Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Half-moon shape : SEMICIRCLE

7-across – Continuous : NONSTOP

8-across – Strap : THONG

10-across – Mountain goat : IBEX

11-across – One taking the middle ground : CENTRIST

13-across – Decadent : EFFETE

15-across – Associate on familiar terms : HOBNOB

17-across – Put up with : TOLERATE

18-across – Festivity : GALA

21-across – Old-time announcer : CRIER

22-across – Authority – or freedom! : LICENCE

23-across – Make your own selection : PICKANDMIX

1-down – Burn slightly : SINGE

2-down – Usually nocturnal insect : MOTH

3-down – Policeman : COPPER

4-down – Recurring sequence : ROTATION

5-down – Person from southeast Asian country : LAOTIAN

6-down – Designed to counteract infection : ANTISEPTIC

9-down – Dismissive expression : GOTOBLAZES

12-down – Extraterrestrial journey : STARTREK

14-down – Film director : FELLINI

16-down – Pinched : STOLEN

19-down – Take possession of : ANNEX

20-down – Confidence trick : SCAM

1-across – Get together again : REASSEMBLE

7-across – Tanned : SUNBURNT

8-across – Disease inflaming the big toe : GOUT

9-across – Plant for rope or pot : HEMP

10-across – One enjoying good food and drink : EPICURE

12-across – Easy profits : MONEYFORJAM

14-across – Side view : PROFILE

16-across – Black market operator : SPIV

19-across – Stopper – advert : PLUG

20-across – Humiliate : BELITTLE

21-across – Hell – criminals : UNDERWORLD

1-down – Hard – coarse – inexact : ROUGH

2-down – White of egg : ALBUMEN

3-down – Nimble : SPRY

4-down – Figure of speech : METAPHOR

5-down – Reason : LOGIC

6-down – Sufficient number present : QUORUM

11-down – Part of a word : SYLLABLE

12-down – Level of confidence : MORALE

13-down – Planet : JUPITER

15-down – Dickensian villain : FAGIN

17-down – Based on reason or law : VALID

18-down – Hooked nail : CLAW

1-across – Franchise : VOTE

3-across – Symbolic representations of composition of substances : CHEMICAL

8-across – Woman : LADY

9-across – Sphere of : BALLPARK

11-across – Tendons, cartilage, ligaments, etc : CONNECTIVE

14-across – See 11 : TISSUE

15-across – Recess : ALCOVE

17-across – Name derived from forefather : PATRONYMIC

20-across – Send down : RELEGATE

21-across – Sign of pitch : CLEF

22-across – Gradually, as time passes : DAYBYDAY

23-across – Inform : TELL

1-down – Speed : VELOCITY

2-down – Orderly quality : TIDINESS

4-down – Cordial : HEARTY

5-down – Spiteful : MALEVOLENT

6-down – Crustacean – apple : CRAB

7-down – Expanse of water : LAKE

10-down – One of the lads : REGULARGUY

12-down – See 3 : FORMULAE

13-down – Calm and undisturbed : PEACEFUL

16-down – Green for eloping couples : GRETNA

18-down – Network : GRID

19-down – Be sickeningly sweet : CLOY

1-across – Keep on altering things : CHOPANDCHANGE

8-across – Portent : OMEN

9-across – Rational, non-intoxicated condition : SOBRIETY

10-across – Villain : BLACKGUARD

12-across – Awkward – viscous : STICKY

14-across – Coleopterous insect : BEETLE

15-across – Digging up scandal : MUCKRAKING

19-across – Fall and break up : COLLAPSE

20-across – Top : APEX

21-across – Pell-mell : HELTERSKELTER

2-down – Opposite of pride : HUMILITY

3-down – Extreme fear : PANIC

4-down – Posy : NOSEGAY

5-down – Poisonous snake : COBRA

6-down – Aid near : ARIADNE

7-down – Inside – bottle! : GUTS

11-down – What Nelson turned : BLINDEYE

13-down – Arthur’s or Kennedy’s court? : CAMELOT

14-down – Violently angry : BERSERK

16-down – Frolic – sauce! : CAPER

17-down – African hut village : KRAAL

18-down – No place like it! : HOME

1-across – Kingsley’s fairy tale : WATERBABIES

9-across – Fragrant mixture : POTPOURRI

10-across – Sound of dove : COO

11-across – African river and country : NIGER

13-across – Warning that item is damaged : ASFOUND

14-across – Unwakeful : SLEEPY

15-across – Be quiet! : SHUTUP

18-across – Main component of natural gas : METHANE

20-across – Opera – ex-PM’s wife : NORMA

21-across – Opera princess : IDA

22-across – Single out unfairly : VICTIMISE

24-across – Motorcycle gang : HELLSANGELS

2-down – Astern : AFT

3-down – Exercise in self-indulgence : EGOTRIP

4-down – Interment : BURIAL

5-down – Short … : BRIEF

6-down – … meeting : ENCOUNTER

7-down – North coast of South America of old, with pirates : SPANISHMAIN

8-down – Electronic megaphone : LOUDSPEAKER

12-down – Large dog : GREATDANE

16-down – Controversial rural pursuit : HUNTING

17-down – Ancient midland kingdom : MERCIA

19-down – Smith’s block : ANVIL

23-down – Sick : ILL