Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Awry – like a Conference? : PEARSHAPED

7-across – Hare hunter – bird of prey – jump jet : HARRIER

8-across – Perfect happiness : BLISS

10-across – Great,gray or eared : SEAL

11-across – Abstemious : TEETOTAL

13-across – Game with hooked sticks and hard ball : HOCKEY

15-across – Form a unified hole : COHERE

17-across – Get out of here! : RUNFORIT

18-across – Breathe with short quick breaths : PANT

21-across – A swim : SWAMI

22-across – John Lennon 1980 number one : IMAGINE

23-across – Spins,rises : PRISSINESS

1-down – Hooded waterproof coat or jacket : PARKA

2-down – Somewhat : ABIT

3-down – Easier : SERIEA

4-down – Fundamentally : ATBOTTOM

5-down – Let’s pie : EPISTLE

6-down – P : PHOSPHORUS

9-down – Dignity : SELFESTEEM

12-down – Exercise system designed to increase amount of oxygen in blood : AEROBICS

14-down – Human-horse hybrid : CENTAUR

16-down – Two-piece beachwear : BIKINI

19-down – ‘___,amigo!’ : ADIOS

20-down – Internet,transport or cat? : CAFE

1-across – Freedom of action : CARTEBLANCHE

9-across – Urban’s opposite : RURAL

10-across – Adolescent : TEENAGE

11-across – In excited eagerness : AGOG

12-across – Without a care in the world : BLITHELY

14-across – <i>Le chef</i><span> : FLECHE

15-across – Looted : TOLEDO

18-across – Elevation at the coast : SEALEVEL

20-across – Remove,as a hat : DOFF

22-across – Form of Satan – treacherous type : SERPENT

23-across – Amazon ___ : PRIME

24-across – Surpassing all others : TRANSCENDENT

2-down – Aperture in a cat box,perhaps : AIRHOLE

3-down – Ring out – bridge fee : TOLL

4-down – Spirit – container for spirits : BOTTLE

5-down – Computer screen warning : ALERTBOX

6-down – Abrade : CHAFE

7-down – Now and then : EVERYSOOFTEN

8-down – Eggcups,toast rack etc? : BREAKFASTSET

13-down – Bare-footed : SHOELESS

16-down – e.g. David Cameron or James Bond : ETONIAN

17-down – Colorado,May or stag : BEETLE

19-down – It carries blood from the heart : AORTA

21-down – Apple tablet : IPAD

1-across – Gnasher string : DENTALFLOSS

9-across – ___ sale : CLEARANCE

10-across – Raw underground material : ORE

11-across – Garlicky dip : AIOLI

13-across – Novelist Flannery or singer Sinéad : OCONNOR

14-across – Second most popular web browser : SAFARI

15-across – Systematize : CODIFY

18-across – Most common coffee bean : ARABICA

20-across – Dance or dip : SALSA

21-across – Number of humps on a dromedary : ONE

22-across – Vodka,cranberry and grapefruit juice : SEABREEZE

24-across – Item in a tailor’s kit : TAPEMEASURE

2-down – Sensory organ of the head : EYE

3-down – Airedale,Skye or Yorkshire : TERRIER

4-down – Pride,gin or Eye : LONDON

5-down – Deceive : LIETO

6-down – Wading bird – cutlery cost? : SPOONBILL

7-down – Principle of economy : OCCAMSRAZOR

8-down – St Peter locale : PEARLYGATES

12-down – Not captured by the lens : OFFCAMERA

16-down – In a way : OFSORTS

17-down – Japanese for ‘empty hand’ : KARATE

19-down – Emanate : ISSUE

23-down – Sensory organ of the head : EAR

1-across – Silver,e.g. : PRECIOUSMETAL

8-across – ‘Dost thou think,because thou art virtuous,there shall be no more cakes and ___?’ : ALE

9-across – Looking good on the box : TELEGENIC

10-across – Ti : TITANIUM

11-across – Last Nato alphabet letter : ZULU

13-across – Soup dish : TUREEN

14-across – <span>Uncle in </span><i>Henry V</i> : EXETER

16-across – Gangster’s gal : MOLL

17-across – Square cloth covering head / neck : KERCHIEF

20-across – Amends – Ian McEwan novel : ATONEMENT

21-across – Number of humps on a Bactrian camel : TWO

22-across – Unwise : ILLCONSIDERED

1-down – Braid : PLAIT

2-down – Voter list : ELECTORALROLL

3-down – Meant : INTENDED

4-down – Diacritical sign over some German letters : UMLAUT

5-down – Chumps : MUGS

6-down – That’s not easy for you to say! : TONGUETWISTER

7-down – Solution of film-forming substances in a volatile solvent : LACQUER

12-down – Did – did in : EXECUTED

13-down – Kettledrums : TIMPANI

15-down – Ones using needle and thread : SEWERS

18-down – Oslo’s on one : FJORD

19-down – <i>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</i><span> captain</span> : NEMO

1-across – Say yes to : ACCEPT

4-across – Goes by – makes the grade,literally : PASSES

9-across – Violent storm : TORNADO

10-across – Standing out – haughty : PROUD

11-across – ‘There is a spy in our ___’ : MIDST

12-across – Place for a play or an op : THEATRE

13-across – They stare at stars : ASTRONOMERS

18-across – Beninese,e.g. : AFRICAN

20-across – Bring the food to the table : SERVE

22-across – Undistinguished – level land : PLAIN

23-across – Versus : AGAINST

24-across – Bingo’s ‘Legs’ : ELEVEN

25-across – Map’s explanatory matter : LEGEND

1-down – Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness : AUTUMN

2-down – Gave a fig : CARED

3-down – Mustard ___; ___ of Paris : PLASTER

5-down – Jazz or Fuji? : APPLE

6-down – Electric ___ : SCOOTER

7-down – Without warning : SUDDEN

8-down – Breakfast,quilt or shelf : CONTINENTAL

14-down – Emerge : SURFACE

15-down – The ‘M’ of ‘SMS’ : MESSAGE

16-down – Try – musical borrowing : SAMPLE

17-down – Argument,blanket or pool : HEATED

19-down – It has a flat bottom : CANOE

21-down – Mountains – extend : RANGE