Daily Answers

1-across – Find views of university in excellent books : SOUNDOUT

5-across – Wretched sailor getting cold in stream : ABJECT

9-across – Extremely rude vagrant came inside for wine bottle : REHOBOAM

10-across – Conjuror sometimes a pilgrim : PALMER

12-across – Heartless girl close to tears after playing around with more than one husband : POLYANDROUS

15-across – Log first axed in middle of America : ENTER

17-across – Prepared for conflict in pits? : UNDERARMS

18-across – Gluttons’ bread ration somewhere in France : PERPIGNAN

19-across – Crime writer Wallace and Gromit initially read in translation : EDGAR

20-across – Staggering behind empty stable, second in horse race : SENSATIONAL

24-across – A daughter of Mnemosyne — daughter unlike Queen Victoria : AMUSED

25-across – What a canary will do repeatedly in prison : SINGSING

26-across – Very smooth malt whisky finally put on plane : MIGHTY

27-across – Organ part that is holding notes back : INNEREAR

1-down – Opening for Steptoe’s rubbish? Plenty here : SCRAPHEAPS

2-down – It may be stuffed poultry he’s cooked : UPHOLSTERY

3-down – President unknown in Middle East state? Not entirely : DUBYA

4-down – Fully functional as a mountain stream : UPANDRUNNING

6-down – Egg roll for starters in old-fashioned club or restaurant : BRASSERIE

7-down – Outer Mongolia supports Forster novel : EMMA

8-down – Brown bears right in lake : TARN

11-down – Action! Send on cast for film! : CONDENSATION

13-down – Ship — Titanic — one going down in salt water : BRIGANTINE

14-down – One has twelve houses, making realtors go crazy : ASTROLOGER

16-down – In Hollywood Claude shed tears, often getting soaked : RAINSWEPT

21-down – Sound of sleigh bells? Non-starter in a hot spot : INGLE

22-down – Not all classical music is serene : CALM

23-down – Girl lacking energy, needing good psychiatrist : JUNG

1-across – See 23 : OFCAKE

5-across – Recoil brings disadvantage : DRAWBACK

9-across – Liar must reform to show generosity to others : ALTRUISM

10-across – Religious type? In Paris I’ll go to clubs, maybe! : JESUIT

11-across – Grey old cinema somehow not right for classic film? : EALINGCOMEDY

13-across – Fish counter, Billingsgate’s first : BARB

14-across – In court, performing secretary maybe shows disdain for legal procedure : CONTEMPT

17-across – Misleading tale about this place being heavenly : ETHEREAL

18-across – Somewhere like Peterborough said to get wet through : SOAK

20-across – New pillows, white as seen in a strange night light : WILLOTHEWISP

23-across – The last thing a wedding guests expects to eat? : APIECE

24-across – See rebel entering spill drink? : TAPWATER

25-across – Good money? Contin­ental money inadequate for magnificence : GRANDEUR

26-across – See beautiful pattern, maybe around insect’s wings : ELYTRA

2-down – Deadly stretch of high ground : FELL

3-down – Almost sick-looking sailor in drink is nice! : AGREEABLE

4-down – To isolate some men is legitimate : ENISLE

5-down – Character involved with Easter arrangement — intellect or a dim lunatic? : DOMINICALLETTER

6-down – A sort of host with great collection of books next door : ADJACENT

7-down – Where’s the feeling that could make Maureen cry when upset : BOSOM

8-down – The non-work element essential to early years development : CHILDSPLAY

12-down – No case for this person making a short excursion : DAYTRIPPER

15-down – Start of exercise, say, repeatedly cavorting round gym : EASYPEASY

16-down – Tease the silly fellow with artistic pretensions : AESTHETE

19-down – Hollow son kicking daughter out : SIMPLE

21-down – Provision for exceptional bedtime story at home : LIEIN

22-down – Rush leaves hanging over river : TEAR

8-across – Surrealist into in any old mixture of compounds : SODALIME

9-across – Afford, might you say, an island? : CAPRI

10-across – Possibly welcoming time for support : STAY

11-across – Selfish nature with Gulf crude : UNGRATEFUL

12-across – Disreputable left that hurt McCarthyite, finally : LOUCHE

14-across – 7-19 thing with feathers in lift : HEIGHTEN

15-across – Provider of satellite TV adventure for bird : SKYLARK

17-across – 7-19 girl, one feels : ANTENNA

20-across – Poisonous element applied to ulna, if poorly — disease resulting : ASIANFLU

22-across – This once spent, put in bullet for shooter? : PESETA

23-across – Standard happy chappy? : JOLLYROGER

24-across – Spooner’s man unshaven? Say it with remorse : HAIL

25-across – Fibre including resilience, classy for a long-running show : JUSTA

26-across – 7-19 part of church without a biblical text — that’s not significant : NONEVENT

