Daily Answers

1-across – It’s tough about a horse said to be with rider : HAGGARD

5-across – Bottle for company to keep up with? : COJONES

9-across – Mother’s cruising, having heard it’s in vain that she’s shooting : MAINLINER

10-across – Idee fixe to pursue degree : DOGMA

11-across – How successful can you be at getting friend into the club? : SIGN

12-across – One aware of paternity is English companion held by a savage : AWISECHILD

14-across – Policeman on strike? That’s the coward’s way : COPOUT

15-across – Number in South Island region with northern figure : OCTAGON

16-across – Turned up last Sabbath at church : STPAULS

18-across – Distress animal that’s lost tail and hindquarters : HARASS

20-across – School days for queen in Scottish island and lake : BUTTERMERE

21-across – Metal for jazz in concert : ZINC

24-across – Extra time in the Open : OVERT

25-across – Primal Australian creature : MARSUPIAL

26-across – Mutton fat is in all no different : LANOLIN

27-across – Without authority, Simon backed a native American parent : NOKOMIS

1-down – Sounds American to enrich the soil : HUMUS

2-down – See 5 : GOINGTO

3-down – See 11 : ALLY

4-down – See 5 : DINEWITHSOMEMEN

5-down – New rich don’t let Ladybird help in Thailand with gin and it – good cocktail – new, possibly his memento : CHRISTOPHERWREN

6-down – Those on the bench injure posh queen manque and possible queen : JUDICATURE

7-down – Persistent horse work? : NAGGING

8-down – Substitute boy with row : STANDIN

13-down – Huge as 16 across to 5 down : MONUMENTAL

16-down – Cash advances make things easier under 1 down : SUBSOIL

17-down – Talking point, for example : PATTERN

19-down – See 5 : SAIDIAM

22-down – Vocal requests for a missing diva : CALLS

23-down – Resting place of history, allegedly : BUNK

9-across – One lifting something up : CRANE

10-across – As one man is on, two posh characters off : UNANIMOUS

11-across – Thick, black and dry? : BRAINLESS

12-across – English composer backing something up : GREBE

13-across – Get down what may be up : SWALLOW

15-across – Quip spread from the west about even parts of Spain : EPIGRAM

17-across – Setter’s happiness evident with joist : IBEAM

18-across – Country loses way with negative word : NOR

20-across – Great man heads north, which is up : HERON

22-across – She went down — a not entirely pleasant ending to what is up : TITANIC

25-across – Take up more space, with time inside : STRETCH

26-across – Reckon to make a difference : COUNT

27-across – Pass notice, which is up : CROSSBILL

30-across – Similar mark in an Antipodean country : ANALOGOUS

31-across – One going down, which is up : DIVER

1-down – Bradman, Australian cricket star, starts up — one not out : SCAB

2-down – A party shortly to enter meeting with set of statistics : DATABASE

3-down – It’s said to go the other way, which is up : TERN

4-down – Emu wasn’t all of a flutter, though something up : MUTESWAN

5-down – Worshipper of western India has standard to observe : PARSEE

6-down – Royal woman in tree, which is up : KINGFISHER

7-down – One with an affected attitude regrets work, which is up : POSEUR

8-down – Man, perhaps, is left without newspaper : ISLE

13-down – Direction taken in search, which is up : SWIFT

14-down – Layering process hit single state : LAMINATION

16-down – Many confused over height, which is up : MYNAH

19-down – One furious with press, given reaction : RESPONSE

21-down – Get back on journey unfinished the night before : RETRIEVE

23-down – Make out vessel, which is up : TOUCAN

24-down – Round the bend, something up : CUCKOO

26-down – Chew the fat, which is up : CHAT

28-down – Face in the distance, which is up : SIDE

29-down – Bit of fun, which is up : LARK

1-across – Look back at one motoring round island in 15 : OLDMANRIVER

9-across – See 19 : ROBESON

10-across – Cane from strait with no mummy, say? : MALACCA

11-across – Former system of criminal identification left in move to Berlin : BERTILLON

