Daily Answers

1-across – Such a liar may be unmasked : BAREFACED

6-across – Nosh found in aisle at supermarket : EATS

8-across – Training facility affected by Wellington? : BOOTCAMP

9-across – Unpleasant atmosphere when one stops grandmother : MIASMA

10-across – One who succeeds, holding iron lower : HEIFER

11-across – Cameron bursting with love? With love! : CONAMORE

12-across – Entertaining party a communist thought the world of : ADORED

15-across – Formal wear preferred at first in chaotic situation : TAILSPIN

16-across – Scare the stuffing out of fencer in a duel? : AFFRIGHT

19-across – Girl’s accompaniment for airs? : GRACES

21-across – Proposal by solicitor to get into bed : PLANTOUT

22-across – Capital is what artist required in Tennessee : TEHRAN

24-across – Tree that’s small, OK? : SALLOW

25-across – Weasel finally made one fancy pop : LEMONADE

26-across – Endlessly examine poker : STUD

27-across – Marilyn to change where change is made : ROYALMINT

1-down – Dickens introduced old English drink : BOOZE

2-down – Tiny creature avoiding northern frontier resort : ROTIFER

3-down – Not unreasonable about line that’s bent : FLAIR

4-down – Unoriginal material to be published about time : COPYCAT

5-down – Pantomime character getting out of the habit? : DEMONKING

6-down – Renaissance man’s calculations are upset : ERASMUS

7-down – Mercutio’s wandering star : TOMCRUISE

13-down – I don’t mess with leaf stripper : DEFOLIANT

14-down – Brute force, for God, was slipping? : DOGSOFWAR

17-down – Standing light went on causing resentment : RANKLED

18-down – Central features of patio doors match perfectly : TOTALLY

20-down – African people heard a song : ASHANTI

22-down – Language expert a millionaire employs : TAMIL

23-down – Inspect a Buddhist in an oddly selective way : AUDIT

1-across – Are you having me on the crag rocks? : GERTCHA

5-across – Not a nomad liked by creditors : SETTLER

9-across – Akin to a judge’s robes, pants? : SOBER

10-across – Capital broadcast sinned against capital’s tendency to empathise with abductors? : STOCKHOLM

11-across – Best rivals to compute creatively on Earth : OUTCOMPETE

12-across – Squid-like, powerless finger : INKY

14-across – Dark sort of tales of a northerner and wrought iron : SCANDINAVIAN

18-across – Compel family to cycle : OLYMPICFLAME

21-across – Vein running through Tiepolo design : LODE

22-across – The thing about politician high fliers is weakness : IMPAIRMENT

25-across – Rotating proton pen champion : PROPONENT

26-across – See 6 : HEART

27-across – Comic entertainer and where he often performed with balls : PIERROT

28-across – Toucan’s migratory natural impulse : CONATUS

1-down – Large sum borne by 14 city with industrial action : GOSLOW

2-down – Right about improvised flexibility of tempo : RUBATO

3-down – It looks just the same as small engine part and performing ape : CARBONCOPY

4-down – A model, upwardly mobile Greek writer : AESOP

5-down – Trails off — without question a mockery of justice : SHOWTRIAL

6-down – Be hopeful Nick is on the organ : TAKE

7-down – Is an only alternative for an old European province : LYONNAIS

8-down – Camera may analyse housing saga of India : RAMAYANA

13-down – County town vehicle to drive home in reverse at that point : CARMARTHEN

