Daily Answers

1-across – Made neat, because tangled : FORMATTED

6-across – I take off Bohemian clothing : MIMIC

9-across – Rascal’s party succeeded at first : SCAMP

10-across – Evangelist who spends little touring holy city : MISSIONER

11-across – Additional artwork not done on campus : EXTRAMURAL

12-across – Language OK for Willi and Virginia : JAVA

14-across – Music man roused at 7 : SMETANA

15-across – Endlessly valiant, securing water at last in this? : DROUGHT

17-across – Policeman belonging to Brazilian port shortly returns : OFFICER

19-across – Clamps down on crossing points: fine to go through : STIFLES

20-across – Give up excitement : KICK

22-across – City to look cheerful as soldiers enter : SQUAREMILE

25-across – Enthusiastic reception welcoming outwardly usual monthly event : OVULATION

26-across – Gas, about 28 gm? : OZONE

27-across – Walter, a handyman? : MITTY

28-across – Mushroom that is consumed in minutes, seasonal speciality : MINCEPIES

1-down – Four regularly on watch, or part of it : FUSEE

2-down – Traditional meal of boar’s feet prepared : ROASTBEEF

3-down – Look — seed inside a caper : APPEARANCE

4-down – Meal includes stewed rump and fried seafood : TEMPURA

5-down – Drop mark, having cheated to secure it : DISCARD

6-down – Finally acclaim own Scottish chief : MAIN

7-down – Intelligent group of people endlessly miserable : MENSA

8-down – As writer, Shakespeare’s surely holding leading place : CERVANTES

13-down – Moving house? : MOBILEHOME

14-down – Farm animals we hear in city : STOCKHOLM

16-down – Many died here of French disease, losing both feet : GALLIPOLI

18-down – Service concerning peace, short mass : REQUIEM

19-down – Peace soon around new airport : SHANNON

21-down – Ball lands in short playing area : COURT

23-down – Rugby game doesn’t start with equal chances : EVENS

24-down – Cautious movement of ship over river : WARY

7-across – Rein charge that’s getting circuitous : INDIRECT

9-across – Product of an evil regime? : EMIGRE

10-across – Elks frolicking in humid light : DESK

11-across – Local peaceful end is nigh, perhaps, as a perishing alternative : PUBLISHING

12-across – He would have said no need for plastic surgery : ADONIS

14-across – Celebrities may be the reason for TV dinners : NOTABLES

15-across – Young lady put away discussion : DEBATE

17-across – County council Islamic extremists following a regular pattern : CYCLIC

20-across – Fits a little over three in sleepy disposition : EPILEPSY

22-across – Some streets are just the ticket for 9 : ONEWAY

23-across – Rooftops Mr Turner built to withstand the elements : STORMPROOF

24-across – See 10 : LAMP

25-across – Ignore puzzles set centrally as a dispenser of 21 : NOZZLE

26-across – Immoral and indecent commercial : DECADENT

1-down – Forecourt offering a French guide to Porte de l’Evolution : UNLEADED

2-down – Fruit cocktail : PINK

3-down – Some other pestilence : HERPES

4-down – Unions here have another go at capturing soldiers position : REGISTRY

5-down – Attractive person on a poster, primarily exposed in a state of undress : DISHABILLE

6-down – Frog once found pincer movement by crab’s head pernicious : PRINCE

8-down – Draw round receptacle for pipes : TUBING

13-down – Rubbish pile with bronze award : NOBELPRIZE

16-down – Fastest at which rise of the Mariana Trench? : TOPSPEED

18-down – See 6 : CHARMING

19-down – Broadway not as bad as the proverbial : BYWORD

21-down – See 1 : PETROL

22-down – See 4 : OFFICE

24-down – See 2 : LADY

9-across – Honest villain seen circling minute 6-foot stage? : IMAGO

10-across – Mischief-maker close at hand : IMPENDING

11-across – Given glossy coat, tailless llama needed to be replaced : ENAMELLED

12-across – Singers that tweet about Prince as former actor : ROBIN

13-across – Some guts shown by couple meeting a bad end earlier : DUODENA

15-across – Sold out through saying: If it can go wrong, it will : SODSLAW

17-across – Indian chief, 100, with very bad back : CLIVE

18-across – Number not good for offspring : SON

20-across – Slovenly Scotswoman needed to get cleaner? Maybe Someday covers that : BESOM

