Daily Answers

8-across – See 23 : REDSKINS

9-across – Setter almost back on the Guardian’s scent : ODOUR

10-across – Political item sees party doing U-turn between two of its leaders? : FOOT

11-across – 10 24 down’s police once maintaining rights, but wrong, by the way : PITTSBURGH

12-across – Look for winger : GANDER

14-across – Actor’s supporter must be more punctual? : PROMPTER

15-across – See 22 down : BRONCOS

17-across – 10 24 down’s hip, a mouth and other organs : CHICAGO

20-across – Coax ecstasy past first of guards, going through wearing mask : INVEIGLE

22-across – Tyrant making point about further perception : DESPOT

23-across – 10 24 down’s debatable answers kind about religion embracing godhead : WASHINGTON

24-across – Sculpture’s gone to the wall : BUST

25-across – See 17 : BEARS

26-across – See 11 : STEELERS

1-down – My boss used up oxygen in brain, struggling to be charming : DEBONAIR

2-down – Ship involved in exercises over here! : PSST

3-down – Breakfast in bed? : KIPPER

4-down – Elementary thing, the boast of a heavy drinker? : ISOTOPE

5-down – River bridges very old, in truth : FORSOOTH

6-down – Meaningless talk of point between rings penetrates so, after levitation : HOCUSPOCUS

7-down – Accent afoot? : BROGUE

13-down – One’s simple bed’s ending — with pillow here? : DUNDERHEAD

16-down – As region volatile, get map out : ORGANISE

18-down – Glitter obscures death list : GLOSSARY

19-down – Red newt filling roll : LEFTIST

21-down – Desire to hold underwear up close : NEARBY

22-down – 10 24’s got something to do, say, in corrupt business, company in dire straits for starters : DENVER

24-down – See 10 : BALL

1-across – Twitch? Preferably keep still and … : WATCHTHEBIRDIE

8-across – … look happy for a second’s length : SMILE

9-across – Cream upset around reverting flower of marsh plant : REEDMACE

11-across – Put container in here for fodder : HERBAGE

12-across – See 1 down : TERRIER

13-across – Wellington’s starter, soup : GUMBO

15-across – Alternative to 8 after 1 across, for example — brie, for example : SAYCHEESE

17-across – Assemble and help endlessly and assist : LENDAHAND

20-across – Put a back on an old storyteller : AESOP

21-across – Country in exchange with a lot of 23s? : NIGERIA

23-across – Much cold has its effect, my dear fellow : OLDCHAP

25-across – Anti-Mass disposition? : SATANISM

26-across – Girl as target, possibly? : AIMEE

27-across – Chlorophyll’s work in getting people together to 1 across etc? : PHOTOSYNTHESIS

1-down – Hi! Whistler granted possibility to lead the Queen’s dog : WESTHIGHLAND

2-down – The former Queen leaves 12 — for essayist? : TRIER

3-down – Scots have parent to master bruise : HAEMATOMA

4-down – Gear in which one can work together or die : HARNESS

5-down – Manner of speaking by heart, maybe : BREATHY

6-down – Old poet’s first book has page missing : RIMER

7-down – Spiteful behaviour : ITCHINESS

10-down – Ecological stimuli are hot stuff : GREENPEPPERS

14-down – Treatise on gas that turns up in cleaner hydrogen : MONOGRAPH

16-down – A new Ted in the old Ted? That’s how it will all end : HEATDEATH

18-down – I’m after a grandmother as a liar : ANANIAS

19-down – Porter or graduate in academic dress? : DOORMAN

22-down – Was he leaving the washer-dryer to cook? : ROAST

24-down – Sound of activity to American is good for the soil : HUMUS

9-across – Expression of delight in art deco wrought figures : OCTAHEDRA

10-across – Regimental man taking centre from smoking jacket : PARKA

11-across – Garland: love casual look : DECKO

12-across – Two-tongued iguana bats, no tail, having divided beak : BILINGUAL

13-across – Be splattered with micro material : CROMBIE

14-across – About to invade a controversial composer’s area : ACREAGE

17-across – Sailors trapped in overturned vessel : BURNS

19-across – Western American hacker : WAX

20-across – Underwear and skimpy dress : BRAND

21-across – Ives composed in the care of a doctor : ADVISER

22-across – Mobile plant that installs repetitive tune in the instruments’ data openings : TRIFFID

