Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Friend’s securing check after check – he wins lots,ultimately,in these : CHESSMATCHES

9-across – Some farmer in search for swill : RINSE

10-across – Experimental area: year in this removing one’s perplexity : LABYRINTH

11-across – Trees beside end of street likely gutted at the outset : FIRSTLY

12-across – Island I found surrounded by fish in part of Africa : TUNISIA

13-across – Sadly values-lite,like much broadcasting : TELEVISUAL

15-across – Committed pupil pulls back : SWOT

18-across – This gin gets legions drunk : SLOE

19-across – Ageing somehow seen linked to knowledge I released : SENESCENCE

22-across – Rebuke? Republican hitting ceiling : REPROOF

24-across – Old still beer getting mark with pen : ALEMBIC

25-across – Thumps one with Guardian heartlessly – it’s a mark of the Greens? : POUNDSIGN

26-across – Flower from old times getting attention : OXEYE

27-across – Yes,bad mood may be aggravated by merely adequate historic records : DOMESDAYBOOK

1-down – Singer’s reduced mastery around key : CONTRALTO

2-down – Optional having European active around English court : ELECTIVE

3-down – Light carriage being put out? : SULKY

4-down – Judge Australia to have right measure of information supply : ARBITRATE

5-down – Expression of surprise regarding one feature of daffodil : CORONA

6-down – Holderness home to these seabirds? : ERNES

7-down – Supportive of appropriate gain : PROFIT

8-down – Prevent hot fighting in midst of battle : THWART

14-down – Wagner opera is upsetting for one supporter withdrawing name : SIEGFRIED

16-down – Beach feature to coil on vacation : WINDBREAK

17-down – Image of Jesus church’s taken in two ways – half holy,half mock : ECCEHOMO

18-down – Informant about your University is unnaturally sweet : SYRUPY

20-down – Repudiate key source of hope we elevated : ESCHEW

21-down – One fond of chow initially fond of cartoon dog … : FOODIE

23-down – … cartoon dog left in position with repeated character in cartoon : PLUTO

24-down – Upset speaker after cutting off opening : ANNOY

1-across – Spoiling old woman wearing jewellery : BLOWING

5-across – Modern cricketer gets final boundary of series : BATTERY

10-across – Novelist in a state penning article : MANN

11-across – Playing tuba in Rome with another instrument : TAMBOURINE

12-across – Cold musician’s unlimited drink : CASSIS

13-across – Live report of where Prince William’s crown might be? : ONTHEAIR

14-across – Subject’s alter ego ‘Gary’ seen outside pub : GEOGRAPHY

16-across – Relatives stealing £1,000 records … : SONGS

17-across – … by backing group holding note : TIMES

19-across – Make president replace politician with court after tricks : CONSTRUCT

23-across – Reforming c-capital punishment : CHANGING

24-across – Sell bicycle part to the audience : PEDDLE

26-across – Low church,perhaps York,returned English food : BLUECHEESE

27-across – Praise God for all to hear : LAUD

28-across – Demonstrate in favour of cricket’s longest format : PROTEST

29-across – Oppose noble queen : COUNTER

2-down – General hides a cigarette in vegetation : LEAFAGE

3-down – Snakes and ladders board in Fiji now ends being flipped : WINDS

4-down – Woman’s brown back has a fracture : NATASHA

6-down – Chooses a pet with no tail,a bit tame in afterthought : ADOPTS

7-down – Elizabeth Reef – our secret signature : THREEFOUR

8-down – Managed royal position : RANKING

9-down – Sand dune got moved – plausible? : SMOOTHTONGUED

15-down – Sing loudly following party in open area outside town : GREENBELT

18-down – During chaotic reign,no good prince becomes smoker? : INHALER

20-down – Boss to drink more rum : SUPREMO

21-down – Growth of bird has head increase by a factor of 20 : CULTURE

22-down – Matches 50 and 88? Pointless at first : LIGHTS

25-down – Welshman taking part in Normandy landings : DYLAN

1-across – Efforts made to have tin glaze initially added to artworks : PAINTINGS

6-across – Love to get two degrees? Yes we can,he said : OBAMA

9-across – Bother first lady after exercise : PEEVE

10-across – Betray apparent leader seen on the street : SHOPFRONT

11-across – Pangram will regularly display this range : AGA

12-across – A man like Trump that devastates the environment : AGENTORANGE

14-across – Managed to rest after tension in crossing : TRANSIT

15-across – Stops son joining uncaring god worshippers : DESISTS

16-across – Small change as regularly spotted on the beat : COPPERS

19-across – Servant retains half of treats for one overseeing service : MAITRED

22-across – Titanic orchestra perhaps,and what they didn’t do : ABANDONSHIP

23-across – Runner should keep improving from the start : SKI

24-across – No hope revolutionary writer is preferring old stuff? : NEOPHOBIC

26-across – Threatening to exclude men passing challenge with ease : ACING

27-across – Moderation of rent increase : LETUP

28-across – Liberal agreed GNP reveals societal disparity : GENDERGAP

1-down – Leading role Spooner might have toasted? : POPTART

2-down – Japanese art has elements of childlike banality : IKEBANA

3-down – He had agents swarming around pub? : THENAGSHEAD

4-down – Scotch producer reports there’s no bouquet developing? : NASCENT

5-down – Arranged to have piano inside played : SPORTED

6-down – Travelling while ill : OFF

7-down – Jump in as there’s plenty that does this : ABOUNDS

8-down – <span>She performs in a style not approved by the </span><i>Guardian</i><span>?</span> : ACTRESS

