Daily Answers

8-across – Rate it in green : CELERITY

9-across – See 3 : OFSALT

10-across – Modern and successful city hotel : HITECH

11-across – Start to act strangely once seen : SCENEONE

12-across – Long live the test! : VIVA

13-across – Aunt is prim as a result of this : PURITANISM

15-across – Artist picked up according to girl : CEZANNE

16-across – Wine served in cabarets in Amsterdam : RETSINA

18-across – A toast and thunderous applause starts after Schubert composition : BRUSCHETTA

19-across – Having polished off dregs, drunk daughter’s in a state : UTAH

20-across – Shiny animated design : DIAMANTE

22-across – One by one, outspoken junior medical staff put in prison : INTERN

23-across – _c^o_u^r_s^e : SLALOM

24-across – Birds fight and have arguments : SPARROWS

1-down – The real McCoy : DEFINITEARTICLE

2-down – All nations enlarge : GENERALASSEMBLY

3-down – Lightly seasoned : WITHAPINCH

4-down – Caesar declared this second blot on the landscape : EYESORE

5-down – Warning call from Christian, perhaps? : FORE

6-down – Most enthusiastic, like Spooner’s cheap crème anglaise : ASKEENASMUSTARD

7-down – Arms and a form of arm support make smooth replacement for 24 leaders : SLINGSANDARROWS

14-down – A jerk leading the Catholic Church? : THEVATICAN

17-down – I don’t believe articles first present in robbery : ATHEIST

21-down – See 5 : NAME

9-across – The first prize, it’s mad : IRATE

10-across – Chocolate bar shortened by company sweet discoverer : MARCOPOLO

11-across – Veruca Salt’s second to upset one discharging : EVACUATOR

12-across – Sweet chap’s beginning to hand out bags : DOLCE

13-across – Queen to copy her speech rejected draft : PREPARE

15-across – Bullfighters ruptured, got up, finishing early : TOREROS

17-across – Film on Charlie’s prized possession : ASSET

18-across – So chapter is over : SIC

20-across – Animal in river? : HIPPO

22-across – Fudge leads to young Augustus Gloop saying sorry : APOLOGY

25-across – Mostly with Charlie in European city : ANTWERP

26-across – Got it in mouth back to front! : BINGO

27-across – Those that follow notice chosen child in playground yard : POSTERITY

30-across – Doctor’s transport contracts head for delay : TARDINESS

31-across – Bar and Mike Teavee’s wrapper go around 11? : BREAK

1-down – See 31 : TIME

2-down – First person to be professional driver, after car sweets : CARAMELS

3-down – Second half of some freak’s short list : MENU

4-down – Conceals kinky sex with rest : SMOTHERS

5-down – Doctor right about fungal disease : DRYROT

6-down – Essentially, it’s not about odd man — Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s musical song : TOODARNHOT

7-down – Rewriting Roald Dahl’s final piece for money : DOLLAR

8-down – Spoiled Violet Beauregarde’s hollow sign of affection : LOVE

13-down – Place a 10-point tile on a square : PLAZA

14-down – Like great food, no starter’s great : ASTRONOMIC

16-down – So work interrupted by Charlie Bucket : SCOOP

19-down – Most blue, Charlie’s in bed : COARSEST

21-down – Quiet about sex, if turning up as Mr and Mrs? : PREFIXES

23-down – They hold winner, hiding in large packaging : OWNERS

24-down – Endlessly spoke Willy Wonka’s last parts, actor recalled : YAPPED

26-down – See 8 : BITE

28-down – English books section declines : EBBS

29-down – Peasant’s left out of frame featuring Buckets? : YOKE

1-across – I should note friend with a perfect manner : IDEALLY

5-across – Gets messing about in boats : OBTAINS

10-across – Bird able to speak, surprising many : MYNA

11-across – Studies hijacking plot : CONSPIRACY

12-across – An opinion to contradict loudly : BELIEF

13-across – No longer minded being drawn out? : EXTENDED

14-across – A hole in one, perhaps, for mariner’s dependant : ALBATROSS

16-across – Stop up for the end of play : CLOSE

17-across – In short, a form of school punishment : IMPOT

19-across – It’s not acceptable to make money on a game : BADMINTON

23-across – Taken for granted : ADMITTED

24-across – Such a cleaning brush will be barely used : LOOFAH

26-across – Their members were bound to work under strict supervision : CHAINGANGS

