Daily Answers

1-across – Fellow, having an edge, lost it : FLIPPED

5-across – Two males producing cloth : BUCKRAM

9-across – The lowdown on class : GENRE

10-across – Commercial vehicle put in remote connections for rural housing : LOGCABINS

11-across – Assent to treaty accompanied by noises off : ACCESSION

12-across – Vitamin helping blood to clot stops skin peeling : FLAKY

13-across – Garment tenor’s wearing split from behind : PANTS

15-across – Joiner employed in B&Q : AMPERSAND

18-across – Beaten entertainer that is eliminated could be contestant again : REENTRANT

19-across – Shed containing old sink : DROOP

21-across – Outdoor seating area with 50% in occupation? : PATIO

23-across – Unorthodox types of bonsai spreading across border : BOHEMIANS

25-across – Confusion as I turn right, going left, in limbo dancing : IMBROGLIO

26-across – Nick to get off the mark : SCORE

27-across – August report largely devoid of content : STATELY

28-across – Old Greek city king rejected urgent appeal by child : KNOSSOS

1-down – Lighting for short stay under canvas, deluxe style? : FOGLAMP

2-down – Local church admitted to previous naivety : INNOCENCE

3-down – Yankee invading force endlessly seeks victims : PREYS

4-down – Trouble dividing a mother and son upset spiritual leader : DALAILAMA

5-down – Live piece started : BEGUN

6-down – Officer casing area dismissed for taking unrefined coke? : COALFIRED

7-down – A seaman entertaining Nutmeg served up Indian dish : RAITA

8-down – Army medics checked out and took a stroll : MOSEYED

14-down – Whispering wino needs to articulate ‘I must go’ : SOTTOVOCE

16-down – Implement used on farm to topple branch : PITCHFORK

17-down – Eccentric soul madly pursuing an unclothed woman : ANOMALOUS

18-down – Stitches up army engineer mates : REPAIRS

20-down – Have control of backup groups carrying spades : POSSESS

22-down – Iodine injected in rather twisted part of leg : TIBIA

23-down – Stop knocking back drink in past : BELAY

24-down – Those starting modestly in speed event perform badly : MISDO

9-across – Regroup behind mountains : REARRANGE

10-across – Brewer’s agent definitely saves a ton : YEAST

11-across – Australian and Yankee hosting finest PM : AUTOPSY

12-across – In middle of power cut Repub­lican gets shock : OUTRAGE

13-across – Late spin doctor carried in current up north : TARDY

14-across – Education graduates quietly study cover at night : BEDSPREAD

16-across – Test for dentist before and after qualifying? : ORALEXAMINATION

19-across – Labelled each book stolen by cardinal : EARMARKED

21-across – Jam one drug inside another : CHOKE

22-across – Replacement chopper unwisely turned east : DENTURE

23-across – Scream one’s stifled at church crush : SQUELCH

24-across – Wife comes in behind Labour : SWEAT

25-across – Game girl tours part of the UK, a fabulous place : RURITANIA

1-down – Item in trunk you are missing in British seaside resort : BREASTBONE

2-down – I ate crab at sea, hence my indigestion? : BACTERIA

3-down – Medic works on last bit of nasty complaint : DROPSY

4-down – English sailors expressing a feeling of resentment : ENVY

5-down – Instant victory over Germany renewed strength : SECONDWIND

6-down – Help revolutionary over variable period in US : DYSTOPIA

7-down – Taste last bit of tuna in dish : PALATE

8-down – What irritated viewer during last year? : STYE

14-down – Boycott poet harbouring European buccaneer : BLACKBEARD

15-down – Ass died carrying leader : DUNDERHEAD

17-down – Withdraw two women university introduced : EVACUATE

18-down – Rewrite ruling on former respiratory aid : IRONLUNG

20-down – Send up note for producer of junket : RENNET

21-down – Shakers film set in vineyards : CRUETS

22-down – Record first half of find : DISC

23-down – Very old 8, for instance : SORE

4-across – Place to make a note of profit : MARGIN

6-across – August and another month almost fun, nice in the middle : MAJESTIC

9-across – Not so wild about beginning to play fiddle : TAMPER

10-across – Storyteller assembles great universal catalogue : FABULIST

11-across – ‘Hwyl fawr’, as they say in the Valleys : VALEDICTION

15-across – Wooden crown is no good to Peter : TREETOP

17-across – Country extra worthless to Scots : ANDORRA

18-across – Final decree organised area of the EU : ILEDEFRANCE

22-across – Reaction to jolt in non-upholstered carriage? : BAROUCHE

23-across – Strokes substantial ego : SOLIDI

24-across – Choose a path in abstract : TAKEAWAY

25-across – Bleed a corrupt minor official : BEADLE

1-down – Incline to keep at home, as wine may be on offer : BINEND

2-down – Territory’s head welcoming a southern European : PALATINATE

3-down – Horse in stud’s outside, glittering : SEQUINED

4-down – Encourage work on car that is inclusive of tax : MOTIVATE

5-down – What goes on in bed repels me, unfortunately : REMSLEEP

7-down – Hallucination is no end of nonsense : TRIP

8-down – Appealing to reduce noise at the back : CUTE

12-down – Chief constable is a venomous creature : COPPERHEAD

13-down – Dancing in red fez, extremely agitated : FRENZIED

14-down – In vehicle, husband once left half-cut: has he gone to Monaco? : TAXEXILE

