Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Crow eating variety of cakes is indifferent : JACKEASY

5-across – Upbringing? Over-acknowledge Enigmatist, if you like : EMETIC

9-across – Reacts to very witty joke and credit relaxes : CREASESUP

11-across – Novice companion knocking back beer : CHELA

12-across – About the flow of Ganges and Rhine, one may be issuing a legal warning : GARNISHEEING

15-across – Right behind Kon-tiki, say : RAFT

16-across – Arms are as good as hair : MATCHLOCKS

18-across – Strangely east of Java, but not very, crosses bridge in the Pacific : SEAOFJAPAN

19-across – Worker following meat : BEEF

21-across – Ford, etc, one sorting out river test : AUTOINDUSTRY

24-across – Dead thick, I won’t tip : STIFF

25-across – See 1 down : NICHOLSON

26-across – In the garden to clear lines is profligacy : RAKERY

27-across – Reopened line in Sussex down to the signal : BLUEBELL

1-down – Stone wall : JACK

2-down – Reporter’s divvy for one of 7 14 : CHER

3-down – Dry up! Will’s being a good listener : ENSEAR

4-down – One of 7 14 gets us up without a sweater to put on : SUSANSARANDON

6-down – One of 7 14 rodents round abyss with pair, if restricted by irons? : MICHELLE

7-down – Cut into bird: revolutionary, so eat well with port and play : THEWITCHES

8-down – Treats as a loss and leaves in a hurry : CHARGESOFF

10-down – Romantic letters with 26p stamps to LA? : POSTCLASSICAL

13-down – Interloper makes Parisian very cross : TRESPASSER

14-down – See 7 : OFEASTWICK

17-down – See 6 : PFEIFFER

20-down – Nothing to be seen amongst the trees but a furrow : GROOVE

22-down – As the Arctic is reported to be, that is clear : ISEE

23-down – A love-plant : ANIL

1-across – The Guardian’s ebb? It changes at dusk : WEREWOLF

5-across – Petrified out of one’s mind? : STONED

9-across – Rush – fancy losing head! – to find revelation from animal behaviour : ZOOMANCY

10-across – Monster will continue tediously : DRAGON

11-across – Second note a classical note? That would be telling : RELATING

12-across – Trainee 1 down to go slow at the wheel? : POTTER

14-across – Joint order for news of monster : HIPPOGRIFF

18-across – Witchcraft? : BROOMSTICK

22-across – River with Irish source : IRWELL

23-across – Monster to sunbathe, eating a lot of chips, perhaps : BASILISK

24-across – Monster in the course of going or gone : GORGON

25-across – Sixth Commandment, part of the Bible that’s highly dangerous : VIRULENT

26-across – Change one’s team and live? : RESIDE

27-across – Propelling barge through tunnel’s a warming job for women and children : LEGGINGS

1-down – Jolly good point followed by headless 10? : WIZARD

2-down – Grub getting ‘eated in part : ROOTLE

3-down – Ghost artist with surrounding : WRAITH

4-down – Student model among ancient Britons took in an authorised person : LICENTIATE

6-down – Up worn track to Irish water, a little seasonal one : TURLOUGH

7-down – Close one held by sailor, taken by walker after dark : NIGHTAIR

8-down – Scales dropped from dunderhead with frill : DANDRUFF

13-down – Concentrate on one of the sail pieces? : SPECIALISE

15-down – A. Pontifex, contractor : ABRIDGER

16-down – Problems with the pigskin at 12’s school – a growth”s developed : HOGWARTS

17-down – Sol that’s variable: with big bird above, sol varied just the same : EMULSOID

19-down – Monster needing some surgery: setter’s coming in : SIMURG

20-down – Monster accompanied by Ernest from EastEnders? : WIVERN

21-down – Rays to get on for speed : SKATES

1-across – Ignorant Ramist misconstrued Pythagorean theory : TRANSMIGRATION

8-across – God a woman? … : THORA

9-across – … Ergo, boxes with philosopher : SOCRATES

11-across – Bags of silence aboard toboggan : LUGGAGE

12-across – Let out : RELEASE

13-across – Dishonestly borrow from dopehead behind bars : CADGE

15-across – Sample spin doctor with TV set that’s faulty : TESTDRIVE

17-across – Almost provide cover for fellow rebel : INSURGENT

20-across – One in the star’s back cavity : SINUS

21-across – Southern prospector’s tool : SPANNER

23-across – A blemish is produced by a parasitic worm … : ASCARIS

25-across – … carrying blood and causing a row : VASCULAR

26-across – Shocking gay activists shedding silver : OUTRE

27-across – Deals involving Lang and Hitchcock productions: is this 1 across? : METEMPSYCHOSIS

