Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – A picnic : EASY

3-across – Great! : SPLENDID

8-across – Score mark : CLEF

9-across – Fabric covering head – old nose wiper : KERCHIEF

11-across – Great! : SUPERDUPER

14-across – Religious building : MOSQUE

15-across – Clear : ACQUIT

17-across – Pickled dish from Germany : SAUERKRAUT

20-across – Licked confection : ICELOLLY

21-across – Italian city with a famous listed building? : PISA

22-across – Drink : BEVERAGE

23-across – Really : VERY

1-down – Social dance where partners often changed : EXCUSEME

2-down – Shamefaced : SHEEPISH

4-down – Network of vessels : PLEXUS

5-down – Baked item from Greater Manchester : ECCLESCAKE

6-down – Slowly leak : DRIP

7-down – Dud : DUFF

10-down – Entertainer singing about courtly love : TROUBADOUR

12-down – Emulate Roger Bannister? : RUNAMILE

13-down – Sculpted works : STATUARY

16-down – Wooden … : PEGLEG

18-down – … member : LIMB

19-down – Type of diesel : DERV

1-across – Don’t beat about the bush! : CUTTOTHECHASE

8-across – Burn : CHAR

9-across – Put your legs on either side of : BESTRIDE

10-across – Balderdash : MUMBOJUMBO

12-across – Exhaustion after long-haul flight : JETLAG

14-across – Friend known through writing : PENPAL

15-across – Sauce-carrying transport on which easy money earnt? : GRAVYTRAIN

19-across – Whose course never did run smooth, according to Shakespeare? : TRUELOVE

20-across – Dip biscuit in tea : DUNK

21-across – Nine days’ wonder : FLASHINTHEPAN

2-down – Without accommodation : UNHOUSED

3-down – Broth : THROB

4-down – Vessel resembling a pipe-smoking, hat-wearing man : TOBYJUG

5-down – Poems : EPSOM

6-down – Spear : HARPOON

7-down – Carbonated water : SODA

11-down – Plantation : HACIENDA

13-down – Drunk – without pins? : LEGLESS

14-down – Money due : PAYMENT

16-down – Mayo seasoned with garlic : AIOLI

17-down – Elongated region of high barometric pressure : RIDGE

18-down – Verbal : ORAL

1-across – Secret-concealing panel in drawer : FALSEBOTTOM

9-across – Arthur’s blade : EXCALIBUR

10-across – Viola player? : BOW

11-across – Bream : AMBER

13-across – Loo : LATRINE

14-across – Medicine ball? : TABLET

15-across – Keep schtum : SHUTUP

18-across – Spoilsport : KILLJOY

20-across – Pen it : INEPT

21-across – Bed : COT

22-across – Pitiless : CUTTHROAT

24-across – Carroll poem : JABBERWOCKY

2-down – Line met by a tangent : ARC

3-down – Extravagantly spend : SPLURGE

4-down – Bounce in irregular manner : BOBBLE

5-down – Deck including arcana : TAROT

6-down – Dungeon in which prisoners are forgotten : OUBLIETTE

7-down – On-the-spot attempt? : PENALTYKICK

8-down – Tropical tuber : SWEETPOTATO

12-down – Drink with pearls of tapioca : BUBBLETEA

16-down – Sigh : HEIGHHO

17-down – Shellfish : OYSTER

19-down – Genesis character dreaming of a ladder to heaven : JACOB

23-down – Mighty growth : OAK

1-across – Excited – as a beehive? : BUZZING

8-across – Self-love : EGOTISM

9-across – Reply : RIPOSTE

10-across – Pair on the bridge? : GLASSES

11-across – Jelly : ASPIC

13-across – Hot desire : THEORISED

15-across – The other way around : VICEVERSA

18-across – Meringue pie fruit? : LEMON

21-across – One of ‘those’ is ‘ethos’ : ANAGRAM

22-across – Type of gas : PROPANE

23-across – Don’s talk : LECTURE

24-across – Fugitive : RUNAWAY

1-down – Muslim garment : BURKA

2-down – Fasten : ZIPUP

3-down – Ant-eating, say? : INSECTIVOROUS

4-down – Horse : GEEGEE

5-down – Floating people-carrier : HOTAIRBALLOON

6-down – Wife : MISSUS

7-down – Diverted : AMUSED

12-down – Airs : SARI

14-down – Gore : ERGO

15-down – Feasible : VIABLE

16-down – Random : CHANCY

17-down – Child’s one-piece ‘suit’ : ROMPER

19-down – Catcall? : MIAOW

20-down – Impoverished : NEEDY

1-across – Skilled writer or speaker : WORDSMITH

8-across – Opener and closer : DOOR

9-across – Bringer of case : PLAINTIFF

10-across – Sometimes humorous shared image : MEME

13-across – Lidos : SOLID

15-across – US state, capital Salem : OREGON

16-across – Invalid delivery : NOBALL

17-across – Ninny : NITWIT

19-across – Sparkler on dancer’s costume : SEQUIN

20-across – Castrated cock : CAPON

21-across – Wheedle : COAX

24-across – I tape over : OPERATIVE

25-across – Handled bucket : PAIL

26-across – Oz stagnant pool : BILLABONG

2-down – Nocturnal members of parliament? : OWLS

3-down – Platform : DAIS

4-down – Ewe in a stew? : MUTTON

5-down – Luncheon : TIFFIN

6-down – Nice place? : COTEDAZUR

7-down – Very tough : GRUELLING

11-down – Cratered view? : MOONSCAPE

12-down – : CESTLAVIE

13-down – Coins : SONIC

14-down – 13 for a baker? : DOZEN

18-down – Taiwanese capital : TAIPEI

19-down – Buckwheat relative whose acid leaves used in salad : SORREL

22-down – Butt : STUB

23-down – Level pegging : EVEN