Daily Answers

1-across – How’s that possibly a parish’s first set of 20? : APPEAL

5-across – Launches takeaway illegally, so gets fines : LIFTSOFF

9-across – Working farm not occupied by Cornwall’s first Conservative peer : MANCROFT

10-across – Traveller greeting flag again : REPAVE

11-across – Article used in party game : SNAP

12-across – How Singapore is described by some kid’s mother, say : NANNYSTATE

13-across – Sloth shown by partners after trimming box tree : BONSAI

14-across – Abandoned Romeo after girl? Lots here, perhaps : SALEROOM

16-across – Most impoverished characters in Boston, ie students : STONIEST

19-across – Packed as a precautionary provision : INCASE

21-across – Ex-PM’s 50% vituperation, 50% outrageously obstreperous : DISRUPTIVE

23-across – Spots gas bill first : ACNE

24-across – Girl writing paper in college : CLAIRE

25-across – Playing triangle for function : INTEGRAL

26-across – One blooming peal’s wrong, including flipping first note : ASPHODEL

27-across – Sit in chair, topless : RESIDE

2-down – Set of 20 in flat — result of scout doing two more jobs? : PLAINBOBTRIPLES

3-down – Key copies for jailbreaks, say : ESCAPES

4-down – Your starter: one snail, freshly cooked with onions : LYONNAISE

5-down – Upstanding person, Italian, housing Mexicans in New Mexico? : LATINOS

6-down – See 8 : FORTY

7-down – One allegedly met after death of first pet, Ermintrude : STPETER

8-down – Vegetarian starter mix, all oddly used for number of 20 in 7 9 17’s celebrated 2 : FIVETHOUSANDAND

15-down – Queen’s favourite city : LEICESTER

17-down – City choir now disheartened, sadly : NORWICH

18-down – Getting 6 in test’s not worth mentioning : TRIVIAL

20-down – Puts clean nappy on small child by river leaving French city : CHANGES

22-down – Series of 20 after moving left up to daughter to offer in excuse : PLEAD

1-across – After heart’s stolen, snap out of it and divorce : SPLITUP

5-across – Outspoken English forward is upset : GRIEVES

9-across – He queries Baskerville cases : ASKER

10-across – Small tea, filling meat and hard cheese : MISCHANCE

11-across – Promote Rome so badly with a lament about Roman corruption : OTEMPORAOMORES

13-across – December 25th but not April 5th or July 3rd? : NOEL

14-across – Concerned with feet pains, doc’s baffled : SPONDAIC

17-across – Savoy work is working in a hotel : IOLANTHE

18-across – Uncovered account book’s margin : EDGE

21-across – Buccaneer inclined to stop killer dog with hot, spotted back : CAPTAINPUGWASH

23-across – Gave zip to English fashion designer : ENERGISED

24-across – Parrot one poet, init­ially, or another : KEATS

25-across – Greek god positioned the other way in part of mosaic : TESSERA

26-across – Northerners plead for vote against moving to the west : YANKEES

1-down – Lush sage leaves age on tree : SOAK

2-down – Quickly appreciate those showing appreciation : LIKETHECLAPPERS

3-down – I’m off mum’s fish paste : TARAMA

4-down – Englishmen abroad getting decoration : POMPOM

5-down – They make light cracks around slate : GASLAMPS

6-down – One old lady inhales bad smell close to Robbie Savage : INHUMANE

7-down – A sad, severe line — moving ending in Shakespeare’s A Lover’s Complaint : VENEREALDISEASE

8-down – Fabric’s very fine, not hard, with soft touch : SEERSUCKER

12-down – Rash is red — it’s nice to get treatment! : INDISCREET

15-down – Symbol of black magic hasn’t power to ensnare : ENTANGLE

16-down – Part of main feature like another, almost : CHINASEA

19-down – Weekend partly free of rain? That’s different : SUNDRY

20-down – A pan with beans evenly stirred : AWOKEN

22-down – Fertility deity’s multiple lives : ISIS

1-across – Done for, finished with, done with abandoned women : THEWINDOW

9-across – Eggs turned down at the edges not so popular now : FAVOUR

10-across – Sky broadcast with Lulu or Gaga? : YOURSKULL

11-across – Scents include one backtracking when hunting is illegal : SEASON

12-across – Learn to suppress rumour one’s unfit : CONDITION

13-across – Off limits — university patrolled by Moore and Craig? : BOUNDS

17-across – Time to try on Kubrick’s most prominent old hat : THE

19-across – Endless depression with no warning : THEBLUE

20-across – Faulty coaches’ terminus before getting parked outside Victoria : SERVICE

21-across – See 17 : ARK

23-across – Hawk keeping left, then right — skew-whiff! : KILTER

27-across – For a change, he doesn’t finally step in too far! : ONESDEPTH

28-across – High-calibre athletes : BREATH

29-across – … dropped out of the comp­etition — bizarre : LEFTFIELD

30-across – One during first part of play briefly incapacitated : ACTION

31-across – Atypical documentation of rights puts squeeze on American clubs : CHARACTER

