Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – The wind in Jersey? : ZEPHYR

5-across – Shed’s inclination to join the players : CASTLIST

9-across – The old men get over abuse that’s started us off in the Taj Mahal? : POPPADUM

10-across – Suspension of work being carried out to hedge : LAYOFF

11-across – Commander deployed squadron with it and he gained control : CONQUISTADOR

13-across – It’s only fair : JUST

14-across – One sought to contact propagator of mischief, resulting in this : IRANGATE

17-across – With so may executives outstanding, have orders to replace one : TOPHEAVY

18-across – Ring Times about some of the Rev. Charles Dodgson’s letters : OXON

20-across – Steeplechase observed in 2 or 22 : POINTTOPOINT

23-across – Thief changing sides for 5 cents : NICKEL

24-across – New bud seen when Thrower gets working round top of garden? : REGROWTH

25-across – Cushion from pressure, etc? : HEADREST

26-across – Powerful wines getting demolished, the last one from Burgundy : SINEWY

2-down – Mark rising with tuition here? : ETON

3-down – Finding source of beer and whisky in child’s play : HOPSCOTCH

4-down – Yorkshire’s a third up : RIDING

5-down – As encountered in 15? The reverse! : CCMMUNITYSPIRIT

6-down – He is doomed on stage, but more than one may go about nameless : SALESMAN

7-down – The song Teletubby Tinky-winky’s finally taken to heart : LAYLA

8-down – p evidently preferred to f here! : SOFTOPTION

12-down – Car phone, apparently hand free : AUTOMOBILE

15-down – Source of gold attracting large numbers, originally thriving, now abandoned : GHOSTTOWN

16-down – Be let out of a quiet prison : BASTILLE

19-down – Nothing I serve will hold her : HINGIS

21-down – Uncovered wound, top taken off : NAKED

22-down – 2”s shuffled pack : STOW

1-across – Emergency treatment gets tree settled : FIRSTAID

5-across – Effect when one member passed bill : IMPACT

9-across – The top line is miners take time – little time – to strike gold : NUMERATOR

11-across – Major opera? : NORMA

12-across – Not making anything of a blueprint for reform : UNPROFITABLE

15-across – American edition, somewhat imperfect? : USED

16-across – Pre-privatisation payments for animal that’s endangered at two points : WATERRATES

18-across – Set fire to window as illumination for procession? : TORCHLIGHT

19-across – Look what verse can do : SCAN

21-across – Two residences in one? : MANSIONHOUSE

24-across – Big mouth of model talking! : DELTA

25-across – Unwilling to keep worrying Colin about minimum wear : LOINCLOTH

26-across – Prizes in the direction of an article : AWARDS

27-across – Soldier retreating – no wild talk – it could be blissful : IGNORANT

1-down – See 4 : FUND

2-down – Change of level of racket : RAMP

3-down – Seat lost on purpose, we hear : THRONE

4-down – World bank is, in lofty manner, anti-trade union movement : INTERNATIONAL

6-down – See 4 : MONETARY

7-down – Some score it a tedious affair, a turn-up for loops, etc : AEROBATICS

8-down – Coming across as model to wild party-goer on wrong note : TRAVERSING

10-down – Sport causing disturbance – eating meat, nothing more : RIFLESHOOTING

13-down – Formula for going round one checked for duration with versatility in computing : MULTIMEDIA

14-down – Sulk by Fitzgerald, Reagan leading her a dance : PETRONELLA

17-down – Square stones connected with eastern country : THAILAND

20-down – Film produced by a gypsy choir : PSYCHO

22-down – Fish with a tail? : CODA

23-down – Bird talk? : CHAT

1-across – 17 retreat for damsel and alumnus : BODIAM

4-across – 17 to keep its raison d’etre aflame? : WARWICK

9-across – Silent and cunning, approaching 17 : DUMBARTON

10-across – 17 of stone : FLINT

11-across – Oz feline : OUNCE

12-across – Kitchen implement required, if she’s licking without the man around : FISHSLICE

13-across – Clerical residence where European retains English lines : DEANERY

15-across – Ruddy article’s unfinished on 17 : ROSYTH

17-across – Man fought to be heard : CASTLE

19-across – Put up with plague, though dejected : HANGDOG

22-across – Super little honey store deposited in flower by environmentalists : EXCELLENT

24-across – 17s for the setter : THEME

26-across – 17 must be strong in the middle : CORFE

27-across – 17 in which to cage monster : PENDRAGON

28-across – Move gracefully to the main 17 : SWANSEA

29-across – River and rocks, or 17 : RADNOR

1-down – Plot to cross the water to the 17 : BEDFORD

2-down – Some show dreadful spirit : DEMON

3-down – Intended to be disheartened after a pedestrian puzzle causes incredulity : AMAZEMENT

