Daily Answers

1-across – Bum runs into tree : BREECH

4-across – Optimistic conductor raises his baton for this : UPBEAT

9-across – So-called good walk spoiled over strike : FLOG

10-across – Is harbouring a little brief deception in strengthening system : ISOMETRICS

11-across – Stars show contempt for educational paper : BOOTES

12-across – 0 or 1 squared in small steps : BITBYBIT

13-across – Front man now here, he’s gone : PRESENTER

15-across – See 3 : TIDE

16-across – See 26 : ROSE

17-across – Being in uncomfortable position in pool woefully heightened bath bill : BEHINDTHE

21-across – See 20 : AMILLION

22-across – Like Helen of Troy, or the pride of London? : NONESO

24-across – Stresses, eg swapping for these subordinates : UNDERLINGS

25-across – See 17 : BALL

26-across – Playwright’s fallen into beer plant down the slope : ALPINE

27-across – Worship by consuming fish : PRAYER

1-down – PM’s 17 book 5 20 3 16 across : BALFOUR

2-down – See 17 : EIGHT

3-down – Remake of modernistic film : CRIMSON

5-down – See 22 : PRETTY

6-down – Up before most others, he barely troubled the writer on the way : EARLYBIRD

7-down – Touching behaviour concealed by hat : TACTILE

8-down – Innuendo from Belgium and one other : DOUBLEMEANING

14-down – Rope-maker’s little sibling on top of mountain, negotiating border : SISALHEMP

16-down – Oscar – person found in drowned valley here : ROMANIA

18-down – One is engaged in continuous action, making air cleaner : IONISER

19-down – One who perpetrates swindle right after sleuth’s elucidation : HUSTLER

20-down – A diamond grinding factory, in original – unusual – setting : GIRLIN

23-down – Smart old boy born in the Big Apple : NOBBY

1-across – Gloomy sergeant on 8’s put through the mill : BLACKPEPPER

9-across – Bag antique hidden in lobby : HOLDALL

10-across – Attractive extension flanks hotel : WINNING

12-across – Monarch’s implicated in articles in three languages after that : THEREUNDER

13-across – : BLUE

15-across – Bletchley Park guy’s rank not registered after last month : DECODER

17-across – Relax in card game, adding three points : LOOSEN

18-across – : RED

20-across – Mock scarlet-backed fish : DERIDE

22-across – Part of oil rig Adair bent over, getting back problem : DERRICK

26-across – Old book revealed by radioactive dating : VEDA

27-across – Wandering preacher or critic : REPROACHER

29-across – Catch sailor in his element – Sunday school! : SEABASS

30-across – Is it raised by suspicious East End intellectual? : EYEBROW

31-across – Feel very distressed about 13 disease : YELLOWFEVER

2-down – Short break in Yorkshire city when also occupying properties : LEASEHOLDS

3-down – Sort of filter, as Aldrin was with Armstrong? : COLANDER

4-down – Stalag resident’s radical uprising could be explosive : POWDER

5-down – : PINK

6-down – Food writer’s in bed, headto-toe with short man : EDIBLES

7-down – : WHITE

8-down – Disc protection makes Lee very content : SLEEVE

11-down – : GREEN

14-down – ‘Mourinho hides neural problem!’ in press-speak : JOURNALESE

16-down – null : RED

19-down – London leads it in song as broadcast by bum? : DERRIERE

20-down – : DAVIS

21-down – Bureaucracy got less significant, back to front : REDTAPE

23-down – Olympics boss clutches woman’s stick : COHERE

24-down – Observe present and past playground feature : SEESAW

25-down – : BROWN

28-down – Formal dance when alien leaves formal dance : BALL

1-across – Stools are unable to ‘urt? : ARMLESS

5-across – White people on unemployment benefit the state rejected : ALBUMEN

9-across – 11 of B, source of literature that’s black and white? : PENGUIN

10-across – Fabulous bird no charge, so to speak? : PHOENIX

11-across – Female in church cuts pack to reveal Joker, perhaps : ARCHENEMY

12-across – Female in church cuts pack to reveal Joker, perhaps: some find it tough : DITTO

13-across – Shift bandage : DRESS

15-across – See 7 : MERCILESS

17-across – Fool put on stage demonstrating rigid movement : GOOSESTEP

19-across – 11 of LS’s race had to claim victory over ruler : DARTH

22-across – Spontaneous note well hidden in pound, unopened : UNBID

23-across – 11 of HP’s protest, having run into something potentially shocking : VOLDEMORT

25-across – 11 of JB’s b-brain without a drug left, died : BLOFELD

26-across – An outburst about one’s misery : ANGUISH

27-across – 11 of B, one peppering with shot? : RIDDLER

28-across – Time for this PM to close report, ultimately : TONIGHT

1-down – Praise a second course about mountain climbing : APPLAUD

2-down – Continental relative of mine drops second name, which the 9 saw through : MONOCLE

