Daily Answers

8-across – Suspicion about bank backing closure of each plant : HYACINTH

9-across – A general on a foreign field? : ABROAD

10-across – It’s manufactured round : EDAM

11-across – Arm with bottle : WINCHESTER

12-across – Designated mine ending in disrepair, as old : FORMER

14-across – Beheading extreme through evidence of wound — did this do it? : SCIMITAR

15-across – Large fruit repeated in song? : NEWYORK

17-across – Square seen circling square, sort of square : SIXTEEN

20-across – Pass rope from behind mammoth : COLOSSAL

22-across – Cries of joy, as there’s been a little accident? : WHOOPS

23-across – See 4 : RESTAURANT

24-across – Nothing unadapted’s secured : NADA

25-across – All signs showing charity’s cut because in recession : ZODIAC

26-across – How do I damage my car’s bodywork? By removing British name : IDENTITY

1-down – See 4 : SYNDROME

2-down – Computers set up for deception : SCAM

3-down – A state of Australia and its head of state return : ANSWER

4-down – Food poisoning seen by her nurse, dessert 13 24 down : CHINESE

5-down – One border lifted after king remains in a disputed territory : KASHMIRI

6-down – Butcher cut strip off at first, duck becoming cured meat : PROSCIUTTO

7-down – Source of lead required, severe blow getting sodium : GALENA

13-down – Parts within could prove harmful, as can tiny amounts, potentially : MAYCONTAIN

16-down – Potential supply rose unexpectedly, a shade up : RESOURCE

18-down – Rush through power change, filling river : EXPEDITE

19-down – Knock a magical creature over, finding hole : FLEAPIT

21-down – State to which 7, perhaps, has been taken, unfinished : OREGON

22-down – Dry humour not his : WITHER

24-down – See 13 : NUTS

1-across – See 24 : CABINET

5-across – Orgasms are impossible with Paul; might rubber work here? : MASSAGE

10-across – Struggle with enemy nation has Enigmatist out to catch one : RACE

11-across – Tripping on a slippery surface? : ICEDANCING

12-across – Tongue in cheek, swallow audibly : INJEST

13-across – Heading for tavern with an attempt to follow sport in absence from school : TRUANTRY

14-across – Faulty Fawlty’s first hotelier to seek alternative employment : OTHERLIFE

16-across – Surface put forward : TABLE

17-across – Vessel’s lip — or vesel’s li? : SPOUT

19-across – Good-for-nothing gay liberal with claws out : SCALLYWAG

23-across – Escape from Baker? : BREAKOUT

24-across – 6s Shed won’t reshuffle — though Cameron may : SHADOW

26-across – No fixed abode? : MOBILEHOME

27-across – See 10 : TIME

28-across – Pediment turning East, West or Souf? : FRONTON

29-across – Fool maintaining high note’s expedient : STOPGAP

2-down – See 10 : AGAINST

3-down – Peace of Tenerife upheld : IRENE

4-down – Defunct arm of the law secured repeal of decree : EDICTAL

6-down – A system for paying contributors across union counter : ABACUS

7-down – See 8 : SECONDARY

8-down – Araucaria’s golden efficiency detector: Eton result obtained in passing : GENERAL

9-down – See 8 : CERTIFICATEOF

15-down – See 8 : EDUCATION

18-down – See 5 : PARLOUR

20-down – The female in heat is most prolific : LUSHEST

21-down – Having a defective nose, I am at fault : ANOSMIA

22-down – Everyone stays, which is the philosopher’s object : NONEGO

25-down – Bill Rammell’s beginning to be troublesome : ACTUP

7-across – B-barking mad in Eccles, say : GOODMAN

8-across – B’s demise in ninth hour? : HENDRIX

9-across – B-boxer’s glove insert and boot gone west : DUKE

10-across – See 9 : ELLINGTON

12-across – B-Bud : BILLY

13-across – B-blues 19 : TEDHEATH

15-across – What 17 across might say is child’s play? : ISPY

16-across – Helps a B with order of set : ABETS

17-across – Tie I dropped by the beach : BOND

18-across – Disinclined? Determined! : HELLBENT

20-across – B-bone a cut is off : COUNT

21-across – Item burnt once with a little zest, then crushed until it can be used in muesli : BRAZILNUT

