Author name: crosswordanswers

8-across – Regret nothing after short time,sweetheart : TRUELOVE

9-across – Expert solver of clues needs extra,consuming seconds : MORSE

10-across – Take part in taste test,etc. sooner or later? Don’t touch it : STET

11-across – King and I protected by partners in terms of wealth : MATERIALLY

12-across – Far from sweet superpower,onetime ally turned deadly foe : BRUTUS

14-across – Chapter penned by a competitor relating to record collection : ARCHIVAL

15-across – Bad men I see? : ENEMIES

17-across – Run into fanatics,members of religious society : FRIENDS

20-across – Striker’s corrupt power ensnaring everyone : WALLOPER

22-across – Wild dog you almost trapped in sheep pen : COYOTE

23-across – Central American native reportedly went on racehorse : ROADRUNNER

24-across – Length once more uncompleted in part of pool : LANE

25-across – Oxford writer in North Island : LEWIS

26-across – Master criminal orchestrated army riot : MORIARTY

1-down – Comrades almost chucked in firearm : BRETHREN

2-down – Part of England Scots understood : KENT

3-down – Detective returns to familiar territory in hearing : HOLMES

4-down – Otherwise learnt outside University,unlike 15 or 17 : NEUTRAL

5-down – Affectionate type picking me up with Dutch courage : EMBRACER

6-down – Reveal city must be reconstructed in original way : CREATIVELY

7-down – Concrete help for teaching about others : REALIA

13-down – Corporation showed sign of cut – admit it’s in very bad shape : TUMBLEDOWN

16-down – Stylized language I use with umph,bizarrely : EUPHUISM

18-down – Set off with girlfriend outside boys’ school : DETONATE

19-down – Hiding name,discharge Brendan’s buddy? Not always : FRENEMY

21-down – Learner in a sport becoming top Olympian : APOLLO

22-down – A doctor finally got in antidote for poison : CURARE

24-down – King Edward the humorist : LEAR

8-across – Heaven is found in March : PARADISE

9-across – Oscar for each adult musical drama : OPERA

10-across – Deftly remove odd pieces of jambalaya : ABLY

11-across – Finds extra strangely spellbound : TRANSFIXED

12-across – Supports couples : BRACES

14-across – Grannie’s distributed profits : EARNINGS

15-across – Driller of hollow is finally spent? : DENTIST

17-across – Easy to read stage direction involving one boy leaving initially : LEGIBLE

