Daily Answers

1-across – Insure junk is standing : STATURE

5-across – Fruit of wasting the end of the month attached to bed : APRICOT

10-across – Brisk punishment : SPAN

11-across – Poor A levels, sir : VERSAILLES

12-across – 27’s house is regularly clean, kept in step : PALACE

13-across – Abraham Lincoln’s first amendment : ALHAMBRA

14-across – Leaving it to be dealt with properly is not his style : VIGILANTE

16-across – Waistline finally slim and dark … : EBONY

17-across – … having skimmed the fat, say : UTTER

19-across – Record about spots compiler has to drop fast : CRASHDIVE

23-across – Oh no! Swinging sixties pop star appears in Hawaii : HONOLULU

24-across – Sees : ELYSEE

26-across – Sponge soaks up tea, including 27 : BUCKINGHAM

27-across – See 10 : KING

28-across – 25 offering some resistance with limits to young and old alike : OHMYGOD

29-across – One smoker can be irritating : IRKSOME

2-down – With her fashionable pork-pie hat : TOPKAPI

3-down – Washington gallery exhibits a friendly place : TONGA

4-down – Nice location a compiler spotted in Jordan first, perhaps : RIVIERA

6-down – Dandy finds exercise painful : PEACHY

7-down – Setter criticises a poor city : ISLAMABAD

8-down – 18 production of cricket terms : OVERRUN

9-down – Finds the ark built right with branches outside : BREAKTHROUGHS

15-down – Correct choice essential in sport : ICEHOCKEY

18-down – Occasionally, military leaders get in touch more than necessary : TOOMUCH

20-down – Found in haste, a merchant ship : STEAMER

21-down – Mount with vigour outside in a state : VIETNAM

22-down – Leave half the quantity first in the body : QUANGO

25-down – My key is lost : YIKES

1-across – Short film screened by badass for those with a supporting role : SPICAS

5-across – Apply tongue — swallow — spit out bit of war paint : LIPSTICK

9-across – They are ruined by gin, just like curry! : MASALA

10-across – Star of the road in 354 days, briefly : LUMINARY

11-across – Some big tops with little jumpers? : FLEACIRCUSES

13-across – Imitate cradling Sybil’s head in recess : APSE

15-across – Cued actor, funnily dressed : ACCOUTRED

18-across – Got very large eating duck steak : TOURNEDOS

19-across – He’s celebrating gold this weekend: he goes ___ in the row above : WEST

21-across – See 24 : THEBUTLERSAW

25-across – Young Parisian, one of fashion : UNDERAGE

26-across – This corny Shakespearean solver’s coarse : EARTHY

27-across – It’s shambolic when American with muscle checks in : ISUSPECT

28-across – Money once placed in green shade : PESETA

2-down – Pru’s first amateur theatrical production : PLAY

3-down – Make fun of rubbish : CHAFF

4-down – She’s celebrating gold this weekend: she ___ the previous column : SCALES

5-down – Maybe Cilla White — or Purple? : LILAC

6-down – Question Othello brought up in drinking chamber : PUMPROOM

7-down – Difficulty with speech as English, say, marry : TONGUETIE

8-down – Irish heading off to penetrate French novelist’s old protective garb : CORSELETTE

12-down – Attempt spiritual healing with poem about workers : LAYONHANDS

14-down – Quiet Muscovite ready to survey surface of steppe? It may be this barren : SHRUBLESS

16-down – Bill’s partner when behaving amorously? : COO

17-down – Precedent for heartless 3 holding book up : TESTCASE

20-down – Ridiculous sale, epic — 50% off! : ASLEEP

22-down – Golden wedding celebration, for example — partial to platinum anniversary? : EVENT

23-down – Dispute using weapon, first to last : WORDS

24-down – Play that we blush at, right? We both did it on TV : WHAT

1-across – Poke one’s nose into group of servicemen with a candid humour, leading to hospital : MESSAROUNDWITH

9-across – Action that doesn’t take place in Union St : NONSUIT

10-across – Robin’s mate’s second in one increase? : BATSMAN

11-across – Give up the harvest : YIELD

12-across – Transporter : TRIERARCH

13-across – Mention of a mechanical piece in the isthmus : NAMECHECK

14-across – Norman ruler starts to be added to the jackpot : ROLLO

15-across – Complaint as of the murmuring of innumerable bees? : HIVES

17-across – Reduce status of dog warden? : DOWNGRADE

20-across – Indian city’s veto on quantity : BANGALORE

22-across – Compare plant with symbiotic fungus, say : LIKEN

23-across – Sort of box for little gentlemen in trouble : NESTING

24-across – An island at back of Russian girl : TATIANA

25-across – See 6 : UNDERTHEBRIDGE

1-down – What generates interest is Araucaria’s home hosting one old Greek king : MONEYINTHEBANK

