Daily Answers

1-across – Cut round page showing prominent feature : SPLASH

4-across – Problem picking up call girl : DILEMMA

9-across – Popular fix during the day produces interest : INTRIGUES

10-across – A great number admitting off to steal slice containing hot accompaniment to 24, say : MANGO

11-across – Egyptian soul having to rest, as dead : KAPUT

12-across – Plan to go topless, without underwear or romance : LOVESTORY

13-across – Something grand : TOPIARY

15-across – 12 providing little susten­ance? : WEEPIE

17-across – Short visit by prisoner — where might he have been? : STALAG

19-across – Short prisoner, non-clerical guards : LACONIC

22-across – A European welcoming in British, I see, able to flip? : ACROBATIC

24-across – Indian dish prepared by Paul and I? : PILAU

26-across – See 8 : MOORE

27-across – In which water was unholy after bath emptied when tipped over : WASHBASIN

28-across – Catching inexperienced driver, convertible yanked out of gear? : NAKEDLY

29-across – Fruity group embracing cooler author : LEMONY

1-down – See 29 : SNICKET

2-down – Bombed, as the skyline during the Blitz? : LITUP

3-down – Biting bottom in anger, this furious dog which is tucked down one’s trousers : SHIRTTAIL

4-down – Deny what may be said with very pained expression : DISAVOW

5-down – Fruit — 25 up? : LIMES

6-down – Whine about impossible lingo as language : MONGOLIAN

7-down – Upside down, write my name over a false name : ANONYM

8-down – Spooner’s confusing exit for comedy partner … : DUDLEY

14-down – … of decapitated ghost catching island up : PETERCOOK

16-down – Order cab please, so can get away : ESCAPABLE

18-down – Opening bat not opening, two ways not straight about it : GATEWAY

19-down – Copper kidnapped by missing cereal killer : LOCUST

20-down – See 10 : CHUTNEY

21-down – Head of Mohican in hairdresser’s establishment a shade of pink : SALMON

23-down – Green in brown or white? : BREAD

25-down – Maiden over’s top catcher : LASSO

1-across – International underground in place of experiment : TESTTUBE

5-across – Stir its top into a bit of brain : PRISON

9-across – See Bangkok people about their leader’s completely final statement : THATISALL

11-across – Parasite left on river : LOUSE

12-across – Don’t allow Scots boy and old man to keep English boxer : BANTAMWEIGHT

15-across – Leading man’s lady love : HERO

16-across – Retire — after success comes dismissal : HITTHESACK

18-across – Direction to towns, including old one, with assets : SECURITIES

19-across – Fiend’s unfinished protest : DEMO

21-across – Money for massage makes impression in church : BRASSRUBBING

24-across – Since solver’s heard it’s blue : AZURE

25-across – Manufactured hooey about fighting turn to question of health : HOWAREYOU

26-across – Bacon may be article in container : DANISH

27-across – Large French female accepting 100 little old coins : GROSCHEN

1-down – Farewell to uncanned music! : TATA

2-down – Set off such as 14 on the top spot : STAR

3-down – Acknowledgement setter almost demands from island : TAIWAN

4-down – What 14 says to make us eat it by having compassion and vice versa: 9 we 8 : BEAUTYISTRUTH

6-down – Followed in post with a weight off one’s mind : RELIEVED

7-down – Disparagement of the unattainable like this impels accepting knock : SOURGRAPES

