Daily Answers

1-across – Holds sailor’s balls : ABSORBS

5-across – Girl embraces joiner in porch : VERANDA

10-across – Husband has time for divinity : HERA

11-across – Relaxing preparation frees communications, 19 : ICEBREAKER

12-across – Honest conduct : DIRECT

13-across – See patient’s wallet : NOTECASE

14-across – Remains an outside agent for museum : ASHMOLEAN

16-across – Wade across outlying island’s inlet : FIORD

17-across – Angry about Tory result : SCORE

19-across – Primarily at sea? : INTHEMAIN

23-across – Fret about exam for puritan : MORALIST

24-across – Airline has lots of clubs : BATONS

26-across – Killjoy has loot left : SPOILSPORT

27-across – Small boat found in the Channel : SARK

28-across – Familiars have demons kid­napping redhead : FRIENDS

29-across – A model cares for chaperones : ATTENDS

2-down – Fungus moved by wind? It is! : BLEWITS

3-down – Love to rebuke and pontificate : ORATE

4-down – City with old railway company first linked to Circle line : BRISTOL

6-down – Birds go initially into rustling trees : EGRETS

7-down – A rich man’s moved by anti-government argument : ANARCHISM

8-down – Lady’s maid found showing off in the kitchen : DRESSER

9-down – Sacred belief in control over motor race : REINCARNATION

15-down – Soldier eats fish spread : MARGARINE

18-down – Policeman seizes Hungarian leader’s weapon : CHOPPER

20-down – Environment Tabitha created : HABITAT

21-down – Passed by ruin on ridge : IGNORED

22-down – Partisan located outside Indian capital : BIASED

25-down – Anita Stewart shows discrimination : TASTE

1-across – Pollock and other fish numbers returning : JACKSON

5-across – Actor producing a cliche in a state : MICHAEL

9-across – Since I wear layers, it’s more cold : ICIER

10-across – Promenades that are out of this world : MOONWALKS

11-across – Cable binds black line after home’s impossible to conquer : INVINCIBLE

12-across – Nothing evil in short book? : OBAD

14-across – Squeeze right into ship where hacks might be found : PRESSGALLERY

18-across – Joy for old Benn is without end: people oust leader! : EXHILARATION

21-across – I career around, then collapse : RUIN

22-across – Unorthodox final position of Humpty Dumpty? : OFFTHEWALL

25-across – Spoiled cat: I loved the good life : DOLCEVITA

26-across – See 5 : CAINE

27-across – Always in favour of First Lady : FOREVER

28-across – Welcome tale from the past : HISTORY

1-down – Legless man, one goes into pub to participate : JOININ

2-down – Badger picks up virus No 5 within city limits : CHIVVY

3-down – Season and turn Chinese food : SPRINGROLL

4-down – Clouds rising from Maghrib mines : NIMBI

5-down – Film work on a second job : MOONLIGHT

6-down – Allegedly, media mogul’s a hood : COWL

7-down – Revised bible held by a theo­logian’s all made up : ADLIBBED

8-down – Armageddon might take a while? : LASTDAYS

13-down – Prepare clues for Everyman to begin with, Sunday lights up : FLUORESCES

15-down – Tailor cries over Trump becoming more untidy : SCRUFFIER

16-down – Remove dish to fridge : GETRIDOF

17-down – Time after time, I shall get the queen in sensational film : THRILLER

19-down – Boxer carries cold, firm cloth : CALICO

20-down – Feeling tired, Mole takes shelter : SLEEPY

23-down – Train tickets over 85% off per person : TEACH

24-down – Fuel stored in older vehicles : DERV

1-across – Trump up and about, leg reportedly lifted like a dog’s : CONCOCT

5-across – Stupid lapse leads to inept nudist entering A&E : ASININE

10-across – Articulate couple foot bill for replacement locks : TOUPEE

11-across – Pretty, half-cut wives frolicking in trailers : PREVIEWS

12-across – Using every effort, take drink off total yob : ALL

13-across – Rottenness of most formidable clearing banks : CARIES

14-across – Ordinary fruit picker runs yard extremely adeptly : EVERYDAY

15-across – Domestic kitchen full of jam : STICK

16-across – Unrealistic statement from seller is edited : IDEALISED

19-across – In good health and out of bed, working on stuff : UPTOSNUFF

21-across – Contractor in bottom of gorge beginning to excavate : GLUTE

24-across – She has loan of drill, welcoming din : BORROWER

26-across – Silly smile is easier after losing weight : SIMPER

27-across – See 12 : OUT

28-across – Much obliged to a hunky jockey : THANKYOU

29-across – State of Orbán leaving American wanting to scoff : HUNGRY

30-across – Rises up and starts to attack savage Conservative objectives : ASCENDS

