Daily Answers

4-across – I have a dog : SETTER

6-across – French leader’s refusal to entertain a fellow European : NAPOLEON

9-across – Model violated when about to leave : DEPART

10-across – Suffered discomfort after a race, but hung on : ATTACHED

11-across – Tracks crossing the river where people jump : TRAMPOLINES

15-across – Ham is above the law : OVERACT

17-across – City call to spend? : LASHOUT

18-across – Savour impertinence from sailors? : TARTARSAUCE

22-across – Lust like a Cockney saying he’s jolly drunk? : APPETITE

23-across – Ship’s boat turns in, as for good : ALWAYS

24-across – Harry led astray by the arms? : HERALDRY

25-across – Cuts 23 on board : SEVERS

1-down – Come running and pull to pieces : TEARUP

2-down – Part of the country is against ale brewing : EASTANGLIA

3-down – Sticky stuff used by agents to catch a fool : MOLASSES

4-down – This will help you to sleep soundly, said easterner : SEDATION

5-down – Weak prescription to treat paw injury? : TAPWATER

7-down – What may be heard from the choir? : ECHO

8-down – Party leader at international organisation turns up without cover : NUDE

12-down – Volume containing a true array of writing : LITERATURE

13-down – Figure out place to have sex : COPULATE

14-down – Godless found at armed robberies? : ATHEISTS

16-down – Shrewdly, as a follower of Robin Hood : ASTUTELY

19-down – Frugal type puts in a pound for the plate : SALVER

20-down – Spare wound : GASH

21-down – Stimulus is false without promises : SPUR

1-across – They provided Henry VIII with cash, without flower : MONASTERIES

9-across – T, like the rig? : BERMUDA

10-across – Early start aboard with the food : EATABLE

11-across – Lengthy work, a rune, translated by a lover of luxury : EPICUREAN

12-across – Rise with rig : GETUP

13-across – Don’t talk about one good enough to express regret : SIGH

14-across – Grade put back for the scholarly, as deserved : WELLEARNED

16-across – On front page a weird mission shortened as pages : PIANISSIMO

19-across – Backward female : HIND

21-across – Carrier left by religious leader : LLAMA

22-across – One appeal for over half heavenly T : ISOSCELES

24-across – Make love without success coming down from heaven? : SNOWING

25-across – Drunk as a snake? : LEGLESS

26-across – Horses : EQUILATERAL

1-down – Hogarth’s composed, including rights, one-time massacre scene : MARRIAGEALAMODE

2-down – King leaves Kenyan town for island republic : NAURU

3-down – T to climb for one without leader : SCALENE

4-down – T for bird that’s drunk ale outside : ETERNAL

5-down – Essential T needs altering : INTEGRAL

6-down – All must be sat in a play that’s not a mere taster : SUBSTANTIALMEAL

7-down – Sailor queen over sisters? : ABBESS

8-down – Locker at flat remote, for example? : KEYPAD

15-down – Italian suite : TIRAMISU

16-down – European refinement : POLISH

17-down – German magazine, say, and what’s said about it? : SPIEGEL

18-down – Like the fairies’ ill meeting : MOONLIT

20-down – Refrain from Spades is Trumps : DESIST

23-down – Very sad — beheaded, rejected and set alight, it may be : CIGAR

1-across – Who might dress Tom Cruise? : COSTUMIER

6-across – Panda, perhaps, I smothered in lard : FIAT

8-across – All these letters used, treble score primarily basic requirement to bag fifty? : SCRABBLE

9-across – Want to see Tom Hanks’ initialled letter-opener? : DEARTH

10-across – Block question that’s material : DAMASK

11-across – Did you say there are no West London gardens better ___ for cheers? : THANKYOU

12-across – See 24 : WISDOM

15-across – A piano recording in balletic movement that’s fruity : APPLEPIE

16-across – Left — red, if unstated? : REMAINED

19-across – King Edward, say, squeezing first of lovelies, an upper-class issue : TATLER

21-across – Fixed rate treatment, primarily, for medical condition : FLATFEET

22-across – State novel by cont­rary author — men seem unable to put it down! : TOILET

24-across – Saxon folly evidently inferior to this funny little chap : NORMAN

25-across – As some heaters are possibly my reference, I left wood in it : OILFIRED

