Daily Answers

1-across – Cultivate areas of growth for the US stockholders? : FARMYARDS

9-across – Talking 2 act in Barnet : HAIRDO

10-across – Player moving around grid again : DIANARIGG

11-across – Collection of 2s going by sea? Flew! : ZOOMED

12-across – Party 2s, a nervous lot? : GANGLIONS

13-across – Scotsman taking off for African city : IBADAN

17-across – Males in 3, taking time out : MEN

19-across – Cutting that is about a dog : SHARPEI

20-across – Funny reaction, as gods start moving in right direction : ALLERGY

21-across – Elton John to his mother, say? That’s right, at first : REG

23-across – Sell dog again : RETAIL

27-across – Casual discard, when passing ditch : THROWAWAY

28-across – Bird: just a little chicken, but headless : CHOUGH

29-across – Ground strokes: first two bad : EDGBASTON

30-across – Brexit negotiators’ 180º change of direction is terminal : EUSTON

31-across – Buildings for honouring dead cats, acceptable for lost queen? : PANTHEONS

2-down – Drummer: member of group contracted to do turns around central square : ANIMAL

3-down – Unconventional household as people get older, or as it evolves : MENAGE

4-down – See 3 : ATROIS

5-down – Folk-singing comedian, sending up soldier in the Lancers? : DIGANCE

6-down – Put up a poster, say, or a flyer : RAZORBILL

7-down – Like a desert in which roamed a southward moving 2 : DROMEDARY

8-down – Swimmer or observer? : GOLDENEYE

14-down – Fast runners, East German, briefly carrying the most fat : OSTRICHES

15-down – 18 upset her actors : CARTHORSE

16-down – 2 born at end of season? Yes : SPRINGBOK

17-down – Russian station over in Crimea : MIR

18-down – Meghan agrees to have and to hold Harry : NAG

22-down – 2 that might be chained : ECHIDNA

24-down – 2 with special place for carrying a 2Mb floppy : WOMBAT

25-down – Story about donkey or 2 seen on TV : LASSIE

26-down – A bishop in favour as primate : BABOON

1-across – City physicist finally splitting subatomic particle : BOSTON

4-across – City speed is beyond me : MEMPHIS

9-across – One with great desire going after detailed stuff, delicately formed : FILIGREED

10-across – Bloke spending nought, ultimately? : MISER

11-across – A racket inspiring head of mafia organisation : ADMIN

12-across – Surgery ends in the clinic with extensive bandaging — gosh! : VASECTOMY

13-across – Open-air better, on the other hand : OUTDOOR

15-across – Strange chest for city : NEWARK

17-across – City a dollar? : AUSTIN

19-across – Lady hunter aims, their odds not looking good? : ARTEMIS

22-across – Ball player from 1966 about to block star : ALDEBARAN

24-across – Doctor behind huge beast dropping in lozenge : RHOMB

26-across – First on back row missing capital city : BOISE

27-across – Silver in an assignment for city : ANCHORAGE

28-across – Great, a city : AUGUSTA

29-across – City in Laos, a pleasure to recall : ELPASO

1-down – City auditor’s cushion on the ground? : BUFFALO

2-down – City festivals coming up : SALEM

3-down – Part of church lost for a long time : ORGANLOFT

4-down – Nice house around back of cardboard city : MADISON

5-down – Take off soprano part on opening of Carmen : MIMIC

6-down – Chart right, so wrong in the morning : HISTOGRAM

7-down – Guys about right as drifters? : STRAYS

8-down – City singer : DENVER

14-down – Initially, terrible judgement about state moving slowly : TRUNDLING

16-down – Formerly outstanding openers going in , two wickets later out for ducks? : WATERFOWL

18-down – Irish victory accepted by relative leader in Anthony Eden : NIRVANA

19-down – Daisy wants me out of the country, ban finally secured : ARNICA

20-down – Last letter required to fill old puzzle, flipping bitter! : SUBZERO

21-down – Brief tactic to overcome a state : GAMBIA

23-down – Pronounced blemish develops : BREWS

25-down – City centres in Hoboken, Bamako and Peshawar : OMAHA

1-across – Case of vehicle speeding : CARAPACE

5-across – Maps all bombs shelled with nonchalance : APLOMB

9-across – En passant, victim turns left just before the end : CASUALLY

10-across – Slogan is mostly a device for catching people : MANTRA

11-across – Lad’s fancy in 26 turns to 15 20 : YOUNGMAN

12-across – Board emergency meeting starts by tree outside : EMBARK

14-across – Back between the sheets and topless, such very decadent behaviour : DEBAUCHERY

