Daily Answers

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

1-across – Welsh town archbishop enters further down the hill : LLANGOWER

6-across – Find backward soldier getting stuck into afters : DIGUP

9-across – Going on which 12 have no limits : WITHOUTSTOPPING

10-across – Three 21s back home for Nutkin? : YARD

11-across – Aboard craft, depart with Jason, ultimately seeking gold? I did : ARGONAUT

14-across – Section of flyover : VERMIFORM

15-across – Prince arrived before church deserted : AMEER

16-across – Provide for grub, having no support : CATER

18-across – Affected thespian has nothing in tights : PANTIHOSE

20-across – Question Time is shattering a mystical belief : QUIETISM

21-across – Pay for ex-Labour leader : FOOT

25-across – Characters emerging from lair in cloud take me to your leader : EDITORIALCOLUMN

26-across – Hot drink, perhaps, back of tabloid covers : NEGUS

27-across – Running errand with one terribly illiterate : NONREADER

1-down – Baseline match figures produced by him? : LOWRY

2-down – One less retailer, maybe, subject to my changes? : ALTERER

3-down – Old song composed enthralling sad trivia bod : GOOD

4-down – Mercifully unlikely to get lost on passing round one : WITH

5-down – Map of secluded place for future consideration? : RETIREMENT

6-down – As exemplified by Spassky offering Fischer a draw? : DIPLOMATIC

7-down – Forbidding a single sneer : GRIMACE

8-down – Dugout location : PAGETHREE

12-down – See 3 : VIBRATIONS

13-down – See 4 : COMPASSION

14-down – Madam’s stand-in at the Palace? : VICEQUEEN

17-down – Major rebellion in the pool, so to speak? : TAIPING

19-down – Pompous illegal member of ‘unt admits corruption : OROTUND

22-down – Drift in continent enormous : TENOR

23-down – See 5 : PLAN

24-down – See 6 : MOVE

9-across – Revolutionary nature led by conservative management? : UNALTERED

10-across – Report of the blooming ground effect : FLOUR

11-across – Term of endearment like American old hat : PETASUS

12-across – See 4 : SPROUTS

13-across – Raptor in loughs : ERNE

14-across – God’s said to be very upset : DEVASTATED

16-across – Standard destructive to soul and full of danger : PARLOUS

17-across – Hick’s knock – monarch batting : BUMPKIN

19-across – Job for an army? : OCCUPATION

22-across – Group with interest in Pablo Casals : BLOC

24-across – Form of satellite? No lie, that’s right : TELSTAR

25-across – Chinese food for the German dish : CHOWDER

26-across – Scottish town to expose in the news : NAIRN

27-across – Party for king of Italy in case related to 20 10, say : CALABRESE

1-down – Curl up with girl copper in boots, weird relative of 27 : PURPLESPROUTING

2-down – At speed needing a lot of energy and zip? : FASTENER

3-down – Hide sacred tree? : STASH

4-down – The EU is developing in relation to 27 : BRUSSELS

5-down – Poem by fool returning to port : ODESSA

6-down – A lot of trees in Paris to which setter took himself previously : AFORETIME

7-down – Resistant to decay when it envelops vehicle : ROBUST

8-down – I damage vehicle kept by John and Jimmy, national leader : PRESIDENTCARTER

15-down – Able to take part in race for books : COMPETENT

17-down – See 1 : BROCCOLI

18-down – It takes a plover to destroy a muntjak : KILLDEER

20-down – Hardy : COLLIE

21-down – Hour in second, hour in second, hour in second : THRICE

23-down – Try to influence student on ‘orse? : LOBBY