Daily Answers

1-across – Bacon,duck or seaweed? : CRISPY

4-across – Spice or a bit of garlic : CLOVE

7-across – Complex : KNOTTY

8-across – Overcome – loss : DEFEAT

9-across – One’s filled out : FORM

10-across – Open : INITIATE

12-across – Isn’t into CID : DISTINCTION

17-across – Guiding light : LODESTAR

19-across – Cause of inflation? : PUMP

20-across – Overcast : CLOUDY

21-across – Lammas month : AUGUST

22-across – ___ Springfield,English singer,died 1999 : DUSTY

23-across – Immune system’s extreme reaction to infection : SEPSIS

1-down – State of harmony : CONCORD

2-down – Land bridge : ISTHMUS

3-down – Albert Einstein,for instance : PHYSICIST

4-down – Hilltop : CREST

5-down – Mediterranean herb,closely related to marjoram : OREGANO

6-down – Respect : ESTEEM

11-down – Made flesh : INCARNATE

13-down – Under cover : INDOORS

14-down – Questions : IMPUGNS

15-down – Moriarty to Holmes? : NEMESIS

16-down – Undisturbed : PLACID

18-down – With regret : SADLY

1-across – With no 2 : UNCONDITIONAL

8-across – Separate : HIVEOFF

9-across – Entice : TEMPT

10-across – Something borrowed : LOAN

11-across – One’s least likely to win : UNDERDOG

13-across – Lucky thing : MASCOT

14-across – Wild horse : BRONCO

17-across – Gain role : REGIONAL

19-across – Spare cuts of meat? : RIBS

21-across – Front : COVER

22-across – Clobber : CLOTHES

24-across – Light yellow – rural woods etc : STRAWCOLOURED

1-down – That’s sickening : UGH

2-down – Ifs and buts : CAVEATS

3-down – When the morning’s over : NOON

4-down – Young child : INFANT

5-down – On paper : INTHEORY

6-down – One won’t settle : NOMAD

7-down – Likely to take action? : LITIGIOUS

10-down – Verse form associated with Edward Lear : LIMERICKS

12-down – It’s another day : TOMORROW

15-down – Not this or that one : NEITHER

16-down – South American cowboy : GAUCHO

18-down – Generous individual : GIVER

20-down – Preferred or usual : GOTO

23-down – Sack,sight or song : SAD

5-across – One could prove the rule : EXCEPTION

8-across – Country walk : HIKE

9-across – Getting – attractive : FETCHING

10-across – Front man or woman : LEADER

11-across – Casual conversation : NATTER

13-across – Cricketing put-down : SLEDGE

15-across – Make a videotape go backwards : REWIND

16-across – Find one in a stew? : DUMPLING

18-across – Pillbox,porkpie and Panama : HATS

19-across – With apprehension : ANXIOUSLY

1-down – Protracted : EXTENDED

2-down – Young cow : HEIFER

3-down – Cholesterol-lowering medication : STATIN

4-down – Money : DOSH

6-down – Defamatory : LIBELLOUS

7-down – Double ___,1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder : INDEMNITY

12-down – Local government building : TOWNHALL

14-down – Magic potion : ELIXIR

15-down – Precision,thoroughness : RIGOUR

17-down – Bad smell : PONG

5-across – Influential and charming – critic’s a ham : CHARISMATIC

7-across – Pigeon,pipe or pot : CLAY

8-across – Single chap : BACHELOR

9-across – Shoulder blade : SCAPULA

11-across – IT fan : TECHY

13-across – Self-satisfied grin : SMIRK

14-across – Unfortunate : HAPLESS

16-across – One hangs about aimlessly : LOITERER

17-across – Stop doing something : QUIT

18-across – <i>Doctor Who</i><span>’s Tardis,for instance</span> : TIMEMACHINE

1-down – Suggestive : RACY

2-down – Having a black and white coat : PIEBALD

3-down – Peasant dress : SMOCK

4-down – Otherworldly : ETHEREAL

5-down – Little consolation : COLDCOMFORT

6-down – Hang out here? : CLOTHESLINE

10-down – I treat MP : PARTTIME

12-down – Struggle to get on : RATRACE

15-down – Muscle contraction : CRAMP

17-down – Bon mot : QUIP

1-across – Position : STANCE

4-across – Pudding : AFTERS

8-across – Westminster,for instance : ABBEY

9-across – Pressurised container : AEROSOL

10-across – Lethargic quality : INERTIA

11-across – Less than : UNDER

12-across – Incisive : TRENCHANT

17-across – Country or classical? : MUSIC

19-across – Unscrupulous : IMMORAL

21-across – Song one keeps hearing : EARWORM

22-across – Stuck-in-the-mud : STAID

23-across – Paul Whitehouse is one : ANGLER

24-across – Earnings : INCOME

1-down – Fixed : STATIC

2-down – Like some of Brian Eno’s 17? : AMBIENT

3-down – Church’s underground chamber : CRYPT

5-down – : FORMULA

6-down – Became less intense : EASED

7-down – Monthly pay : SALARY

9-down – Anti-authoritarian political philosophy : ANARCHISM

13-down – Wrap : ENCLOSE

14-down – Destructive force : TORNADO

15-down – Single-celled organism : AMOEBA

16-down – Mud,mire or muck : SLUDGE

18-down – Cutting from a plant : SPRIG

20-down – Member of a secret society : MASON