Daily Answers

5-across – Player in order, not entirely out of order : DENIRO

6-across – Player — Yorkshire opener : SPACEY

9-across – Reveal odd characters in name while in Britain : UNMASK

10-across – Accumulation of water, a final burst splitting both ways : RAINFALL

11-across – Margaret playing Jack, great player : MEGA

12-across – See 5 down : WASHINGTON

13-across – Player casually getting agency bewildered by riddle : JIMMYCAGNEY

18-across – Other ranks following leadership of Kim in another bonkers nation : NORTHKOREA

21-across – See 11 : STAR

22-across – Similar slowing in spring, reversed : PARALLEL

23-across – Cockney Asian’s sound formal wear? : BOWTIE

24-across – Figure in our hearts losing nothing after time : TWELVE

25-across – Male briefly wearing jumper, elaborate in style : ROCOCO

1-down – Massage for Asian holidaying in Africa? : ONSAFARI

2-down – East European city where two vessels turned up : KRAKOW

3-down – University using leverage for the revolution : UPRISING

4-down – Wintry weather damaging ego, if cold : ICEFOG

5-down – Player with a dozen legs, nineteen extremely ridiculous! : DENZEL

7-down – Express suffering a shade : YELLOW

8-down – Garbo? Somewhere in the theatre : DRESSCIRCLE

14-down – Mate, Brando? : MAKELOVE

15-down – Player bearing ash, perhaps? : EASTWOOD

16-down – Player with paintings of the ladies, possibly? : BOGART

17-down – Player walkin’ round : PACINO

19-down – Go first in test before scorer : TRAVEL

20-down – A hero netting billions for England : ALBION

1-across – Youthful revolutionary song : THEWHEELS

6-across – Doing no more than … : UPTO

8-across – … man on road eating dry bread : CHAPATTI

9-across – Right to ignore bosses — they’re not with us : FOEMEN

10-across – Commonly told to look up prophet : ISAIAH

11-across – See 1 : ONTHEBUS

12-across – Old police force’s making arrest : STASIS

15-across – Hull extension is only unfinished building — painters use it : EMULSION

16-across – Meet barflies at Saracen’s Head — drinks are on us : BEERMATS

19-across – Straight home on call : HONEST

21-across – Angry report on Dirty Duck? : WILDFOWL

22-across – Ending with half a point — Europe’s first : DEMISE

24-across – Untouchable turned on eastern ascetic : ESSENE

25-across – The cuts not initially working — we’ve heard it lots of times : CHESTNUT

26-across – Time off from work demands : ASKS

27-across – In past, cost changed following day : ACTSOFGOD

1-down – Endlessly thrash wild Himalayan creatures : TAHRS

2-down – At last the politicians accept obligation to dead soldiers : EMPTIES

3-down – Sit on that chair to eat : HATCH

4-down – War and Peace? Not about to provide brief summary : EPITOME

5-down – Shift focus to halfwit — extremely easy pickings : SOFTTOUCH

6-down – Rubbish advice on economy : USELESS

7-down – Result! Mourinho’s front two running riot — United kept looking nervous : TREMULOUS

13-down – I must — she’s around! : THEMISSUS

14-down – What high-fliers do with Alexander in a long-running programme : SOAPOPERA

