Daily Answers

1-across – Suspect reggae music taken to moon by American : DUBIOUS

5-across – Former stink journalist dug up : EXHUMED

9-across – See 23 : ANDRE

10-across – Learns off Messi shimmying round City back : MEMORISES

11-across – Eclipsing night sun Io, perhaps, as the day sun may be? : OUTSHINING

12-across – Setter’s setter’s working as a singer : PAUL

14-across – Number of fellows in place next to border with a soldier caught wearing women’s clothing? : PUFFTHEMAGIC

18-across – Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that! : STONEWALLING

21-across – Try to cut leader out : HEAR

22-across – Prostitute? Mine wears black, if welcoming guests : HOSPITABLE

25-across – King to rule as result of this pedestrian appearance by Queen? : WALKABOUT

26-across – Drug ring detective follows with some hesitation : OPIUM

27-across – Stupid me, this setter would say, looking like a deer : DOEEYED

28-across – A song to admire? : RESPECT

1-down – See 14 : DRAGON

2-down – Lower classes coming into some money for bathroom items : BIDETS

3-down – Went past a rude hovel needing repair : OVERHAULED

4-down – See 12 : SIMON

5-down – Cheese plant he moved, having lost page after not quite finishing novel : EMMENTHAL

6-down – Mythical Greek character always in Aphrodite’s heart : HERO

7-down – Second beat in the Faces’ Wild Horses : MUSTANGS

8-down – Force out to find a home for plain-clothes policeman? : DISPLACE

13-down – Flowers coming out? One has stamina broken : EMANATIONS

15-down – Antioxidant from river in flood, iodine replacing oxygen : FLAVONOID

16-down – Shunned a bit of Wensleydale cheese cooked by daughter : ESCHEWED

17-down – Setting for 23, 12 and 24’s featured song from Python? Ah, Leeds! : HONAHLEE

19-down – See 24 : JBLIGE

20-down – Catherine hides hesitant expression, having married a frog : KERMIT

23-down – Need part transposed to right key for singer : PETER

24-down – Girl may be going out with a little jazz singer : MARY

5-across – Gathered in study to hold exercises : REAPED

6-across – Latest schism besetting church : RECENT

9-across – Doesn’t go right inside, but wanders around : STRAYS

10-across – Debit one transferred, following orders : OBEDIENT

11-across – A bad start for an ancient king : OFFA

12-across – Robber holding up store? : SHOPLIFTER

13-across – Shooting stick? : BILLIARDCUE

18-across – Parking, reversing badly, generating a jam : PRESERVING

21-across – Utterly absorbed in something, say : RAPT

22-across – Once in a lifetime phenomenon? : BLUEMOON

23-across – A sort of music providing the message : GOSPEL

24-across – Former forward, one who should know better : EXPERT

25-across – Drink for each returning academic : PERNOD

1-down – Spy a curly hair on the rug : MATAHARI

2-down – When to tell all? : CENSUS

3-down – Peel read out what he did to the Corn Laws : REPEALED

4-down – Some solace in failed investment : RELIEF

5-down – Confirm a try, if converted properly : RATIFY

7-down – Inclined to be guarded : TENDED

8-down – Man using mashie and spoon going round : HOMOSAPIENS

14-down – Left to old seamen in Labrador resort : LARBOARD

15-down – Mounting disorder : UPRISING

16-down – Metal grating to cook eggs initially : GRILLE

17-down – Compass cover : SPREAD

19-down – It’s a sound move — that’s plain : STEPPE

20-down – Cracked jokes when bound not to speak : GAGGED

9-across – Leading man in 13 across ignoring the odds : AHEAD

10-across – Who tabled amendment for coup de grâce? : DEATHBLOW

11-across – Female novelist has it in for Labour leader : GAITSKELL

12-across – Set for scan and playback? : READY

13-across – Centre of attraction in pub: policeman providing rum : BACARDI

15-across – Retreat from announcement of great uncertainty : HIDEOUT

17-across – Birds start to run in all directions : WRENS

18-across – Dopey given short change in America : DIM

20-across – 12 on time for food : TRIPE

22-across – Topper recollected his talk : SILKHAT

25-across – Regrettable dismissal of American loser : SADSACK

26-across – Naturally a gift is left for blonde to accept : FLAIR

27-across – Film director first to include song? Not so! : PREMINGER

30-across – Chap bumped into at first in London suburbs : METROLAND

31-across – Flower expert needing no introduction : ASTER

1-down – Report from outlaw on edge of greenwood : BANG

2-down – More dice being cast? It’s no great shakes! : MEDIOCRE

3-down – Poetry from Black Sea port lacking sex appeal : ODES

4-down – JFK formerly unemployed? Crazy! : IDLEWILD

5-down – Indian worker raising fruit, quite content : WALLAH

6-down – Mad Hatter’s odd, having little time to run : SHORTDATED

7-down – The city of Orlando’s a pleasant part in retrospect : ELPASO

8-down – Win over, for example, taking wickets : SWAY

13-down – Game birds brought to book : BOWLS

14-down – Plant in Herts reorganised by director : RESTHARROW

16-down – Timber frames with slight modification : TWEAK

19-down – Yorkshire beauty queen, we hear, pulls the wool over one’s eyes : MISLEADS

