Daily Answers

9-across – Wrong way to pass port wines? Cocktail shaker : ANTICLOCK

10-across – Home in north Italy? Sad if Boatman’s after it : IGLOO

11-across – A drink as drunk by an under-age person : TOAST

12-across – Rural clockmaker to add online distribution : DANDELION

13-across – Under-age person, into whom I ply cocktail, leaves floating : LILYPAD

14-across – Case’s close: winner is he who gets repossession : EVICTOR

17-across – Property crime re-appears once concealed : ARSON

19-across – Bartender takes a pee: it’s where we get beer : TAP

20-across – Child crushed grasshopper — no playful seraph : SPROG

21-across – Dissident asks agent about Russian master : SPASSKY

22-across – Cocktail swallowed in evil excess of drink : SKINFUL

24-across – Drained whisky: a girl not to trust, having lost bottle opener : WASHEDOUT

26-across – Dirt sticks to one with no self-control : AMUCK

28-across – Someone driving me out, playing snare : NOOSE

29-across – No drink in the pot for Spooner’s former nymph? : DRAGONFLY

1-down – Boatman’s a little troubled in the head : SALT

2-down – Missionary writer’s last upset! : STPAUL

3-down – Trees being planted in copses isn’t unusual : SCOTSPINES

4-down – Look: dead drunk! : LOADED

5-down – Soak embraces tender beauty; it is so : SKINDEEP

6-down – See 9 : WISE

7-down – College head to hang around school corridor? : CLOISTER

8-down – Drink lots of stuff got from the Internet : DOWN

13-down – See 8 : LOADS

15-down – Starter prepared by roasting it : INSTIGATOR

16-down – Royal booze-up : REGAL

18-down – Picture a drunk taking a snooze: quiet, please! : SNAPSHOT

19-down – Where throat may be swollen and dry, shot resettles one inside : THYROIDS

22-down – Shah’s man in Sparta murdered : SATRAP

23-down – Bearing down on foot, first turn to wind before leading yachtsman : FLUFFY

24-down – It’s common for a drunk to lose everything : WINO

25-down – To decapitate, remove head always : EVER

27-down – A bunch maybe control space? : KEYS

8-across – Virtuous card game? : PATIENCE

9-across – Party removed from boredom, shuffled for card game : OMBRE

10-across – Eccentric tail in blue fish : SCAD

11-across – Coin river horse, perhaps, for this large beast? : RHINOCEROS

12-across – In fish, I had a fishy time? : FRIDAY

14-across – All there is in you reversed by part of song : UNIVERSE

15-across – Books alongside maps almost leading to a US city : ATLANTA

17-across – Card game in which lady regularly entering suit withdrawing, for the most part : OLDMAID

20-across – Card game with bone : CRIBBAGE

22-across – Spades, dark — or not? : SUNLIT

23-across – Card game opposite, going back to break forward : STRIPPOKER

24-across – Go to pieces in card game : SNAP

25-across – Fish in newspaper : ARGUS

26-across – Two card games from Animal Farm and Star Wars for The Man from UNCLE : NAPOLEON

1-down – Phone people about capital, getting to grips with a card game : BACCARAT

2-down – Jokers so delirious? : WILD

3-down – Terribly angry about Labour leader, get knotted! : GNARLY

4-down – Card game from spelling quiz, encapsulating its misspelling? : BEZIQUE

5-down – Of those settling in, zero left standing in fuel : COLONIAL

6-down – From the south, identifies 26’s isle, welcoming in a sailor : ABLESEAMAN

7-down – Love’s about love, moving to the heart? : VENOUS

13-down – Design card game for entrance, once : DRAWBRIDGE

16-down – Quiet man requesting first of tankards, don’t gulp it all up? : TRAPPIST

18-down – It’s twice more difficult : IMITATOR

19-down – Looking to understand card : SEEKING

21-down – Knock what the discerning vermin wouldn’t buy? : RATTAT

22-down – Entrance to heaven cuts skyward for angel : SERAPH

24-down – See 26 : SOLO

5-across – Student embraced by bird needs shrink : FLINCH

6-across – Overbid ends in grasp of Forrest : GAZUMP

9-across – Man with title that can’t go straight : KNIGHT

10-across – Offering to drop one thousand pounds from debt : OBLATION

11-across – 4 won’t if one’s very proper, suffering hit on emoluments : MELT

12-across – Way to do my cipher which gets under one’s skin : HYPODERMIC

13-across – See 11 : INONESMOUTH

18-across – I’m not sure young scientist should be in cast — it’s torture : THUMBSCREW

