Daily Answers

1-across – Battered maid regretting this? : GETTING

5-across – Country folk written in song : ARMENIA

10-across – Live wire’s second season of Sex and the City : BEIRUT

11-across – Sick of true hope getting dashed : UPTOHERE

12-across – Now I’d suppose union with a handicraft artist … maybe beats writing? : IFA

13-across – Select man from which thousands escape — it’s easy! : PICNIC

14-across – Paris’s affluent society dropping E’s in part of London : RICHMOND

15-across – Falls back dropping painter once more : AGAIN

16-across – Testes in translation, producing sweet sins : WITNESSES

19-across – See 12 : ATHOUSAND

21-across – See 12 : WORDS

24-across – E=mc², say, as one struggling with it comprehends : EQUATION

26-across – Taline’s uneasy settlement : ENTAIL

27-across – Miss The Tempest’s lost ending? : GAL

28-across – Is it played by Paul and me, perhaps, suppressing a little giggle on the road? : MINDGAME

29-across – See 12 : PAINTS

30-across – See 1 : MARRIED

31-across – See 12 : PICTURE

2-down – It’s a bit late in the day to be getting things straight : EVENING

3-down – Director’s pitch opposing gainsayer : TARANTINO

4-down – Public information spot : NOTICE

6-down – Timid yet fresh, keeping it up : RETICENT

7-down – Town in West is Wells, viewed from the ground? : EGHAM

8-down – Seconds out! Batty grannies baggable! : INRANGE

9-down – A Ugandan Girl Guide’s last out with dedicated minder : GUARDIANANGEL

17-down – Introduction to shirt-lifter holding hands with the chosen few : SHORTLIST

18-down – Like corsair, it’s lacking in honour and honesty : ASPIRATE

20-down – Quite uneasy over City of Angels short : TEQUILA

22-down – Bum cleft pinched by Marxist revolutionary : DRIFTER

23-down – Source of wise words from Rodney’s bruv highly acidic : DELPHI

25-down – Snake topping its opposite : ADDER

1-across – A rotten rotter? : BADEGG

4-across – Cricket sides seen occasionally : OFFANDON

9-across – Polynesian islands populated by small Indian grub : SAMOSA

10-across – Something living in whom sin a grotesque recollection : ORGANISM

11-across – What may suggest I get an illness : EATINGDISORDER

13-across – Day ran short during strike for final action : LASTHURRAH

14-across – Harmony, say, in act evens out : SYNC

16-across – Weakness that grips strongly? : VICE

18-across – Sweet shop guarantees hot toffee fudge, unsurprisingly lovely, for starters : DELIGHTFUL

21-across – Tory minister back on the drink reaches valleys, through which views magnified? : CONVERGINGLENS

23-across – Promise to wrap box, to say the least! : ITELLYOU

24-across – Endless bend or yew, crafted by him? : BOWYER

25-across – Put off, as Heath’s volte-face went wrong : DETERRED

26-across – Don’t go down river during drink : STAYUP

1-down – Chest requiring reparative surgery? : BUST

2-down – Jerk brings pariah’s name up with low voice : DUMBASS

3-down – See 19 : GASLIGHT

5-down – Sensation of ants crawling on skin I see in an arranged pattern : FORMICATION

6-down – Athletic female runner : AMAZON

7-down – Pressing unnecessary key, grave message sarcastic : DRIPDRY

8-down – Take lid off global power to fill void, at last going digital : NUMERICAL

12-down – Barking dog with green man, funny little chap outside : GARDENGNOME

13-down – Bastard lived locally, friendless, broken, imprisoning husband : LOVECHILD

15-down – Relax with honourable Ivy League leaders in power : CHILLOUT

17-down – Happy matter : CONTENT

19-down – Hollywood’s behind God-awful ghastly big old film : FANNYBY

20-down – Cashier, snitch? : TELLER

22-down – Taste relegation : DROP

1-across – By the time that I leave my own work for entertainment : COMEDY

4-across – Hot water carrier returns, never mind what the revelation : EPIPHANY

9-across – Standard error illuminated setter — about a pound — the way actors appeal to voters : PARTY

10-across – See 9 : POLITICAL

11-across – See 9 : BROADCAST

12-across – Translated, I fly, pursuing round moulding : OVOLO

13-across – Logical function for type of prison and judicial decision : OPENSENTENCE

17-across – Firm attachment to doctor with pain re-treated : INCORPORATED

20-across – Put in all you can to give to the dog : TOPUP

21-across – Taking in fodder, eking out critical situation : KNIFEEDGE

23-across – If challenged, put back on the hearth : FIREPLACE

24-across – Outstanding and too conscious of it? : PROUD

25-across – On what can be obtained from the net I depend altogether : ENTIRELY

26-across – Pain with everything? Apply plaster : GYPSUM

1-down – Perfect example of a Spoonerism from the turf accountant/policeman : COPYBOOK

