Daily Answers

1-across – With chores unfinished, wife in temper cleans jug : WORMWOODSCRUBS

8-across – Getting knocked back, call Latin lover : LEMAN

9-across – Game played at Her Majesty’s residence? : ROUNDERS

11-across – Obscure British film screening in the vicinity : BENIGHT

12-across – Hanging a scoundrel, endlessly corrupt : CURTAIN

13-across – With heart not in lechery, back away from call girl : LYDIA

15-across – In speech, fool gets foolish in Shakespearean location : DUNSINANE

17-across – Different way to enter beach? Sun could be here : NEWSSTAND

20-across – Gathering fruitcake for snack in diner? : DONUT

21-across – South African maybe putting greenery in set location : ELSTREE

23-across – It’s played in two acts, with nothing amiss : TOCCATA

25-across – Place with cross, gloomy rocker plugging a record for spinning : GOLGOTHA

26-across – Light running clothes could be made from this : RAYON

27-across – Wilde gutted, play done with amateurs getting haughty verdict : WEARENOTAMUSED

1-down – Spring off, clutching weapon, unlikely to fall : WELLBALANCED

2-down – City dweller heading for rolling country : ROMAN

3-down – Success for one girl showing flute? : WINEGLASS

4-down – Unit showing strength in field from old desert battles : OERSTED

5-down – Hint — it’s two things found in can : SOUPCON

6-down – Traveller not so rainswept after lowering head : RIDER

7-down – A toff backed to secure Republican victory, like George W Bush? : BORNAGAIN

10-down – Sick nurse taught for free : UNRESTRAINED

14-down – Run below hills and fall : DOWNSLOPE

16-down – During one month, love unusual and improper behaviour : INDECORUM

18-down – Salutation with special function in ancient language : AVESTAN

19-down – Take away shipment finally transported to the North : DETRACT

22-down – Le Père Goriot: somewhat revolting fellow! : ROGER

24-down – Gondola’s back alongside vessel in gulf : ABYSS

5-across – Fabulous creature like a transvestite? : DRAGON

6-across – Endless traffic problem leads to toll : TARIFF

9-across – Perhaps gorillas eat less fruit : GRAPES

10-across – Entrance with drawback? : HALLWARD

11-across – Captured by CCTV — a neutrino! : VANE

12-across – Licence for each business : PERMISSION

13-across – Tenses up pecs left Rita’s head giddy! : PLUPERFECTS

18-across – O, much wit, then led astray? : OSCARWILDE

21-across – See 5 down : GRAY

22-across – Change key after party rejected music : NOCTURNE

23-across – Arsenal’s French striker misses one, takes new position : GROUND

24-across – Accent disguises government’s posh language … : TONGUE

25-across – … with books by the hundred : WOTTON

1-down – Soup maker? : CAMPBELL

2-down – Penny is very good to counter rumour : GOSSIP

3-down – Stop talking on the phone? : CALLTIME

4-down – It’s funny having looked over children’s TV programme : TISWAS

5-down – Worshipping a lower light : DORIAN

7-down – More upset in France : FERMOR

8-down – Cooked tea right? It’s to be seriously questioned : CHARGRILLED

14-down – Mighty intense : POWERFUL

15-down – Main towers? : TUGBOATS

16-down – Guard caught stealing gold after drugs : ESCORT

17-down – It’s mostly hiding in red wine : TANNIN

19-down – Pretending to stand in : ACTING

20-down – Drink, say, on lifting trophy : EGGNOG

1-across – Wind up close to Stonehenge, stone almost blown over : ENRAGE

4-across – Start high, then go down : OFFSET

9-across – Please send money urgently or Click here to claim your prize are plots to be rejected : SPAM

10-across – About two hundred bananas eaten up — three hundred more despised! : UNACCEPTED

11-across – House for the fifth primate? : ORANGE

12-across – Most bizarre, keeper’s header has beaten Stoke 1- 0 : KOOKIEST

13-across – Concert at which I perform karaoke likely to improve? : PROMISING

15-across – Hero going after rebel in uprising? : LION

16-across – Busy route going over across yacht : MAXI

17-across – Self-indulgence thus with kissers is beginning to mount : SOLIPSISM

21-across – Interrupting date, parent wearing nothing returns in checks : EXAMINES

22-across – Revolutionary musical director’s opening a case : DATIVE

24-across – Drunk, I’m at peace swigging last of gin, set free : EMANCIPATE

25-across – Bloody career’s ending, time to retire : RARE

26-across – Series of tests on small items of clothing : SASHES

27-across – Positive thing about old network : PLEXUS

1-down – See 2 : EMPEROR

2-down – One is among divine royalty, as leader : ROMAN

3-down – Throne’s occupant left in 2011, according to a 2 1, initially upset with Augustus : GLUTEUS

