Daily Answers

9-across – 11 for Mediterranean island and Persian king : CYRUS

10-across – Kinnock : EBULLIENT

11-across – Space isn’t available for drink: stuffed with cake! : NOPARKING

12-across – There’s 11 for one-off event, darling : CUTIE

13-across – Reticence must be shown in jam, when there’s 11 : RESERVE

15-across – Earth provided 11 for reptile : TERRAIN

17-across – Shakespearean performance delivered when fully satisfied? : BELCH

18-across – Bill hit back : TAB

20-across – Novelist finds there’s 11 in area for students : CAMUS

22-across – Complaint made when there’s 11 for plant : LUMBAGO

25-across – Continental girl hates having 11 : DELORES

26-across – Functions with 11 in columns : SINES

27-across – Disorder grips pond in the Woodland Movement : DROPPINGS

30-across – Admission that tenor’s wrong to include large pieces : ENROLMENT

31-across – 11 for one applying armour in the future : LATER

1-down – You have faith in me, though you shouldn’t! : ICON

2-down – Offer support, also bananas : PROPOSAL

3-down – Of despots, a ruler : TSAR

4-down – 11 for leader that’s staying : RESIDENT

5-down – Reporter brought up to grab something precious : NUGGET

6-down – In waiting for instruction, American state charged : ELECTRICAL

7-down – Girl at the bar drunk : BERTHA

8-down – Minor infection set by me at regular intervals : STYE

13-down – Pitch black inside, one’s revolting : REBEL

14-down – Once more try to dance endlessly in practice sessions : REHEARSALS

16-down – Runners that get picked? : NOSES

19-down – Cast aspersions, having halitosis? : BADMOUTH

21-down – Not hard for the Armani design to appear steep : MARINATE

23-down – Word of praise for camouflaged pit with 11 : MANTRA

24-down – Plenty of lackeys, but 11 : OODLES

26-down – Issue type of road restriction, 11 : SEED

28-down – Become tiresome to me, say : PALL

29-down – 11 for flash island : SARK

1-across – See special instructions : FRENCHPOLISH

8-across – See special instructions : HANAPER

9-across – See special instructions : INKLING

11-across – See special instructions : TRAINER

12-across – See special instructions : ULNARIA

13-across – See special instructions : OUTRE

14-across – See special instructions : DOZYDOTES

16-across – See special instructions : BYREQUEST

19-across – See special instructions : VIXEN

21-across – See special instructions : ALVEARY

23-across – See special instructions : JACKPOT

24-across – See special instructions : KERATIN

25-across – See special instructions : NIOBIUM

26-across – See special instructions : MINDLESSNESS

1-down – See special instructions : FONDANT

2-down – See special instructions : EXPUNGE

3-down – See special instructions : CARTRIDGE

4-down – See special instructions : POILU

5-down – See special instructions : LIKENED

6-down – See special instructions : SKIRRET

7-down – See special instructions : WHITEORBLACK

10-down – See special instructions : GRAYSANATOMY

15-down – See special instructions : ZETAJONES

17-down – See special instructions : REVERSI

18-down – See special instructions : QUANTED

19-down – See special instructions : VACUOLE

20-down – See special instructions : XIPHIAS

22-down – See special instructions : YONGE

1-across – I need the power of talk to secure corner for trading : CONTROLFREAK

8-across – Dull beat – what precedes it? I don’t know : HUMDRUM

9-across – Lay into speed play : MACBETH

11-across – Athir or ether? : THINAIR

12-across – Poet and untidy jotter : NOTEPAD

13-across – The years time forgot, administering a treatment : ENEMA

14-across – Trace elements discovered in 9 fruit : NECTARINE

16-across – Desperately want to bite leg in Derbyshire : LONGEATON

19-across – Ossa crania’s joining bones : SACRA

21-across – Two presents in limbo : NOWHERE

23-across – After Welcome to Hawaii!, certainly take it easy : LEISURE

24-across – Laver, for example, a top player, wonder-struck : SEAWEED

25-across – Guardian’s lost QEII’s marbles : THEMIND

26-across – Kiss me, Hardy!? : PECKINGORDER

1-down – I left Pimlico travelling east and I do this! : COMPILE

2-down – Group’s rain-swept vehicle drives into it : NIRVANA

3-down – Master’s making mark during term, oddly : REMBRANDT

4-down – Sports venue? Not quite, love! : LEMAN

5-down – Something from the dairy girl, educated, but bedridden : RICOTTA

6-down – Theatre and pub situated in a food shop : ADELPHI

7-down – Dish sticks around man with bat : CHITTERLINGS

10-down – The real reason for the Volkswagen/Daimler merger meeting : HIDDENAGENDA

