Daily Answers

8-across – They roared with wind by two but were swinging by three! : TWENTIES

9-across – Bathroom fitting is more splashy when I get in : SHOWER

10-across – Apprentice never tried out leads for setter : ANTO

11-across – Obey Lorna, perhaps, by revising study … : DOONESDUTY

12-across – … recently put back in metal folder : OFLATE

14-across – Philosopher abandoning case makes a cry for help : SOCRATES

15-across – Foremost Irish girl gets discharge, when rejected : SUPREME

17-across – Impractical for campuses to become temporary shelters? : USELESS

20-across – A Swedish group has poetic scheme for this Lear favourite : LIMERICK

22-across – Aristocrat without a scrap found outside city : BERLIN

23-across – Masons may roll it up to reveal support : TROUSERLEG

24-across – It comes early for one being sent off : BATH

25-across – Standard element of animation plot : PARCEL

26-across – After signal, shout ‘open’ : FLAGRANT

1-down – Disease picked up when the impossible happened : SWINEFLU

2-down – Found out concealing key to correcting erroneous input : UNDO

3-down – Core position of hospital in NHS : MIDDLE

4-down – Champion finds partner online? : ESPOUSE

5-down – US stock market regulator head promoted under European principles : ESSENCES

6-down – Unexpected visitor in winter trying to sell you something? : COLDCALLER

7-down – Resolution satisfied ownership of property after it is abandoned : METTLE

13-down – Unreal chef cooked something that’s supposedly never available : AFREELUNCH

16-down – Modest men daily get abused : MAIDENLY

18-down – Broke unit revealing shade on the outside : SKINTONE

19-down – Almost miss promotion that could help ascending the slippery slope : SKILIFT

21-down – Cast-iron commercial progress : INROAD

22-down – He holds the money when company meets in bar : BAGMAN

24-down – Time attempt to capture rook : BIRD

1-across – Looking offended by power trip : POUTING

5-across – Purported cure tested her good faith : HAIROF

9-across – Millions are putting in short order for arrangement of treatment : MEDICARE

10-across – Is no longer a swinger? That’s pungent : WASABI

12-across – About to rest, change striker for amateur game : VARSITYMATCH

15-across – All you need to know about love: it’s devastating and is huge : ENOUGHSAID

17-across – Fool that a pedant picks : NIT

19-across – Back page of The Dandy : FOP

20-across – Cutting some potatoes set out in cold winds : EASTERLIES

22-across – Endless capital employed by minister a bonus as betting is over : RIENNEVAPLUS

26-across – See 5 : THEDOG

27-across – Architect’s trade vehicle, brown and horrible : VANBRUGH

28-across – Comedian takes extremely large piece of cake : DODDLE

29-across – Cut layer, about a yard — how much do you want? : SAYWHEN

1-down – Display anti-aircraft gun, ignoring one order : POMP

2-down – Tongue bends double, finding way in : URDU

3-down – Controlling what one arrested may be given : INCHARGE

4-down – Dodgy Russian showing a bit of brain : GYRUS

6-down – Metal prostheses set these off? : ALARMS

7-down – In which one can winningly play to the gallery : REALTENNIS

8-down – Left tights off for check-up : FLIGHTTEST

11-down – Hard villains finally cheated in hearing : STRICT

13-down – Bored, virtually carry out an unruly youth : PERFORATED

14-down – Get school to raise girl’s death : COMPREHEND

16-down – Look meaningfully round very fast : STARVE

18-down – Perhaps good in a sport, showing skill : ARGUABLY

21-down – Expecting data, not quite everything : INFOAL

23-down – Mountains of nettles picked up : PEAKS

24-down – Pity it only has 4 chapters : RUTH

25-down – Flimsy item falling short : THIN

9-across – Excited cry from oaf : YAHOO

10-across – I go off pastry sent around by a restaurant : TRATTORIA

11-across – Herbivore long ago sorted out grasses, mostly : STEGOSAUR

12-across – Officers soundly managed area of woodland : COPSE

13-across – Visionary returns from hearing : PROPHET

15-across – Shows emotion and is destruct­ive? Doesn’t sound like it : TEARSUP

17-across – Despotic leader installed without a break : PUTIN

18-across – Role in Henry V sounds like something anyone could play : NYM

20-across – Ruse that helps player secure contract : TRICK

22-across – See 3 : SAPIENS

25-across – Help with 24, a couple of 3 23 : SUCCOUR

26-across – Audibly, complaint increased in volume : GROWN

27-across – Legal agreements for shrinks : CONTRACTS

30-across – Problem for driver scrambling to reverse : OVERSTEER

31-across – Kind of love that’s very open, like 8 and 15 exemplifying 3 7 : AGAPE

