Daily Answers

9-across – Personal unpleasantness? Lois has it, unfortunately : HALITOSIS

10-across – Tried to get a seat, but unsuccessfully! : STOOD

11-across – Revenues from company involved in various mines : INCOMES

12-across – Guard gives a warning : LOOKOUT

13-across – They’re often engaged in the movement of transport : GEARS

14-across – Guards ordered to go in the Spanish spearhead : SENTINELS

16-across – Primary requisites for a sewer : NEEDLEANDTHREAD

19-across – Parts of a lady’s wardrobe? : SEPARATES

21-across – Newly written verse takes a new direction : VEERS

22-across – Heart so affected sounds can be heard within it : EARSHOT

23-across – New opera in a natural setting : OPENAIR

24-across – Initially, surgeons can’t operate until really clean : SCOUR

25-across – Miserable? Cheer up! : WOEBEGONE

1-down – Their members were bound to work under strict supervision : CHAINGANGS

2-down – Ordered to get round secure barrier : BLOCKADE

3-down – Used in cricket matches that may be drawn : STUMPS

4-down – Oxford banker : ISIS

5-down – Fresh sand, please, for use by the sea : ESPLANADES

6-down – Cause amazement, seeing a holy man on his mobile : ASTONISH

7-down – Romeo’s disposition is melancholic : MOROSE

8-down – Prepare to put out with the rising tide : EDIT

14-down – Sea air won’t change a place of poor housing : SHANTYTOWN

15-down – Not the main way to transform desert site : SIDESTREET

17-down – Unsteady dogs? : LURCHERS

18-down – Resort to a lever to provide lift : ELEVATOR

20-down – Excuse to knock up an academic : PARDON

21-down – Watched United compete to get on top : VIEWED

22-down – It’s not difficult to name a novel midshipman : EASY

23-down – Warning that a man is about to cry : OYEZ

9-across – Study Latin near Barking : LEARN

10-across – Retired official tucks into entire assorted hamper : INTERFERE

11-across – We throw fit over no trumps in place of clubs : WENTWORTH

12-across – Superior meal with no starter : UPPER

13-across – Scored and had a good time : GROOVED

15-across – Relaxes with girlfriends from Surrey? : SEDATES

17-across – Formula 1 driver reverses and leaves : ASSAM

18-across – Shirt worn by Sailor Bill : TAB

20-across – Unsteady boxer : ROCKY

22-across – Mud? It’s a winding track … : STADIUM

25-across – … where sisters are found ahead : ONWARDS

26-across – Animal — husky, say? : HORSE

27-across – Israelite family, extremely gifted and keen : KINGDAVID

30-across – As Turing deciphered Enigma, initially used to identify someone : SIGNATURE

31-across – Medicine taken when upset, head to toe : PILLS

1-down – Fan of Wales at first supports Bale with love : BLOW

2-down – Managed to win Clive’s heart to yield original Sinclair Spectrums : RAINBOWS

3-down – It feels cold at this time, following the end of Christmas : SNOW

4-down – Photograph of my bird Dorothy, say : MICRODOT

5-down – Companion takes drugs after sex urges : ITCHES

6-down – Airport staff increased to conceal portly contralto : GROUNDCREW

7-down – Brewer uses potatoes, filtering out oxygen and sulphur : TEAPOT

8-down – Clothes worn in topless TV programme? : GEAR

13-down – Fool follows King Rat : GRASS

14-down – Bloodsucker politician: I bare swindle in tax : VAMPIREBAT

16-down – Complaints in the past : STYES

19-down – Female group making cakes : BROWNIES

21-down – Ships trading 5 for 1,000 sweets : CARAVELS

23-down – European capital holds up gold stars : AURIGA

24-down – Construct foundation, perhaps : MAKEUP

26-down – #stew? : HASH

28-down – Work in Germany for inside information : DOPE

29-down – Hoffman not at home to clean : DUST

1-across – Takes off faster, so leaves behind … : OUTSTRIPS

6-across – … one of 26 22 down’s daughters, starting to head out of Czech city : DRNO

8-across – Second fattest short bottles of beer : STUBBIES

9-across – See 1 down : AFRICA

10-across – Pudding in place for tea, we hear : AFTERS

11-across – Start off with most voracious appetite, being extremely tall and thin? : REEDIEST

12-across – Get the fruit of another’s labour? That’s a feature of 22 down 26’s game plan, initially : SCRUMP

15-across – 22 down 26’s trademark wild dog and polar bears : DROPGOAL

16-across – Good-for-nothing actor providing new content for Sun’s gaps in layout? : SPACINGS

19-across – Just in, without a break, for one-month try-out : MARTYR

21-across – Put out of action by baddies running round lake : DISABLED

22-across – Trouble as one taking orders runs away : BOTHER

24-across – Recalled sickly green eyespots on peacock : OCELLI

25-across – Robben half-heartedly upset with ref giving score by 26 22 down : BORNFREE

