Daily Answers

1-across – Demanding rent is infuriating! : MADDENING

9-across – Get the best of wily creature getting away first : OUTFOX

10-across – Agreeable company’s unfortunate leaning : CONGENIAL

11-across – Stick to edited header : ADHERE

12-across – Entail alteration to stern of oriental ship — that’s vital : ESSENTIAL

13-across – Keep previously cancelled hold on former musical group : SEXTET

17-across – Bounder involved in decadence : CAD

19-across – Hit back at goddess, no small upstart : PARVENU

20-across – Retain right new way to learn a different skill : RETRAIN

21-across – Tree in alcove : BAY

23-across – Rogue artist’s state : RASCAL

27-across – Aspect to assess for apparent worth : FACEVALUE

28-across – Asinine sound man uttered initially had a whine : HEEHAW

29-across – Perhaps adult in another is a pitch adjuster : MODULATOR

30-across – Goad the French want first : NEEDLE

31-across – Split seed apart, perhaps : SEPARATED

2-down – Alert the USA maybe by importing ore intermittently : AROUSE

3-down – Honour rank : DEGREE

4-down – Ten in unknown novel of great age : NINETY

5-down – New York city falls : NIAGARA

6-down – Empty head with thunder rolling in one of a large number of equal parts : HUNDREDTH

7-down – Face left, turn and run! That’s working well : EFFECTUAL

8-down – Anticipate worker, excited about what’s coming : EXPECTANT

14-down – Understand and put under arrest : APPREHEND

15-down – New energy, one third depleted, gets a top up : FRESHENER

16-down – Questionable change to a bed on board : DEBATABLE

17-down – English university’s second-class youngster : CUB

18-down – A farm is lost when farmyard lacks irrigation : DRY

22-down – Mariner’s sole seafood? : ABALONE

24-down – Whale with a bulge, perhaps : BELUGA

25-down – Bad French ruler in Spanish town : MALAGA

26-down – Warning call outside old city creates a rumpus : FURORE

1-across – Substitute for glass frames in king’s vehicle : MINICAR

5-across – Force character less inclined to work to get fitting job : GLAZIER

9-across – Oxymoronic reasoning? : FUZZY

10-across – See 12 : FISHTOFRY

11-across – Half ends goalless, unfortunately, for Beckham’s soccer city : LOSANGELES

12-across – Unfortunately, trebly hard after forty, so I’ve to be considering alternative priorities : HAVE

14-across – Wellington, perhaps, gains free surrogate motherhood : WOMBLEASING

18-across – Peer round vertical line, joining afterwards to form square, say : EQUILATERAL

21-across – See 25 : DEAD

22-across – Outstanding geography lesson? : WORLDCLASS

25-across – Oxymoronic zombies? : THELIVING

26-across – See 12 : OTHER

27-across – Traffic jam broadcast prompting item for newsreader? : AUTOCUE

28-across – Waste disposal sites dry? On the contrary, this one’s wet! : CESSPIT

1-down – Cross about fortissimo, quieten down : MUFFLE

2-down – Philosophy where Zion’s not on in war? : NAZISM

3-down – Crow flying off course, unnecessarily causing alarm : CRYINGWOLF

4-down – Weapon that’s sweet, taking head off : RIFLE

5-down – Evangelist shot wizard? : GOSPELLER

6-down – Book performances : ACTS

7-down – Far out wearing violet-blue, almost demeaning : INFRADIG

8-down – Essex town with promiscuous girl? Yeah! : RAYLEIGH

13-down – Attention seeker, name brought up in opera, not entirely deceptive : FALLACIOUS

15-down – More unlikely to welcome alien, it emerges at first, as arrival from outer space : METEORITE

16-down – Death in Venice not nice, temperature doubling over a feud : VENDETTA

17-down – Capital friend proving troublesome? : BUDAPEST

19-down – Check money taken remains in vessel : CASHUP

20-down – Priest’s crude wit : ESPRIT

23-down – See 9 : LOGIC

24-down – Record is found in Washington : DISC

1-across – Charge for content of certain dictionaries : INDICT

4-across – Poles ordered to cross country for engagement : ESPOUSAL

9-across – One has grasped nothing about using the internet : ONLINE

10-across – Defeated and, although sick at heart, displaying great happiness : BEATIFIC

11-across – Oh no! Review brat acting up in Oz! : OVERTHERAINBOW

13-across – Lady Emma initially backing divine crew’s quarters : FORECASTLE

14-across – Eve’s first home : EDEN

16-across – Nobleman almost losing east and west wings : EARL

18-across – Is a solicitor involved in resumption? : IMPORTUNES

21-across – Great place for thieves cased by bent police officer : SUPERINTENDENT