1-down – 7-19 split with an extra circle — something fancy? : FOOTWORK

2-down – See 24 across : MARY

3-down – See 25 across : MINUTE

4-down – I travel round hospitals beneath man — how tiresome! : HEIGHHO

5-down – Business looking up when individual blocking party time : OCCASION

6-down – Dumb view about first of players, learner in game : SPEECHLESS

7-down – Fruit pressing, squeezing huge nuts so tight : FIGURE

13-down – Unable to drive round Rolls, limited, as in an informal shirt? : COLLARLESS

16-down – Handing over a variety of free rights, almost everything : REFERRAL

18-down – Even bits of meat in turn when cooked, providing something nourishing : NUTRIENT

19-down – See 7 : HUGGING

21-down – Runner’s almost finished work on outskirts of Japanese capital : SKOPJE

22-down – Constant worrier needing secretary to hire : PARENT

24-down – Queen’s home has impressed various European leaders : HIVE

9-across – In which Sydney features prominently : ATALE

10-across – Carrier’s fan carrier almost capsized : AIRFRANCE

11-across – Month one: gets quaintly drunk on approx. a sixth of a pint : DECILITRE

12-across – Tobacco in can — lots rejected : SNOUT

13-across – See 26 down : INPARIS

15-across – Shakespeare character’s earliest manifestation lacks independence : LAERTES

17-across – Score on date, with internal covering : LINED

18-across – Period hack, good for Times : AGE

20-across – See 9 : OFTWO

22-across – Devil responsible for 9 20 23 : DICKENS

25-across – Frank might show it’s paid, getting job to get on : POSTAGE

26-across – Carbon-14 measurer, say, who’s arranged a partner? : DATER

27-across – See 26 down : ANDLONDON

30-across – Overheard description of Don Quixote’s end of a working day? : WEEKNIGHT

31-across – Anxious about unarticled Native Americans : SIOUX

1-down – Aggressive pitch : HARD

2-down – Brass slate often seen on the range : SAUCEPAN

3-down – See 1 : SELL

4-down – Musical composition, if a satnav turned volume off : FANTASIA

5-down – Blair originally: Zero tolerance at the heart, I say : ORWELL

6-down – Guardian supporting Shakespearean character faring well : PROSPEROUS

7-down – See 26 : ANDOUT

8-down – Old sporting hero Coe over time : BEST

13-down – Went furtively topless but did nothing? : IDLED

14-down – Devious clue: Following from French uprising: German chap wearing girdle : REDHERRING

16-down – Rock scorer’s Stumped single : STONE

19-down – No longer number one comprehending depth computer technology? Speed up! : EXPEDITE

21-down – Cross piece over entrance to cellar? : TRAPDOOR

23-down – See 9 : CITIES

24-down – Unkempt as a cormorant? : SHAGGY

26-down – 9 20 23 by 5, comprehensively losing a couple of capital boxing bouts? : DOWN

28-down – City’s permission to seize document : OMSK

29-down – Succeeding when planting kiss in lacy material : NEXT

8-across – Priest with no right to entertain the Queen taking on little blue flower girl : VERONICA

9-across – Nasty stuff first accepted by flower boy : POISON

10-across – Left centre gala to degenerate : EFFETE

11-across – Buck — if it does, it won’t be with grasshopper : ANTELOPE

12-across – More than one animal as ten-to-one chance : OXEN

13-across – Timeless impasses cover the road to good wishes : SYMPATHIES

15-across – Having catkins gives one bananas : AMENTAL

16-across – Second person to apply electronic restraint to reel? : STAGGER

18-across – An arrest appropriate for one’s mega heresy : ANABAPTISM

19-across – Somewhat unconvincing appeal for love? : SOSO

20-across – Notes of sums to be paid on horses may be connected with lengthy answers : STUDIOUS

22-across – Auxiliaries do what they are supposed to do : BEHAVE

23-across – Secret business on green : COVERT

24-across – Break down to earth in an insincere way : HOLLOWLY

1-down – Mating without spirit leads to minimal exchange of letters in spirit as spiritual exercise : SELFEXAMINATION

2-down – Educationalist, misguided ’n’ boring, passes on to those in charge of 6 etc : GOVERNINGBODIES

3-down – Learns adjustment on road, politician being light on headgear : MINERSLAMP

4-down – Holy man has degrees encompassing headgear : MAHATMA

5-down – See the point? : SPOT

6-down – Little Christian and his log twice produced by ladies’ seminary : GIRLSHIGHSCHOOL

7-down – Through and through rather than by 6 etc? : COMPREHENSIVELY

14-down – Transport from gold to bay : AUTOMOBILE

17-down – Sentimental individual leaving Sikh city disturbed : KITSCHY

21-down – Goatherd’s comment on unpleasant surprise? : OATH