26-across – See 22 : SEAT

27-across – Pickler in row requiring more liquid : THIRSTIER

1-down – Poisoner doubles up over a drink : COCOA

2-down – Off to the main Home Counties settlement? : SEAWARD

3-down – Native of central Asia, the last character to live in Britain : UZBEK

4-down – Lack of movement in time holds it up : INERTIA

5-down – Racecourse favourite, the Queen seen on it? : REDCARPET

6-down – Jockey taken for ride, it deviating : FRANKIE

7-down – A god I placed in employment, proving OK : AUTHORISE

13-down – Perfect place to have made hole, I suspect : IDEALHOME

14-down – Seed taking on essential nitrogen in stomach upset : MONKEYNUT

17-down – Shot a couple of times, then cut free : ATTEMPT

18-down – See 6 : DETTORI

20-down – Georgian city, one place to host party, travelling north : TBILISI

22-down – See 8 : TILES

23-down – Islamic ruler always protecting me : EMEER

7-across – A number shout showing approval, when holding clubs in card game : PINOCLE

8-across – Dash after school orchestra : GAMELAN

9-across – My Family run through for the audience : SKUA

10-across – Fools a bird : SAPSUCKER

12-across – Comprehensive to remove uniform from budget : ALLOT

13-across – Displayed eggs by Spooner at exhibition : ROADSHOW

15-across – Bank providing heartless response : RELY

16-across – Secret service once carrying gong into battle : SOMME

17-across – Fight with witness : VIEW

18-across – Throw a bug into school : CATAPULT

20-across – Explain love’s effect : SOLVE

21-across – Soldiers given effective support : REINFORCE

22-across – Gather food : TUCK

24-across – Drunk? Open the liquor! : POTHEEN

25-across – Light hair regularly requires a grip : ARCLAMP

1-down – Twist head off lizard : KINK

2-down – Type of fat cat — and where to find it? : TOMALLEY

3-down – Stop on the first Underground : CLOSET

4-down – Distant place endlessly eroded by flood : SATURATE

5-down – Animals, say, reared on cold island : GECKOS

6-down – Penny’s bearing twins! : PAIR

11-down – Ice is within safe limits : PERIMETER

12-down – Ground a bit of nutmeg into sphere : ARENA

14-down – Falstaffian part to be selected : OBESE

16-down – Fought to put small box over light source : SCUFFLED

17-down – Lively base straddling the equator? : VOLATILE

19-down – Fiery comic character created high tension : ALIGHT

20-down – Boat changes direction to procure drink : SHERRY

21-down – Cross street full of holes : ROOD

23-down – Adherents of flower power : CAMP

1-across – See 10 : BEAUTY

4-across – Problem for 26s not entirely in shock : STAGGER

9-across – Online business, where Italian novelist Paul secures German car : ECOMMERCE

10-across – Book — book, to be plain then? : BLACK

11-across – Taking a drink, old 26 : PINTO

12-across – Current uprisings bring Southeast Asian skins to Spooner : HIGHTIDES

13-across – Cut away skin, inserting key : RESCIND

15-across – Do in turns, as 26 : REDRUM

17-across – 26 — it’d caught 26 15 : DESERT

19-across – Part lips aquiver, touching sheep : SPLITUP

22-across – As a climber went hiking, king dropped in agony, put out by it : UPTHEHILL

24-across – 26 having to shine, price dropped : ARKLE

26-across – 10 1, perhaps, from 21 29 : HORSE

27-across – Grabbing last of beer, drunk needing a drink : GRENADINE

28-across – More healthy-looking individual hugged by guide : RUDDIER

29-across – Wonderful to write about English 21 : SEWELL

1-down – Doctor’s assistant finds first of blemishes on skin coming up : BLEEPER

2-down – A limp reason to get fruit? : ACORN

3-down – Stall emptier, so neglected : TEMPORISE

4-down – Frog getting odds cut, wearing fleece for 26 : SHERGAR

5-down – Mariner primarily breaking some compass : AMBIT

6-down – Beastly remark going about with a relative : GRANDAUNT

7-down – Dashing one kilometre to the north, reckless about it : RAKISH

8-down – See 17 : ORCHID

14-down – Quiet woman let out revolutionary : SHELTERED

16-down – Evidence of brain activity we validate, one less active : DELTAWAVE

18-down – 26 set off : TRIGGER

19-down – Second 26 : SILVER

20-down – Little money son invested in rock, then left market early : PRESELL

21-down – Potter, say, placing gold above god : AUTHOR

23-down – Resin in time leaking towards the ceiling : ELEMI

25-down – Kris, perhaps, beginning to eat grass, stood up : KNIFE