22-across – His opera briefly involved fruit : ROSEHIP

25-across – Two articles about underwear in sacred text : AVESTAN

26-across – Flying fish eater, one whose lover regularly swam north : HERON

27-across – Light colour for soot? : LAMPBLACK

30-across – Feel inferior? That’s stupid : SENSELESS

31-across – One taking snap of beatnik only : NIKON

1-down – Male musician’s first appearance on radio : MIKE

2-down – Son of Scots playing on air? That’s dandy! : MACARONI

3-down – Male holding very large pipe starts to hum October Song etc : HOSE

4-down – See 12 : WILLIAMS

5-down – Flat point between fringes of Smoke Shovelling suit : SPADES

6-down – King Charles not to be taken outside? Preposterous! : INCREDIBLE

7-down – Drum one doctor found in short story : TIMBAL

8-down – Opposed to a mother’s ruin : AGIN

13-down – Ornamentation of French horn by Debussy? : DECOR

14-down – Like 12, passed as fair : EVENHANDED

16-down – Female from Western state : WOMAN

19-down – Submarines torpedoed? U-boat’s heading away — close call! : NEARMISS

21-down – Delays before second cashier takes dodgy bet : SETBACKS

23-down – Musician’s essential for group of Arabs? : STRING

24-down – Rock group circuit’s rising golfer : PALMER

26-down – Messy mix in middle of The Tree : HASH

28-down – Musician ultimately in wrong group : BAND

29-down – Caring daughter supports relatives : KIND

1-across – Gas about Number 4 gets ranker : PRIVATE

5-across – Now and then fielder in square cowered : QUAILED

9-across – Stories about first of vindictive biographies : LIVES

10-across – Around Utah they add complex tax on what’s left : DEATHDUTY

11-across – Writer’s Christmas card impresses bird no end : NOELCOWARD

12-across – Finish off film and drive away … : SHOO

14-across – … with foot down, outcome of L-plate feuds : ATFULLSPEED

18-across – Where to see The A-Team in colour, originally getting thrashed : ATTHECINEMA

21-across – Enthusiasm and rage finally die away : FADE

22-across – Bed item in border over next to large unopened flower : PILLOWSLIP

25-across – Kennedy’s one lion repositioned in 7th Street : VIOLINIST

26-across – We’re talking about returning afterwards : LATER

27-across – I go downhill in rally, occasionally taking chances : RISKILY

28-across – Object to following piano here : PRESENT

1-down – Stake zero in space rockets : PALING

2-down – Visibly win fight, beginning to end : INVIEW

3-down – Allies ring spies to intercept foreign assets : ASSOCIATES

4-down – Fund new loony Borders party : ENDOW

5-down – That Parisian tackles a routine dance : QUADRILLE

6-down – Long to teach English without restrictions : ACHE

7-down – Start to leave after noisy cackling : LAUGHTER

8-down – Eg tea and sugar or dodgy nuts and bananas, finally : DRYGOODS

13-down – Reading Dandy, he flouted the Queensberry Rules : OSCARWILDE

15-down – Female intransigence? : FRIGIDITY

16-down – Play that brings tears to your eyes : HAYFEVER

17-down – Learned university is infiltrating film companies : STUDIOUS

19-down – Bishop’s settled and he’s happy : BLITHE

20-down – Drool over Irish bottle : SPIRIT

23-down – Shed light on current trade union breaking record : LITUP

24-down – Musical performance beginning to impress : GIGI

9-across – With frightful lies around, I mean to get into a row : LINEARISE

10-across – Seat in third row that’s painful : COUCH

11-across – A paper held in respect, popularly and skilfully fashioned : CRAFTED

12-across – Woman in high-pressure area within British company : BRIDGET

13-across – Funny turns involving one comedy writer : MUIR

14-across – PM to conclude with honour? There’s a certain lack of belief here : HEATHENDOM

15-across – One of those bloomers in our beds, possibly : ROSEBUD

17-across – Agent for change to get a stomach churning over — dope? : MUTAGEN

19-across – Good time to have chaps in field of medicine taking part : ENGAGEMENT

22-across – Boss has hit back : KNOB

23-across – Retired tennis player writing about footballers : EVERTON

24-across – More than one such snob offers nonsense : COBBLER

26-across – English very little used in French street entertainment : REVUE

27-across – Thief with hot goods may do this to keep within bounds : RINGFENCE

1-down – Criminals will get sign of disapproval always in reformed set : BLACKMARKETEERS

2-down – Such deeds must be shocking, if name is tainted : INFAMIES

3-down – Spider’s ending with insect in spout : RANT

4-down – Plant in bed we’d zap? : BINDWEED

5-down – You, on boat’s capsizing, may give something less than three cheers : YESBUT

6-down – The West must take chance with a new leader : OCCIDENT

7-down – Deity above celebrated with poems, not half : SUNGOD

8-down – The wind burns me, a terrible problem for Brits abroad, as before? : WHITEMANSBURDEN

16-down – Parent makes request with message, wanting learner to be let off : BEGETTER

17-down – Serving winners against players at the outset? That’s ominous : MENACING

18-down – Awkward-looking group of people sitting on heather : GANGLING

20-down – Provided protection for some soldiers : GREAVE

21-down – Short periods of time for gathering men and children : MINORS

25-down – Fan is foolish old person, no doubt : BUFF