Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – He halted dig unexpectedly, being delirious : LIGHTHEADED

7-across – Supply embroidery with points? : SEW

9-across – English pursuing common sense? Pointless : NOUSE

10-across – He delivers accounts including Norway – slapdash Eurocrat : RACONTEUR

11-across – Speculate one will return with anger, seeing pet aversion : BETENOIRE

12-across – If only Iceland would import some herring to begin with : IWISH

13-across – Twists otter heartlessly to make a knot : WINDSOR

15-across – Exec, oddly stupid, ‘Head of Tasking’ : SUIT

18-across – Most of maple chopped up for wood : PALM

20-across – Talented cooks taking time to get perfect consistency : ALDENTE

23-across – Twist its limb to subdue rook : WRING

24-across – Loser in nine-piece muffling note encountering enmity? Not half : NONENTITY

26-across – Those with hourglass figures such as gets German mister in a ferment : EGGTIMERS

27-across – Splendid beer knocked back : REGAL

28-across – No time in prison for gentleman : SIR

29-across – He’d head navy incompetently, being oppressive : HEAVYHANDED

1-down – Good actors take these weapons : LONGBOWS

2-down – ‘Not guilty!’: fervently I denied sin : GLUTTONY

3-down – Ornamental item Prince put out as promotional device : TIEIN

4-down – From longer ago, more reminiscent of a certain nobleman? : EARLIER

5-down – Devoid of energy, heartily sickened author : DICKENS

6-down – Primarily, dressed and provided with something to make a bang? : DANDIFIED

7-down – Startled, since Conservative presenting agreeable views : SCENIC

8-down – Row about your quaint local VIP : WORTHY

14-down – To get across good line is hard : SPANGLISH

16-down – Mad Enid hung around : UNHINGED

17-down – Visibly ashamed to admit vehicle turned to scrap, perhaps : RECYCLED

19-down – He led resurgent Africa : MANDELA

20-down – Campaigners wanting many set free : AMNESTY

21-down – Affected, vacuous tidings? : TWEETS

22-down – Meddle with tariff in Germany? Partially : FINGER

25-down – Opera standard? Not quite : NORMA

1-across – Translate Korea’s anthem? I’m not sure of that one : ASKMEANOTHER

10-across – Rosalind’s lover is somewhere in Florida : ORLANDO

11-across – File with misrepresented dates disguising a tryst at first : DATASET

12-across – Women’s Institute introducing politicians as ‘namby-pambys’ : WIMPS

13-across – Starter missing final touch, brunch with half missing: dig in! : ENTRENCH

15-across – Not qualified, installing kitchen unit, eternally buoyant : UNSINKABLE

16-across – Head toppled, it’s a Russian leader? : TSAR

18-across – Enjoys accommodation : DIGS

20-across – According to Welsh woman, jazz fan is hairy beast : PERSIANCAT

22-across – Monarch reserving no time : KNOTTING

24-across – Term of endearment that sounds the same as ‘dear’ when uttered : HEART

26-across – GM-free cargo in dingy : ORGANIC

27-across – I might get boring here: do this to your bicycle chain : OILWELL

28-across – Worst thing a crossword setter could say? Beats me : IHAVENTACLUE

2-down – Age-old battle for spicy sausages : SALAMIS

3-down – Work out, in sum, a number : MINUSONE

4-down – It’s auctioned often : ALOT

5-down – Kind of sheepdog’s tongue : OLDENGLISH

6-down – One with spite and broken heart : HATER

7-down – Begrudges accommodation costs outside Home Counties : RESENTS

8-down – In dialogue, ex-chancellor and nationalist leader? Yes? No? Dunno : HOWWOULDIKNOW

9-down – That ill-sorted muddle suggests things are tricky to anticipate : ITSHARDTOTELL

14-down – A celebrant converted in temple : TABERNACLE

17-down – Broad baby’s complaint about knitted hat : CATHOLIC

19-down – Scrambled egg containing coddled roe I will serve king : GEORGEI

21-down – French cat finds French drink where French drink is produced : CHATEAU

23-down – Silver not returning to far-off island state : TONGA

25-down – Primarily, dope or lazy thinker? : DOLT

1-across – Tiddly oaf never shakes? I don’t believe it : FORHEAVENSSAKE

10-across – Brief gives bum steer : TERSE

11-across – Spice Girl given cautions about counterfeit goods : FORGERIES

12-across – Traditional intro in Raiders remake : DEARSIR

13-across – Web implicated, diet abandoned where people eat : DINETTE

14-across – ‘Uh’ sound elicited by kitsch wardrobe : SCHWA

16-across – Arbitration with no time for deep thought : MEDIATION

19-across – Suffering when a conservative follows heartless, reactionary group : PURGATORY

20-across – Act immorally with American in snotty enclosure : SINUS

22-across – On ‘scone’, rendering given by reactionaries : NEOCONS

25-across – Batman’s seen in this hoax in American resort : CAPECOD

27-across – Bisected protozoan – 50% missing very soon : INHALFAMO

28-across – Nannies essentially depicted in musical movie : ANNIE

29-across – Bashed fifth toe? Holler just because you can : FORTHEHELLOFIT

2-down – Early bit of devotion: rousing her at four : OURFATHER

3-down – Cobbler does this for despicable people : HEELS

4-down – Amoral foe tampered with sports car : ALFAROMEO

5-down – Wild deer on both sides of river went astray : ERRED

6-down – Big mugs muffled passage on fancy keyboard instruments : STEINWAYS

7-down – Fatalist will lose weight to become famous : ALIST

8-down – Oriental festival supported by nationalist : EASTERN

9-down – Quarrelling dads to wrestle : ATODDS

15-down – Religious leader with a ‘tally-ho!’: a maverick : AYATOLLAH

17-down – Seat of learning choosy lad declined : DAYSCHOOL

18-down – 19, simple-minded one : INNOCENTI

19-down – Religious leader quiet concerning difference of opinion : PONTIFF

21-down – Primarily, somewhere you don’t necessarily expect Yukonese? : SYDNEY

23-down – As an alternative, including the alternative : OTHER

24-down – Small potatoes!? A tremendous success! : SMASH

26-down – Scotsman in post office, one of 6 : PIANO