Daily Answers

9-across – Henry loathed fashion, including college scarf : HEADCLOTH

10-across – Available money? : READY

11-across – Dacre’s rag admits liberal sources : CRADLES

12-across – English, Two-Knights and Spanish cry about Black’s honour : ENNOBLE

13-across – They succeed in their schemes : HEIRS

14-across – Leader Cook steals single with gratitude when batting : CHIEFTAIN

16-across – Manager of Palace? : LORDCHAMBERLAIN

19-across – Not a 23 across, first acting officer : CENTURION

21-across – Long distance traveller to arrive on time : COMET

22-across – Heroic worker from Rhondda, say? : VALIANT

23-across – Fabulous creature revealed by smell or sound : CENTAUR

24-across – Special ice cream or cake : SCONE

25-across – Freshening up cleans American rapper of scandal : ESCLANDRE

1-down – One might crave church love that’s universal but timeless : CHOCAHOLIC

2-down – Royalist without care : CAVALIER

3-down – Short Book of Goon? : ECCLES

4-down – Governor of German city changed direction twice? : BOSS

5-down – When to take train, that is? Having two, it departs full and returns empty : WHEELIEBIN

6-down – Carry On films, of course, uncover bottoms after lifting pictures : TRANSFER

7-down – Greek character with bad back’s terribly bad : LAMBDA

8-down – Kind of fifty pence piece : TYPE

14-down – The old racer racing around Italy? : CHARIOTEER

15-down – No chance of dessert? : NONSTARTER

17-down – Councillor, supported by America, rejecting left-wing activist : CRUSADER

18-down – Weapons loaded with bullets to begin with and they’re blown up : ARMBANDS

20-down – Admiral’s strong grasp : NELSON

21-down – English mathematician’s trick with a variable : CONWAY

22-down – Son wears old soldier’s garment : VEST

23-down – 100,0,100,1,000? Nonsense! : COCK

1-across – Gibraltar has one that doesn’t sound gay : STRAIT

5-across – Fashion a newspaper business : RAGTRADE

9-across – Beauty is friendly and goes back round : SKINDEEP

10-across – Not mean to secure 6 within : LAVISH

11-across – A quantity of drink is both good and bad : GILL

12-across – Ephemeral idea heard on Radio 4 : THOUGHTFOR

13-across – Wait, as most MPs do with their seat at the next election : HOLDIT

14-across – Long to eat a T-bone, making passionate speech : DIATRIBE

16-across – Domino’s about to cross town : STAFFORD

19-across – Leaves alone, having you to follow? : LETSBE

21-across – Old express service in city has a long way to travel : WELLSFARGO

23-across – Over age, losing spectacles, it’s reported : TOLD

24-across – See 12 : THEDAY

25-across – Outrage? It’s minor, yet needing correction : ENORMITY

26-across – Nun alert? Unfortunately, put out of her mind : UNLEARNT

27-across – Make secret garden almost admitting officer : ENCODE

2-down – Put on brave face in heat: think ice not to be ordered : TAKEITONTHECHIN

3-down – One working the soil turns up tricky problem: two metres need replacing with nitrogen : ANNELID

4-down – Youthful age at which one drops out : TWENTYTWO

5-down – Leaving the plane, one may use this free, fitted with copper and gold : RIPCORD

6-down – Noisily drink up, touring a camp : GULAG

7-down – Shipyard worker in a state, having to change direction over time : RIVETER

