Daily Answers

1-across – Something painful with which to batter this, for example : PANGRAM

5-across – Giggle about women’s social medium : TWITTER

10-across – Challenge to make God heartless : DEFY

11-across – Stood around lancing blister, evidence of injury : BLOODSTAIN

12-across – What to do with straight hair? Pass : PERMIT

13-across – Report of headless chicken in waste disposal unit : BULLETIN

14-across – Sketch fetching a silly price : ADUMBRATE

16-across – Apply kneecap to part of face, causing breach : CHINK

17-across – What’s said to audience on A11? : ASIDE

19-across – Will’s offensive sexual organ intruded : TESTAMENT

23-across – Baddy, at any point in time, receiving unopened sex aid : EVILDOER

24-across – Dependable nonsense about public transport : ROBUST

26-across – Histrionic sort of monkey, shaking off a cold in Arden, perhaps : DRAMAQUEEN

27-across – Man in the street on line to prophet : JOEL

28-across – Female students absorbing princess’s hypocritical utterances : FLANNEL

29-across – About to go to Spain and return the sentiment : REQUITE

2-down – Part of weapon in front holding divorcee up : AXEHEAD

3-down – Infidels love one intermittently interrupting work-out : GOYIM

4-down – A snack eaten by bishop and judge : ARBITER

6-down – Go unsteadily west — go off : WADDLE

7-down – Infant the man lost in part of London : TOTTENHAM

8-down – Raised no single current issue : EDITION

9-down – Film old Albanian monarch securing right to cleanse smell : ZORBATHEGREEK

15-down – Note to buxom former lover’s agent : MIDDLEMAN

18-down – Many cut a left : SEVERAL

20-down – Space in canonical hour for Roman funny man : TERENCE

21-down – Incipient new way up : NASCENT

22-down – Force to remove tangerine rind from roquette salad : TORQUE

25-down – Pretty little girl, keen on Guys and Dolls and open to all? : BIJOU

1-across – Musical group, possibly retro, has to tour clubs : ORCHESTRA

6-across – Musical group, possibly retro? : ABBA

8-across – Honey Honey, Mamma Mia! : DEARDEAR

9-across – Urge party to take a fifth of 6 across’s number? : LIBIDO

10-across – Babble as baby, Dancing Queen! : YABBER

11-across – 6 across’s great loss : WATERLOO

12-across – Before 1002, I diminish in value : IMPAIR

15-across – Lunatic pleased to accommodate one bright group of relatives? : PLEIADES

16-across – A shade raised around stack : BRICKRED

19-across – Keyboard operator extremely twitchy, something of a nut? : TYPIST

21-across – 6 across’s number outlining case for the inquirer : SOCRATES

22-across – Drunk first of brandies — take a chance on me! : BLOTTO

24-across – Drink, last bit dropped on envelope : COCOON

25-across – Peculiar play with Act 1 at sea : ATYPICAL

26-across – PM’s first words got Fernando confused with Ring Ring? : GOOD

27-across – See 26 : AFTERNOON

1-down – Greek character taking up long and short periods : OMEGA

2-down – Parts of an organ in church bear cracks — that’s about right : CEREBRA

3-down – Islamic ruler of supreme erudition : EMEER

4-down – Give up one’s dinner hour with pained expression, sheep being passed round : THROWUP

5-down – Share totally exaggerated, people claimed : ALLOTMENT

6-down – A singer shortly going north, south of a Canadian province : ALBERTA

7-down – Primarily counterpanes observed being spread out? : BEDCOVERS

13-down – Old travelling merchant bringing old stuff over — that’s the name of the game! : MARCOPOLO

14-down – Song written up about topless prude in mythical kingdom : RURITANIA

17-down – All passengers in Italy, Charles and Bill : CARLOAD

18-down – Mr O’Connor hasn’t the talent to be a singer : DESCANT

20-down – Qualification is secured by college official — no way! : PROVISO

22-down – Customer taking massage the wrong way, you getting squeezed? : BUYER

23-down – Match captivating a US author : TWAIN

1-across – Tetanus jabs are welcomed at first by key partner : LOCKJAW

5-across – Previously enters poor clue for anorak : CAGOULE

9-across – Alternative to part of 18 in bid for 6 beats : CLUBS

10-across – Paper snake in empty dessert dish : DREAMBOAT

11-across – Artists as a body follow a competitive lifestyle : THERATRACE

12-across – Republicans in Iraq briefly feature in admirable air composed by Gershwin : IRA

14-across – The tenor’s wobbly bottom in bid for 6 : THREENOTRUMP

18-across – Bid for 6 could lead to vice : FIVEDIAMONDS

21-across – Streak with no clothing, drunk : RUN

22-across – Interrogate family on odd price for food : PUMPKINPIE

25-across – Occasional dab of refreshment applied primarily in pit : DEODORANT

26-across – Bush Senior : ELDER

27-across – Take a defensive position when grenade explodes : ENGARDE

28-across – Revolution for some feminists is erudite and does not surrender : RESISTS

