Daily Answers

1-across – Promontory : CAPE

3-across – Female child : DAUGHTER

9-across – Fortified wine : MARSALA

10-across – Frequently : OFTEN

11-across – Local rule : BYLAW

12-across – Mad : INSANE

14-across – Periodic spectacle at Palace etc : CHANGINGGUARD

17-across – Breakfast food : MUESLI

19-across – Black bird : RAVEN

22-across – Wireless : RADIO

23-across – Early evening meal : HIGHTEA

24-across – Stupid : GORMLESS

25-across – Passage for air : FLUE

1-down – Return to former success : COMEBACK

2-down – Danger : PERIL

4-down – 1,001 oriental folk tales : ARABIANNIGHTS

5-down – 144 : GROSS

6-down – Fairy queen : TITANIA

7-down – Step of ladder : RUNG

8-down – Insect with pincers : EARWIG

13-down – Toothless creature : EDENTATE

15-down – Into pieces : ASUNDER

16-down – Car’s home : GARAGE

18-down – Cylinder for winding film etc : SPOOL

20-down – Essential : VITAL

21-down – Amphibian : FROG

1-across – Early spring flower : SNOWDROP

5-across – Outbuilding : SHED

9-across – Book with maps : ATLAS

10-across – Spiral tube in the ear : COCHLEA

11-across – Appertaining to a big city … : METROPOLITAN

13-across – … custodians of law and order : POLICE

14-across – Sachet to put in pot : TEABAG

17-across – 11 13 HQ : SCOTLANDYARD

20-across – Authority – or lack of it? : LICENCE

21-across – Be of use : AVAIL

22-across – Type – arrange in groups : SORT

23-across – Blunt instrument : BLUDGEON

1-down – Swing – lean – persuade : SWAY

2-down – Shaft to extract fuel : OILWELL

3-down – Part of the London underground : DISTRICTLINE

4-down – Take or have possession of : OCCUPY

6-down – English composer : HOLST

7-down – Removal of unwanted liquid : DRAINAGE

8-down – Skivvy in big house : SCULLERYMAID

12-down – The Twelve – or a Cambridge society : APOSTLES

15-down – Long bust of fire – dam : BARRAGE

16-down – Reveal : UNVEIL

18-down – Cinema award : OSCAR

19-down – Scheme : PLAN

1-across – Shyness – mistrust : DIFFIDENCE

7-across – Fixed : RIVETED

8-across – Dancing shoes – may be manned! : PUMPS

10-across – Clown : ZANY

11-across – Yarrow : ACHILLEA

13-across – Serviette : NAPKIN

15-across – Type of gun : PISTOL

17-across – Go faster or do better than : OUTSTRIP

18-across – Dish cooked slowly : STEW

21-across – Clothe : DRESS

22-across – Flightless bird : PENGUIN

23-across – The institutionally disadvantaged : UNDERCLASS

1-down – Couch or bed : DIVAN

2-down – Waller or Domino : FATS

3-down – Charge formally : INDICT

4-down – Stated without concealment : EXPLICIT

5-down – King Arthur’s town : CAMELOT

6-down – Fend for zoo : FROZENFOOD

9-down – Non-swimmers’ area : SHALLOWEND

12-down – Aversion : DISTASTE

14-down – Design – example : PATTERN

16-down – Film celebrating a person’s life : BIOPIC

19-down – Support – bundle – cluster : TRUSS

20-down – Ancient Peruvian : INCA

1-across – Oriental style pottery or china : WILLOWPATTERN

8-across – In the centre of : AMID

9-across – Close-fitting trousers : LEGGINGS

10-across – Hell – the criminal classes : UNDERWORLD

12-across – Airless – humourless : STUFFY

14-across – Monkey – factor in blood : RHESUS

15-across – Perceive or act in advance : ANTICIPATE

19-across – In a lying position : COUCHANT

20-across – Measure of land : ACRE

21-across – Sugar-coated nuts : JORDANALMONDS

2-down – Safety : IMMUNITY

3-down – Shelf : LEDGE

4-down – : WALKWAY

5-down – Wrath : ANGER

6-down – Play with and twist around : TWIDDLE

7-down – Wrath : RAGE

11-down – Arty : CULTURED

13-down – Limp and soft : FLACCID

14-down – 17 performance, for example : RECITAL

16-down – Two – Mark! : TWAIN

17-down – Musical instrument : PIANO

18-down – By oneself : SOLO

1-across – House to go with the job : TIEDCOTTAGE

9-across – Insincere person : HYPOCRITE

10-across – Lawyers – for drinks : BAR

11-across – Indian corn : MAIZE

13-across – Storm : TEMPEST

14-across – Way out : EGRESS

15-across – Cheeky or presumptuous : UPPITY

18-across – In a manner approved by law : LEGALLY

20-across – Lout : YAHOO

21-across – Sick : ILL

22-across – Type of flour : WHOLEMEAL

24-across – Now – or Christmas! : PRESENTTIME

2-down – Little devil : IMP

3-down – Devil of a novelist! : DICKENS

4-down – Narcotic drug : OPIATE

5-down – Unit of heat : THERM

6-down – Nonsensical speech : GIBBERISH

7-down – Court official – former Prime Minister! : CHAMBERLAIN

8-down – Narcissitic parrot talk : PRETTYPOLLY

12-down – Out of order : IRREGULAR

16-down – Money given for service etc. : PAYMENT

17-down – Wealthy magnate : TYCOON

19-down – Part of Hebridean island – boxer : LEWIS

23-down – Tree : ELM