Author name: crosswordanswers

5-across – Maybe like a microphone trick to smother insolence : CLIPON

6-across – Cut around soft spot : SPLASH

9-across – Keen officer hugging ace soldiers : LAMENT

10-across – Place where you’ll find people who are little and large – bad place for one to be in : LILLIPUT

11-across – ‘Moneymaker’ that may grow in the garden : MINT

12-across – I’m dire pest to be given spray? : SPIDERMITE

13-across – Fitting a number into sheltered accommodation to the east of a very quiet old city : APPURTENANT

18-across – Creep is dodgy when capturing photo? Don’t step too close to these! : PRECIPICES

21-across – Sound asleep,having abandoned party : ZING

22-across – Fellow introducing singer Bobby is a bigwig : MANDARIN

23-across – Correspondence from one in political organisation : PARITY

24-across – Reportedly top vehicle for winter conditions : SLEIGH

25-across – Uncultivated,like a Ted of yesteryear? : HEATHY

1-down – Bypass – is speed limit finally reduced? : SIDESTEP

2-down – Pharmacist stocking drug gets stars : BOOTES

3-down – Rascal observed penning pages about gangster : SPALPEEN

4-down – Element of hospital meal,mostly very dry,eaten by tramp? : BARIUM

5-down – Brainboxes managed to penetrate spy agency : CRANIA

7-down – Troubles in hotel with relatives : HAUNTS

8-down – Silence poet conjured up in a time long ago : PLEISTOCENE

14-down – Act of sports official – superior male with holy anger : UMPIRAGE

15-down – Religious type with extreme characters in an uplifting ceremony : NAZARITE

16-down – Old coins found in grain : GROATS

17-down – Snobbish as pig away from home apparently! : SNOTTY

19-down – Club characters regularly coming in could get on well together : CUDGEL

20-down – The old man’s upset,a soldier : SAPPER

1-across – Meeting record takes order for food : MINUTE

4-across – See 1 : STEAKS

9-across – Prime minister’s garden : EDEN

10-across – Suggestion of heartless bullying : INTIMATION

11-across – Travelling Brits love a French eatery : BISTRO

12-across – One each afterwards held as unskilled : INEXPERT

13-across – Perhaps I’m grabbed,grabbed by hint of colour : CAMBRIDGE

15-across – See 13 : BLUE

16-across – Armenians oddly out of control : REIN

17-across – How to remove plaster and succeed : PULLITOFF

21-across – Ballot of sporting venue? : FOOTBALL

22-across – See 21 : GROUND

24-across – Revered like this clue,promoting the end can’t change : SACROSANCT

25-across – Backing of shops for public transport : TRAM

26-across – Gallery has welcomed reactionary party till now : TODATE

27-across – Having lost weight,student lost heart : LEANER

1-down – Wine and cheese served up by republicans : MADEIRA

2-down – Group problem playing tennis? : NONET

3-down – Port,originally in Libya,is needing renovation : TRIPOLI

5-down – A term composition to include piano and fiddle : TAMPER

6-down – George’s dysfunctional utopia followed by many : AUTOPILOT

7-down – Rush to contain firm’s misfortune : SCOURGE

8-down – Paint technique can feature in fraud : STRINGPULLING

14-down – Celebrity starts to eat dinner,with bubbles : BLISTERED

16-down – City needs diplomacy to make an undiplomatic declaration : RIOTACT

18-down – One benefits from entry in shelter : LEGATEE

19-down – Florida’s capital not just an amusement park : FUNFAIR

20-down – Dog breeder’s primary advantage : BASSET

23-down – Decimal,many times : OFTEN

1-across – Distress in hearing – stop being crooked : STRAITEN

6-across – One of your relatives gift wraps a book! : BABOON

9-across – Journalist: Balls maybe yellow after sex : EDITOR

10-across – Excessively complimented pornographic actor’s first lines – 9 must be abbreviated : ADULATED

11-across – Ordnance Survey cutting about page in misprinted A-to-Z – it’s a gem : ROSETOPAZ

13-across – Misses sleep on board ship : SKIPS

15-across – Unknown firm taken on by heavyweight businessman : TYCOON

17-across – Dawn French to the rescue – often raising awareness for starters : AURORA

18-across – Former opponent gutted about discharged cruise missile : EXOCET

19-across – Goes off instruction to make nice e-readers? : ADDLES

21-across – Dislodge key : SHIFT

22-across – Lad struggling with issue including,ultimately,combat fatigue : LASSITUDE

25-across – E.coli must,mostly,spread in bowl : COLISEUM

26-across – Bond villain,Jaws essentially breaking back to get ahead : ONWARD

28-across – Ship leaves Selsey after dropping off some bits : VESSEL

29-across – Volunteers,once in the forces,not against shocking treatment? : TASERING

