Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Sea Scouts fine : FACETIOUSNESS

8-across – Collapse due to overwork : BURNOUT

9-across – Slangy suffix akin to ‘galore’ : AGOGO

10-across – Soft,mild,creamy cheese : BRIE

11-across – South African’s neighbour : NAMIBIAN

13-across – Stiff bodice : CORSET

14-across – Those who pass ‘Are you a robot?’ tests : HUMANS

17-across – 1971 song,‘___ to Heaven’ : STAIRWAY

19-across – Went forth and multiplied : BRED

21-across – Saint whose emblem is a lamb : AGNES

22-across – Red planet inhabitant : MARTIAN

24-across – In earnest,but only partially : HALFSERIOUSLY

1-down – Watch chain : FOB

2-down – French maker of luxury watches and sunglasses : CARTIER

3-down – Son of Odin : THOR

4-down – Expenditure : OUTLAY

5-down – Roomy : SPACIOUS

6-down – Digital image such as ‘crying with tears of joy’ : EMOJI

7-down – Stuck-up – or bunged up? : SNOTNOSED

10-down – Keyboard character that’s a mirror image of ‘/’ : BACKSLASH

12-down – Psychological unease : NEUROSIS

15-down – Wafted greeting sometimes accompanied by the sound ‘mwah’ : AIRKISS

16-down – MC,sledge or Horror : HAMMER

18-down – Report of a society’s works over the course of a year : ANNAL

20-down – Va-va-voom : BRIO

23-down – ‘___,___ and thrice ___’ : NAY

5-across – CIA trials : SATIRICAL

8-across – Child of poor behaviour : BRAT

9-across – eg iPlayer or Disney+ : STREAMER

10-across – Race – vocation : CAREER

11-across – Plunder – pampers – pollutes : SPOILS

13-across – Biblical strongman : SAMSON

15-across – Like a garment without fastenings – spinet : STEPIN

16-across – Keith,Cruz or the wife of Odysseus : PENELOPE

18-across – Irritatingly cute : TWEE

19-across – Extended – drawn-out : PROLONGED

1-down – Socially unaware – undiplomatic : TACTLESS

2-down – Washer-upper’s second-in-command : RINSER

3-down – River through Baghdad : TIGRIS

4-down – Spreadsheet’s contents : DATA

6-down – ‘Have a good show,fellow actor!’ : BREAKALEG

7-down – Popular : WELLLIKED

12-down – Like a shoe that leaves nail varnish on display : OPENTOED

14-down – Pasta – pool toy – play around on an instrument : NOODLE

15-down – ‘Raw’ or ‘burnt’ pigment : SIENNA

17-down – River through Zaragoza : EBRO

5-across – Thou fumbler : RULEOFTHUMB

7-across – ___ vera : ALOE

8-across – Herb for chicken,vinegar etc : TARRAGON

9-across – Most hopeful option : BESTBET

11-across – Fastidious : PICKY

13-across – More competent : ABLER

14-across – Like Indiana Jones or Sir Robin Day,accessory-wise : BOWTIED

16-across – Monopoly property next to Jail with rhyming name : PALLMALL

17-across – Follow – dog – end : TAIL

18-across – Visually arresting : EYECATCHING

1-down – Frozen field that floats : FLOE

2-down – Like Beelzebub,facial hair-wise : GOATEED

3-down – Perfect,meteor or dust : STORM

4-down – Rails rut : RURALIST

5-down – Kind of in-line skate : ROLLERBLADE

6-down – Practice of maintaining financial accounts : BOOKKEEPING

10-down – Chelsea FC nickname – US music genre : THEBLUES

12-down – Whatever : POTLUCK

15-down – Trite : BANAL

17-down – Grasp – thin shoot : TWIG

1-across – Dark or dismal : SOMBRE

4-across – Foot the bill : PONYUP

8-across – World record? : ATLAS

9-across – Bag for books and pencils : SATCHEL

10-across – Atlantic island – wine or cake : MADEIRA

11-across – They may develop on a ‘dadbod’ : MOOBS

12-across – Bound together,as of communities : CLOSEKNIT

17-across – Old hat : PASSE

19-across – Style of Glasgow’s Luma Tower : ARTDECO

21-across – Veranda or line of houses : TERRACE

22-across – Online offender : TROLL

23-across – Ball bowled so as to pitch just under or beyond the bat : YORKER

24-across – Turn off and on again : REBOOT

1-down – Oleaginous – obsequious : SMARMY

2-down – Tuneful : MELODIC

3-down – Wise fellow – or prime minister until 2024 : RISHI

5-down – Backless chair – member of dynasty : OTTOMAN

6-down – Early web portal – yobbo – cry of joy : YAHOO

7-down – Like John Paul II : POLISH

9-down – ‘Elton John’,for example : STAGENAME

13-down – Gove era : OVERAGE

14-down – Wavering musical effect : TREMOLO

15-down – ‘Who cares’ stance : APATHY

16-down – Chalice : GOBLET

18-down – More certain : SURER

20-down – Church donation : TITHE

1-across – With a low,rounded upper hem : SCOOPNECK

8-across – Malaise : ENNUI

9-across – Proceeded privately : TIPTOED

10-across – Specs clipped to your nose : PINCENEZ

11-across – Double agent – blemish – burrower : MOLE

13-across – Lissom and lithe : LIMBER

14-across – Give the hoped-for response to one offering a ring : SAYYES

16-across – Polish PM Donald : TUSK

17-across – Fancy variety of church : BASILICA

19-across – One of many afire for Blake : CHARIOT

20-across – With way too high a BMI : OBESE

21-across – Suspicion – lessen ire : LEERINESS

1-down – Lee limes : SLIMEEEL

2-down – Source of power or groceries : OUTLET

3-down – He has a special ‘mobile’ : POPE

4-down – In large quantity,for reduced per-unit cost : ECONOMYSIZED

5-down – Like some beans and operating-theatre dishes : KIDNEYSHAPED

6-down – Relating to international relations : GEOPOLITICAL

7-down – Without any doubt! : ANDNOMISTAKE

12-down – They restore order in schools : JANITORS

15-down – Scottish spud : TATTIE

18-down – Fuzzy green foodstuff – former airline : KIWI