Daily Answers

9-across – Get together where students are extremely friendly : UNIFY

10-across – Potted meat European found among nettles : RILLETTES

11-across – Coat may be problem for 18 : DISTEMPER

12-across – Source of milk shake judge ignored : UDDER

13-across – Country houses taking last bit of water in river : GRANGES

15-across – Wolves, say, with small herbivore in café : TEAROOM

17-across – Old king has left on lights etc : OFFAL

18-across – Cilla Black’s little dog : LAB

20-across – Northerners having one night in Quebec? : INUIT

22-across – Like a dandy producing fine work? Fiddlesticks! : FOPPISH

25-across – Kennedy, say, involved in treason : SENATOR

26-across – Dance with cast : FLING

27-across – Head teacher ignoring first piece of cake : NOBRAINER

30-across – Being looked at, I wept out loud : EYEBALLED

31-across – 17 not seen as item in programme : EVENT

1-down – Pay for enjoyable day : FUND

2-down – Official list supported by employees : TIPSTAFF

3-down – Use keys in class : TYPE

4-down – Part of aircraft also involved in motion : PROPOSAL

5-down – Worry about old-fashioned look? That’s a bit of a bloomer : FLORET

6-down – Guesswork not beginning to reveal criminal activity : PECULATION

7-down – Boss gets satellite broadcasting location : STUDIO

8-down – Addict trousering sandwiches : USER

13-down – Stop loving and fall asleep : GOOFF

14-down – Cotton skirts laid up somewhere in Kent : GILLINGHAM

16-down – Old lady having half-hearted affair : MATER

19-down – Butter in trunk found by policeman : BUSYBODY

21-down – Posh one leaves fiancée unhusbanded : UNTENDED

23-down – Presenter’s first broadcast in braces? : PAIRED

24-down – Name that’s on the door? : HANDLE

26-down – Iron Duke finally at wit’s end — what’s in his boots? : FEET

28-down – God worries about being ignored : ARES

29-down – Judge may be going : RATE

4-across – Share prayer, wanting nothing : RATION

6-across – Endless wine Shed’s knocked back with officiant : MINISTER

9-across – Close bank experiencing setback in US city : NEARBY

10-across – Getting shot of free fling : RIDDANCE

11-across – Character in Hamlet attended wild parties, bumping into popular performer? : GRAVEDIGGER

15-across – Designer of hobbit, elf or dwarf? : TELFORD

17-across – It’s not the whole story, but recipe’s included : EXCERPT

18-across – Monk’s live number accommodating rule : BENEDICTINE

22-across – Oil the wheels with S&M … and bondage? : HELOTISM

23-across – River drowning one Roman governor : PILATE

24-across – Instrument-maker’s to stop drinking wine when drunk : STEINWAY

25-across – Yearn to introduce soldiers to Mum or Dad : PARENT

1-down – Girl holding up computer manufacturer’s re-animated remains : ZOMBIE

2-down – Plunging top to toe into metal 1s : LIVINGDEAD

3-down – Like ancient poet’s photo capturing faulty drain : PINDARIC

4-down – Vagabond to smuggle mineral : RUNAGATE

5-down – Turtle’s head fit for consumption — on this? : TEATABLE

7-down – Plenty of mucus around : TONS

8-down – Smell smoke : REEK

12-down – 1’s interrupting one Asian or another : INDONESIAN

13-down – Old exclamation about … about falling water … or how to get rid of it? : DRAINAGE

14-down – Most overpriced fly mostly securing piss-up : STEEPEST

16-down – Revolutionary or mordant? : ORBITING

19-down – High point? No more than 151 : CLIMAX

20-down – Letters from louse unopened : PHIS

21-down – Down and dirty : BLUE

1-across – Charity match given eminence in Scotland with electronic picture : BENEFIT

5-across – Talk with companion, trendy type trying to be funny : CHINWAG

9-across – Mum eats good bit of crust : MAGMA

10-across – Indicate a place, as you might say, for yellow mineral : MARCASITE

11-across – Islands with eg seaside objects, we hear : SEYCHELLES

12-across – Study occupied by a faculty boss : DEAN

14-across – Copying CIA, Interpol will go wrong : REPLICATION

18-across – Greek containers for moving zoo stock? : HIPPOCRATES

21-across – Field loses eastern edge, becoming concrete : REAL

22-across – One twitching after securing bargain is expecting too much? : IDEALISTIC

25-across – Taking home too little pay as the result of obvious cut : OVERTAXED

26-across – Claim of someone looking happy with building structure : IBEAM

27-across – Beginning of term is desperate for those picked on by big bullies? : TITCHES

28-across – One lot of soldiers and another wanting soldier in old system of government : REGIMEN