22-across – B & B type : BILK

24-across – Show contempt for 10’s era, sadly : SNEERAT

25-across – B-blogs talked of bereavement : JOELOSS

1-down – Part of plant of use as foodstuff : TOFU

2-down – B-British snake on straight line : ADDERLEY

3-down – Rampant male — see Viz : NAMELY

4-down – Delia’s no cooking king! : LEONIDAS

5-down – Girl regretted opening up a little : ODETTE

6-down – Second B leaves capital for rugby international : LION

11-down – B-butcher three times lonely? Humph! : LYTTELTON

12-down – See 20 across : BASIE

14-down – Opinion going up and down : TENET

16-down – Man crazy about a girl from Boston, say : AMERICAN

17-down – Bloomer, an obscene clanger : BLUEBELL

19-down – See 21 : LEADER

20-down – See 12 across : COTTON

21-down – The definitive B is a wicked thing going topless, bared bust stuck out : BAND

23-down – B’s bottom : LAST

1-across – Meet trouble during prohibition from subsidence : ABATEMENT

9-across – Round number looked put up to it : PRIMED

10-across – Receiver can’t possibly eat mushroom : ACCEPTANT

11-across – Cause to drink like a fish without sleep : SOZZLE

12-across – Recorder is following Red Cross’s greeting to 5 : ARCHIVIST

13-across – Supply lines with immediate effect : PROMPT

17-across – Provide protection to member : ARM

19-across – Dog or cat when American is old hat : PETASUS

20-across – Produces great quantities, but one has limits : ABOUNDS

21-across – Limit could finish Russian : SKY

23-across – Learning about a hospital in Pakistan : LAHORE

27-across – Cause of bump causing anger outside pit : AIRPOCKET

28-across – Stop your first settlement : COLONY

29-across – For endless heaven see George : AUTOPILOT

30-across – Call to rebellion is pure rubbish : RISEUP

31-across – Araucaria as lily-white boy? Yes : AGREEMENT

2-down – Acid opponent finds transport in feeder : BICARB

3-down – Have early trouble with starter article? : TEETHE

4-down – Purpose of test setter’s taken : MOTIVE

5-down – Waiver by the ninth Latin queen : NONUSER

6-down – Initially whisk three times or maybe it will thicken : ARROWROOT

7-down – Chaps like Bobby Sands get to wonder : AMAZEMENT

8-down – Religious person’s hole in hell : ADVENTIST

14-down – Vehicle almost always overturned needs clapper out : APPLECART

15-down – Dry French lament, finally : ATTHELAST

16-down – High-flier takes a turn so wildly : ASTRONAUT

17-down – One with four feet and no sense : ASS

18-down – Uncertain flower : MAY

22-down – Breather after Maori meal for teller of tales for taels : KAILUNG

24-down – Fight work on attitude : OPPOSE

25-down – Split contributing to putsch is my fault : SCHISM

26-down – Answer, go back to the club : REJOIN

5-across – Poor clubs supplied with card game : CRUMMY

6-across – Man in Roman emperor dissolving an imperialist government : THERAJ

9-across – Woodworm’s work routine : BORING

10-across – Way to cut back, cutting front, for example : INSTANCE

11-across – Bird given fruit : KIWI

12-across – Ultimately, Lembit impressed by topless dress worn by cheeky girl following party chief whip? : DOMINATRIX

13-across – Bring order to a mess : SYSTEMATISE

18-across – Religious official on coke, perhaps, sticks nose in on top of table : HIGHPRIEST

21-across – Old artist making comeback, not finished : AGED

22-across – Interval is time interrupting social occasion : DISTANCE

23-across – Boy, where are ’er eggs laid? : ERNEST

24-across – Actress with whom I mix while on location in Somerset : IMELDA

25-across – Decoration attached in time : HONOUR

1-down – Strong beneficial quality — or lack of it? : FUTILITY

2-down – Participating in slalom, I go downhill — what a surprise! : OMIGOD

3-down – Tree, old one : CHESTNUT

4-down – Brute bites bottom of intruder, bit of a chicken? : BREAST

5-down – Composer’s composition central to feature : CHOPIN

7-down – Spooner’s supportin’ Scotland as potential shocker : JACKIN

8-down – Twice married, be desired, when drunk — legless, perhaps? : DISMEMBERED

14-down – Lament refurbishing trendy home? Not me! : THRENODY

15-down – See 24 : STAUNTON

16-down – Italian port, where Irish erected something in The Italian Job : RIMINI

17-down – Relax, filling in edges of trickier puzzle : TEASER

19-down – Pillbox like a pillar box, creating ill-feeling : HATRED

20-down – See 7 : THEBOX