26-across – See 22 down : JOHN

27-across – Soft form of sunlight featuring in Laurel’s beauty treatments : SPRAYTANS

1-down – Foot slipped going round bend? If a car crashed, it’s one of 26 22 down’s : OUTOF

2-down – Frozen scene able to be negotiated by Greek character : TABLEAU

3-down – 22 down 26 scores, when starting regularly in games : TRIES

4-down – Having cover pulled up from under us, nightly : INSURED

5-down – Sat around near small cafe, lacking a place for formal occasions : STATEROOM

6-down – Flower girl and criminal : DARLING

7-down – Essential scenes shot before virgin blows top : NECESSARY

13-down – : CAPRICCIO

14-down – 22 down 26 scores one steel pan arrangement : PENALTIES

17-down – Place in Bond film — one of 26 22 down’s : CHAPLIN

18-down – Windows feature in mirror : SIDEBAR

20-down – Liqueur drunk at a fair : RATAFIA

22-down – One who scored piece of music found in front of unsigned library book : BARRY

23-down – Fair chance of taking time out from equestrian competitions? : EVENS

1-across – Antimony pollutes dirty harbour : GRIMSBY

5-across – Poorly assembled program in divine setting : SCRAPPY

10-across – Without exception one’s abandoned building : BARN

11-across – Left back to dwell on the ball? It’s up in the air : TROPOPAUSE

12-across – Tolkien’s art? : MIDDLE

13-across – Leaves here to instruct parent heartlessly : TEACADDY

14-across – I keep time, but I’m missing from relaunch of 28 27 : METRONOME

16-across – See 24 : STICK

17-across – See 12 : EARTH

19-across – Airplane, a presidential one? : JEFFERSON

23-across – See 4 : THELINES

24-across – Very disappointed about the Spanish holiday, without a phone extension : SELFIE

26-across – Alliance blocks programme of legislator : SENATORIAL

27-across – See 28 : MORI

28-across – In endless remembrance, I bury all but the last skull among others : MEMENTO

29-across – Looking witheringly on apparently good fastening : PITYING

2-down – Grasp what’s behind porkies, we are told : REALISE

3-down – Very keen to keep working for unity : MONAD

4-down – Where one may read in no man’s land? : BETWEEN

6-down – Chapter to be spoken or to be sung : CHORAL

7-down – In brief panic attend to joint — I’m ready to carve : ALABASTER

8-down – Researcher coopts daughter for experiment : POSTDOC

9-down – Bum getting smaller? Mine is hell : BOTTOMLESSPIT

15-down – Having run with the others, I grabbed some food to get back : RETALIATE

18-down – Perform greeting, welcoming non-female boss : ACHIEVE

20-down – Pasta to satisfy one’s hunger, while taking in the Guardian? : FUSILLI

21-down – Moronic sort of letter : OMICRON

22-down – Walking about 30cm requires no energy : ONFOOT

25-down – Gordon Bennett is executed rudely, a Brit : LIMEY

1-across – Initiates approaches to restrain old boys’ clubs : COMMENCES

6-across – Girl one met at a party : GALA

8-across – It’s part of a kit of beer supplied to Germany with chaser : BASSDRUM

9-across – Boy initiated and carried out some spooning : LADLED

10-across – Qualification shows everything about a girl : ALEVEL

11-across – Girl, star at last in Crazy Lady for about four weeks : LUNARDAY

12-across – New boy? : JUSTIN

15-across – Ashdown’s May forfeit at end of vote: a myth? Not exactly, at last : EATMYHAT

16-across – It’s sweet girl in some trouble : MOLASSES

19-across – Girl auto enthusiasts? : CARMEN

21-across – Girl to excel with food : BEATRICE

22-across – Isn’t able to get girl into bed : CANNOT

24-across – Boatman in Paris : JEROME

25-across – Girl sent crazy by LSD in the ’60s : STERLING

26-across – Imperfect, flawed, failing you fundamentally? : IFFY

27-across – Perhaps my girl’s only starting letting loose : SONGTITLE

1-down – Write badly without direction and make slow progress : CRAWL

2-down – Clue for a TV show where beer is made : MASHVAT

3-down – Enlist boy soldier, the last to be replaced by noon : ENROL

4-down – Boy and girl turned up sick inside : CAMILLE

5-down – Sour spice used in and around Lent : SPLENETIC

6-down – Boy said to be heathen? : GODFREY

7-down – Middle of single bed that is badly askew, in which one gets no sleep : LIESAWAKE

13-down – Cheerful Boatman’s a mischievous chap, prone to compileritis? : UPONESELF

14-down – Unpleasant sensations, lacking love : NASTINESS

17-down – Two-part choral work has no place for heartless imp of a boy : ANTHONY

18-down – Subdues partner’s boy : STEPSON

20-down – Hairnet girl used for curling : RINGLET

22-down – Screw as a boy, perhaps eaten by lion? : CHEAT

23-down – This animal under study could lead to grass : OUNCE