Daily Answers

1-across – Immediacy of presents : THEHEREANDNOW

10-across – Wearing electronic tag, BBC boss’s mate arriving here soon? : ENDGAME

11-across – One-nil, wobbling, power through fully! : INPLENO

12-across – Well-rounded objection backing Times : TUBBY

13-across – Special cryptic crossword setters being granted the gift of healing : ASCLEPIUS

14-across – Women wanting just about anything by author : WAUGH

16-across – Read all about technique America’s adopting — endless variety … Read all about it here! : KAMASUTRA

18-across – ABC or D Terminus? There’s confusion here : RUDIMENTS

19-across – Rubbish pile accommodates last of timber : DRECK

20-across – Work out Hucknall’s band’s backing on old record I cover : EPIDERMIS

23-across – Tree with horse secured : ROWAN

24-across – Clear The Jam’s summer screening, though opening is missed : UNBLOCK

25-across – Regressive delay introducing new vitamin : RETINOL

26-across – A French Romantic’s treble casseroles with chorizo : HECTORBERLIOZ

2-down – Bigoted scoundrel great Indian spinner turns in : HIDEBOUND

3-down – Exciting the lady, going topless : HEADY

4-down – Had misgivings about a dance : RUEDA

5-down – Friends, maybe, trapped by rising water any way : ASITCOMES

6-down – Blue act newspapers got hold of : DEPRESSED

7-down – Needing to believe, see printed signs : OBELI

8-down – Having cut sideways through deep mud, sadly not a picture of health! : DEATHWARMEDUP

9-down – Square on the kisser the old girl’s caught sovereign, ___ ! : GOBSMACKINGLY

15-down – Resolve Allardyce Sacked headline? : HAMMEROUT

16-down – Warwick was keg man rolling in dry white wine and cassis : KINGMAKER

17-down – A little reading up of Hood, now Keats, a show of open-handedness and high kicks? : TAEKWONDO

21-down – As the Chelsea manager might say before/after sacking, Lampard principally out to inspire : IMBUE

22-down – Man with knife amputating leg well up : SURGE

23-down – Honey-eater subsequ­ently crossing wings : RATEL

1-across – Set aside for being hopelessly ecstasy-addicted : DEDICATED

6-across – Dominant sort of chap attaining high altitude, initially, on mountain : ALPHA

9-across – Turned green, receiving a message : EMAIL

10-across – Simple question aristocrat put to top 23, reportedly : NOBRAINER

11-across – A rat coming out on an unequal social footing : MORGANATIC

12-across – Intend to get tight : MEAN

14-across – Carry on with fabulous bird in receding ocean : PROCEED

15-across – Get into trouble with sibling in heartless 9 : EMBROIL

17-across – Backward spooks damage a tongue : ARAMAIC

19-across – Way of learning to crack code for dietary essential : PROTEIN

20-across – Well able to dump odd characters in river : ELBE

22-across – Versatile player getting chubbier everywhere? : ALLROUNDER

25-across – Recipient of 9 from dead seers, weirdly : ADDRESSEE

26-across – Land one left in flower : ITALY

27-across – What happened in the seventies? : EVENT

28-across – An aquatic bird absorbing backbeat before birth : ANTENATAL

1-down – Vision of 500 sheets : DREAM

2-down – Medical problem said to make a bird change colour : DIARRHOEA

3-down – Security subsequently left over amid black stuff : COLLATERAL

4-down – Vessel finding capital curtailed within borders of Thailand : TANKARD

5-down – Express contempt about bedhead being clean : DEBRIDE

6-down – A passage out : AWAY

7-down – Almost wrote Noodles : PENNE

8-down – A racket involving kidneys’ secretion : ADRENALIN

13-down – So into cleaning and clearing! : ABSOLUTION

14-down – Toponym constituting source of Love and peace, man : PLACENAME

16-down – Unduly foolish to cover banker’s last debt : OVERDRAFT

18-down – Instrument for brewing ales etc : CELESTA

19-down – Sign left carrying 10 : PORTENT

21-down – Show 19 involving good or bad workmanship : BODGE

23-down – Go to bed with common soldiers; get up with VIP : ROYAL

24-down – Hide pepper : PELT

1-across – Staffs man employed in counting sheep, originally : CROOKS

4-across – See 12 : THEHOOP

9-across – Bacchanalian celebration beginning after giro blown on wine : ORGIASTIC

10-across – Film on cross-dressers seen here? : TVSET

11-across – Extremely uneven unlit B-road : ULTRA

12-across – Barbarian taking crude photo? He managed to undergo ordeal, as must 1 down 24 repeatedly : GOTHROUGH

13-across – Offensive article about two females going after adult material : TAFFETA

15-across – Disease vet identified initially in a pair of horses? : SPAVIN

17-across – Capital from turnover of work unit in Barry : ZAGREB

19-across – Maintained Welsh boy’s eaten a bit of chicken : ALLEGED

22-across – Huge bird unhappy over new location for zoo : EDINBURGH

24-across – Bottle bank’s half full? That’s half empty, son : BALLS

26-across – Ape tucking its tail inside vital body part : ORGAN

27-across – Row of bushes has more than its share of 1 down 24? : HEDGEHOGS

28-across – Fought with unruly youth about Soviets finally changing sides : TUSSLED