17-down – Put right clothes on beforehand : REDRESS

18-down – Note allowed in law court : SOLICIT

20-down – Proof of identity sentry looking over : NAMETAG

22-down – Passes to Maradona : DIEGO

23-down – Fit, well and abroad : SOUND

9-across – Main source of inspiration in cook : CHIEF

10-across – Combined to make notes about it : COMPOSITE

11-across – Fashion criticised, toned down : MODERATED

12-across – Bottled spirit : GENIE

13-across – The South African flag : FREESIA

15-across – Laundry bay? : THEWASH

17-across – Vicar has no head for crime : ARSON

18-across – Fingerprint expert? : DAB

20-across – Putin may produce new data : INPUT

22-across – Uniform — and its wearer? : REGULAR

25-across – Eccentric, strange dance : ODDBALL

26-across – Add six, six and five hundred, being very bright : VIVID

27-across – Review what warehousemen shouldn’t do : TAKESTOCK

30-across – Not the main course : TRIBUTARY

31-across – The latest thing in ties? : FINAL

1-down – The lowest sort of people but always found at the top : SCUM

2-down – Musicians involved in a racket? : FIDDLERS

3-down – A service rise that makes one well off : AFAR

4-down – Part of the UK wanting tax to come down : SCOTLAND

5-down – It’s mad to become involved in the thick of things : AMIDST

6-down – Language bound to make one too shy to speak : TONGUETIED

7-down – Girl turns up after six — capital! : VIENNA

8-down – Sounds a good player — give up! : CEDE

13-down – Talent shown by a number in entertainment : FLAIR

14-down – Chose to give voice and escorted from the scene : SINGLEDOUT

16-down – Stay there! : HOTEL

19-down – Put up with a girl in New York City : BROOKLYN

21-down – Military units also included in projects : PLATOONS

23-down – Given a wrong order, admitted defeat : GAVEIN

24-down – Cane and thrash an early leaver first : RATTAN

26-down – Block vote? : VETO

28-down – Riddle involves Kipling poem, in a way : SIFT

29-down – Dispatch bag? : KILL

1-across – It’s round 17 : CIRCULAR

5-across – King interrupts subject to give some latitude : TROPIC

9-across – Diviner love cherished by men dancing with grace : GEOMANCER

11-across – Kid with special trick taking one in : SCION

12-across – Investment in capital? Add in scavenging for riches here : ALADDINSCAVE

15-across – Writer’s love movie : OVID

16-across – Pound forged after Poles provided assistance for coppers : SNIFFERDOG

18-across – They seize someone’s genetic material to implant in swimmers once : KIDNAPPERS

19-across – Country where Picaroon tried to get elected : IRAN

21-across – One taking cap off batsman following balls : BOTTLEOPENER

24-across – Curl shot by goalposts for rugby pitch : LURCH

25-across – Excite one female — pick extremely racy clothing : ELECTRIFY

26-across – French girl, back from Normandy, almost given the once-over : YVETTE

27-across – Way of playing with pets round — and another pet round : STACCATO

1-down – Overheard two thirds of security service is guarded : CAGY

2-down – Accommodation’s low rent initially raised : ROOM

3-down – American president takes line that’s practical : USABLE

4-down – High percent, on acid, likely to have a bad trip : ACCIDENTPRONE

6-down – Touching a celibate woman, one who’ll fight back : RESISTER

7-down – Royal couple’s courts : PHILANDERS

8-down – Member of coalition getting near to forming a coalition? : CONVERGING

10-down – Bridle because setter provides stress : REINFORCEMENT

13-down – A poster plugging weak musical style : ROCKABILLY

14-down – Property of fruit topped with pastry — go wrong with turnover : PIEDATERRE

17-down – Newspaper’s erotic advertising : MAILSHOT

20-down – Muscle spasm produces acid sort : PECTIC

22-down – In China, millions wanting return for capital : LIMA

23-down – Mistake, the 15th kind from reporter : TYPO

1-across – Calm, swallowing drink : ALLDAY

5-across – Quiet parking places supplied with old magazines : PLAYBOYS

9-across – Make every effort in one area to separate two others that may 26 : BUSTAGUT

10-across – Without a smile, sacrificing daughter for husband regularly : HOURLY

11-across – Spare item is short : THIN

12-across – To interrupt collapse, a minute’s thought : RUMINATION

13-across – Sounds like a son of Israel’s an artist : RUBENS

14-across – Good manners in trial scene? Yes, sort of : COURTESY

16-across – I start to cry and implore piteously : COMPILER

19-across – Great man, one out and about the bank : GATSBY

21-across – Flyer: Dog left on unstable slope : SCREECHOWL

23-across – Bring up — this? : REAR

24-across – No tailback in city : TUCSON

25-across – An organisation starts to make intelligent criticism of body’s structure : ANATOMIC

26-across – Man with hesitation abandoning British project : STANDOUT

27-across – Fasten number on back of vest : TETHER

2-down – Contemptuously dismiss our flu, caught too badly : LAUGHOUTOFCOURT

3-down – Attendee not originally disturbed in accommodation : DETENTE

4-down – Empty young, good bar that’s filled with sulphur and ash : YGGDRASIL

5-down – River to computer is a different one : POTOMAC

6-down – Has lost on points, looking shocked : ASHEN

7-down – Singer wants lute to play in piece : BLUETIT

8-down – A number wanting mustard on sandwich : YELLOWSUBMARINE

15-down – Showing no 14, soldier holds up gun shooting everyone : UNGALLANT

17-down – Hurry along to get TV working? : PRESSON

18-down – Olympic diplomacy avoiding this being read? : RIOTACT

20-down – Rise from bed to dismiss assembly : TURNOUT

22-down – Such a positive attitude the makings of a small company? : CANDO