Author name: crosswordanswers

9-across – Like 0,nothing : OVOID

10-across – It’s not her fault being most difficult : THORNIEST

11-across – One secures Milligan no trouble : SPIKENAIL

12-across – Bubbly girl in Germany on vacation,not Luxembourg : GASSY

13-across – Tea includes some butter and bread : CHAPATI

15-across – Country imports dry fencing material : WATTLES

17-across – Sailor’s ship crossing unknown gulf : ABYSS

18-across – On retreat,say love of the earth : GEO

20-across – The final of some game shown : OMEGA

22-across – In Ireland,my dear,telecom company completes high speed runs : MACHREE

25-across – Drug lines captured by film : CODEINE

26-across – Magic time : SPELL

27-across – Where executives are allegedly uninterested by discharge : BOARDROOM

30-across – Sent flying,high admiral tours Italy and Spain : AIRMAILED

31-across – Call for help preserves university lecturer’s spirits : SOULS

1-down – Master beginning break over the weekend? : BOSS

2-down – Single rebel royalist : SOLITARY

3-down – Club sacks woman with fringe : EDGE

4-down – Very angry man gets upset over independence : STEAMING

5-down – Doctor Who saves 50,500 in pit? : HOLLOW

6-down – Piece covering honour : KNIGHTHOOD

7-down – Against German city scrapping new large ship : VESSEL

8-down – Remain close to boats on river : STAY

13-down – Church wing’s appeal : CHARM

14-down – Perhaps Dame Edna is a natural disaster : AUSTRALIAN

16-down – Floor to ceiling,hell’s in gloom : SHADE

19-down – Where to find fruit tea lined by gold roads : ORCHARDS

21-down – Corrupt police wanting Conservative government to reverse EU’s conclusion : EPILOGUE

23-down – The King asks ‘Why guard that woman’s virginity?’ : CHERRY

24-down – Curried lamb follows starter of egg and finally plum preserve : EMBALM

26-down – Male to talk about employing technical leader : STAG

28-down – Drop down tree : DASH

29-down – To hide tiara from bank robbers ends in calamity : MASK

1-across – Pretty shy hugging me at rear of school : COMELY

4-across – Get over arch,and one may make a bolt for it : CROSSBOW

9-across – Relish oxygen brought by sudden wind : GUSTO

10-across – Old Parliamentary radicals who told it to you straight? : LEVELLERS

11-across – Deal-maker in pub,one taking a profit : BARGAINER

12-across – A brief experience of discrimination : TASTE

13-across – Lower tier seats filled first for this film? : ROOMATTHETOP

17-across – In isle grey tomb crumbling,typically romantic : BOYMEETSGIRL

20-across – Have no argument with an Athenian amputee : AGREE

21-across – Missile landing in sniper’s lair: this tightest of squeaks? : NARROWEST

23-across – On journey,train isn’t moving : INTRANSIT

24-across – Track down a very tiny amount : TRACE

25-across – Kubrick briefly portrayed Scottish patron : STANDREW

26-across – Not simple,so restive : UNEASY

1-down – Budgie perhaps free in big cedar : CAGEBIRD

2-down – Swell breakfast item : MUSHROOM

3-down – An idiot picked up sponge : LOOFA

5-down – Brazen volte-face about poem,‘Polecat’ : REVERSEFERRET

6-down – People searching for these here but they lack concentration : SOLUTIONS

7-down – Reach the top of chest : BREAST

8-down – Hardy folk lived here in primarily wild county : WESSEX

10-down – Hello again,rector: still not made a bishop? : LONGTIMENOSEE

14-down – Ideas for a reform mentioned earlier : AFORESAID

15-down – New American widescreen system : CINERAMA

16-down – Cook breakfast,including coffee,getting insincere praise? : FLATTERY

18-down – Spoke of what one has in each arms : RADIUS

19-down – Shrub and vegetable penetrated by decay : PROTEA

22-down – Many times relent,though not at first : OFTEN

9-across – Strange bachelor’s dance : RUMBA

10-across – Subject in short dress getting turn : CHEMISTRY

11-across – Chip for scrambling scores : PROCESSOR

12-across – Angry judge’s claim? : IRATE

13-across – Gold icon roughly treated by old recycling team member : ORINOCO

15-across – Queen captured by US navy forces wails : SQUEALS

17-across – Early sub detector regularly seen near us in Dominica : ASDIC

18-across – State of mind about the boy,from Ella Fitzgerald ultimately : MAD

20-across – Shearer’s fancy manor : NORMA

22-across – Gushed and swore about American : EFFUSED

25-across – First woman abruptly cracked without starting to be transformed : EVOLVED

26-across – Tips of bacon rashers are very overcooked or well done : BRAVO

27-across – Start pleading to swap pub for one grand : BEGINNING

30-across – Opulent European place for French cardinal : RICHELIEU

31-across – Lucky Liechtensteiner keeps throwing stick : KYLIE

1-down – Release tiny amount : DROP

2-down – Personified Space Boy briefly,then kicked the bucket : EMBODIED

3-down – Farewell,depression! : VALE

4-down – Tom cries pathetically in severe weather : ICESTORM

5-down – Discovers artist reflected in piece of curved glass : LEARNS

6-down – Stupid suggestive remark a knight emitted with decreasing loudness : DIMINUENDO

