Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Poet is country person admitting blunder : HERRICK

5-across – Stay away from child sent to bed on time : BOYCOTT

10-across – Dickensian character – follower, not leader : HEEP

11-across – Feature of tsar – I establish frontiers : BOUNDARIES

12-across – Political alliance has yesteryear’s president changing sides ultimately : CARTEL

13-across – Honey going round Paris splashing the cash : LEMPIRAS

14-across – Bishop behind everything and so very loud goes up in the air : BLASTSOFF

16-across – Back of restaurant – competent server pouring out one drink : TABLE

17-across – See 16 : WATER

19-across – Oh dear, cat wrecked geometrical shapes! : OCTAHEDRA

23-across – Most impulsive atheists being nasty : HASTIEST

24-across – Comb horse – starts to look elegant : HACKLE

26-across – Phone in caravan? : MOBILEHOME

27-across – Heartless opponent making money : RIAL

28-across – Philosopher’s bit of work absorbed by British disciple : BERGSON

29-across – After mad turns was first to be put in beastly home? : STABLED

2-down – Stare at end of spectacle – then you shout audibly : EYEBALL

3-down – Record in rubbish put in new container : REPOT

4-down – Workers at last having right to remove stones : COBBLES

6-down – Medical problem making one gutted – then made worse : OEDEMA

7-down – For body tissue eat garlic misguidedly? : CARTILAGE

8-down – One’s quick on foot : TOENAIL

9-down – Degree of moderation? : QUALIFICATION

15-down – The woman with an obsession offering protection : SHEATHING

18-down – Sailor on his own gets food from the sea? : ABALONE

20-down – A child that is on the street suffering most from exertion? : ACHIEST

21-down – Relative comfort, what a prisoner hopes for : RELEASE

22-down – Seven Etonians excluding outsiders in Italian region : VENETO

25-down – Caught a bird hiding in a tree : CAROB

1-across – Bad light obscures one unknown character on a set of steps : MAZURKA

5-across – Old type of slate roofing in progress – can’t leak! : SCANTLE

9-across – Council rejected gatherings around New York : SYNOD

10-across – Vessel at Cairo museum’s entrance, unusually broad : PANORAMIC

11-across – Fire-starter, exposed all round gets beaten : OUTMATCHED

12-across – A spirit flower : ARUM

14-across – See 27 : OBSOLESCENCE

18-across – Not against being free, independent, cold and hostile? : ANTAGONISTIC

21-across – Artist gets national emblem back to front : KLEE

22-across – Rural cuts affected outside temperature of a building : STRUCTURAL

25-across – Nick, trendy gangster and outlaw : ROBINHOOD

26-across – Hit English name for Japanese dish : RAMEN

27-across – Life-limiting commercial policy of Republican politician harbouring colossal need : PLANNED

28-across – Right, go on – backslide! : RELAPSE

1-down – State needing, say, Andy Murray’s charm : MASCOT

2-down – Top religious school badly hit : ZENITH

3-down – Bloody American banknotes that might be pickled! : REDCABBAGE

4-down – Jelly-like image : ASPIC

5-down – English short of oriental coins at first? Ridiculous! : SENSELESS

6-down – Unsubstantial hob lacking force : AIRY

7-down – Tree of south-western river in Germany : TAMARIND

8-down – Hence no top and bottom on Brown’s hamper : ENCUMBER

13-down – Defiled Lars’ unfinished picture of biblical content? : SCRIPTURAL

15-down – Fittipaldi’s bottom pushed into hot rod in ground, swiftish? : ORNITHOID

16-down – Part of stage scenery support covering sink : BACKDROP

17-down – Compound of element one put into replacement battery : YTTERBIA

19-down – Locks securing army officer, daily : MRSMOP

20-down – Raised edge of dish, say, turned over : FLANGE

23-down – Henry Kissinger’s other bovine feature? : UDDER

24-down – Presently it could be a conspiracy theory – no question : ANON

8-across – Spattering on the hunt : STALKING

9-across – See 5 Down : ASPIE

10-across – Enjoy autumn fag, fooling around, nothing to it : LIKE

11-across – Loud right-winger touring revolutionary country in work of fiction : FAIRYSTORY

12-across – Each funny face OK for child’s play : APIECE

14-across – Summon bean soup maker : SUBPOENA

16-across – Festival conductor is out of control : HAYWIRE

18-across – Play a part following old films beginning with Love Actually : EXFACTO

21-across – Feel resentful? Ask Barnaby! : BEGRUDGE

23-across – See 12 : OFCAKE

24-across – See 10 : FALLINGOFF

26-across – See 10 : ALOG

27-across – Studies involving a group of academics : DEANS

28-across – Indeed, political faction’s gone : DECAMPED

1-down – State of being half high during opiate abuse : ETHIOPIA

2-down – This is not even culture! : CLUE

3-down – 11 and 24 initially surrounded by heap of rubbish : PIFFLE

4-down – Not for profit in promoting The Salvation Army at first : AGAINST

5-down – Yes, a slippery snake that is no trouble to handle : EASY

6-down – Starts to advocate prevention of cancer, perhaps accepting a warding off of evil : APOTROPAIC