2-down – Ray to be replacing Rhode Island in Dutch Guiana : SUNBEAM

3-down – Awfully cute little quadruplets that hold 6 : AQUEDUCTS

4-down – 6 animal loses tail and so on turning up inside with a group : OCTETTE

5-down – Get a taste of ink in the club? : NIBLICK

6-down – Deterrent rebid, Waugh’s work for passing time? : WATER

7-down – Vehicle submerged in a sea of lost umbrellas : TUMBREL

8-down – See 21 : ONTHEOCEANWAVE

14-down – Cycle of duty with pistol has backing : REGULATOR

16-down – Meat in the oven is only half cooked : VENISON

17-down – Medicine man should be here as rainmaker? : DROUGHT

18-down – Fight with the French after peace : WRESTLE

19-down – Embarrassed by prize that contains little power : AWKWARD

21-down – Freefone between Alison and Theodore, a new arrangement in the first home to which the marines marched : ALIFE

7-across – Red wine splashed across first cover : EIDERDOWN

8-across – Article about next number : THREE

9-across – Base the next on what might be of use — it’s flawless : MISERABLE

10-across – Next, start to sit on next seats : SOFAS

12-across – Next, in plainsong? : BALLAD

13-across – Extended discussions of next report on backing for beards : TEACHINS

14-across – Bent corners of next machine parts : DOGEARS

17-across – Disgust about next type of clothing : APPAREL

20-across – Lover puts weight on next : MISTRESS

22-across – Next flight is unusual : FAROUT

24-across – Disposed of next beast : BISON

25-across – Next, caught in violent gunshot attack : ONSLAUGHT

26-across – Free French one embraces next : UNTIE

27-across – Backing miserable sinner taking next and last gram : ENDORSING

1-down – Short piece of music, one of low points : MINIMA

2-down – Performed live, reel produces musical awakening : REVEILLE

3-down – Did badly to take vehicle inside pass : IDCARD

4-down – Interval between notes that soared in sober hearts : TWELFTH

5-down – Moving auditory experience for those that love silence : WHOOSH

6-down – One stopped and added: That isn’t ever even : DETAINEE

11-down – Catch some piranha species : HASP

15-down – Love binds one’s beliefs : OPINIONS

16-down – Beast backing into grass : REED

18-down – Clue to IRA high-explosive blast : AIRBURST

19-down – Foolish, mad, insane? Boatman’s secret : ASININE

21-down – Perhaps cancer sufferer’s last to be included in matter for discussion : TROPIC

22-down – Idle chap taking note where point is lost : FALLOW

23-down – Boatman, uniform : UNHAND

1-across – Setter’s eating large stew : GELATIN

5-across – After climb, turn up at party : SHINDIG

10-across – See 22 : KISS

11-across – Oxford cleaner hopes to dance around hotel chamber : SHOEPOLISH

12-across – Groove discovered in mainly hairless animal : BRUTAL

13-across – Cockney objects about fish having emotional responses : FEELINGS

14-across – Respected opponent in dead heat before heading off for the country : DANGERMAN

16-across – Little Tom and Jack : KITTY

17-across – It detects things from any direction : RADAR

19-across – There’s little space in refugee centre to smell this plant : FENUGREEK

23-across – Staff pluck endless fruit : MANDARIN

24-across – International organisation questions sailor returning a jacket : BASQUE

26-across – Merciless villain bound in carpet in American port : WILMINGTON

27-across – Tories cried out for service : RITE

28-across – Forceful adult admitted being fat : PAUNCHY

29-across – Libel law’s oddly lacking — peers to reform : ASPERSE

2-down – Country raised flag on 1st of April : ERITREA

3-down – Something useful for dog scratching head : ASSET

4-down – Original urinals, narrowly constricted : INSULAR

6-down – A one-legged painter? : HOPPER

7-down – He rescinds in full, occasionally; prisoner gains independence : NULLIFIER

8-down – The opposite of hidden awareness? : INSIGHT

9-down – Factory intern organised the brotherhood : CONFRATERNITY

15-down – Soldiers rioting, armed with guns : GUARDSMEN

18-down – A veto overturned on cultural body providing coffee : ARABICA

20-down – Removes ties when sister orders head to be demoted : UNBINDS

21-down – Agrees with point as being decided, on reflection : EQUATES

22-down – Intimacy that set tongues wagging : FRENCH

25-down – Rocks vet cutting tail : SCREE