Author name: crosswordanswers

5-across – Highest place for miles around : MOUNTAINTOP

7-across – Bitter – drug : ACID

8-across – Song of songster : BIRDCALL

9-across – Ask people’s opinion : CONSULT

11-across – Flood : SPATE

13-across – Meagre : SCANT

14-across – Posh covered entrance to building : PORTICO

16-across – Person at switchboard, etc : OPERATOR

17-across – Flesh of fruit – type of fiction : PULP

18-across – Smugness : COMPLACENCY

1-down – Prison – the Q in QED : QUOD

2-down – Effect of ceasing to shave : STUBBLE

3-down – Hot-tempered : FIERY

4-down – Resource for making soup, etc : STOCKPOT

5-down – Too small to see with the naked eye : MICROSCOPIC

6-down – Avoiding causing grief to groups seen as disadvantaged : POLITICALLY

10-down – Combination of symptoms : SYNDROME

12-down – See 6 : CORRECT

15-down – Fashion : STYLE

17-down – Healthy colour? : PINK

1-across – Emperor of Japan : MIKADO

4-across – Queen Victoria wasn’t! : AMUSED

8-across – Giver : DONOR

9-across – Space in lieu of garage : CARPORT

10-across – Enthusiastic : FERVENT

11-across – Salad plant : CRESS

12-across – Going in different directions : DIVERGENT

17-across – Rice field – temper! : PADDY

19-across – Pleasant to talk to : AFFABLE

21-across – Contrary to law : ILLEGAL

22-across – Untied : LOOSE

23-across – Metal framework for crane, signals, etc : GANTRY

24-across – Gimcrack : SHODDY

1-down – Adapt : MODIFY

2-down – Relations : KINDRED

3-down – Mourning song : DIRGE

5-down – Extraordinary event : MIRACLE

6-down – Little rock : STONE

7-down – Loathe : DETEST

9-down – Yowl : CATERWAUL

13-down – Traveller : VOYAGER

14-down – Small size newspaper : TABLOID

15-down – Season : SPRING

16-down – Vegetable in sticks : CELERY

18-down – Bob : DYLAN

20-down – Purloin : FILCH

1-across – Writer about the past : HISTORIAN

8-across – Musical drama : OPERA

9-across – Bounty : LARGESS

10-across – Having only one spouse at a time : MONOGAMY

11-across – 1 across’s Muse – from Renault? : CLIO

13-across – Unidirectional : ONEWAY

14-across – Sudden movement – main gist : THRUST

16-across – Limit – school time : TERM

17-across – Lib-Lab, us : SILLABUB

19-across – Isle of Wight chalk monoliths : NEEDLES

20-across – Swill : RINSE

21-across – Amuse – give hospitality : ENTERTAIN

1-down – Hats, etc : HEADGEAR

2-down – Herod’s niece in Wilde play : SALOME

3-down – Wicked giant : OGRE

4-down – Mr Right in Wilde play : IDEALHUSBAND

5-down – Stackable furniture : NESTOFTABLES

6-down – A Woman of ______ : NOIMPORTANCE

7-down – … unlike 6, of ______ : BEINGEARNEST

12-down – Offspring : CHILDREN

15-down – Unpleasant vapour or influence : MIASMA

18-down – Smudge : BLUR

1-across – Plant forming most of my lawn! : MOSS

3-across – Band of colours : SPECTRUM

9-across – Capital of Kenya : NAIROBI

10-across – Publisher’s puff : BLURB

11-across – Very strong or important person : TITAN

12-across – Frank : CANDID

14-across – Competition to be Miss _______ : BEAUTYCONTEST

17-across – Old name for Britain : ALBION

19-across – Housey-housey : BINGO

22-across – Perfect : IDEAL

23-across – Traditional street cry : OLDIRON

24-across – Unit of electric power : KILOWATT

25-across – Raise – army : LEVY

1-down – Canadian province : MANITOBA

2-down – Move : SHIFT

4-down – Husband of reigning monarch : PRINCECONSORT

5-down – Room on ship : CABIN

6-down – Regular procedure : ROUTINE

7-down – Melville’s whale : MOBY

8-down – Cover for head or engine : BONNET

13-down – Lawyer : ATTORNEY

15-down – Plant regarded as panacea : ALLHEAL

16-down – Unimportant person : NOBODY

18-down – Relation by marriage : INLAW

20-down – Courage – impertinence : NERVE

21-down – See 7 : DICK

1-across – Painting, maybe a Turner : SEASCAPE

5-across – Cooing bird : WOOD

9-across – Identifying tag : LABEL

10-across – Ancient king who made a knot : GORDIUS

11-across – Area containing ozone layer : STRATOSPHERE

13-across – Edna, novelist : OBRIEN

14-across – A liquid hydrocarbon found in petroleum : OCTANE

17-across – Tall, portable light : STANDARDLAMP

20-across – Letter carrier : MAILVAN

21-across – Bury : INTER

22-across – Marsh plant – hurry! : RUSH

23-across – Maternal : MOTHERLY

1-down – Seasoning : SALT

2-down – Referee : ARBITER

3-down – Rival to the 5 4 : COLLAREDDOVE

4-down – See 5 : PIGEON

6-down – Say what one thinks : OPINE

7-down – Cut apart : DISSEVER

8-down – We keep them in tanks : TROPICALFISH

12-down – Threads from spiders : GOSSAMER

15-down – It measures current : AMMETER

16-down – Right away : PRONTO

18-down – : AMISS

19-down – Wear away at the edges : FRAY