Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – One’s surprisingly successful : OVERACHIEVER

9-across – One’s not at all successful : LOSER

10-across – Single pay-out : LUMPSUM

11-across – Ball of thread : CLEW

12-across – Topped by breadcrumbs and cheese : AUGRATIN

14-across – More elegant : NEATER

15-across – Fanatical individual : ZEALOT

18-across – Calls out : EXCLAIMS

20-across – The largest continent : ASIA

22-across – Leaped : VAULTED

23-across – Reasoning : LOGIC

24-across – Speciality food shop : DELICATESSEN

2-down – I’ve cars : VISCERA

3-down – Uncommon : RARE

4-down – Not black-and-white : COLOUR

5-down – Deeply involved : IMMERSED

6-down – Flying,home or hospital? : VISIT

7-down – Macron enters : REMONSTRANCE

8-down – Poorly thought-out : ILLCONCEIVED

13-down – Relating to the meaning of words : SEMANTIC

16-down – Sheets of pasta : LASAGNE

17-down – Surrounded by : AMIDST

19-down – Mean-spirited individual : CHURL

21-down – Sad to say : ALAS

1-across – Boost : UPLIFT

4-across – Models : SELDOM

9-across – Frolics : CAVORTS

10-across – Sizeable : HEFTY

11-across – Juliet’s neighbour : INDIA

12-across – Catch : ENSNARE

13-across – Luckless : UNFORTUNATE

18-across – Unprocessed information : RAWDATA

20-across – Value : WORTH

22-across – To-do : HOOHA

23-across – Dance outfit : LEOTARD

24-across – Be suspended,like some participles : DANGLE

25-across – Revealing : SKIMPY

1-down – Ragamuffin : URCHIN

2-down – Bruised – and cross : LIVID

3-down – Hotchpotch : FARRAGO

5-down – Characteristic attitudes : ETHOS

6-down – Openly disobedient : DEFIANT

7-down – Chaos : MAYHEM

8-down – I’ll say teens : ESSENTIALLY

14-down – Tiny child : NEWBORN

15-down – US state bordering the Atlantic and two Great Lakes : NEWYORK

16-down – Brow or back? : ARCHED

17-down – Low-quality : SHODDY

19-down – In the least : ATALL

21-down – Domain : REALM

1-across – ___ up – edible mollusc : CLAM

3-across – Tara’s O’Hara : SCARLETT

9-across – Make cartoons – give life to : ANIMATE

10-across – ___ engagement : PRIOR

11-across – Aroma : SCENT

12-across – Vendee : EVENED

14-across – Newly-trendy curd-based product : COTTAGECHEESE

17-across – Place wagers : GAMBLE

19-across – Discrimination : TASTE

22-across – Lively Bohemian dance : POLKA

23-across – What you might vanish into : THINAIR

24-across – Emphasized – under pressure : STRESSED

25-across – Not there : HERE

1-down – Person or thing displaying impressive and stylish excellence : CLASSACT

2-down – Spry : AGILE

4-down – Green liqueur : CREMEDEMENTHE

5-down – Indian money : RUPEE

6-down – It’s not a good look : EVILEYE

7-down – Acidic – pastry : TART

8-down – Repeated phrase : MANTRA

13-down – Practice prior to performance : REHEARSE

15-down – It’s shown before the feature : TRAILER

16-down – It attaches headwear to hair : HATPIN

18-down – ‘ … the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of ___ in this crazy world’ : BEANS

20-down – Trap – drum type : SNARE

21-down – Smartphone downloads : APPS

1-across – Heartless pang : ELEPHANTGRASS

8-across – April-May zodiac beast : BULL

9-across – Final work : SWANSONG

10-across – Stocking securer : GARTERBELT

12-across – Long length of material fashioned as headdress : TURBAN

14-across – ‘Hug a ___’ : HOODIE

15-across – Upholstery component : FOAMRUBBER

19-across – Stone – intractable person or organisation : MONOLITH

20-across – One who sleeps in the savannah : LION

21-across – Fixed : NONNEGOTIABLE

2-down – Samuel Taylor Coleridge narcotic : LAUDANUM

3-down – Pen manufacturer – hovercraft operator : PILOT

4-down – Not a medallist : ALSORAN

5-down – <span>‘Neath : THANE

6-down – Italian grain-and-stock staple : RISOTTO

7-down – Let that ___ in : SINK

11-down – Scouring material : WIREWOOL

13-down – Twerp : BUFFOON

14-down – Item worn by a politician on a building-site photo-op : HARDHAT

16-down – Scoring a hole-in-one or nailing : ACING

17-down – Model-maker’s light wood : BALSA

18-down – Shirt,mint or pony : POLO

1-across – In an em-baa-rassed fashion? : SHEEPISHLY

7-across – NB : TAKENOTE

8-across – <span>Word before ‘handclap’,‘cooker’ or </span><i>Horses</i> : SLOW

9-across – Paradise : EDEN

10-across – Tie vine : INVITEE

12-across – School subject that has its pluses and minuses : MATHEMATICS

14-across – Like paper without lines : UNRULED

16-across – Pursues – let sleeping ones lie : DOGS

19-across – <span>Hollow – </span><i>Hitchhiker</i><span>’s Arthur</span> : DENT

20-across – Amaze : BLOWAWAY

21-across – Body of water between Jura Mountains and Alps : LAKEGENEVA

1-down – Climb : SCALE

2-down – e.g. einsteinium or lawrencium : ELEMENT

3-down – Trudge – PC? : PLOD

4-down – Piano-builder Henry Engelhard : STEINWAY

5-down – Indian yoghurt drink : LASSI

6-down – Becomes serious – Sir Garfield who scored over 8,000 runs : SOBERS

11-down – Look like : RESEMBLE

12-down – Dame Hilary : MANTEL

13-down – Air gone : IRONAGE

15-down – <span>Chris van Tulleken book </span><i>___-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?</i> : ULTRA

17-down – Milan’s La ___ opera house : SCALA

18-down – Tip-top : AONE