Daily Answers

1-across – Promise club sandwiches for invalid : SPURIOUS

6-across – Put on muscle intermittently,for instance : ADDUCE

9-across – Bundle of energy going round in so many directions : DYNAMO

10-across – Less healthy,surrounded by doctors and dentists? : DRILLERS

11-across – Invented top cycling trick : TRUMPEDUP

13-across – Singer of note in audition : TENOR

15-across – Publishes single review of children’s doctor : ISSUES

17-across – In favour of international European currency : FORINT

18-across – Get sloshed in boat : OBTAIN

19-across – Antelope mainly run through area : IMPALA

21-across – Fixed expression of disdain regularly suppressed,by order : IDIOM

22-across – Actively desires to clothe backs of young waifs and strays : DIGRESSES

25-across – Firm objections retrospectively dropped : STUBBORN

26-across – Tiny thing,uncharged,spending time in cell : NEURON

28-across – Ancient king reproduces without love : XERXES

29-across – Patient is gender-fluid : RESIGNED

2-down – Pea reportedly stuck up your nose : PRY

3-down – Paper clips left in field : REALM

4-down – Making mountains out of molehills at last,after senior ego bruised : OROGENESIS

5-down – Element of blame attached to Head of Security : SODIUM

6-down – Like starting the day naked : AKIN

7-down – Nameless hereditary halfwit raised for life of luxury : DOLCEVITA

8-down – Place to sell clobber close to a bar : CARBOOTSALE

12-down – Engineering dons retire with a purpose in life : RAISONDETRE

14-down – Generational anxiety abruptly returns : BOOMERANGS

16-down – Row and fight after firstly pre-recording what’s on telly : SETTOPBOX

20-down – Women’s personal success : WINNER

23-down – Threw punch,catching end of chin : SLUNG

24-down – Shy drunk knocked back squash,not Scotch : TOSS

27-down – Old setters are in debt : OWE

1-across – Equator in turmoil after expulsion of a revolutionary force : TORQUE

4-across – First person embraced by the writer,so-called Frenchwoman : MADAME

9-across – Jump over ice to cast out line : AXEL

10-across – Moving communication : CONVEYANCE

11-across – Come to light,say,about Brendan getting sent back : EMERGE

12-across – Perhaps bangers scared us,exploding : USEDCARS

13-across – Weed as opposed to marijuana,we hear : KNOTGRASS

15-across – Centre of Kalahari Desert is this : ARID

16-across – Read and sift,removing odd bits? : EDIT

17-across – Deductions from second and first parts of book : STOPPAGES

21-across – In reform of racism,it’s an old weapon : SCIMITAR

22-across – Practice passed on from circus to movies : CUSTOM

24-across – State also is connected with a poor backward area in capital : ADDISADABA

25-across – What goes into glass for raising in toast,initially : FRIT

26-across – Kind of grape in county cut by extreme characters : SHIRAZ

27-across – Inventor’s lack of pretension? Just the opposite : EDISON

1-down – Often resented officials,including current fare collectors : TAXIMEN

2-down – Rugby sides separated by English person in charge : RULER

3-down – It’s hard to understand man taking pawns with a rook : UNCLEAR

5-down – Top points made by primates about second part of Bible : APEXES

6-down – Broadcast a copper and a leading artist climbing tree : ARAUCARIA

7-down – Key part in final piece played more : ENCORED

8-down – Popular with French who take exam including one severe questioning style : INQUISITORIAL

