Daily Answers

9-across – British musical rejecting No.1 from Robert Plant : OLIVE

10-across – Clear forecast is a feature of the Caribbean : CORALREEF

11-across – Winger from Bristol set about on westbound tube : TREEPIPIT

12-across – City business pursuing lead from Captain America : CUSCO

13-across – Hitler’s deranged move like 16 : SLITHER

15-across – Spooks occasionally risk ringing abrupt PM : RATTLES

17-across – Wimbledon champion’s trophy : ASHES

18-across – Start to drive gold Beetle : DOR

20-across – Board of European Rights? : OUIJA

22-across – Squeeze with bit of music that can give you the shakes : MILKBAR

25-across – Aunties swimming in Serpentine : SINUATE

26-across – Sound check cut short by leader of orchestra : AUDIO

27-across – Truss with point about pound showing lack of vision : BLINDNESS

30-across – Teenagers mixing drinks : GREENTEAS

31-across – 16 bored by a bishop in holy shrine : KAABA

1-down – 16 on time for vessel : BOAT

2-down – Relentless golfer is on eighteenth at last : TIGERISH

3-down – Writer is upset covering the end of Joe Root : NEEP

4-down – Regal crest pants worn by Prince Edward : SCEPTRED

5-down – King taking speed for depression : CRATER

6-down – Player with instrument nailing finale for President Bush : BLACKTHORN

7-down – 16 in West Stand : WEASEL

8-down – Style served up in Waldorf Astoria : AFRO

13-down – Jerk succeeded in climbing charts : SPASM

14-down – Drug overtones are feature of Breakfast In America : HASHBROWNS

16-down – Benefit capturing the heart of Monty Python? : SNAKE

19-down – Most harsh-sounding notices in shop : RASPIEST

21-down – God limited by 24 hours, probably : IDARESAY

23-down – Finale of Blackpool’s summer run : LADDER

24-down – Johnny English getting into difficulty on bridge : RUBBER

26-down – Cocaine taken off freight ship : ARGO

28-down – Prince Andrew possibly owing around a thousand : DUKE

29-down – Labour losing Welsh constituency : SEAT

1-across – Wild horse in EastEnders has to die : MUSTANG

5-across – Leaf insect’s colourful display : PAGEANT

9-across – Chosen pen, so fork out : SPOKENFOR

10-across – Fireplace at home, no end of delight : INGLE

11-across – Dead on time? Hardly : LATE

12-across – Team almost broke into a holiday home : ASTONVILLA

14-across – Football is our world, more or less : SPHERE

15-across – Make home in a motor yacht: pardon? : AMNESTY

16-across – Very high temperatures in an area of sea : FORTIES

18-across – Old aristocrat holding new key : OPENER

20-across – Try to stop how old we are going on record : DISCOURAGE

21-across – Affected by drugs in school? : HIGH

24-across – At it, as a minimum : LEAST

25-across – How many people complete an entire jumbo? : PLANELOAD

26-across – Hope a lot are happy on one’s birthday : RETURNS

27-across – Naive, like the National Gallery after a heist? : ARTLESS

1-down – A dainty bit to eat – run out for wine : MOSEL

2-down – Use heroin to grow very fast : SHOOTUP

3-down – Thunderstruck, one day : AWED

4-down – Accelerate and foolishly persist in sporty effect : GOFASTERSTRIPES

5-down – No paragon, a stern criminal who may face expulsion : PERSONANONGRATA

6-down – Feels sad about national party’s complaints : GRIEVANCES

7-down – Our group follows Nurse Bell : ANGELUS

8-down – Others hold music to be healing : THERAPY

13-down – Cheer pilot, manoeuvring this? : HELICOPTER

16-down – Crab scraping on the roof? : FIDDLER

17-down – Get laptop going again to show holiday pictures : RESTART

19-down – Summary of long film, almost a long book : EPITOME

22-down – Shade tormented here? : HADES

23-down – Elevated temperature and pressure : HEAT

1-across – Value greatly as singer? : CHERISH

5-across – Compare white American coming in with sweetheart : BALANCE

10-across – Call round : RING

11-across – For one promoter going round it’s horrible – stay strong! : TOUGHITOUT

12-across – Man shot in the arm shouting : PHILIP

13-across – Cool touch? Sort of : INASENSE

14-across – Winger receiving ball turned like this, look : GOOSANDER

16-across – Shoot yak by Siberian border : STALK

17-across – Bully occasionally shut up about prison : GULAG

19-across – Like little ’un latching on to bosom – it should prevent problem later : ASTITCHIN

23-across – Might masochist do this religiously? Very much so : LIKEHELL

24-across – Hole up after Birkdale’s seventh, one down round start of eighteenth : LIELOW

