Daily Answers

1-across – Some music on LP? Not a note : FIFTYPENCEPIECE

9-across – Wife of leader, a shade insular, briefly? : SULTANA

10-across – Time to welcome revolutionary Chinese brood : AGONISE

11-across – A little angel, free spirit : ELF

12-across – Person with load unsure about weight that’s an ounce : SNOWLEOPARD

13-across – Faithful cat carrying on with a meal for him, shortly? : MONOGAMOUS

15-across – One side not quite covering a page : LEAF

18-across – Cops stopping method by corruption, finally : NABS

20-across – Mile covered by person pro­pelling boat near Brighton? Type of cutter : HOVERMOWER

23-across – Fraction on calculator opposite number : COUNTERPART

25-across – Little moo : LOW

26-across – Dropping back, wander round country house in Russia : ROMANOV

27-across – Leaving America, a poor beggar clutching cup’s heading for a Moorish palace : ALCAZAR

28-across – Charles the Second marrying subject, harmony with CIIR restored : THEMERRYMONARCH

1-down – Person catching extremists in Ferrari with tank : FISHERMAN

2-down – Coming up, vulgar features mainly lacking inspiration, initially, for cinephile : FILMFAN

3-down – Once upon a time, finish off gravy with a bit of corn starch : YEARSAGO

4-down – Gobbled up by Lancelot, a really lovely lyrist : ERATO

5-down – Something turning up on female garment — unpleasant discovery there? : CRABLOUSE

6-down – Bum parts outside of pants, moon! : PHOBOS

7-down – Remove hairs from bottom of hirsute old governor : EPILATE

8-down – Correct tip overwhelms this chap : EMEND

14-down – Person proposing to install creation of iron that’s more than a mile wide : MOONRIVER

16-down – Texas city out to impress couple on tour, ultimately : FORTWORTH

17-down – Number a hundred I book up for a wink or a kiss, say? : EMOTICON

19-down – Keeping mum suspiciously, French produce English citizen : BRUMMIE

21-down – Ride Disney duck, kicking tail : WALTZER

22-down – Explosion of octane now : ATONCE

23-down – In trolley, a gold weight : CARAT

24-down – Every other bit of Paul hairy: my fear! : ALARM

1-across – Some music on LP? Not a note : FIFTYPENCEPIECE

9-across – Wife of leader, a shade insular, briefly? : SULTANA

10-across – Time to welcome revolutionary Chinese brood : AGONISE

11-across – A little angel, free spirit : ELF

12-across – Person with load unsure about weight that’s an ounce : SNOWLEOPARD

13-across – Faithful cat carrying on with a meal for him, shortly? : MONOGAMOUS

15-across – One side not quite covering a page : LEAF

18-across – Cops stopping method by corruption, finally : NABS

20-across – Mile covered by person pro­pelling boat near Brighton? Type of cutter : HOVERMOWER

23-across – Fraction on calculator opposite number : COUNTERPART

25-across – Little moo : LOW

26-across – Dropping back, wander round country house in Russia : ROMANOV

27-across – Leaving America, a poor beggar clutching cup’s heading for a Moorish palace : ALCAZAR

28-across – Charles the Second marrying subject, harmony with CIIR restored : THEMERRYMONARCH

1-down – Person catching extremists in Ferrari with tank : FISHERMAN

2-down – Coming up, vulgar features mainly lacking inspiration, initially, for cinephile : FILMFAN

3-down – Once upon a time, finish off gravy with a bit of corn starch : YEARSAGO

4-down – Gobbled up by Lancelot, a really lovely lyrist : ERATO

5-down – Something turning up on female garment — unpleasant discovery there? : CRABLOUSE

6-down – Bum parts outside of pants, moon! : PHOBOS

7-down – Remove hairs from bottom of hirsute old governor : EPILATE

8-down – Correct tip overwhelms this chap : EMEND

14-down – Person proposing to install creation of iron that’s more than a mile wide : MOONRIVER

16-down – Texas city out to impress couple on tour, ultimately : FORTWORTH

17-down – Number a hundred I book up for a wink or a kiss, say? : EMOTICON

19-down – Keeping mum suspiciously, French produce English citizen : BRUMMIE

21-down – Ride Disney duck, kicking tail : WALTZER

22-down – Explosion of octane now : ATONCE

23-down – In trolley, a gold weight : CARAT

24-down – Every other bit of Paul hairy: my fear! : ALARM

9-across – Barking Shadow-boxing College : KINGS

10-across – A Hebrew pronunciation of ‘Hankies out all over Arizona’ : ASHKENAZI

11-across – A useless fit can be prevented : AVOIDABLE

12-across – Seals’ hair : LOCKS

13-across – Unexpectedly attack son with net : SANDBAG

15-across – After Dante’s Inferno, the heartless Sawlike : DENTATE

17-across – Arabian piece, almost crude externally? : OMANI

18-across – See 29 : SEA

20-across – Pop group’s stage features : WINGS

22-across – Workplace where deal may be cut : SAWMILL

25-across – Old lady after skirt top : MAXIMUM

26-across – Camp wisecrack about ungainly legging tops : GULAG

27-across – Ex-president recruits writer who could assemble a cabinet? : CARPENTER

