Daily Answers

8-across – Bloody PC, 15 22 across : BRIGHTON

9-across – XX 15 22 across : TENBY

10-across – Arrogant fool beyond witless, ultimately : SMUG

11-across – Two 15 22 acrosses, one less 3, requiring English singer : BARRYWHITE

12-across – Cheat on XX : DOUBLE

14-across – 22 across as Minehead, Southend and Cork for growth in Ireland : SHAMROCK

15-across – Disease — that flourishes in the summer? : SEASIDE

17-across – Stick around island that’s sweet : GLUCOSE

20-across – Established in fashion, this industry? : RAGTRADE

22-across – See 15 : RESORT

23-across – Study, can he? That’s possible : CONTINGENT

24-across – Paintings, works initially wiped : OILS

25-across – See 12 : CROSS

26-across – Punishment imprisoning unknown character in 15 22 across : PENZANCE

1-down – Yellow border, dull stuff around it : PRIMROSE

2-down – Very excited? Past caring in the end : AGOG

3-down – Racehorses unlikely to fall? : STABLE

4-down – French artist heading for stage door : INGRESS

5-down – Salt, I say, desperate for a flapper at sea : STAYSAIL

6-down – So cooler to be destitute? : ONTHEROCKS

7-down – Wand in Paul’s hands not quite delivering magic : MYSTIC

13-down – Boat isn’t about to tour America — this the end of the journey? : BUSSTATION

16-down – Identify the problem — gain ground feeding prescribed medicine : DIAGNOSE

18-down – Improperly placed relics up a clergyman’s vestment : SURPLICE

19-down – Part in middle of contract written up as proof of transaction : RECEIPT

21-down – Now divide one by a hundred : ATONCE

22-down – Heavy barrel secured by cane : ROTUND

24-down – 15 22 across ends up in Latin America, superb archipelago : OBAN

1-across – Felicity warbles for Spooner’s babies : SUCKLINGS

6-across – Man whose welfare I don’t care about, one up the pole? : JACK

8-across – Great obscurity about a person leading a double life? : BIGAMIST

9-across – Romantic involvement not excellent, always fighting : AFFRAY

10-across – Doctor attached to huge hospital — not necessarily a big noise : WHOOSH

11-across – Individual who has consumed for inner energy : PATERSON

12-across – Report of illegal bowler in a period of play : CHUKKA

15-across – Formal attire that might bother the violinist : DICKYBOW

16-across – Support for writers not often seen these days? : INKSTAND

19-across – Headline in slant across page : SPLASH

21-across – Hurried, being guided after injury in street : SCUTTLED

22-across – Fulfil the function of college : BEETON

24-across – Disciple following body of divine commandments : LAWSON

25-across – One admiring the statement from char not on early duty : IDOLATER

26-across – Pretty bunch with ace standing out : SPRY

27-across – Furious females making chaps at Brussels face day of reckoning : EUMENIDES

1-down – Outside American university keep quiet : SMITH

2-down – Act to seal fracture : CRADOCK

3-down – Not totally agile, having injected drug : LEITH

4-down – Office employee that carries around important item of stationery : NOTEPAD

5-down – Fight has beast rising over American slave : SPARTACUS

6-down – Bird circling very loudly about : JAFFREY

7-down – Sri Lanka, passionate and noisy : CLAMOROUS

13-down – Chap lands abroad, offering something to seal the deal? : HANDCLASP

14-down – A label to get cut immediately : ATAGLANCE

17-down – Discharge rising female model wanting external influence : SATISFY

18-down – Movement of the absurd mother crossing platform : DADAISM

20-down – Laurie? Child looked after and sheltered : LEEWARD

22-down – Ex-PM has changed sides, is sent flying : BLOWN

23-down – Begins as map-maker holding drawing implement : OPENS

5-across – 9, for example, with no points to make a book : QUARTO

6-across – Drink is sweet, with no ice : LIQUOR

9-across – Falsify income: small forged note and small coin to pick up — there you are! : DOCTOR

10-across – See 9 : IPRESUME

11-across – 9, follower of some 1 and 7 : LUKE

12-across – Tired wife out, keeping arm in correspondence : EPISTOLARY

13-across – Applying to be computerised is certain to be penalised : ASKINGFORIT

18-across – According to short burst on phone, our speaker may be on the other end : ACCRINGTON

21-across – Drink, one put before our speaker : PORT

22-across – Damn! Rain spoiled the fruit : MANDARIN

23-across – Mass disseminator of News Corporation, if our speaker joined : MORGAN

