Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Finishes with a Damien, Desmond or Douglas? : GRADUATES

9-across – Default version of green energy : RENEGE

10-across – Good person to cruelly put down late offering from 30? : STOPPRESS

11-across – Satellite dish rented out, without Sky having the deal, initially : NEREID

12-across – Like our canines, can get bored? : DRILLABLE

13-across – Slight oscillation of 4 in Queens : QUIVER

17-across – Intake of Peruvian tamanduas? : ANT

19-across – Parts after Scotsman does, perhaps : RABBITS

20-across – Goes off trade bans by state boards : EMBARKS

21-across – Girl with a heartless sister : ANN

23-across – Either half of 6’s rhyme, providing colour that is part of a hand : PINKIE

27-across – One to kill 17 acrosses around 4am? Tiger, with no hesitation : FUMIGATOR

28-across – It’s mad, backing this president! : HOOVER

29-across – Like the ref, Heather closely follows game : WHISTLING

30-across – Enthusiastic? Missing second half, lost rag : THESUN

31-across – Look at dog’s make-up : EYESHADOW

2-down – Going round club … : ROTARY

3-down – … wrongly lied about 6 … : DIPOLE

4-down – … sporting a real one : AERIAL

5-down – Letter the writer left in printer? : EPSILON

6-down – Model fashion magazine left out — fat character recently back on TV : TELETUBBY

7-down – Currents flowing round sides and top of electric fences : RECEIVERS

8-down – Explosive speech in The Mitre? : HEADDRESS

14-down – Sip alcoholic drinks, some of Andy Murray’s favourites : DROPSHOTS

15-down – Quit a group supported by One Direction, originally : ABANDONED

16-down – I’d turned up to see dessert served up and shared out : DIVIDEDUP

17-down – Leica stated old film rating : ASA

18-down – Number of lions eaten by 19, contrarily : TEN

22-down – Timeless toy that’s blue, like 26 : NAUGHTY

24-down – Drunkards after almost 6 rounds? : DIPSOS

25-down – City in the style of a 6 : LAALAA

26-down – 12 holes for the 6s’ 28 : NOONOO

1-across – Worldly ways taken to heart by Orwell and Jonson? : CARDINALPOINTS

8-across – Nothing left for racketeer, might you say? : NADAL

9-across – Play with regal family taking precedence? : KINGLEAR

11-across – Whitewash thicker walls a little bit : TROUNCE

12-across – Endless burden carrying cross around, one kept under pressure : AEROSOL

13-across – Arouse in pronounced climax : PIQUE

15-across – Pirate on film, miser : SKINFLINT

17-across – Criminal arrested smuggling uranium, valued highly : TREASURED

20-across – Wrestle so with the character : ETHOS

21-across – Demanding figure, ours miscalculated : ONEROUS

23-across – Masses round Mogadishu’s capital, like a city in Kenya : MOMBASA

25-across – African educational establishment is back in the shade : TUNISIAN

26-across – Total cut : SCORE

27-across – Article by writer in amendment of correction exposed performance? : OPENAIRCONCERT

1-down – Fiddle and individual piano parts stop painfully slow movement : CONSTIPATION

2-down – Rienzi overture so long, cut for broadcaster : RADIO

3-down – One defames the Maltese, say : ISLANDERS

4-down – Leg chains buckled as knelt : ANKLETS

5-down – Punch absorbed by Carthaginian cut tongue : PUNJABI

6-down – Apathetic sort, jockey dropping lead hurdling last in National : IDLER

7-down – Bottoms of Degas, Vermeer and Modigliani covered in hair — look who’s talking! : THATSRICH

10-down – Numbers in this sub-zero temperature expanded? : OLDTESTAMENT

14-down – Rudely push in character for audition, then start : QUEUEJUMP

16-down – Identical somersaults nailed by cooler member of brotherhood : FREEMASON

