Daily Answers

9-across – Religious books disturbing papacy or capturing hearts? : APOCRYPHA

10-across – Like second scene of rebel fighting : ALAMO

11-across – Expand home — farm’s leader departed : INFLATE

12-across – Take back farm, ultimately, after public land for play: left to help, briefly : RECLAIM

13-across – Lack of expression of joy for animal rescuer? : NOAH

14-across – Like a fanatical admirer’s writing, ie Snowball after revolution : BOSWELLIAN

16-across – With great energy — same as cow with BSE? : LIKEMAD

17-across – Meeting against diplomacy : CONTACT

19-across – Horse not appearing, note, in just the main course? : NONSTARTER

22-across – Beastly snapper caught fabulous bird : CROC

24-across – Pig accommodating uproar by end of Animal Farm : HOLDING

25-across – Strain after redistribution by a Russian leader : TSARINA

26-across – More than one fell close to Boxer during lows : MOORS

27-across – Squealer moving good one that might catch opponent out : SQUARELEG

1-down – Land strains animal? Then not as free : NATIONALANTHEMS

2-down – Print of Animal Farm novel : HOOFMARK

3-down – Labelling, at the bottom, horse for beef : GROAN

4-down – Falls over without leading male figure : SPHEROID

5-down – Pig with no balls in watering hole argument : BARROW

6-down – Mercury crosses a temperature : HATCHLING

7-down – Find beasts on this Animal Farm so oddly moving : SAFARI

8-down – Rates successor of Marx, say, losing way — extremists in Trotsky attack : COMMUNITYCHARGE

15-down – Most dirty, kinky sex sandwiches topless model : SMUTTIEST

17-down – Horse box admirer : CHESTNUT

18-down – Land to land — all competitors supporting song : AIRFIELD

20-down – Hold Napoleon’s foe : NELSON

21-down – Regret covering George Orwell story, initially with many lines : RUGOSE

23-down – Baby Pinkeye’s second to enter farm building : BAIRN

1-across – See 27 : CAPOTE

4-across – See 23 : IMADAM

9-across – See 24 : MOVE

10-across – Appear to drown two articles, one a water-dweller : SEAANEMONE

11-across – Rock guitarist’s assistant always into R&B : REVERB

12-across – Zero rate surprisingly faster : NONEATER

13-across – Among the pride of lions, problem turning to catch gazelle’s tail for some element : MANGANESE

15-across – Kilimanjaro, from which to see capital city : LIMA

16-across – Fifty pairs of animals here, for a bird : LARK

17-across – Very quick kiss on holiday : BREAKNECK

21-across – Eat more than you during dance : HOOVERUP

22-across – Military leader has the first twelve hours of the week to bring riches : MAMMON

24-across – Upset over comrade with ego, 14 on the death of 27 1? : GOODCAREER

25-across – Responsibility has eluded you just lately, by all conclusions : DUTY

26-across – Book that made me laugh reaching middle of epitaph : LOLITA

27-across – Writer attributing habit to president : TRUMAN

1-down – One successfully putting into Manx cat disease : CHOLERA

2-down – Bit that’s evading the Middle East, it’s reported : PIECE

3-down – Treaty barring nuclear trials puts best explosive in the shade : TESTBAN

