Daily Answers

1-across – Central to two-part adaptation is tense executive : MINISTERIAL

9-across – Content of dialogue’s moving tributes : EULOGIA

10-across – Did abuse in retreat hit home here? : DELIVER

11-across – Is mad rolling joints where crewmen are most likely to see you? : AMIDSHIPS

12-across – <i>Clouds</i><span> #3 for Joni; #1 is AC/DC</span> : NIMBI

13-across – See 3 Down : HAND

14-across – Barrier Reef explorer who has items at market? Aussie’s dug in : SNORKELLER

16-across – <span>Flat area is undivided,</span><i>Times </i><span>writer claims</span> : MAISONETTE

19-across – See 18 Down : OVER

20-across – The finale of the opening race : EVENT

21-across – Expert on duty calls reserve back about error : EXCISEMAN

23-across – Retired Limerick man’s enthralled by couple from Jerusalem? : ISRAELI

24-across – Shameful act on fateful day: finally Brutus moved to pierce Caesar’s? : INSIDES

25-across – Status symbol Spooner’s given speedy player at the Madejski? : WEDDINGRING

1-down – <span>Author’s sick,sicker,upset in turn about broadcasting </span><i>Sunset Boulevard</i><span>?</span> : MILLIONAIRESROW

2-down – Drink – warming,is it,at daybreak? : NEGUS

3-down – Stock-rider,perhaps the first figure available? : STATION

4-down – Suspect under cover of some receiver? : ENDUSER

5-down – Man’s son maybe confirmed to be big hit : ISLANDER

6-down – O setter,O setter’s setter? I’m part of a package : LOVEMELOVEMYDOG

7-down – Top 23 people long to start holding mass : MENACHEMBEGIN

8-down – Revelling in a barrister’s whimsy : ARBITRARINESS

15-down – Lonely chap of note working on the butter mountain? … : GOATHERD

17-down – … Honoured retirees not alone in flourishing Maine-et-Loire : EMERITI

18-down – Idling teacher’s work done? : TICKING

22-down – American guy’s wrapped selection from Japanese takeaway? : SUSHI

1-across – Physical effort to get any number of hospital components up : HEAVENWARDS

9-across – One no good – assess as ‘thoughtless type’ : INGRATE

10-across – Troubled in games and puzzles : ENIGMAS

11-across – Francis,say,individual to enter into conversation with a bird? : STONECHAT

12-across – English officer facing one threat to health : ECOLI

13-across – Rotten spot – end of holiday : DOTY

14-across – End of tribulation – I’m at peace,remarkably free : EMANCIPATE

16-across – Three maybe in that vicinity? : THEREABOUT

19-across – Enemy falling short at old city square : FOUR

21-across – Girl by a lake associated with certain organisms : ALGAL

22-across – This writer’s approaching page with story’s completion expected soon : IMPENDING

24-across – Dog shooting off round Red Square : HUNDRED

25-across – London,say,shortly to be involved in authentic performance : RECITAL

26-across – Ambassador reveals heart with such innocence : ARTLESSNESS

1-down – Unfortunate hedgehog Anna hit to be dealt with shortly? : HIGHONTHEAGENDA

2-down – With it,a king is held in wonderment : AWARE

3-down – So-called spare rib’s meat offered in town : EVESHAM

4-down – Like some bread wife and husband put away : WHEATEN

5-down – Water noise being heard? It must be controlled : REINEDIN

6-down – Master’s upset over boy – an attempt isn’t somehow having extremes of earnestness producing poem : SAMSONAGONISTES

7-down – Report of fog overlooked : MISSED

8-down – A feature of Salisbury cathedral making one yearn : ASPIRE

15-down – Wine store with the Spanish litres – there’s a sign of something missing posted outside : CELLARET

16-down – Cheap and nasty kitchen item that’s shut up inside : TRASHY

17-down – Streakily coloured – possibly lined with hint of blonde,right? : BRINDLE

18-down – What could make little male rise up? People making judgements not always liked! : UMPIRES

20-down – Entertain soldiers with good booze : REGALE

23-down – Back elected,famous Argentinian in comfortable position : NICHE

7-across – <span>I have to cry in </span><i>Cracked Actor</i> : CYNTHIA

8-across – Two golfers making a comeback are record holders : SLEEVES

9-across – Perfect detailed impression : IDEA

10-across – Band accompanying AC/DC mostly wasted in South American region : BIBLEBELT

12-across – Last piece of cake with low-fat cream : ELITE

13-across – Retiring footballer seriously gutted over eye disorder : EPILEPSY

15-across – Travel at speed in Triumph Stag finally : WING

16-across – Immature tone of 19 : GREEN

17-across – Seedhead : BEAN

18-across – Crypt intermittently hosting spooky playing from Norwegian band : ROYKSOPP

