Daily Answers

1-across – Where to conduct fight or flight may be patio to a real 11! : COCKPIT

5-across – The Bible says have sex with naughty nun outside X? : UNKNOWN

9-across – Paternal dedication: 5 across is a gem : TOPAZ

10-across – Press readers to take wine for promotion : REPORTERS

11-across – Put down heart for clubs, first to bid with queen but no jack : LANDLUBBER

12-across – Reverse into parking? Unspeakably tight : SNUG

14-across – Infirm state takes thin end of staircase to 11 : COMPANIONWAY

18-across – Cupboard is bare when one’s eaten out of this : HOUSEANDHOME

21-across – See 28 : TODD

22-across – Assisted departure in Europe in comparison with another continent : EUTHANASIA

25-across – Trivialize pool game, having lost the first half playing the accuser : EMILEZOLA

26-across – Crush seen in the sequel, Love Actually : QUELL

27-across – Seafood and tea, possibly for shipmaster : SHRIMPS

28-across – Fleet Street hacker weeded stony ground : SWEENEY

1-down – One with fiddle let off a group of moon jumpers? : CATTLE

2-down – Kinda saw Bobby in Golf : COPING

3-down – Be perplexed by Bill quietly, not loudly, getting sweetheart to embrace sweetheart : PUZZLEOVER

4-down – Heath Robinson’s component beat : THROB

5-down – Certainly not the first or last to swim up the net, struggling : UMPTEENTH

6-down – Looking for sex, crawl after this silly berk : KERB

7-down – Fifty percent of cattle found down here in coping situation : ONEINTWO

8-down – Goes off among those against flowers : NOSEGAYS

13-down – Message without a comma, most unusual : COMMUNIQUE

15-down – Writer with two performers around left us dangling : PENDULOUS

16-down – Talk at first to each leaseholder selling property : CHATTELS

17-down – More lovable copper solving riddle : CUDDLIER

19-down – To 11 backward oriental topped … : ASTERN

20-down – … 5 across on legal reform of kitchen to 11 … : GALLEY

23-down – … leads John to 11 … : HEADS

24-down – … and leaving troubled area, wheel to 11 : HELM

9-across – Bust into alternative artist’s group that’ll 8 1s : ORCHESTRA

10-across – Toll to import rare gem : PEARL

11-across – A little molehill on knobbly round mound : KNOLL

12-across – Heartlessly tricking society through PM’s novel … : CONINGSBY

13-across – … the fellow’s party chronicles : HISTORY

14-across – Abandoned 8ers not at 1 : CASTOFF

17-across – Joe Biden, say, turned on English in vexation : PEEVE

19-across – Extremely gruesome story keeps providing solution to all 1 and no 8 : GET

20-across – A woman, undressed after symbolic resistance, gets bouquet : AROMA

21-across – Back to location of damned old 8 : OTHELLO

22-across – Spin and dodge 1 you can 8 : PRELUDE

24-across – Vagrant tramp’s son, his 1 is to 8 : SPORTSMAN

26-across – Bank, with hesitation, produces one of eight? : ROWER

28-across – See 19 : ALIFE

29-across – Digital tools capture data : NAILFILES

1-down – Labour’s dispute about tip from Kinnock : WORK

2-down – Head off agents whose 1 is to 8 : ACTORS

3-down – Way to record music, two dances including cover of tango : REELTOREEL

4-down – Awkward moment? Extremely sorry about it : STICKY

5-down – Wide cravat conceals trendy lining : WAINSCOT

6-down – Begin the games, running round : OPEN

7-down – Old lady is French, large and round, showing way to 8 a 1 : MAESTOSO

8-down – 1 that’s not 1? : PLAY

13-down – River dweller in river : HIPPO

15-down – Step on ship — it’ll make 8 1 : STAGECRAFT

16-down – Fellow inadequate as a lover : FLAME

18-down – Land with patio, ie ground around front of house : ETHIOPIA

19-down – 21 turning up in spirit, with good hygienic habits : GROOMING

22-down – Princess interrupts high kick in the buff : PUNDIT

23-down – Where Ban Ki-moon gets water needing treatment? : UNWELL

24-down – Small, standard box : SPAR

25-down – Not US close to Soviet border : THEM

27-down – Touching way you could thus link 1 and 8 : REST

8-across – Around the third of January, today it’s cold for our dance marquee — so play begins : NOWISTHE

9-across – Ram and monkey finally getting close : STUFFY

10-across – See 8 : WINTER

11-across – Beginning to disprove negative principle, disease on the decline : DYINGOUT

12-across – Bound to find drink laced with drug : LEAP

13-across – Informal correspondents retain a day to send letters : PENFRIENDS

15-across – Unhappy to concede a stroke as a player : DOWNBOW

16-across – Spar with Cameron amid cheers, perhaps : TOPMAST

18-across – Entering Fido’s ground, sign has got significance primarily in this part of London? : ISLEOFDOGS

