Author name: crosswordanswers

5-across – Four-footed mammal : QUADRUPED

8-across – Recreational area : PARK

9-across – Utter : OUTRIGHT

10-across – Not sinking : AFLOAT

11-across – Surviving : EXTANT

13-across – Teaser : RIDDLE

15-across – Focus obsessively : FIXATE

16-across – Someone who has people for dinner? : CANNIBAL

18-across – Part of the foot : ARCH

19-across – Indolent person : LAZYBONES

1-down – Easy but deleterious dietary option : JUNKFOOD

2-down – Skilful : ADROIT

3-down – Finely nuanced : SUBTLE

4-down – Mythical mountain-dweller : YETI

6-down – Loyal assistant, as seen in a 1719 novel : MANFRIDAY

7-down – Study of speech sounds : PHONETICS

12-down – Place to avoid high levies : TAXHAVEN

14-down – Early stage of an organism’s development : EMBRYO

15-down – Bird of prey : FALCON

17-down – Boat-building patriarch : NOAH

5-across – Apple variety : GRANNYSMITH

7-across – Promote – stopper : PLUG

8-across – Means of obtaining reduced transport fares : RAILCARD

9-across – Sports ground : STADIUM

11-across – Clothes horse : DANDY

13-across – Living barrier – noncommittal statement : HEDGE

14-across – Blurred : SMUDGED

16-across – Small details : MINUTIAE

17-across – Oral exam : VIVA

18-across – US national park : YELLOWSTONE

1-down – Tooth : FANG

2-down – Taxing : ONEROUS

3-down – Out of bed : ASTIR

4-down – Small, herring-like fish : PILCHARD

5-down – Use excessive embellishment : GILDTHELILY

6-down – Appetiser : HORSDOEUVRE

10-down – Founder of the Fifth Republic : DEGAULLE

12-down – Plunge : IMMERSE

15-down – Unimportant : MINOR

17-down – Old stringed instrument : VIOL

1-across – Courage : METTLE

4-across – Slender : SVELTE

8-across – Encore! : AGAIN

9-across – Viscera : INNARDS

10-across – Criticism : REPROOF

11-across – Smallest : LEAST

12-across – Bowdlerise : EXPURGATE

17-across – Haven : OASIS

19-across – Malodorous : NOISOME

21-across – Blasphemous : PROFANE

22-across – Friend : AMIGO

23-across – Spliff : REEFER

24-across – Save : REDEEM

1-down – Scanty : MEAGRE

2-down – Trudge : TRAIPSE

3-down – Jargon : LINGO

5-down – Plain : VANILLA

6-down – Caterpillar? : LARVA

7-down – Substitute : ERSATZ

9-down – Deduction : INFERENCE

13-down – Excerpt : PASSAGE

14-down – Affecting : EMOTIVE

15-down – Coin : COPPER

16-down – Amendment : REFORM

18-down – Cache : STORE

20-down – Fatuous : INANE

1-across – Wanton destruction : VANDALISM

8-across – Approaches : NEARS

9-across – Zizz zap : PIZZAZZ

10-across – As bright as before : UNDIMMED

11-across – Parrot : ECHO

13-across – Grieves : MOURNS

14-across – Blunder : BOOBOO

16-across – Standard : NORM

17-across – Pertaining to the basic units of life : CELLULAR

19-across – Poisonous plant : HENBANE

20-across – Hit it off – boarded : GOTON

21-across – Medic : PHYSICIAN

1-down – Clerical robe : VESTMENT

2-down – Kid : NIPPER

3-down – Cutting tool : ADZE

4-down – Tetchiness : IRASCIBILITY

5-down – Singing voice : MEZZOSOPRANO

6-down – The attempt to prove one’s superiority or gain an advantage : ONEUPMANSHIP

7-down – Dollar or euro, say : HARDCURRENCY

12-down – Yobbo : HOOLIGAN

15-down – Sanaa resident, e.g. : YEMENI

18-down – Followers of a star : MAGI

1-across – Cummerbund, for example : SASH

3-across – Move hurriedly – render unintelligible : SCRAMBLE

9-across – Lady’s bedchamber : BOUDOIR

10-across – Complies with : OBEYS

11-across – Pervade : IMBUE

12-across – Rectifies : AMENDS

14-across – Representation of the correlation between experience and proficiency : LEARNINGCURVE

17-across – Chilled drink : ICETEA

19-across – Iota – free-for-all : SCRAP

22-across – Bury : INTER

23-across – Express complete confidence in : SWEARBY

24-across – Overconfident : COCKSURE

25-across – Gin flavourer : SLOE

1-down – On-screen translation : SUBTITLE

2-down – Firework, disappointing when damp : SQUIB

4-down – Opening act : CURTAINRAISER

5-down – Charged battery component : ANODE

6-down – Mixing machine : BLENDER

7-down – A walk in the park, perhaps : EASY

8-down – Situation in which people express fulsome mutual praise : LOVEIN

13-down – Beginner : NEOPHYTE

15-down – Practising self-denial : ASCETIC

16-down – Nut : CASHEW

18-down – Doughnut-like shape : TORUS

20-down – Opposite of urban : RURAL

21-down – Metallic element and essential trace mineral : ZINC