16-down – Tease cracking obsessive up leads to actual laughter in court : TRIBUNAL

19-down – Firmly established as England captain? : ROOTED

20-down – Be up against an objection : ABUT

21-down – Journey back in seconds from ski resort’s train station : TREK

1-across – High passage diva is struggling with cut : VIADUCT

5-across – What’s left on, the electricity supply? : REMAINS

9-across – Bishop isn’t dignified gatecrashing function : SAINT

10-across – See 9 : AUGUSTINE

11-across – Under threes dancing round newspaper boss : ETHERISED

12-across – Colourless layer on fringe of arras : ASHEN

13-across – Brainbox outspoken in row : SCULL

15-across – Poorly, one way or another? : INABADWAY

18-across – Loose family members one’s seen in lodge : FREEMASON

19-across – Brilliance of recital, cellist making a comeback : ECLAT

21-across – Chicken backing away from gangster : CAPON

23-across – PM’s silver ring and Chinese dresses : CALLAGHAN

25-across – Dance groove captured by rockers’ material : STRUTONES

26-across – See 25 : STUFF

27-across – A little baby’s sallow from a very deep bed : ABYSSAL

28-across – Dirt Conservative’s found in shoe : SCANDAL

1-down – Service vehicles from Italy, it’s said : VESPERS

2-down – Wild social do — put easy chair away : ACIDHOUSE

3-down – Say back Caesar’s last words to Brutus? : UTTER

4-down – Hands on man’s bum during prison time, sent up : TRANSMITS

5-down – Soldier breaking free is not yielding : RIGID

6-down – Steed in novel Emma is to run badly : MISMANAGE

7-down – Woman rejected current husband, getting together with Harry Barker : IRISH

8-down – Rent out foxy clothes in serious fashion : STERNLY

14-down – Turning up to fix eg mink or fox coats : LAMINATES

16-down – Many a chronicler shrinks in recital : ANNALISTS

17-down – See 7 : WOLFHOUND

18-down – One’s purple in bed, if such frolics end in angina : FUCHSIA

20-down – Being so might make perform­ance of lute fun : TUNEFUL

22-down – See 2 : PARTY

23-down – Is a Liberal permitted to barge in here? : CANAL

24-down – Where ratings are lost : ATSEA

9-across – Artist and daughter wearing relative’s fashion label : PRADA

10-across – New title about way of working provided recurring theme : LEITMOTIF

11-across – Light-fingered types with permission to interrupt meals : TEALEAVES

12-across – Dance by graduate following sport : RUMBA

13-across – Steel drum keeping time with first of trumpeters in procession : PAGEANT

15-across – Police search for suspect in flowering garden close to Parliament : DRAGNET

17-across – Plant obscured by yellow heather : WHEAT

18-across – Setter leaving bread to go off : ROT

20-across – Person in group dropping money in dying fire : EMBER

22-across – Bear is swimming around island in a chilly part of the world : SIBERIA

25-across – Staff allowed to get something to eat : PIKELET

26-across – King at end of extra pilgrimage returned with eastern prince : RAJAH

27-across – Old nurse close to commode encountering aroma that’s characteristic of old age : SENESCENT

30-across – Recommended article leaving drink to editor : ADVOCATED

31-across – Bit of wood glue : STICK

1-down – Exact replica of small fruit stone : SPIT

2-down – Aggressive speech by playwright carrying a fake gun : HARANGUE

3-down – Chap partial to Nottingham ales : MALE

4-down – Move a lever to get lift : ELEVATOR

5-down – Failed to find sea surrounding island close to Rhodes : MISSED

6-down – Clever clogs right to get drink during strike : SMARTALECK

7-down – Wings of swan covering dull part of flower : STAMEN

8-down – King of Mercia once listened to proposal : OFFA

13-down – Captives welcoming year in this part of Wales : POWYS

14-down – Tremor caused by dessert wine : AFTERSHOCK

16-down – Card for sailor to turn over? : TAROT

19-down – East European given piece of butter to turn into culinary paste : TAPENADE

21-down – Official report of headless chicken in container : BULLETIN

23-down – Crikey — jack held by boy playing against Spain : BYJOVE

24-down – Judge trading shilling for time in estate : ASSETS

26-down – Substantial addition to pure alcohol : REAL

28-down – Part of window made from special wood : SASH

29-down – Son deserting post, as appropriate : TAKE