18-down – Piece of Borodin is so Russian, revolutionary composer : ROSSINI

19-down – Far from holy day I found near Christmas? : DEMONIC

22-down – One having broken legs, that might make you cry? : ONION

24-down – Make reparation around lunchtime? : ATONE

9-across – Family members have to run dynamo : GENERATOR

10-across – Insect maturing and going off at first? : IMAGO

11-across – Pity about European container train : RETINUE

12-across – Sister Elizabeth drinks English port : NEPTUNE

13-across – Like blood as it enters the ear? : VENUS

14-across – Works in gallery, longing to welcome one school : PAINTINGS

16-across – US pentathlete is getting revised score : THEPLANETSSUITE

19-across – Daughter lives with farmer, a rye producer : DISTILLER

21-across – Chap recalled collecting 14 : EARTH

22-across – Exceptionally huge : MERCURY

23-across – Nice setter right to carry up PCs etc : JUPITER

24-across – Fellow breaks needle and arm : RIFLE

25-across – Fiat’s big guns touring Italy : ORDINANCE

1-down – Put out a horse adjudged to have secured a victory : AGGRAVATED

2-down – Popular view, for example : INSTANCE

3-down – Superior American guards took flight : URANUS

4-down – Viewer’s complaint occupied middle of last year : STYE

5-down – Old radio stations broadcast over river Rhine, primarily : TRANSISTOR

6-down – Girl’s set drugs in rows : DISPUTES

7-down – Ace goes back to top : SATURN

8-down – Soldier grabs 5 for 23 : JOVE

14-down – Divers here aplenty, when analysed on TV : PENALTYBOX

15-down – Worked with crook: sped off with deer and two horses : SHEPHERDED

17-down – Unhurried one bound to block light : LEISURED

18-down – Bother Irish girl not on vacation : IRRITANT

20-down – Way to start widespread conflict : STRIFE

21-down – Ten cut disc and show growth : EXPAND

22-down – Dams releasing energy : MARS

23-down – Sport owed money to auditor : JUDO

1-across – A number of battered slices again is missing : ANALGESIC

6-across – Long spur that’s commonly shed by tree : PINE

8-across – Counterfeit dollar takes in global body completely : ALLROUND

9-across – Bold page — auspicious : DARING

10-across – I would, to get in fight just before the weekend : FRIDAY

11-across – Odd priest returns holding new born : ABERRANT

12-across – Bar — one’s p-paradise almost! : IMPEDE

15-across – Put in sprawling Masai country : MALAYSIA

16-across – Ponder a time run out : CHEWOVER

19-across – Foot of lady dancing round court : DACTYL

21-across – Slippery slope, embracing America’s Act of Union? : ESPOUSAL

22-across – See 6 : NEEDLE

24-across – Which may help the steersman shoot : TILLER

25-across – Lifting rumpled nightie over Vera’s head : THIEVING

26-across – Fancy Latin president : AKIN

27-across – Tucking into typical pub grub, randomly repeat: Stationery case : PAPETERIE

1-down – One who mixes up daughter-less psychologist : ADLER

2-down – Refrain from speaking with gold figure, prune! : ABRIDGE

3-down – Floor wood beam : GAUDY

4-down – Gun: right type of action for ducks and drakes? : SIDEARM

5-down – Set about being a clubber? : CUDGELLED

6-down – Paint Dover fish? : PORTRAY

7-down – Ninety ton, miserable lightweight! : NONENTITY

13-down – It helps an artist represent silk match : MAHLSTICK

14-down – Spy uses overhead projection — abandon : EAVESDROP

17-down – As a certain fabric adapts well on being injected with oxygen : WOOLLEN

18-down – Sort of desk getting first 25% off duty in port, perhaps : ROLLTOP

20-down – Means of cutting film after opening : CLEAVER

22-down – Newton into deceitful poetic smear : NOINT

23-down – Pierce soft fruit : LANCE

5-across – Light, don’t go straight? : BEACON

6-across – Fighters — not setters! : BOXERS

9-across – Promise to donate a little money found on the shelf : PLEDGE

10-across – Boy sounded in pain, as went like the wind? : BILLOWED

11-across – Report taking some dumb angle : BANG

12-across – 4 down, time to work? : NINETOFIVE

13-across – Soldier in cooler — persevere dude! : INFANTRYMAN

18-across – The devil’s home, where you might give a jot? : SCRATCHPAD

21-across – Space where mini-Australian marathon’s beginning : ROOM

22-across – Cruel getting double the stick, I see : BARBARIC

23-across – Little movement from fool and companion : TWITCH

24-across – Place elsewhere, on seeing through the ears? : RESITE

25-across – Here there’s success with that girl : HITHER

1-down – Top Welsh town : CARDIGAN

2-down – Break or mend, so new : MODERN

3-down – John on track, getting cleaner : TOILETRY

4-down – Start to complement : SETOFF

5-down – Everyone’s into tuneless song : BALLAD

7-down – Some puckish elves put aside : SHELVE

8-down – Remains of roast to share — beef? : ABONETOPICK

14-down – True account with clergyman : ACCURATE

15-down – Flawless atmosphere and mean : AIRTIGHT

16-down – I race madly round capital in London — it’s long and bad for you : ECLAIR

17-down – Dog doing tricks? Agree : CONCUR

19-down – A challenge inspiring British no more : ATBEST

20-down – Particular dock? : DETAIL