31-across – Attractive twins come to repudiate origins : WINSOME

2-down – Smelly old dog regularly ran temperature : ODORANT

3-down – Composition of island cricket club, one short of a team : CAPRICCIO

4-down – Wrinkle visible at last after male shuns cosmetics : CREASE

6-down – Bony, itinerant elks departed northwards : SKELETAL

7-down – Loud individual bitten by Snoopy : NOISY

8-down – Old prison of Great Wen put up, then demolished : NEWGATE

9-down – Brilliant spies flounder after ill-treatment : SPLENDIFEROUS

17-down – Throws light on problems besetting posh store : ILLUMINES

18-down – International organisation says English group not affected : UNSWAYED

20-down – Boxers, for example, partially shampoo chests : POOCHES

22-down – Proposition Mother Courage ultimately abandoned : THEOREM

23-down – They cross water using this motorway : ISTHMI

25-down – Set out incense back to front : RANGE

8-across – Expression of surprise about a project for an airport : HEATHROW

9-across – Striking effect of exotic lace on hem of petticoat : ECLAT

10-across – Rugby player runs into old man : PROP

11-across – Controversial killing of animal possessing unusual source of divine grace : BADGERCULL

12-across – Sail around shores of neglected land mass : ISLAND

14-across – Waste product generated by people tucking into bad diets : SEDIMENT

15-across – Carton containing large piece of fabric : PLACKET

17-across – Supporter of dictator hiding dresses in vacant toilet : TSARIST

20-across – Anthea’s contributions to magazine? : ARTICLES

22-across – Bad-tembered taxi driver crossing river : CRABBY

23-across – Award for recycled bronze pile : NOBELPRIZE

24-across – Bottom of target : BUTT

25-across – French department covered by precise regulations : ISERE

26-across – Cook given SAE for picture : ENVISAGE

1-down – Priest is stopping money as act of vengeance : REPRISAL

2-down – Discontinue concession over time : STOP

3-down – Brother visiting mafiosi’s final resting place is paid illegally : BRIBED

4-down – Head of Sheffield Wednesday is meeting Hillsborough’s first Scandinavian : SWEDISH

5-down – I sneered rudely seeing sea nymphs : NEREIDES

6-down – Where cops may sit for a game of cards : BLACKMARIA

7-down – New undergarment is hot! : STOLEN

13-down – Leading setter’s swapped seed for mathematician : ARCHIMEDES

16-down – Hidden river flowing north around docks : ECLIPSED

18-down – Wise man protecting new boat from malicious damage : SABOTAGE

19-down – Old courts using Anglo-Saxon measurements : ASSIZES

21-down – Piece that is for someone new to the job : ROOKIE

22-down – Part of stick : CLEAVE

24-down – Clapped-out public transport’s on time! : BUST

7-across – Attendant lacks temperature guide : COURIER

8-across – Abroad With Nick, which didn’t make the final edit : OUTTAKE

9-across – See 22 : STOP

10-across – Old king imprisons spouse, head to foot, in small compartment : CUBBYHOLE

12-across – Quiet leader of India versus a destructive lord : SHIVA

13-across – Alloy not encountered in a female, commonly : GUNMETAL

15-across – See 6 : SONG

16-across – Good time to cut failed parachute’s rubbery substance : GUTTA

17-across – Which could make Bruno have passionate feelings : BURN

18-across – Bird Ridge, at this point, is on left : BROWNOWL

20-across – Source of nut production : FOUNT

21-across – Watch parts : WORKSHEET

22-across – Dot’s satisfied, getting back a lot of money : FULL

24-across – Standing figure guarding king : STATURE

25-across – Old fellow welcomes backing in new scheme : CONNIVE

1-down – See 6 : BOAT

2-down – Gang leader doing notorious Jack’s work : GRIPPING

3-down – See 16 across : PERCHA

4-down – Any riots in Kabul’s new Soviet prison? : LUBYANKA

5-down – A sort of light street dress : STROBE

6-down – Raise aloft makeshift nosebag to the Scottish air : SKYE

11-down – Lovely to keep a gun as a trinket : BAGATELLE

12-down – Track suit top, strapped : SPOOR

14-down – A startled demon : AFRIT

16-down – Fool does a turn in Fame — this list should explain : GLOSSARY

17-down – Puffed out, naff outburst during session : BOUFFANT

19-down – Heat of battle over short period of time : WARMTH

20-down – Sound measure : FATHOM

21-down – See 17 across : WITH

23-down – See 17 across : LOVE