Daily Answers

4-across – Copper right to enter spot – it’s safe : SECURE

6-across – Violet ladies’ underwear? Theodore trembled : VIBRATED

9-across – Beef meat : GROUSE

10-across – Spilling the beans about women engaging in group sex : SWINGING

11-across – Guardian is not partisan, after editing : PATRONSAINT

15-across – Cleaner in Post Office wearing fake ring : SHAMPOO

17-across – Little person from Warsaw one’s seen in a pond : TADPOLE

18-across – Deadly creature – he’ll like war, possibly : KILLERWHALE

22-across – Rumpus periodically follows media exercises : PRESSUPS

23-across – A Republican forbidding passion : ARDOUR

24-across – Awful love rat entertaining one satirical Frenchman : VOLTAIRE

25-across – Maybe bitter about odd parts of rugby jersey’s pattern? : ARGYLE

1-down – Painting outer parts of foyer enhances casino : FRESCO

2-down – Some achievement in whist, leading? You might blow it : TINWHISTLE

3-down – Weed in nature I’d cultivated : URINATED

4-down – E.g. envy about good job, one providing info for drivers : SIGNPOST

5-down – Split personality, perhaps, of actor in a shot : CROATIAN

7-down – Leader of Tories, crude for Labour : TOIL

8-down – Scoundrels perform leads in Gilbert and Sullivan : DOGS

12-down – Loot left aboard for killjoy : SPOILSPORT

13-down – Rubbish by a Conservative using spin : ROTATORY

14-down – Run through outskirts of Rochdale on black car : REHEARSE

16-down – Asian country’s king, in pain, sat awkwardly : PAKISTAN

19-down – Suspicious about the king’s call to arms : WARCRY

20-down – Wide boy and dignitaries turning up : SPIV

21-down – Whiskery aquatic mammal in the deep lake : SEAL

1-across – Suggested right way for ambitious young man? : WESTWARDS

6-across – See 26 : TYPE

8-across – Not without accepted rental adjustment : INTERNAL

9-across – Grass stuff going back and forth : MARRAM

10-across – Beach-like setting for hot drink : SHANDY

11-across – Pirate state acquires a Dürer composition : MARAUDER

12-across – Pads protecting large detective : HOLMES

15-across – Parking increase – starts to break even, thank heavens : PRAISEBE

16-across – Impressive old city takes on American philosopher : EPICURUS

19-across – Crown belittled by Duke – media frantic! : DIADEM

21-across – One on the up as college gets closer : ASCENDER

22-across – Officer rejected beer event site : LOCALE

24-across – Sound recorder: “World’s ultimate in noise modulation” : EDISON

25-across – Disheartened England supporters crowd round for drink : ESPRESSO

26-across – Brash character that’s used to stress? : BOLD

27-across – After end of the Athens debacle, the man put sword away : ENSHEATHE

1-down – Give a lift to wife married to creep : WINCH

2-down – Seabird requires total protection : STERNUM

3-down – Was successful Kentucky candidate unstable? : WONKY

4-down – Go round fair for fish appetizer : ROLLMOP

5-down – In Polish, indicate a city with an ancient history : SAMARKAND

6-down – Unexpected happenings might be the end of your trousers : TURNUPS

7-down – Pacific place involved with a bee : PEACEABLE

13-down – Not for nothing, stopped suffering with love : OPPOSEDTO

14-down – Moving in secret to stifle deputy head’s shrillness : STRIDENCE

17-down – Stopped admitting Republican folded : CREASED

18-down – What’s been written at great length of wall applications? : SCREEDS

20-down – Old political party that is not without a centre : ANCIENT

22-down – Decline when drinks announced : LAPSE

23-down – Vehicle-free place in Cumbria? That’s just a yarn! : LISLE

1-across – Arrange safe area online to see rocket : AFLEAIN

5-across – See 1 : ONESEAR

10-across – Supplied children with drugs at the start : ISSUED

11-across – Initially drummer of Foo Fighters joins one from Genesis at intervals : ONANDOFF

12-across – One that often represented the attack of Hull United having space up front : EMU

13-across – Neck about 8 pints : GALLON

14-across – Salt set out to take in sea-air occasionally : STEARATE

15-across – Supplier of milk shake cutting pipe down : UDDER

16-across – After split Ukippers perhaps assuming terms of European deals are all magnanimous : UNSELFISH

19-across – Geoff Hurst extremely upset over games not having been changed to suit the situation : OFFTHEPEG

21-across – Tree line with aspen at the edges : ROWAN

24-across – Flame thrower maybe cooking unwrapped croissants : ARSONIST

26-across – Need nurse back : ENTAIL

27-across – Paywall oddly hiding something that could be boring : AWL

28-across – What’s represented by Cupid’s bow for example is token of affection : LOVEKNOT

