Daily Answers

9-across – Strength of princess sadly no longer in control : HARDINESS

10-across – Make up for lunch now? : ATONE

11-across – Most miserly member in hiding place : NEAREST

12-across – They can’t stop this person being overwhelmed by loud noises : ROAMERS

13-across – Habit of admirer putting soldiers off : SUIT

14-across – Material obtained by dog not dry inside — one using straw? : SEERSUCKER

15-across – Bat was first to get dug out : WINKLED

17-across – Fail to notice this writer’s communication : MISSIVE

19-across – Charge cent — mind, it gets worse : INDICTMENT

22-across – Sweet nature masks this one liable to erupt : ETNA

23-across – Colleague’s role facing loveless persecutor : PARTNER

24-across – Tribe full of anger in building by house? : GARAGED

26-across – Controls only half restored : REINS

27-across – Innocent person swallowing drug — wet person being stupid : LAMEBRAIN

1-down – Game when precise hiss can be tricky? : CHINESEWHISPERS

2-down – European bird from a large land mass making itself heard : CROATIAN

3-down – Sneer makes you stop short, last thing Pasquale wants : JIBE

4-down – Wally has to take food that’s hard dunked in drink : MEATHEAD

5-down – Money handler certain to go into the city : USURER

6-down – West Indian tries to deceive mother and blokes : MAMAGUYS

7-down – Decisive blow with a bit of a strike for money : KOPECK

8-down – Plant screens lie in various positions, concealing antelope : LESSERCELANDINE

16-down – See Urquhart Castle here and see church on headland : LOCHNESS

17-down – No good going between two little women in system requiring one only! : MONOGAMY

18-down – Like form of calculus working out triangle : INTEGRAL

20-down – Scientist given challenge, shortly meeting with success : DARWIN

21-down – Rock that upsets first half of country walk? : MARBLE

25-down – Game using stone : RUBY

9-across – Land of the living : GLEBE

10-across – Manufacture of vital cure brings in profits : LUCRATIVE

11-across – Thrown into a suit case : SITUATION

12-across – Dams found between Kirkcaldy and Keswick : DYKES

13-across – Move to continue playing football, or concede defeat : THROWIN

15-across – Thick soup — food to the German : CHOWDER

17-across – Ascended a small hill to the north : RISEN

18-across – Wood used in model-making : ELM

20-across – Check the advance of a sick man’s comeback : REPEL

22-across – Abandoned, many felt irritated : DITCHED

25-across – Retribution seems in order : NEMESIS

26-across – They store honey, rash though it may be : HIVES

27-across – Looking shabby, he meant to reform : MOTHEATEN

30-across – Article about doctor and prophet backing a small group : THREESOME

31-across – Cut and serve out : SEVER

1-down – Agrees about being dropped as one grows older : AGES

2-down – Achievement sure to be written about in news­papers : FEATURES

3-down – Big game shot : MEGA

4-down – Union gets a nice settlement after all : ALLIANCE

5-down – Such a railway may make a fair profit : SCENIC

6-down – Beat record : CARDIOGRAM

7-down – Gave tongue, though subdued : LICKED

8-down – City in northern France producing optical equipment : LENS

13-down – Sorely tried and weary : TIRED

14-down – Gunnery school? : WINCHESTER

16-down – Decides officially and draws the line : RULES

19-down – Plucky airman of a bygone age? : MINSTREL

21-down – Definite sign of an increase : POSITIVE

23-down – A number tucked into bird in the inn : TAVERN

24-down – Mother and child in a jam? : DAMSON

26-down – Loathe articles in disorder : HATE

28-down – Yet it is difficult for busy people to take it : EASY

29-down – The average Pole or Frenchman? : NORM

1-across – Dog runs on tips of toes : POINTER

5-across – Liable to pay in court, as record includes arrest : FINABLE

9-across – Allowed to be executed? That’s terrible : AWFUL

10-across – High culture: dandies take selections with no pressure : BEAUXARTS

11-across – Stoke thoughts of egg layer’s faulty chromosome : GRAYSELEGY

12-across – One month and another back in US base : GUAM

14-across – A rat race? : HALFMARATHON

18-across – It is hard to defend profit — at least most of it is wrong : MARGINALSEAT

21-across – Abroad and old means ruin : UNDO

22-across – Peace of mind, as little girl avoids serious medical condition : HEARTSEASE

25-across – Put on performance of carols to be heard at Covent Garden? : DONCARLOS