15-down – Master is unable to hold his beer : CANALETTO

17-down – Did Ken say Western Avenue was a revolutionary approach? : NEWWAVE

18-down – Not great support for the Nag’s Head’s short weekend away round clubs : EWENECK

19-down – Salary: it’s overhang : STIPEND

20-down – Top server: You have a message : COURIER

22-down – Direction from ‘ere in London? : ENDON

8-across – King in Portuguese province once, once halved a biscuit : MACAROON

9-across – Something you wouldn’t stake on a lottery, or bingo! : HOUSE

10-across – Explorer, in a flash, heading off : PARK

11-across – Study scripture, getting upset about a character who gave his soul away : DORIANGRAY

12-across – Jester backing a popular Arthurian knight : GAWAIN

14-across – Entire meal pushed aside, we hear, north of Coventry : NUNEATON

15-across – A tour of Romanic island : MINORCA

17-across – The most stuffy has to pay the costs in court : CLOSEST

20-across – Bone being consumed by drink, one acquired disease : BERIBERI

22-across – Philanthropist takes the biscuit a la mode : RUSKIN

23-across – Bank prudently in south-east 3 : CAMBERWELL

24-across – See 25 : HILL

25-across – : DAMON

26-across – Back the winner : CHAMPION

1-down – Badger given a Japanese drink in Japan : NAGASAKI

2-down – : JACK

3-down – See 2 : LONDON

4-down – A bed bug? : SNORING

5-down – Halpern’s broken into little pieces : SHRAPNEL

6-down – Serenaded girls in beach wear : SUNGLASSES

7-down – Coastal vehicle lolloped along for a stretch : PEDALO

13-down – Dropped on 1, I caught many people up in a grave situation : ATOMICBOMB

16-down – Further education placement, which isn”t a growth area : CLEARING

18-down – Shed’s artistry, plus something charged : SKILLION

19-down – Inaction because the French invades : SILENCE

21-down – Antelopes – those at the back end of camels? : ELANDS

22-down – Charge again when bread’s short and overdrawn? : RELOAD

24-down – Native Americans get lost endlessly : HOPI

8-across – Do you want Bo Derek’s number? Sorry, sonny, it’s with the poet : TENNYSON

9-across – Snaky sectarian work with sex reporter : OPHITE

10-across – Derision expressed by the three English characters : TEEHEE

11-across – Fertiliser spread by Rick Stein? : FISHMEAL

12-across – Ukrainian city see in see! See! : LVOV

13-across – Fair Isle art unravelled, missing one yarn spun through Kent : FRIARSTALE

15-across – High band computer system storing our bits : ODOROUS

16-across – Nastier result of Niobe’s condition : INTEARS

18-across – One-horse author with a double name, also including English : ANNASEWELL

19-across – Middlesbrough’s current supporters : TEES

20-across – One author parroted by another : FLAUBERT

22-across – From Dad’s line there’s a fly close to fisherman’s heart : AGNATE

23-across – Republic is demanding king’s return : ISRAEL

24-across – Surrogate mother’s outlet sold to suckers? : THEDUMMY

1-down – Abstract art from clever Reithean DG is, perhaps, what’s heard on the BBC. . . : RECEIVEDENGLISH

2-down – . . .TV air channel. Rue, sadly, how Joe Public tells it? : INTHEVERNACULAR

3-down – Sign : ISLEOFBUTE

4-down – Put that light out or die! : SNUFFIT

5-down – Le Roi’s subjective intelligence? : NOUS

6-down – What’s spoken, paradoxically, in the Land of My Fathers : THEMOTHERTONGUE

7-down – Homer’s expressed incomprehension of 1, 2 and 6? : ITSALLGREEKTOME

14-down – Wotan as agent provocateur in Bayreuth? : RINGLEADER

17-down – Good car to carry a child : GESTATE

21-down – Singer taking the dross out of pantomime : ELLA