20-across – Young sailor reversing craft : BATIK

21-across – Barman is outside King George in coat of 16ac : VERDIGRIS

22-across – Well peeled fruit : LIME

24-across – 16ac swimming in middle of River Ouse : ENVIOUS

25-across – Back in Hollywood LA,REM entertain one of the Stones : EMERALD

1-down – Broadcast Brockwell had viewed : EYED

2-down – Police chief accepting regularly deleted emails is a criminal offence : STEALING

3-down – A bishop is possessed by beastly sound : VIABLE

4-down – African lioness turning up to devour Spice Girl : ALGERIAN

5-down – Acute or cute? : SEVERE

6-down – Public losing love for French 16ac : VERT

11-down – Banks maybe supporting brewer occasionally,one who looks after the workers : BEEKEEPER

12-down – See 7 Across : ERIVO

14-down – Big star elevating second leg : SHANK

16-down – Brilliant City leading United in Gloucestershire : GLORIOUS

17-down – Beer producers possibly ones lacking Courage? : BOTTLERS

19-down – Motorway stopping northbound journey of frog : KERMIT

20-down – Leader hiding medal chest : BOSOMS

21-down – Climber to struggle without oxygen ultimately : VINE

23-down – Look happy to lose lead in race : MILE

1-across – Room for a short dictionary : CHAMBER

5-across – ‘O for a cruiser’,praying? : WORSHIP

9-across – Free get together when it’s back : UNTIE

10-across – Retro art lines needed to make crosses : TRAVERSES

11-across – Wool hoarder’s disgrace : BLACKSHEEP

12-across – Points provided to cover firm on the rebound : FOCI

14-across – Vials with nitrogen cleared to be mixed with hair cosmetic : NAILVARNISH

18-across – Where to test the UK’s standard vacuous Tory politicians : LABOURPARTY

21-across – Apply tar cover sheet,essentially? : PAVE

22-across – Bombed an airbase by a body of water : ARABIANSEA

25-across – <i>About a Boy </i><span>primarily is not Grant’s interpretation</span> : REASONING

26-across – See 27 : TRADE

27-across – To mill about in march exposing a threat to the global environment : PALMOIL

28-across – Zero dirt should come back to suppress breathing difficulty : STRIDOR

1-down – Camilla’s first husband is getting fat : CHUBBY

2-down – Current yearly numbers thrown out by court : ACTUAL

3-down – It’s not easy to disentangle way of getting a druid’s photo : BREAKINGUP

4-down – Saddo starting out gag : RETCH

5-down – I’m leaving you as one egg may have said to another : WEAREOVER

6-down – Look up ‘spindle’ : REEL

7-down – Celebrated from Memphis to Richmond : HISTORIC

8-down – Copy partner hugging Matilda in Berlin’s artistic mix : PASTICHE

13-down – Where intelligence is drab and less shiny? : GREYMATTER

15-down – On a criminal trial,one politician is not taking sides : IMPARTIAL

16-down – Hands in hat containing suitable drivel : CLAPTRAP

17-down – Most importantly,lover must discard clothing during a dance : ABOVEALL

19-down – See 3 : ISHARD

20-down – Start to enrol in nurse or doctor’s profession : CAREER

23-down – Spurious rise in public transport? : BOGUS

24-down – See 3 : TODO

8-across – Blame argument for cutting hand : REPROACH

9-across – Old fogey just quits : SQUARE

10-across – One’s apparently not informed m’colleague : IMOGEN

11-across – In games,two out of three forwards appear overall : TOPTOTOE

12-across – Knock here – radio presenter dressing! : MAYO

13-across – Standard supplement for contract worker at Victoria Station? : STOCKRIDER

15-across – Salon’s No 1 supporter given a vessel for immersion : STEEPER

16-across – Town branch taking delivery of precious commodity : BOROUGH

18-across – Means to get to Hogwarts chambers in two seconds : BROOMSTICK

19-across – Uncassocked choirboy maybe depressing clergyman : INGE

20-across – Veteran car – Model T,I suspect – about to be driven away : OLDTIMER

22-across – Champion FC’s no longer ad-free action arenas : REALMS

23-across – Perhaps 9 is impossible,on reflection : ISOGON

24-across – On the slide not one is playful : SKIDDING

1-down – Upper third of school eats free meals,which degrades teacher’s “invitation” : SEEMEAFTERCLASS

2-down – Royals,predominantly,come and go,revelling in sexual activity … none here now : FROGMORECOTTAGE

3-down – <span>Isn’t it being overlooked by second </span><i>Carnival </i><span>man?</span> : SAINTSAENS

4-down – Staying in,waste a chance for publicity : PHOTOOP

5-down – Terminally,Cleopatra so bitten yesterday? : ASAP

6-down – Game 6: Olympian driving German car – he scores : LUDOVICOEINAUDI

7-down – A happy day in prospect at the Abbey? : PRIORENGAGEMENT

14-down – Club badly broken during Hitler’s short war : KNOBKERRIE

17-down – Wander here,when prowler’s night finally becomes day : DIGRESS

21-down – Our race times,from the people staging the Tourist Trophy : MANX