Daily Answers

1-across – Expression of incredulity : WHATDOYOUKNOW

8-across – Best possible : OPTIMUM

9-across – Sanctum : HAVEN

10-across – Hammer – what’s hammered! : NAIL

11-across – Engraved design – ligation : INTAGLIO

13-across – Crime : FELONY

14-across – Tree with swollen trunk : BAOBAB

17-across – Tin-opener? : RINGPULL

19-across – Core : CRUX

21-across – Vigour : OOMPH

22-across – Daytime : DIURNAL

24-across – Drinking game : SPINTHEBOTTLE

1-down – Seek the hand of : WOO

2-down – Heap of insects : ANTHILL

3-down – Plonk : DUMP

4-down – From an Arabian republic : YEMENI

5-down – Disruption : UPHEAVAL

6-down – New – book : NOVEL

7-down – Apartment’s tiny garden? : WINDOWBOX

10-down – Wicked : NEFARIOUS

12-down – Image taken without fuss : SNAPSHOT

15-down – One brat : BARONET

16-down – Snow vehicle on runners : SLEDGE

18-down – Dark clouds : NIMBI

20-down – Sport with Nage Waza throwing techniques : JUDO

23-down – Porky : LIE

5-across – Spiteful : VITRIOLIC

8-across – Sauce – county : MAYO

9-across – Mexican resort city : ACAPULCO

10-across – Cagebird : CANARY

11-across – Marley’s music : REGGAE

13-across – Odious : HORRID

15-across – Pale and flabby : DOUGHY

16-across – Memory aid : MNEMONIC

18-across – Amphibian – in the hole? : TOAD

19-across – Tea garden : GREATDANE

1-down – Is around : DINOSAUR

2-down – Gruff : CROAKY

3-down – Angora goat yarn : MOHAIR

4-down – Place : LIEU

6-down – Supreme : PARAMOUNT

7-down – Tip : SCRAPHEAP

12-down – Deadly sin : GLUTTONY

14-down – Of choppers : DENTAL

15-down – Crack : DECODE

17-down – Karl or Harpo? : MARX

5-across – Yes,absolutely! : WITHBELLSON

7-across – White fat : LARD

8-across – Honoured,and crowned with leaves : LAUREATE

9-across – Drug dispenser : CHEMIST

11-across – Phonograph material : VINYL

13-across – Anterior – audacity : FRONT

14-across – Pewter mug? : TANKARD

16-across – Sport with underarm pitching : SOFTBALL

17-across – Backside – rain collector : BUTT

18-across – Nelson’s final order? : KISSMEHARDY

1-down – Dust : STUD

2-down – Capital city of Georgia : TBILISI

3-down – Hard blow – influence : CLOUT

4-down – Star : ASTERISK

5-down – Vane : WEATHERCOCK

6-down – Meat and potatoes : NITTYGRITTY

10-down – Convert into currency : MONETISE

12-down – Hunt cry : TALLYHO

15-down – Mild and pleasant : BALMY

17-down – <span>Idiot : BERK

1-across – Wild West rider : COWBOY

4-across – Malmo’s country : SWEDEN

8-across – Dole out : ALLOT

9-across – Leading : PREMIER

10-across – Where workers aren’t allowed in : LOCKOUT

11-across – Mild curry : KORMA

12-across – Restaurant : TRATTORIA

17-across – Prank : ANTIC

19-across – My good man : OLDBEAN

21-across – Antipathy : RANCOUR

22-across – Pic : PHOTO

23-across – Human ‘tail’ : COCCYX

24-across – Sequence – smear : STREAK

1-down – Origin – bed : CRADLE

2-down – Lynx,e.g. : WILDCAT

3-down – Cap : OUTDO

5-down – Saboteur : WRECKER

6-down – Rider : DRIER

7-down – Stock – well-adjusted : NORMAL

9-down – Tiny cake or biscuit : PETITFOUR

13-down – Pizza fish : ANCHOVY

14-down – Amazeballs! : AWESOME

15-down – Textile : FABRIC

16-down – Open : UNCORK

18-down – Splash with gin? : TONIC

20-down – Opted : DEPOT

1-across – Effervescent : VIVACIOUS

8-across – Duplicity : LYING

9-across – <span>Release that – song from </span><i>Frozen</i> : LETITGO

10-across – From southeast Germany : BAVARIAN

11-across – Emotional sensitivity – person : SOUL

13-across – Job worth a few bob : EARNER

14-across – Wash one’s hands of : DISOWN

16-across – Tear to pieces : MAUL

17-across – Storytelling through dolls : PUPPETRY

19-across – Free : UNLOOSE

20-across – Suffer : INCUR

21-across – Car with rear-end door : HATCHBACK

1-down – Vicissitudes : VAGARIES

2-down – <i>Star Trek</i><span> logician</span> : VULCAN

3-down – Quote : CITE

4-down – Correction of teeth : ORTHODONTICS

5-down – Old name for Met HQ : SCOTLANDYARD

6-down – Gasbag : BLABBERMOUTH

7-down – Straightforward solution – werewolf killer? : SILVERBULLET

12-down – Little puncture : PINPRICK

15-down – Archimedes’ cry : EUREKA

18-down – Food : NOSH