Daily Answers

1-across – Supplements for the dead and injured : ADDENDA

5-across – Not being there and not drinking out of can : ABSENCE

10-across – Strasbourg out of order? On the contrary! : ASBO

11-across – Possible damage to vehicle : ACHIEVABLE

12-across – Before 9, delight in being generous : LAVISH

13-across – Brazil may be nothing to France, having the ultimate in restaurant food : NUTRIENT

14-across – Tiny vase differed, as halved and returned in statement : AFFIDAVIT

16-across – Tucker’s partner joins the French in a book : BIBLE

17-across – Before 9, get to ooze : LEACH

19-across – It’s a total wreck: get garage : AGGREGATE

23-across – Really ravenous readers? — that’s some alliteration! : LITERATI

24-across – Epidemic in the city before 9 : PLAGUE

26-across – Leaves shocking war secrets : WATERCRESS

27-across – Vitality prevalent before 9 : LIFE

28-across – Send a message to Maurice, perhaps, for material : TEXTILE

29-across – City accommodation in some anonymity : NEWYORK

2-down – Pertaining to females — awfully staid females : DISTAFF

3-down – What contributes to both ulcerative colitis and gastroenteritis? : ECOLI

4-down – Money for church in play : DRACHMA

6-down – Inspiration note filed where Archimedes found his : BREATH

7-down – Considering cutback on excavation : EXAMINING

8-down – Officer who called an inquest before 9 : COLONEL

9-down – Defection is suspended in gas on the 15th? : CHANGINGSIDES

15-down – Rise before 9 — that’s harsh : INCLEMENT

18-down – Pluck and energy needed by someone washing hands : EPILATE

20-down – Rather intriguing puzzle — online solvers’ thoughtful effort leads to the answer : RIPOSTE

21-down – To date, one needs a variety of fur hats : THUSFAR

22-down – Wipe out tropical disease before 9 : CANCEL

25-down – Calm arrangement before 9 : ALLAY

1-across – See instructions : BEIRUTOSLOSEOUL

9-across – Soft digital covers Boy George adores : KIDGLOVES

10-across – Emblem of a form of betting — the first of many : TOTEM

11-across – Comes across critic after opening of show : SPANNER

12-across – Recall miracle play : RECLAIM

13-across – Resources show very little money : SOU

14-across – Anticipate front view : FORESEE

17-across – Avoid one on delegation : MISSION

19-across – Credential unfortun­ately leaving out end item : ARTICLE

22-across – Continually criticise bird’s capacity : HENPECK

24-across – Say no to old marshal : NEY

25-across – A need is to provide liquid flavouring : ANISEED

26-across – Choose to dispense with tool : PICKAXE

28-across – Hungrily devour bird : RAVEN

29-across – Come on in —coffee perhaps? : SWEETENER

30-across – See instructions : BERNPARISBERLIN

1-down – See instructions : BAKUSOFIAZAGREB

2-down – Country favoured aid redistribution : INDIA

3-down – Good periods getting to secure higher areas : UPLANDS

4-down – Heads face up to old boy’s poetry : OBVERSE

5-down – Crave spirit after five years : LUSTRUM

6-down – Supports include hospital attention-seeking devices : SHTICKS

7-down – Review riot cases ban : OSTRACISE

8-down – See instructions : LIMAMINSKTEHRAN

15-down – Trier somehow always one to get things back : RETRIEVER

16-down – Devious one up to be a general : EEL

18-down – Reserve kitchen regularly : ICE

20-down – Reduce mess list in vessel : CLEANUP

21-down – Final recipient endures being out of order : ENDUSER

22-down – They join up with egg producers who are after detailed promotional material : HYPHENS