3-down – Develop English leader over old Italian one : EDUCE

4-down – Cooler head under this UN leadership in fix : SUNHELMET

5-down – Use as a fruit, perhaps? : APPLY

6-down – Mad world I found in plot, as finished by Sassoon? : BLOWDRIED

7-down – 11 of FG: 11? Catholic individual put in mix with Nazis : MINGTHE

8-down – Unpleasant sort of stock admitting one into student union : NOXIOUS

14-down – Flower, source of drug, perhaps? : SPEEDWELL

16-down – Regret holding everyone up – it’s offensive : REPELLANT

17-down – Mercenary: good one causing friction? : GRUBBER

18-down – Black throne room in dark blue city not in favour of reddish-brown : OXBLOOD

20-down – Carnival scene can start to generate public disorder : RIOTING

21-down – Celebrity’s stolen picture : HOTSHOT

23-down – See 19 : VADER

24-down – Encourage gastronome to swallow his own head? : EGGON

1-across – Pagan god with Hebrew bread, one might say : JUPITER

5-across – Cocktail in combination : SIDECAR

9-across – See 16 : RACES

10-across – Trees, without exception, are there before : FORESTALL

11-across – Sound of a snake with a piece of orange made by person in test : HUMANGUINEAPIG

13-across – Makes ‘otter food? : EATS

14-across – Hermetic melody, 1 over 8? : AIRTIGHT

17-across – Member of chorus, say, with unusual Maltese name : STEELMAN

18-across – The man who wins the lady’s love : HERO

21-across – Main point of convergence for Puccini’s pal, possibly : PRINCIPALFOCUS

23-across – Opening of Cambodian border to invade its neighbour for nothing, sadly : LACRIMOSO

24-across – Section missing from tyrant’s HQ : DEPOT

25-across – Keep up sanction : SUSTAIN

26-across – Drunk wandering off amid the butts? : ASHTRAY

1-down – Sudden movement in being removed from jacket : JERK

2-down – Truck with chessmen to restore equilibrium : PICKUPTHEPIECES

3-down – Statement of present and past life in a state : TISWAS

4-down – Sanctuary in the case of inadequate ventilation point : REFUGE

5-down – Island of fish – and air is fishy : SARDINIA

6-down – Plate removed from boiler after inferno leaves little record : DISKETTE

7-down – Meal to celebrate winner, a girl getting nearer the top : CHAMPAGNESUPPER

8-down – Going further down, take a bit of food, concealing unfinished poem : RELEGATION

12-down – Where Tamburlaine rode by himself with Scottish coppers : PERSEPOLIS

15-down – Former mate for a Ming vase? : OLDCHINA

16-down – Plantation song of tents – 100, to answer query : CAMPTOWN

19-down – Food cooked without trouble when God’s around in a state : ALLOFA

20-down – See 19 : DOODAH

22-down – Wait for support : STAY

9-across – Start to bike, straight and flat races see this set off with 27? : BLANK

10-across – Soft drink includes joint thanks to little sizzler : CHIPOLATA

11-across – Once what Costner did in The Untouchables with accuracy : EXACTNESS

12-across – Benefit when carrying pole in dangerously chaotic place at 18 : SNAKE

13-across – Harbour around port etc : PROTECT

15-across – Knight’s regalia is delivered by some electronic technology on 31 : CIRCUIT

17-across – Round with beer drinking very close to 9 : POINT

18-across – 17’s not on if made in Grand Prix at 26 down : PIT

20-across – Programme about 17:17 : PRONG

22-across – Swallow this clue for pom? : ROLLMOP

25-across – Sully girl’s name in drinking den : BESMEAR

26-across – Spirit that’ll cut out juice with 15 : SHORT

27-across – Vehicle, say, with grime on back that may be drawn on with 13 down : CARTRIDGE

30-across – Ring to get quotients covering gold compositions : ORATORIOS

31-across – Right to be knocked back in extensive draughts, say, at 8 : BOARD

1-down – Skilful at trimming top in fur : ABLE

2-down – Foodstuff in a wagon operating at heart of major route : MACARONI

3-down – Heartless bloodsuckers climbing from takeoff : SKIT

4-down – Wet corps could show a bit of bottle : SCREWTOP

5-down – Chairs a committee concerning flier’s respiratory aid : AIRSAC

6-down – Those impressed by texts to play trick on the head : CONSCRIPTS

7-down – Cross and disturbed by a university city showing opulence : XANADU

8-down – Damaged important part of set with 17 : GAME

13-down – Intro to view stated by powerful person that’s not really on 16 : PAPER

14-down – Respect is at no time free : ESTIMATION

16-down – Good to have row about Australian killer at 12 : TIGER

19-down – Plant in ground to be sure : TUBEROSE

21-down – Exaggerate about tie : OVERDRAW

23-down – John has note for scrubber : LOOFAH

24-down – Setter has 13 across to drop rubbish in : PECTIN

26-down – Up-downs cease abruptly at 26 across : STOP

28-down – Garment in which son leaves old singer, … : ROBE

29-down – … Nelson, is swirling round? : EDDY