Daily Answers

1-across – Joe’s excited touring sumptuous old city : JERICHO

5-across – Inspire soldiers to swim outside : BREATHE

10-across – Document exchanges hands — it’s too hot to handle : FIRE

11-across – Football team’s caught by trip arranged in writing : MANUSCRIPT

12-across – It makes me sick when one’s taken in by spoon-bending : POISON

13-across – Woman arrived before 10 with 19 or so fighters : WARRIORS

14-across – Make a mistake to be wearing outrageous flares with transfers : REFERRALS

16-across – Nothing is returned wrapped in paper and stone : FLINT

17-across – Maybe cancan can be racy, wearing delightfully exotic tops : DANCE

19-across – Naked Chef — is he? : UNDRESSED

23-across – Gardner is hugged by admirer in plant : FAVABEAN

24-across – 50050000? Magic : VOODOO

26-across – Mammals stay supple after exercising : PLATYPUSES

27-across – Positioned face to the west : LAID

28-across – Course includes minimalist art, erroneously : STARTER

29-across – Wonder how expert’s homework attains low grade? : PRODIGY

2-down – Record single does rock event : EPISODE

3-down – Objects to special police force turning up after lunchtime : ITEMS

4-down – More compassionate charioteer takes fake name : HUMANER

6-down – Sorry criminal steals archbishop’s first beads : ROSARY

7-down – Song about life and extremely dangerous places to land : AIRFIELDS

8-down – Very small thing used to promote Reagan? : HYPERON

9-down – Inability to see small present at first: a bipolar issue? : SNOWBLINDNESS

15-down – Magician’s striking entrance holding top hat : ENCHANTER

18-down – Unscrupulous person’s problem at Christie’s? : ABADLOT

20-down – One who edits text about 6’s queen : REVISER

21-down – European uprising? At home, government’s running away : ELOPING

22-down – Masses of work occupied footballer : PEOPLE

25-down – Drunk worked hard — time to quit? : OILED

1-across – A bend in the track and son abandons foolish Matterhorn ascent : TATTENHAM

9-across – See 1 : CORNER

10-across – Rapid rise can turn into collapse : DISREPAIR

11-across – Instruction to serviceman: polish grain endlessly : RUBRIC

12-across – Pharaoh dips into sea and a lake in the morning : MATUTINAL

13-across – Put to death perhaps, with uneatable part removed : STONED

17-across – Strut, as tail-ender may : BAT

19-across – US poet starts to open up, led by divine spirit : ANGELOU

20-across – Visionary camp inmate I fed to fish : EZEKIEL

21-across – See 17 down : TON

23-across – Hawk using gas to quell pacifist : NEOCON

27-across – Using room that’s turned out huge : GINORMOUS

28-across – From emperor, nationalist about to seize government : TRAJAN

29-across – Laurel disguise may, being irresponsible : FOOLHARDY

30-across – Group of MPs choose to pledge support : SELECT

31-across – See 30 : COMMITTEE

2-down – Life drawing? : ANIMAL

3-down – Force to speak aloud : TORQUE

4-down – What baby may need is to be out briefly with family : NAPKIN

5-down – His thieving enemies met a jarring death : ALIBABA

6-down – Offer true love, not at first to be trifled with : VOLUNTEER

7-down – Having no object, I’ve left off travelling : INTRANSIT

8-down – Film kids walking by brown river : CROCODILE

14-down – See 2 : MAGNETISM

15-down – Gunners in base not needing to be called to attention : IGNORABLE

16-down – A cut introduces mean ration : ALLOWANCE

17-down – Feature of trousers: worn under seat : BUT

18-down – See 17 across : TEN

22-down – Regularly using coercion, force on border flower : ORINOCO

24-down – Would-be ringmaster’s energy upsetting Scottish island : GOLLUM

25-down – A dotty mutual exchange : UMLAUT

26-down – See 8 : DUNDEE

1-across – Coupled in shed and ran off without top : SHACKLED

6-across – Italian town, unaltered over centuries, at last beginning to industrialise : ASSISI

