Author name: crosswordanswers

8-across – Even one needs energy drink : SMOOTHIE

9-across – A maiden, improperly : AMISS

10-across – Firm happy to manipulate records : COOK

11-across – Hopeless couple taken in by bad design : DESPAIRING

12-across – Unit sees to the fire : STOKES

14-across – Inmate at Slade who provides bowman : FLETCHER

16-across – The devil at Newgate, historically? : OLDNICK

18-across – Blackball backward thug caught going too far : BOYCOTT

21-across – Musical is hard on a poet : HAMILTON

23-across – King’s brother sketched article first : ANDREW

24-across – Remarkably good, a romantic type of marriage : MORGANATIC

26-across – Shout for type of beer : ROOT

27-across – Old railway freight left off water in Norfolk : BROAD

28-across – She hates broken trophy : THEASHES

1-down – Always bad keeping time : IMMORTAL

2-down – Hair fastener for rugby player : LOCK

3-down – Island ways broadcast : RHODES

4-down – Sparks as the TV’s not working : SETSOFF

5-down – Doctor Zhivago heroine in spectacular arena : LARA

6-down – Critic and I mixed caustic liquid : NITRICACID

7-down – Doctor can sue practice : USANCE

13-down – One district exchanges partners for this one’s Oval : KENNINGTON

15-down – Conceit, for example, associated with love : EGO

17-down – Stop filming stroke : CUT

19-down – 2 3 melded on card : THETOWER

20-down – With all due ceremony, where Yankee might be born : INSTATE

22-down – Ultimately alone in a crowd – a parasite? : AMOEBA

23-down – Is this Ambridge resident all a-quiver? : ARCHER

25-down – Crossing-point for number of French : NODE

26-down – Groomsmen regularly rebelled : ROSE

1-across – Represent player admitting false start : ACTFOR

5-across – Lee Mack cooked, ate right fish : MACKEREL

9-across – The last word about German and Swiss origin of explorer : AMUNDSEN

10-across – Number in exchange? : NINETY

11-across – Reasonable to follow tight circle to the summit at the top of the mountain? : TAUTOLOGICAL

13-across – Dali working with a stick about injection moulding : DADO

14-across – Old politician in real trouble? That’s ideal! : EXEMPLAR

17-across – Spoken greeting bound to create an event : HIGHJUMP

18-across – See 13 : RAIL

20-across – In case it changes, so absorbed and keen : ENTHUSIASTIC

23-across – Clyde receives this degree : KELVIN

24-across – Tortured soul indeed, having used 3/2 : DELOUSED

25-across – Note this dessert? : ETONMESS

26-across – Say nothing about fever as protective cover : SHEATH

2-down – See 3 : COMB

3-down – Bottom inch of loose end wrong, says nitpicker : FINETOOTH

4-down – Comme Les Folies Bergère de Paris? Quelle partie? : RISQUE

5-down – Object to nose reshaping, note with lines said to be polite : MINDONESPSANDQS

6-down – Gaming equipment provides comfort : CONSOLES

7-down – Boredom oddly not seen in Lennon’s music : ENNUI

8-down – Killing juvenile Chinese may be reported : EUTHANASIA

12-down – Defamation needs a tiny bit of minor adjustment : MALIGNMENT

15-down – This regiment has a kind of music rising above the sound of fire : PARACHUTE

16-down – Annoyance is hidden by subtlety : NUISANCE

19-down – Some islands can be so tall, but not these : ATOLLS

21-down – Sport leader must go to make it a safe environment : HAVEN

22-down – Qualifier in 26 : HEAT

1-across – Frank’s result of Welsh pub crawl announced? : DIRECT

4-across – Show respect before my hound : BOWWOW

9-across – A short film full of energy : AVID

10-across – Biodiverse area with ground on fire: cover-up by right-leaning despot? : RAINFOREST

11-across – Waste, speaking when wasted? : SLURRY

12-across – Don’t touch German on his way around Germany : HANDSOFF

13-across – White House club wary of far-off guarded response to ambitions : BECAREFUL

15-across – Class warfare, I think, somewhat regressive : TIER

16-across – Ulcer or boil observed by one’s ear? : SORE

17-across – Slightly off, s-scent of gardens? : SKEWWHIFF

21-across – Money bound to inspire premier in surprisingly moderate policy : CENTRISM

22-across – Overheard, a beautiful thing : AFFAIR

24-across – Sycophantic luvvy ultimately backing Yankee in Jolie? : NICEYNICEY

25-across – See 23 Down : RATE

26-across – Just monkey caught by foxy : SIMPLY

27-across – Originally clinker-built, say, sailing ship : CUTTER

1-down – Transfer fee in conclusion very, very much appreciated when raised : DEVOLVE

