Author name: crosswordanswers

8-across – Leave pitch for final battle : SHOOTOUT

9-across – When filthier traps set? : APRIL

10-across – Bottom,for example,sweet : FOOL

11-across – Moderation ultimately cutting it,wet acquiring skills : INTRAINING

12-across – Cane has whipped hard in routine : SHTICK

14-across – See 9 : THEFIRST

15-across – Hoax has taken in famous 10 : COSTARD

17-across – Rat traps however ending in pipe where current flows : CATHODE

20-across – Aerosol device possibly empty,gas having run out : SPRAYGUN

22-across – One of seven bands that’s popular enjoy love : INDIGO

23-across – 10 bit something hard : TOUCHSTONE

24-across – See 2 Down : OVER

25-across – Interminable rot for 10 : FESTE

26-across – Agent exhausted having killed leader and rescued girl : EMISSARY

1-down – Soften tobacco,say,doubly loudly – for puffer? : CHOOCHOO

2-down – Astound Cockney Casanova? : BOWL

3-down – 10,barely sick,housebound? : YORICK

4-down – Rule with old king in new seat : STATUTE

5-down – A taboo embraced by goddess in aria : HABANERA

6-down – Design I dropped flourished : BRANDISHED

7-down – 10s in wood? : PLANKS

13-down – The satanic works,atheist can too then! : INTHATCASE

16-down – Record for example in brief,bar lifted? : REGISTER

18-down – Stalk with fruit 10 : DOGBERRY

19-down – 10’s game : SNOOKER

21-down – Page and covers – those to check? : PROOFS

22-down – Wrath appealing? Not quite for pacifist : IRENIC

24-down – Top off,beach drier : OAST

1-across – Currently attractive? : ELECTROMAGNETIC

9-across – Tree sounding cool for long : CHILEPINE

10-across – Weight gain shed in horse-drawn carriage : TONGA

11-across – Girl sent back too much food colouring : ANNATTO

12-across – Sound measure could be credible – not right! : DECIBEL

13-across – Rod’s letter is spoken of : CUE

14-across – C20th style affected trade company : ARTDECO

17-across – Reserved half the area with worker : DISTANT

19-across – Gives the cold shoulder to Italian fellow cycling : IGNORES

22-across – Vicar on lake,musing : REVERIE

24-across – Previously Argo had leading role cut : AGO

25-across – Composer is otherwise in inn,drunk : NIELSEN

26-across – T20 batsman as small Canadian woodsman : SLOGGER

28-across – Heartless Elgar and I confused Shakespearean spirit : ARIEL

29-across – Cause trouble,as Adam and Eve did? : RAISECAIN

30-across – Stay away from far off fortress : KEEPATADISTANCE

1-down – The last thing you’ll see here! : EXCLAMATIONMARK

2-down – Turned up,unsophisticated in French spa town : EVIAN

3-down – Support from unsettled settler : TRESTLE

4-down – Gold coin tossed over Womble : ORINOCO

5-down – Changed what happened at noon? : AMENDED

6-down – Lack of commitments,around a hundred spies : NOTICES

7-down – Only a Brit worried former PM : TONYBLAIR

8-down – Acton let brother bother sister : CHARLOTTEBRONTE

15-down – Fruit perplexed generations – not so! : TANGERINE

16-down – Canoe from which falls an athlete : COE

18-down – Fish that is around delta : IDE

20-down – Two girls touching Australian parakeet : ROSELLA

21-down – Squealed about tune for drink : SANGRIA

22-down – Putin is so reactionary – some back out for composer : ROSSINI

23-down – Furious as flower’s name concealed : VIOLENT

27-down – Good supply of water for seed : GRAIN

8-across – Hallo – is energy briefly produced from this? : OILSHALE

9-across – Notice an attempt to restrict one,so scored slowly : ADAGIO

10-across – Boy’s favourite drug : PETE

11-across – Copper and iron for example in mass with the others in depots : BASEMETALS