9-across – Gormless second mate with basic urges : STUPID

10-across – In the main, might vegetable grower swap tips? : SEAPOWER

11-across – Bears circling outskirts of remote west Scottish town : STANDREWS

13-across – Order Byron to host local football match : DERBY

15-across – Operation to purge wings of dissenting groups : ACTION

17-across – Seeing that, I give up : FOREGO

18-across – Bring back badge for each child : NIPPER

19-across – Rebellious kid regularly hiding bath sponge : LOOFAH

21-across – Spirit of our planet finally coming to the fore : HEART

22-across – Head of English in pursuit of more flashy underwear : BRASSIERE

25-across – Scoff when comic almost stumbles : CHOWMEIN

26-across – Strong tissues with boring functions : SINEWS

28-across – Lively mole fed by animal sanctuary : SPARKY

29-across – Pub shortly working to conserve energy : HOSTELRY

2-down – Throw a wobbly, fighting with real weapons : HOT

3-down – Cockerel made man nervous at first : CAPON

4-down – Shorts pound, shocking her donees : LEDERHOSEN

5-down – Turn your back on litter-dropper during row : DISOWN

6-down – Drivers keeping jack by side in Holland : AJAX

7-down – Hearing nothing whatsoever of firm beset by safe-crackers : STONEDEAF

8-down – Relative of rising favourites runs into trouble : STEPBROTHER

12-down – Organising hen parties is endless learning opportunity : TRAINEESHIP

14-down – Titans of business defeat US Feds, ignoring the odds : COLOSSUSES

16-down – Aristocratic designer of blouses? : TOPDRAWER

20-down – Former sailor and companion in tug : WRENCH

23-down – Boozer with extremely impressive belly button : INNIE

24-down – Thoroughly heartless bank : RELY

27-down – See 2 : WAR

8-across – Call on falling bombs more, in opening shot : GERONIMO

9-across – See 26 : BOARD

10-across – Infestation of children, it seems? : NITS

11-across – It’s perilous to cross immoral leader invested in Greenland after meltdown : DANGERLINE

12-across – His words exhaustive, deprive our leader of power : DOCTOR

14-across – Hypocrisy in Lesson One doubly affected : OILINESS

15-across – Jumble sale’s ending after dash to fill car : MELANGE

17-across – See 25 : BRIDGES

20-across – Political party made to pay, shut up : CONFINED

22-across – Refinement in Chopin’s words? : POLISH

23-across – Nicely shortened business degree secured by force — a walkover for entrants? : WELCOMEMAT

24-across – See 2 : EYED

25-across – Old player in game breaking bank : LLOYD

26-across – Go in the corner of this room, pal having nobody to play with : MONOPOLY

1-down – Maybe note is me? : SEMITONE

2-down – Inward-looking solvers ordered masks : BOSS

3-down – More understanding issue in Europe? : KINDER

4-down – See 12 : JOHNSON

5-down – Person climbing down depends on people flying up : ABSEILER

6-down – Dog left to bite bespectacled nebbish, one nowadays missing a lead? : FALLENIDOL

7-down – Dish Chinese lawyer served up : ADONIS

13-down – Ill wind arising, innumerable common criminals initially punching dandy, officer on the way? : TRAFFICCOP

16-down – Moon named Calypso’s core, eg rocky : GANYMEDE

18-down – Very old houses set to be de­molished — that’s a blow : EASTERLY

19-down – English chap not entirely into American broad beans : EDAMAME

21-down – Republican impressed by topless model too : OVERLY

22-down – Clear case, unpacking middle : PATENT

24-down – Show skinned peach : EXPO

1-across – King has a change of heart initially, having to trample over crusader : KNIGHT

4-across – See 1 : TEMPLAR

9-across – Frustrating skin defect in article : THWARTING

10-across – Stand in line to hear writer die as such : CUBIC

11-across – Religion is a bit of a growth industry : HINDU

12-across – Plenty in support of amalgamation : PROFUSION

13-across – From the East, an aroma is emerging : NASCENT

15-across – In France, you read Italian : TUSCAN

17-across – Tour Iran, plus half the planet : URANUS

19-across – Request tree-lined square borders : BESEECH

22-across – They say solver had dinner late to lose strength : ATTENUATE

24-across – Turned up really loud, music essentially is pants : PUFFS

26-across – A number are into computers : DIGIT

27-across – Right fuss after outrageous speed: it’s criminal : DESPERADO

28-across – Extremely undemocratic to interrupt the development of nearly green power generation : NUCLEAR

29-across – See 28 : ENERGY

1-down – Keen to welcome both long and terribly grand plot for production : KITCHEN

2-down – Here Ryde is an American : IOWAN

3-down – Strong as Poirot? : HERCULEAN

4-down – Vessel manoeuvre: starting to go about : TUGBOAT

5-down – Once an island bird losing half its tail? : MACAU

6-down – Car built to run on the ultimate in engine oil : LUBRICATE

7-down – Isn’t he wrong breaking into minister’s residence not long ago? : RECENT

8-down – Sticker permitted troublemaker to enter : LIMPET

14-down – Calculated harm to banning e-cigarettes : STRATEGIC

16-down – He sips any cocktail that’s hard and fruitless : SISYPHEAN

18-down – Speak ill of topless Lesbian? : SLANDER

19-down – Bristol sounds like a French port : BREAST

20-down – See 7 : HISTORY

21-down – See 1 : GARDEN

23-down – Inverting upside-down explosive : NITRE

25-down – Natural ability to pick up a distress signal : FLAIR