Author name: crosswordanswers

9-across – Cut disease with unlimited money : TBONE

10-across – Odin’s hall after being renovated : ALLFATHER

11-across – Jump from £1,000 plane close to France : GRANDJETE

12-across – British Jack leaves pudding in stomach : BELLY

13-across – Church has real trouble with saint 29 : CHARLES

15-across – Proposition me with other design : THEOREM

17-across – Ball game’s chaotic conclusion : OMEGA

18-across – : ILL

20-across – Decided to put page in dictionary? About time : OPTED

22-across – Who’s moved by Heather crying? : HOWLING

25-across – Woman completes 29 + 18, the spoilsport : KILLJOY

26-across – Quickly eats starter of fish during unhurried retreat : WOLFS

27-across – Standard book on furniture : BENCHMARK

30-across – Child’s hero in Paris on vacation with clergy : PREACHERS

31-across – Ashley Olsen, say, bored by American writer : TWAIN

1-down – Male model to talk about mirror : STAG

2-down – Schedule tax on electronic till : ROTAVATE

3-down – Conduct metal : LEAD

4-down – Was Keir wrong to steal Tory leader’s sports equipment? : WATERSKI

5-down – Most unhappy footballer drilled by head of Leeds United : BLUEST

6-down – Bride’s excited by ring during dance with attractive young lady : BARBIEDOLL

7-down – Perhaps Ahab’s wife is more healthy : WHALER

8-down – Photograph of gunners surrounded by axes : XRAY

13-down – Ministerial material? : CLOTH

14-down – Creature can feel it’s evolving : LEAFINSECT

16-down – Setter’s covering three quarks in a neutron – confused? : MUDDY

19-down – Portrait to hang over 29’s head : LIKENESS

21-down – Wonder that not even Juliet married a prince : TAJMAHAL

23-down – Former F1 commentator, one not going by car? : WALKER

24-down – Large cup for a small mouth? : GOBLET

26-down – Cried over exercise, putting on weight : WEPT

28-down – Son goes to the basement in closed buildings : HUTS

29-down – Royal family’s supported by government : KING

9-across – Ace airman flying goods across the ocean : AMERICANA

10-across – King gets into honky-tonk? It’s a long 25 : DRIVE

11-across – Onset of soldier’s suffering, one getting 25 : SHELL

12-across – Rotten sneak given fleece clothing material : SNAKESKIN

13-across – One may get 25 of tequila at first, tucking into a salad ingredient : ACTRESS

14-across – Having trouble, handles boring idiots heartlessly : INAMESS

17-across – Reporter’s disdainful utterances for a 25, say : BOOZE

19-across – Themed bar even places 25 to be taken from here : TEE

20-across – Imitation gold put back by salesman : REPRO

21-across – Subdued clothing a model from the 1910s changed : MUTATED

22-across – Written method poorly grasped by Bank of Scotland : BRAILLE

24-across – Sweet confection, or an Emmental sandwich? : SWISSROLL

26-across – Big 25 in band pocketing millions : SMASH

28-across – Someone like Lenin kept in check by firm beliefs : CREDO

29-across – Ageless English politician carries gun around : EVERGREEN

1-down – 24 downs in the face, perhaps, or 25s in the arm : JABS

2-down – Get 25 of Charlie on plane tours : REJECT

3-down – Maybe 25 put in air by cricketer, almost : FIELDEVENT

4-down – Cordial nitwit admitted to not having changed gender? : CASSIS

5-down – Where 25 is put, perhaps weekly : MAGAZINE

6-down – U2 member pollarded row of privets, say : EDGE

7-down – Truck laden with case of Moselle – it’s a 25 in the arm : PICKMEUP

8-down – Director’s angle 25 not good : LEAN

13-down – Almost totally wrong place to put 25 : ALBUM

15-down – Praise gas supply under a ventilation system : AIRPASSAGE

16-down – What a good 25 may do, or 20 : SCORE

18-down – Long 25 succeeded? I had to cut part of archer’s target : OUTSIDER

19-down – Cheers policeman arresting European pond life : TADPOLES

22-down – Rubbish poet not half getting a 25 in the arm : BULLET

23-down – Big 25 in artistic songs, we’re told : LEADER

24-down – Note label of designer garment : SOCK

25-down – Dipso guzzling hard liquor, say : SHOT

27-down – Characters hiding in patch in the shade : HINT

9-across – Repeat of tea dance : CHACHACHA

10-across – State follows Conservative line, taking steps : CONGA

11-across – One’s driven by double-cross : SCREW

12-across – Showing extract, found a mage dancing with sound : UNDAMAGED

13-across – Dance: it’s located a couple in front of hotel : FOXTROT

14-across – As colour is applied, wiping a circle about the mouth : OSCULAR

17-across – Puzzled? Boatman might be : ATSEA

19-across – Tot cycling with guardian : DAD

20-across – Either way, one keeps house : MADAM

21-across – Ran out of funny Charleston costume : CLOTHES

22-across – It’s used by a keyboardist to select a partial inversion : CELESTA

24-across – Settings for plates of say fish, pork and beef but not sheep’s heart : PLACEMATS