7-down – Poles pocketing coin in cell : NEURON

13-down – One king after another getting a writer : EDWARDLEAR

15-down – Here are tickets for fight outside the rink : BOX

17-down – Endorse movement for a day of fund-raising : RED

19-down – After part exchange, pass and gain control : TAKEOVER

20-down – More food in a short while : SECONDS

22-down – Natives of the Sahel and South Africa? : ELANDS

23-down – See 15 : OFFICE

25-down – See 17 : NOSE

26-down – Silly topless crowd : ARMY

9-across – Popular Omani covered up nose : AROMA

10-across – Trim bust in front of Conservative having come to be expected : STATUTORY

11-across – Prolonged emergency – the last part of 6 breaking out : SOSTENUTO

12-across – Repair an electronic item? Correct : EMEND

13-across – ‘More unusual’ place of learning associated with queen, earl and king : UNIQUER

15-across – Blind Faith ultimately deliver when following Sabbath : SHUTTER

17-across – It involves mate getting companion to accompany letter : CHESS

18-across – Remove short pocket : SAC

20-across – Mount of dictator’s fed up : BOARD

22-across – A prior revolutionary queen is like some Ba’athists : PROIRAQ

25-across – Continental fair refurbished toilet : AFRICAN

26-across – A plank across a ship : ABEAM

27-across – One who investigates figures has stamina to be exercised : ANATOMIST

30-across – Sneak off but stop around back of castle in the style of William the First : STEALAWAY

31-across – Macbeth possibly makes comeback in Shakespeare poem : OPERA

1-down – Supports rector going down and stops : BARS

2-down – Prisoner associated with tower plot : CONSPIRE

3-down – Bishop and President having a tot : BABE

4-down – Emperor is in Madrid hosting queen and other rulers : TSQUARES

5-down – Crosses jaw, that hurts seriously in the face : YAKOWS

6-down – Maybe 8 block freezer : CUBENUMBER

7-down – A rook is not so present around New England : HONEST

8-down – Kite maybe caught for English composer : BYRD

13-down – Posh knight better remove hat : UNCAP

14-down – Make clear that engineer can slumber : UNSCRAMBLE

16-down – Heating enabled with this element : RADON

19-down – Charlie perhaps with a scruffy yak being ancient Indian polymath : CHANAKYA

21-down – Functions as nice Royal Society assembly : ARCSINES

23-down – Writer absorbed by dictionary spread out : OPENED

24-down – Repeatedly, starts to quietly walk around former 25 homeland : QWAQWA

26-down – Bohemian, gutless and irritable : ARSY

28-down – It’s an honour to hold doctor’s second instrument : OBOE

29-down – Slice served up for gin : TRAP

1-across – Restraint from some at business after re-organisation : ABSTEMIOUSNESS

8-across – Tip of triangle rotates at what angle, trigonometrically? : THETA

9-across – Down pub drinking first couple of lagers – food served here : SALADBAR

11-across – Public calling for plan : OUTLINE

12-across – Saloon, perhaps getting one local stripped for a Brazilian : CARIOCA

13-across – Stages cricket match every year outside : PODIA

15-across – Anxious bride going off with stud : DISTURBED

17-across – Persistent lawsuit about ecstasy going before bar : CEASELESS

20-across – Against vote on ballot: surrounded by harmful material : TOXIN

21-across – Weary old American wearing hat : EXHAUST

23-across – Dancing escort hugging hard: they get turned on in the dark : TORCHES

25-across – Gets ready: salesperson trims nails : PREPARES

26-across – One marking last bit of paper after school returns : NOTER

27-across – Program on new tablet ultimately freezes in time : APPRENTICESHIP

1-down – Full of excitement as case prepared for holiday : ACTIONPACKED

2-down – Wasted pound found in street : SPENT

3-down – Get rid of acid brought up: eater struggling to swallow it : ERADICATE

4-down – Rather concerned with terrible dates : INSTEAD

5-down – Does crack? Bad luck, son : UNLOCKS

6-down – Cleanse a newborn’s bottom going over the worst bit : NADIR

7-down – Bill to demonstrate locks on case: run through combinations : SHADOWBOX

10-down – Place to take off sports kit after winning : LANDINGSTRIP

14-down – Fast motorbike maybe passing on corner? : DEATHTRAP

16-down – Chancellor of the Exchequer supporting unqualified bankers in autumn statement : UTTERANCE

18-down – Gut reaction, ultimately admit love at the start : ENTERON

19-down – Some in ISA to shift money for online investment : SATOSHI

22-down – Top protective equipment? Query oddly missing stocks : UPPER

24-down – Irritation to be under husband’s thumb : HITCH