Daily Answers

1-across – Fish sandwiches Frenchman scoffing heading for Dieppe – worker at Versailles, perhaps? : GARDENER

6-across – Fish sandwiches geezer rejected – for the hard stuff! : ENAMEL

9-across – Raw beef sandwiches the lot of them! : CALLOW

10-across – Fish sandwiches brilliant, a hundred bagged in record of US expenditure : COSTCARD

11-across – Turkey sandwiches interchanged with starter of tofu, complaining under one’s breath : MUTTERING

13-across – Cheese sandwiches new for pickler : BRINE

15-across – Lacklustre turkey sandwiches left, loathsome in the extreme : DULLED

17-across – Chicken sandwiches in deli glimpsed, first of all, in small device : WIDGET

19-across – Tender sausage sandwiches put in container : DOTING

20-across – Most delicious egg sandwiches dry when turned over : NICEST

22-across – Thin fish sandwiches no good : RANGY

24-across – Bacon sandwiches upright on nipples : PAPILLARY

27-across – Beef sandwiches ending in bin, brown – in some state : MONTANAN

28-across – Chicken sandwiches program – result! : HAPPEN

30-across – Grind beef sandwiches down, initially : POWDER

31-across – Tiny ham sandwiches demolished on vacation, nothing brought back : PIDDLING

2-down – Lid off epic cooker : AGA

3-down – Fifty pocketed in masterful pots : DELFT

4-down – Information about gold hard to come by in US city : NEWORLEANS

5-down – Blood banks popular for tragedian : RACINE

6-down – Sandwiches primarily in snack – way to go! : EAST

7-down – Care taken with rough criminal, egregious scamp : ARCHROGUE

8-down – US actor somewhat sullen, or fed up : EFRON

12-down – Unopened store I had opened : UNDID

14-down – At a lower level, dark in one ditch : DIMINISHED

16-down – Was an arsonist I confined to school charged? : LITIGATED

18-down – Veggie given to Dick if a tyrant is heard? : TATER

21-down – Better clothes soldier sent over for the rest : CATNAP

23-down – A journey repeated plenty of times : AGOGO

25-down – Part of shirt seen in mirror, two lines either side : LAPEL

26-down – The wrong way round, Queen on pound note : ONER

29-down – ‘Time’ as ‘Tim’ turned up? : EON

1-across – Belittle fine hair, reportedly grizzled : DOWNGRADE

6-across – Liberal dons prosper and flourish : BLOOM

9-across – Vessel of canoers that oddly disappeared : AORTA

10-across – Vacuity of Victor, annoying in spades : VAPIDNESS

11-across – Radical female sib enthralled by French painter : LEFTWINGER

12-across – Bones huge as boomerangs : OSSA

14-across – Argue with Republican point of view : WRANGLE

15-across – Virile chap, explosive and well practised : STUDIED

17-across – President pursued by fat lover : ABELARD

19-across – United relegated from league after midfielder’s first international benefit : MILEAGE

20-across – Heartily necking beer and cabbage : KALE

22-across – Fed up of bad serfs running amok : BRASSEDOFF

25-across – Secrets of earl and girl behind boozer : ESOTERICA

26-across – Limited name-dropping is entertaining : SCANT

27-across – Fulfil desire to be master : DOYEN

28-across – New Englander in Danish territory : GREENLAND

1-down – Slowly speak of attraction, and pull at last : DRAWL

2-down – Computer model of firearm we designed : WIREFRAME

3-down – Scot sawing a leg off : GLASWEGIAN

4-down – Start to adjust ball bearing very early : ADVANCE

5-down – Completely timeless vamp is supremely powerful woman : EMPRESS

6-down – Asked criminal to cover me, heading off : BADE

7-down – Complies with order, knocking stuffing out of yobs : OBEYS

8-down – Badly manage squeamish and lethargic nurses : MISHANDLE

13-down – Stuffed admiral in hold : FULLNELSON

14-down – Timid setters have to entertain a couple of kings : WEAKKNEED

16-down – Lover wearing scent picked up at counter : INAMORATA

18-down – Sweetie left in bottle : DARLING

19-down – Recalling one’s bet is bad move : MISTAKE

21-down – Can probably empty potty : LOOPY

23-down – Thick journalist is doomed : FATED

24-down – Observed articulate contretemps : SEEN

8-across – President in the immediate future blocked by the gods : PANTHEON

9-across – I’m into band performer backing heavy metal : OSMIUM

10-across – Ancient city hospital getting behind cricketer : BATH

11-across – Keen on tirade about the French being prejudiced : INTOLERANT

12-across – Podcast’s out a fraction : FOURTH

14-across – Vehicles circling old cathedral city in a rough manner : COARSELY

15-across – Rascal in rude vein making bend : INCURVE

17-across – One’s run into stubborn guy offering traditional Christmas festivities : MISRULE

20-across – Footwear support: repositioned toes here? : SHOETREE

22-across – Ancient governor retaining corner in fine weather : SHOGUN

23-across – Well-turned-out – obvious personal statement about actual dressing : IMMACULATE

