Daily Answers

1-across – Fish in Indian cuisine : BOMBAYDUCK

7-across – Painter’s shade? : MAGNOLIA

8-across – Support – actor’s thing : PROP

9-across – Pay attention : HEED

10-across – Medicinal sweet : LOZENGE

12-across – American folk music event with ‘head’ and ‘side’ couples : SQUAREDANCE

14-across – Harmonium or organ keyboard : CLAVIER

16-across – Repeated passage : RIFF

19-across – Short informal message : MEMO

20-across – Describing sports drinks with similar concentration of salt and sugar to the body : ISOTONIC

21-across – Serviette holder : NAPKINRING

1-down – Showy : BRASH

2-down – Cloak : MANTEAU

3-down – Confederate : ALLY

4-down – <span>Red cards – they’re </span><i>Forever</i><span>?</span> : DIAMONDS

5-down – Area where woodland cut back : COPSE

6-down – Online searcher? : GOOGLE

11-down – Result of foul? : FREEKICK

12-down – Morose : SULLEN

13-down – Kenyan capital : NAIROBI

15-down – String quartet member : VIOLA

17-down – Chuck : FLING

18-down – Welsh artist Augustus – US loo : JOHN

1-across – Taste : BITE

3-across – Almost certain loser – served with orange sauce? : DEADDUCK

8-across – Cross : ROOD

9-across – Chinese dish : CHOWMEIN

11-across – 1990s phrase for a film for a female? : CHICKFLICK

14-across – Acquisitive : GREEDY

15-across – High or low spirits : MORALE

17-across – Iridescent sphere : SOAPBUBBLE

20-across – Silvery-white metal : TITANIUM

21-across – Hindu philosophy : YOGA

22-across – Angled gun,used in the trenches : HOWITZER

23-across – Doing nowt : IDLE

1-down – Domesticated parrot’s home? : BIRDCAGE

2-down – Controversial : TWOSIDED

4-down – Let out a breath : EXHALE

5-down – Songs of early birds : DAWNCHORUS

6-down – Ruse : USER

7-down – Charles – or chesspiece? : KING

10-down – That’s no joke! : IKIDYOUNOT

12-down – Ill-feeling : BADBLOOD

13-down – Love song : SERENADE

16-down – Tidy : SPRUCE

18-down – Inscribe deeply : ETCH

19-down – Keep : STOW

1-across – Circus swinger : TRAPEZEARTIST

8-across – Soon : ANON

9-across – Dramatise : OVERPLAY

10-across – Devotee : AFICIONADO

12-across – Record spinner : DEEJAY

14-across – Music tour assistant : ROADIE

15-across – Metallic blue river bird : KINGFISHER

19-across – Person with petty complaints : QUIBBLER

20-across – Deep and loud utterance : ROAR

21-across – <span>English satirical poet,author of </span><i>The Rape of the Lock</i> : ALEXANDERPOPE

2-down – Of a payment on the house that’s on the house? : RENTFREE

3-down – Great alarm : PANIC

4-down – Animal study : ZOOLOGY

5-down – Pack leader : AKELA

6-down – Starchy food : TAPIOCA

7-down – Eastern European : SLAV

11-down – Bending of fourth dimension : TIMEWARP

13-down – Record holder? : JUKEBOX

14-down – Whistle-blower? : REFEREE

16-down – Stocking material since the 1940s : NYLON

17-down – Throat bug : STREP

18-down – Knitting stitch : PURL

1-across – Multi-storey workplace? : OFFICEBLOCK

9-across – Farmland bird : CORNCRAKE

10-across – 0 : NIL

11-across – Zesty fruit : LEMON

13-across – Pure joy : ECSTASY

14-across – Foot part : INSTEP

15-across – Entrust : ASSIGN

18-across – Field event : SHOTPUT

20-across – Language : LINGO

21-across – Tea : CHA

22-across – ‘With’ character? : AMPERSAND

24-across – Noisy spook : POLTERGEIST

2-down – Hound hair : FUR

3-down – Rile : INCENSE

4-down – Euphoric : ELATED

5-down – Yorkshire city where rugby league’s Rhinos founded : LEEDS

6-down – Spreading of disease : CONTAGION

7-down – Mealybug,for example : SCALEINSECT

8-down – Funny device? : PLAYONWORDS

12-down – Unrefined sugar : MUSCOVADO

16-down – Bout of extravagance : SPLURGE

17-down – Trance : STUPOR

19-down – Pigtail : PLAIT

23-down – Idiot : ASS

1-across – Principled : ETHICAL

8-across – Extra : ANOTHER

9-across – Thug : HOODLUM

10-across – __ manner,comportment of GP? : BEDSIDE

11-across – Authority : SAYSO

13-across – Dog or horse,leg-wise? : QUADRUPED

15-across – Aggressive : BELLICOSE

18-across – Cylindrical fastener : RIVET

21-across – Creek : RIVULET

22-across – Playtime : LEISURE

23-across – Landmass containing France and Vietnam : EURASIA

24-across – Revere : WORSHIP

1-down – So the : ETHOS

2-down – Piffle : HOOEY

3-down – ‘Ta’ or ‘innit’? : COLLOQUIALISM

4-down – Eleventh Greek letter – indicator of wavelength : LAMBDA

5-down – Dog from where Scotland and England meet : BORDERTERRIER

6-down – Piddly crustacean? : SHRIMP

7-down – Crony : FRIEND

12-down – Fragrant tree resin : ALOE

14-down – No trouble at all : EASE

15-down – Pro shaver and snipper? : BARBER

16-down – Corporate colours? : LIVERY

17-down – Desperado : OUTLAW

19-down – Certify : VOUCH

20-down – Secure : TIEUP