Daily Answers

1-across – Immediately suggestive of boater going down? : ATTHEDROPOFAHAT

9-across – Fail in attempt to maintain break? : GOTOPOT

10-across – Be enough for holding popular strike : RUNINTO

11-across – Certain to miss holiday handout on island : LEI

12-across – Energy discharging around wharf, making a racket : EARPIERCING

13-across – Bland caper occurring around start of month : ANTISEPTIC

15-across – A lot of cane turned into a cot : CRIB

18-across – Eat out: get Chinese : ETCH

20-across – Significant eccentricity observed in bloke in Gulf working : MEANINGFUL

23-across – Informal market offering mostly crap, perhaps: footwear, booze : CARBOOTSALE

25-across – Live backing group appearing in later audition — an historic time : ERA

26-across – Soprano wrong to interrupt French king and composer : ROSSINI

27-across – Unruly Second Sex recalled in French fantasy? : RESTIVE

28-across – Off-colour article repeatedly found amongst lingerie? : UNDERTHEWEATHER

1-down – Pin-up about to tuck into a lot of raw food : ANGELCAKE

2-down – Old left-winger is in grip of drink after upholding the very thing : TITOIST

3-down – Crowd in rear of brasserie getting very good coffee : ESPRESSO

4-down – I will avoid disturbance, or location of revolution : ROTOR

5-down – I follow it through first bit, but not the last section : PARTITION

6-down – Good things to be put on penalty lines : FINERY

7-down – More convenient, that is, with Chinese doctor coming round : HANDIER

8-down – Skimpy swimsuit: object I discarded in favour of nothing : THONG

14-down – Priest upset with Welsh occupying church in Mancunian town : PRESTWICH

16-down – Singer, a large guy, tucking into booze : BALLADEER

17-down – Submarine dunes are dispersed : UNDERSEA

19-down – Large body of French turned up, collapsed in laughter : CORPSED

21-down – Belgian? Flaw sees Belgium replaced by France : FLEMISH

22-down – One repeats surprised comment about dessert : COPIER

23-down – Chapter Four about the Durrells’ home? : CORFU

24-down – It delivers arrival that hurts! : ARROW

1-across – Another country and this one are in trouble : UKRAINE

5-across – See 2 : BRANAGH

10-across – Handle a bit of butter : KNOB

11-across – Golf in Africa may be conditionally possible : CONTINGENT

12-across – Let’s deal with flyaway hair : PERMIT

13-across – Effort of past orient travelling : EXERTION

14-across – High-tech spree leaves an uneasy feeling : THECREEPS

16-across – Edward Ledger : HEATH

17-across – A northerner, of course : ASCOT

19-across – Single and in good shape after Matilda leaves : UNMARRIED

23-across – Hobby for dad? Stamp collector? : PASSPORT

24-across – One hooked and held by mad dictator : ADDICT

26-across – Memorial King George originally built for unit : KILOGRAMME

27-across – Dior fashionista’s retro style : AFRO

28-across – Quiet provider of milkshake : SHUDDER

29-across – Extremely dreary and unpleasant line : DYNASTY

2-down – Director, born in Kent, first to have better managed a good hospital : KENNETH

3-down – Capone’s behind collection of songs : ALBUM

4-down – Unlikely item from Nike etc? : NECKTIE

6-down – Mountie catching a thief : RAIDER

7-down – What one needs to retire near fresh water : NIGHTWEAR

8-down – Complaint about individual having left the building : GONEOUT

9-down – How the story began came out in open letters : ONCEUPONATIME

15-down – What are you doing, Socrates, half-drunk with weapon? : CROSSWORD

18-down – European resort hotel covering up immorality : SPANISH

20-down – School rogue in casualty? Gosh! : ACADEMY

21-down – Right in leaving out passage : EXCERPT

22-down – Rough sounding path : COARSE

25-down – Show stuff in revolting commercial : DRAMA

1-across – Day ending often in scandal, where sailors may be found : FRIGATE

5-across – Measure to avoid disorder in South American diplomacy? : RIOTACT

10-across – Pose and sit in odd places? This shows I crave attention : PSST

11-across – Dull article in Paris Match about leaving Tours : UNEXCITING

12-across – Mostly try to score before Hearts in tie : ATTACH

13-across – Concerning muscle contractions, getting treated is costly : SYSTOLIC

14-across – Loudly criticise pudding getting stick down under : BOOMERANG

16-across – Phase one neglected in prehistoric period : STAGE

17-across – Chic European wanting second husband : SWISH

19-across – Coat reapplied with flair in building with eight columns : OCTASTYLE

23-across – Atmosphere in April, possibly a revolutionary month : PRAIRIAL

24-across – Policeman carries little British idiots across the pond : DWEEBS

26-across – Unreal match, Spain getting hammered : PHANTASMIC

27-across – Singer’s articles from Buenos Aires : ELLA

28-across – Perhaps one of those who backed Holly in game : CRICKET

29-across – Bar worker’s rent cut by politician given latitude : TEMPLAR

2-down – Male German teacher needing return fare from Italy : RISOTTO

3-down – German district capital is not quite New York : GOTHA

4-down – Jerk accepting old lady’s more badass : TOUGHER

6-down – Way of paying hotel led by former empire-builders : INCASH

7-down – Idiot favouring rubbish principle of The Avengers? : TITFORTAT

8-down – Hapless chap playing with words, not initially clever : CUNNING

9-down – New and funny no less, opinion piece is a capital feature : NELSONSCOLUMN