1-down – Carry round beer extracts in darkness : TOTALECLIPSE

2-down – Part of the morning on top of Golgotha : AMONG

3-down – Secret pro and the trauma she engendered : SHAMATEUR

4-down – Look closely at small creature keeping quiet : INSPECT

5-down – Fabulous bird turned up in the CP’s archive : RECORDS

6-down – Toad’s feature reflected by plate of fish : TRAWL

7-down – A long time in alternative treatment : OPERATION

10-down – Point to competitive riders drinking half of cassis in northeast London : SEVENSISTERS

14-down – Knock peg out, taking in Bath University jamboree : DISPARAGE

16-down – Pretty female vicars needed for washing up? : DISHCLOTH

18-down – A palfrey almost slipped in piece of headgear : EARFLAP

19-down – Dug shaft for conveyor of refreshments : TEATRAY

22-down – Fussy about hospital providing a suitable place : NICHE

24-down – Famous person upholding drug charges : RATES

1-across – Reforming socialist stars in Carry On Channel Swimming? : SIDNEYJAMESWEBB

9-across – Rosebush hybridised with male figures : RHOMBUSES

10-across – Outspoken against your pub’s not opening : VOCAL

11-across – Capital of the Iberian Revolution, where Spain counts for nothing : NAIROBI

12-across – Scotsman marooned on these islands? : SOLOMON

13-across – Player missing this would be snookered? : CUE

14-across – French woman got up to speak first of this hibiscus : ROZELLE

17-across – Paradoxical pink growing bulky in the Garden of England : SKYBLUE

19-across – Such deception employment for a winter ploughman? : SNOWJOB

22-across – What Otis regrets after a count-down? : LIFTOFF

24-across – Is able to leave our Danish king with tribesman : UTE

25-across – This nudibranch is nearly all guesswork : SEASLUG

26-across – It blooms with one condition: the prophet must be held back : FREESIA

28-across – Barking? Yes – on record! : AYELP

29-across – Detailed British Airborne Division to meet superior Irish leader : BRIANBORU

30-across – Izaak Walton’s conclusion? : THEENDOFTHELINE

1-down – Thus not contracting a habit? On the contrary, one’s averse to psychiatrists : SHRINKRESISTANT

2-down – Red hot Indian’s wrapping wrap : DHOTI

3-down – Involve king in mobile confusion : EMBROIL

4-down – Shallow water frozen beneath mere : JUSTICE

5-down – Outrages a teacher without employment : MISUSES

6-down – Cabbage served around the Spanish sausage : SAVELOY

7-down – Camel oils treated scored bullfighter : ESCAMILLO

8-down – A near-confutable miscalculation for the remainder of the Greens? : BALANCEOFNATURE

15-down – Creatures hunted from Whipsnade? The heartless _____: should be in a cell! : ZOOGAMETE

16-down – John left spectacles behind : LOO

18-down – Some lack air fare from Auckland? : KAI

20-down – Resin drink consumed by ascetic Hindu : JALOPIN

21-down – Bete noire: to eavesdrop with a disapproving expression : BUGABOO

22-down – One with a newt in his collection? Livingstone, I presume? : LEFTIST

23-down – Issue raised by Banquo : FLEANCE

27-down – I hear you finish up with us: order one! : SUOMI

1-across – Stick man in heart of heart : COHERE

4-across – Trouble with French umpires? : FRACAS

9-across – See 25 : ALLY

10-across – See 12 : BACKBURNER

11-across – Which is the more offputting? Defeated addiction : KICKED

12-across – … Don Renrub? : PUTONTHE

13-across – Money not allowed, they say, for semi-military sound : BRASSBAND

15-across – See 25 : PHON

16-across – See 11 : LONG

17-across – St Francis could see all right, still keeping one genetically modified : STIGMATIC

21-across – How many people do you need for open war? A thousand? : MANPOWER

22-across – Stature, top to toe, of King Henry? : EIGHTH

24-across – Capital in almost vulgar likeness : COMPARISON

25-across – An inclination by respected colleague with half the choir at a time : ANTI

26-across – The heart has a military sound : KERNEL

27-across – He set course for a desert island : CRUSOE

1-down – The dog on the right is one of mine : COLLIER

2-down – Agreement to follow Henry, king of the free market : HAYEK

3-down – Polish and half Hungarian city turning up on a roll : RUBADUB

5-down – The groove should be discounted : REBATE

6-down – Austrian region : CARINTHIA

7-down – Cat and dog turn up mates round the field, he wrote amusingly : STEPHEN

8-down – A prize for crazy nut Curtis: did he get it for needlework? : ACUPUNCTURIST

14-down – Wader used by cockney woodworker? : SANDPIPER

16-down – See 7 : LEACOCK

18-down – Like the 23 on the other side, on return of French boy to work : GREENER

19-down – See 11 : INTOTHE

20-down – Don’t go straight to the southwest – veer off : SWERVE

23-down – See 11 : GRASS