1-down – Puzzle that’s upset tot in spelling competition : BEMUSE

2-down – No adult wants to travel inside Japanese city : NAGOYA

3-down – Fashion accessory that’s sorted out before a hat : FEATHERBOA

4-down – Male protected by dog or tiger? : TAMIL

5-down – Worry at first about one wanting to get on : CAREERIST

6-down – Prominent Muslim maiden coming in an hour after midnight : IMAM

7-down – Unimportant misdemeanour? We’ll protect one who is successful priest : WHITELIE

8-down – Apple trees may be introduced on account of this policy : GREENING

13-down – Travelled as a ship — into Bethlehem, as claimed in this activity! : WASSAILING

15-down – Nothing wrong in displays — things just seeming to be wrong? : PARADOXES

16-down – Authors bothered about bookstore’s ultimate allocation of cash? : SHAREOUT

17-down – A relation should keep quiet, that’s obvious : APPARENT

19-down – Master disciplined a group of pupils : STREAM

20-down – Skill shown by copper getting in the last word : ACUMEN

23-down – Civic dignitary would plant this tree on isle : ALDER

24-down – State bust, cash cuts being regularly made : UTAH

1-across – Heave sledge carrying bags : LUGGAGE

5-across – Refuse to massage out of work clergyman : RUBBISH

10-across – A tiny bit left in jar : JOLT

11-across – Water bear is slow to hear order : TARDIGRADE

12-across – Drink exotic pop in Arabian city : ALEPPO

13-across – Anne modelled with a lot of babies : NEONATAL

14-across – Do a jig in new building next door : ADJOINING

16-across – It emerges after Charlie turned over shells : COMMA

17-across – Run out of paper to light fire : SPILL

19-across – Turn detective — many removed from gambling game : PIROUETTE

23-across – Expecting Parliament’s first ruling : PREGNANT

24-across – Rhyme popper with propper? : WEASEL

26-across – This material absorbs bandleader and court trainee : COTTONWOOL

27-across – Upright appearance of Mrs Grundy? : PRIG

28-across – A very little insect trapped in tin : SMIDGEN

29-across – Each season is embodied in songbook : PSALTER

2-down – Squeaky clean son departs : UNOILED

3-down – Standing order for dress : GETUP

4-down – Duck or swallow? : GETDOWN

6-down – Concert outside society wedding : UNISON

7-down – It’s sung by woman in the altogether : BARCAROLE

8-down – Cut identity card with letter opener or sword? : SIDEARM

9-down – Delivery for sister — summons to give up third letter : PRONUNCIATION

15-down – Forced to deal big blow : OBLIGATED

18-down – Execute salesman returning with document : PERFORM

20-down – See 21 : OFWALES

21-down – Plaintive animal sounds heard in area of common comparison : THESIZE

22-down – Snack with small bodybuilder, once : SARNIE

25-down – Call to eject England produces outrage : APPAL

1-across – With one drink entering exams in wickedness that’s passed on : ORIGINALSIN

9-across – Top familiar arrangement of surface letters? No! : AIRMAIL

10-across – Bridgetown has crazy paving stones with steps somehow missing : AVIGNON

11-across – Saint ousts leader for greed and lack of intelligence : STUPIDITY

12-across – Disdain for 20 at last changing direction : SCORN

13-across – Australians implicated in the return of consumerism : EMUS

14-across – He is to begin proceedings, say, after idiot found on line : CLOTHESPEG

16-across – The other place might be cool : PHLEGMATIC

19-across – I forgot to mention at the start, so try and pay attention! : PSST

20-across – Heartless Harry’s knocked back wine : SYRAH

21-across – Heard F here in 10, half decent and streamlined : EFFICIENT

23-across – Dodgy dealer accepts milestone : EMERALD

24-across – To add insult to injury, take part in destruction : RUBITIN

25-across – Sides with Marxist leader below ground — shows guts : DISEMBOWELS

1-down – Guardian’s letter from Europe outwardly left Freudian slip — that’s novel : OURMUTUALFRIEND

2-down – Arab republicans have quite intelligent leaders : IRAQI

3-down – Compiler shall bequeath malevolence : ILLWILL

4-down – Rain falls? Yes, it regularly makes us shrink : ANALYST

5-down – Unorthodox priest admits two partners and one who hasn’t a partner : SPINSTER

6-down – Perhaps major politician with large troops — it’s bad and mad : NONCOMPOSMENTIS

7-down – Travel document for Paris? Assez, les bêtises! : LAISSEZPASSER

8-down – Snog : ONENIGHTSTAND

15-down – Clever ones get E’s : EGGHEADS

17-down – What’s to be done with another order of magnitude, when it’s gone : AGENDUM

18-down – Conclude with rejection of the afterlife, perhaps : INFERNO

22-down – Message for the business secretary? : CABLE