Daily Answers

1-across – Tetanus jabs are welcomed at first by key partner : LOCKJAW

5-across – Previously enters poor clue for anorak : CAGOULE

9-across – Alternative to part of 18 in bid for 6 beats : CLUBS

10-across – Paper snake in empty dessert dish : DREAMBOAT

11-across – Artists as a body follow a competitive lifestyle : THERATRACE

12-across – Republicans in Iraq briefly feature in admirable air composed by Gershwin : IRA

14-across – The tenor’s wobbly bottom in bid for 6 : THREENOTRUMP

18-across – Bid for 6 could lead to vice : FIVEDIAMONDS

21-across – Streak with no clothing, drunk : RUN

22-across – Interrogate family on odd price for food : PUMPKINPIE

25-across – Occasional dab of refreshment applied primarily in pit : DEODORANT

26-across – Bush Senior : ELDER

27-across – Take a defensive position when grenade explodes : ENGARDE

28-across – Revolution for some feminists is erudite and does not surrender : RESISTS

1-down – Find, see and hear one asked for a kiss : LOCATE

2-down – Grounds where copper leaves political meetings : CAUSES

3-down – Not a lot of uniform stock in green : JUSTASHADE

4-down – Drew a tangled knot, perhaps : WADER

5-down – Album includes screen shot — love the build-up! : CRESCENDO

6-down – Playing tricks, try to hug a compiler and start to blush — cool! : GAME

7-down – Visiting Luxor, I ousted loving wife : UXORIOUS

8-down – They plan to generate total heat : ENTHALPY

13-down – Feature of food that could lead to digestion stress with spare tires : STODGINESS

15-down – Blurt that European currency unit’s dead without Angela Merkel’s approval : EJACULATE

16-down – See 6 : OFBRIDGE

17-down – Service, say, includes 6 but excludes 1 : EVENSONG

19-down – Diggers’ alternative to 20 in bid for 6 : SPADES

20-down – See 24 : HEARTS

23-down – Dad’s half-hearted talk : PATER

24-down – Spooner’s unchaste lady cuts one bid for 6 : FOUR

1-across – Prime minister, one eating first of nuts, peanuts : PITTANCE

5-across – See 24 : COOKIE

9-across – Rock music kept for request at crime scene? : STICKEMUP

11-across – Ordinal, eighth in camp? : TENTH

12-across – Mend outstanding circuitous routes, assuming formerly straight : HETEROSEXUAL

15-across – Stone’s past history in theatrical performance, loosely speaking? : ONYX

16-across – Balancing acrobat, weak pole wobbling in the midst of horror : ROPEWALKER

18-across – Order paper with increase in salary for judge again : REAPPRAISE

19-across – Sad call girl welcoming work, client ultimately laid back, heading for Thailand : LAST

21-across – Emerge where a cat might have sat, did you say — for miaow, perhaps? : ONOMATOPOEIA

24-across – Cough took off, that is, for resilient type : TOUGH

25-across – Girl having incarcerated heartless girl in the country, there’s no escaping it? : SUPERGLUE

26-across – Lie in chair, head off it : RESIDE

27-across – Flying toys, those following Thur’s wasps? : FRISBEES

1-down – See 19 : POST

2-down – Dog story recited : TAIL

3-down – Soldier shackling animal up, chain over a foot? : ANKLET

4-down – Those honouring the dead, such as in Dunkirk, a thousand speakers : COMMEMORATORS

6-down – Unfortunately not always supporting hack — getting there! : ONTHEWAY

7-down – Knowledge put to bed about a statesman : KENTUCKIAN

8-down – Cheer as West Indian cricketer cuts shot into river : EXHILARATE

10-down – Waste of a setter in this magician, propose changes up top : POOPERSCOOPER

13-down – Chambers features a rewrite of profuse rot on county : FOURPOSTER

14-down – Places of worship where adulterer, say, attempts to suppress God’s umbrage, for starters : SYNAGOGUES

17-down – Cut round page covered with liquid : SPLASHED

20-down – Knight and fool up river : TIGRIS

22-down – Sound blasted down : BLUE

23-down – See 13 : BEDS

9-across – Cause of infection left one green, at first : ECOLI

10-across – Time to pull back, worse off in part of 29s epic : TWOTOWERS

11-across – Can goddess dishearten Kylie’s 29er? : LOOKALIKE

12-across – This regularly cuts Iron Duke’s rank : FETID

13-across – Type of 29 or of 1s : WEDDING

15-across – Outside of safe building with part for musician : SECONDO

17-across – For cockney existentialist, other people will follow this literary 1 : ELLIS

