Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Arrogant or pompous : HIGHANDMIGHTY

8-across – Noise : DIN

9-across – Book written just for the money : POTBOILER

10-across – Necessarily : PERFORCE

11-across – Smile : GRIN

13-across – Seabird : FULMAR

14-across – Oh dear! That was a mistake! : WHOOPS

16-across – High male voice : ALTO

17-across – Town in Lincolnshire : GRANTHAM

20-across – Seabird : GUILLEMOT

21-across – Vase : URN

22-across – Box containing gold etc : TREASURECHEST

1-down – Brought to court : HADUP

2-down – Everybody out! : GENERALSTRIKE

3-down – Esteem – permission : APPROVAL

4-down – Find out – notice : DETECT

5-down – Metal : IRON

6-down – Palace in Edinburgh : HOLYROODHOUSE

7-down – Underpants : YFRONTS

12-down – Relating to the sound of words : PHONETIC

13-down – Burdened : FRAUGHT

15-down – Elementary textbook : PRIMER

18-down – Claude, painter : MONET

19-down – Exclamation of regret : ALAS

1-across – It needs a small orchestra : CHAMBERMUSIC

9-across – Mistake : ERROR

10-across – Powwow – a lot of fuss : PALAVER

11-across – Split : RIFT

12-across – Being there or close by : PRESENCE

14-across – Set of principles – plan : POLICY

15-across – Engineer of tower : EIFFEL

18-across – Bigger than diary, smaller than laptop : NOTEBOOK

20-across – Small bird : WREN

22-across – Eradicate : ROOTOUT

23-across – Geometrical diagram : GRAPH

24-across – Shut up! : PUTASOCKINIT

2-down – Damaging : HARMFUL

3-down – Bog : MIRE

4-down – Send overseas : EXPORT

5-down – Velvet or similar fabric : MOLESKIN

6-down – Number : SEVEN

7-down – Free hand : CARTEBLANCHE

8-down – You can when it”s very quiet : HEARAPINDROP

13-down – Bluish purple flower : SCABIOUS

16-down – Type of racing car : FERRARI

17-down – One sort of licence : POETIC

19-down – Fish : TROUT

21-down – West Indian citrus fruit : UGLI

1-across – Author of Catch 22 : JOSEPH

4-across – See 1 : HELLER

9-across – Scottish town with abbey : MELROSE

10-across – Finger – figure : DIGIT

11-across – Shelf : LEDGE

12-across – Shop etc, formerly front room : PARLOUR

13-across – Poem by Lewis Carroll : JABBERWOCKY

18-across – Unchecked – standing up on hind legs : RAMPANT

20-across – Quantity dealt with at one time : BATCH

22-across – Noise from the throat : COUGH

23-across – Pariah : OUTCAST

24-across – Tiresome : TRYING

25-across – Bottle : FLAGON

1-down – Mixture – for sale! : JUMBLE

2-down – Not hollow or liquid : SOLID

3-down – Saying : PROVERB

5-down – Shrub – senior : ELDER

6-down – Jobs done out of the office : LEGWORK

7-down – Finish employment : RETIRE

8-down – Hopelessness : DESPERATION

14-down – Weapon store : ARMOURY

15-down – Circular, like the M25 : ORBITAL

16-down – German playwright : BRECHT

17-down – Blanch : WHITEN

19-down – Very pale : ASHEN

21-down – Accent – sound of plucked string : TWANG

1-across – Display prominently : SPLASH

4-across – See 1 down : GLASS

7-across – Perplex : BAFFLE

8-across – See 1 down : WINDOW

9-across – Unfasten : UNDO

10-across – Highest : LOFTIEST

12-across – Unguarded : DEFENCELESS

17-across – Suggested : PROPOSED

19-across – Landing stage : PIER

20-across – Three-legged stand : TRIPOD

21-across – Maintain : INSIST

22-across – Surrender – crop : YIELD

23-across – Sinew : TENDON

1-down – Church feature – side sold was wanting : STAINED

2-down – Instant when rocket leaves launching pad : LIFTOFF

3-down – Group of islands off north Scotland : SHETLANDS

4-down – Corn to be ground : GRIST

5-down – Speech : ADDRESS

6-down – Largest Black African urban settlement : SOWETO

11-down – Nocturnal rodents : FIELDMICE

13-down – Moving – controversial : EMOTIVE

14-down – Not hidden : EXPOSED

15-down – Relative by marriage : STEPSON

16-down – Indifference : APATHY

18-down – Egg-shaped : OVOID

1-across – The Royal Navy : SENIORSERVICE

8-across – Warlike : MARTIAL

9-across – Riddle : SIEVE

10-across – Collapse – failure : FLOP

11-across – Rules expressed in symbols and figures : FORMULAE

13-across – Outcome : RESULT

14-across – For ever : ALWAYS

17-across – Desire for power, fame, etc : AMBITION

19-across – Rainbow : IRIS

21-across – Run off to marry : ELOPE

22-across – Round of applause : OVATION

24-across – Captured : TAKENPRISONER

1-down – Amount : SUM

2-down – Timid : NERVOUS

3-down – Exclude : OMIT

4-down – Unhealthily pale : SALLOW

5-down – Look similar to : RESEMBLE

6-down – Perfect : IDEAL

7-down – Morning break : ELEVENSES

10-down – The heavens : FIRMAMENT

12-down – Rent last : SLATTERN

15-down – Accuse, put on trial : ARRAIGN

16-down – Hue : COLOUR

18-down – Bear – small stream : BROOK

20-down – Go by : PASS

23-down – And not : NOR