Daily Answers

1-across – OK scourger : ROCKGROUSE

7-across – One making the calls : ARBITER

8-across – <span>One of 40 in </span><i>One Thousand and One Nights</i> : THIEF

10-across – Tear – thwart – trace : DASH

11-across – Brittle plastic in 1950s phones : BAKELITE

13-across – Advance – ordain : INROAD

15-across – Great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race : HAGGIS

17-across – It starts with All Saints’ Day : NOVEMBER

18-across – Part of London or of New York : SOHO

21-across – Classic teashop name and English name for French city : LYONS

22-across – Partner of liberté and fraternité : EGALITE

23-across – So printing : PISTONRING

1-down – Rankin hero : REBUS

2-down – Refer to : CITE

3-down – Official language of Liechtenstein : GERMAN

4-down – Of note : ONTHEMAP

5-down – Rod Stewart no 1 : SAILING

6-down – It might say ‘I’m turning right’ : HANDSIGNAL

9-down – Ingenuous : FREESPOKEN

12-down – Tufty-eared monkey : MARMOSET

14-down – A square meal? : RAVIOLI

16-down – Homer’s ‘wine-dark’ sea : AEGEAN

19-down – Not yet paid : OWING

20-down – Caspar,Melchior and Balthasar : MAGI

1-across – At large : ONTHELOOSE

7-across – Briton-turned-Monacan,perhaps : TAXEXILE

8-across – <i>The One Show</i><span>’s Jones or </span><i>Taskmaster’</i><span>s Horne</span> : ALEX

9-across – AKA vape : ECIG

10-across – Decree – to your secretary? : DICTATE

12-across – Pianist who needn’t practise : SIGHTREADER

14-across – <i>Friends</i><span> café manager – the gurn : GUNTHER

16-across – <span>Book of the bible referenced in the </span><i>I Have A Dream</i><span> speech</span> : AMOS

19-across – Doodad for dobbin; tight,long or free : REIN

20-across – <i>The ___ History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus</i> : TRAGICAL

21-across – Raducanu’s footwear item : TENNISSHOE

1-down – Old enough : OFAGE

2-down – Fifteen hours of opera : THERING

3-down – Prepare and polish for publication : EDIT

4-down – With one team sure to win : ONESIDED

5-down – Card,home or phone : SMART

6-down – Wise counsellor : MENTOR

11-down – No threat : ATHERTON

12-down – Teaspoon rest,often : SAUCER

13-down – Somewhat moist : DAMPISH

15-down – Sprinkling – smattering – shade : TINGE

17-down – Prepare Parmesan,perhaps : SHAVE

18-down – Eliot-based 2019 musical film flop : CATS

1-across – Agile : SPRY

3-across – Stereotypical consumers of cold-brew coffee and sporters of man-buns : HIPSTERS

8-across – Victim of the world’s first murder : ABEL

9-across – Proximity : NEARNESS

11-across – Vague : ILLDEFINED

14-across – Ancient capital of Brittany : RENNES

15-across – Tiered,towering temple : PAGODA

17-across – It has a biscuity base : CHEESECAKE

20-across – Choral ____ : EVENSONG

21-across – Total snoozefest : BORE

22-across – Crucifix inverter : SATANIST

23-across – Country with currency kip : LAOS

1-down – Inhabitant of part of 4d : SPANIARD

2-down – Grape of the Rhine : RIESLING

4-down – Gibraltar’s peninsula : IBERIA

5-down – Green acres : SCREENAGER

6-down – Suit : EXEC

7-down – Blah : SOSO

10-down – Biergarten garb : LEDERHOSEN

12-down – S Pacific island with reduplicative name : BORABORA

13-down – Despot’s description of journalism : FAKENEWS

16-down – <span>Author,</span><i>The General Theory of Employment</i> : KEYNES

18-down – County – where oysters found : BEDS

19-down – eg one of Cornish or Manx descent : CELT

1-across – Ethiopian emperor exiled to England : HAILESELASSIE

8-across – Soot – fungus – sleaze : SMUT

9-across – Unecological fishing item : TRAWLNET

10-across – Not exactly tactful : INDELICATE

12-across – <span>Virgin : IRVING

14-across – Got back again : RETOOK

15-across – Plant often bought in December : POINSETTIA

19-across – Firearm forger : GUNSMITH

20-across – Tufty-eared predator : LYNX

21-across – Communication caber : TELEGRAPHPOLE

2-down – Like a couple on a moonlit stroll? : ARMINARM

3-down – It may be skinny or chai : LATTE

4-down – Currently holding office : SITTING

5-down – Cud-chewer and wool-provider : LLAMA

6-down – Creditworthy – eg methanol : SOLVENT

7-down – Particular : ITEM

11-down – Only in your mind : NOTIONAL

13-down – Loggerheads : IMPASSE

14-down – Flower’s fruit : ROSEHIP

16-down – Less friendly : ICIER

17-down – Flower ‘too red’ for Plath : TULIP

18-down – Solstice month : JUNE

1-across – Trumpeting flyer : CANADAGOOSE

9-across – Would you care for another drink? : SAMEAGAIN

10-across – Female gametes : OVA

11-across – More than enough : AMPLE

13-across – Ave Maria’s subject : OURLADY

14-across – Penultimate Nato alphabet letter : YANKEE

15-across – There’s much fat in their humps : CAMELS

18-across – Shall I stop pouring your drink? : SAYWHEN

20-across – See 23 Down : PERON

21-across – Get off! : BOO

22-across – Like some fuels : SMOKELESS

24-across – Ad lib : PLAYITBYEAR

2-down – One of five on a starfish : ARM

3-down – Scholarly setting : ACADEME

4-down – Legendary warrior of great height : AMAZON

5-down – One who might say ‘Good dog!’ : OWNER

6-down – Ad exec,often : SLOGANEER

7-down – Like a walk in the park : ASEASYASABC

8-down – Shiny abbess : BABYISHNESS

12-down – Welsh industrial town famous for lacquered ironware : PONTYPOOL

16-down – Sir Humphrey : APPLEBY

17-down – On the job : INPOST

19-down – Sledge-dog – gruff : HUSKY

23-down – Don’t cry for her,Argentina : EVA