Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Table cloth? : NAPKIN

4-across – Tree with yellow or white flowers : ACACIA

9-across – Very active : ONTHEGO

10-across – Pour water on : RINSE

11-across – Familiar name for Handel’s Ombra mai fu from Serse : LARGO

12-across – Saved money : NESTEGG

13-across – Wool-gathering : DAYDREAMING

18-across – Praise God! : HOSANNA

20-across – Bounder : ROGUE

22-across – Period preceding an event : RUNUP

23-across – The Acropolis, for example : CITADEL

24-across – Knot and colour : TIEDYE

25-across – Practitioner of music or sport : PLAYER

1-down – Improvise music – ramen ingredient : NOODLE

2-down – Saint at the Pearly Gates : PETER

3-down – Freezing : ICECOLD

5-down – Military unit : CORPS

6-down – Dining hall – water flask : CANTEEN

7-down – Get even for : AVENGE

8-down – Face – sanction or approve : COUNTENANCE

14-down – What makes the heart grow fonder : ABSENCE

15-down – Connubial : MARITAL

16-down – Drinker’s motivation : THIRST

17-down – One among those you might put out when curious : FEELER

19-down – Chilly : NIPPY

21-down – Experiencing dizziness : GIDDY

1-across – Soapbox/on-the-box preaching? : TELEVANGELISM

8-across – Controversial speech : POLEMIC

9-across – Clean feathers : PREEN

10-across – Pretence : SHAM

11-across – Blood feud : VENDETTA

13-across – Purchasing of a company : BUYOUT

14-across – Setter : STREET

17-across – Kiss : OSCULATE

19-across – Weakest man on board? : PAWN

21-across – Primary : FIRST

22-across – Go off : EXPLODE

24-across – Period of the French Revolution with many executions : REIGNOFTERROR

1-down – Faucet : TAP

2-down – Soothing tune : LULLABY

3-down – Jazz passage : VAMP

4-down – Half a dime : NICKEL

5-down – Accelerate : EXPEDITE

6-down – Chemically inactive : INERT

7-down – NY borough : MANHATTAN

10-down – Low frequency speaker : SUBWOOFER

12-down – Report : BULLETIN

15-down – Cause to love : ENAMOUR

16-down – Stifle : ITSELF

18-down – Welsh dog? : CORGI

20-down – Peas : APSE

23-down – Slip up : ERR

5-across – Ground-clearing vehicle – sleeping male animal? : BULLDOZER

8-across – Hew : HACK

9-across – Local government building : TOWNHALL

10-across – Separate : DETACH

11-across – Gentle neigh : WHINNY

13-across – Sash opening? : WINDOW

15-across – Scuffle : TUSSLE

16-across – Male platonic love : BROMANCE

18-across – Curve over : ARCH

19-across – Mallow relative : HOLLYHOCK

1-down – Where scrap left : JUNKYARD

2-down – Malfunction : GLITCH

3-down – Dog : BOWWOW

4-down – Interwoven structure : MESH

6-down – Coffee pot : CAFETIERE

7-down – Historical sparking gun : FLINTLOCK

12-down – Case : INSTANCE

14-down – Draw out by effort : WINKLE

15-down – Grow or cut incisors etc : TEETHE

17-down – Subject to uncertainty : MOOT

5-across – Loire grape : CHENINBLANC

7-across – Yap – round a tree? : BARK

8-across – Fiendish : DIABOLIC

9-across – West Country cheese : CHEDDAR

11-across – Zany : WACKY

13-across – Goddess – planet : VENUS

14-across – Feeler : ANTENNA

16-across – Quite dinky : SMALLISH

17-across – Be friends with : KNOW

18-across – Meteorological bang : THUNDERCLAP

1-down – Use the beak : PECK

2-down – That’s not so important! : BIGDEAL

3-down – Sub : UBOAT

4-down – Deliberate destruction : SABOTAGE

5-down – Head protection : CRASHHELMET

6-down – Supposed cure of everyday illnesses – something for the soul? : CHICKENSOUP

10-down – Curl over with laughter : DOUBLEUP

12-down – Briefly : INSHORT

15-down – Blowing a gale : WINDY

17-down – Scotsman’s item of clothing : KILT

1-across – Pope’s tenure : PAPACY

4-across – Smile in an ingratiating manner : SIMPER

8-across – Repeat the words of another : QUOTE

9-across – Assets : CAPITAL

10-across – Curved hairy line : EYEBROW

11-across – Romantic appointment : TRYST

12-across – Your health! : BOTTOMSUP

17-across – With the farthest point directed towards one : ENDON

19-across – Mundane : HUMDRUM

21-across – Left rib : FILBERT

22-across – Small hill : MOUND

23-across – Insubstantial – containing fungus : YEASTY

24-across – Evergreen shrub : MYRTLE

1-down – Game played with 32 cards : PIQUET

2-down – Saw : PROVERB

3-down – Whoop : CHEER

5-down – Momentum : IMPETUS

6-down – Minor : PETTY

7-down – Tell : RELATE

9-down – Stetson : COWBOYHAT

13-down – Curve toucher : TANGENT

14-down – Quest : PURSUIT

15-down – Church tower : BELFRY

16-down – Blurred streak : SMUDGE

18-down – Fourth Greek letter : DELTA

20-down – Parent : MUMMY