Daily Answers

9-across – Don’t eat after this Tuesday – be perverse! : USEBYDATE

10-across – Unfashionable party cap : OUTDO

11-across – Grizzly, being initially bankrupt? : BRUIN

12-across – Rescue tank one installed in exhibition room : SALVATION

13-across – Start getting ill after toxic element : LEADOFF

14-across – High road at last gets uneven : DRUGGED

17-across – See 19 : GIANT

19-across – On director’s debut, Titanic offers possible star role : RED

20-across – Great month to get a brilliant body transformation : SUPER

21-across – It’s wrong to bind hands, causing distress : TORMENT

22-across – Classic film – when Jack is dropped : ASTARIS

24-across – Shock absorber from wagon that is circling trail : CARTILAGE

26-across – Latin ‘h’ : LATCH

28-across – Book shortage predicament: there’s no escaping it : BLACK

29-across – Key European city: it’s about to get US city backing : ESSENTIAL

1-down – Check roadside’s sound : CURB

2-down – Mounted a Grease production finally, in which, potentially, 22 ac./8 : NEBULA

3-down – ‘Journey’s end … night of drifting into bliss’, a poetic death : DYINGOFTHE

4-down – Mountain area service provided : MASSIF

5-down – Private duel botched by duke after a brief time : SECLUDED

6-down – See 20 Across : NOVA

7-down – Way to call someone ‘Lynch’ : STRINGUP

8-down – See 22 Across : BORN

13-down – See 3 : LIGHT

15-down – Tungsten’s unstable around lithium – troublesome : UNSETTLING

16-down – Flights requiring instrument’s rotation : DARTS

18-down – Subcontinental city before rain spread about the land : AGRARIAN

19-down – Put off taking vehicle to north, went back the same way : RETRACED

22-down – Discrimination shown by moving images : AGEISM

23-down – Bar hosts film marketing activity : RETAIL

24-down – One with little experience to lead a country : CUBA

25-down – Trendy state, 28 : INKY

27-down – See 28 Across : HOLE

9-across – Yogi breaks cane when spanked – it’s deviancy : ABERRANCE

10-across – Backstreet in Paris? Within it, the French and Swiss whizz : EULER

11-across – Game to don legwear this person’s possibly returned for a fee : HOSTAGE

12-across – Basic textbooks right to be adopted by 3, 5 and 13? : PRIMERS

13-across – Relation of audiobook version of Zola novel? : NANNA

14-across – Refused or declined to smuggle dope from the east : ABNEGATED

16-across – Clumsily lost Ed Sheeran CD, showing no emotion : COLDHEARTEDNESS

19-across – London venue millennial’s outside, with Dua Lipa playing : PALLADIUM

21-across – Pick up £1,000 tip : GLEAN

22-across – This prevents experiments with Spooner’s ideal complexion : TESTBAN

23-across – Singer of a lot of rock, as well as Gershwin : SHAKIRA

24-across – Maybe Guardian compiler welcomed by Lady Gaga : DAILY

25-across – Injured hip? Need package of rare drug : EPHEDRINE

1-down – In the main, one may use this item, roughly cutting bread : BATHINGCAP

2-down – Friend, without hesitation, getting Boy’s Own : PERSONAL

3-down – Singer of song inspiring an incredible energy : ARIANA

4-down – What’s inhaled by queen – king’s rolling a joint : KNEE

5-down – Observer getting excited, tweeting French word that comes up : PEEPINGTOM

6-down – Get ticked off like a barrister or a judge? : BEWIGGED

7-down – Harry Styles, foxier than everyone else : SLYEST

8-down – Flipping painful love for Oedipus : EROS

14-down – Worked out base 3 in Asian location : ARABIANSEA

15-down – Uninterested in big news for the Spencers in 1981 : DISENGAGED

17-down – Rash son holds former pupil up, and senior ones : HEADBOYS

18-down – Shunning company using computers, I see, after trifling returns : EREMITIC

20-down – Female’s left reeling as life’s a bitch in Hollywood : LASSIE

21-down – See 3 : GRANDE

22-down – Barber’s poignant adagio band played finally : TODD

23-down – Note banks periodically loth to give a bit of capital : SOHO

1-across – Being green will involve experiencing some dampness there : BEHINDTHEEARS

