Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Don’t be cruel to old comedian,simple at heart : GOEASYON

5-across – Duck as light motorcycle loses one wheel? : SCOTER

9-across – Leave secretly,ramp unavailable : SLOPEOFF

10-across – Contended resistance stops suffering from malaria : ARGUED

12-across – Go up: temperature perfect for returning : ERUPT

13-across – Great area on Earth’s exterior in which woodlice are found : CRUSTACEA

14-across – Intuit a chess blunder,making up for it : ENTHUSIASTIC

18-across – Resentful air spoiled farewell observances : FUNERALRITES

21-across – Such mathematics left audience floundering : EUCLIDEAN

23-across – Be terrified of judge’s pronouncement : DREAD

24-across – Homeland Security for one get on closing clubs in E Coast city : AGENCY

25-across – In depresssed area knight spies city : VALENCIA

26-across – They are beaten less,or flogged : LOSERS

27-across – Game that looks easy for beginners in brief sketches : SKITTLES

1-down – Effusive person’s good conduct : GUSHER

2-down – <i>The Great Escape</i><span> – film and book</span> : EXODUS

3-down – Inducement to include small number in series : SWEETENER

4-down – Apparently warming up,beginning to harry senior minister : OFFICEHOLDER

6-down – Weight of stone accepted in shopping basket : CARAT

7-down – Honest admitting name,sort of burglar in dock : TRUNCATE

8-down – It’s good this getting shot of a pest : RIDDANCE

11-down – Doubt the gospel? : QUESTIONMARK

15-down – What noon means to some people: time correction : AMENDMENT

16-down – Coming in last,contrary to expectations : AFTERALL

17-down – Batters liable to be caught in the bar : SNICKERS

19-down – Drawer twice the size of another : PENCIL

20-down – Highest standards of ladies’ dancing : IDEALS

22-down – Suffer,beyond medical help,disabled : INCUR

9-across – Look into firm’s capital : CAIRO

10-across – ‘Increase risk from chopped peanut’ – inspiring article : UPTHEANTE

11-across – Record bird circling me – it won’t last long : EPHEMERON

12-across – In Polish,‘time’ means ‘resistance’ : STAND

13-across – Perhaps the Sun let being hacked shock : STARTLE

15-across – Dagger,not a dessert,smuggled into prison : STICKER

17-across – Car with one wheel – sound? : AUDIO

18-across – Firm sofa 50% off : SET

20-across – Punches produce shiners : LAMPS

22-across – Clasp them briefly with heaving moobs : EMBOSOM

25-across – Helps donkey get first and second : ASSISTS

26-across – Ship to remain without any goods : LINER

27-across – Must elder play this instrument? : STEELDRUM

30-across – Not half clever getting solutions without soap? : CLEANSERS

31-across – Examples of luggage : CASES

1-down – Companion enters hospital department in pain : ACHE

2-down – Trip to arrive in mountainous area : HIGHLAND

3-down – Ring in memory of 13 down : ROOM

4-down – 3 + 3 + 3 = 1/4 + 1/4 +1/4? : QUARTERS

5-down – Last one standing carries lots of weight : STONES

6-down – Silver seal broken in palace : VERSAILLES

7-down – Expose country defending man’s rambling : UNMASK

8-down – Discovering they made leader : HEAD

13-down – Well,church builds no character : SPACE

14-down – Stealing fancy store jewellery – you involved? : TROUSERING

16-down – Soundly twists snooker equipment : RESTS

19-down – VAR rewound during short cross : TRAVERSE

21-down – Film on extremely serious Lady Hamilton? : MISTRESS

23-down – Don’t allow mirrored license plate with old car : BANGER

24-down – Ruler quicker to change gender? : MASTER

26-down – Cops missing work over bugs : LICE

28-down – South of the border,we’re told lake is secure : LOCK

29-down – Plant grasses someone up inside : MOSS

1-across – Prisoner finally does bird over murder : CONSUME

5-across – Spooner’s old man wagered unrecoverable liability : BADDEBT

10-across – Wind in America goes the other way : UTURNS

11-across – A power tool they hope to get in : APPLIERS

12-across – Thick walls collapsing here in ancient Rome : HIC

13-across – Seafood swindle pursued by detective : SCAMPI

14-across – Available after pound fell : KNOCKOUT

15-across – Quietly ring back to get checked : PLAID

16-across – Record a beat on the radio,calculating power : LOGARITHM

19-across – Produce – and handle – Elton John for instance : STAGENAME

21-across – Threatening look from member of parliament on select committee for starters : SCOWL

24-across – Rival Pope made strange claims about religious books : OPPONENT

26-across – Hulk director’s detailed tip to actor – one with a line? : ANGLER

27-across – When half-cut,draw back tattoo : INK

28-across – Heriot Watt,Edinburgh ultimately struggling until now : HITHERTO

29-across – Frosty Spike Milligan scene with actor,Oliver Reed taking only seconds : ICICLE

