Daily Answers

5-across – Tabloid — it goes downhill : SKIRUN

6-across – The Guardian’s unsubstantiated comments : RUMOUR

9-across – Doctor’s devices producing spin : DRYERS

10-across – In nursery, train to speak lovingly : CHOOCHOO

11-across – Time is something you can tell : TALE

12-across – Bound to protect conservationists, being idealistic? : ROSETINTED

13-across – Everyone complimentary about salmon that’s dry : ALCOHOLFREE

18-across – Like a devoted man working on calm : MONASTICAL

21-across – Scot’s opposed to answer : AGIN

22-across – Final contests of the French : DECIDERS

23-across – Wound’s taped around the edges : TWINED

24-across – Church’s origin : SOURCE

25-across – Stout lady’s clothing : PORTLY

1-down – Team leading Spanish team of stars : SIDEREAL

2-down – On-screen presence who swears aloud : CURSOR

3-down – Fully exhaust and dismiss old fellow : RUNOUTOF

4-down – Withdrawing cents from account recklessly, one has a hefty bill : TOUCAN

5-down – Rush in the raw meat that’s wrapped right : STREAK

7-down – Rocky shore skirts deserted island : RHODES

8-down – Tailor is cross with suit cutter’s pouch : SCISSORCASE

14-down – Oxford University tutor embraces reading work in community : OUTREACH

15-down – Weaken English spies infiltrating China : EMACIATE

16-down – Screens 600 balls? : COVERS

17-down – Light infantry put on sort of light uniform : LIVERY

19-down – Problem present with America’s rising hostility : ANIMUS

20-down – Great deal no one rejected for cosmetic product : LOTION

1-across – Kentish Town revolutionary occupying list : ROCHESTER

6-across – Currency trickled into Liverpool, perhaps? : FRANC

9-across – Land report : STATE

10-across – Integrate ductile ore : ARGENTITE

11-across – This number endlessly drink : TEA

12-across – Elegant descent down onto joint : SWALLOWDIVE

14-across – One left to plug author, right away one’s bored : OILWELL

15-across – Increase in staff replacing us in a month : AUGMENT

16-across – Doctor resigns as a way of introduction : INGRESS

19-across – Gentle exercise courses involving a minimum of intensity : PILATES

22-across – House of iron valued with windows : FENESTRATED

23-across – Sheepish female solver on the phone? : EWE

24-across – Out of practice, one getting hammered? That’s whisky and Drambuie! : RUSTYNAIL

26-across – High time expanded, initially, ghost town population : NOONE

27-across – Cricket side ready for attack : ONSET

28-across – Always carrying brand on both sides of label, one putting on a coat : ENAMELLER

1-down – German knight turns up for Italian dish : RISOTTO

2-down – Name outstanding witch he painted : CHAGALL

3-down – In doubling possible price, agent finally quits : EVENSTEVENS

4-down – Dog kennels appreciative, volunteer starts work : TRAVAIL

5-down – Fancy things beginning to improve in the serving up of a drink : REGALIA

6-down – Good time to have some, if unhappy? : FUN

7-down – Idiotic, a lapse in energy : ASININE

8-down – Fair setter claiming foul, finally : CLEMENT

13-down – Look to protect journalist supporting joker in workers’ movement : WAGGLEDANCE

16-down – Ground on fire around bottom of garden, a flaming nightmare! : INFERNO

17-down – Book, for example, upset rival, not me! : GENESIS

18-down – Top waves on one : SURFACE

19-down – Bone in halibut’s tail spoiling Spanish dish : PATELLA

20-down – Arbiter consumed by work in plant : TREFOIL

21-down – Happen to wear fleece as a furry female! : SHEBEAR

25-down – Salt Lake City all ends up, still : YET

8-across – Clean sheet after playing against City : SANTIAGO

9-across – Fish in sea, side by side : MARLIN

10-across – Hospital ring doctor in Iran about lozenges : RHOMBI

12-across – Bridges, perhaps, behind schedule crossing a river : LAUREATE

13-across – See 14 down : THE

14-across – Tiny bit drunk : TIDDLY

16-across – Extensive opus is a composer’s first output : SPACIOUS

17-across – Film about composer’s grave : EARNEST

20-across – With this gym equipment, starts working out? : WEIGHTS

23-across – Bloomer made by demure female : PRIMROSE

24-across – Puck’s mate, a horny beast : IMPALA

26-across – See 14 down : MAN

27-across – Last rites performed by a third curate in short time : VIATICUM

28-across – Row about daughters’ scam? : FIDDLE

31-across – Puerto Rican gang has former bodyguards to listen in : SHARKS

32-across – Reporter recalled rubbish article paper finally published : NARRATOR

1-down – Cut top off gum tree : GASH

2-down – Halt baseball team’s rise : STEM

3-down – Motherless cat’s reason for visiting dentist? : CAVITY

4-down – Wild sex, so heartlessly cruel this pair might have been rowing : COXLESS

