Daily Answers

1-across – Parisian love triangle : MENAGEATROIS

9-across – Figurative turn of phrase : IDIOM

10-across – Every cloud has a silver lining,say : PROVERB

11-across – Stage : DAIS

12-across – Miner’s workplace : COALFACE

14-across – Grated spice : NUTMEG

15-across – One may be attached to a vehicle : TOWBAR

18-across – Unclear situation : GREYAREA

20-across – One’s manipulated : PAWN

22-across – Not so quiet : NOISIER

23-across – <span>Scarlett in </span><i>Gone with the Wind</i> : OHARA

24-across – Oaf lost teeth : ATHLETESFOOT

2-down – For the few,not the many : ELITIST

3-down – Sally or Dad’s? : ARMY

4-down – Put to work : EMPLOY

5-down – Old-fashioned farewell : TOODLEOO

6-down – Rock,soap or comic : OPERA

7-down – Like hell : SUBTERRANEAN

8-down – Ulterior motive – nigh a dead end : HIDDENAGENDA

13-down – No answer? : NEGATIVE

16-down – Show of courage : BRAVADO

17-down – Extent : DEGREE

19-down – Wharton or Sitwell? : EDITH

21-down – : YOOF

1-across – Disgrace : INFAMY

4-across – Stumble : TRIPUP

9-across – Slight cold : SNIFFLE

10-across – Cover : DRAPE

11-across – A : DEKKO

12-across – Put right : CORRECT

13-across – Composure : EQUILIBRIUM

18-across – Not pro : AGAINST

20-across – Slice into pieces : CUTUP

22-across – Revered object : TOTEM

23-across – Private view? : OPINION

24-across – Waterlogged,like some land : MARSHY

25-across – Firmly committed : WEDDED

1-down – Lane,leg or job : INSIDE

2-down – Pat : FRISK

3-down – Mob members : MAFIOSI

5-down – Performer’s demanding schedule? : RIDER

6-down – High plain : PLATEAU

7-down – More than enough : PLENTY

8-down – CID’s pointer : DESCRIPTION

14-down – Half a half : QUARTER

15-down – Welcome – experience : RECEIVE

16-down – A little chicken? : BANTAM

17-down – Unsealed : OPENED

19-down – Shepherd’s partner – nature goddess : NYMPH

21-down – Heard in court : TRIED

1-across – Serving size for tea,perhaps : CUPFUL

4-across – Whippersnapper : SCAMP

7-across – Post-AI : PATOIS

8-across – Absent-minded – like some cubicles : VACANT

9-across – Rod’s counterpart in the eye : CONE

10-across – Damaging precipitation with low pH : ACIDRAIN

12-across – Feeling involving obligation : SENSEOFDUTY

17-across – Quartz variety : AMETHYST

19-across – Meat-and-tomato pasta sauce : RAGU

20-across – One born in the years following WW2 : BOOMER

21-across – Antagonism – hostility : ANIMUS

22-across – Last Greek letter : OMEGA

23-across – Bidding : BEHEST

1-down – Goat – yellowy brown – car-washing leather : CHAMOIS

2-down – Radio show with often angry participants : PHONEIN

3-down – Ashley pun : UNSHAPELY

4-down – UK’s tallest building,The ___ : SHARD

5-down – Intransigent – resolute : ADAMANT

6-down – Green sheen on a metal : PATINA

11-down – Enamour : INFATUATE

13-down – Carbuncle : EYESORE

14-down – Country which declared independence in 1990,recognized 1991 : UKRAINE

15-down – Ingredient of tzatziki and raita : YOGHURT

16-down – Giant woody grass : BAMBOO

18-down – Cackling carnivore : HYENA

1-across – Sea Scouts fine : FACETIOUSNESS

8-across – Collapse due to overwork : BURNOUT

9-across – Slangy suffix akin to ‘galore’ : AGOGO

10-across – Soft,mild,creamy cheese : BRIE

11-across – South African’s neighbour : NAMIBIAN

13-across – Stiff bodice : CORSET

14-across – Those who pass ‘Are you a robot?’ tests : HUMANS

17-across – 1971 song,‘___ to Heaven’ : STAIRWAY

19-across – Went forth and multiplied : BRED

21-across – Saint whose emblem is a lamb : AGNES

22-across – Red planet inhabitant : MARTIAN

24-across – In earnest,but only partially : HALFSERIOUSLY

1-down – Watch chain : FOB

2-down – French maker of luxury watches and sunglasses : CARTIER

3-down – Son of Odin : THOR

4-down – Expenditure : OUTLAY

5-down – Roomy : SPACIOUS

6-down – Digital image such as ‘crying with tears of joy’ : EMOJI

7-down – Stuck-up – or bunged up? : SNOTNOSED

10-down – Keyboard character that’s a mirror image of ‘/’ : BACKSLASH

12-down – Psychological unease : NEUROSIS

15-down – Wafted greeting sometimes accompanied by the sound ‘mwah’ : AIRKISS

16-down – MC,sledge or Horror : HAMMER

18-down – Report of a society’s works over the course of a year : ANNAL

20-down – Va-va-voom : BRIO

23-down – ‘___,___ and thrice ___’ : NAY

5-across – CIA trials : SATIRICAL

8-across – Child of poor behaviour : BRAT

9-across – eg iPlayer or Disney+ : STREAMER

10-across – Race – vocation : CAREER

11-across – Plunder – pampers – pollutes : SPOILS

13-across – Biblical strongman : SAMSON

15-across – Like a garment without fastenings – spinet : STEPIN

16-across – Keith,Cruz or the wife of Odysseus : PENELOPE

18-across – Irritatingly cute : TWEE

19-across – Extended – drawn-out : PROLONGED

1-down – Socially unaware – undiplomatic : TACTLESS

2-down – Washer-upper’s second-in-command : RINSER

3-down – River through Baghdad : TIGRIS

4-down – Spreadsheet’s contents : DATA

6-down – ‘Have a good show,fellow actor!’ : BREAKALEG

7-down – Popular : WELLLIKED

12-down – Like a shoe that leaves nail varnish on display : OPENTOED

14-down – Pasta – pool toy – play around on an instrument : NOODLE

15-down – ‘Raw’ or ‘burnt’ pigment : SIENNA

17-down – River through Zaragoza : EBRO