Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Coastal place much visited : SEASIDERESORT

8-across – Blend : COMBINE

9-across – Perfect : IDEAL

10-across – Sensible : SANE

11-across – Without equal : PEERLESS

13-across – Kind of cake filled with dried fruit : ECCLES

14-across – Artist’s workroom : STUDIO

17-across – One helping actors – much quicker : PROMPTER

19-across – Colour – near the knuckle! : BLUE

21-across – Upright : ERECT

22-across – Win : TRIUMPH

24-across – Permission to look for stolen goods : SEARCHWARRANT

1-down – Of wine, dry : SEC

2-down – Calendar with detailed information : ALMANAC

3-down – Plant with sword-shaped leaves : IRIS

4-down – Administrative centre of Devon : EXETER

5-down – Settle in another country : EMIGRATE

6-down – Overweight : OBESE

7-down – Optical instrument magnifying distant objects : TELESCOPE

10-down – Gradient : STEEPNESS

12-down – Tyrannical : DESPOTIC

15-down – Predicament : DILEMMA

16-down – Confer : BESTOW

18-down – Musical entertainment : OPERA

20-down – Bank – row : TIER

23-down – Strike – great success! : HIT

5-across – Made an error : WENTWRONG

8-across – Military cap with circular top : KEPI

9-across – Pillar supporting staircase rail : BALUSTER

10-across – Figurine : STATUE

11-across – Pure – virtuous : CHASTE

13-across – Hidden – thicket : COVERT

15-across – Conquer : SUBDUE

16-across – Pose : ATTITUDE

18-across – Boulder : ROCK

19-across – Continued – took the lead : WENTAHEAD

1-down – Disparage : BELITTLE

2-down – Firm : STABLE

3-down – Merrymaking : FROLIC

4-down – Responsibility : ONUS

6-down – Left home, often to do battle : WENTFORTH

7-down – Shared expenses : WENTDUTCH

12-down – Tree-dwelling : ARBOREAL

14-down – Reliable : TRUSTY

15-down – Boil : SEETHE

17-down – Wild goat with large horns : IBEX

5-across – Improvise : PLAYITBYEAR

7-across – Malayan knife : KRIS

8-across – Edge of cloth : SELVEDGE

9-across – Scorn : DISDAIN

11-across – Emerald or aquamarine : BERYL

13-across – Foe : ENEMY

14-across – Union member – male relative : BROTHER

16-across – Work – party : FUNCTION

17-across – Racing toboggan : LUGE

18-across – Money, disparagingly : FILTHYLUCRE

1-down – Church service – crowd : MASS

2-down – Dirigible : AIRSHIP

3-down – Signs referring to footnotes : OBELI

4-down – Respectful : REVERENT

5-down – Arm of Arabian Sea between Iran and Saudi Arabia : PERSIANGULF

6-down – Football game for 13 players : RUGBYLEAGUE

10-down – Permanent legal residence : DOMICILE

12-down – Crease in skin : WRINKLE

15-down – Supple : LITHE

17-down – Fortune : LUCK

1-across – Capital of the UK : LONDON

4-across – Capital of Germany : BERLIN

8-across – Capital of France : PARIS

9-across – Device for unblocking drains : PLUNGER

10-across – A letter : EPISTLE

11-across – Outcome : ISSUE

12-across – Felicity : HAPPINESS

17-across – Capital of Egypt : CAIRO

19-across – List of goods sold : INVOICE

21-across – View : OPINION

22-across – Capital of India : DELHI

23-across – Capital of Portugal : LISBON

24-across – Capital of Spain : MADRID

1-down – Branch cutter : LOPPER

2-down – Administrative centre of Norfolk : NORWICH

3-down – Start – attack : ONSET

5-down – Difficult to pin down : ELUSIVE

6-down – Former capital of Nigeria : LAGOS

7-down – Tended : NURSED

9-down – Accuracy : PRECISION

13-down – Condition : PROVISO

14-down – Glib salesman : SPIELER

15-down – Group of porpoises – place of education : SCHOOL

16-down – Stretch – cycle : PERIOD

18-down – Climbing evergreen plants : IVIES

20-down – Russian spirit : VODKA

1-across – Spanish gentleman : CABALLERO

8-across – Playing card – pity : HEART

9-across – Coal container for fireside : SCUTTLE

10-across – Renovated : RESTORED

11-across – Poetic name for Ireland : ERIN

13-across – In music, leisurely : ADAGIO

14-across – Amorous : LOVING

16-across – Drunken revel : ORGY

17-across – Coloured handkerchief : BANDANNA

19-across – External : OUTWARD

20-across – Dent : NOTCH

21-across – Former county of England : YORKSHIRE

1-down – Universal : CATHOLIC

2-down – Container for shopping : BASKET

3-down – Oaf : LOUT

4-down – Of prices, excessive : ESTORTIONATE

5-down – Study of the sea : OCEANOGRAPHY

6-down – Study of drugs : PHARMACOLOGY

7-down – Homicide without malice aforethought : MANSLAUGHTER

12-down – Concentrate : CONDENSE

15-down – Indian leader, Indira, assassinated 1984 : GANDHI

18-down – Large fish – singer : BASS