Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Urgent – ironing : PRESSING

5-across – Malayan dagger : KRIS

9-across – Widespread dislike : ODIUM

10-across – Inconvenience : TROUBLE

11-across – Astonishing : MINDBOGGLING

13-across – Set light to : IGNITE

14-across – Concealed : HIDDEN

17-across – Insincere : HYPOCRITICAL

20-across – Admiration : RESPECT

21-across – Bury : INTER

22-across – Minor with guardian – division of city : WARD

23-across – Involving satire : IRONICAL

1-down – Poke : PROD

2-down – Copy – I tied on : EDITION

3-down – Type of house : SEMIDETACHED

4-down – Concept : NOTION

6-down – Jewish spiritual leader : RABBI

7-down – Using a toboggan : SLEDGING

8-down – Mathematical calculation : LONGDIVISION

12-down – Retire : WITHDRAW

15-down – Extreme : DRASTIC

16-down – Sour tasting : BITTER

18-down – Brain-teaser : POSER

19-down – River in Russia : URAL

1-across – Ursa Minor : LITTLEBEAR

7-across – Speak suddenly : EXCLAIM

8-across – Passage between seats : AISLE

10-across – Flat piece of ceramic : TILE

11-across – Severe pain : DISTRESS

13-across – Obelisk – indicator : NEEDLE

15-across – Exclamation from Archimedes : EUREKA

17-across – Break in performance : INTERVAL

18-across – Sell – whip : FLOG

21-across – Consumed : EATEN

22-across – Prickly plants : ACANTHI

23-across – Dissolved using heat : MELTEDDOWN

1-down – Neighbourhood – pub : LOCAL

2-down – Road vehicle running on tracks : TRAM

3-down – Translucent : LIMPID

4-down – Bragging : BOASTFUL

5-down – Harsh : AUSTERE

6-down – Person ready to take over : NEXTINLINE

9-down – Norfolk, Suffolk, part of Essex and Cambridgeshire : EASTANGLIA

12-down – Woodwind instrument : CLARINET

14-down – Qualify : ENTITLE

16-down – Danger : HAZARD

19-down – Dead language : LATIN

20-down – Aura round admired person : HALO

1-across – Device giving warning of fire : SMOKEALARM

7-across – Pardoned : FORGIVEN

8-across – Welsh actor, composer, singer : IVOR

9-across – Where taxis wait – foul : RANK

10-across – Scottish glen, scene of massacre : GLENCOE

12-across – Good news : GLADTIDINGS

14-across – Highest peak in Wales : SNOWDON

16-across – Wicked : EVIL

19-across – Dismal : GLUM

20-across – Lazy : INDOLENT

21-across – In existence for 12 months : ONEYEAROLD

1-down – Animal track : SPOOR

2-down – Thin, stiff fabric : ORGANZA

3-down – Jealousy : ENVY

4-down – Mistress of an inn : LANDLADY

5-down – Rule : REIGN

6-down – Permeable : POROUS

11-down – Wicked act : ATROCITY

12-down – Soft and soothing : GENTLE

13-down – See 8 : NOVELLO

15-down – Ladies : WOMEN

17-down – Of paper, ruled : LINED

18-down – Dean : EDNA

1-across – Ill : SICK

3-across – After-effect of drinking spree : HANGOVER

8-across – Yield – supply : GIVE

9-across – Sacrifice to deity : OFFERING

11-across – Deign : CONDESCEND

14-across – Dread : TERROR

15-across – Lowest part : BOTTOM

17-across – Insure plan : PENINSULAR

20-across – Stress : EMPHASIS

21-across – Eucharist : MASS

22-across – Cut short : ABRIDGED

23-across – English public school : ETON

1-down – Wisdom : SAGACITY

2-down – City devastated in World War II : COVENTRY

4-down – Influence : AFFECT

5-down – Glass building for rearing plants : GREENHOUSE

6-down – Conceited – futile : VAIN

7-down – Terrible temper : RAGE

10-down – Earlier : BEFOREHAND

12-down – Staunch : STALWART

13-down – Put in jail : IMPRISON

16-down – Godlike : DIVINE

18-down – A queen of Sparta : LEDA

19-down – Projection : SPUR

1-across – Quickly asleep : OUTLIKEALIGHT

8-across – Thought : IDEA

9-across – Silent monk : TRAPPIST

10-across – Short-winded : BREATHLESS

12-across – Cardboard container : CARTON

14-across – Plank children play on : SEESAW

15-across – Convalesce : RECUPERATE

19-across – Estrange : ALIENATE

20-across – Diplomacy : TACT

21-across – Want gate moved : MEATANDTWOVEG

2-down – Felt beneath carpet : UNDERLAY

3-down – The Forbidden City : LHASA

4-down – Cooking area : KITCHEN

5-down – Astound : AMAZE

6-down – Deadlock : IMPASSE

7-down – Army – innkeeper : HOST

11-down – Short hymn : CANTICLE

13-down – Torture : TORMENT

14-down – Wise : SAPIENT

16-down – Series : CHAIN

17-down – Proportion : RATIO

18-down – Mirth : GLEE