Daily Answers

1-across – 27 of 6s? : SETTERS

5-across – Oath to the French king, one interrupting speech : HECKLER

9-across – Free love — have no success without it : LOOSE

10-across – You snivel unpleasantly, wishing you were me? : ENVIOUSLY

11-across – Put in letters for ice-breaker keeping weapon : EPISTOLIC

12-across – Do this to cite this for 11 : SPOIL

13-across – Make music, including Western music : SWING

15-across – Coster from Furness : BARROWBOY

18-across – Ship’s first come into old one’s bell and pursued it with vigour : LUSTINESS

19-across – Get rid of land on sea : DITCH

21-across – See 20 : YEARS

23-across – Supply lamps the ginnel needed … : ENLIGHTEN

25-across – … needed again with heater fitted in Soviet city : LENINGRAD

26-across – See 27 : OFWAR

27-across – Caesar’s bulls forged? So what? : THEDOGS

28-across – Did the 6 — or was unable to? : PUZZLED

1-down – You translated poetry on the Sun : SOLVERS

2-down – Fwightful cwimes without a subject of novel tale : TWOCITIES

3-down – What happened to regular model? : EVENT

4-down – Pole, old expert with ball, keeping it up, having an easy name? : SPELLABLE

5-down – Hard part of wader’s cry to 9 27 26 : HAVOC

6-down – This could bar you from the Dunmow flitch : CROSSWORD

7-down – Girl to love catcher? : LASSO

8-down – Tory shambles containing rising of the people — top people : ROYALTY

14-down – Dormouse gets sulphur and oxygen on a sliding scale, perhaps : GLISSANDO

16-down – Quickly collected red coat and organised duel quietly : RUSTLEDUP

17-down – From abbey to cathedral : BATHTOWEL

18-down – Was stretched out on the ground, fatally wounded : LAYFLAT

20-down – German one of 27 brings up, without colouring, time 26 between 1s : HUNDRED

22-down – Musical gunner in a pub raised a point : ANNIE

23-down – Wind once blowing from Europe to America? : EURUS

24-down – German/American artist given a little Polish money : GROSZ

1-across – Kind heart of Malaysian getting warmer? : BRANDY

4-across – Seal broken by force at first, before I look : SHUFTI

9-across – See 16 : PLAY

10-across – Criminal prevailed before ending in slammer, one going down for a long time : PEARLDIVER

11-across – Take gold and go cold : WINTRY

12-across – Annus mirabilis for the rubber man : GOODYEAR

13-across – 6’s pretty flaky character? : SNOWWHITE

15-across – Comedian, one in a suit? : CARD

16-across – Bit of fun with possible role to impress partner, initially — later a 23 26? : FORE

17-across – How often what needs translating into another language not entirely okay in the end : FREQUENCY

21-across – With sound method pack it in roof : HOUSETOP

22-across – In a book, heroic opening captured : ATHOME

24-across – Creator of life inspiring Irishman in assembly : PARLIAMENT

25-across – Hot stuff seen in photograph album : PHAL

26-across – See 23 : ENDING

27-across – Remained proper, by the sound of it : STAYED

1-down – Sax was being almost all jazzy? : BELGIAN

2-down – So far away several yetis entering Tibet’s most westerly extremes : ASYET

3-down – Drop tray, emptied onto church’s work of art : DIPTYCH

5-down – Earth: then what rises? The Sun! : HELIOS

6-down – This in fact not half a distortion of reality? : FAIRYTALE

7-down – Where you may see reindeer I see antelope : ICELAND

8-down – Upset tabloid concealing dread, rubbished paper as aggressive performer : GANGSTARAPPER

14-down – Incoherent speech, so a drawl collapsed and died : WORDSALAD

16-down – Pay on time for some film : FOOTAGE

18-down – In which 16 9, say? : QUARTET

19-down – Order, no doubt for starters : COMMAND

20-down – Tension in the air : STRAIN

23-down – 13 has one, as a friend of hers is dying : HAPPY

8-across – Abundance of crystals treating ailments : SALTMINE

9-across – 14 for weak old lions, perhaps? : SENILE

10-across – Mother leaves African country via an African native : LIBYAN

11-across – Urgent: couple of Latins getting frisky in clandestine love affair : INTRIGUE

12-across – See 19 : PART

13-across – Recall wee teddy’s head cuddled by minor, producing comforting words : SLEEPTIGHT

15-across – Ride through change in Oxford or Cambridge, possibly? : VARSITY

16-across – Describing lung membranes, soft with questionable allure : PLEURAL

18-across – Strain, say, behind party rivalry : CONTENTION

19-across – Start lap dancing, showing tail? : LAST

20-across – Elegant, idly swimming in water : LADYLIKE

22-across – Deliver key to open road in Paris : RESCUE

23-across – Endless siren in sacred chant : MANTRA

24-across – A fish going backwards around little island in the Caribbean : DOMINICA

1-down – It’s one of my 14s, but did I perceive something of the others? : WASITACARORACAT

2-down – 14 — Japanese model is what it is? : ATOYOTASATOYOTA

3-down – Saint Paul’s man, perhaps, finding one with Saint Martin extremely unreliable : MINNESOTAN

4-down – See 9 : FELINES

5-down – Two articles taken from a Volkswagen, over here! : PSST

6-down – One of two is introduced to popular water sport, making one distinctive : INDIVIDUALISING

7-down – Drink containing Irish water servant’s left for traditional food : PLOUGHMANSLUNCH

14-down – One is drawn onward : PALINDROME

17-down – Fib about alcoholic drink being one that’s non-alcoholic? : LIMEADE

21-down – See 1 : ISAW

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