Daily Answers

1-across – Crisis time — my fish supper costs less : THECHIPSAREDOWN

9-across – Set meals? : TVDINNERS

10-across – Always after street guide : STEER

11-across – English county town loses ring — one by a pottery factory : ETRURIA

12-across – Astronomer putting sign on old boat, we’re told : GALILEO

13-across – Could be rock and roll : BUN

14-across – Prevents progress of some slim pedestrians : IMPEDES

17-across – Squealed about tune for drink : SANGRIA

19-across – Insects with antenna set askew : HORNETS

22-across – Otherwise expressed — sullied : ILLUSED

24-across – Beard having a couple of points : AWN

25-across – Poor actor’s part as expressed on picnic menu : HAMROLL

26-across – Assembly’s advice overheard : COUNCIL

28-across – Less than two articles abroad : UNDER

29-across – Unresting revolutionary — certainly! : INSURGENT

30-across – Lag who wouldn’t! : ESCAPEDPRISONER

1-down – Eliot thought she edited novel : TOTHELIGHTHOUSE

2-down – Prior or Prebendary : ELDER

3-down – C for county division : HUNDRED

4-down – Low-cost homes preferred by sailors : PREFABS

5-down – Transfers a shilling to Marks : ASSIGNS

6-down – Letter from Minneapolis one man left out : EPSILON

7-down – How Father Time surveys chieftains : OVERLORDS

8-down – King of Arms moving Arnold to nursery : NORROYANDULSTER

15-down – From whom injured camper gets aid : PARAMEDIC

16-down – Amphibian with feet under earth : EFT

18-down – Fall ill, having bad weather in the East End : AIL

20-down – In Latin, I stumble over exercise that’s self-absorbed : EGOTRIP

21-down – Top soldiers joined forces and set out : SALLIED

22-down – Almost 2.54cm, bit of iron’s on gold tooth : INCISOR

23-down – Types of window allowing smoke to escape : LOUVRES

27-down – The Macnabs, say, taking ecstasy. No! : CLEAN

1-across – Theme of one book ignored by cheap BBC production : CPEBACH

5-across – Where death was from fast food? No hesitation there : HAMBURG

9-across – Teacher training via the internet during March? : INSET

10-across – See 19 : SEBASTIAN

11-across – Those making arrangements of rare songs, I suspect : ORGANISERS

12-across – Final passage of concerto lacking content father cut : CODA

14-across – A flashy black market hawker not against thinking of lofty aims and hopes : ASPIRATIONAL

18-across – Well-known piece of T.S. Eliot play about breakfast food : SOLFEGGIETTO

21-across – Work that is written for a collector of nursery rhymes : OPIE

22-across – Popped along to the pub with single English speaker : ANGLOPHONE

25-across – Works with wrong fellow, working with one adult son : SINFONIAS

26-across – Territorial Army’s warning device : ALARM

27-across – Cook sea fish : DEEPFRY

28-across – Type of school that’s arranged 9 mid-term : STEINER

1-down – 18’s key gets car to start — about to leave the Isle of Mahon : CMINOR

2-down – Officer standard : ENSIGN

3-down – Very surprised concerning name taken by one setter : ASTONISHED

4-down – Composer’s avoiding Liberal party givers : HOSTS

5-down – Drug in the brain produced sleep over a long period : HIBERNATE

6-down – Work for church and state, briefly : MASS

7-down – Horny beasts implying trouble afoot for third-level students? : UNICORNS

8-down – Good to note Yankee embracing Irishman in cheerful, friendly manner : GENIALLY

13-down – Auntie’s former boss rebuilt chapel in 20 : BIRTHPLACE

15-down – Great inventiveness, fashionable, good menu — pity no starters! : INGENUITY

16-down – Backed by electronic piano got hold of by drunk : ESPOUSED

17-down – Brad looked just a little upset during one marriage : ALLIANCE

19-down – Father uses one to get into can before wine is added into baked beans : JOHANN

20-down – City of former republic in Italy, with millions into sport : WEIMAR

23-down – Catalogues composer’s broadcast : LISTS

24-down – Remove dead composer right away : DOFF

1-across – Offensive type poking face using fingers : DIGITAL

5-across – Fool with photo that’s captured hot lesbian : SAPPHIC

9-across – Couple behind attack, one disappearing as more than one spoke : RADII

10-across – Knowledge about bartending finally clear, these glasses handled : LORGNETTE

11-across – Juvenile presidential candidate once in anything but decline : ADOLESCENT

12-across – Round piece of meat with its ends trimmed : AMMO

14-across – Tommy musical making a comeback — that’s helpful : COOPERATIVE

18-across – Israeli leader needing Russian vehicle for programme of reforms : PERESTROIKA

21-across – Total class : RANK

22-across – People on the left with kipper for fish : REDSNAPPER

25-across – Freeze put on very ordinary commentary : VOICEOVER

26-across – Drink given to right-wingers on the ball : ALERT

27-across – Labour leader, joining Tories after a reshuffle, acts suspiciously : LOITERS