21-across – Little 4 in way to fulfil ambition : LAMB

22-across – Cycle rides with charge rebutted that sweet talk won’t 4 : PARSNIPS

23-across – Right one in base is masculine : VIRILE

24-across – Tavern in heaven not serving stout? : SKINNY

25-across – Spirit before 4 for Christmas pudding : BRANDY

1-down – Fashion follows like goods from capital in the sun : KINGSTON

2-down – Spirit after 4 for sucker : SCOTCH

3-down – Architect’s friend, child to 10 : PALLADIO

4-down – Fat hatter’s stopwatch? : BUTTER

5-down – One of 4’s followers that can’t hold a measure of liquor : FINGER

7-down – Fear of fairy in Italian girl : PHOBIA

8-down – Scope increased to form circle with directions : COMPASSROSE

14-down – In Rome almost nothing happens without some escort being unaware : NESCIENT

15-down – Managed entry into what’s available, being broad-minded : TOLERANT

16-down – Ship holding catch is a cutter : SHEARS

17-down – Backward setter has stratagem to use : EMPLOY

19-down – Fabric for 4 once, very nearly religious one : MUSLIN

20-down – Shielded monster with nervy disposition : WYVERN

9-across – Brothers forbidding money : GRIMM

10-across – Solve a tortuous clue containing Latin : CALCULATE

11-across – Pure blend of heroin and cocaine with adulterated Ecstasy : SNOWWHITE

12-across – It’s stupid to kill victim — run away! : DOPEY

13-across – Batty Ms Flint announcing her resignation? : HEIGHHO

15-across – Scottish brewer sprayed one guy with last of beer : YOUNGER

17-across – Creep putting spin on Orwell’s odd characters : PROWL

18-across – He looks after oxygen during dilation and curettage : DOC

20-across – Having fired leader, former capital’s spreading out : EKING

22-across – Dairy products in heart of Mongolia recalled in tents there : YOGURTS

25-across – Modest do flu disrupted : BASHFUL

26-across – Trip by army clique promoting America : JAUNT

27-across – Making detours, rescue injured, 10 and 4 in different places : EXCURSIVE

30-across – He snaps Ms Phillips’s nipple returning from Australian setback : PAPARAZZO

31-across – She’s withholding coven’s initiation : WITCH

1-down – How long it takes to boot up games software? : AGES

2-down – Emperor greeting success wearing Aussie jumper : HIROHITO

3-down – Duck somewhere : SMEW

4-down – Person of solitary habits announced hits in rowdy disco : SCHIZOID

5-down – Ready for bed, strips off on way up at day’s end : SLEEPY

6-down – Off-road vehicles carry fruit for horses, typically : QUADRUPEDS

7-down – Put bowler there, adjusting the gap : HATPEG

8-down – Aroused, certainly stealing kiss heading upstairs : SEXY

13-down – Squiffy priests in country dance : HAPPY

14-down – Oxford’s Springtime for Hitler army choreographed? : HILARYTERM

16-down – Large representation, as befits a king : REGAL

19-down – Smooth stone sailor found in pork à la française? : CABOCHON

21-down – Popular cops in Paris secure square deals : INFLICTS

23-down – Irritable, heartless guy pinches buttocks : GRUMPY

24-down – Sunday joints reportedly variable, getting cold? : SNEEZY

26-down – John and Paul’s early No 1s are a joke : JAPE

28-down – Cursed incessantly going over lines : ROWS

29-down – Ring back before choosing clothes : ECHO

1-across – Sackcloth and ashes in reparation : HESSIAN

5-across – Battles raging in the streets : STRIFES

9-across – Nonsense written about very large perch : ROOST

10-across – Six with skill showing potential : VIABILITY

11-across – Old-fashioned origin of a mathematical function : SQUAREROOT

12-across – Workman said to be unlucky : OPAL

14-across – Tenderising prepared items for cooking : INGREDIENTS

18-across – Lubricant used jointly by hard workers? : ELBOWGREASE

21-across – Discarded garden tools may be kept here : SHED

22-across – One who follows another about in training : DISCIPLINE

25-across – Crossword addicts should be used to such setbacks : REVERSALS

26-across – One big bird or two below par : EAGLE

27-across – Exploding grenade produces disorder : DERANGE

28-across – Carried on in the nude, perhaps embarrassed : ENDURED

1-down – There’s your hidden error : HERESY

2-down – Appear to cause public embarrassment : SHOWUP

3-down – Put in grave opinions during TV investigations : INTERVIEWS

4-down – Royal Navy upset about female entry? Not at all : NEVER

5-down – Propose a broadcast article on serial drama : SOAPOPERA

6-down – It flies or takes a train : RAIL

7-down – Drink, long and light : FLIPPANT

8-down – Telescope for secret agent on schooner, perhaps : SPYGLASS

13-down – With extensive bound­aries extra cover is required : WIDESPREAD

15-down – Start a new life in a regiment abroad : GERMINATE

16-down – Certainly in drink — so restrained : MEASURED

17-down – He sees robes laid out before clergyman turns up … : OBSERVER

19-down – … and he turns up with an address in Australia : DIGGER

20-down – Guard is fed up to death : DEFEND

23-down – Class found to be overbearing : CASTE

24-down – Club for an evening out : IRON