Author name: crosswordanswers

4-across – Shed for dog : SETTER

6-across – Prince sheltering insurrectionary flower : HAREBELL

9-across – Rope has number in Lithuania : LARIAT

10-across – Lovely, fit woman included : ADORABLE

11-across – Magician’s impulse to follow short article on gold carpet : THAUMATURGE

15-across – Musician’s introduction to dark stranger : DRUMMER

17-across – Desire to drink for five years : LUSTRUM

18-across – Braggadocio’s to traumatise a 4 across, stifling cry of pain : SCARAMOUCHE

22-across – Map-maker finding flashy car on a hill : MERCATOR

23-across – Sign of stone in Italy : GEMINI

24-across – Girl from Spain retrospectively makes amends, receiving religious instruction : SENORITA

25-across – Garment for old flame back in house, mostly : TUXEDO

1-down – Salve keeping City still : BECALM

2-down – Players, each flanking very small River Dart : BANDERILLA

3-down – Bold Provençal city piercing confessor’s heart : FEARLESS

4-down – Sidle out drunk to get freedom from company : SOLITUDE

5-down – American sailors on top in underworld : TARTARUS

7-down – Part of cartel banished to island : ELBA

8-down – Vegetable that’s not initially glossy : LEEK

12-down – Tat creator created from clay : TERRACOTTA

13-down – Training to put turn in charge : PRACTICE

14-down – 4 across’s 4 across, perhaps, 4 across to leave skin infection : IMPETIGO

16-down – Tie knot round record, getting head wiped, and go badly wrong : MISCARRY

19-down – Blouse shredded by dagger : OBELUS

20-down – Prophet giving drug up : AMOS

21-down – Make incomplete husks : BRAN

1-across – Scratching head, Joy embraces a certain female with pride : LIONESS

5-across – Saw man chasing British online commentator : BLOGGER

9-across – Are next to improbably huge robin : NEIGHBOUR

10-across – Reportedly followed progress of parcel : TRACT

11-across – A bit of a kip after extremes of heartache and passion : HEAT

12-across – Cook it with fennel or with spinach : FLORENTINE

14-across – According to hearsay, ogle slim woman : EILEEN

15-across – Team keeping discontented rattlesnake by itself : SQUARED

16-across – It gets under the feet of two mums, trapped by routine : RUSHMAT

18-across – Partly malarial Torcello, a Venetian island : RIALTO

20-across – Incensed at people rejecting seconds, start to convulse and twitch : APOPLECTIC

21-across – Runs into Hebrew sage, perhaps : HERB

24-across – See 23 down : HAPPY

25-across – Sick brother leaves NY street after thief’s confession : INABADWAY

26-across – See 23 : RETURNS

27-across – Poet describing you poetically as first in her field : DOYENNE

1-down – Set off without a meal : LUNCH

2-down – To Riga, migrating without paperwork : ORIGAMI

3-down – Real origins of European common toad probed by Henry : ECHT

4-down – Coatis cling and spit, unusually obstructive course of action : SPOILINGTACTICS

5-down – Singer tries to rebel after ban on underwear on beach : BARBRASTREISAND

6-down – Once oddly tense and thin, resembling a stop sign : OCTANGULAR

7-down – First to grow more delicate Alpine flower? : GLACIER

8-down – Half-heartedly withdraw commercial for tyre : RETREAD

13-down – Pay me later!, ordered Co-operative worker : TEAMPLAYER

16-down – Child’s hero ignoring case of betrayal : REACHER

17-down – Took bung for throwing match : SHOTPUT

19-down – Stars in east, south and west in conjunction : THESWAN

22-down – Nice article supporting young male scientist : BOYLE

23-down – Grumpy pal with piles first delivers annual greeting : MANY

1-across – Duplicitous as in political sphere, also phoniest allies, pair struggling to maintain conceit, primarily? : SPECIAL

5-across – See 21 : FOSBURY

9-across – Somewhere in Asia, hotel’s neighbour? : INDIA

10-across – Sadly, the traditions of US apartments? : CONDOLORE

11-across – Where Jack accommodated divine liturgy easily, initially : FORECASTLE

12-across – See 24 : SEED

14-across – One performing delicate work drops into flower : BRAINSURGEON

18-across – See 1 : RELATIONSHIP

21-across – Wearing tie, figure carrying small black jumper : DICK

22-across – Man after hit story that’s hot : BONKBUSTER

25-across – Save some nice old works : ECONOMISE

26-across – Not exactly a spell : ABOUT

27-across – Stalk headless monster in bar : PETIOLE

28-across – Bird for Trump? : TWEETER

1-down – Superior numbers ultimately high, one senses? : SNIFFY

2-down – Suffer demise, nation lacking leadership getting comeuppance : ENDURE

3-down – Where beer may be found to contain copper? Wrong : INACCURATE

4-down – See 6 : LACES

5-down – Last two standing in a line wearing boxers? : FINALISTS

6-down – Chelsea so poor, Oxford ties? : SHOE

7-down – Closed one end up high : UNOPENED

8-down – Soft bowing : YIELDING

13-down – Pictures I almost deleted, dead say : ARTICULATE

15-down – Compound where I’m being carried round on large animal : IRONOXIDE

16-down – Find endless fruit covering lip : DREDGEUP

17-down – Save bags to have everything you need when power’s lost : BLACKOUT

19-down – No more time after half of air gone : ATMOST

20-down – Large hole where bottom caught, with fundament in fact squeezed up : CRATER