12-across – Son lazed about and moved furtively : SIDLED

14-across – Austins age,Rolls get replaced : ALLEGROS

15-across – Art without tears? : ORIGAMI

17-across – Scatter finest roses : BESTREW

20-across – Wrap everything before I jog back : TORTILLA

22-across – Go without,to feed my pride? : FOREGO

23-across – Pretty drawing : ATTRACTIVE

24-across – Provision of food cut down a bit for pig : BOAR

25-across – Extra reason cricket was held up? : NOBALL

26-across – Foolishly rides to a distant rock : ASTEROID

1-down – More opportune to stretch out during watch? : TIMELIER

2-down – Result of my eye operation? You’ve explained it : ISEE

3-down – Veto being lifted,rest seized : NABBED

4-down – The oratorio one long expected : MESSIAH

5-down – Rearranged Mary,Luke and Jacob’s headgear : YARMULKE

6-down – Severe critic of players,one fierce creature : CASTIGATOR

7-down – Canal bridge to rail off : RIALTO

13-down – Docker who has lost a lot of weight? : LIGHTERMAN

16-down – Tiny thing,skin blemish? Bad clue : MOLECULE

18-down – Former soldier,American,shielding deserter as a favour : EXGRATIA

19-down – River creature’s back consisting of thin plates : LAMINAR

21-down – Old French tax in force – tire of it regularly : OCTROI

22-down – Holiday by car : FIESTA

24-down – I’m shivering in second class,getting basic education : BRRR

8-across – Painstaking papers back essentially glib man : DILIGENT

9-across – Badenoch reveals strain – of iron? : OCHRE

10-across – Stable houses setter – was one lost? : MEWS

11-across – Regarding those unidentified,technology goes too far : OVERDOESIT

12-across – Savages live,pasts quietly forgotten : BEASTS

14-across – Video game reversed practice: that’s not right : MISUSAGE

16-across – Drugs cost : ESCORTS

18-across – Excuses politician embraced by alien in sex romp : EXEMPTS

21-across – Otherwise show one mercy in service : CEREMONY

23-across – Revelling used to put out : OUSTED

24-across – Football seen around half ten,with commentary for audience : SEVENASIDE

26-across – See 17 Down : BITS

27-across – Pool party after nude hen night not new : EIGHT

28-across – More graceful win; limper member abandoned : GAINLIER

1-down – Refs abused after boy band’s sporting feats : FIVEFERS

2-down – See 15 : TIES

3-down – A couple short of a dozen legs – and joints? : TENONS

4-down – Burns fumes about cigar’s end : STREAMS

5-down – See 22 : FOLD

6-down – <span>Special few a part of </span><i>ménages à trois</i><span>?</span> : THREESOMES

7-down – Scratching surface of dark side in barrel : KEYING

13-down – Here solstice worshipping teens go wild,gobbling bird : STONEHENGE

15-down – Golden age – at end of festivities? : SIX

17-down – These world leaders on Russian river? It’s … it’s worth little in America : TWO

19-down – Settlers erected timber frames : TRESTLES

20-down – Confused? Yes – call in dope dispenser : SYRINGE

22-down – England collapse over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over : ELEVEN

23-down – ‘Aussie’ : ONESIE

25-down – Affected Reform UK,say,with head removed : ARTY

26-down – See 27 Across : BALL

1-across – Friend’s securing check after check – he wins lots,ultimately,in these : CHESSMATCHES

9-across – Some farmer in search for swill : RINSE

10-across – Experimental area: year in this removing one’s perplexity : LABYRINTH

11-across – Trees beside end of street likely gutted at the outset : FIRSTLY

12-across – Island I found surrounded by fish in part of Africa : TUNISIA

13-across – Sadly values-lite,like much broadcasting : TELEVISUAL

15-across – Committed pupil pulls back : SWOT

18-across – This gin gets legions drunk : SLOE

19-across – Ageing somehow seen linked to knowledge I released : SENESCENCE

22-across – Rebuke? Republican hitting ceiling : REPROOF

24-across – Old still beer getting mark with pen : ALEMBIC

25-across – Thumps one with Guardian heartlessly – it’s a mark of the Greens? : POUNDSIGN

26-across – Flower from old times getting attention : OXEYE

27-across – Yes,bad mood may be aggravated by merely adequate historic records : DOMESDAYBOOK

1-down – Singer’s reduced mastery around key : CONTRALTO

2-down – Optional having European active around English court : ELECTIVE

3-down – Light carriage being put out? : SULKY

4-down – Judge Australia to have right measure of information supply : ARBITRATE

5-down – Expression of surprise regarding one feature of daffodil : CORONA

6-down – Holderness home to these seabirds? : ERNES

7-down – Supportive of appropriate gain : PROFIT

8-down – Prevent hot fighting in midst of battle : THWART

14-down – Wagner opera is upsetting for one supporter withdrawing name : SIEGFRIED

16-down – Beach feature to coil on vacation : WINDBREAK

17-down – Image of Jesus church’s taken in two ways – half holy,half mock : ECCEHOMO

18-down – Informant about your University is unnaturally sweet : SYRUPY

20-down – Repudiate key source of hope we elevated : ESCHEW

21-down – One fond of chow initially fond of cartoon dog … : FOODIE

23-down – … cartoon dog left in position with repeated character in cartoon : PLUTO

24-down – Upset speaker after cutting off opening : ANNOY