Daily Answers

1-across – Study in group for preference with absolutely endless entry : BREADANDBUTTER

9-across – Thackeray’s 1 across Mrs, or Mrs Collins, bad girl etc wrongly put outside : CHARLOTTE

10-across – Playwright with killer on line : LORCA

11-across – Report of the Blue Boy? : SCION

12-across – Name given to action relating to property : TITLEDEED

13-across – Pale robe possibly worth putting on table : OPERABLE

14-across – See 1 : LETTER

17-across – The monkey’s mistake : HOWLER

19-across – Agape with fish before work in London, say : WIDEOPEN

22-across – Weather feature with French gentleman among battle lines? : WARMFRONT

24-across – Golden solver’s French royal family : TUDOR

25-across – Composer of simple harmonies : LEHAR

26-across – Tough goddess shortly keeping a lot of American carnivores : DRACONIAN

27-across – More lies fabricated in capital by Tory group : PRIMROSELEAGUE

1-down – Lauren carrying king’s child: he was starting from a desperate position : BACKSTOTHEWALL

2-down – Shifty sort of action : EVASIVE

3-down – Describe good food shop with pure energy : DELINEATE

4-down – You’re welcome? No thanks — unbelievable : NOTATALL

5-down – Mixed bather to be held under water : BREATH

6-down – Jethro with oriental fabric : TULLE

7-down – Grave, listener’s home : EARNEST

8-down – Fruit for fellow with audacity kidnapping Mrs Batty : MANDARINORANGE

15-down – Chosen people went on bus with conductor : ELECTRODE

16-down – Gas that should be pure: I flatter to deceive : FILTRATE

18-down – 9’s suicidal lover — sheep’s about right! : WERTHER

20-down – Dog keeps Yorkshire river rising with 1 across, say : PUDDING

21-down – Robin loves bugbear : HOODOO

23-down – Meeting of reactionary spirit : FORUM

9-across – Blue spray applied over green swelling : BULGE

10-across – Long-running show from Jerry Springer? : MOUSETRAP

11-across – Cut flower attached to back of black hats : SOMBREROS

12-across – It flies round violet at first, having left slope : BEVEL

13-across – Pink mollusc : SCALLOP

15-across – Black bag with belt I tucked inside : SATANIC

17-across – Large mushroom found outside, possibly pink : BLOOM

18-across – Red and green : RAW

20-across – Yellow gong clasped by a monarch : AMBER

22-across – With a little space, he can generate lift : ENHANCE

25-across – Round brown flower organically produced : NATURAL

26-across – Pretend singer knocks top off dimmer switch : MIMER

27-across – Brown drink the company distributed externally : CHOCOLATE

30-across – Are purple letters moved just after delivery? : PUERPERAL

31-across – Retracts apologetic outburst right on track : SPOOR

1-down – Bird, black one, is carrying … : IBIS

2-down – … plant having purple shoot and orange tip : PLUMBAGO

3-down – Grey leader dropped behind : REAR

4-down – Bonxie’s true blue : IMPROPER

5-down – Express dismay at obscenities : CURSES

6-down – Pole takes back nothing on board — food’s thin : MELBATOAST

7-down – Yellow bird caught first : CRAVEN

8-down – Mineral regularly seen on pearls : OPAL

13-down – Black horses unseating head trainers : SABLE

14-down – Tears after yellow sweets : LEMONDROPS

16-down – Pink rock with trademark centre : CORAL

19-down – White man embraces first lover with abandon : WANTONLY

21-down – Return to heartless African region for orange : BERGAMOT

23-down – Primary element — brown earth by estuary : HUMBER

24-down – Squire loosened corset : ESCORT

26-down – Blue sponge with shape like a catapult : MOPY

28-down – Brown lid removed from kiln : OAST

29-down – The colour of a battlecruiser : ECRU

1-across – Fortify Mosley? Confound it! That’s what always happens to me : STORYOFMYLIFE

10-across – Disputes with watcher about people taking time : ARGUMENTS

11-across – Loner maybe put on like this outside : SADDO

12-across – Ship’s company with slow start heard on tableland : KAROO

13-across – I go back and knock hard, entering by 1, say : BIOGRAPHY

14-across – Name for lots of strips of pasta : NOODLES

16-across – Sky, it may be, keeps companion of unsophisticated taste : KITSCHY

18-across – One wearing long pants produced 13s of 23 down : JOHNSON

20-across – Body part for important person who produced 13 of 18 : BOSWELL

21-across – Paleface in political group reported — do I bother? : CAUCASOID

23-across – Absolutely sound? : PLUMB

24-across – Shows former NCOs : EXPOS

25-across – Oil producer in riot with levee being destroyed : OLIVETREE

26-across – Peg to refuse and Daddy’s on a roll : BRANDYANDSODA

2-down – It reverts to seed with awfully hot and gaudy flier : TIGERMOTH

3-down – It’s capital to love a lover : ROMEO

4-down – Transport books put together : OMNIBUS

5-down – Corn collected on road? Got it wrong : MISTOOK

6-down – Unction etc is commonplace in a girl : LASTRITES

7-down – Far from pleased at policeman being promoted? : FEDUP

8-down – Cheat outrageously holding high cards that may be worn out : HACKINGJACKET

