Daily Answers

1-across – National park players would tread them, if river were relocated : THEBROADS

6-across – Hoax brought to a satisfactory ending : CODA

8-across – Train someone who’d like to make it big in the US, too? : EUROSTAR

9-across – Italian carrying back sound content to inflict an invasion : IRRUPT

10-across – Tom’s drive to find a temporary partner? : CRUISE

11-across – Against entering rocky route on approach : OVERTURE

12-across – See 4 : LOUNGE

15-across – Excessively under guidance, finished carrying a gun : TOOLEDUP

16-across – Go from first to second to suspend energy on entering knockout competition? : CHANGEUP

19-across – Token party nominees? : TICKET

21-across – Factory involved in a type of banana : PLANTAIN

22-across – Union member’s smear reported : GREECE

24-across – Rummy party backed by attractive type : ODDISH

25-across – Treat Crimea wounded outside gutted castle : ICECREAM

26-across – Nymph of the woods evicting river couple : DYAD

27-across – Star needs massage — result of overexposure : SUNSTROKE

1-down – More straight trousers lost — SOS sent out : TRUER

2-down – Transport energy proposal : EMOTION

3-down – Dicky’s a mess? Do this! : RETIE

4-down – Regulation pro ground that accommodates would-be high flyers : AIRPORT

5-down – Aspen, say, forming border round rambling rose? : SKIRESORT

6-down – Diminutive canine surgical scraping instrument : CURETTE

7-down – Death shift : DEPARTURE

13-down – ‘Ohio Dylan’ playing ‘Tripping’? : ONHOLIDAY

14-down – Deployed falsely, perhaps, by a woman : EYELASHES

17-down – Orphan Annie denies houses given unnecessary protection : NANNIED

18-down – Pounds added to independent working payment : PENSION

20-down – Choir managed to hold repeated note for so long : CHEERIO

22-down – In vogue, stalwart chat show participant? : GUEST

23-down – Rail about garden implement : CRAKE

8-across – Working-class stripper with Young Conservative — it may be on your phone : ANDYCAPP

9-across – We object — A&E’s good in practice : USAGE

10-across – Cornish artist reproduced content : OPIE

11-across – Young German master’s last to kowtow to the bottom form : WUNDERKIND

12-across – Shame about empty gardens in Berkshire home : PIGSTY

14-across – Curt mostly follows flat horses : EVENTERS

15-across – Don’t move sheep back across river : STAYPUT

17-across – Favour alternative over me? No resistance! : ROSETTE

20-across – Woeful epic that’s in need of editing : PATHETIC

22-across – Stuck in olden days with English definitely at the forefront! : PASTED

23-across – Able to work with molten silver or gold : NOBLEMETAL

24-across – Food is hot but not the whole course : DISH

25-across – Do the acrosses : CHEAT

26-across – Flipping costly keeping sailors in drink : RATARSED

1-down – POTUS in trouble over wall, finally — that’s natural : UNSPOILT

2-down – Old music producer very likely showing up : LYRE

3-down – West coast county supporting government almost every time : GALWAY

4-down – Moving date — hurry round on foot : SPONDEE

5-down – Mind part of drink before journey : SUPEREGO

6-down – Is extremely upset : HASKITTENS

7-down – On which Jane’s voice can be heard : TENNER

13-down – Told state’s bombarding archipelago : SEYCHELLES

16-down – Team built lead going crazy in final : ULTIMATE

18-down – Batters : THEASHES

19-down – Birds in tight corsets : SCOTERS

21-down – Now pay the price over Cummings’s leadership? : ATONCE

22-down – Roman governor gets a lot of exercise : PILATE

24-down – It’s thrown in hurry : DART

4-across – Capital doctor, with mostly unpleasant expression : MOSCOW

6-across – Perhaps bank holds a very fragrant plant : LAVENDER

9-across – An unexpected pleasure for the books to arrive : TURNUP

10-across – Withdrawn, Edward’s back hurt : DETACHED

11-across – Under another name, does he produce tales of the supernatural? : GHOSTWRITER

15-across – Curled around front of bolster, on this? : TWINBED

17-across – Anger me, failing to be relevant : GERMANE

18-across – Where soldiers may go after leave is the wrong way round : BACKTOFRONT

