Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Join – friend : ALLY

3-across – Card game : CRIBBAGE

9-across – Three-cornered hat : TRICORN

10-across – Grant : AWARD

11-across – Emblem : BADGE

12-across – Modernise : UPDATE

14-across – Enjoy yourself! : HAVEAGOODTIME

17-across – For nothing : GRATIS

19-across – Natural ability : FLAIR

22-across – Change – 1960s’ dance : TWIST

23-across – Inspect carefully : EXAMINE

24-across – Wide view : PANORAMA

25-across – Muddle : MESS

1-down – German motorway : AUTOBAHN

2-down – Scottish landowner : LAIRD

4-down – Not as team four : RANOUTOFSTEAM

5-down – Uninteresting : BLAND

6-down – Prickly plants : ACANTHI

7-down – Whirlpool : EDDY

8-down – Wine shop : BODEGA

13-down – Intrepid : FEARLESS

15-down – Translation : VERSION

16-down – Beat : DEFEAT

18-down – Teacher : TUTOR

20-down – Linen rectangle worn by priests : AMICE

21-down – Pack it in – bar : STOP

1-across – Likely customer – search for gold : PROSPECT

5-across – Stork-like bird : IBIS

9-across – Entertainment with sketches and songs : REVUE

10-across – Keep apart : ISOLATE

11-across – Drink prepared from roots : SARSAPARILLA

13-across – Team – number : ELEVEN

14-across – Republic in North America : MEXICO

17-across – In proportion : COMMENSURATE

20-across – Deadlock : IMPASSE

21-across – Person minding another’s child : NANNY

22-across – Paradise : EDEN

23-across – Staunch follower : ADHERENT

1-down – Harbour : PORT

2-down – Make unnecessary : OBVIATE

3-down – Official announcement made to newspapers : PRESSRELEASE

4-down – Happy – like a bird? : CHIRPY

6-down – Fracas : BRAWL

7-down – English furniture maker : SHERATON

8-down – Tuned for race : TOURDEFRANCE

12-down – Give detailed account of : DESCRIBE

15-down – Deep : INTENSE

16-down – Port in Belgium : OSTEND

18-down – Tree: its leaf the Canadian emblem : MAPLE

19-down – Sac or vesicle : CYST

1-across – Harmonica : MOUTHORGAN

7-across – Opening : ORIFICE

8-across – Flower – lit up : TULIP

10-across – Support on which ship is built : KEEL

11-across – Stronghold : FASTNESS

13-across – Eraser : RUBBER

15-across – Base : BOTTOM

17-across – Greenhouse : ORANGERY

18-across – Prison – commotion : STIR

21-across – Tally : MATCH

22-across – Large tent : MARQUEE

23-across – Suffering from insomnia? : LYINGAWAKE

1-down – Type of corn : MAIZE

2-down – Single person – group of people : UNIT

3-down – Braying sound of donkey : HEEHAW

4-down – Cycle – revolution : ROTATION

5-down – Illness : AILMENT

6-down – Where gym users get changed : LOCKERROOM

9-down – Autopsy : POSTMORTEM

12-down – Stretch out : LENGTHEN

14-down – Brutal : BEASTLY

16-down – Peninsula, scene of war 1853-56 : CRIMEA

19-down – Cessation of hostilities : TRUCE

20-down – Opera song : ARIA

1-across – Result of infection in respiratory tract : BRONCHITIS

7-across – Shame : DISGRACE

8-across – Nightclub area in London : SOHO

9-across – Sand hill : DUNE

10-across – Make patterns using thin perforated sheets : STENCIL

12-across – Heat at track : HEARTATTACK

14-across – Eight-sided figure : OCTAGON

16-across – Appliance producing light : LAMP

19-across – Nothing : ZERO

20-across – Aped : IMITATED

21-across – Inflammation of part of throat : LARYNGITIS

1-down – Unable to see – screen : BLIND

2-down – Thin, stiff fabric : ORGANZA

3-down – Talon : CLAW

4-down – Individuality providing recognition : IDENTITY

5-down – Norwegian dramatist : IBSEN

6-down – Get smaller – psychiatrist : SHRINK

11-down – Wickedness : ATROCITY

12-down – Game started by a bully! : HOCKEY

13-down – Unyielding : ADAMANT

15-down – Fragrance : AROMA

17-down – Put creases in : PRESS

18-down – Feathered limb used in flying : WING

1-across – One-piece female under-garment : BODY

3-across – : STOCKING

8-across – Punt – may be free for soccer players! : KICK

9-across – Harem : SERAGLIO

11-across – Desire to travel : WANDERLUST

14-across – Room for manoeuvre : LEEWAY

15-across – Spicy sausage : SALAMI

17-across – Make impure by addition : ADULTERATE

20-across – In accord : AGREEING

21-across – Desert in east Asia : GOBI

22-across – Short-term, non-interest bearing government debt : TREASURY

23-across – : BILL

1-down – Cake originating in Derbyshire : BAKEWELL

2-down – Stoppered wine bottle : DECANTER

4-down – Soprano voice : TREBLE

5-down – Pupils in the same form : CLASSMATES

6-down – Lazy – vain : IDLE

7-down – Pleasure-seeking female : GOOD

10-down – Indifferent – come what may : REGARDLESS

12-down – Pasta in long tubes : MACARONI

13-down – See 7 : TIMEGIRL

16-down – Ran lap : PLANAR

18-down – See 1 down : TART

19-down – Soft white cheese : BRIE