15-down – Football star caught gathering in a shot, miraculously able to save : MESSIANIC

18-down – Literary Romantic hero briefly used to be the king : WERTHER

20-down – Doctor raced outside of healthcare department in France : ARDECHE

21-down – Fling and booze-up, one admitted, is a bloomer : LOBELIA

22-down – A bit of work in a search for enzyme : KINASE

25-down – Look over VIP speaking in EastEnders : EYEUP

1-across – He is placed second in this : PERIODICTABLE

10-across – Dark colour of 11, apart from the tips : OLDGOLD

11-across – Eton’s head expected to cover up whip in school : EDUCATE

12-across – One form of carbon, slangily, is unstable : ROCKS

13-across – Reminders of duels, including my boastful claim and swords : SCIMITARS

14-across – Second kind of soldier, good and smart : STING

16-across – Mix our two tins to provide nourishment : NUTRITION

18-across – eg restyle, after conversion, in bluish colour : STEELGREY

19-across – Encountered 6 as an example of this : METAL

20-across – Adjusts minimal amounts of elements, including uranium in small quantities : ACCUSTOMS

23-across – Words like iron and lead, perhaps, but not cobalt and tungsten : VERBS

24-across – Famous metalworker and I put in small room with nickel : CELLINI

25-across – Prepare to try gas : ARRAIGN

26-across – See 1 : OFTHEELEMENTS

2-down – Kind of system operating in body, giving directions on timeless principle : ENDOCRINE

3-down – Clubs in which performers of awful acts may be clapped : IRONS

4-down – Clothed English or American guys : DUDES

5-down – Shortened dress leading to attempt to create instinctive amorous interaction : CHEMISTRY

6-down – Product of mine, light and strong — the second one’s superfluous for Americans : ALUMINIUM

7-down – Something that protects quick ascending climber : LIANA

8-down – Opposite of belligerence characteristic of copper? : NONRESISTANCE

9-down – Making unique version of spiral neon sign, omitting one name : PERSONALISING

15-down – Irish author or 24, for example : GOLDSMITH

16-down – Affect with drug, producing odd reaction laced with sulphur : NARCOTISE

17-down – At home abstaining, having drunk cider inside bar : INTERDICT

21-down – Religious leader symbolically lists three elements and start of another : CALIF

22-down – Prepare drink for 007, something fermented with hydrogen in it : SHAKE

23-down – Part of silver necklace for French author : VERNE

9-across – Bitter Roger’s getting into mess : HARSH

10-across – Food wrapping ultimately going sodden — the making of a row : ALIGNMENT

11-across – Queen’s thing is to roll back amount by one hundred : ROCKMUSIC

12-across – Director’s left with instructor about to quit : LOACH

13-across – Apart from a second subordinate : ASUNDER

15-across – Boxer in training, possibly has splendid start with breakfast item : SKIPPER

17-across – In trouble, a king’s miserable : BLEAK

18-across – Not talking about abandoning book is slander! : MUD

20-across – As a bit of a shock, trade union measure has satisfactory conclusion : TUFTY

22-across – Charging aids pack and switches : RAMRODS

25-across – Iron is moulded round large cut : SIRLOIN

26-across – Dessert that’s put before baby? : JELLY

27-across – Innovative act ruined with drapes : CURTAINED

30-across – Tone down the vocal support, being despondent : CHEERLESS

31-across – Separate metal sensed : SMELT

1-down – Burn plan to release tension : CHAR

2-down – Booklet, brown and orange-yellow, about Clemenceau’s end : BROCHURE

3-down – America’s on edge, I say! : AHEM

4-down – It’s instrumental in making a brand of beer, ‘Devil’s Head Grog’ : BASSDRUM

5-down – Sporting object producing endless debate : DISCUS

6-down – Electrons hit with one will be shut in : ENCLOISTER

7-down – Remove moisture around electronic circuit leads : DECAMP

8-down – State without a health centre : UTAH

13-down – Top of Bowfell, on ascending after morning light : AMBER

14-down – Perhaps a local date on musical instrument associated with cathedral city : DUKEOFYORK

16-down – Man, say, with working material : RAYON

19-down – Suffering, so tear hair out? : DISTRESS

21-down – Struggle of establishment figure to absorb Latin : FLOUNDER

23-down – Character to sing about hairstyle : MULLET

24-down – Revered area of land divides a US state : SACRED

26-down – A target on the green flag : JACK

28-down – Too large to be accepted by a society ball : ALSO

29-down – American lawyer close to overturning facts : DATA