23-across – Retiring extrovert : OUTGOING

24-across – Impart name in group : CONVEY

25-across – Dish with terrible reek over the border : KEDGEREE

26-across – Savings account protecting character from Greek island : ISCHIA

1-down – Old curtain material for club? : IRON

2-down – Rescue ship : DELIVER

3-down – Go down with Bond : CONTRACT

5-down – Ford Escort’s first to penetrate isolated country : SIERRALEONE

6-down – Get docked sailor aboard old tub : OBTAIN

7-down – Lincoln’s popped into empty shed that’s for the rest of the guests : SOFABED

8-down – The French Connection’s beginning with Dallas family discovering insects : LACEWINGS

12-down – Cardinal providing sort of Chinese frame for artist : HISEMINENCE

13-down – Use cattle cake, perhaps, as raw material : FEEDSTOCK

15-down – Boss promises to pay intellectual : STUDIOUS

17-down – Getting laid in tall grass, so it’s said : REPUTED

19-down – Leader of angels ejected from paradise in flipping old city : NINEVEH

20-down – Established routine — making love among trees? : GROOVE

22-down – Year in West Coast location for group of stars : LYRA

1-across – Typical measure by couple to show affection : EMBRACE

5-across – Formic solution to indigestion? : ANTACID

9-across – Winter cover raised in freeze : ICEUP

10-across – Country with university team represented in festival : GUATEMALA

11-across – Honestly devoid of cant? : ONTHELEVEL

12-across – Yes, truly an aspiration : YEAH

14-across – Still twenty required to get even : SETTLEASCORE

18-across – On motorway, coming into certain disaster : MISADVENTURE

21-across – Secure top of foresail in rough sea : SAFE

22-across – They serve little Arthur during drinking bouts : BARTENDERS

25-across – Forceful argument makes crossword solving difficult : HARDWORDS

26-across – Vessel about to be broken up : UBOAT

27-across – Ties the rest in knots : TETHERS

28-across – Take a liberty? : ENSLAVE

1-down – Inventor having no team backup : EDISON

2-down – Sounds coming from fold or stable : BLEATS

3-down – Detains suspects : APPREHENDS

4-down – Bird that is below par : EAGLE

5-down – A low place to live brings humiliation : ABASEMENT

6-down – Address of the Quakers : THEE

7-down – Attendant taking tea to Evita : CHAPERON

8-down – The last place you would expect to find someone : DEATHBED

13-down – Nut roast as cooked for high fliers : ASTRONAUTS

15-down – He’s coming in to sign reference book : THESAURUS

16-down – To break a strike is a tremendous success : SMASHHIT

17-down – Invite trouble because of appearance in a satirical show : ASKFORIT

19-down – Girl carries on in Juliet’s place : VERONA

20-down – Repeatedly set about a bloodsucking fly : TSETSE

23-down – Set a test — an oral test : TASTE

24-down – Aunt weeps, admits being excessively sentimental : TWEE

1-across – Describing an easy ball over middle of hole — on this? : POOLTABLE

6-across – See 14 : PROP

8-across – Position gained by cricket side around start of football match : LEFTWING

9-across – Welshman fuddled in speech, outspoken … : DIRECT

10-across – … Asian fuddled in speech, key worker : TYPIST

11-across – Disapprove, putting a right back between the goalposts : HARRUMPH

12-across – A balloon to boot : ASWELL

15-across – Not worth much time, new pony lame : TWOPENNY

16-across – Bit of a bloomer welcoming fascist leader into chamber, the twit : HALFLOAF

19-across – Shade visible, finally, in dark position : NUMBER

21-across – Tyrolean building in baroque style : ORNATELY

22-across – Position she’s bought for favours : HOOKER

24-across – Get stuck into animals from behind : TACKLE

25-across – Soldiers — what are they dipped in? Fish food! : ANTSEGGS

26-across – Under the sea, four bottoms — or one? : REAR

27-across – Unusual condition judge rejected, when in hole : DIFFERENT

1-down – Shame about English holiness : PIETY

2-down – Position on field true? Ask for conversion : OUTSIDE

3-down – Dance with a surprising end : TWIST

4-down – Surrey town’s luggage stolen : BAGSHOT

5-down – I wondered about something for the night : EIDERDOWN

6-down – Smell strong in spirit, plugging leak : PERFUME

7-down – Company upset, getting stick about blast, with a hundred in residence : OCCUPANCE

13-down – Steps taken to look, say, over patient : STAIRCASE

14-down – Revolving door has people in position : LOOSEHEAD

17-down – See 2 : FLANKER

18-down – Position gn? : FLYHALF

20-down – Old age has come in, rocking, beginning to explode : MIOCENE

22-down – Why they stripped Kentish Town : HYTHE

23-down – See 19 : EIGHT