Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Doing loads of laundry, holding one article for Americans : WASHINGTONIANS

8-across – Fleece coat taken from tiny, caped figure : ROBIN

9-across – What The Guardian offers with bizarre glee, stifling a disapproving comment at first : TUTELAGE

11-across – Improves image of new business that has succeeded later : TARTSUP

12-across – Wine, dry white ultimately? It’s for one in the party : ROSETTE

13-across – A little glower from subscriber losing face : EMBER

15-across – Leader to lead with a venerable lady in the family : TOPBANANA

17-across – Maybe retired proofreader picked up fund of money : EXCHEQUER

20-across – Some work, not nothing, followed by soft drink : JULEP

21-across – Mistreated male Arctic bears oddly ignored cupcake : CUCKOLD

23-across – High officials specifically given rise at work : VIZIERS

25-across – Concerned with stance in job, in dropping off item for gents : POSTURAL

26-across – Rating of chess games? Run off to arrange a match : ELOPE

27-across – Doctor probing experimental chemistry and physics, of a sort : THERMODYNAMICS

1-down – Watch others play with e.g. gun before magistrates : WARMTHEBENCH

2-down – Dry batter Garry’s cut : SOBER

3-down – You don’t pay for lodging in this lake location : INNISFREE

4-down – Decline to say why snooker player picks up cue : GOTOPOT

5-down – Some rock clubs plugging unhip Queen composition : OUTCROP

6-down – More than one key feature of supermarkets, we hear : ISLES

7-down – Almost Biblical event he ignored in dark time : NIGHTFALL

10-down – Bags of pressure on dodgy dealers after dodgy deal : PEDALPUSHERS

14-down – Nitwit poking second husband makes a bit of a scene : BACKCLOTH

16-down – Inhaling joint, relax in swimming area, a channel of the Persian Gulf : ALJAZEERA

18-down – Suffer ruin, broken by Tory Brexiteers : UNDERGO

19-down – Fun in bar after backing track : REVELRY

22-down – Furry beast right to leave pig, rat, snake or weasel? : OTTER

24-down – Source of complaint that is about grasping officer : ECOLI

1-across – Tackle bloke about right old carry-on : RIGMAROLE

6-across – Elite ground-breaking tool : PICK

8-across – It soothes chaps suffering piles to swallow a clove regularly : LIPSALVE

9-across – Drink case of lovely stout : PORTLY

10-across – Part of this nameless, backward French city : LEMANS

11-across – Nattering endlessly about computer system : INTRANET

12-across – Origin of peppermint sweetie, or humbug : PHONEY

15-across – Challenged, gets help : GAINSAID

16-across – Fellow contracted rash, or spots : FRECKLES

19-across – Wayward monarch drove Tesla : ERRANT

21-across – Congenital criminal tucked into free lunch : LIFELONG

22-across – Starts to shame indolent mates with exercises : SITUPS

24-across – Hide contents of garage, car and house : GEMINI

25-across – Sadly, charisma is something very old-fashioned : ARCHAISM

26-across – Periodically using 8 is key, for example : ISLE

27-across – Consequently losing face, Italian leaves crime for farming : HUSBANDRY

1-down – Pachyderm dropping beginning to obstruct English river : RHINE

2-down – Pipeline is large-scale benefit, according to Spooner : GASMAIN

3-down – Reference work finally abridged : ATLAS

4-down – Fluttering pigeon welcoming new dawn : OPENING

5-down – Some of them pat his elbow and show understanding : EMPATHISE

6-down – That female cycling in hills, maybe? : PERHAPS

7-down – Galileo rudely interrupting extremely contrarian student : COLLEGIAN

13-down – She merits being represented as a recluse : HERMITESS

14-down – Cry of curtailed desire in buff : YELLOWISH

17-down – Shift border dividing post-Soviet states and Europe : CHEMISE

18-down – Non-standard language is turning up in non-verbal messages : SIGNALS

20-down – Find yourself following well-worn track in area around Oakham : RUTLAND

22-down – Bones curve when seen from below : SACRA

23-down – Pale, tense boy ignoring personal hygiene problem : PASTY

1-across – A scream from hospital colleague? : COMEDIC

5-across – Cowboy film actress? : BULLOCK

9-across – Notes exactly as quoted by Greek character : MUSIC

10-across – Vacuous really, there’s McGonagall’s initial, shocking versifier : RHYMESTER

11-across – Auntie introducing brother-in-law, bighead in two minds? : BEEBLEBROX

12-across – Branch in tree cut down with blade, originally : LIMB

14-across – If for film, almost all of the data falsified : PROVIDEDTHAT

18-across – Flighty type introducing bishop to area of jazz? : SCATTERBRAIN

21-across – Review of current depravity : EVIL

22-across – Pretty essential publishing material in backward filthy gossip – OK for Rupert Murdoch? : FAIRDINKUM