15-down – Ten common moves of which I’ll not speak : NOCOMMENT

16-down – One’s into lounge music that’s sticky sweet : LOLLIPOP

17-down – See 10 : SYNDROME

19-down – Carted off to do some editing : REDACT

20-down – Ear inflammation aggravated, so it doubled : OTITIS

23-down – Tricky thing, being contra the speed of light : ANTIC

24-down – See 14 : NOIR

7-across – Time a pint’s poured out — can’t wait : IMPATIENT

8-across – Crooked, like a botanical garden : ASKEW

9-across – Beggar’s apology? : MENDICANT

10-across – Poet in transport service : BURNS

12-across – Keep alien in the wet : RETAIN

13-across – Religious worker holds arduous job : ANCHORET

16-across – Schoolgirl captures rebel : ACADEMY

19-across – Iberian prince angered in revolt : GRANDEE

22-across – Transfer city across Germany : HANDOVER

25-across – Some can go crazy over a drink : COGNAC

27-across – Contamination isn’t common : TAINT

28-across – Tourer man crashed over the line : NUMERATOR

29-across – Fascinate when about to inflict injury : CHARM

30-across – It’s seen to be off : BLUEPETER

1-down – Physicist had been a member before : AMPERE

2-down – Domestic had a mind to cook : HANDMAID

3-down – Acid murderer turned in : NIACIN

4-down – Liar kept one in fruit : ANANIAS

5-down – Pretender takes up work without charges : PSEUDO

6-down – Session can see improvement : SEANCE

11-down – Disfigurement at church is seldom found : SCAR

14-down – Way without a perch : ROD

15-down – Getting to Spain on foot : TOE

16-down – Residue, perhaps, of wood : ASH

17-down – Cut grass? : AWN

18-down – Starts to make off very easily? : MOVE

20-down – Some of M25, now and then? : NOGOAREA

21-down – Distress with time and money abroad : TROUBLE

23-down – A way to unknown lack of care : APATHY

24-down – Numerical structure heard in church office : DENARY

25-down – Smart without a chopper : CLEVER

26-down – Imperfect octave gets the bird : AVOCET

1-across – Composer of 23’s fine and private place, embracing a total reversal : THEAMUSGRAVE

8-across – City governed by thug : RANGOON

9-across – Heads of ulna and tibia extracted from beautiful broken bones : FIBULAE

11-across – Back of Alton Towers changing direction : NORWEST

12-across – Trendy — right-on at heart — yet enduring : CHRONIC

13-across – Last bit of face powder turned to striking effect : ECLAT

14-across – Dull paper about Hitler’s rewritten : MIRTHLESS

16-across – Highly influential, if admitted to part of penultimate round : SEMIFINAL

19-across – Poet finding way round Luxembourg : PLATH

21-across – Family member dropping head case : ELATIVE

23-across – Wonderland minus/plus poet? : MARVELL

24-across – Child, originally gentle, disturbed by lack of attention : NEGLECT

25-across – Shirt — 2 ÷ 1,000? : DASHIKI

26-across – A cur ill-disposed to get into festivity — more so than usual : PARTICULARLY

1-down – Shoot nurse with endless stream : TENDRIL

2-down – Caustic electronic mouse, maybe : ERODENT

3-down – Homunculus’s missile? : MINUTEMAN

4-down – Mystic cheerleader, albeit American, uplifted : SUFIC

5-down – Hour in which ethnic group rises for fresh start : REBIRTH

6-down – Fringe of troubled enclave : VALENCE

7-down – Honest genius ditching one misguided one? : FRANKENSTEIN

10-down – Flower arrangement of Eliza Doolittle’s second to be interrupted by school, twice : ESCHSCHOLZIA

15-down – Hero from Biblical kingdom : ROLEMODEL

17-down – Compiler’s seaweed absorbing compiler’s pain : MYALGIA

18-down – Snow White, say, is quick to suppress anger : FAIREST

19-down – Reader’s country home shortly erected : PERUSER

20-down – Spike Milligan initially standing in vote for something useful : AMENITY

22-down – Bluestocking’s secret weapon : ESTOC

1-across – European Commission about to restrict non-standard dance rhythm : CADENCE

5-across – White copper put black boy in cell without clothes : CUEBALL

10-across – Big British clearing banks seeing problem : IRITIS

11-across – Cockney was required to make uniform of acceptable quality : ADEQUATE

12-across – Oddly withdrawn, bitchy and hostile : ICY

13-across – Duck died, sounding strange : DEARIE

14-across – Alluring, like a Pole? : MAGNETIC

15-across – Not clean or suitable for all to see, lust could be good : USING

16-across – Pink, turning red, on dune : UNDERDONE

19-across – People love to hold back change : MENOPAUSE

21-across – With time to spare, like an aristocrat? : EARLY

24-across – Ban hare coursing, a Cuban speciality : HABANERA

26-across – Traumatised son left owing money : INHOCK

27-across – 0-1 in Holland : NIL

28-across – Women’s groups, ordered to accept married men, refuse : WITHHOLD

29-across – Box of vibrators? : LARYNX

30-across – Bad priests continue to exist : PERSIST

31-across – Vatican report entirely groundless : HOLYSEE

2-down – Smooth head shaved close : AIRLESS

3-down – Have sympathetic understanding for fluid retention : ENTERINTO

4-down – They keep eggs warm, because that’s the point of incubators : COSIES

6-down – Anorak supremely unsuited on floating ice, I’m afraid : UBERGEEK

7-down – Bestial Caesar’s last word? : BRUTE

8-down – Soviet grandmaster returned by way of northern Baltic : LATVIAN

9-down – Tax haven is scandal many put to bad use : CAYMANISLANDS

17-down – Are unsure about blood group ahead of extremely messy treatment : DIATHERMY

18-down – Retreat initially over cutting 75% of benefits for the poor : HAVENOTS

20-down – Starts to express vexation when setter’s vague : EVASIVE

22-down – Sanction excess freedom for poet? : LICENCE

23-down – In the bathtub I’ll yodel anything : BILLYO

25-down – Hard-hearted fit-for-work company, one of a combative trio : ATHOS