Daily Answers

1-across – Go to grab bird that’s little : PETITE

4-across – Alien killer zapping ghoul in the end : STRANGER

9-across – Hideous creature filmed, one out of Scream : SHREK

10-across – Those hi-i-i-tting birds : BEEEATERS

11-across – Redhead swimmer nets redhead German boy : CARROTTOP

12-across – Dish gobbled by Dionysus, hiccuping : SUSHI

13-across – The bottle bottle? : DUTCHCOURAGE

17-across – Bird back after season abroad, man’s problem afoot? : FALLENARCHES

20-across – Turn out to see Navratilova’s old rival? : EVERT

21-across – Butcherbird weeps for flycatcher : SPIDERWEB

23-across – Important to bandage knock for fruit that’s purple : STARAPPLE

24-across – One of twelve pence in currency, reversed : APRIL

25-across – Might one catch this one song, missing the middle’s flowing quality : FLUIDITY

26-across – Sporting arenas support all temporary staff, initially, in retirement : STADIA

1-down – So haddock the chippie’s future then? English homes all have one : POSTCODE

2-down – Sweet to consider as salt : TARTRATE

3-down – Play about king having nothing as capital : TOKYO

5-down – Given little time to get a great deal, participant rarely starts to appear attractive — in … : THEAPPRENTICE

6-down – … the firing line from him? Setter claiming leaderless strategy has us wound up! : ALANSUGAR

7-down – Fatty piece of cake found under girl, oddly : GREASY

8-down – Nation’s sprinter, say : RUSSIA

10-down – Min? : BOTTOMLESSPIT

14-down – Revolutionary had learnt to find the centre ground : HEARTLAND

15-down – See 18 : THEWORLD

16-down – Old queen there to be rung before tea, finally : ISABELLA

18-down – Fresh velvety cut or laminated edges for the buggers? : NEWSOF

19-down – Cuckoo due to circle island without a sense of familiarity : DEJAVU

22-down – So it’s been repealed? That’s perfect : EXACT

1-across – Semi-automated nun? : CREATUREOFHABIT

9-across – Small convertible country needs golden permit : LANDAULET

10-across – Corruption? They say not : TAINT

11-across – Review ignited craze for appropriate food : DIETING

12-across – Quieten consequential development without difficulty? : APPEASE

13-across – See 24 : HOW

14-across – Pay no attention to information backing part of academic speech : NEGLECT

17-across – Like 1 down and 30 less 100, unpleasantly drunk : SOTTISH

19-across – Marker maybe for captain or umpire to supply troop with weapons : ARMBAND

22-across – Martial instrument used by north country naval officers? : WARDRUM

24-across – A youth hostel in these days is all over the place : ANY

25-across – Applaud bad actor at junction : CLAPHAM

26-across – Nymph in ballad to look back into coal production : CALYPSO

28-across – Otherwise the other way in Boston : NOTSO

29-across – Fault wherewith to get angler … : GREATGLEN

30-across – … maybe to catch Pole during board game battle — Fate and the Queen must cover it : LOCHNESSMONSTER

1-down – 29 contains a clan repeatedly worried about turning up in poem : CALEDONIANCANAL

2-down – Wise computer? : ERNIE

3-down – Maybe meet at 1 or 4 in song : TEATIME

4-down – The girl to set me on fire again : RELIGHT

5-down – People like Robin, not the wife’s? : OUTLAWS

6-down – Sulphur in dish at clubbing centre : HOTSPOT

7-down – Officer at second Baltic city getting bumpy ride : BRIGADIER

8-down – Turning point of course, turning at tenth morning : TATTENHAMCORNER

15-down – In relation to exercise my acting’s bad : GYMNASTIC

16-down – Sculptor has skill with eggs : CAN

18-down – See 16 : OVA

20-down – Paddy forest? : ASHDOWN

21-down – Mother is getting on with legal compensation : DAMAGES

22-down – Why heartless half of Essex town formed a tree : WYCHELM

23-down – The man who cut off his arm right by Cumbrian town : RALSTON

27-down – Guide to one in piece of ground : PILOT

1-across – Engineers longing for repair job? : REMEDYING

6-across – It’s a really big bra size that would take me aback : PUCK

8-across – Our tiny vehicle originally transported exotic seed : IVORYNUT

9-across – Flower seller online : AMAZON

10-across – House of Tudor angered some : ORANGE

11-across – In Paris a motorboat started by girl departs without a crew : UNMANNED

12-across – Second car is an old one : MORRIS

15-across – Regular occurrence after marshalling yard shut : THURSDAY

16-across – Southern friends touring part of London with extra on-board fare : SPECIALS

19-across – Sleuth managed to put pressure on : HUSTLE

21-across – King with a French way about his pretentious magnificence? : GRANDEUR

