Daily Answers

1-across – Worrying book about money : TROUBLESOME

9-across – Sport shown up as a picture without money : HUNTING

10-across – Her gift could be the goods : FREIGHT

11-across – Name of woman first removed from continent without old people’s advice : FREDERICA

12-across – Tier with time to drink : TWINE

13-across – Steady type to be unsteady : ROCK

14-across – Article on craft required by top people : LEADERSHIP

16-across – Make peace with prisoner — the fool noisily took food : CONCILIATE

19-across – Musicians not allowed to be heard : BAND

21-across – Jobs here for pupil? : APPLE

22-across – Ploy to form layers with stone : STRATAGEM

24-across – The big brother of Marxism? : GROUCHO

25-across – Setter’s scheme for treetop graft : IMPLANT

26-across – Away game was scene of painting : FORTHBRIDGE

1-down – Strong, for beer: 9-1 against the CPS taking the case? : TENPERCENTPROOF

2-down – Fruit to cook right away : OLIVE

3-down – Pray to be given frost for soil : BEGRIME

4-down – Faerie, the Spanish part of Belgian region : ELFLAND

5-down – Open vessel upset : OVERTURN

6-down – On ecstasy, angels laughing madly as we speak : ENGLISHLANGUAGE

7-down – Beetle who gets imp­atient? : CHAFER

8-down – Actor at end of career in very expensive surroundings : STREEP

15-down – Gag on gun : SILENCER

16-down – Demand money for attack : CHARGE

17-down – Verily it’s Hoon that’s out of order : INSOOTH

18-down – Dog register? : TERRIER

20-down – Place lower in protest against the heartless : DEMOTE

23-down – Small boy entertaining relation with little enthusiasm? : TEPID

7-across – Doctor returned to university in this bustling 15 19 : SIDMOUTH

9-across – Short summer holiday near to 15 19 : WHITBY

10-across – Politician, one fleeing African country : BENN

11-across – Prince taking a princess to the cleaners? : CHARLADIES

12-across – Run and scream, if not the best hot meal : SCURRY

14-across – Complaint if hotter still? No harm done : THETROTS

15-across – Irish Sea’s tide belatedly starting to go out? It’s going out too much, sickeningly : BRITISH

17-across – See 15 : DISEASE

20-across – Claim proudly to be topping 15 19 : ARROGATE

22-across – Broken limb’s no good for energetic activity : BUSTLE

23-across – Native that is sounding rough : INDIGENOUS

24-across – Those leading horse into bar, south side in Edinburgh : HIBS

25-across – Puzzle if puppet replaces head of admin in HQ : BEMUSE

26-across – Wrongdoing by Henry? Reputation initially given up for victory in Europe : THIEVERY

1-down – Somehow reconciles company outing with reason for missing report? : SILENCER

2-down – Female leaving behind the West Country : OMAN

3-down – How’s that for a show of disapproval? : OUTCRY

4-down – Broadcast will help 15 19 : PWLLHELI

5-down – Writer first to review eg Eliot’s The Waste Land : WILDERNESS

6-down – Soldier having contracted 17 affecting calves? Not here : ABSENT

8-down – Where you’d hope to get better hotels, rather stupidly : HEALTH

13-down – Source of 17 found in 5, upper respiratory infection turning up in affected 19 : RETROVIRUS

16-down – Long-distance travellers in 8 19 with setter, after docking : SPACEMEN

18-down – Season to get too much sun in 15 19 : SALTBURN

19-down – See 8 : RESORT

21-down – Riot starting, then nun broke royal nose? : RUNNER

22-down – Leader of crew on rising road somewhere in Europe : BOSNIA

24-down – Partake of lunch, oven-ready, in 15 19 : HOVE

9-across – Getting the better of times after flying officer’s interrupted trip : OUTFOXING

10-across – How Frost might be said to show poetic device : RHYME

11-across – Heads of schools undecided generally about results produced by cane? : SUGAR

12-across – Dotty insisted on securing medium quality of chicken : TIMIDNESS

13-across – Well advanced range of rocks : FARGONE

14-across – Growing concern about reruns on telly, ultimately : NURSERY

17-across – Maybe that of satellite ring needs reverse particle : ORBIT

19-across – They’ve been found by experienced sailors, say, in waterproofs? : SEA

20-across – Man possibly after large thread : LISLE

21-across – Clears out line of white of the eye : SCLERAL

22-across – Tennis player bottom — potential for show of bloomers : SEEDBED

24-across – Hear radio broadcast runs : DIARRHOEA

26-across – : GIRLS

28-across – To jazz up monster tales, switch start and finish : SPICE

29-across – Second-rate, in the manner of French space dog’s instrument : BALALAIKA

