Daily Answers

1-across – Confusion over allocation of sides: You weather, ___? : MELEE

4-across – Capital of kingdom where broken vase goes round and round : SARAJEVO

8-across – Aurora takes out her name amid instances of disrespect : SOUTHERNLIGHTS

10-across – Capital once ordered to include a missing composer : BELGRADE

11-across – Capital of South Africa with tailless bird : ZAGREB

12-across – A label for the whole piece done very fast : ATAGALLOP

15-across – Dorset castle given new finish in Greek island : CORFU

17-across – Key to crime and cover-up? : DRAPE

18-across – Audibly expressed regret having lost interest with piece of furniture : SIDEBOARD

19-across – Capital jokes made about piano : SKOPJE

21-across – Prisoner to give helping of jam : CONSERVE

24-across – Charlie is embraced by girl and son on the way to France? : CHANNELISLANDS

25-across – Capital in mint condition till final exchange : PRISTINA

26-across – Poem commemorating cinema? : ODEON

1-down – Avoid mistake about country, fictitious one without orchids : MISSBLANDISH

2-down – Capital organised initially by John Bull for composer : LJUBLJANA

3-down – This will put you out from inside the room : ETHER

4-down – Saint Thomas, Copperfield’s friend, has his leg over : STRADDLES

5-down – List of names for food : ROLL

6-down – Young cat has car with copper bottomed top : JAGUARCUB

7-down – One with no alternative but a multiple choice question : VOTER

9-down – Ayckbourn’s odd odd bod, sailor turning round press : ABSURDPERSON

13-down – Presenter of choirs has a beer with presenter of records : ALEDJONES

14-down – Capital of a Costa after dolphins depart? : PODGORICA

16-down – Change layout of back cooker : REARRANGE

20-down – Different from 3, having omissions for errors : OTHER

22-down – Excuse for shooting? : SALVO

23-down – Still one myth of the mountains : YETI

1-across – Enthusiastically welcome every second of farcical object : ACCLAIM

5-across – Riot Centre Boy! : HUBBUB

9-across – Divers to do sign need oxygen for so long : TOODLEOO

10-across – Vegetable — eating much game? : PELOTA

12-across – In dialectics animatedly responsible for the demise of cricket? : INSECTICIDAL

15-across – Going up to claim pay for unemployed teenager? : ADOLESCENT

17-across – That piece on which control’s tight — that’s boring! : THE

19-across – See 17 : BIT

20-across – The writer’s depriving Labour of work burden : IMPOSITION

22-across – Resident cloth rep hit edge of kerb before stop sign : PREBENDARIES

26-across – One who went over the edge in 16, sick in the sea at Calais : MILLER

27-across – Staying cryptically rendered for this cutter : CHAINSAW

28-across – Complain persistently to sweet potato farmer, perhaps? : YAMMER

29-across – One who went over the edge in 16, clear to see in criminal : BENNETT

1-down – Not in favour of current soldier going over the top : ANTI

2-down – : COOK

3-down – Male columnists displaying a variety of talents? : ATLANTES

4-down – : MOORE

6-down – Cultural agency out of tune with Scots? : UNESCO

7-down – Doctor obtains old sign of guilt : BLOODSTAIN

8-down – However certainly : BYALLMEANS

11-down – Strong liquor served by street bar no end : STINGO

13-down – Feeble war baby repeatedly gutted about reversal of plan : NAMBYPAMBY

14-down – 1919 or 1946, say, when a Brit’s absorbed a volley of bullets : POSTBELLUM

16-down – Buffalo Bill lassoes me for amusement : COMEDY

18-down – Workmanlike milkman holds up baker : LIMEKILN

21-down – Take out runner in Chester with permit to enter : DELETE

23-down – Restoration of B. Cowen’s predecessor, not fully in ascendancy : REHAB

24-down – Existential being gatecrashing Socrates’ seminar : ESSE

25-down – Pulls up teacher’s pet : SWOT

1-across – Ocean corrected to sea here : ONEACROSS

6-across – See 3 : CRAKE

9-across – Goldsmith’s work for house inside worth being given advantage : DESERTEDVILLAGE

10-across – Bird’s eggs found on sideboard? : ROOK

11-across – Soon Old English will be attractive : ENGAGING

14-across – Fragrant medley of Roman Catholicism, say? : POTPOURRI

15-across – See 10 : SPAWN

16-across – See 23 : LIGHT

18-across – Influence of the upper class, dead, to breed abundantly : PULLULATE

20-across – Teaching worked out during most of play : TUTORAGE

21-across – Regulation of height is a lot to ask : TALL

25-across – No hat? Odd — possible mistake about that to be melodramatic : BLOODANDTHUNDER