25-across – European part of 23 down in reversible collars : SLOVENIAN

26-across – Complete trash : TOTAL

27-across – Winger heading for Everton put on Liverpool strip, say? : REDKITE

28-across – Blunted article buried in prehistoric material : EARTHLY

1-down – Get right hand of bride held by groom: marry finally : COMEBY

2-down – See 24 : MASTER

3-down – Slow jerks are elected : DECELERATE

4-down – Partial uprooting of baobab, or a Christmas tree : CAROB

5-down – Robin flying by, one word for it? : BOYWONDER

6-down – Number of Germans committed perjury : LIED

7-down – 26 wrong – or not? : OUTRIGHT

8-down – One held by cocktail stick on island, Micronesian nation : KIRIBATI

13-down – Distribute five-hundred little daisy chains : ADMINISTER

15-down – Handy lever I used, with day for installation : VERSATILE

16-down – A sibilant sound interrupted by conclusion of magistrate or judge : ASSESSOR

17-down – Parent supported by doctor, withering flower : MARIGOLD

19-down – Rough seas at first on boat : SKETCH

20-down – Yes, I’m cheerful ultimately – that represented? : SMILEY

23-down – Called ‘scope’, basically – is it? : RANGE

24-down – Fool to admit stupid, a powerful thinker : JEDI

1-across – Wistful writer’s riddle broadcast : PENSIVE

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

10-across – Medicinal plant back at rear of nursery : BETONY

11-across – Relaxed popular class by a lake : INFORMAL

12-across – Joiner is topping worker : AND

13-across – It comes in banks in the main : SEAFOG

14-across – Flimsy material made of some rags : GOSSAMER

15-across – Even innards of basset-hound for the Villa! : ASTON

16-across – Having just one connection travelling via tunnel : UNIVALENT

19-across – Controlling influence of coach during time-off : RESTRAINT

21-across – Superior meal, seconds not required : UPPER

24-across – No farewell to learners. In no way : NOTATALL

26-across – Differs showing V-sign : VARIES

27-across – Furniture company no longer has active president : IKE

28-across – Tops and just one t-shirt for starters : SINGLETS

29-across – Unsure a gangster is holding president : REAGAN

30-across – Ruin half of Rhodes and Ilium : DESTROY

31-across – Massive group rowing in outskirts of Wallasey : WEIGHTY

2-down – Apparently singular snack for teams : ELEVENS

3-down – Facade’s terribly posh for New Town, initially : SHOPFRONT

4-down – Trip finding Venice on yacht, principally, taking a time : VOYAGE

6-down – Levi suffered somewhat, on reflection, gushing : EFFUSIVE

7-down – Jacket potato and red kale are their starters : PARKA

8-down – Dash over to meet a German to swap car? : TRADEIN

9-down – Jargon from flyer heard on the Big Breakfast? : PIDGINENGLISH

17-down – Whisky from wild archipelago without church : LAPHROAIG

18-down – A capital girl – by Jove – ripping! : SARAJEVO

20-down – Touchy leading economist with reason : EMOTIVE

22-down – Graceful and neat, oddly concealing limb : ELEGANT

23-down – Opposed to a bit from Keats, say : AVERSE

25-down – Arab picked up the vernacular : ARGOT

7-across – Minor ache around back of neck for seven days : WEEKLONG

9-across – A large interval – taken aback – for stew to appear : PAELLA

10-across – Direct line contributing to border : HELM

11-across – Newspapers etc misrepresented maiden trip : PRINTMEDIA

12-across – I remain moored at the outset in the same place : IBIDEM

14-across – First serving of strawberry crumble to appear still warm? : SMOULDER

15-across – Ancient British soldier in left-wing Ulster? : REDCOAT

17-across – Laudatory remarks? End one about college, retiring : ENCOMIA

20-across – Winter sports item that is catching cold fish : ICESKATE

22-across – Have joint responsibility for authorising function, by the sound of it : COSIGN

23-across – Peaceful action forbidden before church season – six apprehended : NONVIOLENT

24-across – Offload fire’s foremost source of fuel : FLOG

25-across – Attempt to snatch a type of light? That gets you imprisoned : GAOLED

26-across – Italian treats in Book Two about romantic novelist : BISCOTTI

1-down – Be similar to last of chamber group though name’s forgotten : RESEMBLE

2-down – Character in computer game about King getting quick look? : SKIM

3-down – Pageantry linked to high award or decoration : POMPOM

4-down – Waste container readily inscribed with name of former PM : SPITTOON

5-down – Revolting? Our bellies may be turned : REBELLIOUS

6-down – A policy about power as seen in Southern European area? : ALPINE

8-down – Good move to surface seeing capture of lake salmon : GRILSE

13-down – Upturn in cold lives sadly ending in poverty? Definitely : DECISIVELY

16-down – Snake study accepted by Commonwealth country? Not initially : ANACONDA

18-down – Painful nail? Odd thing to involve dispute : INGROWTH

19-down – Recording device starts to ruin every part of speech : REVERB

21-down – Pink binding for Beethoven’s Fifth or Ninth? : CHORAL

22-down – Sickeningly attractive copper still upset about end of murderess : CUTESY

24-down – Elevated halo often seen around this simpleton? : FOOL