Daily Answers

8-across – Fragments tire 5 out : DETRITUS

9-across – Hallucinatory endeavour to keep one very quiet : TRIPPY

10-across – A Roman character embracing Greek one in street : AVENUE

11-across – Dependable left-wing sort of university? : REDBRICK

12-across – Take notice of shop’s stocktaking : PSST

13-across – Pig gobbling wood and brass, maybe, from adjustable aperture : SASHWINDOW

15-across – Photographer of fish : SNAPPER

16-across – Artist’s little image: Fool With Nothing On : PICASSO

18-across – Returns south in reversion to type : THROWSBACK

19-across – Send message that’s offensive about 10 : TEXT

20-across – One pound return on ship with energy-free fuel — that’s heavenly! : BLISSFUL

22-across – Kindness to a 5 in 4 : FAVOUR

23-across – Jar containing new unpleasant smell that’s yet to come : UNBORN

24-across – Garlanded United, nursing broken heart : WREATHED

1-down – Folios under threat? : LEAVESONTHELINE

2-down – Not starting 20 spoof? : WRONGTYPEOFSNOW

3-down – Skinhead, as one leaves the hairdresser’s, lacking emphasis : STRESSLESS

4-down – Garments adopted by dry emperor’s champ­ion : TSARIST

5-down – Virile character’s incomplete investigation : STUD

6-down – Rang Tim? : MIGRANTACTIVITY

7-down – One having nooky with copper in river, all wearing glasses : SPECIOUSEXCUSES

14-down – Supposing setter enters beaten and boozy? : WHISKIFIED

17-down – Chicks holding down place of execution : GALLOWS

21-down – Typeface in which to acquire a name? : FONT

7-across – Nowhere is unimportant : NEITHER

8-across – Particle of iron needing minor change : FERMION

9-across – Colour associated with Aphrodite : CYAN

10-across – In modest clothing, greetings bursting out : DEHISCENT

12-across – In the dark, guide just terribly defective : USTTE

13-across – Tight-fisted party — in Britain, the left : NEARSIDE

15-across – Like some friends to be given food, including slice of apple : FEAD

16-across – See 7 : THERE

17-across – One swimming alone? : SOLE

18-across – What the Observer does: keep following the Guardian : WATCHDOG

20-across – A day good to be in : AMONG

21-across – Caught with drink, one’s beaten : SNAREDRUM

22-across – Don’t reveal much at first — try to find out? : MASK

24-across – See 7 : HERENOR

25-across – One now not seen in pub, having gone missing, drunk? : ASHTRAY

1-down – A number of girls live very superficially : BEVY

2-down – Homosexual couple adopt son, just landed here? : STANSTED

3-down – Sound of gong and fiddle : MEDDLE

4-down – Sunday get away, taking in a picture : SEASCAPE

5-down – Fragments making appearance on board vessel : SMIENS

6-down – Heavy drinker gets in another round — hence black mark? : SOOT

11-down – No agriculturalist, old tribesman diverts great river : HUNTERGAR

12-down – United male assembly : ULEMA

14-down – Leaders of domestic football get behind Jeremy’s anthem : DFLAG

16-down – Extremely desirable fox that is in favour : TODIEFOR

17-down – Most made out knight’s winning move : SMODMATE

19-down – Cable to our boss patiently worked on : COAXED

20-down – In St John’s Island, head right to the end for air : ATMOSP

21-down – Relative defends European views, not orthodox : SIES

23-down – Pour water on small tree : SOAK

7-across – Performing great act of wickedness, one is expelled from halls : SINATRA

8-across – Nancy’s the marriage partner and source of comfort when travelling : LEGROOM

9-across – Loud commotion and blue air in Lisbon? : FADO

10-across – Farah competes with sailor to be 7? : MOVIESTAR

12-across – Italian barman slipping drug into spirit : BERIO

13-across – Cultivating hybrid at present time : BIRTHDAY

15-across – Let it snow, blanketing little birds : TITS

16-across – Catty utterance of 20 down, extremely ungraceful : MIAUL

17-across – Retired wimps fret : STEW

18-across – Grace Kelly after marriage forbidding and discounting Germans : GRIMALDI

20-across – Plain-speaking 7 : FRANK

21-across – Unexpectedly sing Moon River for somebody in church : MONSIGNOR

22-across – Miss Gardner, going on 50, is hot stuff! : LAVA

24-across – She’s skilled at working 17 across of 7 : ARTISAN

25-across – Expression of excitement about single 7’s sausage : BOLONEY

1-down – Girl, a 7, can answer : TINA

2-down – Mafiosi ram Oscar in unusual places : CAMORRAS

3-down – Rhyming game and jam with hum? : CRAMBO

4-down – Perhaps rye drinking leads to blindness and rotting of the brain : CEREBRAL