24-across – Lecture, as certain Scottish banks do : HOLDFORTH

26-across – Shakespeare’s fat? Awful cheek! : KEECH

28-across – Getting rid of sun’s solar gels : LARGE

29-across – Plant making goat cheese initially on a high? : BUTTERCUP

1-down – Conditional version of will is heard : WOOD

2-down – Wall covering reduces rising carbon monoxide : STUCCO

3-down – Result of clot grinding ribs smooth : THROMBOSIS

4-down – Lie-abed heartlessly disturbed should go down OK : EDIBLE

5-down – Duty keeps one in blue moving pictures : TABLEAUX

6-down – Sporting event stopped being without fixed limits : OPEN

7-down – Fuss when bishop mounts our makeshift, unobtrusive barrier : BROUHAHA

8-down – Chasing women, nobody excluded! : WALL

13-down – Horse artist’s a hooded killer : COBRA

15-down – Crack in brick tile construction over river : RIBTICKLER

16-down – See 6 : ENDED

18-down – They hate getting iffy sil­ver after gutless contest : REVILERS

19-down – Clothes store with a border around : WARDROBE

22-down – Thanks to rap, one’s tropical paradise? : TAHITI

23-down – Father charms : FRENCH

24-down – Hard and evil : HILL

25-down – Cable once put under floor : FLEX

27-down – Parking in garden : HOPE

9-across – Take care of appearance subsequently : LOOKAFTER

10-across – Greeting the guy will love : HELLO

11-across – Old, old city with pro­hibition from stockbroker belt : EXURBAN

12-across – One garment near to another : NIGHTIE

13-across – Man of authority in re­lation to woman and bird : REEVE

14-across – Glees composed in romances with no superior : LIEGELESS

16-across – * Night all get into trouble : NOTTINGHILLGATE

19-across – Ball carrier on bird’s back in the sun need­ing polisher : STEELWOOL

21-across – * Hybrid goose? : BRENT

22-across – * Sea without money : ARSENAL

23-across – Isle is a new region of Europe : SILESIA

24-across – See 21 : CROSS

25-across – * Number at opera said farewell : MAIDAVALE

1-down – Takes the edge off storing ripe fruit for models : BLUEPRINTS

2-down – * Unchanged in point of time : MONUMENT

3-down – * Proceed without having water in the eye : MARBLE

4-down – * Boy for Sir Thomas : STAN

5-down – * Limits in fat on plates : GRANGEHILL

6-down – * It’s cold around the G-Guardian : CHIGWELL

7-down – Happy to be born supple : BLITHE

8-down – See 4 : MORE

14-down – Joints with : LEGSOFLAMB

15-down – Man with brush grabbing time to copy king’s wrapping : SWEETPAPER

17-down – Pansy’s love in it – nothing doing? : IDLENESS

18-down – * Hesitation and silence between mornings : AMERSHAM

20-down – * From the US to Northern Ireland : EUSTON

21-down – * Some laughter in a healer : BALHAM

22-down – See 3 : ARCH

23-down – Fishy move around Buckingham Palace by my leader : SWIM

1-across – 28 and 29 dabble and dawdle : POTTER

4-across – Fellow actor and director in Big Apple : COSTARD

9-across – Hole cut in poor side at Twickenham : TOUCHLINE

10-across – Rolls in hay for a 1 across : HARRY

11-across – Some worried about parking in race venue : EPSOM

12-across – A 1 across : OSULLIVAN

13-across – A 1 across thumped old farceur : BEATRIX

15-across – Salad ingredient is hard to chew : RADISH

17-across – See 29 : TAYLOR

19-across – Gather about a pound for old weapon : HALBERD

22-across – Result has old fellow in the wrong order : OUTOFTURN

24-across – Pots remodelled to hide unknown errors : TYPOS

26-across – A 1 across’s special poem : SPODE

27-across – Father demolished housing before, following this : HEREAFTER

28-across – Females on stage forget their words for a 1 across : STEPHEN

29-across – Almost all royalty grievously erred in backing a 1 across : DENNIS

1-down – Basil, say, is not the same when in the lead : POTHERB

2-down – Punctuation expert offers support : TRUSS

3-down – For a short while, divers help me breathe in time : EPHEMERAL

4-down – Man on board Queen’s in good mood : CHEQUER

5-down – Oasis a help crossing this : SAHEL

6-down – He’s ambitious to get exceptional site in Riviera resort : ARRIVISTE

7-down – With no bird, 19 down’s at home with golf on line, perhaps : DRYING

8-down – Trinkets cannot possibly produce a junction box : BIJOUX

14-down – A sample receives rare approval in one go : ATASTROKE

16-down – 1 across’s product’s feet not accepted in US state : DELFTWARE

18-down – Scratch rear end enough to need surgery : ROUGHEN

19-down – See 28 : HENDRY

20-down – They’re hot and dry courses, not small : DESERTS

21-down – Meats go off when brought in on sabbath : ROASTS

23-down – Chilly novel : FRESH

25-down – Opportunity for 12 to give plant a better chance of success : POTON