Daily Answers

1-across – : JERRYBUILDING

10-across – : UNDYING

11-across – : POPEDOM

12-across – : LARGE

13-across – : SCATTERER

14-across – : FLORA

16-across – : HALLOWMAS

18-across – : CINCTURED

19-across – : GIRTH

20-across – : TOWNCLERK

23-across – : VIALS

24-across – : OVERACT

25-across – : ZINGARO

26-across – : YESTERDAYSMEN

2-down – : EIDERDOWN

3-down – : RAISE

4-down – : BOGUS

5-down – : IMPEARLED

6-down – : DIPHTHONG

7-down – : NADIR

8-down – : QUALIFICATION

9-down – : XMARKSTHESPOT

15-down – : ATTICSALT

16-down – : HARVESTER

17-down – : MARMALADE

21-down – : WHERE

22-down – : KEZIA

23-down – : VENUS

1-across – See 6 : METHOD

4-across – Cluster of flowers seen in spring – ten in the Luxembourg gardens : SPADIX

9-across – Remarkable person in arithmetic only, maybe? : ONER

10-across – What may involve modelling ceramics and tar? : PLASTICART

11-across – Cheeky youngster hanging around station to give trouble : PLAYUP

12-across – There’s little right in the woman with desire to be nagging : SHREWISH

13-across – Nancy restricted by wind – medicine needed : CASTOROIL

15-across – Supplies a reduced value of statistical significance : ARMS

16-across – Ship’s senior officer? : BRIG

17-across – A hindrance to teacher? : BLOCKHEAD

21-across – She may be in this store : BOOKSHOP

22-across – Unfair dealer getting rid of a year’s tat : SHLOCK

24-across – Pounds subsequently invested in fuel for security : COLLATERAL

25-across – Scrap Church festival : WHIT

26-across – It’s a new drug that you may take as a relaxant : TISANE

27-across – Funny boy? Such may be the favourite : ODDSON

1-down – Ritual power surrounding wicked metal bracelet : MANILLA

2-down – Actress’s scare, forgetting Kipling’s lines : TERRY

3-down – Assigned to the Guardian perhaps, in theory : ONPAPER

5-down – The old man wants a dish : PATERA

6-down – The Lord’s wicket? Mud! How to work out way of dealing with rain-affected game? : DUCKWORTH

7-down – Possible reason for chap giving kiss? Love is! : XEROSIS

8-down – Fellow to flash around the Oval, say, creating a story : MANSFIELDPARK

14-down – Celtic symbols of danger in forged steel frame : TRISKELES

16-down – Mean to have egg in bar – or something much more substantial? : BLOWOUT

18-down – Actors given guidance made a special move : CASTLED

19-down – Take care putting clubs down in bridge : AUCTION

20-down – Not much light to take picture before noon : PHOTON

23-down – See 6 : LEWIS

1-across – Hard and fast frame for native American : APACHE

5-across – Not too painful to live on farmland? : BEARABLE

9-across – Relative to judge taking part before river enters sea : ARBITRAL

10-across – Please wait after 5 across 21: do you follow? : WITHME

11-across – Pupil, one kept by employer’s order, has time for you to be 10 in : APPLEBLOSSOM

13-across – Amidst this tumult Kubla heard a lot of rubbish : BLAH

14-across – Softhearted patrol leader gets a message : PLACABLE

17-across – Mistake in detail – oriental tyrant in Cornish village : POLPERRO

18-across – Home for 5 down 21 sounds like that rather than 5 across 21 : BYRE

20-across – In malicious old style, never mind 12 : DESPITEFULLY

23-across – I have part of little sister David the playwright’s put in : SHARER

24-across – Makes love in return of ‘Hair’ to 5 across 21 in Paris : ENAMOURS

25-across – Three quarters in characteristic toy : TRAINSET

26-across – Painter good-looking in red amid green? : RADISH

2-down – Left drink : PORT

3-down – Church in woodwork, no place for 5 down 21 : CHINASHOP

4-down – Continental origin loved by 5 down 21 : EUROPA

5-down – Protection for love, but spelt wrong : BULLETPROOFVEST

6-down – In addition to preceding can be expected : ASWELLAS

7-down – Opposition that dialectically are not singularly are : ANTIS

8-down – Fatty, female, eaten by sort of 5 across 21 under chimney, died : LUMPOFLARD

