Author name: crosswordanswers

5-across – Tetchier Coe : ORECCHIETTE

7-across – Mae or Kanye : WEST

8-across – Wisecrack : ONELINER

9-across – Ringo’s real surname : STARKEY

11-across – Condition : STATE

13-across – Madagascan forest dweller : LEMUR

14-across – <span>Bush cricket – </span><i>What ___</i><span> : KATYDID

16-across – Mouse’s home in Old Amsterdam : WINDMILL

17-across – Stick on stumps : BAIL

18-across – Personal record – fishy toiler : LIFEHISTORY

1-down – Amphibian – Gingrich,e.g. : NEWT

2-down – Antepenultimate month : OCTOBER

3-down – Tendon : SINEW

4-down – <i>___ Come Dancing</i> : STRICTLY

5-down – Past one’s prime? : OVERTHEHILL

6-down – Feeling of thrilling excitement : ELECTRICITY

10-down – Finish neatly : ROUNDOFF

12-down – Unrestrained,not observing rules : LAWLESS

15-down – Day___ or night ___ : LIGHT

17-down – Controller of sail or microphone : BOOM

1-across – Upbeat : JAUNTY

4-across – Strangeness – or something strange : ODDITY

8-across – Come around again : RECUR

9-across – Body kneader : MASSEUR

10-across – Self-centred person : EGOTIST

11-across – Style that recreates the past : RETRO

12-across – Russian abstract painter : KANDINSKY

17-across – Small night-flier : OWLET

19-across – Book – guardedness : RESERVE

21-across – This runs alongside canals : TOWPATH

22-across – Present,e.g. : TENSE

23-across – Havoc : MAYHEM

24-across – Causing horror and disgust : GRISLY

1-down – CI sweater? : JERSEY

2-down – Reveal a Traitor perhaps : UNCLOAK

3-down – Bones of the ankles and feet : TARSI

5-down – e.g. Atacama and Great Victoria : DESERTS

6-down – ___ gas – unreactive : INERT

7-down – Plant – a worry : YARROW

9-down – Respected head of family : MATRIARCH

13-down – Person with obsessive interest – helmet? : NUTCASE

14-down – Underpants : YFRONTS

15-down – Shakespeare’s lowest character? : BOTTOM

16-down – Unconventional belief : HERESY

18-down – Humble : LOWLY

20-down – Drunken woodland god : SATYR

1-across – A stroke : BUTTERFLY

8-across – Sign up : ENROL

9-across – Careful examination : PERUSAL

10-across – Firing system : IGNITION

11-across – Put back to factory settings : ZERO

13-across – Louden : NODULE

14-across – Soya-based food : TEMPEH

16-across – Mother’s ____ : RUIN

17-across – A herb : MARJORAM

19-across – Breast cut of meat : BRISKET

20-across – Walk with pronounced nicety : MINCE

21-across – Sleepwear : NIGHTGOWN

1-down – Make small : BELITTLE

2-down – Very best : TIPTOP

3-down – Pound : EZRA

4-down – Temporary home-provider for children : FOSTERPARENT

5-down – Bird – colourful tool? : YELLOWHAMMER

6-down – Three-wheeler – needy bird? : RELIANTROBIN

7-down – Dangerous crime on the highway : DRINKDRIVING

12-down – Bunny or Button : BENJAMIN

15-down – Military performance : TATTOO

18-down – Satirical sketch : SKIT

1-across – Nimble : SPRY

3-across – Approval : THUMBSUP

9-across – Police : OLDBILL

10-across – Scottish feudal lord : THANE

11-across – Whales’ food : KRILL

12-across – In disarray : UNTIDY

14-across – Don’t leave your vehicle here : NOPARKINGZONE

17-across – <span>Ukrainian port – </span><i>The ___ File</i> : ODESSA

19-across – Propose to give : OFFER

22-across – Bring forth : EVOKE

23-across – Slope : INCLINE

24-across – Kind ants : INKSTAND

25-across – Word before ‘fry’ or ‘crazy’ : STIR

1-down – Having available for sale – : STOCKING

2-down – Bones in arms : RADII

4-down – Erroneous belief,fantasy : HALLUCINATION

5-down – Choral composition : MOTET

6-down – Unpleasant person : SOANDSO

7-down – Exclamation of relief : PHEW

8-down – Unimportant news piece : FILLER

13-down – Listen twice – I strongly agree : HEARHEAR

15-down – Secure : PADLOCK

16-down – Grumbler,like Oscar? : GROUCH

18-down – Reeked – small fish : SMELT

20-down – Mock attack : FEINT

21-down – Strauss or Roots : LEVI

1-across – Limit : BOUNDARY

5-across – Impressive,large-scale : EPIC

9-across – Japanese three-lined poem : HAIKU

10-across – Make void : NULLIFY

11-across – Nervous stomach : COLLYWOBBLES

13-across – Fleet of warships : ARMADA

14-across – Capital of Canada : OTTAWA

17-across – Word whose sound suggests its meaning : ONOMATOPOEIA

20-across – Joker’s demise? – despair at this point : WITSEND

21-across – Mountain linnet : TWITE

22-across – Wrinkle : RUCK

23-across – State of being unaffected by alcohol : SOBRIETY

1-down – Thai currency : BAHT

2-down – Alike throughout : UNIFORM

3-down – Traitor : DOUBLEDEALER

4-down – Fame : RENOWN

6-down – Small bottle containing drugs : PHIAL

7-down – Ray Scott : CRYOSTAT

8-down – World-wide traveller : GLOBETROTTER

12-down – ‘Portuguese’ jellyfish : MANOFWAR

15-down – Idiotic : ASININE

16-down – Haitian : VOODOO

18-down – Relating to sight : OPTIC

19-down – Tax : LEVY