24-across – Question about energy in dairy product : WHEY

25-across – Flower pot not finished by our group : CROCUS

26-across – Success for woman also curtailed till now : HITHERTO

1-down – French biscuit? French politician consuming one with doughnut separately : MACAROON

2-down – Diet challenging to some extent? Eat away : ETCH

3-down – Enjoy hard currency, not against piling it up : RELISH

4-down – Ready to be displayed, given traditional punishment? Not quite : INSTOCK

5-down – This vegetable supplies make-up material, mostly wild : KOHLRABI

6-down – One is Mr Opera, when working? : IMPRESARIO

7-down – Regret accommodating two navies on large or small stretch of water : RUNNEL

13-down – Corps in the armour failing extended military training : ROUTEMARCH

16-down – See one tour is arranged for top soloists : VIRTUOSI

18-down – Honoured recently after burying waste? : LAUREATE

19-down – A lot of resistance to harem pants : TERAOHM

21-down – Buzzing with rising passion, they respond sharply when struck : HUMERI

22-down – Elegant articles taken from bar near midnight? : SVELTE

24-down – Sharpen question having European instead of American : WHET

1-across – I replaced usual cover in vehicle for the environment : AMBIANCE

5-across – Plant agents to chase back pay, essentially : ACACIA

9-across – Audibly drop stone when liable to faint : SYNCOPAL

10-across – Fight for barista’s original frothy latte : BATTLE

12-across – Safe places where mighty stable hands overlap : STRONGROOMS

15-across – Bone of contention as global giant Ford switches leaders hosting dance : APPLE

17-across – See 15 : OFDISCORD

18-across – City Council cleared pedestrians and traffic at first in what produces this? : CYCLEPATH

19-across – Nerd’s machismo, aimless and misguided : SCHMO

20-across – Nice to see truce’s arranged in exasperation : PICTURESQUE

24-across – Create trendy outlet : INVENT

25-across – The guy’s in a hole that’s sticky : ADHESIVE

26-across – Sore about concealing posh car’s faults : ERRORS

27-across – Something for the media in après-ski treats : PRESSKIT

1-down – Relative in a position to provide help : ASSISTANCE

2-down – Turn pack around in times of serious financial difficulty : BANKRUPTCY

3-down – To start auction: chairs of really nice oak, potentially : ACORN

4-down – Seeing ahead a very conical structure : CLAIRVOYANCE

6-down – Last but one in university course displaced by street bigots : CLASSISTS

7-down – Copper melting test: hot, fast and can really hurt : CUTS

8-down – Some voiced a sigh of relief : AFEW

11-down – Slight effect of halter top in winter? : COLDSHOULDER

13-down – See 7 : TOTHEQUICK

14-down – Regularly have anecdote prepared for unplanned occasion : ADHOCEVENT

16-down – Look at start of revelation : EYEOPENER

21-down – Odds are off on heavier ones, but they’re not : EVENS

22-down – Help getting through edit? : TIDE

23-down – See 22 : OVER

9-across – In need of a trim suit, hero wants nothing fancy : HIRSUTE

10-across – Tucking into a round, a lot of miserable sherry : AMOROSO

11-across – Fan of country group getting into light rap : PATRIOT

12-across – Good 2 is better : GAMBLER

13-across – Sites devoted to cultivation and love? Wagner and Strauss won’t have one : ORCHARDS

14-across – Saw 14 Down’s agreement with one of the Kennedys : DATED

17-across – Wrong and twisted heart of America : CRIME

19-across – Piece of fiction with classical air that’s out of date : LIE

20-across – How Miles ends Kind of Blue is appropriate : STEAL

21-across – Silly opening of 4 addressing dictator from the east : IDIOT

22-across – Latin neologism goes around two continents : NEWWORLD

26-across – Loaded investor hasn’t finished acquiring dodgy firm : BRIMFUL

28-across – Fur coats are very possibly delivered : SAVABLE

29-across – Fixed water dispenser aboard vehicle : STAPLED

30-across – Briefly cook something hot or something sweet : BAKLAVA

1-down – Guy Burgess finally cracks : CHAPS

2-down – More ironic, entertaining Time correspondent, say : WRITER

3-down – E.g. sentence with funny remark, to some extent, on cover of Melville books : PUNISHMENT

4-down – What 2 might produce – The 19 Down? : LETTER

5-down – Glee as gutted Starmer gets hammered for extravagant gifts : LARGESSE

6-down – 2 marks his work, perhaps : POEM

7-down – European stopping dissolute man’s activity in The 12 : ROULETTE

8-down – Broke doughnut for Spanish nurses : POOR

14-down – 2 and broadcaster supporting party over free votes : DOSTOEVSKY

15-down – Point about end of novel – The 21 : DOLT

16-down – Saccharin occasionally cut as energy drink ingredient : ACAI

18-down – Deposing leader, note one state is hostile : INIMICAL

19-down – Bar boss with a pair of kids around New Year : LANDLADY

23-down – Fancied both men and women eating a condiment : WASABI

24-down – This person dons large undies – they’re delivered in autumn : LIBRAS

25-down – 2 with article on line dealing with 17 and 3 : PENAL

26-down – Like 8 27 in book fair, initially ignored : BUST

27-down – People left overwhelmed by two different fines : FOLK