Daily Answers

1-across – Going to store outside of Everton for baking ingredient : LEAVENING

6-across – Bread gets left inside jar : CLASH

9-across – Vacuous geezer, a twit or dope : GRASS

10-across – Joke without malice but with some bite : PUNGENTLY

11-across – Boy to betray embarrassment, holding another boy’s hand : ROYALFLUSH

12-across – Buzzing used to be on the radio : WHIR

14-across – They say who’s written Times columns : BYLINES

15-across – Enduring stick, going through high seas : AGELESS

17-across – Run in running pump? Not in the main : ONSHORE

19-across – Poster plugging good show is boasting : BRAVADO

20-across – It’s put on eggs bishop’s eaten : ROBE

22-across – Preferring to be in hot seat — and may need grilling : STAYATHOME

25-across – Spin from ex-PM about dissolute man back in office : PIROUETTE

26-across – Artist’s dry, taking off coat : HIRST

27-across – Long time before noon : YEARN

28-across – Play down bribe with newspaper in dodgy deal : SOFTPEDAL

1-down – Bear with totally heartless employer? One gets fired : LUGER

2-down – Foolish god offered up lily-like flower : AMARYLLIS

3-down – Some of capital loans tend, unfortunately, to secure nothing : EASTLONDON

4-down – Spikes drink, with Sprites passed round : IMPALES

5-down – Modern musician’s anxiety broaching grand finale in opera : GANGSTA

6-down – Fanatic — he willingly boxes champ : CHEW

7-down – What may be dropped in 3 with a feeling of irritation : AITCH

8-down – We’re told stable food recipe — covered in sauce, it’s magic! : HEYPRESTO

13-down – A number of workers with joint occupation : TENANTSHIP

14-down – Criminal charge extremely heavy after one’s put in can for life : BIOGRAPHY

16-down – With hair receding, this paper’s boss is in love : ENAMOURED

18-down – Tsetse flies around, covering capital of African lands : ESTATES

19-down – Part of Laurel and Hardy not hard to find in a fable that’s silly : BAYLEAF

21-down – Northerly Polish mother country, as was : BURMA

23-down – Past tax cut gets acclaim : EXTOL

24-down – Bankrupt’s lamenting having wasted £1,000 : RUIN

8-across – Dog put on television, bitter : AIREDALE

9-across – Free American diver stealing Norseman’s heart : LOOSEN

10-across – General idea that’s not opening, is opening : RIFT

11-across – Opening words from Franco so unbiased, surprisingly : BUENOSDIAS

12-across – Best egg sent back, of poor quality : TINPOT

14-across – Opening vessel, one’s unhinged : CRACKPOT

15-across – Arouse fury with rolling pins : INSPIRE

17-across – Aggressive opening, it’s maintained on the counter : HOSTILE

20-across – Irish revolutionary opening boxes with a personal quality : CHARISMA

22-across – Come from journey touring the East : DERIVE

23-across – Stuffing mammalian meat, hard round biscuit : BATHOLIVER

24-across – Feel pain, ultimately, as a man : PAWN

25-across – Opening removed and fixed : OUTSET

26-across – A cheeky runner creating opening : APERTURE

1-down – After all clasps failed, nice when buckles opening : SICILIAN

2-down – Opening payment : RENT

3-down – See 19 : GAMBIT

4-down – See 1 : DEFENCE

5-down – Loaded or poor, get rich here : ELDORADO

6-down – Meditate about impossible task for an insect : PONDSKATER

7-down – Try to conceal lie, coming over as sweet : GELATO

13-down – A seat in apse designed for examination of many documents : PAPERCHASE

16-down – One having failed to jack up truck, determined : RESOLUTE

18-down – Plug component in dynamo : LIVEWIRE

19-down – Opening bat, vital in game, almost getting out : LATVIAN

21-down – Break in success touring capital in Africa and America : HIATUS

22-down – Carter at last accessing vault, chamber finally opening : DORMER

24-down – Nut spread : PATE

1-across – Need to hold marines back for airborne advance : WARMFRONT

6-across – Black tie initially discarded by firm : SABLE

9-across – Leave by plane: deal with article first, or lose it : FLYOFFTHEHANDLE

10-across – Hear such music unaccompanied : SOLE

11-across – Relax: everything difficult has been done? : RESTEASY

14-across – Have suspicion stream all polluted : SMELLARAT

15-across – Looking back, hospital worker retired, leaving quietly : RETRO

16-across – Hears appeal to Islamic leaders : OBEYS

18-across – I go ahead, not straight : GLENGARRY

20-across – Half-swearing, compulsory to include ’ell, say : BLINDING

21-across – Like to secure second book : AMOS

25-across – Offer doubtful help — we had nothing Cantonese to cook : SEEWHATONECANDO

