Author name: crosswordanswers

8-across – King Louis bursting to play with vigour! : RISOLUTO

9-across – Originally, Alan Rusbridger beat the Guardian’s retreat : ARBOUR

10-across – Make available for emptying liquidised fruit over, but run out : FREEUP

11-across – Lesson once taught in pool to would-be paddler about superior speed? : THEQUICK

12-across – Modern girlfriend’s choice! : UPTO

13-across – A short service for Ratty in love with Toad : DEVOTIONAL

15-across – Dramatically, novice then losing the plot : CONNIVE

16-across – Make it with iniquity? : BEDEVIL

18-across – I agree men will get blown away after horologer’s awful windiness : LOGORRHOEA

19-across – See 21 : PAGE

20-across – See 11 : BROWNFOX

22-across – Adam’s first to broach concern over herbal plant : YARROW

23-across – How’s your father gaining admission to South China lazaretto? : SPITAL

24-across – This break the making of Loadsamoney? : STOPOVER

1-down – I produce powerful retro Affleck vehicle that is : MICROPHOTOGRAPH

2-down – Boarding pass is, for now : TOBEGOINGONWITH

3-down – See 11 : JUMPEDOVER

4-down – Constipated chap to eat Italian special up : COSTIVE

5-down – See 12 : DATE

6-down – Get organised, or be spontaneous on one : ABOUTONESPERSON

7-down – Ring up worried customer, a little overdrawn, about cash supply — the problem? : PURCHASINGPOWER

14-down – See 11 : THELAZYDOG

17-down – Leaving shortly, splitting bill to share the planet : COEXIST

21-down – Thus spread leaf and elements of plug? : FULL

1-across – Policeman permitted to secrete leader of mafia, as in collusion : COMPLICIT

6-across – Solid baby with backside on table : CUBE

8-across – Gatecrashing two parties, artist with lead on rescue dog : LABRADOR

9-across – Soup ingredient daughter put in without Spanish approval? : NOODLE

10-across – Flight of fruit from the East End? : STAIRS

11-across – In departure, line in film unambiguous : EXPLICIT

12-across – In fruit, fruit’s skin almost going off : FIRING

15-across – Longest bananas covering a fruit : TANGELOS

16-across – Individual into fruit, he eats a lot : GOURMAND

19-across – Car wheel? : ROLLER

21-across – Not forgiving a pack of lies, scratching head : RUTHLESS

22-across – This writer inspired by Bill of the Wild West Show : COMEDY

24-across – Southern Britain introduced to boxer dog : SALUKI

25-across – For example, Mars bar filled with fruit : ROMANGOD

26-across – Dry date about right : SERE

27-across – Woman voting in recess let off : ELECTRESS

1-down – For example, pottery vessel : CRAFT

2-down – Drink, bird having one : MARTINI

3-down – Solid rocks in pools : LIDOS

4-down – Sounds like fruit is up to date : CURRENT

5-down – In accessing drink, one removing lid, right, as kitchen device? : TINOPENER

6-down – Sweet plum keeps cold : CHOCICE

7-down – Likely to be wielding weapon, one function to split peach : BELLICOSE

13-down – Inject iodine, then clean out wound : INOCULATE

14-down – Good exercise to fill gaping hole, where information passes : GRAPEVINE

17-down – Find new accommodation for that woman up over the river : REHOUSE

18-down – Sowing of seed before wild party without a merit : DESERVE

20-down – Fruit salad recipe ends in the paper : LEMONDE

22-down – Police after fellow streaker? : COMET

23-down – Refuse a little kiss, or disaster arises! : DROSS

1-across – Remove clothing to loud music : DEFROCK

5-across – Play about with complete collection : PANOPLY

10-across – Two articles on a type of coat : AFGHAN

11-across – African princes uncoil lazily — obese, even : LIONCUBS

12-across – Leading person of fashion, looking back : FOP

13-across – Where doctor would go to dig beneath the surface in state of anxiety : ONEDGE

14-across – Gangster grabs every other top layer, making one cross : HOLYROOD

15-across – Boatman’s modest clothing : HIJAB

16-across – Resumes obscure, useless legal measures : ABSTRACTS

19-across – Every other neat clue? : ALTERNATE

21-across – See 25 : PIECE

24-across – Acts of government constraining extremes of unrest by society : STATUTES

26-across – Struggle against Daesh taken on by others : RESIST

27-across – Part of the Arctic environment : ICE

28-across – A lover fears them: her last tender quivering embraces, sweetheart : DEARJOHN

