Daily Answers

9-across – Calligraphy item in kind,in a novel : INDIANINK

10-across – Leading recitalist performing party piece : RONDO

11-across – In English wood,church camp : EPICENE

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

13-across – Neat cut : TRIM

14-across – Docker who has dieted? : LIGHTERMAN

15-across – Dressage music : RAGTIME

17-across – As nice as Ritz’s top cocktail : ARSENIC

19-across – Large lorry blocks topped vegetables : ARTICHOKES

22-across – Some school’s outing returning to capital : OSLO

23-across – Carriageway cover on isle’s complete,we’re told : MANHOLE

24-across – Novel medieval instrument starts to come apart : REBECCA

26-across – Gem with inlay carved evenly : NACRE

27-across – Agitated farm animal that is caught in snarled net : EBULLIENT

1-down – Listen cryptically getting the cold shoulder : SILENTTREATMENT

2-down – Looking up to notice on motorway telephone : ADMIRING

3-down – Step outside parts of Paris,France : PACE

4-down – Row of churchwardens bearing oil here? : PIPELINE

5-down – Quick drawing of small sailing boat : SKETCH

6-down – King in glasses waves : BREAKERS

7-down – Fit brief : INFORM

8-down – Actors marry dons around Highland county : ROSSANDCROMARTY

16-down – Incorporated paramour on easy street : INCLOVER

17-down – Cohort having trouble around middle of field on horseback : AGEGROUP

18-down – Everyone knows feature is on island,out East : NOSECRET

20-down – Dress code first introduced in capital : TUNICS

21-down – Writer invested in dictionary as on first night? : OPENED

25-down – Call corporation endlessly : BELL

1-across – Fibre in hummus is a legume : SISAL

4-across – I’m high and far from dry : RAINCLOUD

9-across – Agitator: Rep. apathetic but – what did you say? : DEMAGOGUE

10-across – Toni’s absent,a simpleton,daft sap you’ll find here : MAPLE

11-across – One fellow with beer admitted to weight that keeps going up in Africa : KILIMANJARO

13-across – Finally see the squirrel fish : EEL

14-across – Trim small trees : SPRUCES

15-across – Abandoned – somewhat absurd – is U.S. education : DISUSED

16-across – Like one favouring Harriers or their namesake : HAWKISH

19-across – See 27 : JONESES

22-across – French word for ‘test’ : MOT

23-across – Bleeding menaces causing a flap : VAMPIREBATS

24-across – Concerning number of roach trails identified at intervals : OCTAL

25-across – Draw some of sun’s heat twice : UNSHEATHE

27-across – Aspiring to level of Tom,Jade and Quincy? : KEEPINGUP

28-across – Wear that’s loud and massive : GREAT

1-down – On reflection ultimately calamitous,U.K. to consume excessively American puzzles : SUDOKUS

2-down – Less complicated to act coy around 50 : SIMPLER

3-down – Pin on : LEG

4-down – Temporary authorities on the subject of convenience : REGENTS

5-down – Country where you might find High Dudgeon and Greater Wrath? : IRELAND

6-down – <i>e.g.</i><span> making good use of the things that you find?</span> : COMMONSENSE

7-down – Classical musician: entreat hospital for returning … : ORPHEUS

8-down – … fought director,toppling leader,conquered : DUELLED

12-down – Physicist: evil liar,curt twisted manipulator : MACHIAVELLI

16-down – Hardly professional exam? I’m lying here : HAMMOCK

17-down – See 27 Across : WITHTHE

18-down – Gammon rejected food in European city : HAMBURG

19-down – Volunteers given Japanese soup in ground : JOINSUP

20-down – Clever-clogs: Sting,that is : SMARTIE

21-down – Fancy – or fishy : SUSPECT

26-down – Regularly engage poacher needing this? : EGG

9-across – A yearning for hope initially : AITCH

10-across – About ready to flip,if ditched in canal : FINANCIAL

11-across – One who survives embracing political party that bombed : LANCASTER

12-across – Crazy but well : BARMY

13-across – Brit absorbing ‘hard worker’ spirit : PHANTOM

15-across – Lover,once having pried,turned and ran out : EXPIRED

17-across – Nation elected to get back funds : INDIA

18-across – Shiner causes squint oddly : SUN

20-across – Sexual declaration used in poems? : IAMBI

22-across – State calls for end of free vote petition : EXPRESS

25-across – Say one’s left deposit,in full : UTTERLY

26-across – Maybe squash plant variant? : SPORT

27-across – Hot tar’s forced into near empty navigational aid : NORTHSTAR

30-across – Bear on a Piano by surreal painter : APPERTAIN

31-across – X’s house arrest finally overturned : TIMES

1-down – See 28 : MAIL

2-down – Single-stemmed plant’s quality improved : STANDARD

3-down – Question one: What might be said to end a ride? : WHOA

4-down – Habitually fit some plastic to retain temperature : OFTTIMES

5-down – Nice way to support nut production? Wrong : UNTRUE

6-down – Christian making Satan a bit peeved at first : ANABAPTIST

7-down – Imitate Spanish artist capturing Republican revolutionary leader : MIRROR