5-down – Tedious routine in cold church is something that sustains one : CRUTCH

6-down – Lead in Pal Joey perhaps turning up in Sorry! : POOR

11-down – Bishop and Rat Pack 7 with touching resonance : VIBRATION

12-down – Pipeline between Britain and Arabia : BRIAR

14-down – Smart guy downing cake regularly after beer : ALECK

16-down – 17 across for 7 in mug, all 17 across-ed : MULLIGAN

17-down – Male with parts in High Society going ahead with one leg : STALLION

19-down – Married people opposed to prayer? : MANTIS

20-down – Have multiple offspring to argue greatly over : FARROW

21-down – Capital fellow is hurt and cross : MARX

23-down – Gerry, Chester or Humphrey? : VEEP

1-across – Blue clothes first, perhaps? : LOWGEAR

5-across – One with special advantage is in the drink, they say? : INSIDER

9-across – Currency of Iceland in a rut : DINAR

10-across – Lottery in hand, oddly, after card removed : WITHDRAWN

11-across – Just eastern Chinese dynasty sold houses : EVENHANDED

12-across – Goodwood’s cut : GASH

14-across – Tell to seal mouth after Beethoven’s Ninth, a line combining different tunes : CONTRAPUNTAL

18-across – Blank cheque cashed with random initials, the balance imbalanced! : CARTEBLANCHE

21-across – Unhealthy to ignore strong heart, for one thing : UNIT

22-across – A robust, rough and unfashionable, unskilled worker : ROUSTABOUT

25-across – Line retracted about idiot, with woman never believed : CASSANDRA

26-across – Pedagogue recalled hiding, having shackled student finally : TUTOR

27-across – 23, disconcerting thing? : RATTLER

28-across – Sovereign ruled country gutlessly, tending to make mistakes : ERRANCY

1-down – Run from 23 under opening in lederhosen : LADDER

2-down – See 6 : WINDER

3-down – Bulldozer great sex? : EARTHMOVER

4-down – Canopy of willow overshadowed by bay tree : ROWAN

5-down – Chiefly wet? : INTHEMAIN

6-down – Crushing victory desired, unfortunately, as 23 : SIDE

7-down – Italian mount girl has reared, glittering stuff! : DIAMANTE

8-down – Call Dutch artist a 23 : RINGHALS

13-down – 23 gets to transport rodent after getting up in the morning : BUSHMASTER

15-down – I’m grateful wine and bread have turned up — too much to ask? : TALLORDER

16-down – Reconnaissance vehicle out cold in evidence of battle : SCOUTCAR

17-down – Ultimately violent, nastier sort of toys for boys? : TRAINSET

19-down – Feeding kid, too much material : COTTON

20-down – Hardy one of seven writing off two articles? : STURDY

23-down – Benefit circling north wind : SNAKE

24-down – Uncle Sam’s zip pinches a hard object : NAIL

1-across – Force a writer to absorb Republican material : FABRIC

5-across – Attempts to stifle objection : TRIBUTES

9-across – Long sleeper put out, spanning old room : DORMOUSE

10-across – Broadcaster hosts current politician, revealing lots : SKIMPY

11-across – He’s fascinated by dates, or miso, cooked with gluten : NUMEROLOGIST

13-across – Heartless deeds : DOGS

14-across – Resolve what cross may mean at a financial centre : TENACITY

17-across – Shots from short distances don’t win in competitions : CLOSEUPS

18-across – Small animal refuge : SARK

20-across – Priest boxed here, for instead of against : PROFESSIONAL

23-across – African country rings airline to find island : TOBAGO

24-across – Left a hotel and swindled a second one that’s snooty : LAHDIDAH

25-across – Mostly train a bird in film to make buns : TEACAKES

26-across – Southern county : SKERRY

2-down – A cyclist : AHOY

3-down – Gulf citizens infringe rights : ROMANISTS

4-down – Start to chase game : CRUMMY

5-down – : THEBRITISHISLES

6-down – Audacious place to sail off Cowes : INSOLENT

7-down – Consuming funny bar in the morning : USING

8-down – Describing display is up to politician : EXPOSITORY

12-down – Arrest bishop taking drug : COLLARBONE

15-down – Thus was Caesar’s Gaul in special novel : CISALPINE

16-down – Scot ordered to stop dirty stuff : GUNSTOCK

19-down – Popular board game finishes early : INCHES

21-down – Nice money once smuggled into football club : FRANC

22-down – Loud song : FAIR