Daily Answers

1-across – Rope one may in frustration come to the end of? : TETHER

4-across – Appear in court, and stare at the ceiling : LOOKUP

9-across – What necromancer may do to make us happier : RAISETHESPIRITS

10-across – One’s eaten out of house and home : PICNIC

11-across – Old watch salesman approaching consumer : REPEATER

12-across – Gender-fluid partners in these isles? : HEBRIDES

14-across – Having an argument in a boat : ROWING

15-across – No calf could fall to this bird of prey : FALCON

18-across – Hurry to exchange contracts for home in Derby, say : FLATRACE

21-across – One granting permission first to lift one banner : LICENSOR

22-across – Noon in Italian city, so retire to bed : TURNIN

24-across – Picture what she does for us : PHOTOJOURNALIST

25-across – The way to dress in intermittent light : STROBE

26-across – Relative from America in the money? Not much : COUSIN

1-down – Hear when to start driving, in this break : TEATIME

2-down – Boxer is stony broke : TYSON

3-down – Tempted by hospital department, made very cold : ENTICED

5-down – In theory it’s in black and white : ONPAPER

6-down – Know a rare conflict; this one? : KOREANWAR

7-down – Spiel, new example : PATTERN

8-down – Dishes up, on these dishes? : SEVRES

13-down – Her escort comes from Kentish Town : ROCHESTER

16-down – Comes down in a thin dress finally : ALIGHTS

17-down – After a breather, task is a cosmetic improvement : NOSEJOB

18-down – Wildly inaccurate footballers’ big defeat : FAROUT

19-down – Merchant taken to court for a pound : ANTONIO

20-down – Bloody embarrassed? : CRIMSON

23-down – Parts with luxury car to reporter : ROLES

8-across – Returning for every fish to make someone catch it? : REPROACH

9-across – Draw Sally, purer with clothing removed : ALLURE

10-across – Things that happen to person in bible : EVENTS

11-across – Dial-A-Clue? That’s cool : LAIDBACK

12-across – Does not happen to be, not even in insanity : ISNT

13-across – German rail user put out, with line taken by saboteurs? : GUERRILLAS

15-across – Criminal kidnaps fingerprint agents : INKPADS

16-across – Parrot heads to inner maze in the Amazon, thwarting extinction : IMITATE

18-across – Report rejected from beginning to end : THROUGHOUT

19-across – Slight loss of power cycling? Tea served here : URNS

20-across – BBC lose tedious content in secret : CLOSETED

22-across – Expects a delay with Southern : AWAITS

23-across – Delayed often, discontented, hot and worn out : ONHOLD

24-across – One derogated as compliant, ignoring hearts unbroken, cheerful earnest optimism : UNCLETOM

1-down – Departs on time, followed by unending torment in England’s prime reason for delay : LEAVESONTHELINE

2-down – Clue to no few typos in excuse for delay : WRONGTYPEOFSNOW

3-down – One follows game’s idol, for example: as universal as contrary : SAUSAGEDOG

4-down – Supports delays : SHELVES

5-down – Boatman under duty to provide conveyance : TAXI

6-down – They cause delays, with fix needed: it’ll go about a long time : GLOBALITOUTAGES

7-down – Tendency for delay, caught in airport’s alarmingly British? : PROCRASTINATION

14-down – I can be found in centre with ATM : REMITTANCE

17-down – Supports delays : HOLDSUP

21-down – Boatman’s surge from bow interrupted by initial delay : TIDE

9-across – Oxygen particle takes reverse path : ORBIT

10-across – Where to apply ointment in difficult situation : ONTHESPOT

11-across – Cold aspect of ex-PM and team? : NORTHSIDE

12-across – Dale against exiting passage : ALLEY

13-across – Contracting medic to attend ruler : DOCKING

15-across – One, in a bold move, goes to ball game : DIABOLO

17-across – Paper X : TIMES

18-across – See 29 Down : OFF

20-across – Force leader, caught in bad lie, to U-turn : IMPEL

22-across – Son stifled by ‘worthy’ ancestry : DESCENT

25-across – Managing to get somewhere between flights : LANDING

26-across – City was first to back paper : DELFT

27-across – Wicked bank’s terrible racket : UNHOLYROW

30-across – Detailed, informed arguments against current state : WISCONSIN

31-across – Death-dealing, gross mobster? : FATAL

1-down – Low point is to make a cheeky gesture : MOON

2-down – Barking, Rome, Cuba, York initially : EBORACUM

3-down – About a half-hour is more than enough for this place : UTAH

4-down – Future turnover recovering from collapse? : COMINGTO

5-down – Be there when it’s all over, tense inside : ATTEND

6-down – Panties, or a pants split? : SEPARATION

7-down – A parrot has nothing on butterfly : APOLLO

8-down – Brace of salmon introduced on river : STAY

13-down – Went out with old hat : DATED

14-down – Check hacked PIN notices : INSPECTION

16-down – Ordinary, standard prison camp : OFLAG

19-down – Theft of rubbing outside church : FILCHING

21-down – Earlier conviction in US large town not leader’s main concern : PRIORITY