23-down – Toll cut, tax at first went down : KNELT

24-down – Creator claims to witness decay : GOTO

1-across – Cultivate areas of growth for the US stockholders? : FARMYARDS

9-across – Talking 2 act in Barnet : HAIRDO

10-across – Player moving around grid again : DIANARIGG

11-across – Collection of 2s going by sea? Flew! : ZOOMED

12-across – Party 2s, a nervous lot? : GANGLIONS

13-across – Scotsman taking off for African city : IBADAN

17-across – Males in 3, taking time out : MEN

19-across – Cutting that is about a dog : SHARPEI

20-across – Funny reaction, as gods start moving in right direction : ALLERGY

21-across – Elton John to his mother, say? That’s right, at first : REG

23-across – Sell dog again : RETAIL

27-across – Casual discard, when passing ditch : THROWAWAY

28-across – Bird: just a little chicken, but headless : CHOUGH

29-across – Ground strokes: first two bad : EDGBASTON

30-across – Brexit negotiators’ 180º change of direction is terminal : EUSTON

31-across – Buildings for honouring dead cats, acceptable for lost queen? : PANTHEONS

2-down – Drummer: member of group contracted to do turns around central square : ANIMAL

3-down – Unconventional household as people get older, or as it evolves : MENAGE

4-down – See 3 : ATROIS

5-down – Folk-singing comedian, sending up soldier in the Lancers? : DIGANCE

6-down – Put up a poster, say, or a flyer : RAZORBILL

7-down – Like a desert in which roamed a southward moving 2 : DROMEDARY

8-down – Swimmer or observer? : GOLDENEYE

14-down – Fast runners, East German, briefly carrying the most fat : OSTRICHES

15-down – 18 upset her actors : CARTHORSE

16-down – 2 born at end of season? Yes : SPRINGBOK

17-down – Russian station over in Crimea : MIR

18-down – Meghan agrees to have and to hold Harry : NAG

22-down – 2 that might be chained : ECHIDNA

24-down – 2 with special place for carrying a 2Mb floppy : WOMBAT

25-down – Story about donkey or 2 seen on TV : LASSIE

26-down – A bishop in favour as primate : BABOON

1-across – City physicist finally splitting subatomic particle : BOSTON

4-across – City speed is beyond me : MEMPHIS

9-across – One with great desire going after detailed stuff, delicately formed : FILIGREED

10-across – Bloke spending nought, ultimately? : MISER

11-across – A racket inspiring head of mafia organisation : ADMIN

12-across – Surgery ends in the clinic with extensive bandaging — gosh! : VASECTOMY

13-across – Open-air better, on the other hand : OUTDOOR

15-across – Strange chest for city : NEWARK

17-across – City a dollar? : AUSTIN

19-across – Lady hunter aims, their odds not looking good? : ARTEMIS

22-across – Ball player from 1966 about to block star : ALDEBARAN

24-across – Doctor behind huge beast dropping in lozenge : RHOMB

26-across – First on back row missing capital city : BOISE

27-across – Silver in an assignment for city : ANCHORAGE

28-across – Great, a city : AUGUSTA

29-across – City in Laos, a pleasure to recall : ELPASO

1-down – City auditor’s cushion on the ground? : BUFFALO

2-down – City festivals coming up : SALEM

3-down – Part of church lost for a long time : ORGANLOFT

4-down – Nice house around back of cardboard city : MADISON

5-down – Take off soprano part on opening of Carmen : MIMIC

6-down – Chart right, so wrong in the morning : HISTOGRAM

7-down – Guys about right as drifters? : STRAYS

8-down – City singer : DENVER

14-down – Initially, terrible judgement about state moving slowly : TRUNDLING

16-down – Formerly outstanding openers going in , two wickets later out for ducks? : WATERFOWL

18-down – Irish victory accepted by relative leader in Anthony Eden : NIRVANA

19-down – Daisy wants me out of the country, ban finally secured : ARNICA

20-down – Last letter required to fill old puzzle, flipping bitter! : SUBZERO

21-down – Brief tactic to overcome a state : GAMBIA

23-down – Pronounced blemish develops : BREWS

25-down – City centres in Hoboken, Bamako and Peshawar : OMAHA