5-down – Women of two generations later : MANANA

6-down – Stop people creating hell : DAMNATION

7-down – Leader of Africa also gatecrashing Hindu festival : MANDELA

8-down – Doctor prints it in publication that’s caustic : PAINTSTRIPPER

14-down – Great wit, one coming down coming up in the end : GOREVIDAL

16-down – Bad wiping face having accessed bum — with this tissue? : LOOROLL

18-down – Married, desperately seeking lover : ADMIRER

19-down – Party admitting defeat producing little bit of food : CROUTON

20-down – Some turkey, last of supper gobbled by pig : BREAST

23-down – Introduction to Eve as a palindrome? : MADAM

9-across – Get increase extremely tidily, which is crackers : BATTY

10-across – Taking up last book slightly adapted without opening : ELEVATION

11-across – Chants may be composed by sailor … : YACHTSMAN

12-across – … it’s sweet to hear one give voice : ICING

13-across – Union as holding one in celebrity : LIAISON

15-across – Interpret former mass : EXPOUND

17-across – Instrument involving some abuse? : VIOLA

18-across – The French step over drain : SAP

20-across – Waste from a plate? : OFFAL

22-across – Give new spirit to priest in sheer confusion : REFRESH

25-across – Organise swimmer to reverse aquatic movement : LEETIDE

26-across – Sometimes boys win, girls lose — or it can go the other way : SWING

27-across – Worry a hit might spoil Dreamliner’s quality? : AIRWORTHY

30-across – Away traversing the globe, able to take it all in : ABSORBENT

31-across – Toast drunk once in judge’s garb : STOAT

1-down – Comply with order unknown : OBEY

2-down – Notes detached and cast out by censor : STACCATO

3-down – Bladder and hearts lost in city street : CYST

4-down – Last resort on reaching which former airline improves : BEAMENDS

5-down – A scene suited for necromancy? : SEANCE

6-down – Classic writing makes it personal : LATINPROSE

7-down – Setting maybe at Watford Gap? : MILIEU

8-down – Cosy with raised arms : SNUG

13-down – Endless uprising of one head over heels? : LOVER

14-down – Those who delight in filth, namely TV characters : SCAVENGERS

16-down – It’s sweet to find many in benefit : DOLCE

19-down – Shame about oral outburst going to extremes : POLARITY

21-down – Disagreement about a dash of reality in romance : FRICTION

23-down – Run across single copy lacking substance : FLIMSY

24-down – Audience are captured by this lady : HEARER

26-down – Swindle over burgers? : SCAM

28-down – Seaside not the first to get drier : OAST

29-down – Creature that’s doubtful, nevertheless one can be seen : YETI

1-across – Times outed femme fatale as powerful woman : EMPRESS

5-across – Spellbound, fellows make soft sound : WHIFFLE

10-across – Where to find 12 : STYMIE

11-across – Swelling with pride, putting company first : GANGLION

12-across – Glutton stuffing epigastrium : PIG

13-across – Vicar has drink and becomes more active : REVSUP

14-across – Couple from London Road South, fashionable address for toffs : LORDSHIP

15-across – Idiots appraise contracts : ASSES

16-across – Chewing caramels and beginning to think he’s so clever : SMARTALEC

19-across – County set berserk — berserk! — about contents of this : BERKSHIRE

21-across – Join Gutless Gussie in club : WEDGE

24-across – Disorder in garden as immature pointer takes beast by ear : CLUBROOT

26-across – Like to describe cereal as food for 12 : ACORNS

27-across – Wrongly putting forty-nine before fifty? : ILL

28-across – Offering freedom without hesitation : LIBATION

29-across – Person finds relatives in sewer : BODKIN

30-across – Tobey giggled : TEEHEED

31-across – Chain of florists : GARLAND

2-down – Emsworth resolved to avoid women and female relations : MOTHERS

3-down – Behind state investment in small part of Jersey? : RUMPSTEAK

4-down – Dictator’s rung for location of gulags : STEPPE

6-down – Frosty embraces — and not for nothing : HONORARY

7-down – Logs, or crocodiles? : FILES

8-down – Catty predecessor of Benedict XVI? : LEONINE

9-down – Amassing silver bars, in which African capital’s invested : AGGLOMERATING

17-down – Albert’s cap found next to lion, dead annoyed and sounding stuffed : ADENOIDAL

18-down – PS This follows periodically : CHLORINE

20-down – Want to be topless and slippery : EELLIKE

22-down – Neat gin, skipping tonic : GENTIAN

23-down – Rocky capital of Panama : BALBOA

25-down – Unmarried chap seen round entrance to Eastbourne lido? : BEACH

9-across – Larger number showed up around British resort : MORECAMBE

10-across – Deeply involved with capturing rook in opening : INTRO

11-across – Good brand of oil that’s used by artists : GESSO

12-across – Reach earache, apart from areas carefully selected : RECHERCHE

13-across – Some display intolerance in attack : LAYINTO

14-across – What she or he’s recollected as feature of East coast : THEWASH

17-across – Unusual degree to which some Caribbeans dance : RUMBA

19-across – What’s needed to tango in prime, even : TWO

20-across – Loved one university in backward foreign capital : AMOUR

21-across – Kind of band used in performance, last I conducted : ELASTIC

22-across – In a way that’s not offending one supporter after another : LEGALLY

24-across – Awfully bad clue to one of several pairs of answers here : DOUBLEACT

26-across – Don Juan, say, meeting his end in European city : ROUEN

28-across – Subscription over time for performances by 24 across : DUETS

29-across – Share everything the writer put into book collections : ALLOTMENT

1-down – Portmanteau that, when heavy, hampers driver : SMOG

2-down – Mostly take ferry, say, near northwestern town : CROSBY

3-down – Books manager representing non-U 24 across : ACCOUNTANT

4-down – Rudimentary state of my robe to be altered : EMBRYO

5-down – Part for performer cut — I offer role in tragedy : MERCUTIO

6-down – Sage nonsensically contradicting Kipling? : WISE

7-down – Thus including 24 across composed in style that’s not smooth : STACCATO

8-down – Author of Great Expectations? : HOPE

13-down – Stout or beer, having moved right into centre : LARGE

15-down – Urge to cut rising speed in express, exceeding what’s reasonable : EXAGGERATE

16-down – Robust contemporary of 8 : HARDY

18-down – Worked with ruler, say, that’s deliberately restrained : MEASURED

19-down – So 24 across mangled pieces of music : TOCCATAS

22-down – Short or long title, initially reversed : LITTLE

23-down – Bait on line cast outside a bay : LAUREL

24-down – Extremely conservative type, 24 across : DODO

25-down – Maid cleanses — nothing odd in that : LASS

27-down – Fruits synonymous with bananas : NUTS