Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Impound : CONFISCATE

7-across – Displayer of an L : LEARNER

8-across – Contrivance of interlocking parts for fastening : CLASP

10-across – Form of cricket : TEST

11-across – <span>One that’s </span><i>Laughing</i><span> in the Wallace Collection</span> : CAVALIER

13-across – Less sensible – breakfast item : RASHER

15-across – Wine seller – a bodge : BODEGA

17-across – Poppycock : CLAPTRAP

18-across – e.g. Peter the Great : TSAR

21-across – Diversion for a toddler – trombone component : SLIDE

22-across – Pollen producers : STAMENS

23-across – e.g. honey : ENDEARMENT

1-down – Leather riding leggings : CHAPS

2-down – Low square : NINE

3-down – Encroachment : INROAD

4-down – Big crested parrot : COCKATOO

5-down – Occasion for nourishment : TEATIME

6-down – Crockery frames : PLATERACKS

9-down – Eternally frozen subsoil : PERMAFROST

12-down – One with an appreciation for the finer things : AESTHETE

14-down – Aquatic creature that’s not really feline : SEALION

16-down – Wilhelm II,e.g. : KAISER

19-down – It comes between blood and tears : SWEAT

20-down – ___-in-arms – 23ac : BABE

1-across – Hardly a gallop : SNAILSPACE

7-across – <span>Prey of a Traitor in </span><i>The Traitors</i> : FAITHFUL

8-across – Bobber in a dock : BUOY

9-across – Single sheet of glass : PANE

10-across – Not an official recording : BOOTLEG

12-across – Pale blue-eyed felines : SIAMESECATS

14-across – Weakness – biting the dust : FAILING

16-across – Very eager : AGOG

19-across – <span>Singer – ale seen in Manet’s </span><i>A Bar at the Folies-Bergère</i> : BASS

20-across – PM between James and John : MARGARET

21-across – Beatles’ background : MERSEYSIDE

1-down – Acute – musical note – natty : SHARP

2-down – Feeler : ANTENNA

3-down – Back,Bank or luggage : LEFT

4-down – It goes over your head : PULLOVER

5-down – Biblical unit of length : CUBIT

6-down – Over-par scores : BOGEYS

11-down – George Sand and George Eliot,e.g. : PENNAMES

12-down – Beetle revered in ancient Egypt : SCARAB

13-down – Inhabitant of Kabul,e.g. : AFGHANI

15-down – Fine,smooth cotton thread used especially for stockings : LISLE

17-down – Long-necked,bright-plumaged wader : GREBE

18-down – Donkey’s sound : BRAY

1-across – Plato’s tutor : SOCRATES

5-across – Throne’s platform : DAIS

9-across – A proper look at the books : AUDIT

10-across – Concerning the ticker : CARDIAC

11-across – Instrument often erroneously referred to as a xylophone : GLOCKENSPIEL

13-across – Bird with a very showy mate : PEAHEN

14-across – 7” platter : SINGLE

17-across – Cowboy’s voluminous headgear : TENGALLONHAT

20-across – Evidently sincere : EARNEST

21-across – Postponement of rising : LIEIN

22-across – Pip – source – offspring : SEED

23-across – Workshy : BONEIDLE

1-down – Retinal ___ : SCAN

2-down – Wiggle in ‘soupçon’ : CEDILLA

3-down – Rigid document carriers : ATTACHECASES

4-down – Shun : ESCHEW

6-down – Legal term meaning ‘elsewhere’ in Latin : ALIBI

7-down – Soi-disant : SOCALLED

8-down – Artist’s name for ferric ferrocyanide : PRUSSIANBLUE

12-down – Devoid of blemishes : SPOTLESS

15-down – OK : GOAHEAD

16-down – The worse for wear : BLOTTO

18-down – Hospital employee : NURSE

19-down – Green Gables inhabitant : ANNE

1-across – Soap unit : CAKE

3-across – Mediaeval musician : MINSTREL

9-across – Bad way for a ship to be run : AGROUND

10-across – Abandonment of a political stance : UTURN

11-across – Lesson – taste – category : CLASS

12-across – <span>e.g. </span><i>Ever Decreasing Circles</i> : SITCOM

14-across – It’s not for everyone : ACQUIREDTASTE

17-across – Bovine brats : CALVES

19-across – Andrew of 12ac or Connie of spydom : SACHS

22-across – Long-necked,sharp-beaked wader : HERON

23-across – Hairstyle for Amy Winehouse : BEEHIVE

24-across – Thick sweet viscous ingredient : MOLASSES

25-across – His ‘n’ ___ : HERS

1-down – Dark artist’s material : CHARCOAL

2-down – S. ___,2018 Olympic host : KOREA

4-down – Absolutely necessary : INDISPENSABLE

5-down – Move : SHUNT

6-down – Hoarsely loud : RAUCOUS

7-down – Eye part : LENS

8-down – <span>Archetypal </span><i>Guardian</i><span> reader’s breakfast</span> : MUESLI

13-down – Make another rating of : REASSESS

15-down – Square-headed arrow – it might be 6d : QUARREL

16-down – Mortarboard dangler : TASSEL

18-down – Planet 108m km from the Sun : VENUS

20-down – Onion kin : CHIVE

21-down – Close friend that’s chopped fish? : CHUM

1-across – Process purging effects of pent-up emotion or repressed thoughts : CATHARSIS

8-across – e.g. Edinburgh’s Tian Tian,formerly : PANDA

9-across – Idle types – footwear : LOAFERS

10-across – Symmetrical securer : REEFKNOT

11-across – You,once : THEE

13-across – Zack Polanski’s party : GREENS

14-across – Block-based digital diversion : TETRIS

16-across – Right-hand man or woman : AIDE

17-across – Fortified place with troops : GARRISON

19-across – ‘Goodbye’ gathering : SENDOFF

20-across – Westernmost Balearic : IBIZA

21-across – Deprived of slumber : SLEEPLESS

1-down – Losing one’s temper – ‘___ toast,Gromit!’ : CRACKING

2-down – Rendered fat for soap : TALLOW

3-down – Wordplay abbrev. seen in crosswords : ANAG

4-down – Minced meat and mash : SHEPHERDSPIE

5-down – You might acquire these after a wedding : SISTERSINLAW

6-down – Help for seeing Tosca : OPERAGLASSES

7-down – Autonomy : INDEPENDENCE

12-down – Narrowly avoided prang : NEARMISS

15-down – School summer fair staple : RAFFLE

18-down – ___ de théâtre or ___ d’état : COUP