1-down – Find, see and hear one asked for a kiss : LOCATE

2-down – Grounds where copper leaves political meetings : CAUSES

3-down – Not a lot of uniform stock in green : JUSTASHADE

4-down – Drew a tangled knot, perhaps : WADER

5-down – Album includes screen shot — love the build-up! : CRESCENDO

6-down – Playing tricks, try to hug a compiler and start to blush — cool! : GAME

7-down – Visiting Luxor, I ousted loving wife : UXORIOUS

8-down – They plan to generate total heat : ENTHALPY

13-down – Feature of food that could lead to digestion stress with spare tires : STODGINESS

15-down – Blurt that European currency unit’s dead without Angela Merkel’s approval : EJACULATE

16-down – See 6 : OFBRIDGE

17-down – Service, say, includes 6 but excludes 1 : EVENSONG

19-down – Diggers’ alternative to 20 in bid for 6 : SPADES

20-down – See 24 : HEARTS

23-down – Dad’s half-hearted talk : PATER

24-down – Spooner’s unchaste lady cuts one bid for 6 : FOUR

1-across – Prime minister, one eating first of nuts, peanuts : PITTANCE

5-across – See 24 : COOKIE

9-across – Rock music kept for request at crime scene? : STICKEMUP

11-across – Ordinal, eighth in camp? : TENTH

12-across – Mend outstanding circuitous routes, assuming formerly straight : HETEROSEXUAL

15-across – Stone’s past history in theatrical performance, loosely speaking? : ONYX

16-across – Balancing acrobat, weak pole wobbling in the midst of horror : ROPEWALKER

18-across – Order paper with increase in salary for judge again : REAPPRAISE

19-across – Sad call girl welcoming work, client ultimately laid back, heading for Thailand : LAST

21-across – Emerge where a cat might have sat, did you say — for miaow, perhaps? : ONOMATOPOEIA

24-across – Cough took off, that is, for resilient type : TOUGH

25-across – Girl having incarcerated heartless girl in the country, there’s no escaping it? : SUPERGLUE

26-across – Lie in chair, head off it : RESIDE

27-across – Flying toys, those following Thur’s wasps? : FRISBEES

1-down – See 19 : POST

2-down – Dog story recited : TAIL

3-down – Soldier shackling animal up, chain over a foot? : ANKLET

4-down – Those honouring the dead, such as in Dunkirk, a thousand speakers : COMMEMORATORS

6-down – Unfortunately not always supporting hack — getting there! : ONTHEWAY

7-down – Knowledge put to bed about a statesman : KENTUCKIAN

8-down – Cheer as West Indian cricketer cuts shot into river : EXHILARATE

10-down – Waste of a setter in this magician, propose changes up top : POOPERSCOOPER

13-down – Chambers features a rewrite of profuse rot on county : FOURPOSTER

14-down – Places of worship where adulterer, say, attempts to suppress God’s umbrage, for starters : SYNAGOGUES

17-down – Cut round page covered with liquid : SPLASHED

20-down – Knight and fool up river : TIGRIS

22-down – Sound blasted down : BLUE

23-down – See 13 : BEDS

9-across – Cause of infection left one green, at first : ECOLI

10-across – Time to pull back, worse off in part of 29s epic : TWOTOWERS

11-across – Can goddess dishearten Kylie’s 29er? : LOOKALIKE

12-across – This regularly cuts Iron Duke’s rank : FETID

13-across – Type of 29 or of 1s : WEDDING

15-across – Outside of safe building with part for musician : SECONDO

17-across – For cockney existentialist, other people will follow this literary 1 : ELLIS

18-across – Traffic in hurry : RUN

20-across – Organs require tuning, not all over : UTERI

22-across – Films about women’s bar : LAWYERS

25-across – Like novel that’s in fashion, or its creator? : TOLKIEN

26-across – Kindle that could be portable : LIGHT

27-across – Not in a Parisian university in wood : UNPOPULAR

30-across – Part of 29 — it keeps man venerable : RHEINGOLD

31-across – Literary 1 to keep performing : ACTON

1-down – You might 29 this attractive woman, we’re told : BELL

2-down – Criminal raid with tool shaped like a 29 : TOROIDAL

3-down – Singer keen to give a twirl : DIVA

4-down – At sea, rig stern brace : STRINGER

5-down – South Africans embracing wrong men in the 29 : BOXERS

6-down – It’s acceptable to block racists, true or false? : NONFACTUAL

7-down – Maybe male’s put on weight — he may 29 a 1 : SEXTON

8-down – Compilers the boss exploited : USED

13-down – Turner’s cry of excitement, reaching heart of gallery : WHEEL

14-down – Doctor isn’t nice, with GP doing an examination : INSPECTING

16-down – One stops running twice to call for food : ONION

19-down – Writers’ materials in no way record publicity : NOTEPADS

21-down – Make weaker tea to lie in one’s cups : ETIOLATE

23-down – Speculate about name for author of 29 : WAGNER

24-down – Statue in odd places and not raised for 26 down seeking 29 : SAURON

26-down – Which of land’s borders is for ruler? : LORD

28-down – Request to drop large 29 : PEAL

29-down – See 16 : RING