Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Carnival : FETE

3-across – Sentimental cheese : SCHMALTZ

8-across – Part : RAPT

9-across – Thriving place : BOOMTOWN

11-across – Device creating grid-like surface patterns : WAFFLEIRON

14-across – Crop stripper : LOCUST

15-across – Robin Hood’s missile holder? : QUIVER

17-across – Heavy shower : CLOUDBURST

20-across – Stretch : ELONGATE

21-across – Bartlett fruit? : PEAR

22-across – Crux : KEYSTONE

23-across – Hoodlum’s ‘award’? : ASBO

1-down – Blocking software : FIREWALL

2-down – Font family : TYPEFACE

4-down – Bikky by another name : COOKIE

5-down – Tosh : MUMBOJUMBO

6-down – Dosh : LOOT

7-down – Oddly amusing : ZANY

10-down – Torch : FLASHLIGHT

12-down – A voyage away? : OVERSEAS

13-down – Handel’s work? : ORATORIO

16-down – Ewe meat : MUTTON

18-down – Furniture wood : TEAK

19-down – Alluring : FOXY

1-across – Practice of employee keen to go home : CLOCKWATCHING

8-across – Do the doggy paddle,e.g. : SWIM

9-across – Boffin : BRAINBOX

10-across – Smuggled plunder? : CONTRABAND

12-across – Fertile : ARABLE

14-across – Underwear item : TIGHTS

15-across – Horripilation : GOOSEBUMPS

19-across – Indian burner? : VINDALOO

20-across – Jiffy : TICK

21-across – According to custom : TRADITIONALLY

2-down – Legal chamber : LAWCOURT

3-down – Streaker? : COMET

4-down – Some HTML : WEBPAGE

5-down – Light-heartedly sung refrain : TRALA

6-down – Despondent : HANGDOG

7-down – Recess : NOOK

11-down – Italy cap : ATYPICAL

13-down – Capital on the Tigris : BAGHDAD

14-down – Quavering repetition of the same note,e.g. : TREMOLO

16-down – Baby bird of prey : OWLET

17-down – Far beyond the norm : ULTRA

18-down – Cake layer : TIER

1-across – Needing oxygen to respire : AEROBIC

8-across – As a minimum : ATLEAST

9-across – Unchaste : SCARLET

10-across – Lemon? : NOHOPER

11-across – Fundamental values : ETHOS

13-across – Fraud,perhaps a sanctimonious one : HYPOCRITE

15-across – Tub on the wall? : WASHBASIN

18-across – Replenishment : TOPUP

21-across – Model construction brand : MECCANO

22-across – Quirky : UNUSUAL

23-across – JFK,e.g. : AIRPORT

24-across – Smelly swine? : STINKER

1-down – Passageway : AISLE

2-down – Carp relative : ROACH

3-down – Post with orange flashing light : BELISHABEACON

4-down – Forty feline winks? : CATNAP

5-down – Star system featuring the closest bright star to our sun : ALPHACENTAURI

6-down – Northern Taiwan city : TAIPEI

7-down – Go without food : STARVE

12-down – Goat : TOGA

14-down – K or M? : THOU

15-down – Flat-headed marsupial : WOMBAT

16-down – Fortified : SECURE

17-down – Pig hooters : SNOUTS

19-down – Remove feathers – twang strings : PLUCK

20-down – Of the extreme north or south : POLAR

1-across – Instrument with bellows : ACCORDION

8-across – Vibratory sound : WHIR

9-across – Pen : BALLPOINT

10-across – Rum and water : GROG

13-across – Rain/snow mix : SLEET

15-across – Aliens : SALINE

16-across – Member of the clergy : DEACON

17-across – Contaminated : IMPURE

19-across – Breakfast food : CEREAL

20-across – Nimble : LITHE

21-across – Empty : NULL

24-across – Place with population 0 : GHOSTTOWN

25-across – Open wide : GAPE

26-across – Angry head : HYDRANGEA

2-down – Pack tightly : CRAM

3-down – Lyon : ONLY

4-down – Simple picture : DOODLE

5-down – Grunted : OINKED

6-down – Letter : CHARACTER

7-down – ‘Darning needle’ insect : DRAGONFLY

11-down – Snooping and wiretapping? : ESPIONAGE

12-down – Casual footwear : FLIPFLOPS

13-down – Sound of angry dog : SNARL

14-down – Native American accommodation : TEPEE

18-down – LXXX : EIGHTY

19-down – Search : CHASER

22-down – Bowl over : STUN

23-down – Affectedly sentimental : TWEE

1-across – Conceited dignitary : HIGHMUCKAMUCK

8-across – Zero : NIL

9-across – Boxer’s plate : GUMSHIELD

10-across – Emergent : EVOLVING

11-across – Snitch : FINK

13-across – Judder : WOBBLE

14-across – Massachusetts city : BOSTON

16-across – Ice-skating jump : LUTZ

17-across – Fattened liver : FOIEGRAS

20-across – Invertebrate with many pairs of legs : CENTIPEDE

21-across – Boxing superstar : ALI

22-across – Phew! : THANKGOODNESS

1-down – Rest : HINGE

2-down – Water between Sweden and Finland : GULFOFBOTHNIA

3-down – Electromotive force unit : MEGAVOLT

4-down – Concrete powder : CEMENT

5-down – Painful : ACHY

6-down – Arrangement of information and options on screen : USERINTERFACE

7-down – Goat leather : KIDSKIN

12-down – Brow : FOREHEAD

13-down – Cougar,e.g. : WILDCAT

15-down – Spanish dance – jacket : BOLERO

18-down – From Zurich,e.g. : SWISS

19-down – Stoat-like carnivore : MINK