Daily Answers

1-across – Bob cut cloth back, stitching around upper part : SUPERSTRUCTURE

9-across – Popular teacher of French introduced to privileged dealer : INSIDER

10-across – Native putting this mouldy lot of cheese first : BRITISH

11-across – Pick up good, nutritious meat : GLEAN

12-across – Vegetable pigment breaking free with 11 : LEAFGREEN

13-across – Old regulars meeting for starters in local, demanding consistency : NORMATIVE

14-across – Texts university faculty turned outside : SUTRA

15-across – Bar from doing otherwise : INGOT

17-across – American parent adopting dysfunctional minor’s religion : MORMONISM

20-across – Mutual support for boys? I miss out : SYMBIOSIS

22-across – Babe getting right into Republicans’ comeback : SPROG

23-across – Channel turning minister 1 down part 2 : CULVERT

24-across – Stroller’s fishy funeral : FLANEUR

25-across – Dance queen : PRIMABALLERINA

1-down – Eg ant’s time on duty, drinking double spirit dry : STINGINGINSECT

2-down – Stick with original scientist : PASTEUR

3-down – Greyish-brown hairdo let outside, wasting space : REDUNDANT

4-down – Composer to get up in worse health? : TORELLI

5-down – Offence taken at bird drinking 7 Up : UMBRAGE

6-down – Object to 11, first to last? : THING

7-down – Intend to line ripped costume : RAIMENT

8-down – Premier holds county without a marketplace, securing one set of spec­ial effects : PHANTASMAGORIA

14-down – Winter scene featuring cattle head to tail in Suffolk village : SNOWSCAPE

16-down – Female Ibsen character embracing male one of Dostoevsky’s : GAMBLER

17-down – Prohibitionist’s last ambush wrecked brewer’s equipment : MASHTUB

18-down – Agitate, fluster, calm : RESTFUL

19-down – Citizen raising 21s, typist’s occupational hazard : ISRAELI

21-down – Currency secreted in compiler’s gut : ILEUM

1-across – Cut through mole, being careless : SLOPPY

4-across – Goat and mouse 23 : BUTTER

9-across – Swallowed by frog, left eye : OGLE

10-across – Meat in Indian less hot, dish recalled as 23 starter : SHAMIKEBAB

11-across – Instrument cutting grain husks, finding substance in wheat : GLUTEN

12-across – Give a little, as winning : HANDSOME

13-across – Excellent tie stolen by drunk : TOPDRAWER

15-across – Resolution, coarse stuff : GRIT

16-across – 23, as in pot scoffed by Greek character : LAMB

17-across – This served with 23 that’s yellow in heap : PILAURICE

21-across – Orderly present, man finally tucked into bed : COHERENT

22-across – Ultimately, project cold, not the right plan : TACTIC

24-across – Evidence of BSE with half of bacon 23 : BEEFMADRAS

25-across – Scoundrel leaves, one gathers : RAKE

26-across – Saw always dividing pipe : SAYING

27-across – Understanding shown by any sort of African : KENYAN

1-down – Epic place to go for a 23 : SAGALOO

2-down – Patent done before end of contract : OVERT

3-down – See 16 across : PASANDA

5-down – Lacking leadership, trouble afoot for traditional Labour allies : UNIONS

6-down – Fixed rate more reliable for the one with the money : TREASURER

7-down – Once more welcome to postpone commercial breaks : READMIT

8-down – Shop assistants resist charges for renovation : CASHREGISTERS

14-down – Male ego in Lady Gaga, one’s flighty but delicate : DAMSELFLY

16-down – One in ecstasy after heading off prowler : LIONESS

18-down – Entertainer performing satire about the end of Marat : ARTISTE

19-down – See 4 : CHICKEN

20-down – Keep film in water : RETAIN

23-down – Treat skin that’s hot : CURRY

8-across – Banter about a couple of things wanted on course : REPARTEE

9-across – Create stink with article that’s proverbially erroneous : HUMAN

10-across – You are reportedly in hospital with temperature, injured : HURT

11-across – Reached conclusion about numbers of Romans being malicious : EVILMINDED

12-across – Good behaviour, we hear, in areas around stations : MANORS

14-across – I have put back piece of furniture that’s possible to avoid : EVITABLE

15-across – Curse that’s part of Bible, in 4 19, as are ten other answers : BESHREW

17-across – In a practical sense, team that’s not careless : ANXIOUS

20-across – Temporarily halt start of play after second side’s changed : PROROGUE

22-across – Wrongfully nailed, producing no confession : DENIAL

23-across – Section of island a man searched in part of Indian Ocean : ANDAMANSEA

24-across – Leave droppings of carnivore, small one : SCAT

25-across – Like part of a certain tree — a king hid in one, desperately : OAKEN

26-across – Facility for addicts initially is unveiled by doctor in public : OPIUMDEN

1-down – Greek character with pistol held up police : REGULATE

2-down – Players attempt to make a catch : CAST

3-down – Organic compounds forming chains, perhaps, apart from first time : ETHERS