8-down – Fine plant for skin : FLAY

13-down – Old writer holding lives in balance : POISE

14-down – Car,jet brazenly parked on politician’s path! : TRAJECTORY

16-down – On a regular basis,a diver may be heard : DAILY

19-down – Particle,negative,orbiting form of inert uranium : NEUTRINO

21-down – Nautical remit: ‘Aim to swim!’ : MARITIME

23-down – Concert part for theatre assistant : PROMPT

24-down – Said dessert’s a week’s portion : SUNDAY

26-down – Row of bugs turned over : SPAT

28-down – Malicious stuff,the crap about a ‘jumped-up’ Brit band member : HATE

29-down – See 2 : ROSE

1-across – Restrained by some Parisian,crowd reverts to peaceful mode : DEMOBS

4-across – Lover,first character to hide in library? : LEANDER

9-across – Endless upset about copper nabbing one wise man : CONFUCIUS

10-across – Waste material not fresh dumped by a lake : OFFAL

11-across – US beer – an early version? : DRAFT

12-across – Film-maker with something black excited nation : TARANTINO

13-across – Small animal needs unusual fortifier if fading : ROTIFER

15-across – Male,say,to grumble : MUTTER

17-across – Work on Scottish island for a bit : COLLOP

19-across – American guy getting left trapped shows bravado : BLUSTER

22-across – Moment era changes – one can gauge the pressure : MANOMETER

24-across – I see nothing – then across time small image appears : OPTIC

26-across – Reason for not going to work? Deceitful story fashionable : LIEIN

27-across – Singer to manage mystical sound in musical sections : BRUNOMARS

28-across – Drunkard in this place offering words of defiance : SOTHERE

29-across – Terribly idle,inwardly you flap : EYELID

1-down – Beast pins hero in crucial contest : DECIDER

2-down – Comic book with some inhuman gags : MANGA

3-down – Spreading fun,Liberal in short out to be bighearted : BOUNTIFUL

4-down – Desire that’s odd for a number of years : LUSTRUM

5-down – Sailors having a party on deck : ADORN

6-down – Not the same with identity as monarch no longer reluctant to speak out? : DIFFIDENT

7-down – We cannot wait for one sort of deodorant! : ROLLON

8-down – Beer warm? Certainly not! : BITTER

14-down – Terribly inert host becoming most prickly : THORNIEST

16-down – Reportedly instructed in a science? That must be right : TAUTOLOGY

18-down – Italian water that’s taken on board is OK for drinking : POTABLE

19-down – Ship’s protective layer,as you might say : BARQUE

20-down – Secured criminal let off court appearance? : RECUSED

21-down – Enthusiast for self-improvement appears to be happy : SMILES

23-down – Maiden in church to act in affected manner : MINCE

25-down – ‘Dog’ could be about right for this : TRAIL

1-across – One for sorrow,two for joy? Quite the opposite : SYLLABLE

6-across – Gold ordered for morning delivery? : AUBADE

9-across – It measures your velocity – during swim? : SPEEDO

10-across – At sea,Tudor won second phase of fight : ROUNDTWO

11-across – It’s at risk when making phone call : ONTHELINE

13-across – Latest figures include returned contributions : GIFTS

15-across – Caesar came by empty commune that’s in northern Italy : VENICE

17-across – It has neck and defines it perhaps : BOTTLE

18-across – Stretches out to take on regular heavy duties : LEVIES

19-across – Some money to be made from talking about meaning : TENNER

21-across – Chap whose happiness sets the standard for us all : LARRY

22-across – Keep close tabs initially for a couple of weeks : FORTNIGHT

25-across – Model has relations banned – don’t get involved : SITITOUT

26-across – Evaluate what to do after vacation : UNPACK

28-across – Middle managers trading fabrics from major African city : AGADIR

29-across – Plastic has affect bordering polluted lake : BAKELITE

2-down – Settle up for waffle : YAP

3-down – Freeloader in shelter next to church : LEECH

4-down – Wild colt I broke becomes servile type : BOOTLICKER

5-down – After slip,worker becomes wayward : ERRANT

6-down – Opening of any new unit supplies another opening : ANUS

7-down – Poor working surroundings for money maker’s game : BADMINTON

8-down – Basic requirement for successful parachute jump : DOWNTOEARTH

12-down – Contemplating part of church windows,learner climbs up : NAVELGAZING

14-down – Engaged by chance,strove desperately to become besotted : LOVESTRUCK

16-down – Retracted study about pests? Not to worry : NEVERMIND

20-down – Excessive deposit in heart may induce sweating there : HOTTUB

23-down – Setter’s pelvis broken in half by force : IMPEL

24-down – Deplore Republican vulgarian : BOOR

27-down – Refuse to acknowledge reduced reward : CUT