30-across – Drunkenly mess up one line,using skirts to monkey around : MERRILY

31-across – Maybe Magnum’s close to his nose : SHOOTER

2-down – Visual is current with work coming up : OPTICAL

3-down – Perhaps Gala lifting sound after struggle? : SCRUMPING

4-down – I’m upset with this swimming stroke that went wrong : MISHIT

6-down – Deletion of program on phone,wanting space,ok : APPROVAL

7-down – Tea for one of Doctor Kildare’s first home visits : DRINK

8-down – Part of town that’s revolting – King taken by surprise at the outset : BOROUGH

9-down – E.g enthuse defender with say,4-4-2 : BACKFORMATION

17-down – Disguised gin with tonic swirling round : INCOGNITO

18-down – One fifth of thirteen going into 26 freely without fractions : INTEGRAL

20-down – Best team to make cut : TOPSIDE

22-down – Little fib about husband’s bike stunt : WHEELIE

23-down – Jaunty part of anorak is hood : RAKISH

25-down – Different gold-plated article : OTHER

8-across – Strike top and bottom : HEADBUTT

9-across – Bouquet in Rome,as they say there : AROMA

10-across – Gathering for a drink by the sound of it : BEVY

11-across – $500 loan girl’s arranged : DOLLARSIGN

12-across – New edition of Proust causing bewilderment : STUPOR

14-across – So-called Philistine : CLERIHEW

15-across – Radical start of divisive racist movement : DRASTIC

17-across – Weapon kept by those people : THEARMY

20-across – Personal hint : INTIMATE

22-across – In bed,agreed to be most reserved : COYEST

23-across – Standard message returned to nearest vacant house : PARLIAMENT

24-across – Ask cop why not get naked in this part of London : SOHO

25-across – Mope having prepared tea,say? : BROOD

26-across – I got rid of vehicle first and disappeared : VANISHED

1-down – Traitor getting fed up with East End bully : DEFECTOR

2-down – Going through vapid lyrics without enthusiasm : IDLY

3-down – Rising repercussion of crime : MURDER

4-down – It’s about a leaning in characters,primarily : ITALICS

5-down – Tarzan? He abandoned noted birthplace : NAZARETH

6-down – Disadvantages seen with crime plot : CONSPIRACY

7-down – Group of flyers finding something funny with broken leg : GAGGLE

13-down – Horse rider and bike rider’s location: touring the East of Germany : POSTILLION

16-down – Upset as an agricultural worker may be : INAPADDY

18-down – Trouble for spy boss? : MISCHIEF

19-down – Booklet and what follows : RESERVE

21-down – Mounting desire to steal underwear in this neighbourhood : NEARBY

22-down – Alluding to glimpse when caught : CITING

24-down – Therefore very mediocre : SOSO

7-across – Two-thirds of Bath is let out in 13/18 : THISTLE

8-across – Violet Elizabeth’s evergreens not available – or they’re mostly lost in 13/18 : FIRTHOF

9-across – Beggar belief at first,smothered by short cry … : HOBO

10-across – … to ban cheat in writing? : PROSCRIBE

12-across – The state of an Antrim river : MAINE

13-across – Town clears off old wrecks for a song : FLOWEROF

15-across – <i>Monsters,Inc. </i><span>has part for Edge</span> : INCH

16-across – See 8 : FORTH

17-across – Remove from flight: early sign of pregnancy : BUMP

18-across – See 13 : SCOTLAND

20-across – See 24 : LEITH

21-across – After scam,South African party’s in a mess – it was ever thus : CONSTANCY

22-across – Flag cut in return of Irish MP’s bill : DEBT

24-across – 13/18 misrepresented elite – for what? : WATEROF

25-across – Shed tears after empty aquifer found to hold nothing? It’s not like that : AFARCRY

1-down – Southern peninsula – get out of here! : SHOO

2-down – Surprise when century is first hundred : ASTONISH

3-down – Pass – despite online error? : ELAPSE

4-down – Protective layer for fool in grip of Hi-Lo fever : OILCLOTH

5-down – Struggle of five in difficult resit : STRIVE

6-down – Pry? That makes sense : NOSE

11-down – Put your shoe on,professor : OXFORDDON

12-down – Crazy commanding officer? : MANIC

14-down – Low back – acid test of welly? : OOMPH

16-down – Portion made by breaking bread : FRACTION

17-down – Athletic feats keeping horses on track : BLINDERS

19-down – Tired – knackered – embracing unknown number – here? : TINDER

20-down – Mitigate risk of fire : LAYOFF

21-down – Layer Cake : COAT

23-down – 13/18’s bloody start to Ashes? : BURN