Daily Answers

5-across – Vessel goes round island in pleasure trip : CRUISE

6-across – Snooker player who went to a wizard school : POTTER

9-across – Old club well qualified people run : MASHIE

10-across – Dice can’t change your bad luck : ACCIDENT

11-across – Live with a socially acceptable boyfriend : BEAU

12-across – Decisive court action for one seeking a divorce? : TIEBREAKER

13-across – Dog goes after dog, but he won’t fight seriously : SHADOWBOXER

18-across – He’s bound to learn : APPRENTICE

21-across – Spheres in sight : ORBS

22-across – Leave for German lake : FURLOUGH

23-across – Support in reverse : BACKUP

24-across – On horseback, catch the bird : GANNET

25-across – Port is drunk for good health : PROSIT

1-down – Twice give a quiet admonition — it’s confidential : HUSHHUSH

2-down – A trail that leads to the summit : ASCENT

3-down – Company puts out cornet piece for orchestra and soloists : CONCERTO

4-down – A way to mount opera in arenas : STADIA

5-down – Press union members for oratory : CHAPEL

7-down – Athlete or climber : RUNNER

8-down – Sheet anchor : PAPERWEIGHT

14-down – Plates used for eating : DENTURES

15-down – The banning of spirits : EXORCISM

16-down – A trap may be, in two ways : SPRUNG

17-down – Kidnap a sailor on the tube : ABDUCT

19-down – One way of underlining a decision : RULING

20-down – Take it on board — there’s a thousand accepted by eBay : EMBARK

5-across – Cartesian premise making hit unhappily for writer? : ITHINK

6-across – Day to finish with mate : FRIEND

9-across – Ancient king keeping page in island : CYPRUS

10-across – Feet? On conclusion of 5 across you can use transport … : IAMBUSES

11-across – … one of which takes 5 in maintained, wooded grassland : BUSH

12-across – When to eat and rise with Muppet Show : SUPPERTIME

13-across – One wise group indigenous to 5 down 7, perhaps : IMAGINATIVE

18-across – Senior medico with prince and model : CONSULTANT

21-across – See 11 : VELD

22-across – Turn into the wind, in which I can turn back 5 down 7 : FANCIFUL

23-across – Harry to wax enthusiastic about silver : RAVAGE

24-across – Join up to harass most of nestlings : ENLIST

25-across – Bringer of luck for French gentleman at race meeting : MASCOT

1-down – Variety of horsemeat in Sussex : SHOREHAM

2-down – Noises off in aspiration once for 9 : ENOSIS

3-down – Not talking about right to have a meal with percussion : DRUMBEAT

4-down – Take away from French channel : DEDUCT

5-down – Sceptical response is due with any morris dancing : INYOUR

7-down – See 5 : DREAMS

8-down – In stock at pharmacy but not really necessary? : DISPENSABLE

14-down – Prize angle for those whose home is open to the public? : GOLDFISH

15-down – Boy or girl with tailless bird in test … : VIVAVOCE

16-down – … which infuses me with confidence : MORALE

17-down – Stairs in the air : FLIGHT

19-down – Weak king replacing island with island : SICKLY

20-down – Yarn for a little without time and energy : THREAD

1-across – Richard the First enters French royal house where he puts his foot down : CARPET

