GADABOUT

19-across – Keep it up in trying circumstances : CHIN

21-across – Piece for nine musicians : NONET

22-across – Having a run of success : ONAROLL

24-across – Psychological impact of war : COMBATFATIGUE

1-down – Try – fizzy drink : POP

2-down – Not so mature : YOUNGER

3-down – Pile : HEAP

4-down – Distorted : SKEWED

5-down – Lose track of – Alice’s MP : MISPLACE

6-down – Country made up of more than 170 islands in the South Pacific : TONGA

7-down – Claire Ann : CARNELIAN

10-down – Having : TELEGENIC

12-down – Italian bread made with olive oil : CIABATTA

15-down – Game of tiles : MAHJONG

16-down – Limit : CUTOFF

18-down – Stretch,blue or double? : DENIM

20-down – Horse-drawn vehicle : CART

23-down – Give a false impression : LIE

5-across – High-handed attitude : ARROGANCE

8-across – ___ or that : THIS

9-across – Widespread outbreak of disease : PANDEMIC

10-across – Under the influence of drugs : STONED

11-across – Food for bees and butterflies : NECTAR

13-across – Priest : CLERIC

15-across – Logic-based puzzle : SUDOKU

16-across – It’s used to calculate the height of mountains : SEALEVEL

18-across – Advance : LEND

19-across – One may be laughing – or sleeping? : POLICEMAN

1-down – One’s not at liberty : PRISONER

2-down – Sluggish : TORPID

3-down – It makes tea bitter : TANNIN

4-down – Experience longing – or pain : ACHE

6-down – Untruths designed to spare people’s feelings : WHITELIES

7-down – Commandeering a vehicle : HIJACKING

12-down – US luxury car : CADILLAC

14-down – Give way : CAVEIN

15-down – Crisps,cod or caramel? : SALTED

17-down – Pilot’s circuit : LOOP

5-across – Make-up : COMPOSITION

7-across – Angry mood : SNIT

8-across – Dominance : HEGEMONY

9-across – Excessively prim behaviour : PRUDERY

11-across – Poles : SLOPE

13-across – Stop making progress : STALL

14-across – Analyse : DISSECT

16-across – Golf,beach or cocktail? : UMBRELLA

17-across – : FAFF

18-across – Likeable : SYMPATHETIC

1-down – Bit of dirt : SMUT

2-down – And that’s that! : SOTHERE

3-down – Inner part of a hull : BILGE

4-down – Flyers’ loyalty points : AIRMILES

5-down – Difference of opinion – protects men : CONTRETEMPS

6-down – Undefined : NONSPECIFIC

10-down – Feelings of listlessness : DOLDRUMS

12-down – Razor-toothed South American fish : PIRANHA

15-down – Passionately appeal : PLEAD

17-down – Bouts of coughing – or laughter : FITS

1-across – Delicate : SUBTLE

4-across – Exist in large numbers : ABOUND

8-across – Duck : AVOID

9-across – Unfair – and unfinished : PARTIAL

10-across – Guts : BRAVERY

11-across – Way of doing something : STYLE

12-across – Rescue : EXTRICATE

17-across – Spiral shape : WHORL

19-across – Early stages : INFANCY

21-across – Thug : RUFFIAN

22-across – Confusing sound of many voices : BABEL

23-across – Infuriate : ENRAGE

24-across – Vegetable with long,crunchy stalks : CELERY

1-down – Unfair : SHABBY

2-down – Luxury material with a raised design : BROCADE

3-down – Soup server : LADLE

5-down – Coffee server : BARISTA

6-down – Consensus : UNITY

7-down – Sweet-sounding : DULCET

9-down – I panic shy : PHYSICIAN

13-down – Meaningful : TELLING

14-down – Give : ENNOBLE

15-down – Suddenly change direction : SWERVE

16-down – Subsidiary bit of drama : BYPLAY

18-down – Discount – marriage proposal : OFFER

20-down – <i>Animal Farm</i><span>,for instance</span> : FABLE

1-across – Artistic principle : AESTHETIC

8-across – Harmful publication : LIBEL

9-across – Word of farewell : CHEERIO

10-across – One and all : EVERYONE

11-across – Glass sheet : PANE

13-across – Let slip : BETRAY

14-across – Work of a tailor – or surgeon? : SEWING

16-across – Once more : ANEW

17-across – Eponymous former Dutch colony in Guyana : DEMERARA

19-across – Position : INSTALL

20-across – Move,making a rustling sound : SWISH

21-across – Created : GENERATED

1-down – Narrow passage : ALLEYWAY

2-down – Next – moment : SECOND

3-down – End of a loaf : HEEL

4-down – Food additive in baking powder : TARTARICACID

5-down – Work of Matthew Bourne or Arlene Phillips? : CHOREOGRAPHY

6-down – Gallic barmen : ALLEMBRACING

7-down – Classic illustration : OBJECTLESSON

12-down – Let out : RELEASED

15-down – It contains undigested bird food : PELLET

18-down – Villain’s retreat : LAIR