5-down – A friend keeps motherless cat with tip of tail cut off : AMPUTATE

6-down – Native American penguin population starts increasing slowly in number : CREEPINGUP

7-down – Reservations to see film Red : MISTRUST

11-down – See 14 : OLD

14-down – Book Pam’s meeting with Ed? : THE

15-down – Men stray? I’d suspect explosive outcomes from their goings-on : DYNAMITERS

18-down – Tune by drunk, having no weaknesses : AIRTIGHT

19-down – Display sort of cow, as seen in novel : SHOWCASE

21-down – See 14 : SEA

22-down – Three males in Gabon, skirting the border? On the contrary : HEMMING

24-down – Weak batting partnership? : INFIRM

25-down – See 14 : AND

29-down – Uninteresting fish? That’s about right : DRAB

30-down – John Major’s beginning to appear vaguely threatening : LOOM

1-across – Party leader in country going to the end, expecting agony? : LABOURPAINS

9-across – Quails caught, hoops snaring tail of one : CRINGES

10-across – Secret John introduced to Lily : ARCANUM

11-across – Taking seconds, shun bad sex exciting partner no longer : EXHUSBAND

12-across – Somewhat evil I accept — hippy, might you say? : ILIAC

13-across – By all conclusions, subject far too challenging for Neanderthal : TROG

14-across – Keen observer, each present in river : WEATHEREYE

16-across – Rice, perhaps, in party, model passed round with starter of tempura : LIBRETTIST

19-across – Don’t start to provide money for nothing — it’s free : UNDO

20-across – Where the Sphinx is lacking a flash device : GIZMO

21-across – One of five children behind friend with an old people carrier : PALANQUIN

23-across – Lover of playwright shut up like a canary? : SHAVIAN

24-across – Surgical instrument, short knife that’s carried about : CURETTE

25-across – Plaid Cymru atoned for supposedly truthful programme : DOCUMENTARY

1-down – English town flier supporting spy novelist, end ripped out : LEIGHTONBUZZARD

2-down – Giving ground, America it’s assumed : BOGUS

3-down – Trump, rampant rutter, close to irresistible : UPSTAGE

4-down – Weave binding unknotted fringes getting praise : PLAUDIT

5-down – Popular head of community ruled, as willing : INCLINED

6-down – It runs and runs? Yes, I’d developed a high-tech business : SUNRISEINDUSTRY

7-down – Cruise, say, where colonists get transported around island : SCIENTOLOGIST

8-down – Requiring a slap, Archer keeps working, that is, for money : SMACKEROONIES

15-down – Wicked trial for murderer in lift : DEMONIAC

17-down – Name of a place where cat keeps horse : TOPONYM

18-down – Ground starved of oxygen, picture another element? : SILICON

22-down – Not entirely conventional opera : NORMA

7-across – A thank you in tribe’s language : CATALAN

8-across – Born 14 part 1, though overdue : BELATED

10-across – Beginning to snuff candle, having turned round meal : REPAST

11-across – Drinks hired out by circle : ROUNDLET

12-across – Apostasy, oddly, rejected in colonnade : STOA

13-across – Buy one Dali — it’s surreal — having potential to be picked up : AUDIBILITY

14-across – Evangelical dwarf, given potter’s material, keeping very quiet : HAPPYCLAPPY

19-across – Barmy Army entering number and name of fellow citizen : COUNTRYMAN

22-across – Arbiter securing Spain’s chain : REEF

23-across – Relieve outrageously rude bunny, almost : UNBURDEN

24-across – Setter: one sneaky and skimpy? : MEASLY

25-across – Pill box containing philosophy : LOZENGE

26-across – Far from 14 part 1 choice between France, Luxembourg and Norway? : FORLORN

1-down – Spread round permitted colour range : PALETTE

2-down – Graduate’s tree: commander’s witch : BABAYAGA

3-down – Tool up, receiving insect’s incantation : MANTRA

4-down – Insensitive, entering pear-shaped partial shadow : PENUMBRA

5-down – Wrecker of vehicle boy overturned : VANDAL

6-down – Happening to interrupt Shirley’s heartless number : SEVENTY

9-down – Quandary generated by last word in forecast : PREDICAMENT

15-down – Prototype map with a grid redesigned : PARADIGM

16-down – Lightweight boxer’s last to enter, fit for consumption : PORTABLE

17-down – Cowboy’s head, squashed by bucking bronco, reveals inside of ear : CORNCOB

18-down – Assert period was first to keep 100 up : DECLARE

20-down – Sodium securing a purpose — disgust? : NAUSEA

21-down – Hunter to beat troops up, on reflection : NIMROD