27-across – Pedestrian walkway? : GAIT

28-across – Alarming decay in toxic substance : CYANIDE

29-across – Door of opportunity? : OPENING

2-down – Healthy accommodation for a prisoner charged with battery : DRYCELL

3-down – Hand-operated computers : ABACI

4-down – Devil of a match! : LUCIFER

6-down – Rarely taken walk : BYPATH

7-down – It’s released when one is agitated and in real trouble : ADRENALIN

8-down – The heart of the matter is that uncle is out to get us : NUCLEUS

9-down – Getting compassionate : UNDERSTANDING

15-down – End of the act? : ABOLITION

18-down – Openly took advantage of the sunshine? : MADEHAY

20-down – Inadequate man produces a lower output at work : MILKSOP

21-down – Eggs turn into cheers : OVATION

22-down – Put on weight, looked older : STAGED

25-down – Musical journal? : ORGAN

9-across – After theological study, fidgety pope was first to get settled again : REPEOPLED

10-across – Republican Party keeps playing some classical music : RONDO

11-across – Tritest Brahms and Liszt passages from fugues : STRETTI

12-across – Relief from outspoken fool : SUCCOUR

13-across – Promise made by Liberal, one that could be false? : IDOL

14-across – Heading for Egyptian resort, bore acquires eastern footwear : ESPADRILLE

16-across – Disheartened topless siren ordered implants : INSERTS

17-across – Person regularly sulks about hotel — is it Sibyl? : PROPHET

19-across – Sliding discipline is besetting church racing to get rid of rector : ICESKATING

22-across – RIP — a sign of mourning : TEAR

24-across – Clobber soldiers going into shock : APPAREL

25-across – Jazzy piece follows considerably old medley : FARRAGO

26-across – Where footballer may play with ball is not yet settled : OWING

27-across – Noble woman embracing unknown, who won’t linger in bed : EARLYBIRD

1-down – Figure captivated by performing artist — rope tricks are his speciality : PRESTIDIGITATOR

2-down – Debt taken on by football club, not Real : SPURIOUS

3-down – Crazy like … : DOTTY

4-down – … one Greek character constrained by measures : ELLIPSIS

5-down – Port’s excessive consumption close to binge — idiot’s thrown up : ODESSA

6-down – Page comes back with gold for herald : PRECURSOR

7-down – Open out list containing Ban Ki-moon’s name? : UNROLL

8-down – Will they make smut, rude bits, blue gags, even some vile oath that isn’t very nice? : FOURLETTERWORDS

15-down – Activity in the City gets you skint? Then see red! : BROKERAGE

17-down – Head of army in favour of donning long dress : PINAFORE

18-down – In conversation, loftier Greek is suitable for priests : HIERATIC

20-down – Wit from Rabelais, mischievous creature sending up English : ESPRIT

21-down – Ploughman’s lunch for a starter eaten by workman : TILLER

23-down – French vote for elevated, divine female : FREYA

9-across – Sense what’s in the air, small change for US : SCENT

10-across – Recognition there is conflict, in a strange sense : AWARENESS

11-across – Time in a shelter I have put in here, showing a sense of caring : ATTENTIVE

12-across – Eastern state with TV channel for those with sense of adventure? : RISKY

13-across – Excessively ring maiden, in a sense : TOOMUCH

15-across – Poet feeling right about page : SPENSER

17-across – Opening of show in gallery, in a sense : TASTE

18-across – Undermine person with little sense : SAP

20-across – Spiteful after head leaves, experiencing irritating sensation : ITCHY

22-across – In unusual sense, I’m unbeatable opponent : NEMESIS

25-across – Serving American in pub is making sense : LOGICAL

26-across – Some sensing I’ve not donated : GIVEN

27-across – Lack of sense, in an odd sense : INANENESS

30-across – Old steward, with singular sense, left after tea : SENESCHAL

31-across – Dispose of about 1,000, in a sense : SMELL

1-down – A lot of the world leaders in assembly sense it’s awful : ASIA

2-down – What’s reduced hearing, for instance, including damaged otic parts : SECTIONS

3-down – Going the wrong way, having no sense? Surprise : STUN

4-down – Vehicle female’s taken across island is no longer sensible : VANISHES

5-down – Republican claims these people have lost their senses : RAVERS

6-down – Part of PM’s address, in a sense, is good for morale : HEARTENING

7-down – With partners switching, senses points as a result : NESSES

8-down – Sense organ’s sound, for example, producing surprised reaction? : ISAY

13-down – Cut slack, as sensed in hearing, for powerful person : TITAN

14-down – Feeling of anxiety, in a sense, unfortunately dividing setter and solver : UNEASINESS

16-down – Of exceptional size, in one sense : ROYAL

19-down – Friend quietly accomplished what’s evident to one of the senses : PALPABLE

21-down – Bird regarded as lacking sense : COCKEYED

23-down – Affecting people’s sensibilities still? Not so : MOVING

24-down – Insult learner, in a sense : SLIGHT

26-down – Is replacing all within government? That makes basic sense : GIST

28-down – Note a sense in which centre is moderate : EASE

29-down – Concluding thus — to reveal sense, do some work at last? : SOLE