21-down – Up in arms about leaders of Nicaraguan group aided in scandal : IRANGATE

23-down – Nothing to support listed building extension : LEANTO

24-down – Tasteless articles about one computer game : TIPCAT

26-down – Get hot under the collar following Australian runner — not down under! : FUME

28-down – Russian leader in bed, topless : IVAN

29-down – Red inside like gold dust : RARE

1-across – Transport art — pure chaos : RAPTURE

5-across – Agriculturalist is a good oarsman : GROWER

9-across – Dress for presentation? : GIFTWRAP

10-across – Man or no man : ISLAND

12-across – Scolding for failure to smarten up? : DRESSINGDOWN

15-across – Blame cheap cooking for this? : PEACHMELBA

17-across – What Romanians pay for a wreath? : LEI

19-across – Grass in Sussex : RYE

20-across – For him living could be a monumental task : STONEMASON

22-across – Take an ill-considered swipe in digital connection … : HITTHENAILON

26-across – Important old city with cove : URGENT

27-across – See 22 : THETHUMB

28-across – Space for timber on course : ENTREE

29-across – Fall back, as leper perhaps : RELAPSE

1-down – King with a period of madness : RAGE

2-down – Blurb for a smoke : PUFF

3-down – Not fit to run — why bother? : UNWORTHY

4-down – Dispense with lifted script in tests : EXAMS

6-down – In royal office James finally had to abdicate : RESIGN

7-down – From a pew lesson appears to be lacking force : WEAPONLESS

8-down – Makes new plan, including pole for flags : REDENSIGNS

11-down – Primate and historian : GIBBON

13-down – Sydney’s landmark before building works? : OPERAHOUSE

14-down – Drunk on innocuous beverage but won’t admit it : WATERTIGHT

16-down – Stretch for former nurse : EXTEND

18-down – Licentious without time, never ending : IMMORTAL

21-down – Church — an establishment that could be a fine thing? : CHANCE

23-down – There’s nothing rich comprised in watery humour : ICHOR

24-down – Swallow and stop up : GULP

25-down – Vince would be competent without conservative leader : ABLE

1-across – Man of words caught in entrance wearing long pants? : DOCTOR

4-across – See 1 : JOHNSON

9-across – Cardinal supplied a lot of light gas in cereal for everyone : RICHELIEU

10-across – Harpist and painter as parent keeping 6 : DAVID

11-across – Shakespearean in the orchestra : VIOLA

12-across – Write study of Ulster in Thackeray’s history : PENDENNIS

13-across – Embittered note about Scots sweetheart to stay : SOJOURN

15-across – Derisive comment on brute eating his head : YAHBOO

17-across – Look at fellow during shuteye, say? : SHUFTI

19-across – Polish part of Hungarian city backed with sound of drum : RUBADUB

22-across – Old musical student at start of play in Liverpool street : LILACTIME

24-across – No way in which Jeremy has chains : IRONS

26-across – The best thing is to get religious fellow elevated : JEWEL

27-across – King of Wales, abandoning rugby, on direct path that’s pointless : CYMBELINE

28-across – Prize for sexagenarian finding spring in a kiss : BUSPASS

29-across – Brute when the sheet’s turned back? : ANIMAL

1-down – Comes from the German saint : DERIVES

2-down – Cocoa and chocolate are one originally : CACAO

3-down – Devotee of Verdi etc: if with article, of Pergolesi? : OPERABUFF

4-down – Container of tea drunk by kangaroo on its way? : JOURNEY

5-down – 1 4’s pet pig swallowing first of drugs, ecstasy : HODGE

6-down – Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffs : SEVENFOLD

7-down – Devotee of nature creating hell among teachers : NUDIST

8-down – Dickensian number from Orange? : PIPPIN

14-down – Use Jewish number 50 as coalition’s new model? : JOHNLEWIS

16-down – 1 4’s 4 down, Jewish majority with one churchman : HEBRIDEAN

18-down – Old copper leaves epic: coppers need muscle : ILIACUS

19-down – Borders capturing man in place of jackdaw : RHEIMS

20-down – 1 4’s presenter to cry up source : BOSWELL

21-down – Month’s shortly up: cover with extraordinary protection : FLUJAB

23-down – 4 across playing Alice? : CELIA

25-down – Narcotic work I take with hesitation : OPIUM