Daily Answers

1-across – Keep hoping undraped women at the end smile mischievously : NILDESPERANDUM

9-across – Getting back in time,keep at it inside : TITFORTAT

10-across – One purple heart taken affecting pelvic area : ILIAC

11-across – Watching what vandal’s doing to car which won’t start : EYING

12-across – Go for a working dinner,only the second offering meat : PEPPERONI

13-across – Begging Iran and Togo to settle : ROGATION

14-across – Clergyman heard shot at table : CANNON

17-across – Done so badly,it’s lumpy : NODOSE

19-across – Not all right,scenery in one part of England : SOMERSET

22-across – Pick up contents of nappy by river! To what purpose? : APPREHEND

24-across – One son in clear – it’s not the full picture : INSET

25-across – Bashir’s odds slashed? Mental! : INNER

26-across – An elite fighter shortly entering very small country : SANMARINO

27-across – Idle,so I applied to perform with those I might come across : LOLLIPOPLADIES

1-down – Negotiate in war shamefully showing disrespect? : NOTWEARINGATIE

2-down – What am I doing,increase in size permitting? : LETTING

3-down – Increases confusion involving the very rich : ELONGATES

4-down – Mate with sweetheart in bar – it’s been arranged beforehand : PUTUPJOB

5-down – Again put down Romeo’s iconic car : RETYPE

6-down – Balls left by top seed – and racket : NOISE

7-down – Horny individual in college with my name : UNICORN

8-down – One visiting London’s North,South,East and West : ACTIONSTATIONS

15-down – Culture represented by apple pie,baseball,roots music and er- a maniac maybe? : AMERICANA

16-down – Criticises GP over accepting 50 and change in conditions : COLDSNAP

18-down – Selectively read point I’d made : DIPINTO

20-down – Is being sent back – like that bloke maintained it’s not cooked : SASHIMI

21-down – Make a mistake transitioning and come clean : FESSUP

23-down – Councillor never showing up to register : ENROL

7-across – More work defaced with your flipping clipart? : TOPIARY

8-across – Blubber on the belly of Basil Brush? : SWEEPER

9-across – Terms of economic policy address insufficient growth : CYST

10-across – Nova Scotia almost botched missions : VOCATIONS

12-across – Elle Macpherson in retreat holding a cigarette : CAMEL

13-across – Determined expression of girlfriend tackling a Brockwell Genius : GAMEFACE

15-across – Son admitted to lying about police record : DISC

16-across – Exeter’s wingers go after draw in defensive formation : TOWER

17-across – Kitty’s back to stay : STOP

18-across – Jockey regularly steers Tiger Roll : REGISTER

20-across – Bill Clinton’s original hell : CHECK

21-across – Industry quarrel about Keith Chegwin’s No.1 hit : WORKETHIC

22-across – Group typically made up of runners heading to finish : KISS

24-across – Avoided Europeans on vacation dressed like Superman : ESCAPED

25-across – Tense over following injury : WOUNDUP

1-down – Spooner’s house-elf is stiff : BODY

2-down – <span>Day for Cristiano Ronaldo to meet international comms leaders,like O</span>₂ : DIATOMIC

3-down – Pass time with composer : TRAVEL

4-down – Tango with Oti Mabuse exhausted Romeo and love rat : TWOTIMER

5-down – Selection of Waitrose toffees in foil : SETOFF

6-down – Calls on arrest for dictator : SEES

11-down – Business mogul essentially throws out 14 from Disney Castle : COGSWORTH