30-across – Alumnae so uneasy about grandiose tombs : MAUSOLEAN

31-across – Schooners possibly get cool in two seconds : SHIPS

1-down – A nation’s uplifting seabird : SKUA

2-down – An obstacle to successful retirement : INSOMNIA

3-down – Soused, but not very exhausted : USED

4-down – Steals out-of-date vegetables : CABBAGES

5-down – Cast fitted round limb opening as protection : SHIELD

6-down – Letter possibly closed with this: ‘I saw Angel off with a kiss’ : SEALINGWAX

7-down – Mafia’s casually giving up mob chief for college board : FASCIA

8-down – Scoffs: ‘Sanctimonious talk is empty!’ : PIGS

13-down – Noisily scares off animals and trainers? : SHOES

14-down – Overheated, I say ‘Heather, both should swim outside’ : BOILINGHOT

16-down – Streep: someone’s heart races : EPSOM

19-down – Finding attractive maid rude on telephone : ADMIRING

21-down – Worm-like bends dominate : NEMATOID

23-down – Ungainly creature observed holding page locator up : WALRUS

24-down – Small case — its contents alien? : LOCKET

26-down – Halt contest : GAME

28-down – Otherwise lies in parallel sections : ELSE

29-down – Antarctic location — Diana needs drink! : ROSS

1-across – Maybe patches up Oxford’s medieval road surface? : COBBLES

5-across – Women’s work in underground river in Wales : DISTAFF

9-across – Holy group? Such may be looking to the skies : PILOT

10-across – Unhappy lord outside Parliament finally gives indication of imminent departure : BLUEPETER

11-across – One’s snapped after being asked to do this : WATCHTHEBIRDIE

13-across – English team facing shoot-out ultimately making this? : EXIT

14-across – One skilled in words banishing guilt and sin : LINGUIST

17-across – Attempts to restrict naughty lesbians : TRIBADES

18-across – Not all of you serve an exploitative type : USER

21-across – Dependent on a number of elements!!! … : MULTIFACTORIAL

23-across – Time’s against jockeys making gallops : TANTIVIES

24-across – Tricks of one who proved Fermat’s last theorem : WILES

25-across – Fashion again using nasty polyester, not half poor : RESTYLE

26-across – Mark gets caught, snitch in school : SCRATCH

1-down – Headgear for big characters : CAPS

2-down – Holiday region may be conjured up in … in a seabird’s call : BALEARICISLANDS

3-down – Unsophisticated, seeing unex­pected creature turning up in lake : LOTECH

4-down – Special unit hides computer program in footwear! : SABOTS

5-down – Answer to waterworks problem? I’d cure it, possibly : DIURETIC

6-down – Little boxes? : SAPLINGS

7-down – Ruddy good place for writer to produce a detective story? : ASTUDYINSCARLET

8-down – Penalty on account of bad ref I oft rue : FORFEITURE

12-down – Freakish mare, the pet that has seven feet : HEPTAMETER

15-down – Ease of provision : FACILITY

16-down – Buy a biography? Do something more interesting! : GETALIFE

19-down – ‘Hang around, girl!’, we say, in period of inactivity : STASIS

20-down – Gardener’s feature in September to April months in Welsh location : GROWER

22-down – Queen, but not our Queen, is someone of original Finnish stock : ESTH

9-across – Healthy society shapes futurist : WELLS

10-across – Reading two articles about crime problem over coffee : AMERICANO

11-across – Radiation in school’s not right, doctors say : GAMMARAYS

12-across – Bear or blackbird? : BROOK

13-across – Secret soldier : PRIVATE

15-across – Dear, dear! Tablet dropped by Heather : DARLING

17-across – Angry over spill : UPSET

18-across – Look both ways : EYE

20-across – Prelude to main trombone part : INTRO

22-across – Water plant or shrub vigorously about mid-July : BULRUSH

25-across – Weight of silver in 1,000kg : TONNAGE

26-across – Cooked food really is excellent, deserves tips : FRIED

27-across – Might they reserve fellow’s prize? : MANBOOKER

30-across – Tory disrobed in and around church ceremony : ORDINANCE

31-across – Newspaper roaming all over the place? I’m lost : ORGAN

1-down – The Yorkshire hairpiece? Get it! : TWIG

2-down – Simply awful catching cold after 29 competition : OLYMPICS

3-down – China is ascending here? : ASIA

4-down – Secretary in ripped jeans grasps English language : JAPANESE

5-down – Stopped being quiet to break record : CEASED

6-down – Liberating, free and paradoxically humorous : GILBERTIAN

7-down – Special artificial intelligence takes in hill for enlightenment : SATORI

8-down – Prepare carbon monoxide at absolute zero : COOK

13-down – Fruit bat home? Not in, definitely out : PLUMB

14-down – A trap to steal pound loses penny? That’s surprising : ASTOUNDING

16-down – Dwarf, for example, acquires second name after retiring : GNOME

19-down – Old girlfriend inclined to be stretched : EXTENDED

21-down – Follow progress of time by lines : TRACKAGE

23-down – Scottish nobles retreat down south : LAIRDS

24-down – Kind of piece, decorated with colour : HUMANE

26-down – Limit of returned books : FOOT

28-down – By wearing glasses, start to notice county briefly : OXON

29-down – Call round : RING