Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Front : FACADE

4-across – Izaak, angler: William, composer : WALTON

8-across – Bony frame of head … : SKULL

9-across – … and of brain : CRANIUM

10-across – Alligator pear : AVOCADO

11-across – King of birds : EAGLE

12-across – Unsighted by prejudice etc : BLINKERED

17-across – Urge : IMPEL

19-across – Side normally on view : OBVERSE

21-across – Drink, basis for white sauce etc : HOTMILK

22-across – Small particle – weight : GRAIN

23-across – Skit : PARODY

24-across – Invest : CLOTHE

1-down – Relating to taxation : FISCAL

2-down – Unit of electric charge : COULOMB

3-down – Multiple estuary : DELTA

5-down – Non-professional : AMATEUR

6-down – Object : THING

7-down – Quantity : NUMBER

9-down – It is proverbially regular : CLOCKWORK

13-down – It’s an ______ : ILLWIND

14-down – Inactive : DORMANT

15-down – Accident : MISHAP

16-down – Spiritualist session : SEANCE

18-down – Boy’s name : PETER

20-down – Watch : VIGIL

1-across – Blindly enthusiastic : FANATICAL

8-across – Pull – retch : HEAVE

9-across – Defensive line in World War II : MAGINOT

10-across – Movement of money : CASHFLOW

11-across – Cure : HEAL

13-across – Fall : TUMBLE

14-across – First-class : TIPTOP

16-across – Surrender : CEDE

17-across – Listeners to it are on the move! : CARRADIO

19-across – Examine : INSPECT

20-across – Wild but originally domestic : FERAL

21-across – Not another word! : SAYNOMORE

1-down – Descent without parachute : FREEFALL

2-down – Biblical hunter : NIMROD

3-down – Roman garment : TOGA

4-down – 6 points at League, 7 at Union : CONVERTEDTRY

5-down – Fairies – or children? : LITTLEPEOPLE

6-down – Sudden or violent means of attaining objective : SHOCKTACTICS

7-down – Pretence of not being pretentious? : FALSEMODESTY

12-down – Fire liar : AIRRIFLE

15-down – Needlework! – performed by soldiers! : TATTOO

18-down – Ban : VETO

1-across – Otherwise : ELSE

3-across – Hurry up! : CHOPCHOP

9-across – Girl’s name – butterfly genus : VANESSA

10-across – Composer of Der Freischütz : WEBER

11-across – Extensive : LARGE

12-across – John Clayton, Lord Greystoke : TARZAN

14-across – Objects and accessories : PARAPHERNALIA

17-across – Field event : DISCUS

19-across – Scene of game : PITCH

22-across – Instrument – flower : VIOLA

23-across – One faces one in confrontation : EYEBALL

24-across – Bugle call at night or at funeral : LASTPOST

25-across – Level – below the natural note : FLAT

1-down – Covering for letter : ENVELOPE

2-down – System to locate underwater objects : SONAR

4-down – Cruelty – indifference : HEARTLESSNESS

5-down – Strength – capacity : POWER

6-down – Stud for boots : HOBNAIL

7-down – Leave one’s car : PARK

8-down – Dead to the world : ASLEEP

13-down – Sperm whale : CACHALOT

15-down – Tumbledown – very expensive! : RUINOUS

16-down – Small boy or crab? : NIPPER

18-down – Muscular spasm : CRAMP

20-down – Net for fishing at sea : TRAWL

21-down – Egg-shaped : OVAL

1-across – View – outlook : PROSPECT

5-across – Not up yet : ABED

9-across – Sound like hostile or angry dog : GROWL

10-across – Stupid : WITLESS

11-across – Coarse ryebread : PUMPERNICKEL

13-across – Salad vegetable : RADISH

14-across – Sharp tasting : ACIDIC

17-across – Amount allowed to eliminate risk : SAFETYMARGIN

20-across – Half-cook : PARBOIL

21-across – Instruction – arrangement : ORDER

22-across – Toy again in fashion : YOYO

23-across – Royal lady : PRINCESS

1-down – Attendant – part of book : PAGE

2-down – Loud or pompous : OROTUND

3-down – First place : POLEPOSITION

4-down – Craven : COWARD

6-down – Damage – interrupt : BREAK

7-down – Remove from usual habitat : DISPLACE

8-down – Sequence of drawings in paper : STRIPCARTOON

12-down – Type of tyre : CROSSPLY

15-down – Become less : DWINDLE

16-down – Eric, thriller writer : AMBLER

18-down – Transport across river etc : FERRY

19-down – Malay dagger : KRIS

1-across – Grating over castle entrance : PORTCULLIS

7-across – Fascinate : ENTHRAL

8-across – Welshman : TAFFY

10-across – Satellite : MOON

11-across – Alpine mountain : JUNGFRAU

13-across – Part of body – language! : TONGUE

15-across – See 22 : ONBOTH

17-across – Affect one another mutually : INTERACT

18-across – Novel by P.C. Wren : BEAU

21-across – : GESTE

22-across – Curse upon quarrellers : APLAGUE

23-across – Person growing plants for sale : NURSERYMAN

1-down – Paved area in garden : PATIO

2-down – Uncommon : RARE

3-down – Hue : COLOUR

4-down – One who goes to law : LITIGANT

5-down – Hell : INFERNO

6-down – God willing, weather ______ : PERMITTING

9-down – See 22 : YOURHOUSES

12-down – Place : QUARTERS

14-down – No money whatsoever! : NOTASOU

16-down – Cream cake : ECLAIR

19-down – Town : ELGIN

20-down – Sullen-looking : GLUM