10-across – Lord gets a treatment from experienced performer : OLDSTAGER

11-across – Whip is extremely keen – when available : KNOUT

12-across – Host project launch : THROW

13-across – Plant which could discharge boron to cause intoxication : EUPHORBIA

14-across – Casual type of relationship old queen has available : ONOFFER

16-across – Kick around family that’s failing : TANKING

18-across – Shoot short camp routine : TENDRIL

20-across – Disagreement voiced on the way down : DISSENT

21-across – Tackle defender – it will avoid embarrassment : FACESAVER

23-across – Only some of Mughal alphabet is permitted in Islam : HALAL

24-across – Very good case for one in Scotland being competitive : VYING

25-across – Strike spoils travelling around in hills : DOWNTOOLS

26-across – Bizarre BBC rant sealed extra coverage : BELTANDBRACES

2-down – Duck low to get cover : EIDERDOWN

3-down – Enthusiastic over wife coming along with you : INTOW

4-down – Setter perhaps has seven they say for each of yours : DOGYEAR

5-down – Barely able to put together complex set : HARDPUT

6-down – Should Ken sabotage these hunters? : ELKHOUNDS

7-down – Introducing really healthy organic meals benefits figure : RHOMB

8-down – It’s used for shooting horse with record speed : COLTFORTYFIVE

9-down – Opposition to unreliable poor getting a decent hand : STRAIGHTFLUSH

15-down – Anticipation of battle to acquire minerals : FORESIGHT

17-down – I trade in perfect place … : IDEALHOME

19-down – … that’s occupied, and looking well used : LIVEDIN

20-down – Engineers break word, abandoning alternative for dodgy sites : DARKWEB

22-down – Country church sits on return of priest : CHILE

23-down – Funny reaction about origin of tantric yoga format : HATHA

9-across – Praising organisation of Lady Gaga’s ultimate tour : ADULATORY

10-across – Some Liverpool girls going back home up north : IGLOO

11-across – Snack at Subway including Japanese dish : KATSU

12-across – Rock cover generates complaint for Young Ones : CRADLECAP

13-across – Celebrated beauty releasing hard rock song by the 2s : ELENORE

14-across – Win on board following heart from Madison Keys? : ISLANDS

17-across – Shell trace missing filling station : TESTA

19-across – Rook reflected in binoculars : CON

20-across – Politician about to get into dope : GREEN

21-across – Hide excitement about ending of Grease : LEATHER

22-across – Billionaire invested in revolutionary American plant : CHELONE

24-across – Contribute to unlimited grant for artist : DONATELLO

26-across – Big star has change of heart in The Birds : HAWKS

28-across – Technology used in the Emirates enthralling current Conservative minister : VICAR

29-across – Confronted viewer and shouted to the audience : EYEBALLED

1-down – Champion team is behind : BACK

2-down – Swimmer raced naked to go under time : TURTLE

3-down – Healer with abrupt disposition over procedure at hospital : NATUROPATH

4-down – Little tablet you got me : TOUCHE

5-down – Eddy is one at orgy in Barking : GYRATION

6-down – Bangladesh’s opener with sick note : BILL

7-down – Soldier entertained by dream girl in resort : ALICANTE

8-down – Food concession outside university : SOUP

13-down – Old troll regularly getting acclaim : EXTOL

15-down – A2 had George Lucas initially confused : LOGGERHEAD

16-down – Past wrong supported by church : SINCE

18-down – New snack: crackers in S-shaped tube : SWANNECK

19-down – Strange case cracked by examination in part of the Pacific : CORALSEA

22-down – 2-wheeled vehicle failing to start : COOTER

23-down – Writer that runs from Ipswich to Felixstowe : ORWELL

24-down – Winger at odds with 26 : DOVE

25-down – Act 5? : TURN

27-down – See 1 : SIDE

1-across – Back to front objects without style : ENDWAYS

5-across – Very large opening for paint remover? : SOLVENT

9-across – Book some travelling sweep : BESOM

10-across – Rhizome, flower tip as well, rejected by reserve : ROOTSTOCK

11-across – Made do with iron arrangement for a traditional scalar structure : DORIANMODE

12-across – Cat gets over drugged state : PUMA

14-across – Ulterior motive – as a solver might discern in stag : HIDDENAGENDA

18-across – Agitator reduced temperature at Moscow mint? : TROUBLEMAKER

21-across – African people incarcerated when borders removed : HUTU

22-across – Since start of Cup Final a ‘new’ heartless City’s domination : ASCENDANCY

25-across – Marsupial as well as one canine housed in compartment : BANDICOOT

26-across – Hock about right with this? : PRAWN

27-across – ‘Eggs Placed Over Paving’ gains show prize : ROSETTE

28-across – New York suburbs crazy to change leader : YONKERS

1-down – English manufacturing source needs frame to make material : EMBODY

2-down – Artists raised in gloomy environment create Venus de Milo look? : DISARM

3-down – Playing marimba’s OK, Peter Pan-style : ARMSAKIMBO

4-down – Crush of people to see actor’s bottom in dirty film : SCRUM

5-down – Woods in an unsettled area of Wales : SNOWDONIA

6-down – Latin name of tree belt : LASH

7-down – Articulate rock band question tune’s rendering : ELOQUENT

8-down – Chinese possibly follow a direction : TAKEAWAY

13-down – One upgrade tentatively settled : AGREEDUPON

15-down – ‘Add vinegar etc to fish’ : Jamie’s ultimate restaurant rule? : DRESSCODE

16-down – In court, as ballet dancers often are : ATTHEBAR

17-down – What constitutes a list of arguments against storing canvas? : CONTENTS

19-down – Bill Clinton famously claimed he didn’t fit after being elected : INHALE

20-down – 100-year gravitational source linked to inverted star constellation : CYGNUS

23-down – Debut made by crossword clue solver? : ENTRY

24-down – Boost Chinese and UK measures of distance : LIFT