Daily Answers

1-across – Oscillates : SEESAWS

8-across – Ape : IMITATE

9-across – Well-reasoned : LOGICAL

10-across – Culture Club hit – those sacrificed,eg : VICTIMS

11-across – Day,pipe or American : DREAM

13-across – Analogies : PARALLELS

15-across – Jutting-out land strip : PENINSULA

18-across – Dressed to the ___ : NINES

21-across – Stab : ATTEMPT

22-across – Evening wear? : IRONING

23-across – Peculiar – unheard-of : STRANGE

24-across – Cranachan,pandowdy or cobbler? : DESSERT

1-down – Leaves for lunch? : SALAD

2-down – Two under par : EAGLE

3-down – What supports a solo? : ACCOMPANIMENT

4-down – Ag : SILVER

5-down – Sundry : MISCELLANEOUS

6-down – Remain : MARINE

7-down – 20d and four others : SENSES

12-down – <span>City setting for </span><i>Tosca</i> : ROME

14-down – Delicate ornamental fabric made by looping,knotting,plaiting or twisting threads : LACE

15-down – ‘I come to bury Caesar,not to ___ him’ : PRAISE

16-down – Good,human or second : NATURE

17-down – Loosened a 14d,perhaps : UNTIED

19-down – Sound of any kind : NOISE

20-down – Eye-guide on a gun or optical instrument : SIGHT

1-across – Charitable : PHILANTHROPIC

8-across – Cause of obsessive anxiety : BUGBEAR

9-across – Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument : CELLO

10-across – Boasted – aircraft personnel : CREW

11-across – Den casts : DESCANTS

13-across – Tyrant : DESPOT

14-across – Computer key deployed after an error : DELETE

17-across – Galore : INSPADES

19-across – Wafer – emcee : HOST

21-across – Swimming stroke – teem : CRAWL

22-across – Whoppers : PORKIES

24-across – Pecuniary allowance : SPENDINGMONEY

1-down – Alehouse : PUB

2-down – Entrance : INGRESS

3-down – Dark,Stone and Middle? : AGES

4-down – Gobbling – and gobbled – bird : TURKEY

5-down – Rebound from a surface : RICOCHET

6-down – Tower-like structure supporting cables : PYLON

7-down – Boat’s lookout location : CROWSNEST

10-down – 15th- or 16th-century accompaniments to breeches : CODPIECES

12-down – Styled thus : SOCALLED

15-down – David Cameron or James Bond,say : ETONIAN

16-down – ___ bowling : TENPIN

18-down – Prince Harry’s autobiography – term in 16d : SPARE

20-down – ___ and proper : PRIM

23-down – It’s up there! : SKY

1-across – Face-to-face with : UPAGAINST

8-across – Fourth planet from the sun : MARS

9-across – Dug up : UNEARTHED

10-across – <span>Painter,</span><i>Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening</i> : DALI

13-across – Ovine constellation : ARIES

15-across – Opening period : LEADIN

16-across – Cease’s counterpart : DESIST

17-across – Figure ___ : SKATER

19-across – Old-fashioned term meaning to find a radio or TV broadcast : TUNEIN

20-across – Hindu queen also spelled with an ‘i’ : RANEE

21-across – Bird – bar – banter : RAIL

24-across – Pertaining to buccaneers : PIRATICAL

25-across – <i>Lion King</i><span> baddie – injury reminder</span> : SCAR

26-across – Pollinate,perhaps : FERTILISE

2-down – Glazier’s unit : PANE

3-down – Tennis’s Steffi : GRAF

4-down – One after another : INTURN

5-down – ___ prunes – inebriated : STEWED

6-down – Organisms living on or in others : PARASITES

7-down – This person is here to help : ASSISTANT

11-down – Losers’ hub : BLUSHROSE

12-down – There’s a Good one in the bible : SAMARITAN

13-down – Qualified first-___ : AIDER

14-down – Transition from one piece of music to another : SEGUE

18-down – Steep-sided valley : RAVINE

19-down – Rent-payer : TENANT

22-down – Pickling herb : DILL

23-down – <i>The Lovely ___ o’ Inverness</i><span> : LASS

1-across – Mischievous : IMPISH

4-across – Corset strips – remains : STAYS

7-across – Name on a hotel bible : GIDEON

8-across – Country with longest coastline : CANADA

9-across – Supposed Himalayan : YETI

10-across – Break free from constraints : CUTLOOSE

12-across – Thicknesses : SKETCHINESS

17-across – Hardly coy : IMMODEST

19-across – Scottish surplice – Channel Island : SARK

20-across – Muppet – container for junior’s juice? : BEAKER

21-across – Ethos – distilled liquid : SPIRIT

22-across – <i>The Lake Isle of Innisfree</i><span> poet</span> : YEATS

23-across – Break – nook : RECESS

1-down – Reserve : ICINESS

2-down – Exact : PRECISE

3-down – Themed,often Romantic musical collection : SONGCYCLE

4-down – Metaphor for a sluggish individual : SNAIL

5-down – Bewildered : ATALOSS

6-down – Running ___ : SCARED

11-down – French-derived word for sorrow : TRISTESSE

13-down – Ugandan capital : KAMPALA

14-down – Descriptor of some bathrooms : ENSUITE

15-down – Dire ___ : STRAITS

16-down – In an agile manner : NIMBLY

18-down – Impurities at the bottom : DREGS

1-across – ___ tunnel syndrome : CARPAL

4-across – Rustic,mid-bodied red wine : MALBEC

9-across – Sporting event that may have yachts : REGATTA

10-across – Second letter of Nato alphabet : BRAVO

11-across – Unsettling : EERIE

12-across – Lever worked by the foot : TREADLE

13-across – Miscellaneous gubbins : ODDSANDSODS

18-across – Else : BESIDES

20-across – Bride’s passageway : AISLE

22-across – Relating to our feathered friends : AVIAN

23-across – A folding business? : ORIGAMI

24-across – Hide – display : SCREEN

25-across – Snake’s sound – baby’s diversion : RATTLE

1-down – Red-___ treatment : CARPET

2-down – ‘I have heard and understood’ : ROGER

3-down – Naive : ARTLESS

5-down – Mosey comfortably : AMBLE

6-down – ___ tit : BEARDED

7-down – Selected : CHOSEN

8-down – Final : PARTINGSHOT

14-down – Dodgy ___ : DOSSIER

15-down – Legs,metaphorically : STAMINA

16-down – Undersea menaces : UBOATS

17-down – Light red : CERISE

19-down – Mashed potato,black bottom or Strip the Willow : DANCE

21-down – React in fear – get going : START