Daily Answers

1-across – Black hornless cattle breed originating in Scotland : ABERDEENANGUS

8-across – Special ____ : OPS

9-across – One selling reams : STATIONER

10-across – On the payroll : SALARIED

11-across – Total snoozefest : BORE

13-across – Staple : PASTEL

14-across – Blunt or make quiet : DEADEN

16-across – It’s the final word : AMEN

17-across – Muscle moving your shoulder – clear top : PECTORAL

20-across – Like a parrot : IMITATIVE

21-across – Delay – convict : LAG

22-across – Long-haired sporting pooch : ENGLISHSETTER

1-down – Smithereens : ATOMS

2-down – Unchallenging music : EASYLISTENING

3-down – Rat – runaway – renegade : DESERTER

4-down – On cloud nine : ELATED

5-down – With a pH below 7 : ACID

6-down – What we remember on a day in November : GUNPOWDERPLOT

7-down – One doing operations in theatre : SURGEON

12-down – One with a developed appreciation of the finer things : AESTHETE

13-down – Sweet nutty confection : PRALINE

15-down – Decay : PERISH

18-down – Beer served cold : LAGER

19-down – Island east of Java : BALI

1-across – e.g. Dad’s mum and Mum’s dad : GRANDPARENTS

9-across – Semiquavers and minims : NOTES

10-across – Lesser in stature : SMALLER

11-across – In pain : HURT

12-across – One kept in Zenda or Azkaban? : PRISONER

14-across – Without warning : SUDDEN

15-across – e.g. 1ac : ADULTS

18-across – Systematized : ARRANGED

20-across – Astonish : STUN

22-across – Adding ten per cent, perhaps : TIPPING

23-across – Bone in your bonce : SKULL

24-across – Paid attention – like tomato purée : CONCENTRATED

2-down – Called it a day – stopped working : RETIRED

3-down – Olfactory organ : NOSE

4-down – Choux or shortcrust : PASTRY

5-down – Location by the byway? : ROADSIDE

6-down – Material for tights : NYLON

7-down – In an unexpected manner : SURPRISINGLY

8-down – Authentic sis : ENTHUSIASTIC

13-down – Interim : MEANTIME

16-down – Leaves for lunch? : LETTUCE

17-down – Elevation – stature : HEIGHT

19-down – Become red, or become green? : RIPEN

21-down – Most populous continent : ASIA

1-across – Culinary directions : RECIPE

4-across – Worldwide : GLOBAL

9-across – Shower substance – Julie Christie film : SHAMPOO

10-across – Short, cheese or last? : STRAW

11-across – Proportion : RATIO

12-across – Sundry – miscellaneous – motley : VARIOUS

13-across – Devoid of significance : MEANINGLESS

18-across – Tourist’s caboodle : LUGGAGE

20-across – One of the five senses : TASTE

22-across – Fight – shed – remnant : SCRAP

23-across – Dispenser of medicaments : CHEMIST

24-across – Features of many songs and poems : RHYMES

25-across – Advantageous : USEFUL

1-down – Place frequented by holidaymakers – organise again? : RESORT

2-down – Freewheel – shore : COAST

3-down – Ruptured and aerated maize : POPCORN

5-down – Runner-up, e.g. : LOSER

6-down – Takes temporarily : BORROWS

7-down – Most humble, least in value : LOWEST

8-down – Facility or usefulness : CONVENIENCE

14-down – With enthusiasm : EAGERLY

15-down – Poison-pen ____ : LETTERS

16-down – More intimate – Julia Roberts film : CLOSER

17-down – Done only in the mind : MENTAL

19-down – Jazz or Gala? : APPLE

21-down – ____ as a board : STIFF

1-across – Evening meal : SUPPER

4-across – Dice : CUTUP

7-across – Mark on scale : DEGREE

8-across – Ottoman official : VIZIER

9-across – Place : LIEU

10-across – Fungus – rounded skirt : PUFFBALL

12-across – Brilliant first steps – plane’s take-off? : FLYINGSTART

17-across – Hoarse : GUTTURAL

19-across – Sty sound : OINK

20-across – Relative : COUSIN

21-across – Clothes : ATTIRE

22-across – Irritate : PEEVE

23-across – Retrieve : REDEEM

1-down – County officer : SHERIFF

2-down – Lying under oath : PERJURY

3-down – Enlightening thing : EYEOPENER

4-down – High edge : CLIFF

5-down – Where something mysteriously might disappear? : THINAIR

6-down – Colour – or ‘Color’ on film? : PURPLE

11-down – Discharge : FUSILLADE

13-down – Leaves : LETTUCE

14-down – Follower : APOSTLE

15-down – Hissy fit : TANTRUM

16-down – Boiled food holder : EGGCUP

18-down – Link : UNITE

1-across – Elasticated activity : BUNGEEJUMPING

8-across – Unbroken horse : MUSTANG

9-across – VIP : CELEB

10-across – Brusque : CURT

11-across – Gob : CAKEHOLE

13-across – Lion or pussycat, say : FELINE

14-across – Temple of Apollo location : DELPHI

17-across – Guinevere’s lover : LANCELOT

19-across – Score : ETCH

21-across – Elbow : NUDGE

22-across – Frogman’s outfit : WETSUIT

24-across – Worker not joining picket line : STRIKEBREAKER

1-down – Sponge : BUM

2-down – Conk cavity : NOSTRIL

3-down – Grace : ELAN

4-down – 13 across car? : JAGUAR

5-down – Food fish : MACKEREL

6-down – Abode of the far north : IGLOO

7-down – Drivel : GIBBERISH

10-down – Sleeve attachments : CUFFLINKS

12-down – Automatic : KNEEJERK

15-down – Chance taken : POTLUCK

16-down – Network in derelict building? : COBWEB

18-down – Low point : NADIR

20-down – Ocular bother : STYE

23-down – Rock : TOR