22-across – I’m on the phone still : IMMOBILE

23-across – Even smaller than Tim? : TINIER

24-across – Put off professional prankster : PROROGUE

25-across – Dressed for holiday in France? : ENFETE

1-down – Vigorous, decline to take public transport : ROBUST

2-down – With target organised, allowing no escape : WATERTIGHT

3-down – Does he fix broken marriages? : REPAIRER

4-down – Lessen hardness of college entrance — one gets in : MITIGATE

5-down – Spaniard in Indian dress attracts constant sneering : SARDONIC

7-down – Children’s author had to lift line : DAHL

8-down – Travelled: do we hear what on? : RODE

12-down – Ludicrous? I could be re-interpreted as this : RIDICULOUS

13-down – Aliens go mad for fuel : GASOLINE

14-down – No tears, if you get such housing? : RENTFREE

16-down – Not very big explosion in births? : BABYBOOM

19-down – Just before Saturday, get intimate : FRIEND

20-down – Feeble chap’s wife a devil : WIMP

21-down – I’m fired, found lying in hammock : AMMO

1-across – Pursuit of hobbyist putting a foot down about part of office? : STAMPCOLLECTING

9-across – Hoax involving Russia’s foremost essayist’s a gem : CORNELIAN

10-across – Disease from India caught by traveller to the East : POLIO

11-across – Type of energy in doubt, given initial setback : NUCLEAR

12-across – Temperature in small animal centre dips here, perhaps : BATHTUB

13-across – I’m surprised state doesn’t have one : OHO

14-across – Old batting hero may prefer to open after duck between centuries : COMPTON

17-across – Benefit from meals on wheels on a regular basis : WELFARE

19-across – Recommended additives losing it when cooked : ADVISED

22-across – Busy gent, husband running round in circles : ONTHEGO

24-across – Girl has help cycling : IDA

25-across – Class that is wearing glasses : SPECIES

26-across – Seemingly rational little gap in record : TENABLE

28-across – Pigeon quietly flying off further from centre : OUTER

29-across – Timeless ruins at Palermo : ATEMPORAL

30-across – Making plainer group of women in press come across : THROWINGLIGHTON

1-down – Extra appointment for teacher? This could delay notification : SECONDCLASSPOST

2-down – One Bee Gee’s heart of gold : AURIC

3-down – Cover coming before book? : PRETEXT

4-down – I snubbed friend after returning second letter : OMICRON

5-down – Arm taken by much acclaimed thespian? : LONGBOW

6-down – Where federal laws created a hidden problem in Colorado : CAPITOL

7-down – Anxious setter will tantalise, concealing answer : ILLATEASE

8-down – Auf wiedersehen, literally? : GOODBYETOBERLIN

15-down – Jack behind manoeuvre to arrest current Hollywood actor? : MOVIESTAR

16-down – A certain cardinal’s joke : ONE

18-down – Number two in team running for a long time : EON

20-down – Runner with promise revolution­ised slum area : SKIDROW

21-down – Arrogance, it’s said, developing during row : DISDAIN

22-down – Oscar presumably eating cereal : OATMEAL

23-down – Red wine, small amount, but guy needs it : TENTPEG

27-down – Pop runs in front of lady : BURST

9-across – Radar not working to pin down one Aussie convoy : ROADTRAIN

10-across – Fabulous bird takes hour to eat a fish : ROACH

11-across – Female? No! : IRONMAN

12-across – They emphasise it’s about a girl, mostly : ITALICS

13-across – Manage to miss ex-PM turning back to wave : EVADE

14-across – Stoutness of daughter one embraces after decline : ROTUNDITY

16-across – One’s drunk, awake: knowing one should drink less? : HEALTHCONSCIOUS

19-across – In the event, where John Paul II might have been laid to rest? : POLEVAULT

21-across – In rubber, move stealthily, advancing quietly : CREPE

22-across – His marvellous royal eggs regularly sent over : FABERGE

23-across – Ungenerous to be left in wretchedness : MISERLY

24-across – Breakdown finally in short journey: getting AA : MILNE

25-across – Reference works from which man copied wrongly : COMPENDIA

1-down – Pleasure craft, one that could launch a missile? : CRUISESHIP

2-down – Keep silent, then hurried up with a goodbye : SAYONARA

3-down – Block son taking my turn in match : STYMIE

4-down – Man and wife accepted by god : PAWN

5-down – Vague hunch about policeman : INDISTINCT

6-down – Work out anagram to get cold drink : ARMAGNAC

7-down – Area gets diluted covering before I paste : TAHINI

8-down – Rich husband you seek? Look first for a Welshman : RHYS

14-down – From sports ground, secured criminal is to break out again : RECRUDESCE

15-down – In the past ate rye doubly cooked, grabbing seconds : YESTERYEAR

17-down – Overtax salaried man, not a landlord : TAVERNER

18-down – Put aside exhausted horse : OVERRODE

20-down – Unstable California city’s anger : LABILE

21-down – Pamper commander’s circle : COSSET

22-down – In coal, say, endless money — and smoke : FUME

23-down – Selfish clamour that’s passed non-genetically? : MEME