Daily Answers

9-across – Good and early, mist dissipated, getting hot : GOLDSMITH

10-across – Way to embrace partner, kicking back : SWIFT

11-across – Perform opera on the radio : SYNGE

12-across – Don’t stop the games — run hard : PERSEVERE

13-across – German sportsman losing his last races : BECKETT

14-across – Disgraces from French capital : DEMEANS

17-across – Adult put on old tights in part of Bible : HOSEA

19-across – Second home’s function : SIN

20-across – Transport covers for cycle : JOYCE

21-across – Running around, university fellows needing answer for unknowable things : NOUMENA

22-across – Tory bigwig’s heir on throne : JOHNSON

24-across – Paparazzo stalking the Royal Family might get this condemnation : PHILIPPIC

26-across – M’s successor put back in Bond film with English warplane : DRONE

28-across – Rather large — and large in the middle! : WILDE

29-across – Work to bestow titles like Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary? : DUBLINERS

1-down – Military leaders having fun : AGAS

2-down – Up 1-0, Celtic’s wingers coming round for treatment here : CLINIC

3-down – State in US behind judge imprisoning the First Lady : ASSEVERATE

4-down – Crown to go with favourite fur cape : TIPPET

5-down – Woman pushing up bottom : SHERIDAN

6-down – Key passage without its opening note : ISLE

7-down – With illumination, English artist’s given lines of poetry, say : LITERARY

8-down – One leaving yeast to cook — it’s swelling : STYE

13-down – What breaks censorship? : BEHAN

15-down – Guerrillas mostly leap about, cracking head with loud noise : MUJAHEDDIN

16-down – Member of acting family observed when drunk : SHEEN

18-down – Performing duty, slip in an embarrassing manner : STUPIDLY

19-down – Take flight that’s packed in the Kent area : STAMPEDE

22-down – Actor’s business and current account’s broken into : JACOBI

23-down – Perhaps crawl right to the bottom : STOKER

24-down – Man and wife tucking into roast : PAWN

25-down – Like some cakes rising at the start of a month : ICED

27-down – 7 composition not beginning in language of 29? : ERSE

1-across – Lovely lady, one hot and smothered with butter? : CRUMPET

5-across – Large wraps just irresistible for starters as Tex-Mex food : FAJITAS

9-across – Two rivers drier : AIRER

10-across – Bottom trapping bubbles was full of hot air : BLATHERED

11-across – Colonists after top with tear, as garment : CAPRIPANTS

12-across – Someone singing scales on this : BASS

14-across – 19 24, say? : NUMBERPUZZLE

18-across – A newspaper has absurd revamped covers, so stupid : DAFTASABRUSH

21-across – Neat curio, odd bits removed in case of sharp objects : ETUI

22-across – The place to be with teaser after messing around : WHEREITSAT

25-across – Start with four cracks in synthetic blades : ASTROTURF

26-across – Judge silverback ’umongous? : GAUGE

27-across – Particle that is showing disease in sheep : SCRAPIE

28-across – All those who came go away : TURNOUT

1-down – Space for the clergy not entirely accidental : CHANCE

2-down – Mint in pure green : UNRIPE

3-down – Nice fact : PARTICULAR

4-down – Part of one’s leg slightly raised, one pinned : TIBIA

5-down – Fawner primarily, the second of two queens is a bootlicker : FLATTERER

6-down – Looking? : JOHN

7-down – A devil endlessly covering centre of piazzas in mosaic paving : TERRAZZO

8-down – Avoid seconds, despite being unsure : SIDESTEP

13-down – Shooter nursing leg when shot : GUNSLINGER

15-down – Nothing in lesser and greater bodies of water for building on water : BOATHOUSE

16-down – Doctor beginning with endoscopy in treatment of nasal glands : ADRENALS

17-down – In a state of anxiety, having a bet : AFLUTTER

19-down – Say the material for Sitting Bull’s bloomers is fake? : PSEUDO

20-down – The way Christmas tree tinsel is partially visible : STREET

23-down – Judge it ready again : REFIT

24-down – Successful manoeuvre sees military leader winning : COUP

7-across – Praise a storage medium with energy drink inside : ACCOLADE

9-across – With following surprising score it’s out of our hands : ESCROW

10-across – Ultimately, England home before their postcards: relatives hide : DEER

11-across – Lost Stevie G in poor showing : TELEVISING

12-across – It’s used to pull women in closed boozer : TOWBAR

14-across – Repeats Italian scores around English : ITERATES

15-across – Playing with Pirlo as star : POLARIS

17-across – Rather late to drop wingers — one can shoot : ATRIFLE

20-across – Like mischievous conduct? Close to Manaus, training site is hot : SCAMPISH

22-across – Get good 10? Italian legend : BAGGIO

23-across – Concerned with the runs in one area, old Roy Hodgson initially worried : DIARRHOEAL

