Daily Answers

1-across – Value trial — I try out computer-generated oxymoron? : VIRTUALREALITY

9-across – More resentful about journalist splitting screen : REREDOS

10-across – Support for fight not starting on time : TRESTLE

11-across – One expressing grief half-heartedly, judge-like? : SOBER

12-across – German island is transported by musical effects : GLISSANDI

13-across – Run, absorbing dreadful rot into female body : MATRONAGE

14-across – Gather for a service : AMASS

15-across – Brass secured by Hercules’ return : LUCRE

17-across – Tack on, holding woman back from arrest : APPREHEND

20-across – Unique device for returning culture to nameless country : TRADEMARK

22-across – Type of pop provided by band is corny : DISCO

23-across – Slowcoach, tedious and fat, overlapping : DULLARD

24-across – Classy courtesan — Aretha? Joining Eurythmics, initially? Unlikely! : HETAERA

25-across – Checking out cultural phenomenon involving swindle : RECONNAISSANCE

1-down – I largely restrict father, rolled up in crumpled duvet, to goal of 1 across : VERISIMILITUDE

2-down – Snack by river, a river rising : RAREBIT

3-down – Ruined libertine’s heart captivated by whisper : UNDERTONE

4-down – Turner including Indian spinach in Italian dish : LASAGNA

5-down – Bearing round double embrace : ENTWINE

6-down – City’s daughter amid dregs : LEEDS

7-down – Dream queen, or bird — articles about one : TITANIA

8-down – Change tack, accepting 500 vocals arranged by contrarian : DEVILSADVOCATE

14-down – Be soppy during operatic episode that’s given rise to funny stories : ANECDOTES

16-down – C is for clot : CHARLIE

17-down – A combo performing in ditch : ABANDON

18-down – 19 leaves okapi bounding around church : PAKCHOI

19-down – Spain’s behind Japan, say? : EASTERN

21-down – Initially, occupational therapists are bowled over by inspiring figure : ERATO

1-across – No fortune for 14 : PEANUTS

5-across – A god eating five or one helping : ADVISOR

9-across – Interpreter of music outlines case of leading composer : ELGAR

10-across – 14 to damage instrument that’s cracked? : MARMADUKE

11-across – Within limits of taste, he had to bite tongue in 14 : THEFARSIDE

12-across – Fruit, cool or hot? : HIP

14-across – If maybe so, not dizzy in a spin? : CARTOONSTRIP

18-across – Leave one spaced out about vote, as a mission of Nixon’s era : APOLLOELEVEN

21-across – Tailless fish turns back : FRO

22-across – Pandemonium a degree among Yorkshire city gents, perhaps? : HULLABALOO

25-across – Shout curtailed with cricketing trophy beyond English batters? : EYELASHES

26-across – Might a girl be put out? : ISSUE

27-across – Backing singer detailed with papers for 14 : DILBERT

28-across – 14 — are you free to erase one? : RUGRATS

1-down – Quite right, inessential clothes : PRETTY

2-down – Waiter sportingly poking spleen with base of utensil : ANGLER

3-down – Urbane lad turned page ultimately — it’s garbled : UNREADABLE

4-down – Wells has a problem with empty pages : SUMPS

5-down – Where planes seen investing energy in new road, where must that road end? : AERODROME

6-down – Reportedly yucky bottle : VIAL

7-down – Relative Arthur’s dad punches — that’s to the point? : SOUTHERN

8-down – Deeper ranges, good parts for the contrabassoon, perhaps? : REEDPIPE

13-down – Building a shambles when put up, gaudy stuff : ASSEMBLING

15-down – War machine, the brute out to catch leader in conflict : TREBUCHET

16-down – 14 raising newspaper above competitors : GARFIELD

17-down – Get lost in good play, with end uplifted? : GOTOHELL

19-down – A king mixed food up, almost entirely in a state : ALASKA

20-down – Lane in 14 passes round outskirts of village in 14 : LOVEIS

23-down – Failure stood leaderless between political wings : LOSER

24-down – Held up by queen, a jocular 14 : JANE

8-across – King Louis bursting to play with vigour! : RISOLUTO

9-across – Originally, Alan Rusbridger beat the Guardian’s retreat : ARBOUR

10-across – Make available for emptying liquidised fruit over, but run out : FREEUP

11-across – Lesson once taught in pool to would-be paddler about superior speed? : THEQUICK

12-across – Modern girlfriend’s choice! : UPTO

13-across – A short service for Ratty in love with Toad : DEVOTIONAL

15-across – Dramatically, novice then losing the plot : CONNIVE

16-across – Make it with iniquity? : BEDEVIL

18-across – I agree men will get blown away after horologer’s awful windiness : LOGORRHOEA

