Daily Answers

1-across – Wife has to leave reversible grass skirts in garbage : HOGWASH

5-across – Attack shabby cloth with plain clothing : BARRAGE

10-across – Smart young thing dropping back : CHIC

11-across – Swimming costume has trimmed features : MOUSTACHES

12-across – Dark gymslips covering the ladies, perhaps? : GLOOMY

13-across – Lily a soak, one on reflection beyond ruin : MARIPOSA

14-across – Rollers destroying deep rock, one coming in : POKERDICE

16-across – Composition written by snooker player starts: I’m a famous potter : SPODE

17-across – Fancy opening in extremely short trousers : DREAM

19-across – Past master in sari and hot pants : HISTORIAN

23-across – Oil broken-down scooter with last of lube : CREOSOTE

24-across – Small wedding veils in harmony : UNISON

26-across – Sweet things happy to eat fish in shanty towns : SUGARPLUMS

27-across – Style in T-shirt and Y-fronts, perhaps? : DASH

28-across – Wary about British premier, a Canadian province : ALBERTA

29-across – I waste time cuddling sweetheart in the best possible way : IDEALLY

2-down – Play, collection of books and magazine : OTHELLO

3-down – Crazy king in Texas city : WACKO

4-down – Flash on you, blue collars for dog : SAMOYED

6-down – Gear towards exhaust : ATTIRE

7-down – Rounding Cape at sea, more ready to eat delicate stuff? : RICEPAPER

8-down – Outspoken visitor, it’s supposed : GUESSED

9-down – Star protecting a chum, being devious killer : SUBMACHINEGUN

15-down – Cease to be a postman packaging gold evening dresses : EVAPORATE

18-down – Whale getting thinner finally, or the same topless? : RORQUAL

20-down – By the sound of it, credit secured : TRUSSED

21-down – Disturbed, alas, with our awakening : AROUSAL

22-down – Waste of some stock, wide and soft jacket pockets : COWPAT

25-down – Country is now delivering immensely accomplished leaders : INDIA

1-across – Pocket billions in sleep : PEBBLES

5-across – Mostly large ice moving? : GLACIER

9-across – Old PM takes last slice of soda bread : PITTA

10-across – EU photo captures Tory rebels being tolerant of different conditions : EURYTOPIC

11-across – Voters to create panic after conclusion of Article 50 : ELECTORATE

12-across – Wish to drive out without parking : URGE

14-across – Two clubs going East — mind the crockery : WEDGWOODWARE

18-across – Dish you might make a meal out of? : ALPHABETSOUP

21-across – Cut back on ball game : POLO

22-across – Solve puzzle sharp — about 1,000 are infatuated : LOVESTRUCK

25-across – Around lunchtime, old students get university money for metal : ALUMINIUM

26-across – Books left on Earth about upright character? : BIBLE

27-across – Some cannot reverse backwards in Liverpool : EVERTON

28-across – Unsporting deliveries at Lord’s? : SLEDGES

1-down – Aristocrat eats very soft fruit : PEPPER

2-down – Oddballs undress under cover of bed spread : BUTTER

3-down – We had let Cook always go first : LEADTHEWAY

4-down – Fight over fishwife’s last pike : SPEAR

5-down – Turns angry — it’s trouble over nothing : GYRATIONS

6-down – Against bikini bottom covered in fake tan : ANTI

7-down – Supreme leader of Egypt supports a politician and outrageous liar : IMPERIAL

8-down – Salad!, Edward belted : ROCKETED

13-down – Bill and Jack begin to understand where to keep horses flexible : ADJUSTABLE

15-down – Calendar girl upset Federer and Scotsman : GREGORIAN

16-down – Aircraft route the Starship Enterprise might use? : WARPLANE

17-down – Both leave 18 plays clapping : APPLAUSE

19-down – Spooner to cuddle vagrant? Nonsense! : HUMBUG

20-down – Might they risk slaloming round the top of Everest on Sunday? : SKIERS

23-down – Yes production wins 2,000 awards : EMMYS

24-down – Stamp time and time again : MINT

9-across – Music maker Scotsman’s potty about : PIANO

10-across – Song and dance sequence featuring old lag : ROUNDELAY

11-across – Forced aft at sea and taken away : CARTEDOFF

12-across – Astrologer’s publication not fit for purpose : MAGUS

13-across – An attempt to cut faulty clue for waterproof : CAGOULE

15-across – Express nobody’s the winner, verbally : NONSTOP

17-across – Eg BT line for section in supermarket : TELCO

18-across – Anguished cry from head retiring shortly : SOB

20-across – House associated with Greek mountain state : IDAHO

22-across – Amending pub sign, add in Cook’s vessel : PUDDING

25-across – Bird reaching Channel Islands from the East, one mostly unseen at sea : ICEBERG