2-down – Two surpluses, too? : MOREOVER

3-down – 19 poster disparaging 19s? : DRYAD

5-down – How to get 19-er beheaded? Puzzle given award : PULITZERPRIZE

6-down – Traveller on the beat with little change from that using conventional fuel : PATROLCAR

7-down – A lot of fish right on the seabed? : ANCHOR

8-down – Scream with pain, not being brave : YELLOW

10-down – Little man eating river bird following starter : PRAWNCOCKTAIL

14-down – Bird of rubber in vulgar parlance : SANDPIPER

15-down – Notes on ornament for the nose keeping it to the grindstone? : STUDIOUS

16-down – Slander and briefly myths brought up as an afterthought : ADDENDUM

18-down – Suppress loud : STIFLE

19-down – One in climbing jaunts needs mettle : SPIRIT

22-down – Try without head, yours having nothing in it : EMPTY

1-across – Confusion over allocation of sides: You weather, ___? : MELEE

4-across – Capital of kingdom where broken vase goes round and round : SARAJEVO

8-across – Aurora takes out her name amid instances of disrespect : SOUTHERNLIGHTS

10-across – Capital once ordered to include a missing composer : BELGRADE

11-across – Capital of South Africa with tailless bird : ZAGREB

12-across – A label for the whole piece done very fast : ATAGALLOP

15-across – Dorset castle given new finish in Greek island : CORFU

17-across – Key to crime and cover-up? : DRAPE

18-across – Audibly expressed regret having lost interest with piece of furniture : SIDEBOARD

19-across – Capital jokes made about piano : SKOPJE

21-across – Prisoner to give helping of jam : CONSERVE

24-across – Charlie is embraced by girl and son on the way to France? : CHANNELISLANDS

25-across – Capital in mint condition till final exchange : PRISTINA

26-across – Poem commemorating cinema? : ODEON

1-down – Avoid mistake about country, fictitious one without orchids : MISSBLANDISH

2-down – Capital organised initially by John Bull for composer : LJUBLJANA

3-down – This will put you out from inside the room : ETHER

4-down – Saint Thomas, Copperfield’s friend, has his leg over : STRADDLES

5-down – List of names for food : ROLL

6-down – Young cat has car with copper bottomed top : JAGUARCUB

7-down – One with no alternative but a multiple choice question : VOTER

9-down – Ayckbourn’s odd odd bod, sailor turning round press : ABSURDPERSON

13-down – Presenter of choirs has a beer with presenter of records : ALEDJONES

14-down – Capital of a Costa after dolphins depart? : PODGORICA

16-down – Change layout of back cooker : REARRANGE

20-down – Different from 3, having omissions for errors : OTHER

22-down – Excuse for shooting? : SALVO

23-down – Still one myth of the mountains : YETI

1-across – Enthusiastically welcome every second of farcical object : ACCLAIM

5-across – Riot Centre Boy! : HUBBUB

9-across – Divers to do sign need oxygen for so long : TOODLEOO

10-across – Vegetable — eating much game? : PELOTA

12-across – In dialectics animatedly responsible for the demise of cricket? : INSECTICIDAL

15-across – Going up to claim pay for unemployed teenager? : ADOLESCENT

17-across – That piece on which control’s tight — that’s boring! : THE

19-across – See 17 : BIT

20-across – The writer’s depriving Labour of work burden : IMPOSITION

22-across – Resident cloth rep hit edge of kerb before stop sign : PREBENDARIES

26-across – One who went over the edge in 16, sick in the sea at Calais : MILLER

27-across – Staying cryptically rendered for this cutter : CHAINSAW

28-across – Complain persistently to sweet potato farmer, perhaps? : YAMMER

29-across – One who went over the edge in 16, clear to see in criminal : BENNETT

1-down – Not in favour of current soldier going over the top : ANTI

2-down – : COOK

3-down – Male columnists displaying a variety of talents? : ATLANTES

4-down – : MOORE

6-down – Cultural agency out of tune with Scots? : UNESCO

7-down – Doctor obtains old sign of guilt : BLOODSTAIN

8-down – However certainly : BYALLMEANS

11-down – Strong liquor served by street bar no end : STINGO

13-down – Feeble war baby repeatedly gutted about reversal of plan : NAMBYPAMBY

14-down – 1919 or 1946, say, when a Brit’s absorbed a volley of bullets : POSTBELLUM

16-down – Buffalo Bill lassoes me for amusement : COMEDY

18-down – Workmanlike milkman holds up baker : LIMEKILN

21-down – Take out runner in Chester with permit to enter : DELETE

23-down – Restoration of B. Cowen’s predecessor, not fully in ascendancy : REHAB

24-down – Existential being gatecrashing Socrates’ seminar : ESSE

25-down – Pulls up teacher’s pet : SWOT