Daily Answers

1-across – Number of words from Marx, as revolutionary duo iffy — habitual adulation and dubious mythologies died away : IFISAID

5-across – See 1 : YOUHADA

9-across – Puzzle solver? : REBUS

10-across – See 1 : BEAUTIFUL

11-across – Midas-touched fruit ending in bin, being made of metal? : AUTOMATON

12-across – Queen, perhaps, but one’s straight : RULER

13-across – Lofty soak : STEEP

15-across – See 1 : AGAINSTME

18-across – God requires name for the shape in some states : PANHANDLE

19-across – Treetop home — why in lake? : EYRIE

21-across – One’s dying to execute politician : EMBER

23-across – See 1 : BODYWOULD

25-across – See 1 : YOUHOLDIT

26-across – Green ball, then the brown one of the three? : OLIVE

27-across – Seed, contents of which dispersed in rupture : DEHISCE

28-across – 18 down worms so? : LEGLESS

1-down – Raids — and no mistake! : INROADS

2-down – Hotel admitting stay affected, neither here nor there : INBETWEEN

3-down – A considerable portion served up for tea : ASSAM

4-down – Month without coin then ’arsh for buyer : DEBITCARD

5-down – Long thread binding feline’s tail : YEARN

6-down – Truncate difficult European statement : UTTERANCE

7-down – Right abandoning summit, as hellish : AWFUL

8-down – Free, on the whole : ATLARGE

14-down – Royal characters among Englishmen abroad in places of leisure : PLAYROOMS

16-down – Unreliable point in material brought up to support article : ANECDOTAL

17-down – Turn out risqué, somewhat blue? : TURQUOISE

18-down – Pastry observed as wasted : PIEEYED

20-down – Incessan? : ENDLESS

22-down – Black plant in bushes : BRUSH

23-down – Shift bird, half gone : BUDGE

24-down – Out of keeping, Norwegian uprising : WRONG

9-across – A cock bird no friend to Israel : AMALEKITE

10-across – Dove’s top notes recited poem : HAIKU

11-across – False god to love, love therefore not true? : TOOGOOD

12-across – First to end play at an abstinent time : RAMADAN

13-across – Early days in return of half-hearted TV city : SALAD

14-across – Remove island prey of 8s’ devil : EXCISEMAN

16-across – Obsolete institution: Act I — the goalpost must be moved : COTTAGEHOSPITAL

19-across – Say pears and apple in tandem? : TWOSEATER

21-across – Herb left by soldier at ease : COMFY

22-across – Upset one in the dam : MOITHER

23-across – Title given back to archduke, being a dish : RISOTTO

24-across – Strap used by blacksmith on grey mare : THONG

25-across – Elite Spooner’s drunk after fiasco : TOPFLIGHT

1-down – Kipling’s pony, a cross beast, playing 21 and 22 down : MALTESECAT

2-down – Long wait on the cards for sleeper over sleepers : WAGONLIT

3-down – Time to set clock and get breath back : SECOND

4-down – See 3 : WIND

5-down – Nameless impressionist with foot : RETROCHOIR

6-down – Encouragement to beat about the bush, almost wildly : THUMBSUP

7-down – Extra to set in the comic sense : WISDOM

8-down – Get very hot water : BURN

14-down – Give boost to surrounding vulgar-sounding bully who has the franchise : ELECTORATE

15-down – Swap larger numbers in protest from Lincolnshire town: no wind farm! no swallows! : NILBYMOUTH

17-down – Don’t talk up soldier in Indonesian region, as pack is normally used : ACESHIGH

18-down – Warning not to outstay welcome I encountered in African country : TIMETOGO

20-down – 8s’ Mary’s lost head in prayer : ORISON

21-down – Move at chess where players lose side pieces : CASTLE

22-down – Move at chess, first of moves at the end : MATE

23-down – Awestruck, as is right and proper : RAPT

1-across – Cook’s been able to do this once on time : RETAINTHEASHES

9-across – Police who want use of crackdown say they are gripping the court! : VICESQUAD

10-across – Sri Lankan port’s lifeboat’s chief caught in a force 8 : GALLE

11-across – Itinerant #out to lunch : NOMAD

12-across – Play this for eventual gain and drag to the ground : HARDTOGET

13-across – World traveller’s not doing too well in business with PC? : ETAILING

14-across – High-class clothes business — right time to go for it! : AGRADE

17-across – Fitful earless driving programme through well : STOPGO

19-across – Look into enclosed space and see transmitter : COLOURTV

22-across – On vacation, double-crossed nasty DJ? : DRESSCODE

24-across – International ran laps on record : FILED

25-across – Timeless band’s backing track : SPOOR

26-across – One intriguing old Spanish gentleman : CABALLERO

27-across – Virginia back, cutting Myra, is getting involved with Gordon — TV feature? : SNOGMARRYAVOID

1-down – Freshly hassled, gets even: divorces bride — so saying? : REVENGEISADISH

2-down – Old mortar in building programme co-tenant’s brought up : TOCEMMA

3-down – Mannequins I de-legitimised, having the measure of men’s outfitter : INSIDELEG

4-down – Moving about : TOUCHING

5-down – Last divers under base : ENDURE

6-down – With intervention of government, this goes up a great deal : SIGHT

7-down – Articles praising one in United goal getting drunk after end of game : EULOGIA

8-down – See 1 : BESTSERVEDCOLD

15-down – Indulge too much in what’s unusually legal of mafioso : GOODFELLA

16-down – N, some out of uniform inspiring Sussex resort with no hotel : NOVEMBER

18-down – The Queen’s personal circle has no news to broadcast : ONESOWN

20-down – Outstanding piece of fiction concerning upset on borders : RELIEVO

21-down – Received refreshment at 4pm on 1/4, oh yesssss! : GOTCHA

23-down – Parents’ progeny? Some of it : SPROG

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