Daily Answers

9-across – Elusive element in 8’s beast, hot about dealing with listener : RAREEARTH

10-across – Wear out child killer: he drops his H’s : ERODE

11-across – 8’s boy taking his time to prevail? : WINSLOW

12-across – Hypothesise reversal of infected matter with attitude : SUPPOSE

13-across – Russian front one ahead? : IVAN

14-across – It’s a fag going back after standard coreless apple with limited movement : PARAPLEGIC

15-across – With friction reduced, when in grip of gluttony : GREASED

17-across – Ibsen character in credit gets cheese : CHEDDAR

19-across – City’s head girl swallows many outer layers of cell : ECTOPLASMS

22-across – Norman name for girl attending stag : HART

23-across – Be right in midst of liqu­id refreshment? : SOBERUP

24-across – Month missing last or first way to reason : APRIORI

26-across – Being poor lacks happy ending, that’s obvious : OVERT

27-across – You are heard first following anxiety about love and the pink stuff : ANGOSTURA

1-down – 8’s helper with gravy is oven-ready initially to be cooked : BROWNINGVERSION

2-down – Forget an irregular piece of land before building : FRONTAGE

3-down – See 22 : NELL

4-down – Bird to come to earth in Lincolnshire : CROWLAND

5-down – Demonstrative article is repeated by Murdoch … : THESEA

6-down – … taking in what could be peeled, but not completely, by 8 : DEEPBLUE

7-down – Farewell note follows ancient lawgiver : SOLONG

8-down – Playwright, ancient one, sounding cross with recalcitrant horse : TERENCERATTIGAN

16-down – 8’s brand copies arising without terrible battle : SEPARATE

17-down – Sustained attempts to link East Anglia river with most of Devon town : CAMPAIGN

18-down – Talks between digital and analogue are far from complete : DIALOGUE

20-down – See 16 : TABLES

21-down – A quiet piece of ringing has its attraction : APPEAL

25-down – 8’s county or sea : ROSS

7-across – Suitable prisoner, so guru set free : CONGRUOUS

8-across – Telltale wind energy moving from end to centre : SNEAK

9-across – Sticks best snapped to contain fever temperature : BAGUETTES

10-across – Female fish : FLING

12-across – Dog died in town on south coast : POODLE

13-across – This, tailored, goes outside to fit tight and good, like a hood : THUGGISH

16-across – Stocking items of willow in outskirts of Henley : HOSIERY

19-across – Eloquence, force applied to production of Uncle Vanya, 4/5ths through : FLUENCY

22-across – Scorer has space to turn, getting one in, then another one : PAGANINI

25-across – Mate who makes a mess : MUCKER

27-across – Breadth restricted by big car : LIMBO

28-across – Released when undressing a virile journalist? : PRESSSTUD

29-across – Lots of money rejected : STOMP

30-across – Don’t do a full shift down the pit, sap! : UNDERMINE

1-down – See 25 : POTATO

2-down – Religious symbol in art makes one good : AGNUSDEI

3-down – Way over length in colour : HUSTLE

4-down – Non-vocal boxing fix : MUSETTE

5-down – Disconnect the supply of international body publicity : UNPLUG

6-down – Birches surrounding new festival resort : CANNES

11-down – Select cure-all when heart skips : CULL

14-down – Popular northern coach stop once? : INN

15-down – People mentioned earlier, taking time out : HEY

16-down – Bear up without love : HOP

17-down – Talk about what an old chest might do : SAG

18-down – Pre-industrial housing check : REIN

20-down – Former lines said by those people casually rising : EXCUSEME

21-down – Pulsating TV in for repair : VIBRANT

23-down – Noble, short winding stair ring : ARISTO

24-down – Jolson and the Hobos LPs? : ALBUMS

25-down – Cryptic crossword indication for too pat : MASHED

26-down – Sequined, unhemmed, like an Arab? : EQUINE

1-across – Choose to keep quiet time in smoker’s assembly : PIPERACK

5-across – Sailor to accomplish his aim : TARGET

9-across – Programme of talent-spotting, being rubbish? : STRICTLY

10-across – See 9 : FORTHE

12-across – See 9 : BIRDS

13-across – Painters etc in suitable accommodation : APARTMENT

14-across – Celebratory explosive devices put in sack — barmy! : FIRECRACKERS

18-across – In the centre, order to repair a model of the statue that came to dinner : COMMENDATORE

21-across – Annoyed about combining styles? : CROSSOVER

23-across – Provide joke with point : EQUIP

24-across – Priest turned farceur sought by alchemist : ELIXIR

25-across – Person from Riga in unpleasant surroundings — is it Brussels? : VILLETTE

