Daily Answers

9-across – Upset with tat in woollies? Call me, uh? : ITWILLALL

10-across – That old speechifying Burgundian banker : YONNE

11-across – See 9 : COMEOUT

12-across – Designer current in metrical patterns : VERSACE

13-across – Sweden yielding Norway’s or Denmark’s overtures to the Council of Ministers : SYNOD

14-across – See 9 : INTHEWASH

16-across – He’s back! In the BBC sound archives! : ITSTHATMANAGAIN

19-across – Speaking of evidently old couples, 9 11 14 : GREATOUSE

21-across – Tournament? The King of Troy will give you one for nothing : PROAM

22-across – The marque to irritate a winner of races : BUGATTI

23-across – That’s all ____ good! : WELLAND

24-across – Motorist’s approach to arrest : RUNIN

25-across – 23’s bird of ill omen pranging about Worthing : NIGHTCROW

1-down – Moulding Caesar’s reflection on the Rubicon? Moulding I can digest : DIECASTING

2-down – In which David Willetts therefore vacillates? : TWOMINDS

3-down – Depiction of Mona Lisa originally with many fruit : ALMOND

4-down – Conflict transitive with Cromwell, on the face of it! : WART

5-down – Wilberforce’s issue averted as Liberal dissented : SLAVETRADE

6-down – Poor Doctor! You’ve nothing to lose among adults seeking alternative medicine : AYURVEDA

7-down – Inexpert, as it were, at a conference in Zululand : INDABA

8-down – Measures up : NENE

14-down – Encroachments stir Unison members : INTRUSIONS

15-down – Poor men had blue suit from previous owner … : HANDMEDOWN

17-down – … and that’s sadly put the lid on it! : HATSTAND

18-down – Gassy hypothesist giving the Bible a right good bashing : AVOGADRO

20-down – Man had European inheritance factor : EUGENE

21-down – Wine taster’s friend brewing tea : PALATE

22-down – Then articulate the appearance of a tiger : BARD

23-down – Make war with decrepitude : WAGE

1-across – : JACKTHERIPPER

10-across – : UNCLEAR

11-across – : MEATIER

12-across – : ZOOKS

13-across – : XENOGRAFT

14-across – : ILIAD

16-across – : FARANDOLE

18-across – : GREENTREE

19-across – : YAGER

20-across – : LUBRICANT

23-across – : CONIC

24-across – : SCHERZO

25-across – : NATTIER

26-across – : VICTORIACROSS

2-down – : ANCHORITE

3-down – : KNEES

4-down – : HYRAX

5-down – : ROMANYRYE

6-down – : PLANGENCY

7-down – : ERICA

8-down – : QUIZZINGGLASS

9-down – : WRITTENRECORD

15-down – : DANDIPRAT

16-down – : FORVALOUR

17-down – : ORGANDIES

21-down – : BAHAI

22-down – : TONGA

23-down – : CATER

1-across – Setter’s speciality is highly dangerous : MINEFIELD

6-across – Female with dead expression, past her prime : FADED

9-across – Direct recourse to 11 before plastic : LETTERSOFCREDIT

10-across – See about a back door key : YALE

11-across – What most of the fish aboard may fetch : SMACKERS

14-across – Tell a pint — poured out it’s sparkling : PETILLANT

15-across – Scene of bush fire is in a turmoil : SINAI

16-across – Roger embraced by girl — like a monkey : LORIS

18-across – Article about Brook is highly emotive : THRILLING

20-across – Kingsley wearing old king’s garment? : CAMISOLE

21-across – Hits back in altercation : SPAT

25-across – Fabrication of famous last words? : CURTAINMATERIAL

26-across – Steward concerned with a girl : REEVE

27-across – All goes before it at the start of November : SAINTSDAY

1-down – The Way to the Stars? : MILKY

2-down – Brief communication not seen over the box : NOTELET

3-down – Macbeth’s intended victim abandons party to escape : FLEE

4-down – 27 possibly loses head but keeps direction : EAST

5-down – Fed up with loving, though it could be leading one to court : DEFAMATORY

6-down – Warning — a man on board, somewhere on the ship : FORECASTLE

7-down – Like a damp squib, gone off in resentment : DUDGEON

8-down – Hating to upset, Hughes gets in turmoil : DETESTING

12-down – Cul-de-sacs have a narrow escape : CLOSESHAVE

13-down – Real things unlikely to be from outer space : EARTHLINGS

14-down – One’s used to picking up the bill : POLICECAR

17-down – Endeavour by soldiers to show compunction : REMORSE

19-down – One member misled by not being told : IMPLIED

22-down – Score went out, all substituted, score remained : TALLY

23-down – One youngster set up as an artist : DALI

24-down – Attend for police duty : BEAT

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