Daily Answers

5-across – Study of stars etc : ASTRONOMY

8-across – Rounded end of building : APSE

9-across – Estrange : ALIENATE

10-across – Asian peninsular : ARABIA

11-across – South American river : AMAZON

13-across – Microscopic animal : AMOEBA

15-across – Scared – regretful : AFRAID

16-across – April 25, a holiday down under : ANZACDAY

18-across – Be next door to : ABUT

19-across – Having no : UNRELATED

1-down – Get together : ASSEMBLE

2-down – War fleet : ARMADA

3-down – Heart disease : ANGINA

4-down – Sign : OMEN

6-down – Room ? flat : APARTMENT

7-down – Very bad : ATROCIOUS

12-down – Means of broadcasting : AIRWAVES

14-down – Bad : ADDLED

15-down – However that may be : ANYWAY

17-down – Relative : AUNT

5-across – Cake – for single parents? : GINGERBREAD

7-across – Crustacean – apple : CRAB

8-across – Fidgety – unable to sleep : RESTLESS

9-across – Unresisting : PASSIVE

11-across – Welsh county : POWYS

13-across – Dwelling : ABODE

14-across – : OPENING

16-across – Delicate sort of china : EGGSHELL

17-across – Robe : GOWN

18-across – Eagle : TWOUNDERPAR

1-down – Rebuff : SNUB

2-down – Dispossess : DEPRIVE

3-down – Pathologically fat : OBESE

4-down – Aristocratic by descent : WELLBORN

5-down – Area in shipping forecast : GERMANBIGHT

6-down – Rudely blunt reply : DUSTYANSWER

10-down – Not the main scene of activity : SIDESHOW

12-down – Put in : APPLIED

15-down – Intended : MEANT

17-down – Open wide : GAPE

1-across – Push and shove – hurry : HUSTLE

4-across – Printed cotton fabric : CHINTZ

8-across – Very stupid person : MORON

9-across – None left in the shop : SOLDOUT

10-across – Spanish ship : GALLEON

11-across – A question of place : WHERE

12-across – Waste metal for melting down : SCRAPIRON

17-across – French existentialist writer : CAMUS

19-across – Device for clearing blocked drains : PLUNGER

21-across – Checking device – VDU – lizard : MONITOR

22-across – Give a bed to : PUTUP

23-across – 5 cents : NICKEL

24-across – Worn away at the edges : FRAYED

1-down – Acknowledgment of superiority : HOMAGE

2-down – Excess : SURPLUS

3-down – Sudden thrust : LUNGE

5-down – Jihad : HOLYWAR

6-down – Loop with sliding knot : NOOSE

7-down – Instrument played on table or lap : ZITHER

9-down – Ground-dwelling wading bird : SANDPIPER

13-down – Badge : ROSETTE

14-down – Nocturnal : NIGHTLY

15-down – Keen insight : ACUMEN

16-down – Stand for camera etc : TRIPOD

18-down – Crazily excited : MANIC

20-down – Superior : UPPER

1-across – Central character in the nest : QUEENWASP

8-across – French river : LOIRE

9-across – Star – missile : POLARIS

10-across – Prickly creature : HEDGEHOG

11-across – Appeal – with bargaining? : PLEA

13-across – Bailey’s partner : BARNUM

14-across – Girl’s name : SOPHIE

16-across – Fold – friar! : TUCK

17-across – Skill in repartee etc : READYWIT

19-across – Series of sharp bends in circuit : CHICANE

20-across – Seraglio : HAREM

21-across – : LINEAMENT

1-down – Formed in orderly line : QUEUEDUP

2-down – Use : EMPLOY

3-down – Void : NULL

4-down – Typical spring weather! : APRILSHOWERS

5-down – Label stuck on envelope : POSTAGESTAMP

6-down – One sort of order : ALPHABETICAL

7-down – Leading astray : MISDIRECTION

12-down – Expression of approval at sport : GOODSHOT

15-down – Calm and at peace : SERENE

18-down – Special festivity : GALA

1-across – Bog : MIRE

3-across – Platform for election speeches : HUSTINGS

9-across – Toxic metal used in plating : CADMIUM

10-across – Practical joke : PRANK

11-across – Missile : ARROW

12-across – Drink of gods and insects : NECTAR

14-across – Of no consequence : INSIGNIFICANT

17-across – Banal : COMMON

19-across – : PLACE

22-across – Confess : OWNUP

23-across – Young male ox : BULLOCK

24-across – Magician : SORCERER

25-across – He changes colour, as it were : DYER

1-down – American Indian shoe : MOCCASIN

2-down – Addition to verdict : RIDER

4-down – Not fit to be referred to : UNMENTIONABLE

5-down – Subject : TOPIC

6-down – Falls : NIAGARA

7-down – Rice drink – for heaven’s ____ ! : SAKE

8-down – VIP : BIGWIG

13-down – Runner in the nude : STREAKER

15-down – Victorian cleric who fed sunny things : SPOONER

16-down – Pierce with lance etc : IMPALE

18-down – Tree producing syrup : MAPLE

20-down – Extreme pain : AGONY

21-down – Throw into the air : TOSS