2-down – Small amount of time with Bill : TAD

3-down – Hates playing brag – turned out friends accepting bluff directly : ASTHE

4-down – Start old games console – knob needed to spin around : TURNONONES

5-down – New supermarket stops Marmite supply – almost! : NEARAS

6-down – Number 24 buses do use buckles : BLUE

7-down – Lancashire landmark seen when Cilla,say takes in middle of Bolton : BLACKPOOL

8-down – 10 deliveries brought up under pressure : OVERPRAISED

12-down – Touching article cast read aloud for sovereign : ONTHETHRONE

14-down – See 6 : SUEDESHOES

16-down – See 3 : CROWFLIES

20-down – See 5 : DAMMIT

23-down – See 7 : TOWER

24-down – See 4 : HEEL

27-down – Premier Cru can finally flow : RUN

8-across – Simple custodianship arrangement containing note : UNSOPHISTICATED

9-across – Polish revolting study as duty : BURDEN

10-across – Notice apartment I have is changeable : ADAPTIVE

11-across – Unburdened pedestrian crossing end of lane : CAREFREE

12-across – Attempt to keep object in : TRENDY

13-across – Heavy cube in waxy covering : WEIGHTY

16-across – Shirk something intrinsically tedious : IRKSOME

19-across – Vessel with robust finish of copper : WHALER

21-across – Exaggerated the merits of series of deliveries of long standing : OVERSOLD

24-across – Vain men member of rowing team grooms : COXCOMBS

25-across – Exceptionally clever German raised without love initially : GIFTED

26-across – See gorillas urge rampaging groups of criminals : ROGUESGALLERIES

1-down – Disparaging remark about a European cut off from communication : INSULATE

2-down – Warm centre of suet dish : FONDUE

3-down – Evidence of injury in part of leg found by US emergency room : SHINER

4-down – A false journalist is mortified : ASHAMED

5-down – Column one covered in gypsum : PILASTER

6-down – Smartest redesigned sleeping pad : MATTRESS

7-down – Very hot iron six found in road : FERVID

14-down – Sell revolutionary card to sporting association : GOLFCLUB

15-down – Sanitarium dropping an inappropriate dish : TIRAMISU

17-down – Sickness Mark and Emerald spread : MALDEMER

18-down – Tricky situation in house before empty teens dine : HOTSEAT

20-down – Ring old English bird : HOOPOE

22-down – Wholly embrace heads of each new group unless leaders fail : ENGULF

23-down – Garment Fanny Adams wears for expedition : SAFARI

9-across – Fish having round tongue : LINGO

10-across – Mobile home,not,unfortunately,very close to lake : ONTHEMOVE

11-across – Quite unresponsive,Tom needs a restorative : CATATONIC

12-across – Was a programmer from Delaware into fish? : CODED

13-across – Depressed old fellow clutching jerry can : CONCAVE

15-across – Backfiring jokes about how to be humiliated : SHOWNUP

17-across – Players shivering,etc in zero temperature : OCTET

18-across – Almost fail to return for Mass : MOB

20-across – Army store reported : HORDE

22-across – Kalahari’s flies? : DESERTS

25-across – Knowing Charlie’s an insolent American : WISEASS

26-across – Showy floor wood : FLASH

27-across – City’s name Rex inscribed in fancy beer mug : NUREMBERG

30-across – After a month,oxygen added to Michael’s anaesthetic : NOVOCAINE

31-across – Unacceptable lament of batsman out on 99? : NOTON

1-down – Alliance head: ‘Keir’s first to go!’ : BLOC

2-down – Feeling elected court bears up fools : INSTINCT

3-down – See 28 : HOST

4-down – Feature of a forest’s warning device light : HORNBEAM

5-down – They smoke a lot : STACKS

6-down – British,these cold spreads that cover kippers : BEDCLOTHES

7-down – Glorious,glorious leader from an earlier age : GOLDEN

8-down – Doctor,what’s that you said about crush? : HERD

13-down – Large group that flies by day : CROWD

14-down – Disturbing repercussion of dessert wine : AFTERSHOCK

16-down – Smooth out papers : PRESS

19-down – Note the possible risks of webcast with a nerd : BEWARNED

21-down – Men are unlikely leading chemical testers : REAGENTS

23-down – Celeb on Viagra initially needs energy fast! : STARVE

24-down – Brightened up by books aimed at tabloid readers? : SUNLIT

26-down – Establish nothing’s left to finance : FUND

28-down – Brummie’s shot crooked landlord! : MINE

29-down – Go north of the border for party : GANG