26-across – Equalises score: taking on Latin, they cover the floor : TILES

28-across – Uncovered belly-button on return of American Smooth : SUAVE

29-across – Uniting against virus: hospital department : CONFLUENT

1-down – Performs in musical with key lifted : ACTS

2-down – Table of maxima – their index, not their contents : MATRIX

3-down – It’s taken before dressing with mixed herb – so what? : SHOWERBATH

4-down – Secret order caught copper over limit, initially getting time : OCCULT

5-down – Rock ‘n’ Roll dad, housekeeper : LANDLORD

6-down – Ballas, Revel Horwood, Du Beke and Mabuse initially make a racket! : SCAM

7-down – Showed cold symptoms and, having displaced fever initially by force, got cosy : SNUGGLED

8-down – Clap kids with no limits set : LAID

13-down – Foreign capital in candid report : FRANC

15-down – Strictly Come Dancing, with first of personalities on telly : COMPLETELY

16-down – Spooner’s last to show sign of hesitation: Boatman lifted in dance : RUMBA

18-down – One hiding on board tug, one overwhelmed by wave : STOWAWAY

19-down – Separation is central to posture in Foxtrot, perhaps : DISTANCE

22-down – Claudia gutted over error: no risks taken here : CASINO

23-down – Argentine Tango: even parts of it can be read symbolically : SILVER

24-down – Plans hop-skip steps for dance : PASO

25-down – Some achieve Samba days before : EVES

27-down – Tess represented series : SETS

7-across – Topples in shortened pants : DETHRONES

8-across – Criminal following X-Man? : FELON

9-across – Works in ointment to stop case of fleas : FUNCTIONS

10-across – Radio Four’s back on air : TUNER

12-across – Witch doctor in Guinea exhausted after migraine oddly : MGANGA

13-across – Obsessive sibling welcoming year in therapy : ANALYSIS

14-across – Isaac Hayes initially confused about piano mute? : APHASIC

17-across – King touring desert in chopper : CLEAVER

20-across – Relish chicken pad thai regularly : CAPONATA

22-across – Bouncer in row about horse? : TIGGER

24-across – Try first-rate drug : CRACK

25-across – Tory ended up admitting motorway declared dangerous : CONDEMNED

26-across – Bryan Singer’s boat : FERRY

27-across – Be subjected to terrible Mud encore : COMEUNDER

1-down – Crossbar broken by headers from Erling Haaland is put up again : REHUNG

2-down – Revolutionary Chinese New Year for each part of Russian Federation : CHECHNYA

3-down – Stallion stripped off for girl of 19 : LOLITA

4-down – Green is one with secure seat : BEANBAG

5-down – Grace Kelly ultimately supporting lover with tango : BEAUTY

6-down – Worried voices about the heart of Manchester United : COHESIVE

11-down – Nick Drake essentially in love : NAIL

15-down – Writer covering match in the shade : PEAGREEN

16-down – Tax-free vehicles concealed by Lisa Stansfield : ISAS

18-down – Barney Rubble’s opening a Nutmeg cryptic : ARGUMENT

19-down – Author served up very fine port : NABOKOV

21-down – 24 across getting awards : OSCARS

22-down – Ordered secure document for auditor : TIDIED

23-down – Heart of Mexico’s team : ELEVEN

1-across – Borrow 5p and settle up with poor children’s entertainer : SPONGEBOB

6-across – See 4 Down : BUCK

8-across – Prophesy when fear has worn off : FOREWARN

9-across – See 1 : SQUARE

10-across – Sacred sound throttled by drunken Englishmen as brass band played? : TIDDLY

11-across – Wally’s better paper : FOOLSCAP

12-across – Bond, that fellow in a dress abandoning ship : ADHERE

15-across – Dreamy ingredients initially needing a stir? That’s wrong – it’s already been done! : READYMIX

16-across – See 10 : OMPOMPOM

19-across – Musical event: it’s closed in when dancing : SILENT

21-across – Dark quality in family eases, oddly : INKINESS

22-across – Musical work a player’s taken back to the beginning? : DACAPO

24-across – Beyond a kiss? : ACROSS

25-across – Like geese I ensnare, in a flap : ANSERINE

26-across – See 4 Down : ONES

27-across – Noble lot in old river cutting through isle : DOGOODERS

1-down – European country, speaking for its people, unanimously taking part in uprising? : SUOMI

2-down – Late, more than a couple of Italians : OVERDUE

3-down – Like a plot, might one say, that’s thickened? : GRAVY

4-down – Value in financial institution maintaining good bonus? Force to change : BANGFOR

5-down – Acts of generosity in article penned by peerless members of parliament? : BESTOWALS

6-down – Kind of thinking, clearly over one’s head? : BLUESKY

7-down – Rose-tinted land of the petrolhead? : CARNATION

13-down – Cook small quantity of baked beans, perhaps, for islander : DOMINICAN

14-down – Squeeze no longer squeezed, it’s said : EXPRESSED

17-down – Forbidding love, something negative about that very thing? : OMINOUS

18-down – Wild thing ‘as to be strung up? : MUSTANG

20-down – One has scratched head after cluer anagrammatised fodder : LUCERNE

22-down – See 19 Across : DISCO

23-down – See 1 Across : PANTS