Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Take in : COMPREHEND

7-across – Unnecessarily anxious : NEUROTIC

8-across – One’s minted : COIN

9-across – Tug : YANK

10-across – Delighted : GLEEFUL

12-across – Bitter – Marconi’s IOU : ACRIMONIOUS

14-across – Support for mining? : PITPROP

16-across – Bit of lettuce : LEAF

19-across – At someone’s home in France : CHEZ

20-across – Morning-after feeling : HANGOVER

21-across – In a cavalier fashion : CARELESSLY

1-down – Like a toffee? : CHEWY

2-down – : MARINER

3-down – Jones,Rendell or Madoc : RUTH

4-down – Interruptions from the audience : HECKLING

5-down – Space for a statue : NICHE

6-down – Mistakes : MIXUPS

11-down – Blended fruit drink : SMOOTHIE

12-down – Get down : ALIGHT

13-down – Burdensome : ONEROUS

15-down – Sliced dough-based dish : PIZZA

17-down – Hot : FIERY

18-down – Previously : ONCE

1-across – Speak harshly : RASP

3-across – Type of porcelain or paint : EGGSHELL

8-across – Surplus : GLUT

9-across – Signed call for action : PETITION

11-across – Discussed old times : REMINISCED

14-across – Trifling matter : DETAIL

15-across – Familiar with : USEDTO

17-across – Tall and graceful : STATUESQUE

20-across – Copycat : IMITATOR

21-across – Shoe fastener – decorative material : LACE

22-across – Became more intense : DEEPENED

23-across – Service charges : FEES

1-down – Fashion industry : RAGTRADE

2-down – Person with whom one has a profound connection – to Samuel : SOULMATE

4-down – Axle or elbow? : GREASE

5-down – Fly trap : SPIDERSWEB

6-down – Point of departure : EXIT

7-down – Secure – property : LAND

10-down – Secretly enter : INFILTRATE

12-down – : ADEQUATE

13-down – Despairing : HOPELESS

16-down – Not out : ATHOME

18-down – Meek companion? : MILD

19-down – Information record – or 1ac : FILE

1-across – One aims to be upwardly mobile : SOCIALCLIMBER

8-across – Halfway – house : SEMI

9-across – One’s sent here,then ignored : COVENTRY

10-across – Edgy writing? : MARGINALIA

12-across – IT guru : TECHIE

14-across – British novelist Ian ___,born 1948 : MCEWAN

15-across – Original idea : BRAINCHILD

19-across – Russian alphabet : CYRILLIC

20-across – Big help : BOON

21-across – Residential development – no taste,is huge : HOUSINGESTATE

2-down – Did some theatre work? : OPERATED

3-down – Cake embellishment : ICING

4-down – Official permission : LICENCE

5-down – Pegging or crossing? : LEVEL

6-down – Film shots edited into a sequence : MONTAGE

7-down – Listeners : EARS

11-down – Man’s wedding dress : TAILCOAT

13-down – Spare-time activities : HOBBIES

14-down – Lord Peter Wimsey saw through one : MONOCLE

16-down – Exhausted : ALLIN

17-down – Pattern of behaviour : HABIT

18-down – Printing error : TYPO

1-across – Money needed : WHEREWITHAL

9-across – Their name’s on the envelope : ADDRESSEE

10-across – Good friend : PAL

11-across – Money spent : OUTGO

13-across – Concise quality : BREVITY

14-across – It decides a close contest : RUNOFF

15-across – Get hold of : OBTAIN

18-across – Leave in the lurch : ABANDON

20-across – Ten to one,for instance : RATIO

21-across – Three : TRI

22-across – Wolf breed : FLOWERBED

24-across – Make a counter-accusation : RECRIMINATE

2-down – Took cover : HID

3-down – Recite : REELOFF

4-down – Spicy root used in Japanese cuisine : WASABI

5-down – Where to go from here? : THERE

6-down – One’s seeking something : APPLICANT

7-down – Political organisation – bar Tory Paul : LABOURPARTY

8-down – Double entendre,for example : PLAYONWORDS

12-down – Tease with the offer of something unattainable : TANTALISE

16-down – Enter uninvited : BARGEIN

17-down – Make aware : INFORM

19-down – Give way : DEFER

23-down – Automated computer program : BOT

1-across – Get to grips : GRAPPLE

8-across – Declare invalid : NULLIFY

9-across – <i>___ and Old Lace</i><span>,1944 comedy directed by Frank Capra</span> : ARSENIC

10-across – Requested but not yet supplied : ONORDER

11-across – Room at the top? : ATTIC

13-across – Suffering from insomnia : SLEEPLESS

15-across – Show the limits : DEMARCATE

18-across – Words of casual conversation : SLANG

21-across – Unlawful : ILLICIT

22-across – Learned : ERUDITE

23-across – : PEELERS

24-across – Guy Fawkes’ crime : TREASON

1-down – Tropical fruit used in jams and jellies : GUAVA

2-down – Something valuable : ASSET

3-down – Picnicker Stan – terrified : PANICSTRICKEN

4-down – Scramble using a cipher : ENCODE

5-down – It’s measured with an arm cuff : BLOODPRESSURE

6-down – Tricky question : RIDDLE

7-down – Eastern Mediterranean island : CYPRUS

12-down – Weighty book : TOME

14-down – Discarded bit of banana : SKIN

15-down – Insipid,sentimental : DRIPPY

16-down – Play croquet with one : MALLET

17-down – Confirm : ATTEST

19-down – Spanish farewell : ADIOS

20-down – Pick up : GLEAN