Daily Answers

1-across – Wasted her : WATERSHED

8-across – Album material : VINYL

9-across – Place behind a motorcyclist : PILLION

10-across – Rebound : RICOCHET

11-across – Available to all : OPEN

13-across – Cutting gear : SHEARS

14-across – Country on Borneo’s northern coast : BRUNEI

16-across – Exposes : OUTS

17-across – Most succinct : PITHIEST

19-across – Popular newspaper : TABLOID

20-across – View it on YouTube : VIDEO

21-across – Clingy behaviour : NEEDINESS

1-down – Unpredictable person or factor : WILDCARD

2-down – Surpassed : TOPPED

3-down – Vex : RILE

4-down – Find them on mountain roads : HAIRPINBENDS

5-down – Public reprimand – I announced it : DENUNCIATION

6-down – At intervals : EVERYSOOFTEN

7-down – Not on : UNACCEPTABLE

12-down – Record collections : ARCHIVES

15-down – Scam : FIDDLE

18-down – Desert extending across northern China and southern Mongolia : GOBI

1-across – Organ part? : PIPE

3-across – Robinson Crusoe,for instance : ISLANDER

9-across – Toad in the hole ingredient : SAUSAGE

10-across – It signals the lot’s been sold : GAVEL

11-across – Caused annoyance : IRKED

12-across – Say : INTONE

14-across – It’s perceived as real but doesn’t exist : HALLUCINATION

17-across – Badge of dishonour : STIGMA

19-across – Smattering : TINGE

22-across – Mrs Simpson? : MARGE

23-across – Direct opposite : INVERSE

24-across – One’s said to be extremely calm : MILLPOND

25-across – Denomination : SECT

1-down – Copy of another artwork – it’s cheap : PASTICHE

2-down – Pull out – courage : PLUCK

4-down – Set of requirements : SPECIFICATION

5-down – Worrying feeling : ANGST

6-down – Last words in the name of a Renaissance artist : DAVINCI

7-down – Small stream : RILL

8-down – Bridgerton vehicle? : LANDAU

13-down – Cost of borrowing : INTEREST

15-down – Exact : LITERAL

16-down – In operation : ACTIVE

18-down – Rider’s encouragement : GEEUP

20-down – Caring individual : NURSE

21-down – Mosque prayer leader : IMAM

1-across – 10 used in cosmetics : COLLAGEN

5-across – Desktop symbol : ICON

9-across – Feel it when money’s tight : PINCH

10-across – One of the food groups : PROTEIN

11-across – In a number of places : HEREANDTHERE

13-across – Light : PASTEL

14-across – Light touch : CARESS

17-across – Present-day : CONTEMPORARY

20-across – In the grip of an obsession : FIXATED

21-across – Make a modification : ALTER

22-across – Ready money : CASH

23-across – Take it on the chin? : UPPERCUT

1-down – One of Batman’s signature accessories : CAPE

2-down – Hangs around : LINGERS

3-down – They’re accomplished : ACHIEVEMENTS

4-down – Spread out : EXPAND

6-down – Crinkled material : CREPE

7-down – Twaddle : NONSENSE

8-down – Simon Armitage : POETLAUREATE

12-down – Precise : SPECIFIC

15-down – Not consistent : ERRATIC

16-down – Got quicker : SPEDUP

18-down – Connection : NEXUS

19-down – Dry : BRUT

1-across – Overspending : PROFLIGACY

7-across – A butterfly,if purple : EMPEROR

8-across – Finish a task : MOPUP

10-across – Traditional stories : LORE

11-across – Types of cloth : TEXTILES

13-across – Not the only one on the beach? : PEBBLE

15-across – Lowest level : BOTTOM

17-across – Rails : INVEIGHS

18-across – In addition : PLUS

21-across – See-through cloth : GAUZE

22-across – French cinema of the late 1950s : NEWWAVE

23-across – Urgent acts : SCATTERGUN

1-down – Cup,clip or cut? : PAPER

2-down – Row with them : OARS

3-down – Food store : LARDER

4-down – Resourceful quality : GUMPTION

5-down – Aircraft’s second in command : COPILOT

6-down – Plentiful source : WELLSPRING

9-down – Smartest PA : PASTMASTER

12-down – Least adorned : PLAINEST

14-down – Camp : BIVOUAC

16-down – A risk – and an opportunity : CHANCE

19-down – Find out : LEARN

20-down – Promotional freebies : SWAG

1-across – Hitler : TOOTHBRUSH

7-across – On a higher level : UPSTAIRS

8-across – Yes – fine : OKAY

9-across – Get ready : PREP

10-across – Vague notion : INKLING

12-across – Last person to get it? : WOODENSPOON

14-across – Show : DISPLAY

16-across – Stages of a journey : LEGS

19-across – It gives a range of options : MENU

20-across – Deli filo : OILFIELD

21-across – Killjoy : WETBLANKET

1-down – Refill : TOPUP

2-down – Active : ONTHEGO

3-down – Cold shower? : HAIL

4-down – Impulsive quality : RASHNESS

5-down – Winding equipment : SPOOL

6-down – Gun on wheels : CANNON

11-down – Major sacrifice – mob cheat : HECATOMB

12-down – One’s used to taking orders : WAITER

13-down – The Washington Monument,for instance : OBELISK

15-down – Stop for a time : PAUSE

17-down – Come apart : SPLIT

18-down – Frozen princess : ELSA