Daily Answers

1-across – Note down something in bed : FLOWER

4-across – 1 across finding fault with bully : COWSLIP

9-across – Medium discharge, maximum in obstreperous camels : ECTOPLASM

10-across – 1 across’s Antarctic expedition? : STOUR

11-across – Strongly maintain small 1 across : SWEAR

12-across – 1 acrosses border river in places : PRIMROSES

13-across – A conspirator twisted at first, seeking plant : ARBUTUS

15-across – 1 across having to kiss a redhead : NECKAR

17-across – The way to have a relative balance : STASIS

19-across – 1 across experienced UN’s absence at the front : DERWENT

22-across – Tiredness certainly in use of retina? : EYESTRAIN

24-across – 1 across more likely to win, leader dropping off : ASTER

26-across – Just around the corner, diet? : LOCAL

27-across – 1 across one’s to discover behind new line : NARCISSUS

28-across – Skill of a tennis player pinches prize on the backhand? : TOPSPIN

29-across – Open unimaginative starter, prawn cocktail : UNWRAP

1-down – 1 across lets ya out, say : FREESIA

2-down – Bizarre off and on : OUTRE

3-down – 1 across risen, there’s a cuckoo circling : EUPHRATES

4-down – 1 across, hero missing rugby posts : CAMPION

5-down – 1 across gets to stitch up monarch : WESER

6-down – Prided hair is on male that’s wild, covering top of neck : LIONSMANE

7-down – Study the country’s economy, primarily : PERUSE

8-down – Joint where tenor almost swallows piano : CARPUS

14-down – 1 across’s bottom half set on a stool, we hear? : BUTTERCUP

16-down – 1 across for motor race : CARNATION

18-down – 1 across being quiet in the year, forlorn ultimately : SHANNON

19-down – Man with a tough guy image ironed pants : DENIRO

20-down – More than one vessel among sheep arrives : TURNSUP

21-down – Drink problem out of season, fate ensuing : MERLOT

23-down – 1 across, everyone can see, left in dump : TULIP

25-down – Clip from Bardot, a serious stunner : TASER

1-across – Swift in dialect after choice literary papers : PICKWICK

5-across – Subject accepting right line on map : TROPIC

9-across – Report broadcast first to a South African city : PRETORIA

10-across – Scout’s word — but what about Cobden? : HONOUR

12-across – Banish fish that swallowed a British coin? : EXPEL

13-across – Main entrance for admitting small boy to do wrong : FRONTDOOR

14-across – Dismissed at cricket many times, admit then expel from our streets : RUNOUTOFTOWN

18-across – Cricketer makes Spooner’s shedder of tears give up the habit : WICKETKEEPER

21-across – A paint spread around in the past, where it’s said to be somewhat chilly : PATAGONIA

23-across – Gloomy audiologist? : DREAR

24-across – Agricultural school? : HARROW

25-across – 18’s neighbour needing a built-up shoe? : SHORTLEG

26-across – Quite fair? : PRETTY

27-across – Attempt to score a goal at tennis? : DROPSHOT

1-down – Nominal payment to one boosting hackneyed stuff with a tear : PEPPER

2-down – Pyramid builder finds point of life in food : CHEOPS

3-down – Crustacean, died in the wool, with flower : WOODLOUSE

4-down – Factotum, one among two preparing food, with other two let into party with hesitation : CHIEFCOOKAND

6-down – Where to sleep with ruler? : ROOST

7-down – Etiquette demanding return of crazy lethargy, or not? : PROTOCOL

8-down – See 1 : CORNRENT

11-down – See 4 : BOTTLEWASHER

15-down – Mistakenly lifted sentence of closure for study in the country : FIELDTRIP

16-down – Sappho’s problem about who’s leader of barter centre : SWAPSHOP

17-down – Salmond’s aim to be getting away with it? : SCOTFREE

19-down – Having a lot of money is breaking the law : WEALTH

20-down – See 10 : BRIGHT

22-down – Good entertainer maybe 1 down’s : GHOST

1-across – England’s captain, once one of several scorers : STRAUSS

5-across – Leave his prey to perish in 25 : EYELASH

10-across – Former president getting head from Monica — a second short spell in White House 25 : BUSH

11-across – Sign forms — how final couple to hotel are written down in evenings? : NEONLIGHTS

12-across – Run large 25 : LADDER

13-across – Patent protecting firm — origin of Apple Mac? : OVERCOAT

14-across – Tricks 16 artist : CONSTABLE

16-across – 25 to drive over playing surface featuring 25s and 12s? : BOARD

17-across – See 5 : VIPER

19-across – One doing routine work round large-sized breasts — plastic surgery piece : ODDJOBMAN

23-across – Co-star at bad singer : CASTRATO

24-across – Function pictures, having airbrushed mother, capturing Oscars : COSINE

