Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Automobile built before 1930 : VINTAGECAR

7-across – Border of country : FRONTIER

8-across – Auction – somewhere in Greater Manchester : SALE

9-across – Location : SITE

10-across – Swell by pressure from within : DISTEND

12-across – Provoking disbelief : IMPLAUSIBLE

14-across – Eat : CONSUME

16-across – To-do : FUSS

19-across – Explosive device – belonging to me : MINE

20-across – Kept : RETAINED

21-across – Person sympathetic to a cause : WELLWISHER

1-down – Submicroscopic organism, cause of disease : VIRUS

2-down – Continuous : NONSTOP

3-down – Parched : ARID

4-down – Soonest : EARLIEST

5-down – Advantage : ASSET

6-down – Quick look : GLANCE

11-down – Royal castle in the Grampian : BALMORAL

12-down – Sarcastic : IRONIC

13-down – Bestial : BRUTISH

15-down – Soft, velvety leather : SUEDE

17-down – Absolute – precipitous : SHEER

18-down – Small case for small articles : ETUI

1-across – Fired : SHOT

3-across – Valuation : ESTIMATE

8-across – Cunning – chief : ARCH

9-across – One million million million : TRILLION

11-across – Deal out : DISTRIBUTE

14-across – Person engaged in disorder : RIOTER

15-across – Downright – notorious : ARRANT

17-across – Row of pillars under rail : BALUSTRADE

20-across – Lewdness : SALACITY

21-across – Support – football player : BACK

22-across – Brown cane sugar : DEMERARA

23-across – Scorch : CHAR

1-down – Degree of quality : STANDARD

2-down – Special event : OCCASION

4-down – Writer : SCRIBE

5-down – Unable to read or write : ILLITERATE

6-down – Enthusiastic : AVID

7-down – Fish-eating sea eagle : ERNE

10-down – Self-employed person : FREELANCER

12-down – Large, hard-shelled fruit : CALABASH

13-down – One making a dash without clothes : STREAKER

16-down – Gather : MUSTER

18-down – Employed : USED

19-down – Gloomy : GLUM

1-across – Sausages baked in batter : TOADINTHEHOLE

8-across – Notion : IDEA

9-across – Negligent : CARELESS

10-across – Payment of part of debt : INSTALMENT

12-across – Dazed state : TRANCE

14-across – Sensual : CARNAL

15-across – Cut of beef : SILVERSIDE

19-across – Remorseful : PENITENT

20-across – Vanquish : ROUT

21-across – Rebuke : TEARASTRIPOFF

2-down – Usual – bishop in his province : ORDINARY

3-down – Sketch – detachment of men : DRAFT

4-down – Streamlined enclosure on aircraft : NACELLE

5-down – Vaulting block : HORSE

6-down – Pistol carrier : HOLSTER

7-down – Deficit : LOSS

11-down – Dried skin in hair : DANDRUFF

13-down – More unpleasant : NASTIER

14-down – Maker : CREATOR

16-down – City on River Aire : LEEDS

17-down – Dispense with – waste : SCRAP

18-down – Surrender : CEDE

1-across – Engaged in noisy merrymaking : MADEWHOOPEE

9-across – Detestable : ABHORRENT

10-across – Memorable period : ERA

11-across – Moral : ETHIC

13-across – Going beyond moderation : EXTREME

14-across – Blush : REDDEN

15-across – Densely populated slum area : GHETTO

18-across – Originate : EMANATE

20-across – Machine for bundling hay : BALER

21-across – Delve : DIG

22-across – Trifle : BAGATELLE

24-across – Ensured : MADECERTAIN

2-down – Result of burning – deciduous tree : ASH

3-down – Pain in the hearing organ : EARACHE

4-down – Respected : HEEDED

5-down – Group of eight : OCTET

6-down – Of the powers of nature : ELEMENTAL

7-down – Became pals : MADEFRIENDS

8-down – Bespoke : MADETOORDER

12-down – Shrubby plant with showy flowers : HYDRANGEA

16-down – Natural home : HABITAT

17-down – Small, sturdy breed of hound : BEAGLE

19-down – Stroll : AMBLE

23-down – Hawaiian garland : LEI

1-across – Republic of central Europe : AUSTRIA

8-across – Habitually drunk : SOTTISH

9-across – Small bunch of flowers : NOSEGAY

10-across – Word for word : LITERAL

11-across – River in France : LOIRE

13-across – Drowsy : SOMNOLENT

15-across – Playwright : DRAMATIST

18-across – Desired : HOPED

21-across – Sailor : MATELOT

22-across – Desert – recklessness : ABANDON

23-across – Of the stomach : GASTRIC

24-across – Nominal : TITULAR

1-down – Cancel : ANNUL

2-down – Japanese dish with raw fish : SUSHI

3-down – Photographs of known criminals : ROGUESGALLERY

4-down – Refuge : ASYLUM

5-down – Up-to-the-minute : STATEOFTHEART

6-down – Savage : FIERCE

7-down – Swiss wooden house : CHALET

12-down – Finished – above : OVER

14-down – Appoint – famous person : NAME

15-down – Harm : DAMAGE

16-down – Bear witness to : ATTEST

17-down – All in one piece : INTACT

19-down – Foot lever : PEDAL

20-down – Giver : DONOR