Daily Answers

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

1-across – The same egg consumption applied to school spread? I suspect not : DONTBETONIT

9-across – Taunt Frenchman about some living matter : ENERGID

10-across – Get in a muddle and name one to activate the defences : ANTIGEN

11-across – A letter may result from this operation relating to my depression : KEYSTROKE

12-across – See 1 down : ONTHE

13-across – Common sense? Not America! : NOUS

14-across – See 1 down : ITSFLAVOUR

16-across – Strong-scented plant chopped up by German cook : MOCKORANGE

19-across – Canteen hash : MESS

21-across – All energy given to light : EVERY

22-across – Property periodically inhabited by bodysnatcher : TIMESHARE

24-across – It’s expansive swapping cards — and silly : ASININE

25-across – In which no liquid is measured out in kilos : OILSKIN

26-across – Vegetable a go-go taking precedence? : GREENPEPPER

1-down – A question of note? Dreadful fuss over Old Glory White House budget compensation … : DOESYOURCHEWING

2-down – … over this darned thing! : NIGHT

3-down – See 1 : BEDPOST

4-down – I’ll help to tell your fortune for a nicker : TEALEAF

5-down – Someone else’s loan negotiation, in theory? : NOTIONAL

6-down – Highly-strung pedestrian : TIGHTROPEWALKER

7-down – Someone 24 wearing jacket : JERKIN

8-down – Dressed and ready to move : INGEAR

15-down – One led on by convoluted strategy for attack : BODYLINE

16-down – Woman frenzied describes? : MAENAD

17-down – Stag do’s on time : ACTAEON

18-down – See 1 : GUMLOSE

20-down – Vision producing order at Wimbledon departs from Centre : SEEING

23-down – Society’s fashionable line in drag : SHLEP

1-across – 9 that was, according to 5 — a musical sound : GREECE

4-across – Game heard to be in prospect, according to poet : TENNYSON

9-across – Singular 20 on beginning of Georgie Fame : GLORY

10-across – Without much of a dance, breaks the ice perhaps with lots and lots of potential : MEGAVOLTS

11-across – I’ll see if there are chemicals in Boris — one’s uncertain : BIOSENSOR

12-across – Bird used to be very hungry : RAVEN

13-across – Kite flown in place of golf ball after I get a pound inside : TRIALBALLOON

17-across – Old coin, Indian and Burmese, in a novel : ANNAKARENINA

20-across – Prison’s what rejects are for : BIRDS

21-across – Second sight where French girl’s wedding’s in the past : ESPOUSALS

23-across – African gives Spanish shouts during French leave : CONGOLESE

24-across – 5’s 22 fell — Bingo! : HOUSE

25-across – Some lines in mental health show the opposite of freshness : SALINITY

26-across – Enthusiastic model following Forest : ARDENT

1-down – Good one for oratory, yet maybe takes up a lot of space : GIGABYTE

2-down – Point for joker holding on to what will pay : ECONOMIC

3-down – Outlaw celebrated by Georgie Fame with carthorses around? : CLYDE

5-down – Poet on parade with legal characters : EDGARALLANPOE

6-down – No painter of Delft could tell what 5’s 12 said : NEVERMORE

7-down – Girl and boy not finally down in the mouth : SALIVA

8-down – Being a detective suggests silence with entry of 20 from Keats : NOSING

10-down – Does Deceived by magnetism mean a mess is being made of it? : MISMANAGEMENT

14-down – Pine for old golf club for use at diabolical table : LONGSPOON

15-down – To remove wrong ideas of God is a bus exposé : DISABUSE

16-down – Spare the criminal with a record : RAPSHEET

18-down – Counter beginners’ account at the Guardian : ABACUS

19-down – University kingdom? : BRUNEL

22-down – Personal pronouns of the old school : USHER

1-across – Altercation: then to meet : RUNINTO

5-across – Gun sure to grab attention : FIREARM

9-across – Phone people about vessel like the Cutty Sark, sadly : BURNT

10-across – Inside out, sounded an animal : ORANGUTAN

11-across – All furious about trade union leaders involved in criminal’s unfortunate release : FLATULENCE

12-across – Listen, taking a couple of seconds during exercise : PSST

14-across – Isolates hip in order to admit for treatment : HOSPITALISE

18-across – Naughty child, six, feeding rat, gets rash : IMPROVIDENT

21-across – Wrong to run backwards : TORT

22-across – Is subversive group infiltrating a lot of different things? : MISCELLANY

25-across – Single woman of peace I class as dressed for battle, perhaps? : INUNIFORM

26-across – Duck left in rain, baby bird : OWLET

27-across – Adverb present among rubbish : THEREAT

28-across – Jack’s off work to attend to clock : OBSERVE

1-down – Brush off and polish again? : REBUFF

2-down – As an author, did he deliver for William the Conqueror? : NORMAN

3-down – Midget PC’s rank? : NOTMUCHCOP

4-down – Milton’s time-consuming instrument : OBOTE

5-down – Is business contract his, having crossed the Channel? : FRANCHISE

6-down – Jelly served up, music to Indian ears? : RAGA

7-down – Lorry passing round one way, being creative : ARTISTIC

8-down – Partners in joint heading for lavatory, entertaining itinerant : MINSTREL

13-down – Old bags criticise love in the grip of birds? : PANTALOONS

15-down – Just tell me what to do when wine tasting? : SPITITOUT

16-down – Temple on this austere policy, following princess : DISTRICT

17-down – Endless worry in Accident & Emergency’s opening : APERTURE

19-down – See 2 : MAILER

20-down – Attempt to cut tree, climbing plant : MYRTLE

23-down – Item of jewellery making brief appearance : CAMEO

24-down – See 16 : LINE