26-across – Bad US singer at musical introductions : SIGNATURES

27-across – Friend is friendly — not initially : ALLY

28-across – Fears tense mistakes : TERRORS

29-across – Makes beloved Kennedy et al rise regularly : ENDEARS

2-down – Visit Bill Oddie’s top bird : TOURACO

3-down – Needed top card holding hearts and diamonds : ACHED

4-down – Turning over while American’s boxing — wrestling ring punch : SANGRIA

6-down – Yes, ’70s prog rock band Queen, one cries : YELPER

7-down – Record dovetailing IBM company with British type of computer virus : LOGICBOMB

8-down – What I try to do should be OK? : SETFAIR

9-down – 25 dished out more cold bacon : MONOCLEDCOBRA

15-down – Sugar’s replacement upset on news, outside, hot from The Apprentice’s final : SWEETENER

18-down – Independent supplement dropping extreme characters for picture : IMAGINE

20-down – Bad singer : JACKSON

21-down – Ring-shaped forms unreasonable — not unusually obese : ANNULAR

22-down – See 10 : MASTER

25-down – Racer, perhaps, briefly exposed following its profile? : SNAKE

9-across – Refusal for Cambridgeshire saint, her very own self : NONEOTHER

10-across – Perfume given to city in Italy : AROMA

11-across – As specified, Are you ready ___?, as waiter might say : TOORDER

12-across – Lack of water puts obligation on medico : DROUGHT

13-across – The Fair Maid of Perth’s sweet girl : IRMA

14-across – Third-class work of such as 18, 19, 20 … : CHILDSTARS

15-across – … and flowers : GARLAND

17-across – Saint on pillar, nameless graduate : COLUMBA

19-across – Ryan’s child makes duck, retaining wrong amount : TATUMONEAL

22-across – Alter ebb? : EDIT

23-across – Glass for the circus : TUMBLER

24-across – Fighting that isn’t for poltroon keeping end on line : COLDWAR

26-across – One of 14 developed from grass meadow : MILLS

27-across – It stimulates one to learn changes in a row : ADRENALIN

1-down – With nothing on I’m leaving Jewish acolytes to French comedian in sport, step by step : ONETHINGATATIME

2-down – Home to old nark : INFORMER

3-down – One of the 14, Natalie had a lot of growth : WOOD

4-down – Sanctified companion at old city gets a lot of cheese : CHURCHED

5-down – What sounds like a path to the altar? : BRIDAL

6-down – Musical song about employment : CAROUSEL

7-down – Porch made of 3 by some giants : LOGGIA

8-down – Listener’s object includes threats that could be very destructive : EARTHSHATTERING

16-down – Officers taking page out of Palmistry Discovered : ARMYLIST

17-down – Luck has a line with wards : CHANCERY

18-down – Roddy Doyle’s head put in to frighten everyone under 1,000 : MCDOWALL

20-down – Capital religious building? : TEMPLE

21-down – Wisdom in French : NORMAN

25-down – Beast making connections with audience : LYNX

9-across – Economic region’s currency traded for no gas : OZONE

10-across – The rabble’s hard work turns into double oil spill : HOIPOLLOI

11-across – Saucy maid breaks brute’s toe : SOUBRETTE

12-across – South American comedy series is a hit : SMASH

13-across – Opening numbers: 500,000,000,000? : NOSTRIL

15-across – See 13 down : PARKERS

17-across – Bearing rubbish and litter : SEDAN

18-across – Say, good clue for O? : EGG

20-across – Silly production of Annie : INANE

22-across – Orbison returns to cover UK singer, not a US-Swiss singer : YODELER

25-across – English composer or hitman? : LAMBERT

26-across – Loveless tabloid hack dismisses boss’s head girl : TILDA

27-across – Strong man possesses single talent : POTENTIAL

30-across – Cameron : CHAMELEON

31-across – Foreign film : ALIEN

1-down – See 29 : HOPS

2-down – Concentrated Scouse stew follows fine starter for dinner : FOCUSSED

3-down – Writer of real nonsense : LEAR

4-down – Spooner’s fair question leads to polite deception : WHITELIE

5-down – Excite Formula One’s pure racing : FIREUP

6-down – Coalition party finds Greek character’s upset after angry riots : CONSORTIUM

7-down – Gangster and murderer reportedly manufacture paraffin : ALKANE

8-down – Vocal peak? By ’eck, that’s advanced : HIGH

13-down – Might they pry or sneak about to gain small exposé, ultimately? : NOSEY

14-down – Chief lecturer quaffs gin cocktail with student : RINGLEADER

16-down – Female 31’s film : SHEET

19-down – Member promoted in Tea Party? It might raise the thickness level : GELATINE

21-down – Profanities unfold when spoilt son leaves drink : APERITIF

23-down – Soap dish upended over top of legs : DALLAS

24-down – Talented man on screen in Surrey village? : RIPLEY

26-down – See 8 : TECH

28-down – Prophet discarding most of the bread : NAAN

29-down – Pine shop condemned for bad deliveries : LONG