Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Cornish Lizard, for instance : PENINSULA

8-across – One-time humble pie ingredient : OFFAL

9-across – His/her turn will surely come : BUGGINS

10-across – Drugs taken to boost muscle mass : STEROIDS

11-across – Swarm : TEEM

13-across – Sounded disapproving : TUTTED

14-across – Protein-rich seed : LENTIL

16-across – Run this way to go berserk : AMOK

17-across – Shocking : DREADFUL

19-across – Prized pieces of information : NUGGETS

20-across – Song of praise : PAEAN

21-across – Knocked off the top spot : DETHRONED

1-down – Stop the car : PULLOVER

2-down – Not a single person : NOBODY

3-down – Practically : NIGH

4-down – Anonymous : UNIDENTIFIED

5-down – Yes-man libels : ASSEMBLYLINE

6-down – Domesticated : HOUSETRAINED

7-down – It only occurs to one later : AFTERTHOUGHT

12-down – Upped and left : DECAMPED

15-down – It may detain one : PRISON

18-down – Window, admiral or guard? : REAR

1-across – Card or cat? : WILD

3-across – Code of behaviour : PROTOCOL

9-across – Fruit-filled pastry : STRUDEL

10-across – They’re notoriously hard : NAILS

11-across – French secondary school : LYCEE

12-across – Type of anti-ship missile : EXOCET

14-across – Bathroom splash guard : SHOWERCURTAIN

17-across – Fairground attraction : HOOPLA

19-across – Box : CRATE

22-across – Fermented milk drink : KEFIR

23-across – Double : TWOFOLD

24-across – Ridiculously low : DERISORY

25-across – Eye drop? : TEAR

1-down – What one desires : WISHLIST

2-down – Words of a song : LYRIC

4-down – White-knuckle theme park ride : ROLLERCOASTER

5-down – It’s between Sierra and Uniform : TANGO

6-down – Impossible fantasy : CHIMERA

7-down – Form of shoe? : LAST

8-down – Stick : ADHERE

13-down – Provoke : ENGENDER

15-down – Available : ONOFFER

16-down – Calculate : RECKON

18-down – Benefits of working? : PERKS

20-down – More than : ABOVE

21-down – Mark, pan or row : SKID

1-across – Means to get some air? : WINDPIPE

5-across – Fatal weakness? : FLAW

9-across – Bigger than average : LARGE

10-across – Read it to someone as a warning : RIOTACT

11-across – Classical consumer advice : CAVEATEMPTOR

13-across – International agreement : TREATY

14-across – Aim : ASPIRE

17-across – Unable to co-exist : INCOMPATIBLE

20-across – Defeat comprehensively : TROUNCE

21-across – Deafening : NOISY

22-across – Instrument of oppression : YOKE

23-across – Instrument of Captain Corelli : MANDOLIN

1-down – Source of water, or oil : WELL

2-down – Tell a story : NARRATE

3-down – Feeling about the future – inner tempest : PRESENTIMENT

4-down – Equal terms : PARITY

6-down – Slightest : LEAST

7-down – Drift off on it? : WATERBED

8-down – Mom’s decision : COMMISSIONED

12-down – Only : STRICTLY

15-down – Bad feeling : ILLWILL

16-down – It’s said one never lies : CAMERA

18-down – Speak hoarsely – and die : CROAK

19-down – Jerusalem is one : HYMN

1-across – Equivalent : TANTAMOUNT

7-across – Quickly : LIKEMAD

8-across – French wife : FEMME

10-across – Go up in smoke : BURN

11-across – Blissful feeling : EUPHORIA

13-across – Tender-hearted individual : SOFTIE

15-across – Stemmed drinking vessel : GOBLET

17-across – Particular example : INSTANCE

18-across – Run – and catch : BOLT

21-across – Victorian novelist – and a Modernist poet : ELIOT

22-across – Green or cut : EMERALD

23-across – Rig agendas – to make : AGGRANDISE

1-down – One wants what’s on offer : TAKER

2-down – Without feeling : NUMB

3-down – Intense feeling : ARDOUR

4-down – It’s developed from something else : OFFSHOOT

5-down – Arabic or Roman? : NUMERAL

6-down – One allows people to have their say : PLEBISCITE

9-down – Precise quality : EXACTITUDE

12-down – Something calamitous : DISASTER

14-down – Activity designed to garner information – or compliments : FISHING

16-down – Show : SCREEN

19-down – Having reached adulthood : OFAGE

20-down – French soldier’s headgear : KEPI

1-across – Attempt to ‘talk out’ proposed new law : FILIBUSTER

7-across – Strike a light on it : MATCHBOX

8-across – Frequently over-imbibe : TOPE

9-across – Closed, or opened, curtains : DREW

10-across – Home of Radio City Music Hall : NEWYORK

12-across – Paintings by Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollock : ABSTRACTART

14-across – Amusing activity : PASTIME

16-across – Corvid : CROW

19-across – Cry of despair – like a banshee’s? : WAIL

20-across – Chaotic situation : SHAMBLES

21-across – Helpless? : UNASSISTED

1-down – Con artist : FRAUD

2-down – Secure storage : LOCKERS

3-down – One may be in arms : BABE

4-down – Christmas pudding surprise : SIXPENCE

5-down – Right of admission : ENTRY

6-down – Fighting, free or festive : SPIRIT

11-down – Business place : PREMISES

12-down – Online image : AVATAR

13-down – Circus performer : ACROBAT

15-down – Curved claw : TALON

17-down – Exercise : WIELD

18-down – Aniseed-flavoured 6 : RAKI