Daily Answers

1-across – Everyman in area set up for renovation with toolbox item : TAPEMEASURE

9-across – Chicken, headless bird reflected, finally complex psychedelic figure : HENDRIX

10-across – Silver fork’s prongs grabbed hearty stews : TAGINES

11-across – Remove tip from inflammation for wedding, perhaps : UNION

12-across – Timeless, fat, ultimately fictional man! : FALSTAFF

14-across – Applause given to guitar style considered best : HANDPICKED

15-across – Person at computer rejected just over 57% of résumés : USER

17-across – Clever pig : BABE

19-across – Brownish water glass not holding litre : BURNTUMBER

21-across – Disraeli, noted Israelite : BENJAMIN

23-across – Reportedly, bashful bear that’s hunted for fur : COYPU

25-across – The French newspaper is essentially ultra Marxian : LEFTIST

26-across – Area of skin peeled, removing outer layers – using this? : SCALPEL

27-across – Chandler put out by big surprise : THUNDERCLAP

1-down – Etonians managed without a worry : TENSION

2-down – Noisily, dad cuts veg : PARSNIPS

3-down – 9am to rise and dress : MAXI

4-down – Again, get in dubious cosmetic terminology : ANTIAGEING

5-down – Clockwork Orange author’s innermost desires : URGES

6-down – Primarily, entities numbering nine envisaged as discrete sets? : ENNEADS

7-down – But … but misprinted Bible hasn’t one representation of idea : THOUGHTBUBBLE

8-down – Invite disaster when raft’s rulebook thrown out : ASKFORTROUBLE

13-down – Friendly and well served with charming interior : ACQUAINTED

16-down – Night out: wrap up with club : PUBCRAWL

18-down – Geordie wearing suit for charity performance : BENEFIT

20-down – Oddly blue with pay rise and happy to get swindled : BUYAPUP

22-down – A little roadie unloads, getting cheers : ADIEU

24-down – Ras Tafari, somewhat elevated emperor : TSAR

1-across – High, as mature hams : AMATEURS

5-across – Working with American on island, heading west : USABLE

10-across – Level up late, audacious to some extent : PLATEAU

11-across – Unsettled, startled, devoured abruptly : OVERDUE

12-across – On 2nd of March, sit back for storyteller : AESOP

13-across – A better piano? Fitzgerald is unaccompanied : ACAPPELLA

14-across – Failure for starter, summer pudding: one’s not swallowed much : NOBODYSFOOL

18-across – Manic choral arrangement befitting royals : MONARCHICAL

21-across – Races after admiral, oddly wanting to make speeches : DIATRIBES

23-across – A Brontë vacuously missing the point : EMILY

24-across – Customer spluttering ‘Rudeness!’ cut short : ENDUSER

25-across – Horribly legally decapitated : AWFULLY

26-across – Greek character, politician, heartless tiny fool : NUMPTY

27-across – It’s likely that Ray’s idea is kinky : IDARESAY

1-down – Request loudly a spa treatment : APPEAL

2-down – Tennis champ’s a lot of fun in Spain, I agree : AGASSI

3-down – Perhaps Magritte, creator of unsettling images, the old revolutionary, produces revelation : EYEOPENER

4-down – Fruit salad ingredient? That’s not technically a fruit etc etc : RHUBARBRHUBARB

6-down – Expensive taste epicure has : STEEP

7-down – Gall bladder – boo! – removed without hesitation : BADBLOOD

8-down – Examines cocktails in the Queen Vic : EYEBALLS

9-down – Cruddy actor was cast as Chicken : COWARDYCUSTARD

15-down – Horribly evil friar’s removed a tree : SILVERFIR

16-down – A little insect eaten by son : SMIDGEON

17-down – Everyman is grabbing ten and dancing together : INTANDEM

19-down – Searches for weapons : RIFLES

20-down – Primarily, something your zodiac’s ‘yoking’ gives you? : SYZYGY

22-down – Regularly defective drier’s best turned off and on again : RESET

1-across – Eat rice, get convoluted modern device : ECIGARETTE

6-across – Revolutionary plans to send annoying messages : SPAM

9-across – Advanced highly rated holding company : PRECOCIOUS

10-across – Measure that’s used to exercise prisoners : YARD

11-across – Dish, bland, pig and duck purée : BLACKPUDDING

15-across – Thin stole : PINCHED

16-across – Restroom mostly refreshed for Spanish performers : TOREROS

17-across – Saves, regrets holding keyboard key : RESCUES

19-across – Primarily, remote oceanic section, some skirting East Antarctica? : ROSSSEA

20-across – Nicholas II’s preferred way to serve vodka? : WHITERUSSIAN

23-across – Voice in maëlstrom regularly lost : ALTO

24-across – Styled á la Titian etc, for starters? : ITALIANATE

25-across – Maëlstrom’s exciting in East End : EDDY

26-across – Sculptor’s King And His Victim Eating Duck : HENRYMOORE

1-down – Observe onset of flipping apocalypse : ESPY

2-down – Part of bike, aluminium chain : IKEA

3-down – Play with plaything? : ADOLLSHOUSE

4-down – Shown European, persuaded Tory to leave : EVINCED

5-down – Take trick before east voided and boast : TRUMPET

7-down – Quiet deceiver concealing silver: is master revealing theft? : PLAGIARISM

