Author name: crosswordanswers

8-across – Clean sheet after playing against City : SANTIAGO

9-across – Fish in sea, side by side : MARLIN

10-across – Hospital ring doctor in Iran about lozenges : RHOMBI

12-across – Bridges, perhaps, behind schedule crossing a river : LAUREATE

13-across – See 14 down : THE

14-across – Tiny bit drunk : TIDDLY

16-across – Extensive opus is a composer’s first output : SPACIOUS

17-across – Film about composer’s grave : EARNEST

20-across – With this gym equipment, starts working out? : WEIGHTS

23-across – Bloomer made by demure female : PRIMROSE

24-across – Puck’s mate, a horny beast : IMPALA

26-across – See 14 down : MAN

27-across – Last rites performed by a third curate in short time : VIATICUM

28-across – Row about daughters’ scam? : FIDDLE

31-across – Puerto Rican gang has former bodyguards to listen in : SHARKS

32-across – Reporter recalled rubbish article paper finally published : NARRATOR

1-down – Cut top off gum tree : GASH

2-down – Halt baseball team’s rise : STEM

3-down – Motherless cat’s reason for visiting dentist? : CAVITY

4-down – Wild sex, so heartlessly cruel this pair might have been rowing : COXLESS

5-down – A friend keeps motherless cat with tip of tail cut off : AMPUTATE

6-down – Native American penguin population starts increasing slowly in number : CREEPINGUP

7-down – Reservations to see film Red : MISTRUST

11-down – See 14 : OLD

14-down – Book Pam’s meeting with Ed? : THE

15-down – Men stray? I’d suspect explosive outcomes from their goings-on : DYNAMITERS

18-down – Tune by drunk, having no weaknesses : AIRTIGHT

19-down – Display sort of cow, as seen in novel : SHOWCASE

21-down – See 14 : SEA

22-down – Three males in Gabon, skirting the border? On the contrary : HEMMING

24-down – Weak batting partnership? : INFIRM

25-down – See 14 : AND

29-down – Uninteresting fish? That’s about right : DRAB

30-down – John Major’s beginning to appear vaguely threatening : LOOM

1-across – Party leader in country going to the end, expecting agony? : LABOURPAINS

9-across – Quails caught, hoops snaring tail of one : CRINGES

10-across – Secret John introduced to Lily : ARCANUM

11-across – Taking seconds, shun bad sex exciting partner no longer : EXHUSBAND

12-across – Somewhat evil I accept — hippy, might you say? : ILIAC

13-across – By all conclusions, subject far too challenging for Neanderthal : TROG

14-across – Keen observer, each present in river : WEATHEREYE

16-across – Rice, perhaps, in party, model passed round with starter of tempura : LIBRETTIST

19-across – Don’t start to provide money for nothing — it’s free : UNDO

20-across – Where the Sphinx is lacking a flash device : GIZMO

21-across – One of five children behind friend with an old people carrier : PALANQUIN

23-across – Lover of playwright shut up like a canary? : SHAVIAN

24-across – Surgical instrument, short knife that’s carried about : CURETTE

25-across – Plaid Cymru atoned for supposedly truthful programme : DOCUMENTARY

1-down – English town flier supporting spy novelist, end ripped out : LEIGHTONBUZZARD

2-down – Giving ground, America it’s assumed : BOGUS

3-down – Trump, rampant rutter, close to irresistible : UPSTAGE

4-down – Weave binding unknotted fringes getting praise : PLAUDIT

5-down – Popular head of community ruled, as willing : INCLINED

6-down – It runs and runs? Yes, I’d developed a high-tech business : SUNRISEINDUSTRY

7-down – Cruise, say, where colonists get transported around island : SCIENTOLOGIST

8-down – Requiring a slap, Archer keeps working, that is, for money : SMACKEROONIES

15-down – Wicked trial for murderer in lift : DEMONIAC

17-down – Name of a place where cat keeps horse : TOPONYM

18-down – Ground starved of oxygen, picture another element? : SILICON

22-down – Not entirely conventional opera : NORMA

7-across – A thank you in tribe’s language : CATALAN

8-across – Born 14 part 1, though overdue : BELATED

10-across – Beginning to snuff candle, having turned round meal : REPAST

11-across – Drinks hired out by circle : ROUNDLET

12-across – Apostasy, oddly, rejected in colonnade : STOA

13-across – Buy one Dali — it’s surreal — having potential to be picked up : AUDIBILITY

14-across – Evangelical dwarf, given potter’s material, keeping very quiet : HAPPYCLAPPY

19-across – Barmy Army entering number and name of fellow citizen : COUNTRYMAN

22-across – Arbiter securing Spain’s chain : REEF

23-across – Relieve outrageously rude bunny, almost : UNBURDEN

24-across – Setter: one sneaky and skimpy? : MEASLY

25-across – Pill box containing philosophy : LOZENGE

26-across – Far from 14 part 1 choice between France, Luxembourg and Norway? : FORLORN

