Daily Answers

1-across – Bud’s turned to flower but I stick to the root, so to speak : BUSDRIVER

6-across – Sticker, say, in reverse : WEDGE

9-across – Victim of cold porridge, reportedly : OATES

10-across – Cider drunk with meal — such is Fenland : RECLAIMED

11-across – Crowds with crosses in which 9 nearly died : MULTITUDES

12-across – South American in state : INCA

14-across – What tinker says about nationalists’ piece of armour : CUIRASS

15-across – Fairy swimmers coming back with a slight cold? : SNIFFLE

17-across – Needing hard work to make America finally love an emperor : ONEROUS

19-across – One taking his turn to make traps for germs? : BUGGINS

20-across – Laments for Mass Observation : SOBS

22-across – City of the region in Germany : SUNDERLAND

25-across – Half 11, about — join the lady in another column : ELSEWHERE

26-across – Hurry has the heart displaced : HASTE

27-across – God after Christ? : MONAD

28-across – Put fellow off using cleaner : DETERGENT

1-down – Flower employs second spinner : BLOOM

2-down – Attendant student among the cream : SATELLITE

3-down – Mask for robber unfinished in similar holiday spot : RESPIRATOR

4-down – Qualities of 6 the last to recover : VIRTUES

5-down – Small piles of hay perhaps cause complaint : RICKETS

6-down – Cover with words and music : WRAP

7-down – Devilishly good player of successive notes : DEMON

8-down – Stop press: binding secur­ity provided : ENDPAPERS

13-down – His return was foretold when family paper turned up : KINGARTHUR

14-down – Spooner’s dominant quality that keeps house together : CROSSBEAM

16-down – Dish has direction in case : FRICASSEE

18-down – I leave Arab to eat starter : SAUTEED

19-down – But stay uncloth’d if this is prescribed : BEDREST

21-down – Sailor with personal problem : BOSUN

23-down – Old copper on beat was resident : DWELT

24-down – Had nothing to pay : OWED

9-across – It’s a short walk to Lincoln to see old instrument : ASTROLABE

10-across – Charlie has no place in M&S, say : CHAIN

11-across – Fashion’s getting pricier and may possibly go fast : TONUP

12-across – Poor state’s almost a contradiction : ILLHEALTH

13-across – Play for Today : MEASURE

14-across – They’re beginning to win on Thames ground : WESTHAM

17-across – Tell stories about Turkey : LITRE

19-across – See 13 : FOR

20-across – What’s happening as a rule : AFOOT

21-across – Student group remains baffled : SEMINAR

22-across – See 13 : MEASURE

24-across – 2 and 6 : HALFCROWN

26-across – Somerville and Ross collection ignored Irish : THERM

28-across – Indicates nothing’s missing : PINTS

29-across – Fabulous bargain is what every card player wants : GREATDEAL

1-down – Low attention span? : WATT

2-down – Old Queen of Castile forgetting to study lines : STANZA

3-down – Hence improvement, having swallowed tablets in dish : SOUPTUREEN

4-down – 19 in West : MAXIXE

5-down – More mature, we dipped into Lady Chatterley’s Lover, not quite climaxing? : MELLOWER

6-down – Runs into one : ACRE

7-down – Sensational spin bowled by everyone to lout, non-amateur : BALLYHOO

8-down – Small island in Switzerland : INCH

13-down – Roman soldier in Malta lies injured : MILES

15-down – It lactates : STALACTITE

16-down – Monsieur has to be in his own country : METRE

18-down – I met Neil producing The History Cycle perhaps : TIMELINE

19-down – 16 of these in 2 13 : FURLONGS

22-down – A thousand in cash or half that : MONKEY

23-down – Odd venue arranged to host Beethoven’s Ninth : UNEVEN

24-down – When river drops river horses find fruit : HIPS

25-down – Ropy sack container : CASK

27-down – Matador’s first accentless shout : MOLE

1-across – Indicator of future RAF stars: win-win situation for the five hundred : ASTRAWINTHEWIND