18-across – Rushes round container for Harvey and Co : HURRICANES

22-across – Understood Saudi princes essentially playing : UNSAID

23-across – Fuel hurting around half of common people : PARAFFIN

24-across – Using combined power to undress shy bride : HYBRID

25-across – Ship first to feature in opera composition : PINAFORE

26-across – Season well : SPRING

27-across – Dine out having little money? It’s not proper : INDECENT

1-down – Bone from rooster — half a dozen, say : COCCYX

2-down – Squire turns 27 : RISQUE

3-down – Top to bottom in past form of 26 minor accidents : PRANGS

4-down – Unintended consequences of local alert : COLLATERAL

6-down – Where drugs are fast to suppress hurt : PHARMACY

7-down – Shocked to have revealed sexuality in newspaper? On the contrary : OUTRAGED

8-down – Bruise for servant trapped in bottle banks : BLACKEYE

13-down – Fabric helping injury : LACERATION

15-down – Romantic ideas should be found in loft? Shove off! : THOUGHTS

16-down – 24 excluding part of goal : CROSSBAR

17-down – Papers over dream separation : DIVISION

19-down – See 4 : DAMAGE

20-down – See 15 : OFLOVE

21-down – Since strike, displayed brotherly love? : INCEST

1-across – Associate with spirit, lord perhaps? : HOBNOB

5-across – Secure with con artist? : STABLE

8-across – Those on the board rejecting view in endless game of strategy : CHEESES

9-across – Even light shades equally good for European city : GLASGOW

11-across – Book of film anyone can see failin’ that is introduced to rising young actress : ASTUDYINSCARLET

12-across – One’s ridden into Nairobi, Kenya : BIKE

13-across – Theocrat taking two wives wrecked home for sentinel? : WATCHTOWER

17-across – From the off, real indignation regarding car : RANGEROVER

18-across – A duck, deep blue : ANIL

20-across – Difficult issue for a parrot that has two legs and flies : APAIROFTROUSERS

23-across – Less tranquil one in unruly senior : NOISIER

24-across – Survive, as the tenth wicket to fall? : OUTLAST

25-across – Two little boys, one preyed upon : VICTIM

26-across – Two little boys, one offering support : PATRON

2-down – Passed green wooden houses : OVERTAKEN

3-down – Great creator lifted as rugby game’s ending : NOSIDE

4-down – Punishment for the feet, a bandit so beaten : BASTINADO

5-down – Stories from the north — the same from the south? : SAGAS

6-down – Flower managed to punch a US subject : AMARANTH

7-down – Fair lady’s head on bottom of fine maiden : LEGAL

8-down – Warning! Left in range for old Tory : CHAMBERLAIN

10-down – John Calvin’s first into battle, not entirely prepared : WATERCLOSET

14-down – Goblet literary king thus has filled, possible liquid lunch? : CLEARSOUP

15-down – Get mountain climbing, past US lake : WINNEBAGO

16-down – Language student’s crime stealing underwear : HEBRAIST

19-down – Tory leader wearing skirt and tights, primarily — I don’t approve : TUTTUT

21-down – Fighter with massive cut, one should get away with it : ALIBI

22-down – Place of discussion supporting indecisive utterance : FORUM

1-across – Amaze old fellow swallowing bit of gristle : STAGGER

5-across – Flower disturbs Lettish characters : THISTLE

10-across – Some of the Baggies coming back : EIGG

11-across – Language from rogue upset eccentric : PORTUGUESE

12-across – Golden couple’s young domestic worker : AUPAIR

13-across – Stand surety against posh church roof repairs : VOUCHFOR

14-across – Unfortunately, unable to include Tooting’s follower : BENBECULA

16-across – Initial investigation into family line : TIREE

17-across – Ain’t professional : ISLAY

19-across – Over half a dozen links of forty years ago : SEVENTIES

23-across – Theme of Jews out West admitting identity : HEBRIDES

24-across – I am nicked — no way — and charged : IMBUED

26-across – Well-bred people, quiet and not from the county : GENTLEFOLK

27-across – Rich uniform covers : RHUM

28-across – Dance and workout teens arranged : ONESTEP

29-across – Turned off tragedy : GYRATED

2-down – Officer’s platform : TRIBUNE

3-down – Midnight in Georgia : GIGHA

4-down – Clapton hugs politician and setter — a quack : EMPIRIC

6-down – Call to account at university after reporting dining area : HAULUP

7-down – Not at home and sadly is shut outside : SOUTHUIST

8-down – 49 is enough, but … : LISMORE

9-down – Salesman getting small delight in plant : TRAVELLERSJOY

15-down – They weren’t Liberals it turns out, dropping left : BLAIRITES

18-down – Female has lived at moonshine outlet : SHEBEEN

20-down – Father raised girl : ERISKAY

21-down – Former City off-road vehicle to perform : EXECUTE

22-down – Head worried about getting stick : ADHERE

25-down – Block artist : BARRA