13-down – Tease prince worried when rip expanded : RESTINPEACE

16-down – Direct passage is sound : CHANNEL

17-down – Gradually develop page design : PLAYOUT

18-down – Knock out part of flood defence : SANDBAG

19-down – Here in Rome,complain about hairstyle : MOHICAN

20-down – Harsh sounding political line carried by newspaper : RASPING

21-down – Kill little dog upset when redecorating : DOINGUP

25-down – Spring finishes off with Tokyo trip : HOP

1-across – Serious crime – using criminal’s money? : CAPITAL

5-across – See 1 : OFFENCE

9-across – Note musical entertainment role to begin with silent performer : MIMER

10-across – Purging most of the Arctic a muddle : CATHARTIC

11-across – Overwhelming majority expressed relief after everyone played tuba : ALLBUTAFEW

12-across – Your fault every now and then,to get mouthy? : ORAL

14-across – Straight coverage of outrageous rents in a difficult situation : HORNETSNEST

18-across – Point in time when Juliet left after a prize for needlework : ACUPUNCTURE

21-across – Desire to get some kitchenware : ITCH

22-across – They’re held by Bonnie &amp; Clyde and Butch Cassidy &amp; the Sundance Kid before noon,each case for sheriffs : AMPERSANDS

25-across – Like Bishop Auckland’s pants? : UNDERWEAR

26-across – Surmise long after love : OPINE

27-across – Put off deciding what to do with a chair : SITONIT

28-across – Same problem in root whatever you say : YESMAAM

1-down – Arrives clutching a gift,but a fancy soldier’s attire : COMBAT

2-down – After start of play,suggest getting spots : PIMPLY

3-down – Dismissed report from start to finish : THROUGHOUT

4-down – Some terribly cramped cycling gear : LYCRA

5-down – Their responsibility to send one back to France is being served : ONTHEMENU

6-down – Overweight and eating lettuce? At last,an achievement! : FEAT

7-down – Legal workers ignoring those born in March or April : NOTARIES

8-down – Raise special case after hours : ESCALATE

13-down – Like people around one,they can be cast : ASPERSIONS

15-down – Lying about wobbly bum is modern : RECUMBENT

16-down – See 1 : FATIGUES

17-down – Total reversal on trainee making wine : MUSCADET

19-down – Articles about booze causing pain : ANGINA

20-down – Value committee finally meets up : ESTEEM

23-down – Sandwich-like ahead of time? : EARLY

24-down – Press club : IRON

8-across – Originally,baker oversupplied lightly – 13 – he often leaves éclair in safe place : BOLTHOLE

9-across – Zero tolerance finally adopted during time off : RESET

10-across – Slightly rotten greeting yelled : HIGH

11-across – Intrude,all agitated and surly : ILLNATURED

12-across – The reverse of ‘dark’ and ‘night’? : MIDDAY

14-across – <span>And also not included in song: </span><i>Hamilton</i><span>’s lead wanting direction</span> : DUENORTH

16-across – Gunman’s order delivered with difficulty,it’s implied : HANDSUP

18-across – Excellent: room’s confining,at last,Bruno Mars : DEFORMS

21-across – Zoned out: this is ignoring the writer’s parts : DOZENTHS

23-across – Figure set around mostly satisfactory constant : TWELVE

24-across – Border has shown up throttling power in world? Not half : HEMISPHERE

26-across – Relief: American sizes successively decreasing : ALMS

27-across – I’m surprised by cellists’ kit that’s heard in woodwinds : OBOES

28-across – <span>Rebutted curt prig with one book,</span><i>The Agony and the Ecstasy</i><span>?</span> : EMOTIONS

1-down – Amino acid tipped for synthesis in volcanic island : DOMINICA

2-down – Playing autoharp; regrettably a pro’s left it in a state : UTAH

3-down – Using cunning,zip about No 4 in Second Eleven : FOXILY

4-down – Dance,as Marillion song on the radio : CEILIDH

5-down – A drowned valley that’s conveyed by piping : ARIA

6-down – Deduce spoof largely concocted with AI instructions? : PSEUDOCODE

7-down – Hopefully,with finale from tenor to replace bass,producing calm : ATREST

13-down – Was Spice Girl impersonating duck that’s low-pitched and resonant? : DIDGERIDOO

15-down – Middle of Feb,day in early May,or one late in Dec? : EVE

17-down – Sunhats: oddly ignored means of preserving life : UHT

19-down – Composition part #2 : MOVEMENT

20-down – Sicilians possibly expelling a Milanese,awkwardly : ISLEMEN

22-down – <span>Character in Globe – Roneo? – Not </span><i>quite</i> : OBERON

23-down – Former student crowned by those people – wise guys : THEMOB

25-down – <i>Peep Show</i><span> regularly lost money in Philippines</span> : PESO

26-down – Miles – perhaps not 500 – in cars offered here : AVIS