Daily Answers

1-across – ____ as sin : UGLY

3-across – Tales – financial holdings : ACCOUNTS

9-across – It means the same thing : SYNONYM

10-across – Afresh : NEWLY

11-across – Meanwhile back at the ____ : RANCH

12-across – Bumpy – odd? : UNEVEN

14-across – It’s meant to make you buy : ADVERTISEMENT

17-across – Country with two million lakes : CANADA

19-across – Fauna’s counterpart : FLORA

22-across – Do as a volcano may do : ERUPT

23-across – Lettuce type named for a geological feature : ICEBERG

24-across – Ingress : ENTERING

25-across – Arouse – kerfuffle : STIR

1-down – Closer to the water’s source : UPSTREAM

2-down – Articles of cotton etc : LINEN

4-down – Moan comic unit : COMMUNICATION

5-down – approx 28 grams : OUNCE

6-down – Going ____ fast : NOWHERE

7-down – Word after ‘Simon’ or before ‘who?’ : SAYS

8-down – News presenter – it stops the yacht : ANCHOR

13-down – Not a friend – increasingly odd : STRANGER

15-down – Structure by which a train may cross a valley : VIADUCT

16-down – Towering figure in Paris architecture : EIFFEL

18-down – ____ careful consideration : AFTER

20-down – Patent – plain – public : OVERT

21-down – Hereditary determinant of specified difference between individuals : GENE

1-across – Conjurer : MAGICIAN

5-across – Wrote ‘Happy Birthday’,perhaps : ICED

9-across – Pencilled – gaunt : DRAWN

10-across – Alternatives to pyjama tops : TSHIRTS

11-across – Boa investors : OBSERVATIONS

13-across – Arm bone : RADIUS

14-across – Disregard : IGNORE

17-across – Evinced – darned totems : DEMONSTRATED

20-across – Surrounded : CIRCLED

21-across – Industry,metal or handedness : HEAVY

22-across – Lines along which light or other energy is propagated : RAYS

23-across – Those stealing partridges or cooking eggs : POACHERS

1-down – <i>à la</i><span> ____</span> : MODE

2-down – Snatched : GRABBED

3-down – With the result that : CONSEQUENTLY

4-down – Citizenship,immunity or service : ACTIVE

6-down – Goods carried on a ship,aircraft,or motor vehicle : CARGO

7-down – Washout : DISASTER

8-down – Extremely keen kind of memory : PHOTOGRAPHIC

12-down – Impresario : PRODUCER

15-down – Run – function : OPERATE

16-down – Workroom or movie company : STUDIO

18-down – Like Robin Hood’s Men : MERRY

19-down – Loaves,grasses or whiskies : RYES

1-across – Winters : HIBERNATES

7-across – SPECTRE : RESPECT

8-across – Dobbins’ straps : REINS

10-across – Look : PEEP

11-across – Least adorned : SIMPLEST

13-across – Piece of pasta – military decoration : RIBBON

15-across – Dining discs : PLATES

17-across – Unceremonious : INFORMAL

18-across – Corset bone – Shakespears Sister song : STAY

21-across – Milky concoction – Otis Redding song : SHAKE

22-across – Joy,e.g. : EMOTION

23-across – Pear type,or the event for which it was named : CONFERENCE

1-down – It makes waste,they say : HASTE

2-down – Birds’ counterparts : BEES

3-down – Retina : RETAIN

4-down – Without so much as a by-your-leave : ABRUPTLY

5-down – Incontrovertible : EVIDENT

6-down – <span>Subjects of </span><i>A Place in the Sun</i> : PROPERTIES

9-down – Imparting contentment : SATISFYING

12-down – DIY’s Y : YOURSELF

14-down – Wings,grass or mozzarella : BUFFALO

16-down – Rush – job : CAREER

19-down – Clan : TRIBE

20-down – It may be interlibrary : LOAN

1-across – ‘Hovering’ kind of parent : HELICOPTER

7-across – One may hop with a pouch : KANGAROO

8-across – Box or gum? : TREE

9-across – Collection of online ‘pages’ : SITE

10-across – Take – slant – attitude : OPINION

12-across – Making things cultivated? : AGRICULTURE

14-across – e.g. deer,fish and sheep : PLURALS

16-across – Temporarily acquire at a cost : HIRE

19-across – Turn on the waterworks : WEEP

20-across – Utter – conscientious : THOROUGH

21-across – Moon starer : ASTRONOMER

1-down – Opening contests : HEATS

2-down – Less dense – firestarter : LIGHTER

3-down – <i>___ Your Enthusiasm</i> : CURB

4-down – In two shakes of a lamb’s tail : PROMPTLY

5-down – Consumed : EATEN

6-down – In the presence of – or beef : BEFORE

11-down – e.g. Barbara Hepworth : SCULPTOR

12-down – In the land of Nod : ASLEEP

13-down – U,as in ____ : UNIFORM

15-down – Know them before you start : ROPES

17-down – Gung-ho : EAGER

18-down – Kind of clue – blue – feathers : DOWN

1-across – Mr ____, blue bandaged figure : BUMP

3-across – Those on a sightseeing tour : TOURISTS

8-across – A pop : EACH

9-across – Press one : RESPONSE

11-across – No longer in its original language : TRANSLATED

14-across – To whom a journalist reports : EDITOR

15-across – Search and ____ : RESCUE

17-across – They were Good in a 1966 song : VIBRATIONS

20-across – Ace intro : REACTION

21-across – Locks : HAIR

22-across – Bob and colleagues : BUILDERS

23-across – ‘Pre-loved’ : USED

1-down – Inspired – and exhaled : BREATHED

2-down – Repairperson or technician : MECHANIC

4-down – Divas’ domains : OPERAS

5-down – Stands for – shows again? : REPRESENTS

6-down – Kitchen ____ : SINK

7-down – Give the impression of being : SEEM

10-down – Costas aide : ASSOCIATED

12-down – Lithe leapers : ACROBATS

13-down – Deliberate – restrained : MEASURED

16-down – Protective plates : ARMOUR

18-down – Spring, League or numeral : ARAB

19-down – His clocks flopped : DALI