Daily Answers

1-across – Accurately reproduced version of Largo, conflated with hip-hop act : PHOTOGRAPHICAL

8-across – A desire to get a letter : AITCH

9-across – Maybe reckon about 50-50 one’s not wearing a tie : ROLLNECK

11-across – Thinning out bureaucracy as indexed? : TAPERED

12-across – Partisan in 27 reported solver’s bust : YORKIST

13-across – Tito’s hunchbacks : GOBBI

15-across – Rhyming letters? I would say not: it’s hermaphrodite : SNAILMAIL

17-across – Go with a winner to make wood for Beatles : NORWEGIAN

20-across – Name of girl in the CPR : NADIA

21-across – Deal with cars etc : TRAFFIC

23-across – Maximum base to give setter a home : MEANEST

25-across – Pollster’s in building with joker : HUMORIST

26-across – Opposition to English subject : THEME

27-across – Weak leading man’s breaking goods in horticultural contests : WARSOFTHEROSES

1-down – Devise beliefs about silver brooms in 27 : PLANTAGENETS

2-down – Sink number coming up in the first place : ONTOP

3-down – 12 emblem rendered differently : OTHERWISE

4-down – Emblem of 16 moved altar back : REREDOS

5-down – Syrian girlfriend produces toddy : PALMYRA

6-down – Local monarch next to magpie : INNER

7-down – Church interrupting an irreverent boy : ARCHIBALD

10-down – Strength and loyalty saw slatterns put straight : STALWARTNESS

14-down – A French nobleman turned up on Hebridean island to fish : BARRACUDA

16-down – Actors in a way on right side in 27 : LANCASTER

18-down – Distance that is key to being high up on shield : INCHIEF

19-down – Absolutely unequal to cancelling game? : NOMATCH

22-down – Novel river with candy : FLOSS

24-down – First off numbers 50-50 : EVENS

1-across – Crosses behind old English city : OXFORD

4-across – Tree where laid-back snake bitten by half-cut monkey : BAOBAB

9-across – Alcoholic drink improved, less teetotal : BEER

10-across – Socialist leader, des­pite amazing success initially, unfortun­ately resigns : STEPSASIDE

11-across – 13’s simian pri or leading princi? : ABSENT

12-across – See 15 : DIRECTOR

13-across – Writer taking you back in play — that’s service! : AYCKBOURN

15-across – Howard, perhaps, mild — if eccentric — cleric : FILM

16-across – Sweet sucker : FOOL

17-across – Familiar bore, oddly kind and personal : WELLKNOWN

21-across – See 5 : SINGULAR

22-across – Second corner knocked over ending in space, head back : GOHOME

24-across – Act of containing people not starting with Roger : ENCASEMENT

25-across – See 19 : MIND

26-across – Figure out old East/West divide? : SUSSEX

27-across – See 5 : PERSON

1-down – Spend too much where in France, admitting something to do with money, ultimately : OVERBUY

2-down – See 7 : FARCE

3-down – Short bone under Italian dish : RISOTTO

5-down – 13’s praise and long runs? : ABSURD

6-down – Bovine to eat etc, mashed with one fork : BISECTION

7-down – 13’s boredom? : BEDROOM

8-down – Warm bottom among three rated wobbly : TENDERHEARTED

14-down – Shop over which bird weed : KNOTGRASS

16-down – See 11 : FRIENDS

18-down – Heading for aggro between supporters, one succeeds : LEGATEE

19-down – 13’s Brashein? : WOMANIN

20-down – Top of shaft : FLEECE

23-down – Rotten thing, swimmer’s heart not in dip : HUMUS

9-across – I’m all right, Jack, and inclined to come again : EGOMANIAC

10-across – Can’t bear sailor with house on river : ABHOR

11-across – See 24 down : BOARD

12-across – Crossed lines in square : TRAVERSED

13-across – Relative gets right into trouble : BROTHER

14-across – Endless gold waiting to be attended to : BACKLOG

17-across – 11’s list : TABLE

19-across – See 24 down : THE

20-across – Report on Rolling Stones’ tempo? : MOSSO

21-across – See 22 : LANTERN

22-across – Entire channel’s used for 7 made of coloured paper : CHINESE

24-across – Duck or dick : GOLDENEYE

26-across – 28 required for bricks? : STRAW

28-across – See 6 : BERRY

29-across – Material for breathing hole in sea creatures : CORPOREAL

1-down – Royals born on roadside? : KERB

2-down – Fruit and veg, maybe 22 down: mum has time inside as well : TOMATO

3-down – It’s too bad it isn’t Philadelphia : HARDCHEESE

4-down – Bury Conservative leader in boat for 7 : WINTER

5-down – Take off and cook with butter : SCRAMBLE

6-down – Cover unwanted third with … : CAPE

7-down – … plant as trophy Salisbury won : PHYSALIS

8-down – See 27 : BRED

13-down – Nut to take part of Terence : BETEL

15-down – I’m so bad appearing twice in Cable News openings obtained by officer : COMMISSION

