Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Decreed punnet : UNPRECEDENTED

8-across – Tawdry items : TAT

9-across – Arouses curiosity : INTRIGUES

10-across – Troublesome : ANNOYING

11-across – Brings something extra : ADDS

13-across – Soften stance : RELENT

14-across – One’s proverbially straight : RAMROD

16-across – Dead,down or date? : PLAY

17-across – Made spending plans : BUDGETED

20-across – Male pupil : SCHOOLBOY

21-across – Grecian,garden or tea? : URN

22-across – One crosses the picket line : STRIKEBREAKER

1-down – Extremely : ULTRA

2-down – Shiny shoe material : PATENTLEATHER

3-down – Instructive,inspirational : EDIFYING

4-down – Surviving : EXTANT

5-down – Bad : EVIL

6-down – Utrecht drunks : THUNDERSTRUCK

7-down – No longer in service : DISUSED

12-down – Carved waterspout on a church : GARGOYLE

13-down – Lies : REPOSES

15-down – Confusing sound : HUBBUB

18-down – One gives to charity : DONOR

19-down – Have a job – : WORK

1-across – Dramatic setting of ancient Rome? : AMPHITHEATRE

9-across – Shining : AGLOW

10-across – Releases : EXEMPTS

11-across – Nonsense : TOSH

12-across – Wine and soda water : SPRITZER

14-across – Come to an end : EXPIRE

15-across – Hungarian-born actor Bela ___,d. 1956 : LUGOSI

18-across – Zip,perhaps : FASTENER

20-across – Unoccupied : IDLE

22-across – Bad feeling : ILLWILL

23-across – Incriminate – game of snooker : FRAME

24-across – Typical commodity – in tarot decks : STOCKINTRADE

2-down – Feeble chap : MILKSOP

3-down – Sell – bird : HAWK

4-down – Commercial connections – I upset : TIEUPS

5-down – Retired professor’s title : EMERITUS

6-down – Often-yellow gemstone – and 1969 Hitchcock film : TOPAZ

7-down – Former soldiers : EXSERVICEMEN

8-down – Latest FBI two : BATTLEOFWITS

13-down – Means to resume football game : FREEKICK

16-down – Experienced individual : OLDHAND

17-down – UK’s smallest bird of prey : MERLIN

19-down – Volley of gunfire : SALVO

21-down – From a long way away : AFAR

1-across – Cheat : DIDDLE

4-across – Tree like the Australian wattle : ACACIA

9-across – Aero sac : ROSACEA

10-across – Words of a song : LYRIC

11-across – Here’s the thing : VOILA

12-across – Unopened bloom – bored us : ROSEBUD

13-across – Uses up flour : SUPERFLUOUS

18-across – Philandering individual : SEDUCER

20-across – Uncertain situation : LIMBO

22-across – Three-line poem : HAIKU

23-across – Stretchy : ELASTIC

24-across – Neckerchief ring : WOGGLE

25-across – Needle partner : THREAD

1-down – Get : DERIVE

2-down – Japanese soup stock : DASHI

3-down – Produce milk : LACTATE

5-down – Selects : CULLS

6-down – Reindeer in N America : CARIBOU

7-down – Agree to a demand : ACCEDE

8-down – Milk producer : DAIRYFARMER

14-down – Eternal : UNDYING

15-down – Let loose : UNLEASH

16-down – Give a wide berth to : ESCHEW

17-down – Put into words : VOICED

19-down – Not kind : CRUEL

21-down – Not shiny : MATTE

1-across – Circumnavigate,in a manner of speech : BYPASS

4-across – Uninterested : TEPID

7-across – Colourful,atmospheric phenomenon : AURORA

8-across – Stylish : SNAZZY

9-across – South Asian butter : GHEE

10-across – Thrilling – mains-operated? : ELECTRIC

12-across – Catkin tree : PUSSYWILLOW

17-across – Tempuras : UPSTREAM

19-across – Sod : TURF

20-across – Residue spirit : GRAPPA

21-across – Sikh headgear : TURBAN

22-across – Home of mollusc or tortoise : SHELL

23-across – American feline : OCELOT

1-down – Work on a rusty skill : BRUSHUP

2-down – Expertise : PROWESS

3-down – Boot item? : SPARETYRE

4-down – Loose garment,often sleeveless,sometimes gathered at the waist : TUNIC

5-down – Spanish conquistador : PIZARRO

6-down – Frozen carbon dioxide : DRYICE

11-down – Giant mice : ENIGMATIC

13-down – Outshine : UPSTAGE

14-down – Sideways : LATERAL

15-down – Bestow official authority to : WARRANT

16-down – Yeast,e.g. : FUNGUS

18-down – Put off : REPEL

1-across – Churchill Downs race : KENTUCKYDERBY

8-across – Gateshead native? : GEORDIE

9-across – Sayonara : ADIEU

10-across – Of non-existent value : NULL

11-across – US state of Omaha and Lincoln : NEBRASKA

13-across – Reddish-brown apple : RUSSET

14-across – Netted : SCORED

17-across – Destitute : INDIGENT

19-across – Amend text : EDIT

21-across – Graceful,slender woman : SYLPH

22-across – Wrinkled little thing : SULTANA

24-across – Heated verbal argument : SLANGINGMATCH

1-down – Beer container : KEG

2-down – Chinese dish : NOODLES

3-down – Release : UNDO

4-down – Player between the sticks : KEEPER

5-down – Vehicular test of acceleration : DRAGRACE

6-down – Siren : REINS

7-down – Roger that! : YOUSAIDIT

10-down – Flower associated with vanity? : NARCISSUS

12-down – Spiky visitor to some gardens : HEDGEHOG

15-down – Beaming : RADIANT

16-down – Unions : UNISON

18-down – River mouth landform : DELTA

20-down – Bivalve mollusc : CLAM

23-down – Fine particles of residue : ASH