29-across – Novices going the wrong way by mistake : SLIPUP

30-across – Report of Treasury for Halfwits is libel : ASPERSE

31-across – Heartlessly pursued type of fabric : WORSTED

2-down – F-stop used on images, first of Turkish gents : EFFENDI

3-down – Rectify a dry condition there all round : REHYDRATE

4-down – Present debate : CONFER

6-down – Float around in sea, stormy recently : ASOFLATE

7-down – Boy who goes before Italian pope : OSCAR

8-down – Experimental clothing worn a lot : LABCOAT

9-down – Arranging characters of pleasing habit in new fashion : ALPHABETISING

17-down – Boatman may be found here initially? : AMIDSHIPS

18-down – Pi and nu: letters sent back, not stopping on in going away : UNCTUOUS

20-down – See 28 : LETTERS

22-down – Twice this might express doubt about clothing : COSTUME

23-down – Italian sauce used around start of Ramadan fast : PRESTO

25-down – Quality to suit aristocrat, backed by independent European Commission in article : THREE

1-across – Deft men retreating into mine entrance : ADROIT

5-across – Prison officer coming back to pick another ticket : REDRAW

8-across – Poet putting priests in first : IMAGIST

9-across – Supply information about organ that’s hot : SEARING

11-across – Religious code of Butterfly State gets guys encamped : TENCOMMANDMENTS

12-across – Getting on, secured one’s rank : OLID

13-across – Something in the wardrobe provoking fury after child’s first expletive : COATHANGER

17-across – Insertions into headless French right-winger’s works of scholarship : EPENTHESES

18-across – Veer to north and look ready for bed : YAWN

20-across – Revolutionary 1 24 or not, Mao and Stalin engaged in it : TOTALITARIANISM

23-across – Turned free to shroud recess in gloom : DESPAIR

24-across – Characteristic yellow rat : TRAITOR

25-across – Drum that may contain seafood? : KETTLE

26-across – Toast, or something to put on it, mostly containing trace of rennet : CHEERS

2-down – Waist’s let out, reportedly, by one sort of trousers : DRAINPIPE

3-down – Prayer for star eclipsing sun : ORISON

4-down – Religious structure presented to another, with nothing inside : TOTEMPOLE

5-down – Product of sap to go wrong again? : RESIN

6-down – Date made off with purchase from shambles : DEADMEAT

7-down – Like a winger, one in a vehicle : AVIAN

8-down – Shy dog races round, having eaten topless outside : INTROVERTED

10-down – Bon vivant given introduction to Galileo Galilei, maybe : GASTRONOMER

14-down – Heavy drinker snaffling Scandinavian funds on time? It’s not proven : THEORETIC

15-down – Rubbish opera, La Gioconda, initially upset combatant : GLADIATOR

16-down – Dependable cooking salt applied to growth : STALWART

19-down – Cost of performer in panto receiving silver : DAMAGE

21-down – Suspicion of discrim­ination : TASTE

22-down – Clipped end of secret language : TERSE

7-across – French that’s grasped by dull artist’s model : MAQUETTE

9-across – Greek or Roman one found in island heading north : IONIAN

10-across – Ammunition centre for platoon, say : UNIT

11-across – Short charge by furry animal turning quite quickly : ALLEGRETTO

12-across – Make safe and secure at sea : RESCUE

14-across – Relieving pressure, going outside : SPELLING

15-across – Divers, after second, wet? : SUNDRY

17-across – Finally agreed bowling area’s reason to halt cricket : DRINKS

20-across – Comprehensive in which a couple of learners do run amok : ALLROUND

22-across – Sweet girl, initially sound as a bell, becoming pale : FADING

23-across – Employing number in East before the revolt : ETHERISING

24-across – Facility for communication either way in show, if I want : WIFI

25-across – Team leader filmed, that’s full of beans, perhaps : TINCAN

26-across – Mad Hatter and neighbours at table are menacing : THREATEN

1-down – Dry and dull, first off : RAINLESS

2-down – Why you are, before tea, announced in tent : YURT

3-down – Stupidly heat neon or other gas : ETHANE

4-down – Awful regal family’s on top in this tragedy : KINGLEAR

5-down – Shut up about learner, one absorbed in text : INTERLINED

6-down – Cane despicable chap — beat on bottom : RATTAN

8-down – Join forces with soldiers wanting leader on border : ENLIST

13-down – Huge concern, husband being missing, ruined match : CONGRUENCE

16-down – Meetings one ruins, being out of order : REUNIONS

18-down – Jumper found on beach, also key left nearby? : SANDFLEA

19-down – Little change once in a definitive work abridged for user : ADDICT

21-down – Endlessly delayed travelling through part of EU : LATVIA

22-down – Work out, in shape : FIGURE

24-down – Set up regulation about drug producing mark on skin : WEAL