18-across – Traffic in hurry : RUN

20-across – Organs require tuning, not all over : UTERI

22-across – Films about women’s bar : LAWYERS

25-across – Like novel that’s in fashion, or its creator? : TOLKIEN

26-across – Kindle that could be portable : LIGHT

27-across – Not in a Parisian university in wood : UNPOPULAR

30-across – Part of 29 — it keeps man venerable : RHEINGOLD

31-across – Literary 1 to keep performing : ACTON

1-down – You might 29 this attractive woman, we’re told : BELL

2-down – Criminal raid with tool shaped like a 29 : TOROIDAL

3-down – Singer keen to give a twirl : DIVA

4-down – At sea, rig stern brace : STRINGER

5-down – South Africans embracing wrong men in the 29 : BOXERS

6-down – It’s acceptable to block racists, true or false? : NONFACTUAL

7-down – Maybe male’s put on weight — he may 29 a 1 : SEXTON

8-down – Compilers the boss exploited : USED

13-down – Turner’s cry of excitement, reaching heart of gallery : WHEEL

14-down – Doctor isn’t nice, with GP doing an examination : INSPECTING

16-down – One stops running twice to call for food : ONION

19-down – Writers’ materials in no way record publicity : NOTEPADS

21-down – Make weaker tea to lie in one’s cups : ETIOLATE

23-down – Speculate about name for author of 29 : WAGNER

24-down – Statue in odd places and not raised for 26 down seeking 29 : SAURON

26-down – Which of land’s borders is for ruler? : LORD

28-down – Request to drop large 29 : PEAL

29-down – See 16 : RING

1-across – Firing line in range, the soldier at the front makes advances : FLIRTS

5-across – Joint’s disturbed rest of trendy folk : HIPSTERS

9-across – Difficult situation, said to be incontinent and choking : ASPHYXIA

10-across – Exude endless confidence : SECRET

11-across – Change round mid-coalition: no problem for Spooner : ALLITERATION

13-across – Birds seen in the Science Museum : EMUS

14-across – Amorous Italian jerk : ROMANTIC

17-across – Barbie doll information — eleven envelopes and sheets : BEDLINEN

18-across – Study hard, knocking back brandy : CRAM

20-across – Players, not all here, in French 16 : PARTICIPANTS

23-across – See 8 : DEVICE

24-across – Letters help to follow a leading parliamentarian’s humble beginnings : ALPHABET

25-across – Gates’s background : STAGESET

26-across – Working to change hands is intrusive : PRYING

2-down – Finally, a shoe? : LAST

3-down – Tries penetrating actual drill : REHEARSAL

4-down – Cunning to include stage direction, almost in a suggestive manner : SEXILY

5-down – Earth treatment that’s organic? : HEARTTRANSPLANT

6-down – Stuff filling food from Cornwall, we hear, is beef : PASTRAMI

7-down – Implied one must be engaged in diplomacy : TACIT

8-down – It might be heard, perhaps endlessly, in valedictory cheers : RHETORICAL

12-down – Child missing, having left room later perhaps : AMBERALERT

15-down – Needed to change scenery round Syria’s borders : NECESSARY

16-down – Newcastle’s first to have footballers outside in underwear : KNICKERS

19-down – Grab skillets : SNAPUP

21-down – See 2 : THING

22-down – Act constituent heard and noticed : SEEN

1-across – Rossini extremely captivated by serpent as an instrument : MARIMBA

5-across – Team set off during strike : WESTHAM

10-across – French author a stinker, but no monster : ZOLA

11-across – Setter causing offence? : PYROMANIAC

12-across – Put one’s foot down about hospital in online discussion : THREAD

13-across – Someone on the water at once is at sea : CANOEIST

14-across – King’s castle, body of cells confining people : GRACELAND

16-across – A lump brought back for tea : ASSAM

17-across – One following hydrogen in leak : SHEEP

19-across – Space requiring development behind home, don’t you agree? : NESTCEPAS

23-across – Musical priest put back in place : SPAMALOT

24-across – Exact quality of number, the third to be changed : NICETY

26-across – Fruit and veg picked up, as down : MELANCHOLY

27-across – Contact sheet : PAGE

28-across – Crossword setters in the Guardian, deviants primarily offered guidance : USHERED

29-across – Third degree murder originally — then detain suspect : MEDIANT

2-down – Different person, a him then? : ANOTHER

3-down – Ridiculous pain, a nettle’s grasped : INANE

4-down – Upright proposal to maintain exercise supported by almost everyone : BIPEDAL

6-down – Fur I’ve evidently acquired after some consideration? : ERMINE

7-down – Two notes heard in the location of 14 : TENNESSEE

8-down – Body of water, region covering a large space, primarily : ARALSEA

9-down – Bias as sperm approaches ovum? : PRECONCEPTION

15-down – An indulgence came disguised as bird food? : CREAMCAKE

18-down – Unlucky chap like this is a hundred? : HAPLESS

20-down – Positive image in petty criminal : TINTYPE

21-down – Harmful thing eating rotten chicken, ultimately : ANTIGEN

22-down – Company’s opening, plant not closing — that’s been said before : CLICHE

25-down – Island in better state : CAPRI