Daily Answers

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

7-across – Town setter enters almost half-cut : HALIFAX

8-across – See 24 : FARADAY

9-across – Claptrap backed by some lethal blows : BLAH

10-across – Awards detailed excellent toilet, except for one holding company : ACCOLADES

12-across – Head of state leaving wine district very sober : GRAVE

13-across – Place for skis when travelling in small jumper and dress, after change of heart : ROOFRACK

15-across – A female tennis player : ASHE

16-across – Start forging notes : ONSET

17-across – Whip with a bit of elastic rope : CROP

18-across – See 11 : ROSSETTI

20-across – Vitality low when returning to pub : OOMPH

21-across – Nuptials arranged to accommodate a prolific letter writer : SAINTPAUL

22-across – Film boy who plaits your hair? : TOMB

24-across – Setter in Bavaria brewed ale in a farmyard, getting drunk right away : MICHAEL

25-across – Porridge and fish dish : STIRFRY

1-down – Principle of retributive justice bags large Republican vote? : KARL

2-down – Number of people admitted to empty carriage on Metropolitan Line includes first to exit after drunk remains there : HIGHGATE

3-down – Bottle lost in a farce : CARAFE

4-down – A fool put wrong setter above measure : PAULFOOT

5-down – See 22 : RAIDER

6-down – See 21 : WAYS

11-down – First of tall stories about first mate ringing topless joint : CHRISTINA

12-down – Relish belting out Gilbert & Sullivan leads : GUSTO

14-down – Fool with hard material : CLOTH

16-down – Groups of musicians etc in argument turned on its head : OCTETTES

17-down – See 2 : CEMETERY

19-down – Forge some money? It tops your previous : SMITHY

20-down – Young ones in love with bartering system : OWLETS

21-down – Piers Morgan’s head gets turned by a lady’s bottom in underwear : SLIP

23-down – See 1 : MARX

5-across – Insect’s 22 with cover for a larger one : EARWIG

6-across – Rotten rubbish raised retrospectively : PUTRID

9-across – Yellow 22s in Shropshire : CRAVEN

10-across – Stickler with 22 on a table : LEGALIST

11-across – See 9 : ARMS

12-across – Mother’s 22, say, a French weapon : MACHINEGUN

13-across – Problem with a 22, a number of new lines to the front : TENNISELBOW

18-across – Problem for a 22: some haikus need translating : HOUSEMAIDS

21-across – See 18 : KNEE

22-across – Maybe head of telecommunicators accepting inverted burlesque : BODYPART

23-across – Tumour in 22, with love — mother : LIPOMA

24-across – Right 22 will not be forgotten : RANKLE

25-across – 22 with permitted hole : EYELET

1-down – Crack reversed in cracker : CREVASSE

2-down – Woody shrub contains wild beast within some limits : LIGNUM

3-down – Spooner’s suspended herb at scene of cockcrow : DUNGHILL

4-down – Cook last of cheese in front of radiator : GRILLE

5-down – Rivers rose so as to form subject of comedy : ERRORS

7-down – Talk endlessly about cast object : DISCUS

8-down – Mosley’s lot boycotts Hirst’s work : BLACKSHIRTS

14-down – Bean meal could be worth mentioning : NAMEABLE

15-down – Gall authorised around a part of 25 : OAKAPPLE

16-down – Pass the Guardian’s standard : COLOUR

17-down – Protection for 22 that gives direction to film : HELMET

19-down – A year in prison’s half wanting observation : SAYING

20-down – Transformer of Cambridge college with one change of direction : SELSYN