Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Knot tied in less-than-committed marriage? : HALFHITCH

6-across – Wine tossed back during Cinco de Mayo : MEDOC

9-across – Favoured dictator’s time to give up : LEANT

10-across – Spooner’s to opt for dairy product,hummus ingredient : CHICKPEAS

11-across – It requires brushing hale harlot off : ORALHEALTH

12-across – Legendary court figure that was seen all over Herculaneum,reportedly : ASHE

14-across – Repairs ruptured uterus,opening surgically : SUTURES

15-across – Without expression: ‘Improv rock band is dreadful’? : DEADPAN

17-across – Two turncoats left skinhead’s horde once : TARTARS

19-across – Geraint’s beloved returns to South Central to visit restaurant? : DINEOUT

20-across – Dappled horse in river,did you say? : ROAN

22-across – Tosspot taking up a largely synthesised instrument : SOUSAPHONE

25-across – Garlic oil turned into smoke : CIGARILLO

26-across – Singer,major part of Ronettes’ comeback : TENOR

27-across – Young lady with not a single way to catch horse : LASSO

28-across – Ugly tie picked up by avowed liberal getting unwanted attention : NOTORIETY

1-down – Conclusion of Moor’s pick-up line? : HELLO

2-down – Star of heavy metal,needing no introduction or finale: Plant : LEADACTOR

3-down – To begin journey,addled Edith Wharton losing direction,first and last : HITTHEROAD

4-down – AI trade-off in methodology producing sweets : TICTACS

5-down – Picked up off-site,collected by brick-and-mortar tool : HOISTED

6-down – Equine owned by Jomo Kenyatta : MOKE

7-down – Legislatures,losing propositions : DIETS

8-down – Johnny,you and I stand on head for snack item? : CASHEWNUT

13-down – Ten pirates slaughtered early Pope : SAINTPETER

14-down – Like Swift,awfully racialist : SATIRICAL

16-down – I,for one,pursued by religious institution,say : PRONOUNCE

18-down – Laptop dropped into hot pastry : STOLLEN

19-down – <i>Turning Down Wellington</i><span>: movie with sub-plot?</span> : DASBOOT

21-down – <i>Guardian</i><span> is sugar-free</span> : ARGUS

23-down – Primitive,like a peer? : EARLY

24-down – Biscuit switcheroo : OREO

8-across – Disk installed in finished comprehensive : THOROUGH

9-across – Hum – to set trap : MOUTH

10-across – Horse led by Earl? : GREY

11-across – Came near to rewriting ad hoc paper : APPROACHED

12-across – Very faint-hearted,not quite returning salvo : VOLLEY

14-across – One American in multinational company gives a hand : APPLAUSE

16-across – Irresponsible,filthy cracks about gang leader : FLIGHTY

18-across – Cheer gamer’s device : CONSOLE

21-across – One of the Trumps hiding small toe-curling secret : ESOTERIC

23-across – Order of fish provided by end of day : CODIFY

24-across – House safeguard that makes for heavy going? : DAMPCOURSE

26-across – Mean-sounding voice : BASS

27-across – Near the boundless land : EARTH

28-across – Centaurs cast out of a pre-Roman state : ETRUSCAN

1-down – What drawers might hold: chain,bow and ring on a length : CHARCOAL

2-down – Harsh sound of underwear rubbing against somebody’s rear : BRAY

3-down – <span>Player supporting the </span><i>Guardian</i><span>,perversely,is sweet?</span> : SUGARY

4-down – Cat saying ‘tree cutter’? : WHIPSAW

5-down – Brief shots of mother,topless doing a twirl : AMMO

6-down – Student group in exposed surroundings put in the shade : OUTCLASSED

7-down – Car is revolutionary : WHEELS

13-down – Elgar too hip,perhaps,to drop round for this type of work : LIGHTOPERA

15-down – Hapless Republican’s abandoned passed motion : POO

17-down – Hill’s tale uncovered : TOR

19-down – Duration of biography’s going to pot : LIFESPAN

20-down – Mark for each bolt : SCARPER

22-down – Foreign alcoholic drinks poured over Henry’s cold drinks : SHAKES

23-down – Cold? Here’s fishy toast : CHEERS

25-down – Player’s behind this aspect of polo cheating? : OCHE

26-down – Police work that often gets support : BUST

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