Daily Answers

1-across – Vivid recollection : FLASHBACK

8-across – Digital assistant : SIRI

9-across – Hands-on : PRACTICAL

10-across – Sound of a gun : BANG

13-across – Carefully consider : WEIGH

15-across – Make less effective : IMPAIR

16-across – That’s the answer! : EUREKA

17-across – Dugong,for instance : SEACOW

19-across – Hair lightener : BLEACH

20-across – Making them is disruptive : WAVES

21-across – This might ring a bell : PULL

24-across – Wear casual clothes : DRESSDOWN

25-across – Fish or fuel : TANK

26-across – Educational body : INSTITUTE

2-down – Animal fat : LARD

3-down – Drink with a straw : SUCK

4-down – Source of domestic hot water : BOILER

5-down – Small,sea or step : CHANGE

6-down – Miracle ab : BICAMERAL

7-down – <span>Boswell’s </span><i>Life of Johnson</i><span>,for instance</span> : BIOGRAPHY

11-down – Gradually vanish : DISSIPATE

12-down – Shockingly bad : APPALLING

13-down – Bereaved spouse : WIDOW

14-down – Prepares : HULLS

18-down – Mitchell or Beatty? : WARREN

19-down – Sleeping and living quarters combined : BEDSIT

22-down – Polish text : EDIT

23-down – Hit the buzzer? : SWAT

1-across – Stone Age tool-making process : FLINTKNAPPING

8-across – Tease – youngster : KID

9-across – One starts on the grid : RACINGCAR

10-across – Find out : DISCOVER

11-across – Thompson or Watson? : EMMA

13-across – Cloud over : DARKEN

14-across – Suffused : IMBUED

16-across – They’re a sign of austerity : CUTS

17-across – Consistently correct : UNERRING

20-across – Lacking an identity : ANONYMOUS

21-across – : ADO

22-across – Diverse : MISCELLANEOUS

1-down – Not the genuine article : FAKED

2-down – Careless talk – doctrine is sin : INDISCRETIONS

3-down – Change channel : TURNOVER

4-down – : NICKED

5-down – Shetland or show? : PONY

6-down – Out of contact : INCOMMUNICADO

7-down – Floral decoration : GARLAND

12-down – Lock up : IMPRISON

13-down – Speak theatrically : DECLAIM

15-down – Straighten : UNCOIL

18-down – Total : GROSS

19-down – Exaggerated claims : HYPE

1-across – Damages – panto incomes : COMPENSATION

9-across – Essential oil made from roses : ATTAR

10-across – Workshy underachiever : SLACKER

11-across – High time? : TRIP

12-across – Lazy,like a 10 : BONEIDLE

14-across – Where two sides meet : CORNER

15-across – Just : SIMPLY

18-across – Block : OBSTRUCT

20-across – The two of them : BOTH

22-across – Find one on the road to Canterbury : PILGRIM

23-across – Wake-up call? : ALARM

24-across – Self-determination : INDEPENDENCE

2-down – True oil : OUTLIER

3-down – Bit,body or car? : PART

4-down – One fails to appear : NOSHOW

5-down – : ACADEMIC

6-down – Caused annoyance : IRKED

7-down – Oranges and Lemons,for instance : NURSERYRHYME

8-down – A done deal : FAITACCOMPLI

13-down – Sign of sorrow : TEARDROP

16-down – Everyday : PROSAIC

17-down – Shrewdness : ACUMEN

19-down – State which is neither liquid nor gas : SOLID

21-down – Baggage item – upper or lower? : CASE

1-across – Serious : SOLEMN

4-across – Shut : CLOSED

9-across – Influential – in males : SEMINAL

10-across – Holy – and highly desired – object : GRAIL

11-across – Ursa or Morris? : MINOR

12-across – With justification : VALIDLY

13-across – Banning order : PROHIBITION

18-across – Sieved tomatoes : PASSATA

20-across – Fester or Vanya? : UNCLE

22-across – Cut by 50 per cent : HALVE

23-across – Vocal rise and fall : CADENCE

24-across – Harris,Donegal and others : TWEEDS

25-across – Save : RESCUE

1-down – Tahini ingredient : SESAME

2-down – Squeezed fruit : LEMON

3-down – Butterfly known for its long-distance migrations : MONARCH

5-down – Limit or loophole? : LEGAL

6-down – Unnamed individual or item : SOANDSO

7-down – Postpones : DELAYS

8-down – Peace offering : OLIVEBRANCH

14-down – Decide – to clear up : RESOLVE

15-down – Move slowly on wheels : TRUNDLE

16-down – Result : UPSHOT

17-down – Wipe out : DELETE

19-down – In the lead : AHEAD

21-down – One thinks the worst of people : CYNIC

1-across – Curmudgeon : GROUCH

4-across – Picture puzzle : REBUS

7-across – Make more precious : ENDEAR

8-across – Muck : MANURE

9-across – Sparkling wine : CAVA

10-across – Trefoil clover leaf : SHAMROCK

12-across – Environmentalists in action! : ECOWARRIORS

17-across – Unorthodox boxer : SOUTHPAW

19-across – God with a hammer : THOR

20-across – Walk lamely : HOBBLE

21-across – Stogie : EGOIST

22-across – Small and weak : WEEDY

23-across – Journalist : EDITOR

1-down – Where the hull meets the deck : GUNWALE

2-down – Herb : OREGANO

3-down – Hustler : CARDSHARP

4-down – Scope : REALM

5-down – Bedroom : BOUDOIR

6-down – Devious : SNEAKY

11-down – Point of a long dart : ARROWHEAD

13-down – Disintegrate – dessert : CRUMBLE

14-down – Remote station : OUTPOST

15-down – Patron : SPONSOR

16-down – Snub : ESCHEW

18-down – Steep and undulating : HILLY