1-down – : BOYS

2-down – Time to get in wiser old hand : STAGER

3-down – Redeploying of troupers, a fancy version of the sack? : FOURPOSTER

4-down – : LITTLE

5-down – Amin’s complaint? Amin’s disrespected in East Indian state : EGOMANIA

6-down – Energy-deficient oil is gloop : CRUD

7-down – Cremation material observed up mountains : PYRENEES

8-down – See 19 across : LEGS

13-down – Sword-holders out for at least $2,000 : FROGS

15-down – Turned good and mature — which is only superficially noble : ROLLEDGOLD

16-down – Give back garland in short measure : YIELD

18-down – Like some vinegar from wood, Mike? : BALSAMIC

19-down – Cheshire town secures groom for Devon resort : SALCOMBE

22-down – Slow movers, having sharp thing wedged in smalls : SNAILS

23-down – Rail links with South American city’s Spanish quarter : BARRIO

24-down – See 27 : DUST

25-down – Bar: right price, but going up : REEF

27-down – Deserters raised, on dry earth, Carmichael’s standard : STAR

1-across – Avoid supplementary measure : SIDESTEP

5-across – Throws out first of couples in Cornish town, not quite retired : EVICTS

9-across – Tree and flower died, protected by second-rate lifesaver, perhaps? : CRASHTEST

11-across – Tyson’s no longer one to bite : CHAMP

12-across – You might bet this model, male model, wearing swine : BOTTOMDOLLAR

15-across – Figure not opening flat : EVEN

16-across – Animal holding breath after one’s flipped over rattlesnake : SIDEWINDER

18-across – Honing work is in the secret of great comedy? : OPTIMISING

19-across – God knocking back port : ZEUS

21-across – Recorder of rainbows, perhaps, got extremes of colour blurred : SPECTROGRAPH

24-across – See 9 : DUMMY

25-across – Plant torn apart in skirmish : MELONTREE

26-across – Read aloud Nameless Seducer from the end : RECITE

27-across – On the contrary, can writer say it’s the source of all our characteristics? : GENEPOOL

1-down – Plunder with the axe? : SACK

2-down – Leonardo assembled wood boxes on the box, no questions asked : DEAL

3-down – Swimming classes? : SCHOOL

4-down – Choose state marines to underline ludicrous cost, which is flashy and highly charged : ELECTRICSTORM

6-down – What was removed by the old Queen’s ablutions? Last of grime, so sweet : VICTORIA

7-down – Domestics, result of prince getting to grips with a princess : CHARLADIES

8-down – Informer revealing the Queen’s into drink and drugs : SUPERGRASS

10-down – 2 with virtual geek before short doze, as web designer : TIMBERNERSLEE

13-down – Somewhat ignored, is no certainty for promotion? Think again : RECONSIDER

14-down – The rig has come loose from the earth’s heat : GEOTHERMIC

17-down – A setter covering your stone — a purple one? : AMETHYST

20-down – See 6 : SPONGE

22-down – See 2 : ORNO

23-down – See 2 : DEAL

1-across – Woman of substance getting spliced twice : BIGAMY

4-across – Bum infiltrating boozer’s district : PARISH

9-across – Knowing about a strip : FLAY

10-across – Great quantities of snow having fallen, goes with the flow : DRIFTSDOWN

11-across – Jester embracing smackhead embracing everything : COSMIC

12-across – Recalling bill to re-route Orinoco to Germany? : CORONOID

13-across – Like ancient city, keeping record of divinatory method : ASTROLOGY

15-across – Newton banged up by psychiatrist : JUNG

16-across – Vile 4 changing hands : FOUL

17-across – Exhausted king turning Tin Man over : KNACKERED

21-across – After being redeployed, take steps to get something made : ARTEFACT

22-across – New song about new realm of fantasy : NARNIA

24-across – Fakes left out of bounds : IMITATIONS

25-across – Den gets cashback : LAIR

26-across – Downy surface for every light sleeper : NAPPER

27-across – Close of play in round valley : CANYON

1-down – Wind machine roars : BELLOWS

2-down – Artist dropping a note about infidels : GOYIM

3-down – Yours truly cutting up laptop for examination : MEDICAL

5-down – Channel with cultural pretensions carrying programme about hospital : ARTERY

6-down – Harden, retaining impression of document : INDENTURE

7-down – Offering to sell fruit to monarch : HAWKING

8-down – Might it result in Omani’s genetic mix-up? : MISCEGENATION

14-down – Agent adopting least repressed style of marching? : ROUTESTEP

16-down – Supervisor’s old enemy bearing right : FOREMAN

18-down – Players absorbing article on a game : CANASTA

19-down – Cutting short commotion raised about Long Island : ELISION

20-down – Man from Chigwell finally penetrating social stratum : CASTLE

23-down – Perk up at demo : RALLY