26-across – Don’t go yet, can one shag hurt? : HANGONASEC

27-across – See 19 : TIME

28-across – Hit back, right? : REAREND

29-across – Payment and a bit extra in post : STIPEND

2-down – Resigned expression from most of crew in water? : HEIGHHO

3-down – Splendid drink knocked back : REGAL

4-down – Attack arrangement that’s working : SETUPON

6-down – Button it! A horny fellow’s seen round monastery : ASHRAM

7-down – Real jerk tailgating car, ignoring old woman : AUTHENTIC

8-down – No clues solved, in brief : COUNSEL

9-down – Empty seats basic unless travelling here : BUSINESSCLASS

15-down – He prefers to have his meals late : SCAVENGER

18-down – Go in truck – could be rain : URINATE

20-down – One about to punch sick sex criminal : ILLICIT

21-down – Feted test of stamina? : IRONMAN

22-down – Check on homes : REININ

25-down – Bar in ‘The Grapes’ closes – at ‘Crown’ : ESTOP

1-across – Struggling in lead for England, Southgate’s developed complex : HOUSING

5-across – A worker stops eschewing alcohol, making effort : ATTEMPT

9-across – Go over boundary of reasonable limit : RECAP

10-across – Rotter ultimately caught in base action didn’t go straight : MEANDERED

11-across – Old lady, a bit naughty, eating meat in judicial office : MAGISTRACY

12-across – Stagger with small and large quantity of wine? : STUN

14-across – Darn SMS auto-corrected writer of predictive text : NOSTRADAMUS

18-across – Revealing feature of French artwork that includes sci-fi picture : DECOLLETAGE

21-across – Row generating a stink : RANK

22-across – Home supporter hears groups of people fighting : INFANTRIES

25-across – That lady’s hugged by prancing poseur, a comic figure? : SUPERHERO

26-across – Adventure story, a gripping book in Biblical setting : SHEBA

27-across – What might cover features talk about for instance – His Majesty? : YASHMAK

28-across – Complimentary Cockney’s report of high-scoring football result : FORFREE

1-down – Fast runners saving a thousand pounds for sultanas : HAREMS

2-down – In Paris, a period to drink drop of Cognac 28 from bars : UNCAGE

3-down – Suggest dressing Oscar and Carol in regal fashion : IMPOSINGLY

4-down – One playing grand French song, forgetting opening line : GAMER

5-down – Hearing you in a Carmen opera song puzzles maestro : ARAUCARIA

6-down – He abandons the funny, cut-throat tradesman : TODD

7-down – Concerned with sea horse eating starter from Italy? Rice, maybe : MARITIME

8-down – Model turning up bags has meal order : TIDINESS

13-down – Person hired to plug in TV with rear side damaged : ADVERTISER

15-down – Literary figure in Beckett’s timeless novel : STEINBECK

16-down – It’s likely belligerent Olympian features in papers always : IDARESAY

17-down – School programs inspiring new, strong spirit : SCHNAPPS

19-down – Kind of equation involving 50 + 1? Not far off : LINEAR

20-down – See 1 Across : ESTATE

23-down – Remote area Charlie goes around : ALOOF

24-down – Wee tot’s play reduced by 20% : DRAM

1-across – Charlie’s into footwear that’s a disgrace : SCANDAL

5-across – Worker was returning tool : HANDSAW

9-across – This perhaps starts with hyacinths in full flower : WHIFF

10-across – Westward island volcanic eruption in which one’s ready : AVAILABLE

11-across – Discard pants in order to get into mucky stuff : GOCOMMANDO

12-across – Not quite short of cheese : BRIE

14-across – Mosaic sale settled after a fashion : TESSELLATED

18-across – First of rebels replaced by second royal supporters : MONARCHISTS

21-across – Showed off team : CREW

22-across – Prophet tours capital to find bloodsuckers : MOSQUITOES

25-across – Stars as a central character in Greek mythology : ANDROMEDA

26-across – Linen from Calvin Klein : INKLE

27-across – Immerse Señor Gonzales – outwardly distraught : ENGROSS

28-across – Calmed by medication, James Joyce finally went out : SEDATED

1-down – Secretive envelope with payment for the output of Thames Water? : SEWAGE

2-down – Each one welcomed to a pizza pie celebration : APIECE

3-down – Fed up with sexual vilifying : DEFAMATORY

4-down – In the morning, everyone turned into a beast : LLAMA

5-down – Speak to the man first to get a turban? : HEADDRESS

6-down – Love Bruce’s finale in The River : NILE

7-down – Pleasure seeker’s location? Say why boozer must be in there! : SYBARITE

8-down – Little knowledge extremely dangerous when most don’t work : WEEKENDS

13-down – Secret files and a disc to be formatted : CLASSIFIED

15-down – Boats that deliver beer or sherry : SCHOONERS

16-down – I came up and had a meal to bring about weight loss : EMACIATE

17-down – Potential loser may be grounded : UNDERDOG

19-down – Leaves item of jewellery to change hands : ROCKET

20-down – Rise of exotic dances : ASCEND

23-down – Reported partners of locks and docks : QUAYS

24-down – Record, second from Jo Brand : LOGO