8-down – Hot old oven on cliff somewhere in Africa : MADAGASCAR

12-down – Somewhere in Africa, challenges Everyman to leave meat containing hint of aniseed : DARESSALAAM

13-down – Large creature and small creature’s whitish, says Spooner : SPERMWHALE

14-down – Tailored dean’s suits by yourself : UNASSISTED

18-down – Dash hurriedly with temperature dropping, dash to and fro : SHUTTLE

19-down – One standing on leaf? Tea leaf? : RUSTLER

21-down – A month in Spain : MAYO

22-down – Kelly’s inheritance? : GENE

1-across – Catching cold, remedy immediately : ATONCE

4-across – Delivery with keeper initially missing, run yielded, cricket’s shameful, concerning : CSECTION

9-across – To the point that peacekeepers fired back : UNTIL

10-across – Whupping good, replacing starter, moving fast : GALLOPING

11-across – German philosopher, no-good rotter : HEEL

12-across – Hint describing piece of language? : CLUE

13-across – Break in Adriatic city : SPLIT

14-across – Primarily, big English opus wherein Unferð loses face? : BEOWULF

16-across – Clothing essential at golf course : TEES

17-across – Maid of honour eating words at wedding : IDO

20-across – Painful condition overwhelming one bird : IBIS

21-across – Some frown at a shampoo being depicted in War and Peace : NATASHA

24-across – Window concealed by signori elusively : ORIEL

25-across – Being overheard, piped down : BLUE

26-across – German philosopher’s hypocrisy called out : KANT

28-across – Denied visa, we’d do in resort : DISAVOWED

29-across – Dice with 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, 216 : CUBES

30-across – Servant comes before some French king, wanting support : HELPDESK

31-across – Type of tennis shot: very weak-spirited, coming up short : VOLLEY

1-down – Going round Dubai? Bah! It’s along the coast : ABUDHABI

2-down – May, perhaps: leader deposed by party taken in by exotic creature? Exactly : ONTHEDOT

3-down – Left, in bed, a little horse : COLT

5-down – Devil turns ego fluently – being this? : SILVERTONGUED

6-down – Gloats over achievement loudly, part of old Boat Race : CROWSFEET

7-down – Twice I see in France the frosty figure : ICICLE

8-down – Deny most of teenage mucking about : NEGATE

10-down – Good angle, taking in ancient game where all can see : GOLDFISHBOWLS

15-down – Not popular with crackers, Devon Blue : UNBELOVED

18-down – I almost tolerate most of nonsense somewhere in Turkey : ISTANBUL

19-down – Alas, today’s as dismal : SADTOSAY

22-down – Fuss when two of hearts switched for diamonds with gizmo : DOODAH

23-down – Rudolf, the German behind something energising locomotives to begin with? : DIESEL

27-down – Copy of doohickey regularly backfiring : ECHO

1-across – ‘Unit of energy’? … ‘inert gas’? … technical gibberish : JARGON

4-across – Trump’s, perhaps, after getting elected: ‘Bigly!’ : INSPADES

9-across – They loathe seeing radiators losing energy : HATERS

10-across – Perhaps pen letters in Athens describing ‘the empty pasty’ : MUTESWAN

12-across – Revolutionary in charge, suppressing Polish: sweet : CHERUBIC

13-across – Lager, one repeatedly called for by Brando : STELLA

15-across – Found the goat striving to run amok : GETOUTOFHAND

18-across – Beast that’s not spotted in the wild, clapboard elk : BLACKLEOPARD

21-across – Chorale not about to be arranged for Asian city : LAHORE

22-across – Italian physicist, with anger, becomes prolific essayist : VOLTAIRE

24-across – Waiting, backed up; EU repeatedly getting into N. Ireland question; good! : QUEUEING

25-across – Brief pint, drinking ‘Queen & Country’ : BELIZE

26-across – Yech! I’d nastily consume beasts like anteaters : ECHIDNAS

27-across – What drug pusher might say at entrance: ‘Sweet dreams’ : IDEALS

1-down – Avant-gardist seen in can, euphemistically : JOHNCAGE

2-down – Perhaps gîtes in the Dordogne to be overrun with vermin : RETREATS

3-down – Novel, one that’s familiar to you and Everyman : OURMUTUALFRIEND

5-down – Not a single American displays common sense : NOUS

6-down – Blasted horns, portent before goal for team : PRESTONNORTHEND

7-down – Primarily, delay a while, delay, loiter endlessly? : DAWDLE

8-down – Arrangement with cheap horn for Spooner : SYNTAX

11-down – Desired broccoli, essentially producing wind : SIROCCO

14-down – Most ayatollahs brought up a vegetable : SHALLOT

16-down – Largely unadorned little Italian church? Actually, for starters, it’s anything but! : BASILICA

17-down – Head after comic figure, sloth : IDLENESS

19-down – It commemorates an unpleasant mixture of bacteria and saliva : PLAQUE

20-down – Beat with run in the silence : THRESH

23-down – Ancient empire where bionic man oddly not seen : INCA