7-down – Capital of Texas initially thanks Washington : OTTAWA

8-down – Vortex emptied gully and ravine : GYRE

13-down – Ring Herb in Oklahoma’s largest county : OSAGE

14-down – Caused pit viper to shed skin one day : OCCASIONED

16-down – Holy person with bear : STAND

19-down – Raise great fear comedian Miles must be broadcast : DREDGEUP

21-down – Bugle call distorted in live reel : REVEILLE

23-down – Motorsport firm admitting mid-season cock-up : FIASCO

24-down – Recollected bride’s scattered stuff : DEBRIS

26-down – Food tossed over fortified town : BURG

28-down – The King conceals ascendant spirit of victory : NIKE

29-down – Encouraged U2’s guitarist to split and join up with New Order : GEED

1-across – Footballer crossing road to get pound : PESTLE

4-across – Poor shots from Spain’s No.1 player in Philadelphia : SHANKS

9-across – Italian dignitary delivers Elon Musk’s baby? : DOGE

10-across – Ring with number for trendsetter : BELLWETHER

11-across – Duck followed by a bird : DIPPER

12-across – Pervert chose ITV2 : CHEVIOTS

13-across – Comic Stewart Lee forgetting line 2 : TEESWATER

15-across – Backing favourites to show pace : STEP

16-across – ‘Dog in the mirror’ is entertaining answer for god : BAAL

17-across – Ambassador’s wife getting tips from Ascension Islander : HEBRIDEAN

21-across – Dear Charlie Dance showing a bit of flesh : LAMBCHOP

22-across – Untidy Womble briefly embracing a form of anarchy : MOBLAW

24-across – 2 drunk cider or beer : CORRIEDALE

25-across – Females take drugs orally : EWES

26-across – South American relations in part of England : SUSSEX

27-across – Declared dead by the entrance of Serpentine Gallery : STATED

1-down – Coat of plaster like a 2-layer : PROVINE

2-down – What’s up with record stock? : SHEEP

3-down – Pianist leaving church to tour one part of Africa : LIBERIA

5-down – Salesman’s wife getting into fish recipe : HAWKER

6-down – Foolish jester made woollen items for Spooner : NITWITTED

7-down – Performed chore and cried into drink : SWEPTUP

8-down – Becks played incredibly to inspire team’s midfield for Fergie’s old outfit : BLACKEYEDPEAS

14-down – Fencing covers problem for 2 poets : SCABBARDS

16-down – Unfinished Monster Munches regularly account for fires : BEACONS

18-down – Male chimney sweep in dance company : RAMBERT

19-down – Spider has distinctive pattern on behind occasionally : ARANEID

20-down – Stuck-up date tucking into revolutionary food : CHEESE

23-down – Club accepting the French complaint : BLEAT

1-across – Hunts persistently? : FORAGES

5-across – Be careful with cat that’s gone wild : WATCHIT

9-across – Treatment centre hosted by Pamela Anderson : AANDE

10-across – Crete: nice,surprisingly – that’s not saying much : RETICENCE

11-across – Literary set gets flowers put in the ground : BLOOMSBURY

12-across – Wolf down sandwich with duck filling : BOLT

14-across – Engineer restores path; it’s very high above us : STRATOSPHERE

18-across – Time-poor French author misinterpreted as nostalgic? : MARCELPROUST

21-across – Where religious crowd congregate to see villain beheaded : NAVE

22-across – It’s more obvious having race later is nonsense : BALDERDASH

25-across – Carnage regularly follows elderly American – and it returns repeatedly : BOOMERANG

26-across – Keep in touch,having stabled horse : PINTO

27-across – Pure quality of German city church : ESSENCE

28-across – Name of female acquired on re-marriage? : STEPHEN

1-down – Inject vitamins into skin that’s loose : FLABBY

2-down – Published party minute – that’s irregular : RANDOM

3-down – Dull count showing some capacity for thinking : GREYMATTER

4-down – Stand-in accepts credit for clean-up : SCRUB

5-down – Game played mostly by those out of their depth : WATERPOLO

6-down – Starts to trudge around coffee outlet providing food : TACO

7-down – Afghan governor hides suffering in the morning? : HANGOVER

8-down – Scores left during games : TWENTIES

13-down – Bananas perhaps too often what’s misplaced by grocers? : APOSTROPHE

15-down – Top guy provides upset pal with meat and drink : ALPHAMALE

16-down – Final word,effective and quite open : AMENABLE

17-down – Vicar delving into religious sins of the past : PREVIOUS

19-down – Open fire! : LAUNCH

20-down – Violent gangster endlessly engages in evil? It’s almost guaranteed : SHOOIN

23-down – Dead,for example,like this old artist : DEGAS

24-down – Stitched up in every direction : SEWN