Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Share one’s amatory exploits with the media : KISSANDTELL

9-across – Well thought of : REPUTABLE

10-across – Polymer composed of nucleotides : DNA

11-across – Army chaplain : PADRE

13-across – Performer : ARTISTE

14-across – Method : SYSTEM

15-across – Someone who generates a great deal of interest? : USURER

18-across – Jam-maker? : TRAFFIC

20-across – Bottomless pit : ABYSS

21-across – Reproductive cells : OVA

22-across – Jet, say : AEROPLANE

24-across – Devastated : HEARTBROKEN

2-down – Maker of mischief : IMP

3-down – Expression of defiance : SOTHERE

4-down – Member of a Nilo-Saharan ethnic group : NUBIAN

5-down – Post on X : TWEET

6-down – Encouraged to do wrong : LEDASTRAY

7-down – One could be off or on : PREPOSITION

8-down – Unwelcomed guest? : GATECRASHER

12-down – Heterogeneous : DISPARATE

16-down – Cleaning product : SHAMPOO

17-down – Sacred ancient Egyptian symbol : SCARAB

19-down – Talent : FLAIR

23-down – Pub offering : ALE

1-across – Rice dish : RISOTTO

8-across – Fragrant herb : OREGANO

9-across – Wicked action : MISDEED

10-across – Trellis, say : LATTICE

11-across – Nimble : AGILE

13-across – Revive : RESURRECT

15-across – What one has created or done : HANDIWORK

18-across – Booboo : ERROR

21-across – It’s reclaimed at an airport : BAGGAGE

22-across – Granting permission to : LETTING

23-across – Wavering musical effect : TREMOLO

24-across – Expel – for tutu : TURFOUT

1-down – Cuban dance : RUMBA

2-down – Rice dish : SUSHI

3-down – Film about a cyborg : THETERMINATOR

4-down – Shedloads : OODLES

5-down – In a chaotic and confused manner : HELTERSKELTER

6-down – Parody, say : SATIRE

7-down – Instant : MOMENT

12-down – Excessively enthusiastic : GAGA

14-down – Mafia boss : CAPO

15-down – Customs : HABITS

16-down – Piece of e.g. chicken or information : NUGGET

17-down – American wildcat : OCELOT

19-down – Herbivorous pachyderm : RHINO

20-down – Thesaurus compiler : ROGET

1-across – It’s burned to produce incense : JOSSSTICK

8-across – Eurovision winner with Boom Bang-a-Bang : LULU

9-across – Put side by side : JUXTAPOSE

10-across – Of the ear : OTIC

13-across – Whole : TOTAL

15-across – Lugubrious Hundred Acre Wood inhabitant : EEYORE

16-across – Syringa plants : LILACS

17-across – Lawrence of Arabia star Peter : OTOOLE

19-across – Cruel or selfish person : MEANIE

20-across – Graphic : LURID

21-across – Ditch – how droll! : HAHA

24-across – Expert dealing with animals : ZOOLOGIST

25-across – Skeletal : BONY

26-across – Characteristic spirit of the age : ZEITGEIST

2-down – Responsibility : ONUS

3-down – Old fools – drunkards : SOTS

4-down – Walk lightly : TIPTOE

5-down – Relaxed : CASUAL

6-down – Stanzas : QUATRAINS

7-down – Ballroom dance : QUICKSTEP

11-down – Someone prejudiced towards foreigners : XENOPHOBE

12-down – Percussion instrument : XYLOPHONE

13-down – Musical ornament : TRILL

14-down – Like a careworn face : LINED

18-down – It covers about 2% of the earth’s surface : EUROPE

19-down – Cereal grass – French painter : MILLET

22-down – Eye up : OGLE

23-down – Fertility deity : ISIS

1-across – Vacillating : DILLYDALLYING

8-across – Curve : ARC

9-across – Like Doubting Thomas – castle pic : SCEPTICAL

10-across – Close shave : NEARMISS

11-across – Attempt to con the ref – seedy establishment : DIVE

13-across – I appreciate that! : THANKS

14-across – Apelike : SIMIAN

16-across – To boot : ALSO

17-across – Extinct, flightless bird : GREATAUK

20-across – Ornamental trees : EUCALYPTI

21-across – Wrath : IRE

22-across – Office furniture : FILINGCABINET

1-down – Exhaust : DRAIN

2-down – Half-hearted : LACKADAISICAL

3-down – Veils of Muslim women : YASHMAKS

4-down – Opposed : AVERSE

5-down – ‘Play on the ___, beholding the towns burn’ : LUTE

6-down – The act of making someone appear guilty : INCRIMINATION

7-down – Spanish ship : GALLEON

12-down – E.g. riboflavin or thiamine : VITAMINB

13-down – Thief – basis of a hot drink : TEALEAF

15-down – Line of latitude : TROPIC

18-down – Genuflected : KNELT

19-down – Scheme : PLAN

1-across – E.g. LOL or OMG : ABBREVIATION

9-across – Surpass : OUTDO

10-across – Ask for : SOLICIT

11-across – Stepped : TROD

12-across – One filling the state coffers : TAXPAYER

14-across – Group, e.g. of soldiers or students : COHORT

15-across – Write badly : SCRAWL

18-across – Possessor of a non-hereditary title : LIFEPEER

20-across – Long-billed wader : IBIS

22-across – Mythical equine : UNICORN

23-across – Poetic feet : IAMBI

24-across – Resourceful : ENTERPRISING

2-down – Engage to marry : BETROTH

3-down – Origin – England cricketer : ROOT

4-down – Optical : VISUAL

5-down – Caribbean berry often ground into a powder : ALLSPICE

6-down – Like the feet of someone feeling restless? : ITCHY

7-down – True to life : NATURALISTIC

8-down – The cultivation of plants : HORTICULTURE

13-down – Opening in a floor – kind of spider : TRAPDOOR

16-down – Egg white : ALBUMEN

17-down – Note currently featuring Jane Austen : TENNER

19-down – Behave amorously : FLIRT

21-down – Make a sibilant sound : HISS