Daily Answers

5-across – Writer of Morse inserting line that’s not so friendly : COLDER

6-across – We backed out of the wrong crowd : THRONG

9-across – Generates deposits to get money after … : SPAWNS

10-across – Cambridgeshire pub following certain code from the start? : INNATELY

11-across – Kind of art — work of 13? : DECO

12-across – Transforming study with a famous 13 : DENATURING

13-across – Kind of solver who doesn’t obey set of rules? : CODEBREAKER

18-across – Secrecy measure unknown in Princeton, strangely : ENCRYPTION

21-across – Contact group of spies : RING

22-across – Agree Leonardo’s last section has been enciphered? : COINCIDE

23-across – English composer providing part for violin that’s played by quartets : BRIDGE

24-across – For rousing passion, unfinished symphony by Beethoven eclipses his fourth : EROTIC

25-across – Some abodes sailors selected in port : ODESSA

1-down – Fellows upset over nothing worked alone : FLEWSOLO

2-down – Became aware of couple holding hands, surrounded by offspring : SENSED

3-down – A teach-in switching parts leaves much to be desired? : CHINATEA

4-down – Who, for example, inverted degenerate set of principles endlessly? : DOCTOR

5-down – Key change of price around end of month : CIPHER

7-down – Like some 18th-century music style in madrigal anthology : GALANT

8-down – Evening drinks in inn, reds we mixed : DINNERWINES

14-down – Clear European vote in line with law, under pressure : EXPLICIT

15-down – Noblemen on time, namely enter­ing before everyone else? : EARLIEST

16-down – Along with the letter, poem put in secret text : ENCODE

17-down – Riddle cracked in game : ENIGMA

19-down – Free, in a way, but it comes at a cost : RANSOM

20-down – Unimportant person could be problem for murder detective or winemaker : NOBODY

1-across – Pictures in large book needing effort : TOILSOME

5-across – Ate fast, secured door and ran off : BOLTED

9-across – Stole cab involved in a sort of race : OBSTACLE

10-across – Go to prison? One’s a shining light : BEACON

12-across – Outlaw goat and its offspring : BILLYTHEKID

15-across – Nick is excellent with top : NOTCH

17-across – Stimulate a Svengali into action : GALVANISE

18-across – Alexander and eight of the Germans bring sailboat on shore : SANDYACHT

19-across – Friend from Northumberland hill country : NEPAL

20-across – Notice quail buffeted in such gales : EQUINOCTIAL

24-across – Nervous of attack by a force : AFRAID

25-across – Delirious, seeing entire chaos in football club : FRENETIC

26-across – Don’t show opening of conversat­ion in camp programme : HIDEHI

27-across – Double-faced couple took part : TWOSIDED

1-down – Noted his job is on the slide : TROMBONIST

2-down – Rude to limit area for protecting : INSULATING

3-down – I say, look at me — so disreputable : SEAMY

4-down – Taking to the air, its members are bonkers : MILEHIGHCLUB

6-down – Exaggerated being in debt … : OVERDRAWN

7-down – … show approval of credit : TICK

8-down – Accomplished teacher has energy : DONE

11-down – Not many hands on ghost ship? : SKELETONCREW

13-down – Small nail with sharp end carefully located : PINPOINTED

14-down – Source of water put in a favourable position : WELLPLACED

16-down – Dishy? No, he may appear like a tomboy : HOYDENISH

21-down – Ice creams dropped on the motorway : CONES

22-down – Unhappy about hard race : DASH

23-down – Poke right inside compartment : PROD

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