20-across – Complete halt for period in US : FULLSTOP

22-across – Limited penalty limiting appeal : FINITE

23-across – Favourite Prince quotation : PREFERENCE

24-across – Repress expression of surprise by king : CORK

25-across – Love unaltered in Spring : OASIS

26-across – Charms enclosed by hotel workers : ENCHANTS

1-down – Pack carried drug to festival : JAMBOREE

2-down – Reluctant to exert oneself putting axis in place : LAZY

3-down – Opening greeting by you and I : HIATUS

4-down – Out of date book excited : BELATED

5-down – Keep prisoner present : CONSERVE

6-down – Sense clarity : DEFINITION

7-down – Pat returning,say,grand to scoundrel : BADEGG

13-down – Mollusc lifts cute waving horns at first : CUTTLEFISH

16-down – Ridicule – it arises unexpectedly : SATIRISE

18-down – On fire and irate about women of letters? : LITERATI

19-down – Critics pan nerd clutching tool : SPANNER

21-down – Displace happy Aussie native over time : UPROOT

22-down – Rob’s coat : FLEECE

24-down – Nail Conservative principle : CLAW

9-across – Calligraphy item in kind,in a novel : INDIANINK

10-across – Leading recitalist performing party piece : RONDO

11-across – In English wood,church camp : EPICENE

12-across – Leaves in hot water here? : TEAPOTS

13-across – Neat cut : TRIM

14-across – Docker who has dieted? : LIGHTERMAN

15-across – Dressage music : RAGTIME

17-across – As nice as Ritz’s top cocktail : ARSENIC

19-across – Large lorry blocks topped vegetables : ARTICHOKES

22-across – Some school’s outing returning to capital : OSLO

23-across – Carriageway cover on isle’s complete,we’re told : MANHOLE

24-across – Novel medieval instrument starts to come apart : REBECCA

26-across – Gem with inlay carved evenly : NACRE

27-across – Agitated farm animal that is caught in snarled net : EBULLIENT

1-down – Listen cryptically getting the cold shoulder : SILENTTREATMENT

2-down – Looking up to notice on motorway telephone : ADMIRING

3-down – Step outside parts of Paris,France : PACE

4-down – Row of churchwardens bearing oil here? : PIPELINE

5-down – Quick drawing of small sailing boat : SKETCH

6-down – King in glasses waves : BREAKERS

7-down – Fit brief : INFORM

8-down – Actors marry dons around Highland county : ROSSANDCROMARTY

16-down – Incorporated paramour on easy street : INCLOVER

17-down – Cohort having trouble around middle of field on horseback : AGEGROUP

18-down – Everyone knows feature is on island,out East : NOSECRET

20-down – Dress code first introduced in capital : TUNICS

21-down – Writer invested in dictionary as on first night? : OPENED

25-down – Call corporation endlessly : BELL

1-across – Fibre in hummus is a legume : SISAL

4-across – I’m high and far from dry : RAINCLOUD

9-across – Agitator: Rep. apathetic but – what did you say? : DEMAGOGUE

10-across – Toni’s absent,a simpleton,daft sap you’ll find here : MAPLE

11-across – One fellow with beer admitted to weight that keeps going up in Africa : KILIMANJARO

13-across – Finally see the squirrel fish : EEL

14-across – Trim small trees : SPRUCES

15-across – Abandoned – somewhat absurd – is U.S. education : DISUSED

16-across – Like one favouring Harriers or their namesake : HAWKISH

19-across – See 27 : JONESES

22-across – French word for ‘test’ : MOT

23-across – Bleeding menaces causing a flap : VAMPIREBATS

24-across – Concerning number of roach trails identified at intervals : OCTAL

25-across – Draw some of sun’s heat twice : UNSHEATHE

27-across – Aspiring to level of Tom,Jade and Quincy? : KEEPINGUP

28-across – Wear that’s loud and massive : GREAT

1-down – On reflection ultimately calamitous,U.K. to consume excessively American puzzles : SUDOKUS

2-down – Less complicated to act coy around 50 : SIMPLER

3-down – Pin on : LEG

4-down – Temporary authorities on the subject of convenience : REGENTS

5-down – Country where you might find High Dudgeon and Greater Wrath? : IRELAND

6-down – <i>e.g.</i><span> making good use of the things that you find?</span> : COMMONSENSE

7-down – Classical musician: entreat hospital for returning … : ORPHEUS

8-down – … fought director,toppling leader,conquered : DUELLED

12-down – Physicist: evil liar,curt twisted manipulator : MACHIAVELLI

16-down – Hardly professional exam? I’m lying here : HAMMOCK

17-down – See 27 Across : WITHTHE

18-down – Gammon rejected food in European city : HAMBURG

19-down – Volunteers given Japanese soup in ground : JOINSUP

20-down – Clever-clogs: Sting,that is : SMARTIE

21-down – Fancy – or fishy : SUSPECT

26-down – Regularly engage poacher needing this? : EGG

9-across – A yearning for hope initially : AITCH

10-across – About ready to flip,if ditched in canal : FINANCIAL

11-across – One who survives embracing political party that bombed : LANCASTER

12-across – Crazy but well : BARMY

13-across – Brit absorbing ‘hard worker’ spirit : PHANTOM

15-across – Lover,once having pried,turned and ran out : EXPIRED

17-across – Nation elected to get back funds : INDIA

18-across – Shiner causes squint oddly : SUN

20-across – Sexual declaration used in poems? : IAMBI

22-across – State calls for end of free vote petition : EXPRESS

25-across – Say one’s left deposit,in full : UTTERLY

26-across – Maybe squash plant variant? : SPORT

27-across – Hot tar’s forced into near empty navigational aid : NORTHSTAR

30-across – Bear on a Piano by surreal painter : APPERTAIN

31-across – X’s house arrest finally overturned : TIMES

1-down – See 28 : MAIL

2-down – Single-stemmed plant’s quality improved : STANDARD

3-down – Question one: What might be said to end a ride? : WHOA

4-down – Habitually fit some plastic to retain temperature : OFTTIMES

5-down – Nice way to support nut production? Wrong : UNTRUE

6-down – Christian making Satan a bit peeved at first : ANABAPTIST

7-down – Imitate Spanish artist capturing Republican revolutionary leader : MIRROR

8-down – Fine plant for skin : FLAY

13-down – Old writer holding lives in balance : POISE

14-down – Car,jet brazenly parked on politician’s path! : TRAJECTORY

16-down – On a regular basis,a diver may be heard : DAILY

19-down – Particle,negative,orbiting form of inert uranium : NEUTRINO

21-down – Nautical remit: ‘Aim to swim!’ : MARITIME

23-down – Concert part for theatre assistant : PROMPT

24-down – Said dessert’s a week’s portion : SUNDAY

26-down – Row of bugs turned over : SPAT

28-down – Malicious stuff,the crap about a ‘jumped-up’ Brit band member : HATE

29-down – See 2 : ROSE