5-down – Cap for football player, a contribution : FACTOR

6-down – Pietism aggravated split in the Americas for 2 1 : SEPTIMIUS

7-down – In conclusion, royalist thinking it’s an offence : TREASON

8-down – Place snail owns spiralling, as a working rule : PARKINSONSLAW

14-down – 2 1 saw in the Guardian a burden retaining human resources : MAXIMINUS

16-down – See 3 : MAXIMUS

18-down – Be permanently present at the bottom of a shaft, drinking ditchwater, primarily : INDWELL

19-down – See 6 : SEVERUS

20-down – One new face serving porridge? : INSIDE

23-down – See 14 : THRAX

1-across – Composer’s been nursing tenor at seaside town : BEETHOVEN

6-across – What cellists do on radio in The Boy Friend? : BEAU

8-across – Is Elgar distracted by love in rooms for wags? : SERAGLIO

9-across – Refrain in Switzerland or America : CHORUS

10-across – Group in the other marquee forget note : SEXTET

11-across – Subtle hint: tune in regularly during pub function : INNUENDO

12-across – Pole’s covering segment of Berenice capriccio : ICECAP

15-across – Variable speed acceptable in extremely showy work : SYMPHONY

16-across – Beecham choir can randomly test sound here : ANECHOIC

19-across – The way to tackle long instrument : SPINET

21-across – Drink firms suppress Consumers’ Association note : COCACOLA

22-across – Disconcert maestro : RATTLE

24-across – Note describes topless dance in big city : MUMBAI

25-across – Intervals silence soprano, saving contest : SEVENTHS

26-across – Catch debut of Hammond organ : HEAR

27-across – He sings melodies using vowels, so clavier must be tuned : VOCALISER

1-down – Note: Brahms overture always turns up : BREVE

2-down – Sort of band that’s sensitive to changes in income : ELASTIC

3-down – Hearts lost injured scorer : HOLST

4-down – 5–10 strings, excluding E strings : VIOLINS

5-down – Steal Handel’s so-called familiar titles : NICKNAMES

6-down – The CBI managed to secure Ring for GM work, say : BIOTECH

7-down – Host a bishop and, according to Bach, a new church : ABUNDANCE

13-down – Roll up to study very old instrument : CONVOLUTE

14-down – Evidence I’ve translated about Köchel for composer : PROKOFIEV

17-down – See 16 : CHAMBER

18-down – Hundreds miss one cracking established work : CLASSIC

20-down – Boringly recites how basic scales progress : INTONES

22-down – Barman left after party : RAVEL

23-down – Subtle harmonies more than sufficient for composer : LEHAR

1-across – Lean to one side, then lean back, in part of plane : COCKPIT

5-across – Position breaking off, inelegant : FINELEG

9-across – Perfect oil for cooking mayonnaise : AIOLI

10-across – See 26 : THEWAYTHE

11-across – Choral work — I’m flipping expected to stretch singer! : BMINORMASS

12-across – Dull people run without jumping : FLAT

14-across – Labouring obsession in creation of an icon, barmy? : CORBYNMANIA

18-across – Having spoiled a couple of drinks, bloke taking last of Cointreau in case : PORTMANTEAU

21-across – Groom, male snared by nag? : COMB

22-across – Might one fear the motor in old scanning device? : CARDREADER

25-across – Party atmosphere initially does for singer : BALLADEER

26-across – Never mind, come to the bakery — what’s this clue about? : THATS

27-across – Philosopher has to take stock, they say? : RUSSELL

28-across – According to Spooner, lad observed pulse : SOYBEAN

1-down – Irritable, as shelled on the beach, perhaps? : CRABBY

2-down – See 26 : COOKIE

3-down – Carefully prepare oneself to accommodate criminal as con — is here? : PRISONCAMP

4-down – Bear market’s first symbol : TOTEM

5-down – Stagger round filthy house in outskirts of Folkestone — or crawl, perhaps? : FREESTYLE

6-down – Cattle good in Texas? : NEAT

7-down – In general, something designed to grip much less : LETALONE

8-down – Change of gear, rating outstanding western as monstrous action : GREATWAR

13-down – Posh gets to make an impression with mean clothing in audacious fashion : IMPUDENTLY

15-down – Trigger a memory, as circle on mysterious label : RINGABELL

16-down – Counter, on top of which room key : SPACEBAR

17-down – See 26 : CRUMBLES

19-down – Commercial programs showing up in some raw data : ADWARE

20-down – Prayer is off, _____ as an alternative? : ORISON

23-down – Board game something to play when upset : DARTS

24-down – See 12 : RACE