2-down – Thomas the Rhymer loves to bewitch : HOODOO

3-down – Spheres of interest — example of limnologist’s is wrapped up in mine! : WORLDS

4-down – Fashionable backing drums, maybe, on a hit for Elton : NIKITA

5-down – XL fly-by-night to whom L is made to fit : OWLMOTH

6-down – Horsey crowd I spotted in field? : RACEGOERS

7-down – Outside plant promoted item providing stable security : HORSENAIL

8-down – Row on street, punching a joker : PRANKSTER

14-down – Roast weasel Spooner’s provided for regatta marker : STAKEBOAT

15-down – Covers centrally supported bands, £10 for admission : BELLTENTS

16-down – As the Prince of Wales is to endless revels! : ELDESTSON

17-down – Hats off to everyone attending meal : TEA

18-down – Cumbrian flower old solver’s snatched from the sky : ESK

22-down – From OT, moves quickly north northeast, being into one of its authors : RUNNETH

24-down – Loose shirt draped over a part-time fertility goddess? : ISHTAR

25-down – I cancel shifts, not keeping note of an American’s personal space? : CELIAC

26-down – Prime Minister learner driver’s preparing to drive around? : ATTLEE

1-across – Commercial designs go alongside flower : POPART

4-across – Sharapova’s weapon, loud noise : RACKET

9-across – At first disgusting, time to withdraw Shakespearean oath : EGAD

10-across – With starters for Bed and Breakfast, sneaked off to get tinned food : BAKEDBEANS

11-across – Cut fruit about right, then time to make wine : MERLOT

12-across – Recall curious novel’s introduction, a source of information for poet : TENNYSON

13-across – Flavoured item in farm animals, 8 say? : STOCKCUBE

15-across – Round pearl regularly seen as gem that’s white, perhaps? : OPAL

16-across – Cloth from the East includes Eastern clothing : GEAR

17-across – Touring the country, capital drained of hot African water : LAKENYASA

21-across – US president, a two-dimensional pussy : GARFIELD

22-across – Puzzle that’s full of holes? : RIDDLE

24-across – Byzantine daintiness in Paris commune : SAINTDENIS

25-across – Question, then answer — stop! : WHOA

26-across – Capital putting contents of case in order? : ATHENS

27-across – Not all there, free capital : MADRID

1-down – Male chauvinists on tele­vision initially in colour : PIGMENT

2-down – Ring around last quarter of yard — this under a foot? : PEDAL

3-down – Alumnus tucked in to Indian bread on top of chicken jerky : ROBOTIC

5-down – Forest close to desert, hot : ARDENT

6-down – Privileged youth supporting the board — that’s a footballer’s skill : KEEPYUPPY

7-down – Work to hold in food, primarily, as food wrapper : TINFOIL

8-down – Swimmer getting on in sport : SKATEBOARDING

14-down – Refuse to move slowly, as winger : CHAFFINCH

16-down – Relative almost passing round a European city : GRANADA

18-down – Extraordinary area is covering Uzbek capital — that’s a lot of land! : EURASIA

19-down – Pink Floyd’s last member standing in Scotland : SALMOND

20-down – A third of debris in tip is heavy : LEADEN

23-down – Inventor of the vacuum flask, part inside warmer? : DEWAR

1-across – See 17 : THELION

5-across – Liverpool losing poor first half dismally : ORVILLE

10-across – Received praise for Rachel’s new look : LORD

11-across – Almost ready for the table, joining the fish? : GOINGUNDER

12-across – Mug made of crude copper taking a very long time : PIGEON

13-across – Hit with blow from the side of the hand involves the start of bleeding : LAMBCHOP

14-across – What to wear to finish convention : DRESSCODE

16-across – At home French donkey is asinine : INANE

17-across – Nylon line gets tangled around some itinerant herons : LENNY

19-across – Angel lies about having godlike attributes : ALLSEEING

23-across – It can come after Michaelmas time of year : DAISYMAY

24-across – Bush’s former presidential familiar has back trouble : ABELIA

26-across – Clan gets rich on proceeds from water in the Highlands : LOCHCRINAN

27-across – Inlet loses initial smell : REEK

28-across – Formerly drab writer cut : TROLLOP

29-across – See 10 : CHARLES

2-down – Indianan mostly more difficult to please : HOOSIER

3-down – Get stuck quite often by the main gates : LODGE

4-down – Structural feature of churches I start to contemplate : ORGANIC

6-down – Elite runners shamefully emigrate after missing opening parts of athletics tournament : REGIME

7-down – 21 down cannot possibly be heard : INNOCENCE

8-down – Rest of old wine gets drunk : LIEDOWN

9-down – Stripped smart car at yard being joined together — just messing about! : DILLYDALLYING

15-down – Steward seen to clash with new order : SENESCHAL

18-down – Our name fails to gain entrance : ENAMOUR

20-down – Firm to stop the flow : STAUNCH

21-down – 7 in a foreign check point : NAIVETE

22-down – Suspect more by stage one : EMBRYO

25-down – Mistake not to introduce troublesome child : ERROR