26-across – Bond boy, one caught by raptor : ERNIE

27-across – Cargo near wrecking through high-handedness : ARROGANCE

1-down – See 21 : ORDER

2-down – Absorb outside capital : EASEOUT

3-down – Rail company has service to take in food : CORN

4-down – See 24 : OVER

5-down – Multifaceted area — see the last one encased in shutters : SEVENDIALS

6-down – Take charge of breeding ground where there’s a tie? : COLLARSTUD

7-down – Fungus from an island part of Italy : AMANITA

8-down – Coming out of Greece with men at sea : EMERGENCE

12-down – Former party leader game to cross the line : FOOTBRIDGE

13-down – Spin with the right look, you might say : PROPAGANDA

14-down – Mate on a board that can be accepted : PALATABLE

17-down – Depress duck : GETDOWN

19-down – A boy having a row with a lamp : ALADDIN

22-down – Left some silver, which is generous : LARGE

23-down – Sailor hid by little space traveller : STAR

24-down – Barbarian to run all but the north country the morning after? : HUNG

1-across – Scavenging cheetah and hyena seconds only behind 15 — or minute? : TITCHY

4-across – A way back into competition proves difficult : ACTSUP

9-across – 15 strung up? : KITE

10-across – Writer’s part involving soprano in score that’s even for bouncer : TENNISBALL

11-across – Figure that’s still the leader in uprising, as Lenin’s body lay? : STATUE

12-across – Place behind pages in middle of book, quite different : OPPOSITE

13-across – Suddenly drop fancy dish with fancy clothing? : CRASHDIVE

15-across – 6 20’s notes from on high? : BIRD

16-across – See 15 : SONG

17-across – Nasty Bond criminal ready and waiting : ONSTANDBY

21-across – 16 across beginning to grate in musical that’s a legitimate object of ridicule : FAIRGAME

22-across – Holiday depression : RECESS

24-across – Upshot: charity needs turning around, I state, as being awful : DIABOLICAL

25-across – English stop making Dutch favourite : EDAM

26-across – Sugar! — old lover’s split underwear! : HEXOSE

27-across – Woodlouse, perhaps, thus entering music store : ISOPOD

1-down – 15 16 needs time to go on : TWITTER

2-down – 15 16 to swallow, roughly speaking : TWEET

3-down – Volatile type’s articles carried like bricks? : HOTHEAD

5-down – Cheerful, like 15 16? : CHIRPY

6-down – Author appears petulant penning opening of erotic book, novel fantasia : SEBASTIAN

7-down – Fortune collected in dish, synod ultimately guided : PILOTED

8-down – Put out, seeing popular party people topless in Italian city : INCONVENIENCE

14-down – Guard’s post mailed by, or redirected before ten : SENTRYBOX

16-down – Servile shower beneath head of state : SLAVISH

18-down – See 23 : THRILLS

19-down – 15 * ready to blossom? : BUSTARD

20-down – See 6 : FAULKS

23-down – Hearing 2 2s around hospital, such titillation! : CHEAP

1-across – Written passages bringing doctrine into middle of lesson : SCREEDS

5-across – A number of chessmen : BISHOPS

10-across – Silly clown, he gets into mess : MUCH

11-across – Small mammals hide in the ground : SHREWSBURY

12-across – Ring turning out vulgar and cheap : LUDLOW

13-across – Mammal from Simon’s territory, so we’ve heard : SIRENIAN

14-across – Yankees in muddle following economist : KEYNESIAN

16-across – Prophet returning to power : PREES

17-across – Street containing little that’s appealing : SWEET

19-across – What ’arbour did for female sailor, being more senior : ELDERSHIP

23-across – English institute attracting a German physicist : EINSTEIN

24-across – See 5 : CASTLE

26-across – Retail outlets to rent across eg Reading? : SHROPSHIRE

27-across – A source of inspiration : PUMP

28-across – Upper-class Bond actress not the first to strip : UNDRESS

29-across – See 10 : WENLOCK

2-down – Designer’s work parish priest goes around in? The opposite! : COUTURE

3-down – Locate the lady — cherchez la femme! : ETHEL

4-down – Turns one’s back on certain clues? Is stuck : DISOWNS

6-down – Where hospital visitors may be private? : INWARD

7-down – Dances getting a prohibition in hard times : HABANERAS

8-down – Replace damaged fabric : PERCALE

9-down – Bodily chemical for male comin’ down to earth : PROSTAGLANDIN

15-down – Physicist is deferential, tedious fellow to listen to : NIELSBOHR

18-down – Access said to be such a necessity before a fight : WEIGHIN

20-down – Discharge direct from island : EXCRETE

21-down – Priest not totally in charge is at forefront of religion : ISLAMIC

22-down – Count blames soldiers doing a bunk : CENSUS

25-down – Bit of a bloomer could be construed as lapse : SEPAL