14-down – Head out of court and run into seven officers in Rome : TRIUMVIRI

16-down – Rearrange vowels in US codes to get money changed in Europe : ESCUDOS

18-down – Duck that dives in river caught with difficulty : POCHARD

19-down – Effect of continued abrasion,or is one out of order? : EROSION

20-down – Classes located in faculty set up : STRATA

23-down – Seating,thus,not entirely secure : SOFAS

7-across – Puzzle,short name : CROSSWORD

8-across – Puzzled when in a jam? : STUCK

9-across – Puzzle parody about prayer,puzzling : CONUNDRUM

10-across – Puzzled,female puzzle setter : FAZED

12-across – Puzzled,as is wobbly? : THROWN

13-across – Puzzled – as the entire sailing fleet? : ALLATSEA

14-across – Puzzled by weak broadcast? : FLOORED

17-across – Puzzled out? : STUMPED

20-across – Puzzling,as name appears in men? : BEYONDME

22-across – Puzzle strain : RIDDLE

24-across – Puzzle,dandy : POSER

25-across – Puzzling array of giant mice : ENIGMATIC

26-across – Puzzling barrier back in grid : WEIRD

27-across – Puzzled having guzzled,dummy going in : FLUMMOXED

1-down – Fastener put forward,we hear? : BROOCH

2-down – Bubbly rendition of some opus : ESPUMOSO

3-down – Report written up about evacuation of desolate country : SWEDEN

4-down – Excitement,America in song after leader deposed : AROUSAL

5-down – Artist’s puzzling pass : STRAIT

6-down – Device finally secured by nuts and English fastener : SCREWEYE

11-down – Drab digs : FLAT

15-down – Painted veil with rose covers : LIESOVER

16-down – Somewhat unenlightened,darkest Scandinavian literature : EDDA

18-down – Troubleshooter,rock of the communications industry? : MEDIATOR

19-down – Reportedly,officers in bits : KERNELS

21-down – US author has way to go in tale about chicken : OHENRY

22-down – Ordered system for example in ice crystals : REGIME

23-down – Hang around for commentary of Birmingham match? : LOITER

1-across – Crummy local’s barring Vlad,initially reassuring everyone there : ALLCOMERS

6-across – On the way back catch police agent? : NARC

10-across – Local favourite keeps old place in field : POINT

11-across – Following assault,I’ve repaid family of biters : VIPERIDAE

12-across – Still in fluster,perhaps : RESTFUL

13-across – What about institute? Sense it’s awful : HEINOUS

14-across – See clearly and shoot : GETTHEPICTURE

17-across – Trash new areas developing in African territory : WESTERNSAHARA

21-across – Plant official in work : TREFOIL

22-across – Film star nuts about female either way : MAEWEST

24-across – Starts to feel comfortable on bench? Wrong : SETTLESIN

25-across – Pass stick over teacher’s head : ENACT

26-across – Yes,take action to keep Republican in check : SURE

27-across – Lots here,also some jumping over side : SALESROOM

1-down – Current strength of army regulars’ anger over exercises? : AMPERAGE

2-down – Personal generator – 50 per cent reduction for cash upfront : LOINS

3-down – From here? Yes and no : OUTOFTHISWORLD

4-down – Nurse playing with Rampant Rod underneath blanket : ENVELOP

5-down – Lesbian in a quiet pub? There’s no mistake about it : SAPPHIC

7-down – Stars in capital stopping with lawyer : ANDROMEDA

8-down – Maybe invoked when wanting to 14,it can be big or hard : CHEESE

9-down – Ability to get through to ancestral suite improved : ARTICULATENESS

15-down – Picked up kitchen appliance in Northamptonshire town : TOWCESTER

16-down – Handyman carrying extra weight round middle,Charlie admitted : FACTOTUM

18-down – Before end of Games,observe cycling recruits : ENLISTS

19-down – Not in practice,I’m soon about to climb league : NOMINAL

20-down – Snoopers having second period of inactivity : STASIS

23-down – Not a reason to show up one of 9 : ERATO

8-across – Silver hoarded by investor finally ready for collapse of civilisation? : SAVAGERY

9-across – One boxed in in French mountains cried out : JUROR

10-across – One used to dig for vegetable : SPUD

11-across – Disinterested motive that Kant criticised : PUREREASON

12-across – One hurrying closer – flipping salesman! : ZIPPER

14-across – Sons regularly notice weakness : SOFTSPOT

16-across – Devilish fun,leaving female dog barking extremely loudly : UNGODLY

18-across – Lecture on one undated coin : EXPOUND

21-across – Delicacy going off in cold storage : ESCARGOT

23-across – Buying wine here,what you may be asked generally and in detail,then turned away : BODEGA

24-across – Factory due to review legal obligation : DUTYOFCARE

26-across – Conclusive move for bitter drink : MATE

27-across – Following Heyerdahl down river? : AFTER

28-across – Saint ignored Latin mass: translated,it may have magic powers : TALISMAN

1-down – Movement of river through university turbulent in gap : CAMPAIGN

2-down – Praise God,some say : LAUD

3-down – Wordsworth’s solitary death is a grim one : REAPER

4-down – Outwardly consolatory squeeze,a symbol of mourning : CYPRESS

5-down – Indian prince’s given up,leaving a gap : AJAR

6-down – Weapon broken,borrow Dad’s : BROADSWORD

7-down – Italian poet has no time for an operatic piece : ARIOSO

13-down – Creature in a cell given to prayer,OK to reform : PROKARYOTE

15-down – Resolve difficulty : FIX

17-down – Delay loses all gained from the start : LAG

19-down – Put dentures here at bedtime? You’ll get the bird : NIGHTJAR

20-down – Secret procedure the way to wellness,avoiding hospital : STEALTH

22-down – Sound from mouse’s narrow escape? : SQUEAK

23-down – One insect or another let loose : BEETLE

25-down – Make dedication to spymaster : FORM

26-down – Frenzy in elephants,umpteen rearing up : MUST