23-down – Cheek to marry in formal wear : NECKTIE

27-down – Cancel annual outing away : ANNUL

9-across – Primarily horticultural border : HEDGE

10-across – Rock group standing round without question : STATUSQUO

11-across – Musician from Thailand with funny Biblical rock : TRUMPETER

12-across – You may get a lift from this van in Rome — stick around! : CRANE

13-across – Undesirable correspondent in rock group plans for comeback : SPAMMER

15-across – Bad food queen swallows right for dog? : TRACKER

17-across – Up to no good, luting merrily : UNTIL

18-across – Jazz fan chants unevenly : CAT

20-across – Bowie, say, printing material backing heavy metal : KNIFE

22-across – Streamers in Cork to welcome loon back : BUNTING

25-across – Fleshy part of nobleman with honour : EARLOBE

26-across – What knockers do, given pinch in tops of satiny elastic : SNIPE

27-across – Two ducks with nice leg cooked in ancient period : OLIGOCENE

30-across – Sent more compasses about ship : ADDRESSED

31-across – Newton follows star Greek mathematician : HERON

1-down – Teatime conversation : CHAT

2-down – Officer in a tuxedo heartlessly upset worker : ADJUTANT

3-down – Gander to make noise like a chick : PEEP

4-down – Mysterious coteries in disguise : ESOTERIC

5-down – Unoriginal commenter’s standard twaddle : PARROT

6-down – One cuckoo — tailless cuckoo — finds way into Brazil? : NUTCRACKER

7-down – Queen observed king must eat crow : SQUAWK

8-down – Opponent of conflict runs out of English port : DOVE

13-down – Short, fat person bowled instead of tail-ender in team : SQUAB

14-down – Philosopher espied larks about to get insects : MILLIPEDES

16-down – Old magistrate to turn up with heart of steel : REEVE

19-down – What performer doesn’t want to get lead in Scorsese film? : THEBIRDS

21-down – My! Tories messing up a form of equality : ISOMETRY

23-down – Scot from the South notices Greek maidens : NAIADS

24-down – Government to incite complaint : GROUSE

26-down – Aussie runner’s small and pale : SWAN

28-down – WWI enemy destroying British missile launch site : OCHE

29-down – Irish flower found through the internet : ERNE

8-across – Bit of adultery? The man’s reason for going red : ERYTHEMA

9-across – Read Help — iPad needs original leads only for charger : RHINO

10-across – Sweet thing, female round JFK? : FLAP

11-across – Padding reply out, she doesn’t end break up : UPHOLSTERY

12-across – Difficult to control increase with compassion : UPPITY

14-across – Part of body found in … : ACHILLES

16-across – Speak from text on the radio — temporary defence : REDOUBT

18-across – Be faithful to start of Block-Heads cutting Laurel and Hardy’s final pieces : STANDBY

21-across – Launcher of old institute, within Ed’s charge, having lost vote : BALLISTA

23-across – See 14 : TENDON

24-across – It might be used when picking up it girl? Work on love first : OOPSADAISY

26-across – See 10 : JACK

27-across – European measurements written round collar : SEIZE

28-across – Exposed in Which? — Oil of Olay eau conclusively invented without signs of aging : YOUTHFUL

1-down – Slip out of place for endless sex after drink : PROLAPSE

2-down – See 17 : STOP

3-down – Don’t judge a book by its cover — Playboy seeks it in nude spread : BEAUTY

4-down – One stops slips — bowled at helmet taking maiden : BATHMAT

5-down – Spoken occasionally within four walls : ORAL

6-down – Intimate Secrets blue movie, at last — left pub to provide case : DIRTYLINEN

7-down – See 20 : MONROE

13-down – See 3 : ISONLYSKIN

15-down – Sexy entertainer’s no saint : HOT

17-down – Picture small cleavage for breast augmentation … : BUS

19-down – … its members might get a reduced volume in breast, admitting bad luck : BOOKCLUB

20-down – My minor role playing with an actress : MARILYN

22-down – Animate musical without limits : AROUSE

23-down – Test score — dismissed : TRYOUT

25-down – See 3 : DEEP

26-down – Furnish my lover’s toilet : JOHN

8-across – Working hours critical for one of those depressed in the office? : SHIFTKEY

9-across – Lines shot past author : POETRY

10-across – Hot hole, painting walls : ARDENT

11-across – Capital city finally being rebuilt, unlike others : ATYPICAL

12-across – He wrote for the keyboard, by the way : BYRD

13-across – Top gun, one nodding furiously? : HEADBANGER

15-across – Index finger in dog : POINTER

16-across – Bound to accommodate a lodger : BOARDER

18-across – Moving flat? : PEDESTRIAN

19-across – Tease the fool : TWIT

20-across – Organisation where one gains notoriety moving towards the sinister? That just about encapsulates it : THEMAFIA

22-across – Tabour playing with a flexible tempo : RUBATO

23-across – Bird from the East concealing no alias : ANONYM

24-across – State finally cutting parental counselling service? That’s the limit! : DEADLINE

1-down – In theory this might, oddly, upset a youngish adult : THIRTYSOMETHING

2-down – Positionally, 22 characters are private and virgin is sweet : AFTERDINNERMINT

3-down – Sailing boat passing through the rest of the Balearics dropping stern, as most rough : SKETCHIEST

4-down – Riser rising around end of day, then trouble set for the night? : PYJAMAS

5-down – Fix top of shin, then foot : SPAY

6-down – Rough stuff faced, jagged edges in the way among remnants of building : DESIGNERSTUBBLE

7-down – Since tears twice patched up, clothes so low maintenance? : CREASERESISTANT

14-down – Stiff source of fibre : BROWNBREAD

17-down – Satellite with a moon : MIRANDA

21-down – For starters flipping unnecessary, muttering expletives in rage : FUME