12-down – Voice to achieve the female in unison? : ALTOGETHER

15-down – In foreign parts Mr Turk goes the way of the Beatles : ABBEYROAD

16-down – A papal 5 down 21 losing a 5 across 21 ward star : ARCTURUS

19-down – Descant sung by star? : ALTAIR

21-down – Bias – in capital, it’s inclination to the right : PARTI

22-down – See 21 : PRIS

1-across – 100 watering holes secreting a mineral : CINNABAR

5-across – Complain about swallowing ounce of sedative : PROZAC

9-across – Hospital in Nottinghamshire town provides learning experience : WORKSHOP

10-across – Rabbit : ANGORA

11-across – Candidate planting a dangerous device in river : EXAMINEE

12-across – Distinctive sign of suffering in court : CACHET

14-across – Reversal of crime involves time with a society devoted to it : COSANOSTRA

18-across – Bird in type of opera given name of student : SEMINARIAN

22-across – Novelist runs into road – it’s unprecedented : RECORD

23-across – Co-nominee, almost bare, seizing high ground : NAMESAKE

24-across – New epidemic swamping Austria with larvae : NAIADS

25-across – Loss of literacy in a former monarch leading nursemaid round pub : AGRAPHIA

26-across – Promise to supply English silver to Spain : ENGAGE

27-across – Pretend to keep opener in church? Not true! : COCKEYED

1-down – Poet shrink-wraps piano : COWPER

2-down – Nation absolutely not bearing right : NORWAY

3-down – Come down, or fall sick, catching beastly disorder : ABSEIL

4-down – Kosher position for the chairman? : ABOVEBOARD

6-down – Orchestrated hoodlums assembled near tomb : RENTAMOB

7-down – Coiled python not entirely stifled by girl with sponge, perhaps : ZOOPHYTE

8-down – Catcher of STD? Nonsense! : CLAPTRAP

13-down – Artist and soldier in turn following incomplete travelling band : CARAVAGGIO

15-down – Sergeant arranged divorce : ESTRANGE

16-down – Redolent of corporal punishment : SMACKING

17-down – Common, if daring, exploit : INFRADIG

19-down – Notice of divorcee’s return : REMARK

20-down – Crack troops dance and walk with a wiggle : SASHAY

21-down – Call for many to get called up : DEMAND

1-across – Divide the high ground : PARTRIDGE

9-across – Shakespearean ladies in German car, they say : PORTIA

10-across – Picnic food? : FIELDFARE

11-across – Girl at home on the net? : INGRID

12-across – Reportedly a drink to help save the planet? : PEREGRINE

13-across – Treatment for bruises sustained in a car : ARNICA

17-across – Dirty beast’s home? : DEN

19-across – Best seller over the counter among fish : HOTCAKE

20-across – Growth on tree, also known as log, left out : OAKGALL

21-across – Go out with poetess, initially : EBB

23-across – Agent for consideration : FACTOR

27-across – The choice is between one of two numbers or an end of it : CORMORANT

28-across – Conference with sailor replacing one in country : INDABA

29-across – P-prince on a hanging matter : PHALAROPE

30-across – Warning students of World War I heroine : CAVELL

31-across – Picking blackberries : BRAMBLING

2-down – Come up when move is near : ARISEN

3-down – Agriculturalist at the helm : TILLER

4-down – Tell doing well at the moment : INFORM

5-down – Moderately revolutionary river? : GIRONDE

6-down – Trite stuff about libertine : CORNCRAKE

7-down – Black stuff for aircraft in vessel : PTARMIGAN

8-down – Bad lad eaten by dog : BALDEAGLE

14-down – Badinage in church : CHAFFINCH

15-down – Note – £1,000 note – found in cooker : STOCKDOVE

16-down – Stream drowns Greek filmed with ending first : RAZORBILL

17-down – Stream with character : DEE

18-down – Aristocrat gets good return : NOB

22-down – Relative trouble encompasses stream : BROTHER

24-down – Badge to resemble military piece : EMBLEM

25-down – Leggy creature’s leader of the country : CRURAL

26-down – Get ready for trek of short distance – 9 inches : INSPAN