24-across – See 10 : SKIN

25-across – Do take off — Cole’s gutted : FLEECE

26-across – They get hot in sun chasing lead? : ELEMENTS

1-down – City church to house master’s old image of Christ : ECCEHOMO

2-down – Film type of girl essentially turned on at the start : NOIR

3-down – Right to divide dodgy gear — stocking up with one? : GARTER

4-down – Most agitated keeper conclusively struggles in goal : NERVIEST

5-down – Sport sacking with tie lost : ICESKATING

6-down – Dive over nothing and waste time : LOUNGE

8-down – Sweet European girl : ECLAIR

13-down – Worth going down in this exchange? Take score and extra time : BEARMARKET

16-down – Main part for viewer, hard to watch for audience : IRISHSEA

18-down – Left first class, back to England, home to get attacked : LAIDINTO

19-down – To him, even missing finals is appropriate : THIEVE

21-down – Relax, Italy, it’s hot : CHILLI

22-down – Post covered by Balotelli, ball’s hoisted : BILLET

24-down – Soaks up sweat : STEW

5-across – Worker in firm first to retire : CANTOR

6-across – Crowd is hanging round front of university : MOBIUS

9-across – I love being embraced by slovenly woman, rolling over : GALOIS

10-across – Expression of surprise when meeting poet? : HAMILTON

11-across – Cleric’s title put in front of name : VENN

12-across – Cleese, Idle et al, legless around old marketplace : PYTHAGORAS

13-across – Dull chemist in diffic­ulty penning article : MATHEMATICS

18-across – Host unpaid for working : DIOPHANTUS

21-across – Old tower losing its facing : ABEL

22-across – Very famous bunch of engineers : LEGENDRE

23-across – The latest fashion : NEWTON

24-across – On a trip missing nothing : TURING

25-across – Not completely happy, learner being pushed to the back : BESSEL

1-down – Home thus dealt with psychosis, removing a nightly problem? : INSOMNIA

2-down – Soak up drink and talk too freely? : GOSSIP

3-down – Little pile of soil? Briefly come out with straw : WORMCAST

4-down – On-the-up Irish singer in Italian city district : RIALTO

5-down – Cable meeting with journalist is flattered : COAXED

7-down – It’s hard work getting a new set of punchy words : SLOGAN

8-down – Theme worked out with art and wit? Brainy stuff : WHITEMATTER

14-down – Keeping a facility for large-scale ads : HOARDING

15-down – Around sailor crew is moving sideways : CRABWISE

16-down – Strip club of sleazy nature on street : DIVEST

17-down – Start to find black gold under playing field : RECOIL

19-down – Favourite lines about love in this, maybe? : POETRY

20-down – Yellow orb over county incompletely visible — as it becomes this? : SUNKEN

1-across – A scolding? Please explain : WHATFOR

5-across – Effect of insecticide for plant? : BUGLOSS

9-across – House party into the groove, looking back : TUDOR

10-across – Fish a bit strange ultimately, a bit odd : WHITEBAIT

11-across – One climbing plant in gallery — Romanesque, say? : ITALIANATE

12-across – Hooter’s ’oot : OWL

14-across – I run batsman out, playing a blinder : MASTURBATION

18-across – A lot behind, hard to forget unfortunately, after retirement of Brown — this much still left behind : NATIONALDEBT

21-across – Time to get some therapy : ERA

22-across – Looking to catch egg running backwards — extraordinary! : STAGGERING

25-across – Creep silently at first, then hop past tree : SLIMEBALL

26-across – Pigment taps into mineral deposit : OCHRE

27-across – Well-placed construction boy reported : DERRICK

28-across – Spread out, saw around centre of pile : DILATED

1-down – In as gin can be? : WITHIT

2-down – An Anglican clergyman peaking in South America? : ANDEAN

3-down – One sinning in fact, or doubly wicked : FORNICATOR

4-down – Two yews, say, in bay tree : ROWAN

5-down – Surgical pioneer pokes bottom that’s covered in sores : BLISTERED

6-down – Sexy woman found in a state in India, say? : GOER

7-down – Needing no introduction, sexist Kazakh loves to adopt religious teachings as The Messiah, perhaps? : ORATORIO

8-down – Making one’s home, landlord’s first to enter the scene : SETTLING

13-down – Toy with Ken Livingstone’s last bill, bad or otherwise : BARBIEDOLL

15-down – Spooner’s cooked nail, metal item at breakfast? : TOASTRACK

16-down – Furious as a thurible? : INCENSED

17-down – After a storm, Emirates hotter : STEAMIER

19-down – Headgear other than this keeps fashionable : TINHAT

20-down – Granted, old houses are roofless : AGREED

23-down – Very cold bottoms on freezing ice cap : GELID

24-down – Heads of King Edward’s people in military headgear : KEPI