23-down – Trumpet band secures record backing : SPLASH

24-down – Prominent Republican all but crushes lives – that’s self-evident : TRUISM

26-down – Blue feathers : DOWN

28-down – In control, if temperatures pick up : LIFT

29-down – Get rid of a bad mood, say, pedestrian-style? : WALK

1-across – Deliver dollar to complete start of betting spreads : BUTTERS

5-across – Campaigned for B. Dole surprisingly winning twice : LOBBIED

9-across – Discovered hot curry initially taken away : SPIED

10-across – Where life is in scope, evolving at this location : ECOSPHERE

11-across – Devices for extracting bit of dirt from old clothes around 49p : OILPRESSES

12-across – Stones heretics from the uprising – ends in revolution : GEMS

14-across – Old debugger working to pick up a mark of reference : DOUBLEDAGGER

18-across – Aerodynamic feature of crushed possession? : GROUNDEFFECT

21-across – Trees with 80% of leaves in water … : OAKS

22-across – … leaf hiding off centre is cut : PERCENTAGE

25-across – It pulls vehicle at first : ATTRACTOR

26-across – Inclined to oust leader over … : ENDED

27-across – … tiny thing – ‘I quit to protect love child’ : TODDLER

28-across – Shorter drunk dictator not welcome : LITTLER

1-down – Cry about time working in US city : BOSTON

2-down – Small amount of pudding : TRIFLE

3-down – Crosswords need to entertain one in covers? : EIDERDOWNS

4-down – Checks upset London police infiltrating Nazi organisation : STEMS

5-down – Ladies and gents feel excited buying afternoon tea? : LOOSELEAF

6-down – Dances to hits : BOPS

7-down – I see small bird climbing cold masses : ICEBERGS

8-down – They help actors turning up anxious, not tense, over reading : DRESSERS

13-down – Unhappy with China stealing Liberal party books : MALCONTENT

15-down – One striking to cover rising cost of guard : BEEFEATER

16-down – Lacking education, ran into trouble pinching £1,000 : IGNORANT

17-down – Played loud music including note belted : ROCKETED

19-down – Extract from trees and also wood : SANDAL

20-down – Footballing connection written on document : HEADER

23-down – Pink and black stuff right in the middle : CORAL

24-down – Ring everyone after 1:00 having colon removed : CALL

1-across – Holiday destination reserved, but no time : SEASIDE

5-across – Part of central London toured by female engine driver? : GASOHOL

9-across – Those exchanged for chips, one swiped by gulls : COINS

10-across – See 26 : POSTCARDS

11-across – Local distributor singing backwards – bewildering image? : OPTICALART

12-across – Slam the 9, foolishly – into those? : SLOT

14-across – 1 across activity where couple of fish sought, but something unpleasant netted? : ROCKPOOLING

18-across – Myopic Lilliputian watched : SMALLMINDED

21-across – US island has got it in the essence of tour : OAHU

22-across – On pier, melt getting tanned in US state capital : MONTPELIER

25-across – Room after musical for ‘70s rom-com : ANNIEHALL

26-across – Those sold by the 1 across relished job on deck? : SAUCY

27-across – Sunburnt shoulders nursed by warty chap, a dish from Mexico? : TOSTADA

28-across – Gentry, wrath in the gents, say? : PEERAGE

1-down – Dry hill zone : SECTOR

2-down – Fly, one trapped in a barrel, right wing in ale : AVIATE

3-down – Without offering protection, bank going after us, nice when bankrupt! : INSECURELY

4-down – Cashier sees tenpence stolen by slippery customer : EXPEL

5-down – Slimy little thing being prodded by a pet : GASTROPOD

6-down – Draw, or do very badly? : SUCK

7-down – Wave surfed finally with Charlie on the crest? : HERALDIC

8-down – The one remaining in a street after having left country : LASTTOGO

13-down – Well, someone’s dog is barking, O no! : GOODNESSME

15-down – Meat joint guzzled by pop, nice one! : CHIPOLATA

16-down – Similar-sounding donkey rides tiny animal : ASSONANT

17-down – See 12 Across : MACHINES

19-down – Body part in story on dance initially forgotten, : FIBULA

20-down – Mole genitals discussed? : GROYNE

23-down – Plant you recognised in France on border : TULIP

24-down – Brobdingnagian kingdom, the bewitching peninsula finally found : MEGA