8-down – Confused medic struggling with adult boobs : DISCOMBOBULATED

15-down – How giant becomes gallant, in the words of the musketeers : ALLFORONE

17-down – Need paying, as summer is almost over : FALLDUE

18-down – River suffered, losing part of its length : DERWENT

20-down – Child torturing mice is symbolic : TOTEMIC

22-down – You should go in for a theatre part : FOYER

8-across – Her caper corrupted minister : PREACHER

9-across – Discharge from old well : EXHALE

10-across – Nobleman has yen to leave before time : EARL

11-across – Food is dear — money needed : SWEETBREAD

12-across – Cautious about rum that’s poor quality : SHODDY

14-across – Image-building maneater to forge ahead : PROGRESS

15-across – Force wife into river from transport system : TRAMWAY

17-across – Check firm : STAUNCH

20-across – Spirit’s allowed? That’s understood : IMPLICIT

22-across – Fruit for girl to shout about : CHERRY

23-across – A hunt acted badly on its own : UNATTACHED

24-across – Move old Bob’s joint : SHIP

25-across – Make good soldiers triumph : RECOUP

26-across – Subject Antonia disseminated to student : NATIONAL

1-down – Respite for swimmer boxing soldier : BREATHER

2-down – Drag prince round university : HAUL

3-down – Beat youth leader? That’s the spirit! : WHISKY

4-down – Steal a march on man with bad temper : PREEMPT

5-down – Cause defeat for swimmer : SEATROUT

6-down – Plan to recycle liqueur : CHARTREUSE

7-down – Gangster practices continuously : ALWAYS

13-down – Light Infantry in degrading defeat : DEMOLITION

16-down – Artist raised brackets for lighting : ARCLAMPS

18-down – Foursome involved in erotic festival : CARNIVAL

19-down – Inquisitive and tense when absorbed in Book of Changes : ITCHING

21-down – Married princess with royal appearance : MANNER

22-down – Rascal set off after young soldiers : CADETS

24-down – Blockage in colon, say : STOP

1-across – Watergate: various clues lead to impeachment : SLUICE

5-across – End result when thief raids church and takes the van? : LEADSOFF

9-across – Turn back slow runners between defensive lines : MIDFIELD

10-across – See 11 : PIPING

11-across – Defeat secured by best original means to an end in 15 : LEAD

12-across – Land with inexperienced leader is OK : GREENLIGHT

13-across – Small blocks of 15 countryman may have to get over : STILES

14-across – Request for help — involving British right? : SOBSTORY

16-across – Champion’s more natural without it : CRUSADER

19-across – Indigenous person from Hungary breaking fast : APACHE

21-across – Earl’s angry after last of men in gang ran through : SQUANDERED

23-across – China 15’s outcome : MATE

24-across – Thieving can be attractive : TAKING

25-across – Rounded eggs cracking on the shelf not recognised : UNAVOWED

26-across – Spare person providing support in kitchen garden : BEANPOLE

27-across – Prime time cycling contests : EVENTS

2-down – Cheese out of date, possibly acquired in 15 : LEICESTERSQUARE

3-down – Fielding’s wanton, no-good heathen : INFIDEL

4-down – Enthusiastic doctor resigned after end of case : ENERGISED

5-down – One element of 15 could be 50 of the other … : LADDERS

6-down – … and another, regularly seen in tree : ASPEN

7-down – Jerry’s turned up, beating this chap with specious argument : SOPHIST

8-down – 15’s terminal way to fill Ely cathedral post, maybe : FENCHURCHSTREET

15-down – Diversion — you’ll need to mount up for it : BOARDGAME

17-down – See 8 : STATION

18-down – Divert troops, repeatedly keeping away : REROUTE

20-down – Queen keeled over during a function, one of two in Ulster, perhaps : ARMHOLE

22-down – Mum not seen to follow 15 : DOGGO

9-across – Shrink from hunting initially — there’s wild boar around : ABHOR

10-across – In bars, tea may be served for a teetotaller : ABSTAINER

11-across – Awakening after hundred years heavy drinking : CAROUSING

12-across – They go under water, coming back glossy : KEELS

13-across – Large figures of business deficit — I closed : COLOSSI

15-across – Wreck that’s broken up with little hesitation : SHATTER

17-across – Look around a ship of the line : LASSO

18-across – Do some housework? Yes : SEW

20-across – High place for a bird to live in : TIBET

22-across – It’s obvious I’ve been set back by depression : EVIDENT

25-across – Screen has crimson centre and unusual rose edging : REREDOS

26-across – One called round, being sorry : RUING

27-across – Freely able to speak with added detail : ELABORATE

30-across – Curse the motherland! : DAMNATION

31-across – School-leaver’s certificate? : EXEAT

1-down – It eases sores in hospital cases : TALC

2-down – Loud chuckles first heard from Lewis Carroll : CHORTLES

3-down – Father to the French, mother to the Germans : FRAU

4-down – Openings for a number in large towns : CAVITIES

5-down – Habits of well bred philosophers : USAGES

6-down – Cook makes tarts for demanding employer : TASKMASTER

7-down – Eat, but not seriously, we hear : INGEST

8-down – Building up runs, retaining the Ashes? : URNS

13-down – Produce a lower type of offspring : CALVE

14-down – Nick has an ambition to succeed in football : SCOREAGOAL

16-down – Honours degrees? : RATES

19-down – Means to put on a brave face : WARPAINT

21-down – College servant proverbially required to lie in his work? : BEDMAKER

23-down – I misdo translation of particular expressions : IDIOMS

24-down – Two cardinals appear in this work : THESIS

26-down – Travel free over the Orient : RIDE

28-down – Frank, ready to do business, … : OPEN

29-down – … is not faster at splitting points : EATS