1-down – Spread round permitted colour range : PALETTE

2-down – Graduate’s tree: commander’s witch : BABAYAGA

3-down – Tool up, receiving insect’s incantation : MANTRA

4-down – Insensitive, entering pear-shaped partial shadow : PENUMBRA

5-down – Wrecker of vehicle boy overturned : VANDAL

6-down – Happening to interrupt Shirley’s heartless number : SEVENTY

9-down – Quandary generated by last word in forecast : PREDICAMENT

15-down – Prototype map with a grid redesigned : PARADIGM

16-down – Lightweight boxer’s last to enter, fit for consumption : PORTABLE

17-down – Cowboy’s head, squashed by bucking bronco, reveals inside of ear : CORNCOB

18-down – Assert period was first to keep 100 up : DECLARE

20-down – Sodium securing a purpose — disgust? : NAUSEA

21-down – Hunter to beat troops up, on reflection : NIMROD

1-across – Cheers beginning in Pennsylvania, America saw British in retreat : BOTTOMSUP

6-across – Land between mountains with northern adventurer : GLENN

9-across – Potential Mount Everest, primarily for adventurer : FOALE

10-across – Adventurer who packs a punch? : ARMSTRONG

11-across – Spooner’s dance with 10, rational figure : REALNUMBER

12-across – Note success after first from Cambridge : CHIT

14-across – In spirit, the stuff feeding culture for an adventurer : GAGARIN

15-across – Fizzy diet drinks cold, each a cold drink : ICEDTEA

17-across – Possible source of wind resistance in jets : SPROUTS

19-across – Change round Lithuanian and Latvian capitals, as adventurer : COLLINS

20-across – Travel adventurer : RIDE

22-across – Adventurer here, OK with vast ground : TERESHKOVA

25-across – A 20 needing no cab? : PIGGYBACK

26-across – Not moving yet : STILL

27-across – Two prepare for impact : BRACE

28-across – Writer indeed struggling with books, financially needing others : DEPENDENT

1-down – Very much cake, case of forty or fifty eaten up : BYFAR

2-down – Sailor welcomes artillery and flag waving in battle : TRAFALGAR

3-down – Our cinema’s about to screen a display of marine life : OCEANARIUM

4-down – Priest about right as adventurer : SHARMAN

5-down – Couple after Macedonian leader in Alexander, say, finding buried treasure in Italy? : POMPEII

6-down – Sound way to walk in door : GATE

7-down – Biblical character, one turning on the house of God : ENOCH

8-down – Bedtime drinks for birds : NIGHTJARS

13-down – Spring chicken’s top and stockings new, carefully selected : WELLCHOSEN

14-down – Eatery, however briefly, left sink upside down : GASTROPUB

16-down – Ingesting tail of pterodactyl, three taste a fossilised arthropod : TRILOBITE

18-down – Normal to jettison sandwiches as adventurer : SHEPARD

19-down – Reportedly, European happy to provide dental appointment : CHECKUP

21-down – Belief in female setter, perhaps? : DOGMA

23-down – Very much to say is set aside : ALLOT

24-down – Pumped-up Lebanese port? : TYRE

1-across – Fighting with knights’ page, as bad dream fades at last : PASDARMES

6-across – See 9 : CONS

8-across – Fish beat up a lobster : BLOATERS

9-across – Cold salmon prepared at home: commonplace now : ALLMOD

10-across – Excitement from the person that announced defrosted fish : HOOPLA

11-across – First mate’s boat in legend was used to get wife : ADAMSRIB

12-across – Some fish in need of bigger boats? : SHARKS

15-across – Vision of Boatman: a plot, they say : EYESIGHT

16-across – An apostle in Rome alone, cut by a spear, even : SAOPAOLO

19-across – Smell fish on seafront : STENCH

21-across – Sporting fish roe from theoretical hybrid : ATHLETIC

22-across – Bigger fish eaten by little fish with no resistance : FREELY

24-across – Raw cod, flounders and yellow fish : COWARD

25-across – Fish definitely returning to land in the Irish Sea : ANGLESEY

26-across – Report to reveal one may be in the soup : LEEK

27-across – Fishy substitute for universal part of theories of Flora, Fauna etc : GODDESSES

1-down – Proclaim on eradicating even this disorder : POLIO

2-down – Fish for small kipper? : SNAPPER

3-down – Team loses a point, falling short at Wembley, perhaps : ARENA

4-down – The fish that got away, you say? It’s a mix-up : MISTAKE

5-down – Boatman & crew: visionaries covering a great distance : SEAFARERS

6-down – More than one heavyweight is alone, pulled up after initial concussion : COLOSSI

7-down – Part of old civilisation moving into Chile : NEOLITHIC

13-down – Very sad indication for our planet : HEARTSORE

14-down – Head of state crazy to execute guerrilla leader, one of 101? : SPOTTYDOG

17-down – Fish shortage following cutback : POLLACK

18-down – Goldfish with starter of dory and crab perhaps found here : ORCHARD

20-down – Teams rely : ELEVENS

22-down – Japanese fish: ultimate in sole music : FUGUE

23-down – Looks suggestively at au pair’s bottom in the grounds : LEERS