29-across – Unclear about ear-piercing style essentially : CLOUDY

30-across – Battery circuits – these are for private training purposes? : ASSAULT

31-across – See 30 : COURSES

2-down – Media franchise also stole material possibly breaking firm promises : FASTAND

3-down – Enthusiastic nonsense that is seen in electronic books : EBULLIENT

4-down – Where City must go to make decent cut : INDENT

6-down – News about 11 penalties editor tidied up : NEATENED

7-down – Wines on the counter around start of Easter feast : SEDER

8-down – When proper advertising watchdog gets on to fraud very well : ASFITAS

9-down – Put hours in right away and slowly develop residential area : HOUSINGESTATE

17-down – Entrance men after party under cover? : FRONTDOOR

18-down – Icon wanting cold beer turned up outside local : REGIONAL

20-down – See 2 : FURIOUS

22-down – See 8 : AFIDDLE

23-down – It might make fast section of level crossing : VELCRO

25-down – Work’s Oscar party’s opening on time : OPERA

1-across – A look maintained by Starmer, with British sangfroid : APLOMB

5-across – Best ever performance from leftist full of goodness : RECORD

8-across – Son remains in Cambridge University to succeed : SMASHIT

9-across – Computer file appended to mail for researcher : POSTDOC

11-across – Dope and beer left in building for event involving parties : GENERALELECTION

12-across – See 18 : RAIN

13-across – Government naturally welcomes learner drivers here : GOLFCOURSE

17-across – Discouraging inaccurate activity on 13 : OFFPUTTING

18-across – Check revenue, gutted by tax : REST

20-across – Hammered pale worker’s failed balancing act : TIGHTROPEWALKER

23-across – Articles from Germany and the UK, say, about craze : DERANGE

24-across – Double whiskey brought in to Jacob’s dwelling? : TWOFOLD

25-across – Farage is hanging around charming companion : GEISHA

26-across – Helen’s lover speaking drunkenly in priest’s district : PARISH

2-down – Actor in a suit with no pattern turning up fine suit : PLAINTIFF

3-down – Parents mustn’t have married different people : OTHERS

4-down – During binge, sober stars pusillanimously withdraw : BOTTLEOUT

5-down – Drive back from Carlisle, perhaps heading north : REPEL

6-down – Singer Johnny Rotten’s no. 1 covered by one of The Police – a cultivated product : CASHCROP

7-down – Bones possibly set, with a different bit at the end? : RADII

8-down – TV magnate with fraudulent investing scoffed, given a sweetener : SUGARCOATED

10-down – Presumed crook judge ticked off loses head : CONJECTURED

14-down – Better to keep good list in a part of the index? : FINGERTIP

15-down – Queen upset king breaks often shaky, special bonds : REEFKNOTS

16-down – Regularly shout ‘cheats’ where politicians speechify : HUSTINGS

19-down – Figure holding Virginia up is Grace’s partner : FAVOUR

21-down – Current prince deprived of electronic stuff : GORGE

22-down – Endless test about case of police work at the Met : OPERA

1-across – A cat knocking over nice grey power source : ATOMICENERGY

9-across – Food group is regularly wrapped in paper : FRUIT

10-across – In America, it makes Joe eat fierce curry : CAFETIERE

11-across – 24 down bored by current Republican actor : OLIVIER

12-across – Yellow bird : CHICKEN

13-across – Heard spiel about car showroom : DEALERSHIP

15-across – Spot of blue material : SMUT

18-across – One dismissed by head cook : CHEF

19-across – Note wonderful fashion, I see : SUPERTONIC

22-across – A world-beating fine hotel : WALDORF

24-across – Touring end of pier eating assorted rock : GRANITE

25-across – It’s a crime to break truce : ARMISTICE

26-across – Old man sat cooking dish : PASTA

27-across – Rickety garden shed stores North American weapons : HANDGRENADES

1-down – A lecturer to ponder – starter’s missing salt : ALUMINATE

2-down – Sketches exposed columns : OUTLINES

3-down – Over race, I pick up bit of cramp and suffer : INCUR

4-down – Powerful drug, strong etc working in 5 : EFFECTIVE

5-down – Involve roughly 10 + 1 + 49? : ENTAIL

6-down – European consents to remove coat before king : GREEK

7-down – Give fines during road trip : AFFORD

8-down – Over £10 for an apple? : RENNET

14-down – Small tuft of hair? That’s right, more than tiddly : SQUIFFIER

16-down – Soldier meets elite soldiers to gather tops of trees, including small parts of logs : MANTISSAS

17-down – Bound to be caught after initially slogging : STRAPPED

18-down – Wife quietly wearing fur, treading carefully around this? : COWPAT

20-down – Monarch raising some plesiosaur : CAESAR

21-down – Drunk upset by heads of shandy, each drink chucked : TOSSED

23-down – Lover not finished with woman’s proposition : LEMMA

24-down – New information surrounding 19 : GREEN