16-down – See 6 : GOOSE

18-down – Incompetent people with name in brass : BUNGLERS

19-down – 10, a number about which to say one has no inclination : TENDENCY

22-down – See 4 : CHERRY

23-down – English composer died, having been worked for : EARNED

24-down – Decide to follow directors’ advice, which will be ignored? : GOBY

25-down – Turtle in the mystery plays : EMYS

27-down – Source of drink and food, say, with good manners : WELL

9-across – Furthermore, a knight is missing a wife : AGAIN

10-across – Nation in trouble recruiting performing international director : ANTONIONI

11-across – Fliers eat fluff: bananas, stuffed with tungsten : LUFTWAFFE

12-across – Bit end of pie : WHITE

13-across – Love, love the sports body : SWEETFA

15-across – Level of society wanting creative activities backed by corporation : STRATUM

17-across – Make free with girl’s top by end of the watershed : RIDGE

18-across – Sulphur taken out of pit : CAR

20-across – Live volts on city railway slope : BEVEL

22-across – Duck clasped by floppy winged duck : WIDGEON

25-across – Charm to make water without hydrogen : WHEEDLE

26-across – Flying knickers pointless : BRIEF

27-across – More enlightened, classy establishment? : DAYSCHOOL

30-across – Drunk imbibing last of Martini and, later, last of wine, having no master : LIEGELESS

31-across – Like a nuclear reactor made a bird sound heard : CORED

1-down – [See instructions] : TAIL

2-down – Ready to drop D-E or A-D? : HALFDEAD

3-down – Spades getting bagged up : SNOW

4-down – Italian Archbishop of Canterbury : LANFRANC

5-down – Pressure point on lock : STRESS

6-down – Responsible Guardian editor finally wears a new fur : ANSWERABLE

7-down – Fashion follower’s tearful, clutching Dior top : MODIST

8-down – Back to front, mid-month : SIDE

13-down – Hear broadcast about book entry : SCREW

14-down – Temperature present more towards the back from then on : THEREAFTER

16-down – Scrap steel employed internally on the rise : MELEE

19-down – My word! Perversely constraining lives produces yobbish behaviour : ROWDYISM

21-down – Moving imagery of Monte leaving the city, taking a right : VIDEOART

23-down – Republican embraced by Cousteau? : DRIVER

24-down – Agreed Homer did so carelessly? : NODDED

26-down – Two lengths below what a flier might go by : BALL

28-down – [See instructions] : COCK

29-down – Radio’s heart is in song : LADY

1-across – OK character on page with mistakes about the boy Silver : PERSONA

5-across – Demonstrate against 3 about right : BARRACK

9-across – Brown ink : SEPIA

10-across – Black stuff put on boy in sheet : TARPAULIN

11-across – One supplying drinks without food for the seventh stone : BEGGARMAN

12-across – Twig how to spell film actress 16’s name? : WITHY

13-across – See 1 : GRATA

15-across – Insane medico having quarrel with piece of officer’s kit : SAMBROWNE

18-across – A period in the wagon accessed by stopcock : WATERMAIN

19-across – Exclusive ice cream? : SCOOP

21-across – Summing up number in harvest : RECAP

23-across – Trouble about meat with a crack : RIFLESHOT

25-across – Form of carbon in iron and gold, gun giving it energy : AUSTENITE

26-across – Common Praise in Latin? Turn back : USUAL

27-across – Little bird will listen before speaking : HEARSAY

28-across – Immerse time and time flies : DIPTERA

1-down – Group of letters after uplifting talk : POSTBAG

2-down – Payment embracing dog not applicable — it’s offensive : REPUGNANT

3-down – Zero degrees in the hot seat? : OBAMA

4-down – Herb — goddess gets one first : ARTEMISIA

5-down – Poet in a good year : BYRON

6-down – Endless worry with Skoda makes for restriction on travel : ROADWORKS

7-down – Parcel out from Genesis to Malachi? : ALLOT

8-down – Family flat, maybe, on Mull? : KINTYRE

14-down – First class, sorely pressed, must be measured in knots : AIRSPEEDS

16-down – Park Emma : MANSFIELD

17-down – See 16 : WOODHOUSE

18-down – Pervert with funny hat on the way to cause grief : WARPATH

20-down – Cap given with approval to Fitzgerald : PATELLA

22-down – Conspirator taking notes from waterfall : CASCA

23-down – Call on reserves on such a day and get home in the light : RAINY

24-down – Provide with English joke : EQUIP