12-across – The one day commercial : MONAD

13-across – 19 said to get tedious : PALL

14-across – Cowberry provides notion about 1 and 5 in 9 : IDAEANVINE

16-across – Water the garden and ladder your stocking : RUNTHEHOSE

19-across – 1 across’s singer’s friend’s about turn when ceremonially dressed : PAUL

21-across – Cry of animal going to farrow – and then some : MIAOW

22-across – Religious supporter of crown without king : MONACHIST

24-across – Enter upon prescribed piece of verse : SETFOOT

25-across – Unimportant individual opposed to entering test : TRIVIAL

26-across – Trouble in store: reproduce eye test : RETINOSCOPY

1-down – Satirical cartoonist with rose baronet turned to red one : OSBERTLANCASTER

2-down – Indian politician made sailor part : DESAI

3-down – Girl on cover is a worm : ANNELID

4-down – Catholic establishment? That’s novel : ROMANCE

5-down – Victorious day with thin layer of sheaths on plants : VELAMINA

6-down – Promise of successful match, as when treating bicycle with train oil : RECONCILABILITY

7-down – Dinner is served, as pigs with truffles : GRUBUP

8-down – Mutiny in the west at mini-palatial court created by 1 down : MAUDIE

15-down – Musical for two, bosh with a difference : SHOWBOAT

16-down – At fault about girl : REMISS

17-down – See 8 : HAMPTON

18-down – Mass piece cut off, without going without : SANCTUS

20-down – See 8 : LITTLE

23-down – Atmosphere in business capital : CAIRO

1-across – Day directly after the rains : MONSOON

5-across – Oasis emerged herein as tribe out East mixed soft drink : BRITPOP

9-across – One laden with gold having sound incentive : CARAT

10-across – Work less; give it up! : DOWITHOUT

11-across – Get horse on your chest, might get strong headache! : CHASETHEDRAGON

13-across – Go-between shedding light on things : LINK

14-across – He fired Tom Brown with enthusiasm! : FLASHMAN

17-across – Spaer, a sea captain, returned from this port : CAESAREA

18-across – Bird’s airspeed indicator : KNOT

21-across – One makes emergency stop as dodgy dames lend a hand : DEADMANSHANDLE

23-across – Classified prohibition overdue with onset of drunkenness : TABULATED

24-across – King’s daughter the Italian abandoned: no hope for him! : GONER

25-across – Seaman’s goal in Prohibition America? : DRYLAND

26-across – Motorist with hood flapping and rag out : ROADHOG

1-down – The staff of Mother Church : MACE

2-down – Where Catherine Morland is bearing a baby with lots of energy : NORTHANGERABBEY

3-down – Hardly plumb stupid : OBTUSE

4-down – Original song heard : NUDITY

5-down – ‘Arry’s sonar location system : BOWBELLS

6-down – Attention that’s paid to uncle : INTEREST

7-down – The shareholder’s portion : PLOUGHMANSLUNCH

8-down – Get check, give a tip : PUTANENDTO

12-down – Told how rotten clue I formed was pass : ELUCIDATED

15-down – Malarky, you say, could be going over the rabbi’s head : YARMULKA

16-down – Stiles, Law and Charlton hooked up again on side? : REUNITED

19-down – Veil over fabulous bird, had to penetrate : CHADOR

20-down – A German mine defused at Bletchley Park : ENIGMA

22-down – Resistance to Dame Edna? : DRAG

1-across – : JABEZBALFOUR

8-across – : HOSANNA

9-across – : MARRIED

11-across – : PRODUCT

12-across – : XBODIES

13-across – : INERT

14-across – : CONDENSER

16-across – : GATHERERS

19-across – : RIKKI

21-across – : OROGENY

23-across – : VEGETAL

24-across – : STEEPTO

25-across – : LERNEAN

26-across – : QUENCHLESSLY

1-down – : JUSTONE

2-down – : BANQUET

3-down – : ZPARTICLE

4-down – : ADMIX

5-down – : FIRCONE

6-down – : UNITIES

7-down – : WHIPPINGBOYS

10-down – : DESERTISLAND

15-down – : NASHVILLE

17-down – : THOREAU

18-down – : EYEOPEN

19-down – : REGARDS

20-down – : KITTENY

22-down – : YMOTH