26-across – Strong possibility that you could start? : MIGHTY

27-across – Time Rugby Union’s Tiger played with genuine resolution : TRUEGRIT

1-down – Don’t go to the Pays Bas without a translator : PASSBY

2-down – Proper way to specify delegated correspondent : PERPRO

3-down – On holiday the setter’s been far from dominant : RECESSIVE

4-down – Bird is captured — where? — in Italy : COLLAREDDOVE

6-down – A place for such as 4 in the rigging : ALOFT

7-down – See 19 : GATHERER

8-down – Learned work on pacts needing little change : TREATISE

11-down – Barker puts pile of stones on land register : CAIRNTERRIER

15-down – American playwright about to receive into the Church of England a French one : CORNEILLE

16-down – Jewellery and stuff, including English food : ICECREAM

17-down – Dominant monkey to get large gin cocktail : IMPOSING

19-down – Watch American gun being used in Britain by king that’s no agriculturalist : HUNTER

20-down – Optimistic — don’t come in yet! : UPBEAT

22-down – Satirist, one of the 12 : SWIFT

9-across – Protean alien revolt put straight : LINEARISE

10-across – US city where I badly hurt back : MIAMI

11-across – National average about this number, a hundred : MEXICAN

12-across – Old fast train slowing into stop, reversing : MALLARD

13-across – Orange, perhaps, after stop, then green light over a 11 artist : DIEGO

14-across – If screwing back, proper weapon required — so get out cue : FIREALARM

16-across – Old show for the young, delicate creature in decline, ticker going first? : WATCHWITHMOTHER

19-across – Sounds like agricultural worker hacked off a long, tapering item : SURFBOARD

21-across – See 3 : VILLA

22-across – Bird that doesn’t apply for Italian city : RAVENNA

23-across – Infant playing with toy in the shade : TINYTOT

24-across – More red deer are ready to eat : RARER

25-across – Teary time in the embrace of sexy chap, scratching rear : LACHRYMAL

1-down – Among fools, setter’s bid to appear vacant leading to acts of withdrawal : CLIMBDOWNS

2-down – One following around by being clumsy : INEXPERT

3-down – 11 fighter fish almost eaten by supporter : PANCHO

4-down – European steering mechanism under discussion : FINN

5-down – Soiled sheets on this — tuck in elevated edges, red : BESMIRCHED

6-down – Perfect tree to climb? No, needing to shoot at a 11 revolutionary : EMILIANO

7-down – See 6 : ZAPATA

8-down – Thoughtful Wagnerian issue, perhaps? : KIND

14-down – Female, free love inspiring alias, odd characters in hell for 11 artist : FRIDAKAHLO

15-down – Commercial centre getting mail sorted : MERCANTILE

17-down – Trip, poison taken in honourable death, not half : HABANERA

18-down – Traditionally when orange wedges served, could it be me? : HALFTIME

20-down – See 13 : RIVERA

21-down – Fruit grown here in actual houses : VINERY

22-down – Ferry repeatedly taking heart from port : RORO

23-down – Old man’s uprising that’s 11 : TACO

1-across – Game, this riotous nonsense breaking free in toilet : BRITISH

5-across – See 1 : BULLDOG

10-across – Game, Jack in this number? : JINX

11-across – Bent clip, ivory, moulded round first of teeth : PROCLIVITY

12-across – Germ doctor tracks in videoing heart : EMBRYO

13-across – Spanish in contrast to her serenity? : HISPANIC

14-across – Game to have a go at, blue then red : KNOCKDOWN

16-across – See 27 : CHASE

17-across – General having fit behind Churchillian salute : VAGUE

19-across – Broad agreement on sloppy leadership in survey : CONSENSUS

23-across – Game with two hammers felt frantic : WHATSTHE

24-across – See 14 : GINGER

26-across – See 23 : TIMEMRWOLF

27-across – Game — not entirely important around one’s school, as following : KISS

28-across – Dazzling charmer, big hitter? : SMASHER

29-across – Is it just for cooking pancakes? Good question : GRIDDLE

2-down – Paramount directed, for Spooner, a film : RAINMAN

3-down – Cut stolen by Tory, regularly — he’ll take the money : TAXER

4-down – Inner area of plant identified retaining power, : SAPWOOD

6-down – Not bright to ignore capital, making saving : UNLESS

7-down – This contemplated surfacing to bandage hit, a rabid sea monster : LEVIATHAN

8-down – Monarch, abandoning sinking boat at sea, comes by : OBTAINS

9-down – Don’t stop till you’ve finished — try trotters and all? : GOTHEWHOLEHOG

15-down – Solver primarily in support of clues, not foreign legion : COUNTLESS

18-down – A rival to us concealing one’s disbelief : ATHEISM

20-down – Italian chap claiming fine to accept the delivery : SIGNFOR

21-down – Spoon perhaps required, as classy figure is raised on lager, initially : UTENSIL

22-down – Go without watch — about five? : STARVE

25-down – Defenceless clergyman upholding Mozart’s character? : NAKED