9-down – Parrots talking back to very old-fashioned 15 in very long words : POLYSYLLABLES

15-down – Comic bird interrupting instruction : LESDAWSON

17-down – Money order on the debit side with squares : CHEQUERED

19-down – One odd record, unknown coinage : NEOLOGY

20-down – Digs organised during prohibition, which is ominous : BADSIGN

22-down – Superior meal with no starter : UPPER

23-down – All fools, they say, take one drug among others : POETS

9-across – Old, posh eejit, blaspheming father, duped : OUTWITTED

10-across – Tory leader once, Howard’s only leader fit : HAGUE

11-across – Hit, ears may be glowing : LAMBENT

12-across – South American author’s ultimate brand? : MARQUEZ

13-across – The stealing individual, first to filch? : THIEF

14-across – Chinese eating a McDonald’s in North America runs for the country : SANMARINO

16-across – Unusual story done with usual hero, defined as work of 12 : ONEHUNDREDYEARS

19-across – Work of 12, novel with heroic theme, if a lot tormented : LOVEINTHE

21-across – Bit of a bloomer sending dead penguin’s head back : PETAL

22-across – See 19 : CHOLERA

23-across – Cry about vacant top event : SHOTPUT

24-across – What one should put on English ship, fish among red nuts : DRESS

25-across – Book taken : KIDNAPPED

1-down – Author’s written up hideous creation, paper not for reading! : TOILETROLL

2-down – Male in agony, drug is poison : PTOMAINE

3-down – See 19 : TIMEOF

4-down – Let it be bitten by priest, ethically : STET

5-down – Couple with little on credit : ADAMANDEVE

6-down – Drug dealers taking heroin into Italian city, then Cyprus : PHARMACY

7-down – Topping French dish, ideal starter — large rodent! : AGOUTI

8-down – Motor manufacturer taking up the second area, nothing less : BENZ

14-down – Team numbers achieving draws away : SIDETRACKS

15-down – See 16 : OFSOLITUDE

17-down – Everything is about heaven-bound clergyman in melody, save the introduction : UNIVERSE

18-down – Primate glugging Pinot madly, not the official pontiff! : ANTIPOPE

20-down – Plant I fed to rodent, ending in cat : VIOLET

21-down – Upper chamber all zonked out, rather pitifully, all starting to rise : PROZAC

22-down – See 24 : CODE

23-down – Odious chap having a pop : SODA

1-across – Beastly play given to trouble on foot with nothing had trouble with everything : TOADOFTOADHALL

8-across – Crime brings one of her own to Germany : FRAUD

9-across – The shepherd’s farewell directs us now towards poet’s dream of sorrow then : TOMORROW

11-across – Artist with record rendering of stone : EPSTEIN

12-across – Monarch in cricket ground left for protection : OVERALL

13-across – Half mature folk smothered in sauce have been brought before the bench : HADUP

15-across – Subject of mutual attraction? : CHEMISTRY

17-across – Awkwardly placed for penalty? : ONTHESPOT

20-across – With sound reduced by revolving doors : SORDO

21-across – I leave homework to unpleasant family rulers : DYNASTY

23-across – Throwback to one going through the country : BOLIVIA

25-across – Debilitating condition of setter hiding a very small quantity : MIGRAINE

26-across – Dog with shorts? : BOXER

27-across – See 9 : ANDPASTURESNEW

1-down – See 9 : TOFRESHWOODS

2-down – Accumulate alleged value of Paris : AMASS

3-down – End of the world between two poles arranged by veterans : OLDPEOPLE

4-down – Huge loss : TITANIC

5-down – A part : ARMHOLE

6-down – Met man that might have been a crowd? : HORDE

7-down – Take care of dish with a foot in it : LOOKAFTER

10-down – Aim to share points with 1 across, maybe, to attract following of retired artist : PLAYFORADRAW

14-down – Punishment for 10 times 10 times half 10, otherwise 10 divided by 10 and 10 : DETENTION

16-down – Impossible to get home with the sun turning blue : INSOLUBLE

18-down – Subject of drugs? : PHYSICS

19-down – Marker on the water in French still life : TABLEAU

22-down – Fight for very little : SCRAP

24-down – 5 to 9 points for the earth mother : VIXEN