26-across – Umpire’s call assumed reversible : NOTUP

27-across – Great distance I travelled with lethargy : LIGHTYEAR

1-down – Initially, Gilbert holds back blows : WAFTS

2-down – My husband and I? Just I : ROYALWE

3-down – Dither, as a female among others : FAFF

4-down – In the grass, succeeded getting sexual satisfaction : OATS

5-down – Group on which policeman may be shortly in case : THEBEATLES

6-down – Bangs up doctor feeding jerks stimulating pills : SMARTDRUGS

7-down – Lad just penetrated by tip of weapon that’s piercing : BODYART

8-down – Swindle by priest — you cover it up, that’s all : EVERYBODY

12-down – Stopped selling members-only arrangement : CLOSEDSHOP

13-down – Loose regulation of a branch of medicine : UROGENITAL

14-down – Curling lip, a snob’s finding this on tea tray? : SLOPBASIN

17-down – Distinguished artist seen on Tate Modern visit at last : EMINENT

19-down – Cameron’s extraordinary affair : ROMANCE

22-down – River that’s spilled over track : SPOOR

23-down – Hitch small horse : SNAG

24-down – Get away with wordless singing : SCAT

1-across – Ancient Scotsman curls first : PERMIAN

5-across – Embrace internet bride? : ESPOUSE

10-across – He presses on in fury, close to despair : IRONER

11-across – What those afraid of the dark want to stumble across : ALIGHTON

12-across – Gremlin in one’s piano : IMP

13-across – Furious with rotten fraudster : MADOFF

14-across – Colour of suit occupying writer : PEAGREEN

15-across – Airborne gaggle of hidebound English : SKEIN

16-across – Inferior lyricist of appalling operettas : POETASTER

19-across – Those prophesying doom of Corbyn back off, beginning to admire his alternative : JEREMIAHS

21-across – Damn dogs chase Charles away : CURSE

24-across – Iron Lady contrarily embracing little in the women’s movement : FEMINISM

26-across – Resemble modern pound symbol : EMBLEM

27-across – Finally wave bye-bye and go out : EBB

28-across – Boy is allowed pot for outdoor use : BILLYCAN

29-across – Edges away from manic small creature : ANIMAL

30-across – Relief for the ailing socialist ideal after change of leaders : BEDREST

31-across – Notorious actress and oddly bleary FBI agent : BERGMAN

2-down – Designate European rescue vessel to guard strip of water : EARMARK

3-down – Cutter heading to Malta with all on board P&O liner : MANDOLINE

4-down – Commercial break lacking purpose : ADRIFT

6-down – Gear for winter and spring workers : SKIPANTS

7-down – Men embracing the alternative : OTHER

8-down – Slav heading to exit after Poles receive nul points : SLOVENE

9-down – Change here can prompt renewal of cordial relations : RAPPROCHEMENT

17-down – The ultimate in luxurious jewellery for the belly is staggering! : STUMBLING

18-down – Garibaldi, perhaps, dropping it in his herbal tea : HIBISCUS

20-down – She prays alone before standing on bug : EREMITE

22-down – Czech barman and I entranced by Stan Wawrinka’s bottom : SMETANA

23-down – Lower moral character between the sheets upset Home Counties : DEBASE

25-down – Sidle round to bag lounger : IDLER

9-across – Party dress container found to be in order : DOMINICAN

10-across – Victor loses head going round the bull : INNER

11-across – Dedicated a Sterne novel : EARNEST

12-across – Deeds brought before a judge : ACTIONS

13-across – Claw used in fight, along with teeth : TALON

14-across – Put in order and gained financially : CLEANEDUP

16-across – Rules of play? : STAGEDIRECTIONS

19-across – Old master takes class in new term : REMBRANDT

21-across – The best Religious Education received in academic stream : CREAM

22-across – It makes people unfit for high positions : VERTIGO

23-across – A lover — married, unfortunately : ADMIRER

24-across – Abuse in common parlance : SLANG

25-across – Knock around chap with title : MANHANDLE

1-down – He announces drivers’ tea break : ADVERTISER

2-down – Handy personal cover? : UMBRELLA

3-down – Nun wanders around diocese without being observed : UNSEEN

4-down – Rabbit’s tail trimmed to a point : SCUT

5-down – Battle that led to union? : ENGAGEMENT

6-down – Separate — that’s abundantly clear : DISTINCT

7-down – Put in charge? Quite the opposite : UNLOAD

8-down – Prepares to fight artist about manuscript : ARMS

14-down – Scrambling on crag’s rim — here? : CAIRNGORMS

15-down – A stiff examination : POSTMORTEM

17-down – The wages of sin — and anger : EARNINGS

18-down – Cancel order I’ve put out : OVERRIDE

20-down – May help in building a house, or destroying it : MORTAR

21-down – Struggle for doctor getting into his overall : COMBAT

22-down – Pole enters by way of a special permit : VISA

23-down – Teenage trouble spots? : ACNE