5-across – Language of c. 200-600 AD : LATELATIN

8-across – ‘Venerable’ historian of c. 673–735 AD : BEDE

9-across – ‘Holy’ bluish-green marine food fish : MACKEREL

10-across – Tooth decay : CARIES

11-across – Peak – meeting : SUMMIT

13-across – Emphasis – hassle : STRESS

15-across – Cape – intellectual Susan,1933–2004 : SONTAG

16-across – Yeasty spread : VEGEMITE

18-across – Foot part – baddie : HEEL

19-across – Reflect on : TENORCLEF

1-down – Rest : TAKEFIVE

2-down – Wing-shoed messenger son of Zeus and Maia : HERMES

3-down – <span>eg </span><i>Bullshot Crummond</i><span>,</span><i>Noises Off</i><span> and </span><i>Run for Your Wife</i> : FARCES

4-down – <span>Bird of prey – </span><i>Mary Poppins</i><span> toy</span> : KITE

6-down – A pretence : PECANTREE

7-down – One honoured in a piece of art : DEDICATEE

12-down – Craving for food : MUNCHIES

14-down – Man seeking your hand in marriage : SUITOR

15-down – Nasty niff : STENCH

17-down – Large wide-spouted water jug : EWER

1-across – Controlled by an evil spirit : POSSESSED

8-across – 2015 Adele song – word spoken on answering phone : HELLO

9-across – Eight-tentacled mollusc : OCTOPUS

10-across – Copied : EMULATED

11-across – Shawl or stole : WRAP

13-across – Courage – container for Courage? : BOTTLE

14-across – Dauphinoise starch : POTATO

16-across – Use a phone on another network : ROAM

17-across – ‘Unless I’m very much ___ … ’ : MISTAKEN

19-across – Public,popular or medical : OPINION

20-across – Poetic rhythm : METRE

21-across – Judges may hand them down : SENTENCES

1-down – Likely : PROBABLE

2-down – Closer to now – rather : SOONER

3-down – Grub : EATS

4-down – ‘Bagging area’ shops : SUPERMARKETS

5-down – Thwarted : DISAPPOINTED

6-down – Allotment conveyances : WHEELBARROWS

7-down – Drawings – exemplification : ILLUSTRATION

12-down – Highland,bathing and swimming,e.g. : COSTUMES

15-down – A walk in the park – or what may follow one : PICNIC

18-down – Patna,basmati or wild : RICE

1-across – Female bird with a showy mate : PEAHEN

4-across – Often neon,often square stationery item : POSTIT

8-across – Rich cake or pastry of Austrian origin : TORTE

9-across – Mean – so-so : AVERAGE

10-across – <i>Cutty Sark</i><span>,eg – hairdresser?</span> : CLIPPER

11-across – Boa or cobra? : SNAKE

12-across – Toady : SYCOPHANT

17-across – Time ___ time : AFTER

19-across – Lamb’s ___ : LETTUCE

21-across – No 1 for Dizzee Rascal and Armand van Helden – slang for ‘crazy’ : BONKERS

22-across – Deep-fried Indian savoury : BHAJI

23-across – Soup receptacle : TUREEN

24-across – Arm bone : RADIUS

1-down – Coup : PUTSCH

2-down – Lockdown-compliant greeting,perhaps : AIRKISS

3-down – Consider the attractiveness of : EYEUP

5-down – It’s far from shore : OPENSEA

6-down – Papal headgear : TIARA

7-down – Dissertations : THESES

9-down – Citadel of Athens on which the Parthenon and the Erechtheum stand : ACROPOLIS

13-down – Retinue : CORTEGE

14-down – Sea wave : TSUNAMI

15-down – <i>Watership Down</i><span> creature</span> : RABBIT

16-down – <span>Exceptional ability – the </span><i>Guardian</i><span>’s toughest crossword</span> : GENIUS

18-down – José Carreras,eg : TENOR

20-down – Shin bone : TIBIA

1-across – When some fall in love : ATFIRSTSIGHT

9-across – Run off to the match? : ELOPE

10-across – Normally : ASARULE

11-across – Cinch – sleep – loaf : DOSS

12-across – Advance at an equal rate : KEEPPACE

14-across – Insect with an elongated,flattened body and large terminal forceps : EARWIG

15-across – <span>eg </span><i>Titanic</i><span> or </span><i>The Railway Children</i> : WEEPIE

18-across – Beer and ___ : SKITTLES

20-across – Crisps and ___ : NUTS

22-across – Carbuncle : EYESORE

23-across – : AMOUR

24-across – Egomaniacal : SELFOBSESSED

2-down – Pocket : TROUSER

3-down – Twosome – object : ITEM

4-down – Like some fish and mountains : SCALED

5-down – Marker pens : SHARPIES

6-down – Flat round cheese with a yellow rind : GOUDA

7-down – : THENECESSARY

8-down – She’s lessened : HEEDLESSNESS

13-down – Technically skilled musician : VIRTUOSO

16-down – Accompaniment at an event : PLUSONE

17-down – Pulls to the ground : LEVELS

19-down – Optimal : IDEAL

21-down – Service – quantity : MASS

1-across – Grape ivy,busy Lizzie and mother-in-law’s tongue,eg : HOUSEPLANTS

9-across – Appropriate to public ceremony : FULLDRESS

10-across – Ricotta source : EWE

11-across – Online troublemaker : TROLL

13-across – Geometric art form of the 1920s and ‘30s : ARTDECO

14-across – Jostles with a joint : ELBOWS

15-across – Artistic assembly of glass,marble etc : MOSAIC

18-across – Saxophonist Coleman or Golden Globe winner Sally : HAWKINS

20-across – Sprainable joint : ANKLE

21-across – Meadow : LEA

22-across – Liable to launch lawsuits : LITIGIOUS

24-across – People counter : CENSUSTAKER

2-down – Portrait or landscape,perhaps : OIL

3-down – ‘If something might go wrong,it will’ : SODSLAW

4-down – From the late 1930s,perhaps : PREWAR

5-down – It’s a plus : ASSET

6-down – Auckland’s Rainbow’s End or Queensland’s Dreamworld,eg : THEMEPARK

7-down – Not made to measure : OFFTHESHELF

8-down – Oh! Receivers! : HEROICVERSE

12-down – Cut-off water in the floodplain : OXBOWLAKE

16-down – AI gloat : OTALGIA

17-down – In the circs : ASITIS

19-down – Shaky,Scilly or Western : ISLES

23-down – You can dig it : ORE