28-across – Inspiring love, witch mounted soldier : DRAGOON

1-down – Foreign port, city south of Germany : DURBAN

2-down – Boy sponsored thug to catch policeman : GODSON

3-down – Bag in gents, for example, that’s round in a testicle, possibly? : TOILETCASE

4-down – Initial of Iris in name that’s come up for flower : LILAC

5-down – Quiet houses good, it’s contrarily plain : SERENGETI

6-down – A boat to boot! : PUNT

7-down – The aim, almost all letters noxious — with this? : HATEMAIL

8-down – Brave, brave man passing through outskirts of Cannock with ease, they say? : CHEROKEE

13-down – Stoker penning three articles on a group of girls : BANANARAMA

15-down – On reflection, the Guardian sure loves to appear inept : OURSELVES

16-down – Month eating first of poached eggs like this, OK : APPROVAL

17-down – Questionably, RC naif to install existing pope : FRANCISI

19-down – Meter fitted to car went in thus : SPEEDO

20-down – Greek restraint regularly seen, when overcome by credit : CRETAN

23-down – Read about a game one’s played : STRAD

24-down – Place for the Guardian Crossword in further education : HERE

9-across – Saw our time span : ADAGE

10-across – A journey with no end of rough caper : ROUNDTRIP

11-across – Disco hit follows appearance in which One Direction turned round? : NIGHTCLUB

12-across – Article leads to no end of ruddy trouble : ANNOY

13-across – Flag-waving, safe, holding back enemy : EASEOFF

15-across – Lack of experience shows in wrong answers : RAWNESS

17-across – Troubled no end by lover of verse : DONNE

18-across – No end of justice for Spooner? Not today! : CUT

20-across – After ranger’s first greeting, no end of hunting for him? : RHINO

22-across – No end of trouble in bingeing and dieting : FASTING

25-across – Cadet or raw soldier? : REDCOAT

26-across – Boatman here: Africa? No end in sight : CANOE

27-across – With no end in sight, perhaps the French take a boat : SENSELESS

30-across – No end of trouble from what lorries may do : SHEDLOADS

31-across – Putting together no end of flashy accessories : BLING

1-down – Applied for protection, with no end of trouble : PAIN

2-down – Having lost bearings, perhaps crashes : BARGESIN

3-down – Torn clothing, no end : RENT

4-down – Rank of copper taking lifer without hesitation in southern Ireland : PROLIFIC

5-down – No end of obsession over chocolate : NUMBER

6-down – A pact long held in state where all are happy : IDEALWORLD

7-down – In empty greenhouse, step in muck : GRUNGE

8-down – Animal yelps getting up — get fixed at vet’s : SPAY

13-down – I won’t discuss this theme : ENDOF

14-down – Boatman’s glance could be the end of you, they say unfairly : ONESIDEDLY

16-down – See 18 : SHORT

19-down – Brass neck acerbity : TARTNESS

21-down – Saki: some rice distilled, having the parts recombined at molecular level : ISOMERIC

23-down – Verse has no end. No end? Odd, in a way : SONNET

24-down – Boring speaker gets up to talk: a low point : GASBAG

26-down – Enquire after report of sea vessel : CASK

28-down – Drops of ethanol burn brightly, shining on top : EBBS

29-down – Source of starch in the past : SAGO

9-across – Fancy rogue and tall yob : LAGERLOUT

10-across – One despising another mad character half-heartedly : HATER

11-across – Herb that’s trendy with duck wings on rosemary : CHICORY

12-across – Word used in separation — a snip, say? : GOODBYE

13-across – Con man : ROOK

14-across – Unit chatted about outstanding soldiers : DETACHMENT

15-across – Make roughly a hundred rowers minus a thousand : COARSEN

17-across – Fish to eat by river while lying back : SARDINE

19-across – University on the border studying speech : LIPREADING

22-across – Half of house missed : SEMI

23-across – A city doubled in number? : NEWYORK

24-across – Carol, after a drink, flirting : TEASING

26-across – Company crushed by priest, a sickener : ECOLI

27-across – A risible dickhead floundering as Mandela interpreter : IDRISELBA

1-down – Exciting total one’s charged for heating : ELECTRICBLANKET

2-down – Rowling character shaving head and bottom, sparkling stuff in general : AGRICOLA

3-down – A proportion of popular vote for Australian PM : ARVO

4-down – Popular political veteran an insubstantial figure, according to Spooner? : TONYBENN

5-down – Mark, Athenian character shackling Turkish leader : STIGMA

6-down – Sex neither this nor that? : THEOTHER

7-down – Secure horses : STABLE

8-down – Author writing about men — his weren’t gay : ERNESTHEMINGWAY

16-down – Crush something underfoot — hurry up! : STEPONIT

17-down – Hygienic topless bar — madness? : SANITARY

18-down – Poisonous jerks lie in bed : INEDIBLE

20-down – Work having arisen, duck into internet meeting : POWWOW

21-down – Antelope bringing up a couple of children : DIKDIK

25-down – A capital’s musicians on top : ALSO