4-down – Final book, having been abridged, is edited and altered : REVISED

5-down – Excellent husband cutting flower : CHAMPION

6-down – Doctor mentioned a change for the better : EMENDATION

7-down – Multinational organisation we will cut is in poor shape : UNWELL

13-down – Soldiers love appreciation, when blunder’s covered up : OTHERRANKS

16-down – Firmly establishes earnings must be adjusted : ENGRAINS

18-down – University academic leader upset about club that’s still going strong : UNABATED

19-down – I must replace last piece of poem on account of one person : VERSION

21-down – Took flight, thus, with miles to redeem : RANSOM

22-down – Lie and improperly admit to one kind of school : DEALIN

24-down – Body a medic’s turned over : SOMA

1-across – In Le Monde, Mrs Boatman follows article on cuckoo : MADAME

4-across – Eat little fish caught here, in an area of the sea : FASTNET

9-across – Two areas of the sea in which to find fish : DOVERSOLE

10-across – Uniform visual spread is lacking? It depends on the palate : UVULA

11-across – Area of sea foam produced with small rotation : FORTH

12-across – Overly large number in those mixed with taste : TOOTHSOME

13-across – Don’t do this to a boat entirely in the sea : ROCKALL

15-across – Burden of tragic, boring speech : SADDLE

17-across – Rebuke solver twice, say, in sea area report! : TUTTUT

19-across – See 22 : ICELAND

22-across – Where swirling sea breaks into coastline? Thud! Crash! : SOUTHEAST

24-across – Where liners originally entered the sea? : MALIN

26-across – Airship loses skin, ending up in middle of sea : IRISH

27-across – Protective cover for Spooner’s style of hairlines? : SUNBONNET

28-across – It’s wrong or right inside: not exactly mature : ERRATUM

29-across – See 5 : UTSIRE

1-down – Destined to wander around and around, fed up : MADEFOR

2-down – Several pointless clues for one in the sea : DIVER

3-down – Troop movement in April? : MARCHPAST

4-down – Area of sea said to be modest source of fish : FAEROES

5-down – Part of sea route is shut off : SOUTH

6-down – Regional variation about superior brain support : NEUROGLIA

7-down – It goes into the sea with a message inside : THAMES

8-down – As a rib might carry one to get inshore : COSTAL

14-down – Worth, perhaps, 1 euro — curt fashion statement : COUTURIER

16-down – Good-looking sailor spends night here? : DREAMBOAT

18-down – The boat’s back! Deliverance! The boat’s back! : TRANSOM

19-down – Fashionable tempo and a voice on one note : INTONE

20-down – Row over eccentric letters sent out from superior eating place : DINETTE

21-down – Time to try for scale : ASSIZE

23-down – Drummer has one to bash about what’s inside : HIHAT

25-down – Sea area, say, for two days off across the Channel : LUNDI

1-across – Got switched : TWIGGED

5-across – One mishandling gong lecturer’s pinned inside coat : FUMBLER

9-across – Admitting one for tests, writhing in severe pain — an indication of sportiness? : GOFASTERSTRIPES

10-across – Sussex train has stopped outside : EXTRA

11-across – Sealing backing for aged teachers in charge, having got behind special lashings : SHEDLOADS

12-across – In short, the solution is to turn champion horse into one that gets beaten : SNAREDRUM

14-across – Timeless scar, the beginning and the end for Socrates? : SIGMA

15-across – Daughters in wage rage? : PADDY

16-across – Gin-slinging in social gathering good for generating this? : SINGALONG

18-across – Unthinkingly used up cards : OUTOFHAND

21-across – Lizard caught antagonist in Wall Street : GECKO

22-across – Physical exercises in the morning? They attract attention at Westminster : EARLYDAYMOTIONS

23-across – Nurse admitted Indian dish that’s hot dislodged canine : BASENJI

24-across – Secretary’s not very much on, for example : PARAGON

1-down – One very fierce soldier held up in lock : TIGRESS

2-down – Hip’s well-exercised, passing time with courtesans on and off : INFITSANDSTARTS

3-down – Flimsy bloody cases succeeded unchanged : GOSSAMERY

4-down – Pharmacy business stocks ecstasy for you, on telephone deposit : DREGS

5-down – James or John? It’s doubtful which tank’s propelled skyward : FISHERMAN

6-down – On top of latke, 10 mushroom : MOREL

7-down – Waxed lyrical about reaction to pain, after having to drink tea : LAPSANGSOUCHONG

8-down – Extremely large arses kicked round part of Antarctica : ROSSSEA

13-down – One emperor giving lift to another’s a long way off one : RASTAFARI

14-down – Carnage puts end to games and merriment : SLAUGHTER

15-down – Saw dog severing lead : PROVERB

17-down – Nothing too much inserted, snog silly old Scots relative : GOODSON

19-down – Gathering of the air at the centre of lying : FLYIN

20-down – Block apparently unhinged : DAMUP