Daily Answers

1-across – Well-turned-out son right to wear brownish-purple : SPRUCE

4-across – Has sex with fashionable sort of girl in a small room : BEDSIT

9-across – Boast about what one is wearing : GARB

10-across – Rudolph’s charity event? : REDNOSEDAY

11-across – Hope for one to compete, collecting right uniform : VIRTUE

12-across – School task carried out in prison yard? : EXERCISE

13-across – Inject copper into misshapen toenail : INOCULATE

15-across – A lady with a title shortly gets a man’s name : ADAM

16-across – Where is the fuel for army vehicle? : TANK

17-across – A diary, any sort, one saves up for : ARAINYDAY

21-across – Insignificant people, evidence of their murder missing? : NOBODIES

22-across – Showing very unfriendly manner on small island : SICILY

24-across – Attractive young mother’s crummy rhymes : YUMMYMUMMY

25-across – One longing aloud for a patch of ground : ACRE

26-across – Not letting anyone see one’s heavy defeat : HIDING

27-across – Careerist, yes, with something in the oven : YUPPIE

1-down – Big beast is alone, sadly : SEALION

2-down – To steal books is a mindless thing : ROBOT

3-down – Wow! Little girl makes university : CORNELL

5-down – ’e runs — taking the girl with him? : ELOPES

6-down – School event giving rise to much talk? : SPEECHDAY

7-down – Break matron’s little window : TRANSOM

8-down – Vet’s demeanour strangely enterprising : ADVENTURESOME

14-down – Study put together followed the rules : CONFORMED

16-down – Sacred syllable, in a sense, is more than one can take : TOOMUCH

18-down – Tell me, is that believable? : IASKYOU

19-down – Glare at criminal evading capture : ATLARGE

20-down – Feminist term used in swimming : WIMMIN

23-down – Fellow covering miles is a winner : CHAMP

1-across – Albert and his work : BLOODISTHICKER

8-across – I’m going to stop working in American university : ADIEU

9-across – How food may be served with nothing spent from monthly allowance : AUGRATIN

11-across – It’s nice to be back on road with better car : HARDTOP

12-across – Cad turned on queen and popular old king : TARQUIN

13-across – Get up around noon for wash : RINSE

15-across – See 1 : THANWATER

17-across – Natural being uncovered, mask questionable — it’s explained here with illustrations : KAMASUTRA

20-across – Round container holds tablet and a lot of water : OCEAN

21-across – Article on sport that’s wrong about old Louis? : THEROUX

23-across – Returning home is largely painful for composer : ROSSINI

25-across – Could be true — look, it was 12’s language : ETRUSCAN

26-across – Magazine love story captivates daughter : OLDIE

27-across – Early work might involve meeting with fellow in steak bar, possibly : POWERBREAKFAST

1-down – Keir, in short, the ablest in Labour? Nonsense! : BLATHERSKITE

2-down – Tree, one in forest shedding bark unusually : OSIER

3-down – Obviously cut down on workload but forced to come in : DOUBTLESS

4-down – [Don’t move sheep back over river] : STAYPUT

5-down – Meal’s off — drink? : HIGHTEA

6-down – One spearing trout-like fish — it might be easy : CHAIR

7-down – Quite surprised — Tottenham winger during season abroad showing good form : ETIQUETTE

10-down – On the way to collect dope and unwilling to reconsider : INTRANSIGENT

14-down – Eco warrior originally arrested under nuclear dump : NUMBERTWO

16-down – Stripped bird in court where defendant stands : WOODSTOCK

18-down – Team about to board Bill’s vehicle : TAXICAB

19-down – Gunners upset by a lot of Celtic’s rivals — fix! : ARRANGE

22-down – FA join? That’s handy! : OFUSE

24-down – I win — diagram has parts missing : INDIA

8-across – Food processor that is broken by small people : COLONISE

9-across – Final letters backed wise work plan : OMEGAS

10-across – Poet joins volunteers providing cover for knight : TABARD

12-across – Sign of distress as fall follows sprint : TEARDROP

13-across – Greek letter in religious painting, not the consonant : ETA

14-across – Possible need for invalid inferior writer switching contents : BEDPAN

16-across – Unusually veracious, apart from one piece that’s bad for circulation : VARICOSE