26-across – See 22 : BASIN

27-across – Touring Kuala Lumpur, going easy on bubbly : SPARKLING

30-across – Leave behind traveller on vacation to rise around noon : TRANSCEND

31-across – Leaders picked off IT men for course : TENOR

1-down – Details of what’s needed, tiny bit detailed : SPEC

2-down – Capital left after mother died causes glee : MADRIGAL

3-down – Further source of 14? : MORE

4-down – King described by unorthodox TS Eliot verses : TRIOLETS

5-down – Mule makin’ a mess of teatime food : MUFFIN

6-down – Immovable plug a worker discovered in pit : ADAMANTINE

7-down – In tight spot, swear! : PLIGHT

8-down – Agreement to support European views : EYES

13-down – Dice moved a great deal : CUTUP

14-down – New World vision heartless Putin aims to burst : UTOPIANISM

16-down – Spike close to flower in bouquet : PRONG

19-down – Robbers in general, primarily in gangs : BRIGANDS

21-down – Take off and tear round island — that should get you going : APERIENT

23-down – Bleak philosophy embraced by youth in recession : DISMAL

24-down – Two Guardian leaders dropped were too effusive : GUSHED

26-down – Though English, it’s Scottish : BUTE

28-down – Tackle Henry’s mates : KITH

29-down – She has a serviceman on both sides : GIRL

7-across – After love setback I stole freely — no getting cold feet on these : LINOTILES

8-across – Drugs dropped at start of getaway car’s last lark : CAPER

9-across – Offer up newly scarce housing for one offender with another one : SACRIFICE

10-across – One moves to lead in police patrols and gets involved in crime : ABETS

12-across – Informant in bank job : TELLER

13-across – Persistent criminal put inside to get free food : LIFELONG

14-across – A cell where assault might lead : BATTERY

17-across – Mishap for police officer capturing ringleader : CROPPER

20-across – Look up to Scottish monarch, royal inside, one last European : STARGAZE

22-across – Consuming desire begins at home in middle age : DINING

24-across – It’s a fashion to speak of criminals : CRAZE

25-across – Means of oversight for every single police officer in the Home Counties : PERISCOPE

26-across – Article contains information by which force gets criminal : THIEF

27-across – Give clean interpretation of the Gospel : EVANGELIC

1-down – Boatman involved in crime gets coppers annoyed : PIRATE

2-down – Clarification sought on fate of band of good-for-nothings : SORRYLOT

3-down – Commit crime, giving judge backchat! : PILFER

4-down – Criminal case led to clean up, resulting in loss of deposit : DESCALE

5-down – Caper gets student doctor locked up : GAMBOL

6-down – Perhaps this is time for a criminal : SENTENCE

11-down – As from any remote origins : AFAR

15-down – Government by one in outrageous yacht, Russian sins denied : AUTARCHY

16-down – Interpret what’s set down regularly in freehand : READ

18-down – Arrested after sidekick lost nerve : PANICKED

19-down – Detective lacks heart to present warrant : DESERVE

21-down – Police officer solving crossword puzzle — would CPS’s letters get ignored? : ROZZER

22-down – Condescends to speak of northerners : DEIGNS

23-down – Seize family at dinner — it’s their cover : NAPKIN

1-across – Lovebirds catching one painful inflammation : OTITIS

5-across – Lack of talent excluding a privileged group : NOBILITY

9-across – Swimming seal, then, is somewhere in the Atlantic : STHELENA

10-across – Stream with no ebbing wave : BECKON

11-across – Extremists ejected from industrial action in the capital : OSLO

12-across – Slimmer’s cheese in regional contest : LOCALDERBY

13-across – A French African free from ropes : UNMOOR

14-across – Guardian’s to hold back, holding back : DEFENDER

16-across – What might appeal to cannibal or neoliberal : FRIEDMAN

19-across – Shady borders of lime, in which I’m suffering : LOUCHE

21-across – Not charging, in a position like York’s welcoming hotel : ONTHEHOUSE

23-across – On-screen feature suggesting that Apple’s ripping you off? : ICON

24-across – Frosted desserts, the second sent back : ICEDUP

25-across – Work accepted by Poirot: a robbery with a twist : ORATORIO

26-across – Butcher’s cut and run, nursing case of lumbago : ESCALOPE

27-across – Silver service’s passed round for youth : NONAGE

2-down – Unartistic sound engineering a bloody tragedy! : TITUSANDRONICUS

3-down – Unevenness in pitch? English right back has second look : TREMOLO

4-down – One’s beaten horse, stifling liberal spirit : STEELDRUM

5-down – Subtle introduction to Nietzsche foxed a dunce : NUANCED

6-down – President engaged in vacuously boastful clamour : BABEL

7-down – Chosen to strip off, servicemen stand before the faithful : LECTERN

8-down – In London district, foreign cash goes on drug providing a fix : TROUBLESHOOTING

15-down – Lands a few blows in a deceptively promising period : FALSEDAWN

17-down – Insectivore concealed in cane abroad : ECHIDNA

18-down – Nobody imprisons half a continent in cell : NEURONE

20-down – College study, including reading, is a fabulous thing : UNICORN

22-down – Beast one very quietly smuggled into house : HIPPO