19-across – See 21 : PAGE

20-across – See 11 : BROWNFOX

22-across – Adam’s first to broach concern over herbal plant : YARROW

23-across – How’s your father gaining admission to South China lazaretto? : SPITAL

24-across – This break the making of Loadsamoney? : STOPOVER

1-down – I produce powerful retro Affleck vehicle that is : MICROPHOTOGRAPH

2-down – Boarding pass is, for now : TOBEGOINGONWITH

3-down – See 11 : JUMPEDOVER

4-down – Constipated chap to eat Italian special up : COSTIVE

5-down – See 12 : DATE

6-down – Get organised, or be spontaneous on one : ABOUTONESPERSON

7-down – Ring up worried customer, a little overdrawn, about cash supply — the problem? : PURCHASINGPOWER

14-down – See 11 : THELAZYDOG

17-down – Leaving shortly, splitting bill to share the planet : COEXIST

21-down – Thus spread leaf and elements of plug? : FULL

1-across – Policeman permitted to secrete leader of mafia, as in collusion : COMPLICIT

6-across – Solid baby with backside on table : CUBE

8-across – Gatecrashing two parties, artist with lead on rescue dog : LABRADOR

9-across – Soup ingredient daughter put in without Spanish approval? : NOODLE

10-across – Flight of fruit from the East End? : STAIRS

11-across – In departure, line in film unambiguous : EXPLICIT

12-across – In fruit, fruit’s skin almost going off : FIRING

15-across – Longest bananas covering a fruit : TANGELOS

16-across – Individual into fruit, he eats a lot : GOURMAND

19-across – Car wheel? : ROLLER

21-across – Not forgiving a pack of lies, scratching head : RUTHLESS

22-across – This writer inspired by Bill of the Wild West Show : COMEDY

24-across – Southern Britain introduced to boxer dog : SALUKI

25-across – For example, Mars bar filled with fruit : ROMANGOD

26-across – Dry date about right : SERE

27-across – Woman voting in recess let off : ELECTRESS

1-down – For example, pottery vessel : CRAFT

2-down – Drink, bird having one : MARTINI

3-down – Solid rocks in pools : LIDOS

4-down – Sounds like fruit is up to date : CURRENT

5-down – In accessing drink, one removing lid, right, as kitchen device? : TINOPENER

6-down – Sweet plum keeps cold : CHOCICE

7-down – Likely to be wielding weapon, one function to split peach : BELLICOSE

13-down – Inject iodine, then clean out wound : INOCULATE

14-down – Good exercise to fill gaping hole, where information passes : GRAPEVINE

17-down – Find new accommodation for that woman up over the river : REHOUSE

18-down – Sowing of seed before wild party without a merit : DESERVE

20-down – Fruit salad recipe ends in the paper : LEMONDE

22-down – Police after fellow streaker? : COMET

23-down – Refuse a little kiss, or disaster arises! : DROSS

1-across – Remove clothing to loud music : DEFROCK

5-across – Play about with complete collection : PANOPLY

10-across – Two articles on a type of coat : AFGHAN

11-across – African princes uncoil lazily — obese, even : LIONCUBS

12-across – Leading person of fashion, looking back : FOP

13-across – Where doctor would go to dig beneath the surface in state of anxiety : ONEDGE

14-across – Gangster grabs every other top layer, making one cross : HOLYROOD

15-across – Boatman’s modest clothing : HIJAB

16-across – Resumes obscure, useless legal measures : ABSTRACTS

19-across – Every other neat clue? : ALTERNATE

21-across – See 25 : PIECE

24-across – Acts of government constraining extremes of unrest by society : STATUTES

26-across – Struggle against Daesh taken on by others : RESIST

27-across – Part of the Arctic environment : ICE

28-across – A lover fears them: her last tender quivering embraces, sweetheart : DEARJOHN

29-across – Novices going the wrong way by mistake : SLIPUP

30-across – Report of Treasury for Halfwits is libel : ASPERSE

31-across – Heartlessly pursued type of fabric : WORSTED

2-down – F-stop used on images, first of Turkish gents : EFFENDI

3-down – Rectify a dry condition there all round : REHYDRATE

4-down – Present debate : CONFER

6-down – Float around in sea, stormy recently : ASOFLATE

7-down – Boy who goes before Italian pope : OSCAR

8-down – Experimental clothing worn a lot : LABCOAT

9-down – Arranging characters of pleasing habit in new fashion : ALPHABETISING

17-down – Boatman may be found here initially? : AMIDSHIPS

18-down – Pi and nu: letters sent back, not stopping on in going away : UNCTUOUS

20-down – See 28 : LETTERS

22-down – Twice this might express doubt about clothing : COSTUME

23-down – Italian sauce used around start of Ramadan fast : PRESTO

25-down – Quality to suit aristocrat, backed by independent European Commission in article : THREE