Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Large nuts : JORDANALMONDS

8-across – Clown : BUFFOON

9-across – Piece of information : DATUM

10-across – Verve : ELAN

11-across – Never meeting : PARALLEL

13-across – Destructive person : VANDAL

14-across – Damaging stuff – drink? : POISON

17-across – Grounds – debris : SEDIMENT

19-across – Resort in Dorset : LYME

21-across – See 19 : REGIS

22-across – Mountaineer who died on Everest : MALLORY

24-across – Make one resentful : PUTONESBACKUP

1-down – Inoculation : JAB

2-down – Chorus – stop! : REFRAIN

3-down – Asseverate : AVOW

4-down – Soften or toughen : ANNEAL

5-down – Go-between : MEDIATOR

6-down – South African province : NATAL

7-down – Outward likeness : SEMBLANCE

10-down – Listen to others’ conversation : EAVESDROP

12-down – Cheese for grating : PARMESAN

15-down – Moneylender in The Merchant of Venice : SHYLOCK

16-down – Hostility : ANIMUS

18-down – Figure – finger : DIGIT

20-down – Request – appeal : PLEA

23-down – Small dog’s sound : YAP

5-across – Irish province : CONNAUGHT

8-across – It follows 17 : JULY

9-across – Use up wastefully : SQUANDER

10-across – Long-winded : PROLIX

11-across – Fruit for salad : TOMATO

13-across – The noblest Roman of them all : BRUTUS

15-across – Fall : AUTUMN

16-across – Magician : CONJUROR

18-across – Delight : GLEE

19-across – State clearly or formally : ENUNCIATE

1-down – Multilingual person : POLYGLOT

2-down – Suitable for men and women : UNISEX

3-down – It follows 8 : AUGUST

4-down – Avoid deliberately : SHUN

6-down – Security centre on military camp : GUARDROOM

7-down – It follows 3 : SEPTEMBER

12-down – Make less severe : MITIGATE

14-down – Leap – opposite to 15 : SPRING

15-down – Scared – politely regretful : AFRAID

17-down – Month after 14 : JUNE

5-across – Cactus : PRICKLYPEAR

7-across – Potato : SPUD

8-across – She has tenants or customers : LANDLADY

9-across – Eat once : ACETONE

11-across – Jump – certain – limit : BOUND

13-across – Small fruit : BERRY

14-across – Long in the tooth : ELDERLY

16-across – Teach : INSTRUCT

17-across – Attendant – this is on one! : PAGE

18-across – A little bird says : RUMOURHASIT

1-down – Undomesticated : WILD

2-down – Horizon : SKYLINE

3-down – On the way out : DYING

4-down – Commendation for achievement : WELLDONE

5-down – Wire covered with tufts of wool : PIPECLEANER

6-down – Illumination for ship at anchor : RIDINGLIGHT

10-down – Period of schooling : TERMTIME

12-down – Discoloured in patches : BLOTCHY

15-down – Line of people waiting : QUEUE

17-down – Letters – after – job : POST

1-across – Lying on one’s back : SUPINE

4-across – Electrical control : SWITCH

8-across – Kingdom : REALM

9-across – Irish game : HURLING

10-across – Where heat’s to be stood : KITCHEN

11-across – Inn : HOTEL

12-across – Reflected illumination : MOONLIGHT

17-across – Go away! : HOPIT

19-across – Housebreaker : BURGLAR

21-across – Plug – cork : STOPPER

22-across – Initial appearance : DEBUT

23-across – Dairy product : CHEESE

24-across – Hound : BEAGLE

1-down – Butcher-bird : SHRIKE

2-down – Ghost : PHANTOM

3-down – Goddess – larval form : NYMPH

5-down – African wild pig : WARTHOG

6-down – Distort : TWIST

7-down – Try to drive a bargain : HAGGLE

9-down – Type of moustache : HANDLEBAR

13-down – Tentacled, shell-less mollusc : OCTOPUS

14-down – Boast : TALKBIG

15-down – Medicine : PHYSIC

16-down – 6, maybe in agony : WRITHE

18-down – Lying face down : PRONE

20-down – Line of raised ground : RIDGE

1-across – Developed and flourished : BURGEONED

8-across – Shrink in fear : COWER

9-across – In relation to : VISAVIS

10-across – Scene of actions : LAWCOURT

11-across – Steep, overhanging rock : CRAG

13-across – Elf : SPRITE

14-across – Fruit originally from China : LYCHEE

16-across – Rounded end of building : APSE

17-across – Norse heaven : VALHALLA

19-across – Brass instrument : TRUMPET

20-across – Letter such as N or M : NASAL

21-across – Hard, sweet-smelling timber : CEDARWOOD

1-down – North Welsh resort : BARMOUTH

2-down – Respect greatly : REVERE

3-down – Compass point : EAST

4-down – Notwithstanding : NEVERTHELESS

5-down – Unpleasant : DISAGREEABLE

6-down – Churchman : ECCLESIASTIC

7-down – Group difficult to deal with : AWKWARDSQUAD

12-down – Double-barrelled? : HYPHENED

15-down – Military display – needlework! : TATTOO

18-down – Incite : SPUR