26-across – I hold teaching qualification — fix? : IMBED

27-across – Re: woman I found in drink : RHENIUM

28-across – Water being this universal, keeping head above it? : SOLVENT

1-down – Painful feelings about heading for road accidents : PRANGS

2-down – Carrying a Colt and dope to gangster : INFOAL

3-down – Foreign claimant is charming? : TALISMANIC

4-down – As non-conformist, show shock when made to accept bishop : REBEL

5-down – Something pour le weekend in this? : FRANGLAIS

6-down – Following 10 into trap : NEXT

7-down – It’s painful in non-upholstered carriage : BAROUCHE

8-down – In leisure time, people right to cross land : EASEMENT

13-down – Want allies mobilised for constituency election here : EATANSWILL

15-down – Fall badly, clutching broken leg with hesitation — it provides locomotion : FLAGELLUM

16-down – Almost burn top of strawberry crumble : SMOULDER

17-down – Care for girl, largely one strait-laced? : PRUDENCE

19-down – Doll that is subjected to cruel remark : BARBIE

20-down – Back in treatment, I’d degenerated, do you see? : GEDDIT

23-down – Girl’s getting wines, flowers and chocolates : ROSES

24-down – Country church abolished out of spite : MALI

1-across – Cuts into two parts, taking half a second : BISECTS

5-across – Bear right to enter London thoroughfare : STRAND

9-across – Very angry with dividing pupils by ability — it’s not right : STEAMING

10-across – Not always brief : PROTEM

12-across – Insured vehicle went west : COVEREDWAGON

15-across – Nose to nose, perhaps, and alert : ONONESTOES

17-across – Born French in the Pyrenees : NEE

19-across – I’m after a letter written by Kipling, initially : KIM

20-across – Supported, nevertheless, with locks : BUTTRESSED

22-across – PM gets down for a siesta, say : AFTERNOONNAP

26-across – Still rings back, nevertheless : EVENSO

27-across – Take care — if it changes, it’s a trick : ARTIFICE

28-across – Burlesque star that is ill-disposed : SATIRE

29-across – Rough sea, upsetting Sue, quietly abates : EASESUP

1-down – Found unworthy of honour : BASE

2-down – Outhouse made redundant : SHED

3-down – Produced original work that’s collected : COMPOSED

4-down – Sign sick note for char : SINGE

6-down – How wrestler’s brought down may be possibly worth a point : THROWN

7-down – Not against making an enemy : ANTAGONIST

8-down – Notable decrease in volume : DIMINUENDO

11-down – Concerning tape being played — it’s been on before : REPEAT

13-down – They hope to gain from their betters : BOOKMAKERS

14-down – Promise loyalty : COMMITMENT

16-down – German number holds out in action : TEUTON

18-down – The art of the man at the wheel : CERAMICS

21-down – One is often led to use it by mistake : ERASER

23-down – It conveys a sense of courage : NERVE

24-down – They may part with a smile : LIPS

25-down – Hold the fort : KEEP

1-across – Teach girl cooking, with little response : LETHARGIC

6-across – Aspect of Spain no fiction’s written about : FACET

9-across – Enthusiastic, by Colman’s standard? : ASKEENASMUSTARD

10-across – Nurse is mean, though not at home : TEND

11-across – Judge again accepts servicemen’s official record : REGISTRY

14-across – Disadvantaged lions suffering painful affliction : LOSINGOUT

15-across – Mature guards about to reach the same conclusion : AGREE

16-across – Section of scenic headland appealing to small group : NICHE

18-across – Person troubling troops trapped between rocky heights : TORMENTOR

20-across – Wide brooks bordering South Downs : SWALLOWS

21-across – Leader sacked in current breach : RIFT

25-across – Indian descent possibly of little consequence : ADROPINTHEOCEAN

26-across – Queen eats fish — it could be getting her down : EIDER

27-across – Article on name in financial centre’s rejected as inauthentic : SYNTHETIC

1-down – Extremely likeable worker tipped : LEANT

2-down – Collection cheers Cambridge college : TAKINGS

3-down – Top primate given cross : APEX

4-down – Something provoking adult in Rover’s Return? : GOAD

5-down – Critique’s evasive about male intellectual changing sides : COMMENTARY

6-down – Smitten rook dropped in far distance, fluttering : FASCINATED

7-down – Ship that could prevent schooner making its mark? : COASTER

8-down – Derby date produced a favourite among three-year-olds : TEDDYBEAR

12-down – Invader mounted soldiers cut off in Bury : INTERLOPER

13-down – Brief respite as kick finally breaks long run of victories : FORTYWINKS

14-down – Constable, eg, delivers father held up in church : LANDSCAPE

17-down – Cleaned house superficially affected by fire : CHARRED

19-down – Audible attempt to reduce effectiveness of missile : TRIDENT

22-down – Stimulant at bottom of scale? : TONIC

23-down – Unconvincing philosophy with no place for king : THIN

24-down – Up-market shop trashed : POSH