Daily Answers

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

8-across – Side’s phoney complaints : DISEASES

9-across – Extremely happy and sensible around animals : HYENAS

10-across – Eg Newcastle and Liverpool matches : SEES

11-across – Singer may help her trace of Mancunian accent : SEAMSTRESS

12-across – Key for Anglo-Saxon instrument : ASHARP

14-across – See surgeon in cosy armchair : LOVESEAT

15-across – Sirenians frighten divers ultimately : SEACOWS

17-across – Seamen set out across Spithead together : ENMASSE

20-across – Tea was brought back home inside cutter : CHAINSAW

22-across – Drive enemy back into grass : TEEOFF

23-across – Catch embarrassed paparazzo : REDSNAPPER

24-across – Not one of 5 2 Mussorgsky carried about : ROSS

25-across – It braces one during a run : SEAAIR

26-across – Painter appears in sombrero, usually : ROUSSEAU

1-down – Hangers-on seen off by local manager : LICENSEE

2-down – See 5 : SEAS

3-down – Exhausts cause supercharger’s casing to drop off : USESUP

4-down – Blue liquid ready to be applied : USEABLE

5-down – No match in the ’70s for ancient mariner’s domain? : THESEVEN

6-down – Bloomer made by Scottish team at bottom of table : HEARTSEASE

7-down – Naval apprentice upset initially by this? : NAUSEA

13-down – Short item about cold northern swimmer : ARCTICSEAL

16-down – Cable tackles Conservative know-all : WISEACRE

18-down – New candidate prefers this group to include a female : SAFESEAT

19-down – Work during conflict in Times shown on successive days? : TWOPART

21-down – What the Observer did, he did to the Listener : HEEDED

22-down – Neckwear that’s almost too risqué is banned : TORQUE

24-down – Spots rook on tree : RASH

8-across – Lover gives a stuff about rain? On the contrary : PARAMOUR

9-across – Work and overwork for European Union entry : OEUVRE

10-across – One contributing to lunch, effortlessly : CHEF

11-across – Barely in, left to express the appropriate term : LEMOTJUSTE

12-across – Half-bloods end badly — that’s fair : BLONDE

14-across – Prince has no right to upset Buddhist spectacles : PINCENEZ

15-across – 2 — master together with criminal : BRIGAND

17-across – Moore’s city is rather sweet : DEMISEC

20-across – It’s cheap reproduction : PASTICHE

22-across – Graceful and selective when mixed with crushed ice : SVELTE

23-across – It could be the outline’s forgotten name : SILHOUETTE

24-across – Transcribe author’s 8 : BEAU

25-across – I’ve sworn academic men fry bananas dry on the outside : PARDON

26-across – See 25 : MYFRENCH

1-down – Single composer’s part is on the rise : BACHELOR

2-down – Youngster’s muscles are essential to physical fitness : CALF

3-down – Perhaps one from the border, with railway leading to mine : COLLIE

4-down – Cleaner pines for tool of the trade, or so it’s said : MRSMOPP

5-down – Last unit once used : CONTINUE

6-down – Reincarnation of alternative culture does not begin in part of Scotland : FUTURELIFE

7-down – Legal document served on the man makes us squirm : WRITHE

13-down – Eight and awfully quiet in there : NIGHTSHADE

16-down – … having lost colour, the source of such music : NOCTURNE

18-down – Charm of arrival : ENTRANCE

19-down – Dark type of story : BEDTIME

21-down – A difficulty reported at the top : APICAL

22-down – Witness the departure of defeat : SEEOFF

24-down – Buzzer with quiet warning sound : BEEP