1-across – According to Sod’s Law,this will land messily : BUTTEREDTOAST

8-across – Live internet programme : WEBCAST

9-across – Long white radish-flavoured root : MOOLI

10-across – Kitty : PUSS

11-across – Blindly in love : BESOTTED

13-across – Wilting : DROOPY

14-across – SA country,capital Lusaka : ZAMBIA

17-across – Attractive : MAGNETIC

19-across – Brought up : BRED

21-across – Long lock : TRESS

22-across – Bond’s tipple : MARTINI

24-across – Cutlery used by owl and pussycat – pencil or bonus : RUNCIBLESPOON

1-down – Dicky or cross? : BOW

2-down – Hot pepper sauce : TABASCO

3-down – Jacob’s twin brother : ESAU

4-down – Starter in Australia or main course in America? : ENTREE

5-down – Relating to time – lobe in brain : TEMPORAL

6-down – Happening – third of a yard? : AFOOT

7-down – Obtained via two intermediaries : THIRDHAND

10-down – Step counter : PEDOMETER

12-down – Winter fun : APRESSKI

15-down – Filled tortilla : BURRITO

16-down – Gloomy : DISMAL

18-down – Inexperienced : GREEN

20-down – Coloured part of the eye : IRIS

23-down – Electrically charged particle : ION

5-across – Result of a few too many? : BEERBELLY

8-across – Lose it : SNAP

9-across – Kapok,e.g. : STUFFING

10-across – Organ – ill-humour : SPLEEN

11-across – Being : ENTITY

13-across – Dung beetle : SCARAB

15-across – Straight away : PRONTO

16-across – Melba one : BONEMEAL

18-across – Greek letter : IOTA

19-across – Beatles song – 24 hours ago : YESTERDAY

1-down – Quadrennial event : LEAPYEAR

2-down – <span>Author,</span><i>Notes from a Small Island</i> : BRYSON

3-down – Say no – rubbish! : REFUSE

4-down – Treble or bass symbol : CLEF

6-down – ___ Gadget or Gerri : INSPECTOR

7-down – Establish : INSTITUTE

12-down – Characteristic of Cancer or Capricorn? : TROPICAL

14-down – The bar : BREATH

15-down – Meagre : PALTRY

17-down – Certainly not odd : EVEN

5-across – Tetchier Coe : ORECCHIETTE

7-across – Mae or Kanye : WEST

8-across – Wisecrack : ONELINER

9-across – Ringo’s real surname : STARKEY

11-across – Condition : STATE

13-across – Madagascan forest dweller : LEMUR

14-across – <span>Bush cricket – </span><i>What ___</i><span> : KATYDID

16-across – Mouse’s home in Old Amsterdam : WINDMILL

17-across – Stick on stumps : BAIL

18-across – Personal record – fishy toiler : LIFEHISTORY

1-down – Amphibian – Gingrich,e.g. : NEWT

2-down – Antepenultimate month : OCTOBER

3-down – Tendon : SINEW

4-down – <i>___ Come Dancing</i> : STRICTLY

5-down – Past one’s prime? : OVERTHEHILL

6-down – Feeling of thrilling excitement : ELECTRICITY

10-down – Finish neatly : ROUNDOFF

12-down – Unrestrained,not observing rules : LAWLESS

15-down – Day___ or night ___ : LIGHT

17-down – Controller of sail or microphone : BOOM

1-across – Upbeat : JAUNTY

4-across – Strangeness – or something strange : ODDITY

8-across – Come around again : RECUR

9-across – Body kneader : MASSEUR

10-across – Self-centred person : EGOTIST

11-across – Style that recreates the past : RETRO

12-across – Russian abstract painter : KANDINSKY

17-across – Small night-flier : OWLET

19-across – Book – guardedness : RESERVE

21-across – This runs alongside canals : TOWPATH

22-across – Present,e.g. : TENSE

23-across – Havoc : MAYHEM

24-across – Causing horror and disgust : GRISLY

1-down – CI sweater? : JERSEY

2-down – Reveal a Traitor perhaps : UNCLOAK

3-down – Bones of the ankles and feet : TARSI

5-down – e.g. Atacama and Great Victoria : DESERTS

6-down – ___ gas – unreactive : INERT

7-down – Plant – a worry : YARROW

9-down – Respected head of family : MATRIARCH

13-down – Person with obsessive interest – helmet? : NUTCASE

14-down – Underpants : YFRONTS

15-down – Shakespeare’s lowest character? : BOTTOM

16-down – Unconventional belief : HERESY

18-down – Humble : LOWLY

20-down – Drunken woodland god : SATYR

1-across – A stroke : BUTTERFLY

8-across – Sign up : ENROL

9-across – Careful examination : PERUSAL

10-across – Firing system : IGNITION

11-across – Put back to factory settings : ZERO

13-across – Louden : NODULE

14-across – Soya-based food : TEMPEH

16-across – Mother’s ____ : RUIN

17-across – A herb : MARJORAM

19-across – Breast cut of meat : BRISKET

20-across – Walk with pronounced nicety : MINCE

21-across – Sleepwear : NIGHTGOWN

1-down – Make small : BELITTLE

2-down – Very best : TIPTOP

3-down – Pound : EZRA

4-down – Temporary home-provider for children : FOSTERPARENT

5-down – Bird – colourful tool? : YELLOWHAMMER

6-down – Three-wheeler – needy bird? : RELIANTROBIN

7-down – Dangerous crime on the highway : DRINKDRIVING

12-down – Bunny or Button : BENJAMIN

15-down – Military performance : TATTOO

18-down – Satirical sketch : SKIT