Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Push and shove – hurry : HUSTLE

4-across – Printed cotton fabric : CHINTZ

8-across – Very stupid person : MORON

9-across – None left in the shop : SOLDOUT

10-across – Spanish ship : GALLEON

11-across – A question of place : WHERE

12-across – Waste metal for melting down : SCRAPIRON

17-across – French existentialist writer : CAMUS

19-across – Device for clearing blocked drains : PLUNGER

21-across – Checking device – VDU – lizard : MONITOR

22-across – Give a bed to : PUTUP

23-across – 5 cents : NICKEL

24-across – Worn away at the edges : FRAYED

1-down – Acknowledgment of superiority : HOMAGE

2-down – Excess : SURPLUS

3-down – Sudden thrust : LUNGE

5-down – Jihad : HOLYWAR

6-down – Loop with sliding knot : NOOSE

7-down – Instrument played on table or lap : ZITHER

9-down – Ground-dwelling wading bird : SANDPIPER

13-down – Badge : ROSETTE

14-down – Nocturnal : NIGHTLY

15-down – Keen insight : ACUMEN

16-down – Stand for camera etc : TRIPOD

18-down – Crazily excited : MANIC

20-down – Superior : UPPER

1-across – Central character in the nest : QUEENWASP

8-across – French river : LOIRE

9-across – Star – missile : POLARIS

10-across – Prickly creature : HEDGEHOG

11-across – Appeal – with bargaining? : PLEA

13-across – Bailey’s partner : BARNUM

14-across – Girl’s name : SOPHIE

16-across – Fold – friar! : TUCK

17-across – Skill in repartee etc : READYWIT

19-across – Series of sharp bends in circuit : CHICANE

20-across – Seraglio : HAREM

21-across – : LINEAMENT

1-down – Formed in orderly line : QUEUEDUP

2-down – Use : EMPLOY

3-down – Void : NULL

4-down – Typical spring weather! : APRILSHOWERS

5-down – Label stuck on envelope : POSTAGESTAMP

6-down – One sort of order : ALPHABETICAL

7-down – Leading astray : MISDIRECTION

12-down – Expression of approval at sport : GOODSHOT

15-down – Calm and at peace : SERENE

18-down – Special festivity : GALA

1-across – Bog : MIRE

3-across – Platform for election speeches : HUSTINGS

9-across – Toxic metal used in plating : CADMIUM

10-across – Practical joke : PRANK

11-across – Missile : ARROW

12-across – Drink of gods and insects : NECTAR

14-across – Of no consequence : INSIGNIFICANT

17-across – Banal : COMMON

19-across – : PLACE

22-across – Confess : OWNUP

23-across – Young male ox : BULLOCK

24-across – Magician : SORCERER

25-across – He changes colour, as it were : DYER

1-down – American Indian shoe : MOCCASIN

2-down – Addition to verdict : RIDER

4-down – Not fit to be referred to : UNMENTIONABLE

5-down – Subject : TOPIC

6-down – Falls : NIAGARA

7-down – Rice drink – for heaven’s ____ ! : SAKE

8-down – VIP : BIGWIG

13-down – Runner in the nude : STREAKER

15-down – Victorian cleric who fed sunny things : SPOONER

16-down – Pierce with lance etc : IMPALE

18-down – Tree producing syrup : MAPLE

20-down – Extreme pain : AGONY

21-down – Throw into the air : TOSS

1-across – Ingenuity – expedient – supply : RESOURCE

5-across – Political grouping : BLOC

9-across – Funny : COMIC

10-across – Big money? : CAPITAL

11-across – Noblewoman : GRANDDUCHESS

13-across – Beads for prayer : ROSARY

14-across – Shed for aircraft : HANGAR

17-across – Mini-farm, perhaps : SMALLHOLDING

20-across – As a substitute : INSTEAD

21-across – Cleanse : PURGE

22-across – Entrance : GATE

23-across – Cambridge mathematician – US herdsman : WRANGLER

1-down – Shelf for luggage : RACK

2-down – Champion tennis player : SAMPRAS

3-down – Without restraint or regulation : UNCONTROLLED

4-down – Noisy insect : CICADA

6-down – Turning tool : LATHE

7-down – Facial outbreak of herpes virus : COLDSORE

8-down – Neat and tidy : SPICKANDSPAN

12-down – Sauce – protection for wound : DRESSING

15-down – Opposite of private! : GENERAL

16-down – Over there : YONDER

18-down – Advantage : ASSET

19-down – Loved – costly : DEAR

1-across – Fob : WATCHCHAIN

7-across – Unharness : OUTSPAN

8-across – Tendon : SINEW

10-across – Go down – in the kitchen? : SINK

11-across – Once in it is hardly ever : BLUEMOON

13-across – Pointer on a sundial : GNOMON

15-across – Crucial point : CRISIS

17-across – On condition that – : ASLONGAS

18-across – Branch – incitement : SPUR

21-across – Stupid person : DUNCE

22-across – Small flow : TRICKLE

23-across – 745.7 watts : HORSEPOWER

1-down – Anglo-Saxon assembly : WITAN

2-down – Variety : TYPE

3-down – Touch – deal with : HANDLE

4-down – Inn : HOSTELRY

5-down – Formed by intense heat : IGNEOUS

6-down – Member of) marine rescue organisation : COASTGUARD

9-down – Sheet of glass in front of driver : WINDSCREEN

12-down – Noblewoman : COUNTESS

14-down – Shakespeare or Virginia Woolf hero : ORLANDO

16-down – Small computer : LAPTOP

19-down – Card game : POKER

20-down – Prospect : VIEW