Daily Answers

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

1-across – Designer of buildings to keep one dry in 9? : WRITTEN

5-across – Doubt place is beset by horrible curse : SCRUPLE

10-across – Order he’s forgotten for cream : BEST

11-across – Whoops welcoming Fancy Dan’s fans wearing orange? : HOLLANDERS

12-across – Brown’s good : GORDON

13-across – Caught tragedy bowdlerised in 9 : CLEARCUT

14-across – People reversing around country in vehicle : ESTATECAR

16-across – Boxes, losing tense contest in 9 : CHESS

17-across – Split, Zagreb but not great 9 thing : ZEBRA

19-across – Utility bill with name and energy covering front : ADVANTAGE

23-across – Fancy entertaining old fellow, fit for the opposite sex : WOMANISH

24-across – Therefore a colour for a rose is rose? : SOARED

26-across – Month in which politician backs worker gladly : JUBILANTLY

27-across – Grand foreign monarch’s 9 mixture : GREY

28-across – Paper splits English and German articles into pieces : ASUNDER

29-across – Before this speech he produces a crown, perhaps : ADDRESS

2-down – Shorter bursts for classical speakers : RHETORS

3-down – Bore child, a small boy : TOTED

4-down – Better send the dancer to strip off : ENHANCE

6-down – We’re told seabird is yellow : CRAVEN

7-down – Running due north and south, didn’t reach target : UNDERSHOT

8-down – Two Republicans standing in the French sun, getting tans : LARRUPS

9-down – Oddly bold account with naked cavorting, but not Fifty Shades? : BLACKANDWHITE

15-down – Like Scot south of Barnet coming from continental regions : AFROASIAN

18-down – Rip off ripe, firm bananas — they’re intensely green : ECONUTS

20-down – Tried appeal about remark by journalist : ASSAYED

21-down – More than one jade gnome’s outside, say — look around : GEEGEES

22-down – Silver’s seemingly good grade : PIRATE

25-down – Nettle from mountains, but right at the bottom : ANGER

9-across – Arms requiring medication where blood flows? : ARTILLERY

10-across – Australian place of worship full, church capturing all hearts : ULURU

11-across – Greek character working over Spanish artist, about a hundred : OMICRON

12-across – See 22 : HANDLES

13-across – Fine to admit to deviant urges? Yes! : SURE

14-across – Supporter welcoming spirit in a couple of players : BRANGELINA

16-across – Racecourse fair, cryptically? : AINTREE

17-across – Continue supporting top tennis player, vocally : PROCEED

19-across – To peep effin’ dangerous, seeing visitor to bedroom in secret : TOOTHFAIRY

22-across – Nothing takes care of a bulging waistline : LOVE

24-across – 22 12 on a daughter of the Bard added flavour : OREGANO

25-across – Island nation awarding degree to Islamic organisation : BAHAMAS

26-across – Cricket shot sees opener in Rawalpindi breaking duck : DRIVE

27-across – Northern English town wanting the first location for a national cemetery : ARLINGTON

1-down – Memorable passing comment? : FAMOUSLASTWORDS

2-down – Canonised dame who acts for the team : STMIRREN

3-down – Weep about relegation, initially — something to say for promotion? : BLURB

4-down – Spooner’s gin more damaging for baby-minder? : WETNURSE

5-down – Some high-water mark? : HYPHEN

6-down – A Roman emperor seizing power in a month, becoming president in South America : JUANPERON

7-down – Scalpel shaving odd parts in the middle of genuine central bits : NUCLEI

8-down – Band consumes starter of seven fresh sardines after American condiment : RUSSIANDRESSING

15-down – The red pea soup is prepared for cooking : PREHEATED

17-down – Horse entering river has left a path following an arc : PARABOLA

18-down – Wickedness a precious thing amid bad blood : ENORMITY

20-down – I see no problem getting comprehensive cover : ONESIE

21-down – Raising money in Sweden, inspiring a geek : ANORAK

23-down – See 13 : THING