2-down – Qualification as cowboy, say? : RIDER

3-down – Influential Victorian author clearly red-pencilled : CARLYLE

5-down – Outrage, Beyond the Fringe? : OFFEND

6-down – One skilled in communication, and bagging gold medal : WORDSMITH

7-down – See 13 Across : WISHFOR

8-down – Rotten scum done over, taken apart by a big gun : HIGHMUCKAMUCK

14-down – Current art is designed on paper : AIRSTREAM

16-down – Organism that is four-eyed? : SPECIES

18-down – See 13 Across : WHATYOU

19-down – Blow hot dish : FRITTER

20-down – Cue in slang I screwed up : SIGNAL

23-down – Great passion consuming sweets after a turnover? : FIRST

9-across – Reddish tailless ape : ORANG

10-across – Perhaps Trump for a term as prison’s foremost inmate? : PRESIDENT

11-across – Loosening-up interludes not beginning to create an effect : ENDRESULT

12-across – Accretion of stones can involve extremes of ill humour : CAIRN

13-across – Agar : ARRAIGN

15-across – Collars with stars removed! : ARRESTS

17-across – Track cycling gets a small amount of money : CENTS

18-across – Put party before government? : DOG

20-across – A mountain area in Europe : ALPHA

22-across – Blended with taste, it forms an accompaniment for haggis : TATTIES

25-across – Pub legend : INTOTAL

26-across – Untethers us every second : NEHRU

27-across – Left as a couple of ways by which to remember the dead : LASTWORDS

30-across – Book by, say, stylish American : BUTTERFLY

31-across – Avoiding extremes of one’s harsh approaches : NEARS

1-down – Blue-collar type, losing rights, is aware of social injustice : WOKE

2-down – Those who consolidate businesses are not extremely popular : MANDARIN

3-down – On all sides aching, unbearable fever : AGUE

4-down – Crashed, punctured, cape torn off and lying on one’s back : UPTURNED

5-down – Boatman’s place: first : BERTHA

6-down – ID cards not to be distributed without agreement : DISCORDANT

7-down – Brilliant person of a type including Boatman : GENIUS

8-down – Returned message : ETON

13-down – Britain’s border set company back : ASCOT

14-down – They may promote research, unmoved, consuming time over unfinished experiment : INSTITUTES

16-down – Will replace Latin with … with : SHAWL

19-down – Denies clue for Sagays : GAINSAYS

21-down – Returned my missing prepayment for shredding : PETERPAN

23-down – Heading back from Haiti after a time, to land in the Pacific : TAHITI

24-down – Route to High Sierra, initially perhaps taking lift, except for the last part on foot : SPLIFF

26-down – Snatches of song initially covered by injunction, overturned : NABS

28-down – Women enclosed, by George! : WING

29-down – Band gets number ones in swing and soul hits : SASH

7-across – After autumn month, leave Pole in Russian city : NOVGOROD

9-across – Pork pie’s keeping cool for rest periods : LIEINS

10-across – Trunks stripped off roughly : ORSO

11-across – One shows relief, like a travelling performer with high camp clothing : CONTOURMAP

12-across – English monarchs drinking one more rum : EERIER

14-across – Sculptor smuggled cocaine in vehicle heading for Ibiza : BRANCUSI

15-across – Jersey, say, on female could be violet : FLOWER

17-across – Picked up pupil at Eton, perhaps one on edge : BORDER

20-across – 15 17 captured in kind of writing : PRIMROSE

22-across – Playing in the street, almost getting the boot : BUSKIN

23-across – Ethics done badly leads to atrocities : ETHNOCIDES

24-across – Collar turned over by king in 15 17 : BANK

25-across – Heartless shirkers who are going downhill : SKIERS

26-across – Rings about shocking treatment for Geordie and Scouse? : DIALECTS

1-down – Solver changing euros during travel northwards : YOURSELF

2-down – African 10 touring European country : IGBO

3-down – Couple right to get a stiff drink : BRACER

4-down – Where treasure is beheld or adornment’s seized : ELDORADO

5-down – Hands back either Ronnie or Reggie’s jacket, escorted off : RETROCEDES

6-down – Superficial motifs featured by ballads : INLAYS

8-down – Called an Uber going across 15 17 in Europe : DANUBE

13-down – Retailer, one pressing to grab £1,000 after start of week : IRONMONGER

16-down – Throwing out spirits, so mixer’s drunk without drop of cognac : EXORCISM

18-down – Touching coal, sending off large spark again : REIGNITE

19-down – Socialite turns up late, leaving area put in 15 17 : BEDDED

21-down – Rubbish hotel agreed to put up artist : ROTHKO

22-down – Capital city with new basis for all the family : BISSAU

24-down – Extorted money from plot to pocket pounds : BLED