19-across – Please continue to be a thug : GOON

20-across – Transport around a cold, getting sick — that’s a bug : BACILLUS

22-across – Tell supporter at the back to cheer : RELATE

23-across – See short man in woman’s hat : CLOCHE

24-across – Jack, queen, king and ace not extremely unusual : ABERRANT

1-down – Force man to study in the law firm : POLICECONSTABLE

2-down – Some silver providing class in epic fence off : FIFTYPENCEPIECE

3-down – Rioting from troops resistant to the force of powerful elements : STORMPROOF

4-down – Gauge measurement for Berkshire town : READING

5-down – Wine tipped up into fruit salad : ASTI

6-down – Musicians welcoming five hundred dancing emus gatecrashing concert, as not much on when swimming in Australia? : BUDGIESMUGGLERS

7-down – See 8 : OFOURDISCONTENT

14-down – Partition in church, where orders once carried out : ROODSCREEN

17-down – Hole in small chamber where bread absorbs much water : LOOSEAT

21-down – Say something to spring vegetable : LEEK

1-across – Not quite hang on, faced with hard chance : HAPPEN

4-across – Waste food? Rudely, the police are going to : PIGSWILL

9-across – I regret in the morning having knocked back something spicy : MASALA

10-across – Satisfied with top mark for speaking? Don’t take that literally : METAPHOR

11-across – For holiday, books trip for one, strangely wearing suit : AIRPORTFICTION

13-across – Begging to fix prison in Arctic : MENDICANCY

14-across – Anxious to put forward name for bender : KNEE

16-across – Writers wrong to hold book back : NIBS

18-across – Ev-en, sort of flat? : SPLITLEVEL

21-across – False emotion from which actors recoiled in play : CROCODILETEARS

23-across – In park with German, order to renew vows : RECOMMIT

24-across – Strange phenomenon of second sight? : DEJAVU

25-across – Waste small space for writing, wrongly filled : SPILLAGE

26-across – Mass, part of it for saint : MAGNUS

1-down – Prime minister’s residence : HOME

2-down – Powerful emotion as one goes in to die : PASSION

3-down – Some units upset almost falling over … : ELLIPSIS

5-down – … useless, 15, consumed with vice : INEFFECTIVE

6-down – Material examples of second team on board : SWATCH

7-down – Check long note coming from one I serve : ICHDIEN

8-down – Troublingly, an allergy affecting part of the throat : LARYNGEAL

12-down – Charging along a stretch of tarmac? : ROADPRICING

13-down – Chap is admitting restorative means hand jobs : MANICURES

15-down – A reduction of weight, drinking always juice : ALOEVERA

17-down – Rich? No travelling by British Airways : BRONCHI

19-down – Extremely arrogant, uprooting unknown plant : VERVAIN

20-down – Official room to feed horse : FORMAL

22-down – Makes fun of people’s appearance on radio : GUYS

1-across – Evangelist’s working as a lexicographer : JOHNSON

5-across – Sexy and fat: recipe for power : RAUNCHY

10-across – Hairy man in the sauna : ESAU

11-across – 16 1’s passion shown by former setter after drinking it : EXCITEMENT

12-across – Dodgy 10 out of 10 learner’s able to reproduce by pairing up : SEXUAL

13-across – Suggestion hotel uniform gets done differently : INNUENDO

14-across – TV programme producer starts to tackle this one particular odour during intercourse : SETTOPBOX

16-across – Put on Men Only revue at last : STAGE

17-across – Childless set spread out : SPLAY

19-across – Most orchards : CHATROOMS

23-across – Intravenously inject drug that has mother-in-law, not a wife, in ecstasy : MAINLINE

24-across – 16 3’s earth mover, perhaps, for gas main’s housing : ORGASM

26-across – 16 4’s determination to get fifth letter in right answer : RESOLUTION

27-across – Hen party’s warning sign? : OMEN

28-across – Number cruncher’s tip : HUNDRED

29-across – Quality of water nurse added into stew on return : WETNESS

2-down – Blue baby’s odd part in oxygen row : OBSCENE

3-down – Gold vase turned up outside island republic : NAURU

4-down – Partly cover balls on 16 : OVERLAP

6-down – On 16, suffering with persistent pain — time for hospital : ACTING

7-down – Deputy feeling less well also, we hear : NUMBERTWO

8-down – Suspend setter? Guilty, by the look of it : HANGDOG

9-down – Unstable condition of zip, with her chinos badly affected, originally : SCHIZOPHRENIA

15-down – Undefined number carried by rail, coming in to a scheduled terminus? : TRAINLOAD

18-down – 16 2’s high-level flat Paul cooked meal in : PLATEAU

20-down – Severely punish counter-revolutionary : TROUNCE

21-down – Gets to grips with maiden’s top and bloomers : MASTERS

22-down – Doctor is sued for neglect : DISUSE

25-down – Outcry as organ explodes : GROAN