17-across – Deny having daughter’s ring put in a car? : DISAVOW

20-across – Deployed joint force European commanded, holding weapon : ELBOWED

23-across – Willing to admit nothing after the atom disintegrated : ATHOMETO

24-across – Neither posted nor moved? : UNSENT

26-across – Valley’s width in metric unit : CWM

27-across – Second question in 30 — answer’s ‘trees’ : SEQUOIAS

28-across – A youth going on lake for sail : LATEEN

31-across – Nasty person curate had to endure? Not entirely : BADEGG

32-across – What’s old in phony antique? Solve that! : EQUATION

1-down – State we hear spelt without consonants? : IOWA

2-down – Tiny bit in audiotape : IOTA

3-down – Ordered Democratic president outside : BIDDEN

4-down – Once a TV broadcast is ready, used in some countries : CENTAVO

5-down – Like solo organ performance in audition : MONAURAL

6-down – Comedians disturbed about upper-class lying : MENDACIOUS

7-down – In heartless prison, I lowered blind : JALOUSIE

11-down – Start to grow capital, having got rid of a pest : BUD

14-down – Delivery info initially upset person : BOD

15-down – Pitch checker’s routine nap disturbed : PIANOTUNER

18-down – Wear thin, possibly becoming bare : INTHERAW

19-down – Holes launches : OPENINGS

21-down – What I must have, but not in that case : DOT

22-down – Sections of vessels with three parts removed : FOCSLES

24-down – What’s German city got that Irish quarter hasn’t? : UMLAUT

25-down – Female contributing to the website we’ve viewed regularly : EWE

29-down – Dance costume pronounced excessively dated : TUTU

30-down – Frenzied expression as English promise to pay up : EUOI

7-across – Officer’s English degree is specialised for an American : MAJORED

8-across – Order within tea room : CHAMBER

9-across – Poet dropping right in : HOME

10-across – Note: master of riding waves to rise up once more : RESURFACE

12-across – During scare, lacking guts, not turning into this? : STONE

13-across – Soldiers welcome band signing up again : REHIRING

15-across – Former F1 champion’s peak? : HILL

16-across – Character from Porridge breaks into vault which ends in trouble : ETHOS

17-across – Troy departing from barren island : SARK

18-across – Perhaps roofer’s chicken after heading to tower : THATCHER

20-across – Tortured antihero’s been abandoned by Richard in scrubland : HEATH

21-across – Man receives a million to get Pele playing with zest : LEMONPEEL

22-across – Happy state — being hugged by grandad on vacation : GLAD

24-across – Joined one inside and exercised : WIELDED

25-across – National insurance’s introduction is real variable : ISRAELI

1-down – Chairman devouring last of curry sauce : MAYO

2-down – Cricket ground has slower ball spinning: all out, including duck : ROSEBOWL

3-down – Cheddar, possibly — cheese, finally eaten by king : GEORGE

4-down – Orders around half of your tablets in such buildings? : CHURCHES

5-down – Spoil 1 + 1,000 + 2? : IMPAIR

6-down – River crosses northern valley : DENE

11-down – Extra cost keeping car in drive outside entrance to home : SURCHARGE

12-down – Economist hits out over money : SMITH

14-down – Pole position or third, thereabouts : NORTH

16-down – Improved, he can dribble during final : ENHANCED

17-down – Press into service in City : SHANGHAI

19-down – In London, stop politician hiding in box : TEMPLE

20-down – Theory that alcohol is more than the sum of its parts? : HOLISM

21-down – Even Alsatians rested : LAIN

23-down – Clever stories have no intro­duction or conclusion : ABLE

1-across – Turf hunk out of Britain with tendency for trouble : SODSLAW

5-across – Old-fashioned drier whiskey — double! : WRINGER

9-across – Doves sport with great rook from the east : PEACENIKS

10-across – Turkish bigwig’s yearly investing has bombed : PASHA

11-across – Refuge of PM once, saving face : LAIR

12-across – Criminal admits that hurt ability to turn a profit : MIDASTOUCH

14-across – Intently watching, but missing a series : STRING

15-across – Ruled about case of snake oil provider : LINSEED

16-across – Guy’s partner, one meeting DiCaprio? The earth moved for him! : GALILEO

18-across – Fabric coat from Versace with grim look : VELOUR

20-across – Race around dodgy bars with gin in mum’s cups : NURSINGBRA

21-across – Good service, tennis ace : GRAF

24-across – Periodical suffering, lumbago’s back! : HELLO

25-across – Lorna likes men and women with time to make an expected contribution : DOONESBIT

26-across – Try pirouettes without success in matching clothes : TWINSET

27-across – In need of cracking fish in desperate need : ENCODED

1-down – Changing direction initially, Asian country makes a bit of a bloomer : SEPAL

2-down – Papers about musician, say, releasing tango for recorder : DIARIST

3-down – National symbol’s a revelation, it’s said : LEEK

4-down – Serving, give up point and play without purpose : WAITINGFORGODOT

5-down – Darn! Flipping husband entirely rendered powerless in song : WESHALLOVERCOME

6-down – Suggest bottling old wine without any strength : IMPOTENTLY

7-down – Sign I’m surprised crossing northerly tracks : GESTURE

8-down – Hit a socialist, punching another : REACHED

13-down – Football club I sense is very bad : VILLAINOUS

16-down – Report composed ought to include partners in play : GUNSHOT

17-down – Mythical creature in mythology, tall tale with a twist in the tail? : LORELEI

19-down – Man in nude possibly could be so described : UNROBED

22-down – Rank of Iron Duke, holding appeal up : FETID

23-down – Best to leave a reversing car : MERC