4-down – Barbara 17 : WINDSOR

5-down – One setting for a 17? : RUFUS

6-down – I keep up without it having started : INITIATED

7-down – Singular product of excitement offered the equipment for nine more : KITTEN

8-down – Close to rout at conclusion of Derby : STUFFY

14-down – One setting for a tree : ARAUCARIA

16-down – Health farms a strain – a questionable intake of nothing? : SANATORIA

18-down – Specimens cut up will include the side of the head, but no extremities : EXEMPLA

19-down – Very much hostile to the witch hoarding money : HATING

20-down – One gathers the rest in the country, though many deported : GLEANER

21-down – Dodges the obstacles : FENCES

23-down – 17 where guides may be heard : LEEDS

25-down – 17 – Madrid’s name for London’s? : ELGIN

1-across – Support the environment through force of habit : SECOND

4-across – See 1 : NATURE

9-across – Juice extractors engendering motile hose panic : THEOILCOMPANIES

10-across – Critical Chaldean chap : URGENT

11-across – Old dog, before going out, runs to supplier of new tricks : PROCURER

12-across – Hair grip needed here like a hole in the head : FOLLICLE

14-across – Surrounded with road hoardings: time to get out : AMIDST

15-across – Beau-ideal having trouble with ‘is new intake : ADONIS

18-across – Man of the people puts oil distribution beyond pressure : POPULIST

21-across – Greek islander making hash of it in essence : CORFIOTE

22-across – Judge who contended with a bit of an ass : SAMSON

24-across – With this restriction, dissolute plier got on train : PETROLRATIONING

25-across – Old, poor dear Plato’s talking shop : EXEDRA

26-across – TV presenter staying in bed : ANCHOR

1-down – To wit, her weight rises with movement : SCHERZO

2-down – Some hitch in the garlic supply? : CLOVE

3-down – Such fluvial languages gathering nothing by ear : NILOTIC

5-down – John Brown’s baby’s cold remedy: take out a jar! : AMPHORA

6-down – Sir Thomas Browne wrote to replace funeral tea supplier : URNBURIAL

7-down – As Milton was with no perception of his 22 in Gaza : EYELESS

8-down – Make one of two : COUPLE

13-down – Red falcon falling to an earthly host : LANDFORCE

16-down – Deciphering English codes, I see : DIOCESE

17-down – Ruins the Porsche’s lines, does it? : SPOILER

18-down – French ready with chopper to cut such profits : PRETAX

19-down – Enthusiasm is rising between father and son : PASSION

20-down – He suffered consonantly and so madly set a thesis : SPOONER

23-down – He did scream a lot round Norway! : MUNCH

1-across – As worn by fatherless seven-year-old Sigmund? : FREUDIANSLIP

8-across – Servants all losing head on line : HELOTRY

9-across – Overwhelm with inverted ironwork? : OPPRESS

11-across – Joy-riding, initially in a van that’s out of control : NIRVANA

12-across – Walk for a disabled lawyer : ALAMEDA

13-across – Monotonous setter boarding express : SAMEY

14-across – Addressing a reproof : TALKINGTO

16-across – Curiosities of old trains: independent end-to-end carriages : BRICABRAC

19-across – Abandon the B-team : SCRUB

21-across – Bloody attractive woman there, just on the left! : REDDISH

23-across – Here tub-thumper stands to flatter and fight : SOAPBOX

24-across – Sleds reversing over a lake bird : SEAGULL

25-across – Obscure tavern in which king meets low woman, it is rumoured : INKHORN

26-across – Spooner”s preferred form of transaction? : PARTEXCHANGE

1-down – Maximum/minimum comfort? Neither is complete support : FULCRUM

2-down – In the beginnings of each year, the Royal Family is timeless, but it is not tideless : ESTUARY

3-down – Sly trader could be involved in dye trade : DRYSALTER

4-down – Marketplace has gone with the sun : AGORA

5-down – Bribe the Queen”s Singers : SOPRANI

6-down – Back Joe to smuggle old instrument in ? he”s cool : ICEBERG

7-down – Recurring pain may be what”s taken away poet? : CHINESEBURNS

10-down – Big hoax involving Don with outward appearance of windmills? : SHADOWBOXING

15-down – He may help you gain access to hair fashion : LOCKSMITH

17-down – One confused and in a state : INDIANA

18-down – Unlimited alcohol consumed in a limited time factor : ALIQUOT

19-down – Loose nurse harbours need : SLACKEN

20-down – Some extra for women in tatters – detailed here : RIBBONE

22-down – A snail left one in a spell : HELIX