12-down – The writer is restricted by red ring : CHIME

14-down – Notice male snorting line : CLOCK

16-down – Reeled in trout at sea intermittently on date : TOTTERED

17-down – Poseidon embracing power of conversation : SPEAKING

19-down – Welshman pulled up over occasionally narrow encroachment : INROAD

20-down – Absent parent to throw husband out over nothing : CUCKOO

21-down – Sensible questions in audition : WISE

23-down – Lazy person getting the bullet : SLUG

1-across – Religious ascetic shivered,losing some energy going round : DERVISH

5-across – Decision by court on composer : VERDICT

10-across – Healthcare regime decentralised in this place : HERE

11-across – Voluntary action that makes one grunt in the US : ENLISTMENT

12-across – Epoch starts to see every dinosaur wiped out : ERASED

13-across – Counsel care,having captured returning hero : HERACLES

14-across – Astonished by point made during a rumpus : AWESTRUCK

16-across – Do settle right inside : PARTY

17-across – Fine,I’ve boobed pushing back take-off : SPOOF

19-across – So,these directions may be attached to entrance : INTHISWAY

23-across – Mail son a mysterious iconic image : MONALISA

24-across – Company’s speaking equipment is huge : COSMIC

26-across – Manipulating the margins can produce scary scenarios : NIGHTMARES

27-across – Prison island held Cubans at the centre : ELBA

28-across – Minor accident following get together damaged mount : GELDING

29-across – Person dieting swaps lobster starter for white fish : SWIMMER

2-down – It’s raised in surprise by cockney sounding intellectual : EYEBROW

3-down – Struggles over wife making scenes : VIEWS

4-down – Small bank with little in reserve? : SLENDER

6-down – Rebuke conservative abandoning safeguard : ENSURE

7-down – US politicians protest about deserters : DEMOCRATS

8-down – Setting in which to study manuscript : CONTEXT

9-down – Revolutionary chaplain a true star : ALPHACENTAURI

15-down – Bore being most awfully hurt : STOMACHED

18-down – Note part of writing shows potential : PROMISE

20-down – Tool detected after computer system attack : HACKSAW

21-down – Engaging professional to take on unknown soldier’s fate : AMIABLE

22-down – He takes out their tame aunt occasionally : HITMAN

25-down – Son for each male? They get daughters too : SPERM

9-across – Composer going round end of The Strand : BEACH

10-across – Deviation from a straight – old city tax to be invested in remedy : CURVATURE

11-across – Odd renovated jet,say,on estate,possibly as fun ride : DODGEMCAR

12-across – Doctor also called inside city : DAKAR

13-across – At which Blackpool is the main team : SEASIDE

15-across – Shads sweat it out : TWAITES

17-across – Fool around next to Gulf : ABYSS

18-across – Drive home over a month : MAR

20-across – Propose a pill when temperature’s taken : TABLE

22-across – Eastern politician wrong to eject Republican leader : EMPEROR

25-across – Confront detective at party : EYEBALL

26-across – Digs secondary rock group? : BANDB

27-across – Old-fashioned stage’s position on field : SQUARELEG

30-across – Sweet old men,unkempt with tie cut off : LEMONDROP

31-across – Succeed effortlessly when in bed : COAST

1-down – Live in a dream,initially sleeping? : ABED

2-down – Country boy at day’s end: traditional scourge of 13ac/26ac guests? : LANDLADY

3-down – Ball caught by female trainer? : SHOE

4-down – Treat unnamed Crimean wounded outside the church : ICECREAM

5-down – Politician on way back – threat to the cabinet? : DRYROT

6-down – Short-lived construction scandal set to blow up : SANDCASTLE

7-down – It contains rain a lot : BUCKET

8-down – Jack,always against leaving scoff : JEER

13-down – Suit-shortening tool : SPADE

14-down – Etching: ‘In Bed over Sunday in Georgian Capital’ : INSCRIBING

16-down – Hull put under fire : SHELL

19-down – Observer upset about crack supplies again : REEQUIPS

21-down – Love mixing with a bad lot? Just what the cruise company wants! : BOATLOAD

23-down – Hat,one switched between parents : PANAMA

24-down – Holiday spot needing to make new arrangements : RESORT

26-down – Dance and cry loudly to audience : BALL

28-down – A sticky sweet? : ROCK

29-down – Water etc with this added would create a scandal : GATE

1-across – This may be an advantage when one is in court : GAMEPOINT

6-across – Into mug,start to spit part of tooth : CUSP

8-across – Churchman’s ticket home to Alabama : CARDINAL

9-across – Gatherings of heartless adults : GROUPS

10-across – Left in high temperature,hot toast : HEALTH

11-across – Supposedly popular assumption : INTHEORY

12-across – Dick parking in Italian city : TURPIN

15-across – Stride along and dare to jump about like a bloodhound : LOPEARED

16-across – Enormous wife going on one leg : WHOPPING

19-across – Excellent from end of tail to head : TIPTOP

21-across – Aircraft finally cancelled,chap sounding mournful : PLANGENT

22-across – Religiously set aside as hard to let : HALLOW

24-across – Follower of Churchill emerges from battle,exhausted : ATTLEE

25-across – Holy book,short,was liable to be made longer : EXTENDED

26-across – Old city that attracted ten years of investment : TROY

27-across – Vegetarian period of Cleopatra’s youth : SALADDAYS

1-down – The opposite of a long after-dinner speech? : GRACE

2-down – Part of vehicle showing dirt – panic! : MUDFLAP

3-down – Puppet hit the drink : PUNCH

4-down – I shall twice hide whiskey,out of spite : ILLWILL

5-down – Difficulty getting undergarment to reach stomach : TIGHTSPOT

6-down – Infectious disease? Arrest her,is the call : CHOLERA

7-down – Batman say may be out of our sphere : SUPERHERO

13-down – Pad raised armrest? : UPHOLSTER

14-down – Top-ranked tennis player,small and quiet : NOISELESS

17-down – Ref’s decision may be fine : PENALTY

18-down – Understand our team will recover : GETWELL

20-down – On plate,toyed with mush : POLENTA

22-down – Felt revulsion for wrong order for death : HATED

23-down – Premonitions women silently suppress : OMENS