1-down – One or more positive responses viewers stated : AYES

2-down – Forcibly removed — it’s all over, one might say : THREWOUT

3-down – Term implying wisdom that’s peculiarly man’s? I hope so : HOMO

4-down – Put under financial pressure, stop being crooked, we hear : STRAITEN

5-down – Sign of something extra, or amount of gold, announced as incentive : CARROT

6-down – Being governed by chance upset constituents of a Scottish Conservative : STOCHASTIC

7-down – Plots to use G sharp in new composition : GRAPHS

8-down – China’s tea with pronounced difference : MATE

13-down – Diarist has a furtive look, reportedly : PEPYS

14-down – Letters he has put in post to North and South? It’s left, if not right : HANDEDNESS

16-down – Fire controller for game : POKER

19-down – Male is awfully randy, resulting in this? : MISANDRY

21-down – Mocking boy, one I expelled, that’s heavily protected : IRONCLAD

23-down – In triumph, one smashes cells, perhaps : PHONES

24-down – Shoot, with 26, a pair of 3 23 : SUCKER

26-down – Closing gap, don’t stop thug : GOON

28-down – As example of 3 18, raise back part … : REAR

29-down – … or put an end to movement out of control : SLEW

1-across – Article in Times left unfinished without a herb used in soups : BAYLEAF

5-across – One feeds three queens : CATERER

10-across – It emerges from opening a 12, initially : FOAM

11-across – Drink left over in group refreshed army : BLOODYMARY

12-across – Parent drinks a gin, disposing of one big bottle : MAGNUM

13-across – Tin in hamper, second container of 25? : DECANTER

14-across – Leader to lead with three articles : TOPBANANA

16-across – Pale Guardian covers bestseller with renewed energy : WHITE

17-across – Carpet that is ancient, small and austere : SCOLD

19-across – Fruit in soft drink that’s oddly part of 9, maybe? : CHIPOLATA

23-across – 29’s wi-fi picked up bang outside : CRAYFISH

24-across – Cat grabs a radio’s top sound producer : LARYNX

26-across – PM devouring every island’s dessert : PEACHMELBA

27-across – Almost completed northern range : OVEN

28-across – From memory, boy’s gutted, given red card : BYHEART

29-across – Cook stepped around lobster for one : DECAPOD

2-down – A very old poster in firm’s green : AVOCADO

3-down – Most of French paper’s yellow : LEMON

4-down – Coach unable to accommodate male, 16 : ALBUMEN

6-down – Cite a fruit extract that’s talked about by some : ADDUCE

7-down – Colonist guzzling new prince’s dairy product : EMMENTHAL

8-down – Austere English composer’s blocking film : EARNEST

9-down – Battered dish? He loathed it on toast : TOADINTHEHOLE

15-down – Result of eating too much beef? : BELLYACHE

18-down – Transport about half of veal where it’s sliced? : CARVERY

20-down – Staff regularly asleep? It’s the drink : PALEALE

21-down – Cross to put outside old Islington pub : TANGELO

22-down – Seethe a short way into series : SIMMER

25-down – A carpenter from the south put away nearly new wine : RIOJA

1-across – Fishy sanctuary for a lot of Americans? : CARPARK

5-across – See 17 : BOARDER

10-across – Fishy weapon? : PIKE

11-across – Where local workers are detained : BEHINDBARS

12-across – Sounding hard, nothing has replaced one chapter in something easy : PHONIC

13-across – Soldier on set I look to knock over : KEEPITUP

14-across – Bone goes with third of fillets, fishy Italian dish : BOLOGNESE

16-across – Middle Eastern city in Doha, I fancy : HAIFA

17-across – One gliding along, fishy pupil at Eton, say : SKATE

19-across – Targeted by marketing strategy, left shambolic extremists initially in command : LEAFLETED

23-across – Fishy water? Helper on the way : CODRIVER

24-across – Fishy weapon? : RAYGUN

26-across – Central circles with rings around — might these be flowers? : PERENNIALS

27-across – Predator catching egg layer : COAT

28-across – Deception, fishy fizzy drink? : CHARADE

29-across – Mannerly, fishy chap? : GENTEEL

2-down – Reaction, by the sound of it, when apartment evacuated and I go away! : ATISHOO

3-down – Tart up, on prodding feather once? : PREEN

4-down – Second river crossed in heading on — point of no return? : RUBICON

6-down – First of orders signed — sounded like Napoleon? : OINKED

7-down – Dump in African capital with English religious job : RABBINATE

8-down – Material originally sewn into each frill, one of two pads : EARMUFF

9-down – Dramatic Irishman secreting fishy weapon? : SHAKESPEAREAN

15-down – 27, for example, wife found in location of canal : OUTERWEAR

18-down – 9 recognises king, these days the vagrant : KNOWETH

20-down – Divine number and letter mentioned? : FORESEE

21-down – Follow fast runner, then slow : EMULATE

22-down – Flattened garden ever rising, to some extent : EVENED

25-down – Vessel unknown, number spoken by U-boat crew? : YACHT