5-across – Position made for top-liner? : HEADSHIP

9-across – Grief soundly finished by lunch? : MOURNING

10-across – Took steps — stepped in Kent or possibly Dorset : STRODE

11-across – Snack for all golfers? : OPENSANDWICH

13-across – The Queen in Ireland? : ERIN

14-across – Greenies contrived to stimulate : ENERGISE

17-across – New idea lost as disconnected : ISOLATED

18-across – That’s how not to be hidden : SHOW

20-across – Hybrid tongue sounds more open : LINGUAFRANCA

23-across – Turkish ruler formulates a bill, for example : ATABEG

24-across – Beguile with staple of the popular press? : INTRIGUE

25-across – Exclamation of virtue? : GOODNESS

26-across – View love, left wing : PINION

2-down – Morning fine but frenzied : AMOK

3-down – Lepers non-playing in complement? : PERSONNEL

4-down – Convenience of property available to accommodate one : TOILET

5-down – Tall pedestrians built for cross-country running? : HIGHSPEEDTRAINS

6-down – One indicates you’re not all there : ABSENTEE

7-down – Kate gets her training in Devon, perhaps? : SHREW

8-down – Miliband upset in cut vacillation : INDECISION

12-down – Poor cut — it’s possibly sometimes smoked : PROSCIUTTO

15-down – Carrying one into stage version? : GESTATION

16-down – Student involved in unusual murder : STRANGLE

19-down – How soldiers march on foot? : INSTEP

21-down – Scoffed at soldiers’ plot : GIBED

22-down – Victor gets embrace with love : HUGO

9-across – Finish off a secret society in these courts : ATRIA

10-across – Nun oddly including it with song of religious group : UNITARIAN

11-across – Boy cut by crazy inmate given protection, in a way : LAMINATED

12-across – Agreements between parties in power followed by legislation : PACTS

13-across – Price paid for policy, one accepted by expectant person? : PREMIUM

15-across – Loomed over vessel coming to a part of South Pacific : ROSSSEA

17-across – Work of poet? Frost, by the sound of it : RHYME

18-across – Predict probable winner, rest not lasting long : NAP

20-across – Grieving widow echoing my expression of pain : NAOMI

22-across – Sailor unusually hearty rounding cape : YACHTER

25-across – Behaviour of supporters becoming established : ROOTING

26-across – Chap who’s changed side in financial crisis? : BROKE

27-across – Debate controller and male speaker interrupted by a couple of demonstrators : MODERATOR

30-across – Study teams including Republican judges : CONSIDERS

31-across – Conservative in America with backing, like 26 down with 3? : MANIC

1-down – Revere as American hero that’s become less appealing, we hear : PAUL

2-down – Frantic, yet rum, PR is showy, worthless rubbish : TRUMPERY

3-down – Nobel laureate among German novelists : MANN

4-down – Fox avoids him — person outside national TV spotlight, initially : HUNTSMAN

5-down – President, for example, listened to songs : LIEDER

6-down – Act on a PM so awful in grave situation in Italy : CAMPOSANTO

7-down – Ring entertainers, such as the septet in today’s puzzle … : CIRCUS

8-down – … a burden borne by Americans? : ONUS

13-down – Press Conferences to produce material for this? : PERRY

14-down – Desperately positioned, intermixes frantically : INEXTREMIS

16-down – Opposed to government leader getting on : AGING

19-down – One who takes off from Port Said sent flying : PARODIST

21-down – Electing to cover one area, providing feel-good factor : OPIATING

23-down – See 7 : CLOWNS

24-down – Republican with wealth, primarily flip-flopping : ROMNEY

26-down – Composer dear to Ivor Novello : BACH

28-down – Odd power in historic parliament : RUMP

29-down – Some satiric humour full of comic potential : RICH

1-across – These lads may turn out to be immortal : DEATHLESS

6-across – Handy aid to warmth : MUFF

8-across – Dog goes mad for fruit : CURRANTS

9-across – Worn by a woman for a dance : BOLERO

10-across – Brings back games and increases keenness : STROPS

11-across – Doubled over and collapsed : FOLDEDUP

12-across – Describing Hamlet and his rotten state : DANISH

15-across – Chap from Belgium is a loyal subject : LIEGEMAN

16-across – More than one out of two is of higher standard : ABOVEPAR

19-across – Fancied to win and made a pile : NAPPED

21-across – A pamphlet’s sound — makes a personal appeal : ATTRACTS

22-across – Turned on bad parent : ENRAPT

24-across – Flagrant licence : PATENT

25-across – All too human story in which evil makes a comeback : FALLIBLE

26-across – Extremely light : VERY

27-across – Keep getting drunk? Now hang on! : HOLDTIGHT

1-down – Put off writing letter to a relative : DAUNT

2-down – It comes from the Latin, as far as one knows : APRIORI

3-down – They work around the clock : HANDS

4-down – Flu? See a doctor at home : EASEFUL

5-down – Young army chap is awkward, but learns : SUBALTERN

6-down – French writer’s story set in the ruins of Rome : MOLIERE

7-down – Lucky yet strange turn o’ fate : FORTUNATE

13-down – Bar attire set out for judge : ARBITRATE

14-down – Game for a drink after the dance : HOPSCOTCH

17-down – Music hall medley : VARIETY

18-down – Still in a terrible fluster : RESTFUL

20-down – Splitting hairs in divorce : PARTING

22-down – Spectacular effect when powder magazine finally goes up : ECLAT

23-down – One guide — or a good many : PILOT