22-across – Fry-up I concocted, free from anything unsavoury : PURIFY

24-across – Wife’s left hat with old jacket : BOLERO

25-across – Lawless one meeting end in electric chair, perhaps : ANARCHIC

26-across – Two thirds fly back for exam : TEST

27-across – Characteristic air with which Esme casually wears skimpy garment : THEMESONG

1-down – Eurovision hit Verdi composed in state of ecstasy? Not initially : RIVER

2-down – Sailor displaying Jolly Roger at first : MARINER

3-down – See 1 : DANCE

4-down – Safe place for money, as it turns out : INTRUST

5-down – Detailed how maul got out of control in one part of the pitch : GOALMOUTH

6-down – Clear as daylight, two sides to tennis court grievances : PLAINTS

7-down – Narrow escape when visiting the neighbours? : CLOSECALL

13-down – Deliberately stirred purée briefly with spoon : ONPURPOSE

14-down – A day in dopey stupor, endlessly like t-h-i-s? : SPACEDOUT

17-down – Change name in secret : CONVERT

18-down – Setter leaves South American country with something family will share : SURNAME

20-down – Wind is up before doctor leaves the country : SIROCCO

22-down – Penny and the others put back what’s moved during earthquake : PLATE

23-down – Cast finally look into naming group leaders : FLING

7-across – It’s legal to develop rough site : RIGHTEOUS

8-across – Perhaps Welsh wizard cheated, Rugby Union accepted : DRUID

9-across – Mechanical failure calls for detailed analysis : BREAKDOWN

10-across – They are driven to join things : NAILS

12-across – It’s frivolous having a tax about it : LEVITY

13-across – Where patients do little to make treatment effective? : RESTHOME

14-across – Left to resign in chaos, hangs around in hope : LINGERS

17-across – Equipment in what must be a warship : FRIGATE

20-across – Being in favour of making an attack : GOINGFOR

22-across – Make things fast with a cogwheel : PINION

24-across – Chaplain making home for soldiers : PADRE

25-across – Go round in pain, walking slowly : STROLLING

26-across – Admit a learner to school : LETON

27-across – Breaker’s vehicle? : SURFBOARD

1-down – Intense fire damaged church : FIERCE

2-down – What a change it may make to one’s winnings! : CHEATING

3-down – Fatal delay, perhaps, involves a number : DEADLY

4-down – It’s forbidden to charge public : OUTWARD

5-down – Introduce curve in sail after Beachy Head : BROACH

6-down – Award given to the top negotiator : DIPLOMAT

11-down – A good man rises to king and emperor : TSAR

15-down – Divorced ladies to be treated differently : ISOLATED

16-down – It floats right at the back : RAFT

18-down – Criminal group left one working a bundle of nerves! : GANGLION

19-down – Dissatisfied with rum truffle : FRETFUL

21-down – Raced up to the line with not much room to spare : NARROW

22-down – First impressions may be convincing : PROOFS

23-down – They have news or distribute it : OWNERS

4-across – In honour of love, repeatedly exquisite : TOOTOO

6-across – Player’s poor performance is filmed, oddly : MISFIELD

9-across – Complained as payment’s taken back in retirement : BEEFED

10-across – For 18 this issue starts on left here : QUESTION

11-across – Able orator adapted a practice of religious work : ORAETLABORA

15-across – Revised section for reviews : NOTICES

17-across – Eg Laertes, in final act, less sensitive about point : DUELLER

18-across – A single player left in dishonour, quit so disgracefully : SOLILOQUIST

22-across – Raced inside and verbally attacked : TOREINTO

23-across – Lacking parts for me? Never again! : NOMORE

24-across – Present with most suitable ring, having successfully courted : BESTOWON

25-across – Time off for parties in secluded spot : RECESS

1-down – Significance of short interval : MOMENT

2-down – Like some waves in turbulent sound I sail : SINUSOIDAL

3-down – Cricket side and coach not in action : OFFSTAGE

4-down – Prohibiting in West End a form of audience disapproval : TABOOING

5-down – Gives inept performance done with woeful cast : OVERACTS

7-down – Player’s departure from English team before start of tour : EXIT

8-down – Hamlet, for example, wavering and ultimately indecisive : DANE

12-down – Pardon thus in purifying act : ABSOLUTION

13-down – European learning about evil in this scene of tragedy : ELSINORE

14-down – Troubles around queen, Claudius and Hamlet, say : BROTHERS

16-down – Press goes after theatrical group very hard : CASTIRON

19-down – Estimates — they include 1, 4 across, 10, 21 and 23 for 18 : QUOTES

20-down – Raised clubs in attempt to wound : STAB

21-down – Weapons taken as alternative to taking slings and arrows : ARMS