24-across – Plan in atmosphere to hold weather-changing event : LANINA

25-across – Stick around, breaking compiler’s threat : MENACE

1-down – Dull? Chops one that may follow our speaker : MATTHEWS

2-down – Look round very fast : STARVE

3-down – Exaggerated heading off little rodent: write this up in book : LIBRETTO

4-down – No more hesitation lifting this from seabed : MUSSEL

5-down – Enough people after status — weird : QUORUM

7-down – Notice about 1 follower : REMARK

8-down – See 9 : LIVINGSTONE

14-down – Untaught foreign lady heading off to place of 11 : IGNORANT

15-down – Commanding size, bigger than 5 across : IMPERIAL

16-down – Terrible fist’s second stroke : SCRAWL

17-down – Grow unpopular and fold : CREASE

19-down – Corrected in ballpoint? : REDONE

20-down – Dead queen 9, for example : NUMBER

1-across – A penny to see doctor — that’s cool : APLOMB

4-across – 8 sick repeat : PARROT

9-across – 8 dead on radio broadcast before 50 : DOOR

10-across – Avoid this by not staying up too long, or else dad’s furious : SADDLESORE

11-across – Crazy rockstar retires to nurse a cold : CORYZA

12-across – Spin-off comes along, making monsters : OGRESSES

13-across – Red Indian, half American : FLORIDIAN

15-across – Bill’s partner by the end of August is 8 bald : COOT

16-across – See 20 : SNOW

17-across – Is minister’s back covered by trip to the bank? : RIVERSIDE

21-across – State queen falls in station : VICTORIA

22-across – Asian, drunk, reported by office worker : TYPIST

24-across – South of France about to welcome learners and immerse them in French life — how tedious! : DULLSVILLE

25-across – See 9 : NAIL

26-across – Heartless, extravagant and still living : EXTANT

27-across – Essentially dizzy and hyperactive with wind : ZEPHYR

1-down – Mexican inhabitant orders unopened ballot box : AXOLOTL

2-down – 8 happy to get secular rights included : LARRY

3-down – 8 keen celebrity mired? : MUSTARD

5-down – Appeal from you or me, at last, after everybody : ALLURE

6-down – Parts in current set-up or in ugly sisters : RESISTORS

7-down – Pain of love with jollies camping? : TORMENT

8-down – How we can speak in a stupid way when mother’s out : IDIOMATICALLY

14-down – Lodger wanted to get radical round sleazy motel : ROOMTOLET

16-down – Attack and capture : SEIZURE

18-down – In context, remedy is harsh : EXTREME

19-down – Tramp welcomes compiler portfolio : DOSSIER

20-down – 8 pure ambition by Poles at the moment : DRIVEN

23-down – 8 pleased with drink : PUNCH

1-across – Guy’s M? : BONFIRE

5-across – See 19 : INFERNO

9-across – See 1 : NIGHT

10-across – Nudist finally put on clothes to arouse : STIMULATE

11-across – Picture that remains in Margate, if designed by Emin, originally : AFTERIMAGE

12-across – Piece of papyrus, edges worn : USED

14-across – Welsh M? : STDAVIDSDAY

18-across – Thinner bit, stripe I gathered : WHITESPIRIT

21-across – Ultimately quaint, small and cute? : TWEE

22-across – Groom admits the issue then starts to cause angst — no getting out of it? : PRISONCAMP

25-across – Return of musical chap bringing back memories : EVOCATIVE

26-across – A number stuck on it, nothing like porridge! : OATEN

27-across – Reparation for each of 1 down, 4, 16 and 23? : MENDING

28-across – Artist is heading for Shanghai in China : MATISSE

1-down – Very little covering cop up : BANTAM

2-down – Deny the SW entrance opposite to this? : NEGATE

3-down – Curious setter in Shed, perhaps : INTERESTED

4-down – Brood raised around southern English town : EPSOM

5-down – One Conservative in political control, not half becoming slippery : ICINGOVER

6-down – Tube was quick, they say? : FLUE

7-down – Creative piece knocks outstanding hospital, oddly oddly? : RHAPSODY

8-down – Public visiting times when work stops, always welcomed : OPENDAYS

13-down – Go nude with it, doubly unlikely to get censorship : EDITINGOUT

15-down – Record in running final : DEPARTING

16-down – Squad requiring a measure of power to break through thin line : SWATTEAM

17-down – Clean window pane at the edges when cracked : WIPEDOWN

19-down – Poetry mixing fire and sonnet? : DANTES

20-down – Bum safe when evacuated, stink contained : SPONGE

23-down – Stop inhaling a vapour : STEAM

24-down – C Clay country? : MALI