9-across – Potential fruit to ape backing instrument : ORANGEPIP

10-across – Cast having maybe final party : FLING

11-across – Bird digesting first of the article Join the Navy? : GOTOSEA

12-across – Tune with low notes heard at aviation centre : AIRBASE

13-across – See 16 : CAT

14-across – Swill was in place of art for the moralist painter : HOGWASH

17-across – Gray, say, and keeping of the law in Latin : ELEGIST

19-across – Magistrate’s poems accepted by parents and teachers : PODESTA

22-across – Queer street where shooting takes place : STRANGE

24-across – See 16 : THE

25-across – Girl or county : GWYNETH

26-across – Church gathering cut short by way of joint lubricant : SYNOVIA

28-across – Display of sanctity by medieval bishop at Biblical city : ODOUR

29-across – Pregnant and not blackballed? : INTHECLUB

30-across – As wet as it gets at 10 in planet — put finger out : SATURATIONPOINT

1-down – See 16 : AMONGTHEPIGEONS

2-down – Characteristic sound of carrier, originally : TRAIT

3-down – First of the month in US city : AUGUSTA

4-down – Charge one : IMPEACH

5-down – To talk foolishly is as ex­pensive as it gets : TOPRATE

6-down – Make it compulsory to be in green for ceremony : ENFORCE

7-down – Cap left off copy : IMITATION

8-down – See 16 & 18 : DOGSEETHERABBIT

15-down – Fool playing with clue for toga : GIDDYGOAT

16-down – To facilitate predation, dodgy mate’s gone cheetah spotting : SET

18-down – Facilitate predation by forgetfulness about time to do good — be very angry with minister and model : LET

20-down – Society attendant who is wool-gathering? : SHEARER

21-down – I say none’s up there where crime takes place : ATHEIST

22-down – Tongue supplied to shoes : SESOTHO

23-down – Rude letter about new thing Fenland rivers presumably do : RUNDEEP

27-down – The Third Man’s girl had the lot in Sixth : VALLI

1-across – One not Old Labour — put in unknown one : NEWYORK

5-across – One with stories of another after part of 8 : MONTANA

9-across – One with flying start or another homeless : FLORIDA

10-across – Collins’s woman traditionally married? : INWHITE

11-across – To travel, cross over part of fork : ITINERATE

12-across – A bit of ear from the East is a virus : EBOLA

13-across – Elgar going to King’s? : REGAL

15-across – Diplomatic venture of oriental sorcerer eating fish : EMBASSAGE

17-across – So Euclid’s circle is for everyone to squander recklessly : UNSQUARED

19-across – Ascetics giving greeting to soldiers : YOGIS

22-across – One drinks about 10 : TEXAS

23-across – One of 9 atoms, possibly : MINNESOTA

25-across – One in presidential style without oxygen : ALABAMA

26-across – Man’s got … wrongly put in : AMONGST

27-across – Game aim? : NETBALL

28-across – No problem about cast missing a rapture : ECSTASY

1-down – Sharper director turns up for a row : NIFTIER

2-down – One with another’s heart goes to China : WYOMING

3-down – Fruit of love? Not recorded : OLIVE

4-down – Iconic beast to eliminate a test centre before audience : KOALABEAR

5-down – One that gets in one’s hair? : MAINE

6-down – One character from Dallas mixed with those of Sweeney : NEWJERSEY

7-down – One with slave boy dropping H in speech? : ARIZONA

8-down – It’s mean to say how old a person is : AVERAGE

14-down – One consents : LOUISIANA

16-down – Pitchforks are from VP with pictures : BIDENTATE

17-down – Puritan unexpectedly going to town : UPTRAIN

18-down – S-surviving instrument : SEXTANT

20-down – One nation too : GEORGIA

21-down – Reserved about blemish of not being blonde? : SWARTHY

23-down – Aborigine with everything he has : MYALL

24-down – Posh clothes canned when ducklings are on menu : ETONS

9-across – Big old crawler West Indian soldier deserts, in the red in business : IGUANODON

10-across – 17 — this the direction taken in touring Norway? : WRONG

11-across – Once influential individual, he did 13 : HASBEEN

12-across – Mime character from the Sun — topless, like 16 … : BIPOLAR

13-across – … 22 down, similarly, like Greer? : EXIST

14-across – When one’s material’s shot to pieces? No reply : THEANSWER

16-across – Disorder in persona medic’s classified : MANICDEPRESSION

19-across – See 22 down : THATISTHE

21-across – He’s reluctant to speak about a single demand : CLAIM

22-across – Work ethic in potentially dangerous base? : THINICE

23-across – They regulate flow over pond for positions mentioned : FAUCETS

24-across – Apparently constricted, the man leaves : BOHEA

25-across – See 22 down : ORNOTTOBE

1-down – Protection for those working in the heat? Help them out with it : PITHHELMET

2-down – See 22 : QUESTION

3-down – See 17 : INTENT

4-down – Top sculptor’s god? : ODIN

5-down – Change from krone needed to join Hellish Biker Club : KNOBKERRIE

6-down – Wearing colours in combat one’s taken up some blood? : TWOPINTS

7-down – Second dodgy lbw traps Afridi in front — anarchy results : MOBLAW

8-down – ’orrible character musical piece turns to jelly : AGAR

14-down – Tear with artistry across penalty area — play clearly viewed here? : THEATREBOX

15-down – Top top man making double wing nuts : RINGMASTER

17-down – Bad planning, is it? 17-doer canvassed : CRIMINAL

18-down – See 14 across : ISALEMON

20-down – 2 x 10 = this? Not correct! : ALIGHT

21-down – Charges for 17 numbers : COUNTS

22-down – 14 across 18 to this 13-ing poser in play : TOBE

23-down – Good that 17 ought to pay : FINE