Daily Answers

1-across – Part-living machine : CYBORG

4-across – Aw-____,bashful expression : SHUCKS

8-across – Timer : MERIT

9-across – Nosh lover : GOURMET

10-across – Upper chamber,often : BEDROOM

11-across – Fatuous : INANE

12-across – Belief in the occult : MYSTICISM

17-across – Equipped like some boats : OARED

19-across – Jeremiah : KILLJOY

21-across – Meticulous in a precious way : FINICKY

22-across – Tree with chocolatey fruit : CAROB

23-across – Pan rye : NAPERY

24-across – Tell : RELATE

1-down – Acquire : COMEBY

2-down – 10 across : BOREDOM

3-down – Relationship between quantities : RATIO

5-down – Escapologist : HOUDINI

6-down – Text mark : COMMA

7-down – Retest : SETTER

9-down – Use of strategic ploys : GIMMICKRY

13-down – Motorbike passenger carrier : SIDECAR

14-down – Palma’s island : MAJORCA

15-down – Whizz : BOFFIN

16-down – Toodle-oo : BYEBYE

18-down – Day and hours immediately before : RUNUP

20-down – Money gained : LUCRE

1-across – Of cars and lorries etc. : VEHICULAR

8-across – Learn : RENAL

9-across – Small sun – future A-lister? : STARLET

10-across – I don’t give a damn! : WHOCARES

11-across – Green fruit : LIME

13-across – Relative : COUSIN

14-across – Triangular snack : SAMOSA

16-across – Iota : ATOM

17-across – Gymnastic feat : BACKFLIP

19-across – Don’t come in! : KEEPOUT

20-across – Bush row : HEDGE

21-across – Second team? : RUNNERSUP

1-down – Cavil con : VOLCANIC

2-down – YMCA establishment? : HOSTEL

3-down – Horny nail : CLAW

4-down – Female assisting with crossings : LOLLIPOPLADY

5-down – Baddies : ROTTENAPPLES

6-down – Crispy seafood item : PRAWNCRACKER

7-down – Of a large family of languages : INDOEUROPEAN

12-down – Discuss work when out of the office : TALKSHOP

15-down – Praying ___ : MANTIS

18-down – Pipe – shoe : HOSE

1-across – Spoken exam : VIVA

3-across – Yolk and white mixer : EGGWHISK

9-across – Dish with grains : RISOTTO

10-across – Void : EMPTY

11-across – Glutamate taste : UMAMI

12-across – Rich : YUPPIE

14-across – Sliding wind instrument : SWANEEWHISTLE

17-across – Those keeping strides up : BRACES

19-across – 1940s US jazz : BEBOP

22-across – Fit out : EQUIP

23-across – Air blot : ORBITAL

24-across – British __,arm of international humanitarian movement : REDCROSS

25-across – Plough pullers : OXEN

1-down – Brilliant player : VIRTUOSO

2-down – Prospect : VISTA

4-down – Overly virtuous type? : GOODYTWOSHOES

5-down – Puppy – impudent youth : WHELP

6-down – Name of publisher,time and place of publication of a book : IMPRINT

7-down – Fight’s final fall : KAYO

8-down – Sifter : STRIFE

13-down – Airship : ZEPPELIN

15-down – Onto the shore : AGROUND

16-down – Drink : IMBIBE

18-down – Skip : CAPER

20-down – Neurotoxic protein used cosmetically : BOTOX

21-down – Catcall : JEER

1-across – Country without a monarch : REPUBLIC

5-across – Folk tale : MYTH

9-across – Great expanse of water : OCEAN

10-across – Aquatic red-billed bird : MOORHEN

11-across – No jack of all trades! : ONETRICKPONY

13-across – Catcher of fish : ANGLER

14-across – Evergreen shrub : MYRTLE

17-across – Hesitate : SHILLYSHALLY

20-across – Or trees : RESTORE

21-across – Typed : KEYED

22-across – I’m off! : TATA

23-across – Binge eating : GLUTTONY

1-down – Chess bird? : ROOK

2-down – Old German coin : PFENNIG

3-down – Drink : BENDTHEELBOW

4-down – __ pentameter,poetic rhythm : IAMBIC

6-down – Boor – hooray! : YAHOO

7-down – Hive hummer? : HONEYBEE

8-down – Worker’s garment : DONKEYJACKET

12-down – Classical Indian language : SANSKRIT

15-down – Call when hunting fox : TALLYHO

16-down – On top : ASWELL

18-down – Stein : INSET

19-down – Whirlpool : EDDY

1-across – Haughty : HOITYTOITY

7-across – From Tehran,e.g. : IRANIAN

8-across – Garbage : TRASH

10-across – Bird – flying toy : KITE

11-across – Leaper’s cry : GERONIMO

13-across – Item inserted into gun-barrel : RAMROD

15-across – Small device attached to computer : DONGLE

17-across – Lavatory : WASHROOM

18-across – Dyke builder : OFFA

21-across – Humid : MOIST

22-across – Yemeni,e.g. : ARABIAN

23-across – Small ornament : KNICKKNACK

1-down – Red card : HEART

2-down – Heron relative : IBIS

3-down – Far distance : YONDER

4-down – Conventional : ORTHODOX

5-down – Melting : THAWING

6-down – Win or lose due to one’s own efforts : SINKORSWIM

9-down – Folk music concert : HOOTENANNY

12-down – __ irony,feigning ignorance to expose ignorance of others : SOCRATIC

14-down – Assignment : MISSION

16-down – Punk’s hairdo : MOHAWK

19-down – Search of person for weapons etc. : FRISK

20-down – Old story : SAGA