29-across – Artificial stimulant once put in port : SEXAID

1-down – Cheese’s left out for after start of chess game : CROQUET

2-down – Auxiliary indicating one should 12 4 across, centrally : OUGHT

3-down – Animal found swimming in a lake or a bay, primarily : KOALABEAR

4-down – Roman sporting catsuit : TACITUS

5-down – Become member of board : ENTER

6-down – Hiding given by wielding short scourge in first of beatings : OBSCURING

7-down – Yacht with power supply that’s irregular : PATCHY

8-down – Mark fools about to a degree : STIGMA

14-down – Ruddy huge game birds used to hit 27 : FLAMINGOS

16-down – Knocked up some satire, verbal lampooning in double quick time : ALLABREVE

18-down – Beaten in game, not having doubled spades in time : BIRCHED

19-down – Bugs concealed by soprano under a piano : APHIDS

20-down – Olympic event not initially covered — journalist no longer working : DISUSED

21-down – I moved into place to finish at 1 down : PEGOUT

23-down – Commonplace name held by god : BANAL

25-down – Liberal party having a little party with a naturally occurring drug : LDOPA

1-across – Positionally, the word flexible has ___ , I see? That’s what it is! : ELASTIC

5-across – See 12 : POPPINS

9-across – Reported pale food : STEAK

10-across – Finally, once or twice, page-turning Cosi Fan fan? : OPERAGOER

11-across – A dose of Ebola’s safe? Very contagious disease! : LASSAFEVER

12-across – 24 a 19 20 1 across 21 6 15, say — from this? : MARY

14-across – This peak’s claimed by old heretic for the master of the works? : ARTHISTORIAN

18-across – Discuss in some detail setting out the gallant knight’s limits : TALKATLENGTH

21-across – Less peeled skin for horse food? : EGGS

22-across – Knockers are wobbly — and sore, too! : ATONESDOOR

25-across – In a questionable manner, call promissory note deceitful : DUBIOUSLY

26-across – Smith knocked over, was sick : AILED

27-across – Solver’s companion is seizing up, coming across as complex character : OEDIPUS

28-across – That’ll teach you it’s different in the Home Counties! : SOTHERE

1-down – At all centres, sweaty brassieres analysed just like that! : EASILY

2-down – After a chorus is opposed? : AVERSE

3-down – Entering wood, a king and woolly bear have a cuppa, perhaps? : TAKEABREAK

4-down – Under surface of compost, dig deeply for aromatic bud : CLOVE

5-down – Footballers’ July, when there was no water on? : PRESEASON

6-down – Food content of an alphabet 24, say? : PEAS

7-down – Is the president a degree less affluent? That’s not entirely suggesting consistent pressure : ISOBARIC

8-down – Among grass, something flat getting lost : STRAYING

13-down – Player, brilliant player cut short, in essence : CONTESTANT

15-down – Relative beneath headlight inhaling it, not a breath of fresh air : HALITOSIS

16-down – Treat a foot breaking three times, getting old : ATTENDTO

17-down – Double deoxygenated gas exploding in bum : SLUGABED

19-down – Dog that’s mine, untracked? : COLLIE

20-down – Beginning to feel on edge, getting cooler : FRIDGE

23-down – Vacillating poet? : NOYES

24-down – Food not taken down then? : SOUP

1-across – Small girl and boy heard to amuse, Hegelian style : DIALECTICAL

9-across – Riding wild horse towards land : ONSHORE

10-across – Speaker’s chamber? : PARLOUR

11-across – See 21 : PENDRAGON

12-across – A question of pronunciation for one doing spelling? : WHICH

13-across – King of 5 associated with 8 achieves fame : MARK

14-across – Exposer of vagrant in love with tart : VENTILATOR

16-across – Pale powder covers fairy king with itchy feet : WANDERLUST

19-across – British king, one on field : LEAR

21-across – Behead reformer and wait, not losing temper with British king : UTHER

22-across – British king taking much of Wales by almost direct route : CYMBELINE

24-across – Stretch performed without shooter : DISTEND

25-across – Stand having wrong sort to drink : ROSTRUM

26-across – Associate of crown, Michael who directed the successful Equus? : DERBYWINNER

1-down – Having no choice? Send if worried to cattle farm on other side : DISENFRANCHISED

2-down – Early hours for the Guardian’s affair : AMOUR

3-down – I’m on the table with disgraced peer and sacked general : EPERGNE

4-down – Maximum speed ahead? : TOPKNOT

5-down – 19’s son-in-law makes crown available to everyone : CORNWALL

6-down – See yourself giving advice to driver : LOOKINTHEMIRROR

7-down – Ornament for gun dogs? : POMPOM

8-down – British king in painting by father of chariot racer? : ARTHUR

15-down – What a pity loved one’s expensive! : DEARDEAR

16-down – Hurts that may get us down? : WOUNDS

17-down – Clearly a convenience for Armstrong’s partner, say : LUCIDLY

18-down – Raise one lily as required by oriental warriors : SAMURAI

20-down – Having nasal problems allegedly, with plenty of space : RHEUMY

23-down – Jewish ascetic docked at German city : ESSEN