Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Large shirtless sportsman : SUMO

3-across – In instalments : EPISODIC

9-across – Ill tidings : BADNEWS

10-across – In any sense : ATALL

11-across – Sir Henry,partner of Charles Stewart Rolls : ROYCE

12-across – Old Testament book or broadcaster Rantzen : ESTHER

14-across – Reason for buying a sports car : MIDLIFECRISIS

17-across – Descriptor of Eurotrash : JETSET

19-across – Colour of Victorian photographs : SEPIA

22-across – Inventor of Poohsticks : MILNE

23-across – Kenyan capital : NAIROBI

24-across – Chardonnay and Perrier,perhaps : SPRITZER

25-across – Pound – pulverize – palpitation : BEAT

1-down – Like some mortgages of the early 2000s : SUBPRIME

2-down – Partner of truly and deeply : MADLY

4-down – Ten poetasters : POSTERESTANTE

5-down – Part of golf club,feather or sunlight : SHAFT

6-down – Storage solution – knickers : DRAWERS

7-down – A little elephant : CALF

8-down – Omani’s neighbour : YEMENI

13-down – Writer like David Sedaris : ESSAYIST

15-down – One taking paces at dawn? : DUELLER

16-down – English art and social critic,1819-1900 : RUSKIN

18-down – Toil – salty solution : SWEAT

20-down – Town west of Bournemouth,or its pottery : POOLE

21-down – Layers of green eggs : EMUS

1-across – Asian condiment and provider of umami : SOYSAUCE

5-across – Apple’s Steve : JOBS

9-across – Junk – fracas – vestige : SCRAP

10-across – Popular bathroom colour of the 1970s : AVOCADO

11-across – Spineless sort : INVERTEBRATE

13-across – Not noticed : UNSEEN

14-across – Mariner : SEADOG

17-across – Copacetic – up to scratch : SATISFACTORY

20-across – Landlocked country with two capitals : BOLIVIA

21-across – Posh,like some gases? : NOBLE

22-across – Rugby player until 2022 : WASP

23-across – Their wails portend doom : BANSHEES

1-down – Scarf or frame : SASH

2-down – They’re pants : YFRONTS

3-down – Trepidatious : APPREHENSIVE

4-down – Modest or immaculate : CHASTE

6-down – US president #44 : OBAMA

7-down – Palaeolithic,Mesolithic and Neolithic : STONEAGE

8-down – Uncomfortable surface to cycle over : COBBLESTONES

12-down – Busy POWs : PUSSYBOW

15-down – Abidingly sturdy : DURABLE

16-down – Port – wine – birthplace of Picasso : MALAGA

18-down – Knells – road fees : TOLLS

19-down – Part of an eye,camera or monocle : LENS

1-across – OK scourger : ROCKGROUSE

7-across – One making the calls : ARBITER

8-across – <span>One of 40 in </span><i>One Thousand and One Nights</i> : THIEF

10-across – Tear – thwart – trace : DASH

11-across – Brittle plastic in 1950s phones : BAKELITE

13-across – Advance – ordain : INROAD

15-across – Great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race : HAGGIS

17-across – It starts with All Saints’ Day : NOVEMBER

18-across – Part of London or of New York : SOHO

21-across – Classic teashop name and English name for French city : LYONS

22-across – Partner of liberté and fraternité : EGALITE

23-across – So printing : PISTONRING

1-down – Rankin hero : REBUS

2-down – Refer to : CITE

3-down – Official language of Liechtenstein : GERMAN

4-down – Of note : ONTHEMAP

5-down – Rod Stewart no 1 : SAILING

6-down – It might say ‘I’m turning right’ : HANDSIGNAL

9-down – Ingenuous : FREESPOKEN

12-down – Tufty-eared monkey : MARMOSET

14-down – A square meal? : RAVIOLI

16-down – Homer’s ‘wine-dark’ sea : AEGEAN

19-down – Not yet paid : OWING

20-down – Caspar,Melchior and Balthasar : MAGI

1-across – At large : ONTHELOOSE

7-across – Briton-turned-Monacan,perhaps : TAXEXILE

8-across – <i>The One Show</i><span>’s Jones or </span><i>Taskmaster’</i><span>s Horne</span> : ALEX

9-across – AKA vape : ECIG

10-across – Decree – to your secretary? : DICTATE

12-across – Pianist who needn’t practise : SIGHTREADER

14-across – <i>Friends</i><span> café manager – the gurn : GUNTHER

16-across – <span>Book of the bible referenced in the </span><i>I Have A Dream</i><span> speech</span> : AMOS

19-across – Doodad for dobbin; tight,long or free : REIN

20-across – <i>The ___ History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus</i> : TRAGICAL

21-across – Raducanu’s footwear item : TENNISSHOE

1-down – Old enough : OFAGE

2-down – Fifteen hours of opera : THERING

3-down – Prepare and polish for publication : EDIT

4-down – With one team sure to win : ONESIDED

5-down – Card,home or phone : SMART

6-down – Wise counsellor : MENTOR

11-down – No threat : ATHERTON

12-down – Teaspoon rest,often : SAUCER

13-down – Somewhat moist : DAMPISH

15-down – Sprinkling – smattering – shade : TINGE

17-down – Prepare Parmesan,perhaps : SHAVE

18-down – Eliot-based 2019 musical film flop : CATS

1-across – Agile : SPRY

3-across – Stereotypical consumers of cold-brew coffee and sporters of man-buns : HIPSTERS

8-across – Victim of the world’s first murder : ABEL

9-across – Proximity : NEARNESS

11-across – Vague : ILLDEFINED

14-across – Ancient capital of Brittany : RENNES

15-across – Tiered,towering temple : PAGODA

17-across – It has a biscuity base : CHEESECAKE

20-across – Choral ____ : EVENSONG

21-across – Total snoozefest : BORE

22-across – Crucifix inverter : SATANIST

23-across – Country with currency kip : LAOS

1-down – Inhabitant of part of 4d : SPANIARD

2-down – Grape of the Rhine : RIESLING

4-down – Gibraltar’s peninsula : IBERIA

5-down – Green acres : SCREENAGER

6-down – Suit : EXEC

7-down – Blah : SOSO

10-down – Biergarten garb : LEDERHOSEN

12-down – S Pacific island with reduplicative name : BORABORA

13-down – Despot’s description of journalism : FAKENEWS

16-down – <span>Author,</span><i>The General Theory of Employment</i> : KEYNES

18-down – County – where oysters found : BEDS

19-down – eg one of Cornish or Manx descent : CELT