8-down – Basis for disclosure from organiser of No don’t Week : NEEDTOKNOW

10-down – Coleridge’s 5 was inferior, about 1m to be raised : LIMETREEBOWER

13-down – Revolutionary on ship — on ship where men are moved : CHESSBOARD

14-down – Recovered by awfully uncaring bride of Keats : GRECIANURN

17-down – The EU’s vegetable? : BRUSSELS

20-down – Painter of amazing resourcefulness : INGRES

22-down – Girl with lisp? I don’t believe it! : MYTH

23-down – See 2 : TURN

4-across – Stomach-turning cat needs a form of currency : WAMPUM

6-across – Shattered lamp embedded in piece of beef : COMPLAIN

9-across – Cradle for clutch or Homeric hero : NESTOR

10-across – Green energy supporter showing a bit of backbone : VERTEBRA

11-across – Anti-abortionist swallowed Go forth and multiply? : PROLIFERATE

15-across – Saw nomad entering empty hostelry : PROVERB

17-across – Boy chansonnier’s old instrument : TIMBREL

18-across – All hell breaks loose upon me — I damn 23’s coinage! : PANDEMONIUM

22-across – Rubbish opera gets right back to source of warmth : RADIATOR

23-across – Poet to cut children’s writer short : MILTON

24-across – Feeling for money with which to bind books : SENTIENT

25-across – Some step on choreographer’s garment : PONCHO

1-down – Compiler on public transport? On the contrary, composer : BUSONI

2-down – Give prior notice of the French crew’s quarters : FORECASTLE

3-down – Puts out quantity of paper against the flow : UPSTREAM

4-down – Passage for instrumental family and one of its members : WINDPIPE

5-down – Zoological relic bringing postgrads to prof : MASTODON

7-down – Restraining order ’ums? : ASBO

8-down – Close tight : NEAR

12-down – Fat emotion British National Party aroused : EMBONPOINT

13-down – Cultural first carried by lorry : ARTISTIC

14-down – Bit of leg lifted, getting people to join in round dance : FLAMENCO

16-down – Timeless shipmates suffering from stress : EMPHASIS

19-down – Prayer for sun to enter constellation : ORISON

20-down – Balls-up in Middlesbrough : ORBS

21-down – A place to hide port : ADEN

1-across – Standard English, presumably, after the 13 17 : QUEENS

4-across – Counters first and second charges, removing their opening : ABACUSES

9-across – Rep can’t be female then? : AGENT

10-across – Maybe the last day to get the hitter hit : THIRTIETH

11-across – Marriage to the listener would be easily broken up : MATCHWOOD

12-across – Substitute to see with : LOCUM

13-across – Say P to end recess : STATEOPENING

17-across – See 13 : OFPARLIAMENT

20-across – What’s left when some are licensed : RELIC

21-across – Sorry the river bird’s 50% fulmar : REGRETFUL

23-across – Fault cured fast with a lot of gas : FLATULENT

24-across – Dog caught by golden soldier : CORGI

25-across – Going on for ever like bare American wheels : TIRELESS

26-across – Provide with information for this at home : CLUEIN

1-down – With misgiving, disallow acceptance of learner on motorway : QUALMISH

2-down – Crushed nut in English meat coming in due course : EVENTUAL

3-down – Score century in another part : NOTCH

5-down – Sudden revelation of dip not being used? : BLINDINGLIGHT

6-down – Region where schizophrenia has change of heart : CATALONIA

7-down – See 1 across : SPEECH

8-down – Plan to understand pronouns? : SCHEME

10-down – Transports scorer with airport organised : TROOPCARRIERS

14-down – Working to replace archdeacon in 2 with very noisy city : EFFECTUAL

15-down – Make holes mostly in church, having no choice : PERFORCE

16-down – Horse’s last chance with cat : STALLION

18-down – Chairperson gets it with advantage : PROFIT

19-down – Island nation topped by Irish star : ALTAIR

22-down – Be more than 40, reportedly : EXCEL

8-across – Hood fortress, we gathered? : SHERWOOD

9-across – Eagle, perhaps, has to crack rock : RAPTOR

10-across – See 24 : RACE

11-across – See 14 : THEFAIRIES

12-across – Frame, almost nothing to carry round a very short distance : ZIMMER

14-across – On holiday in an enchanted garden, say, easily distracted : AWAYWITH

15-across – Occasion for early kicking creating hysteria with child : CHARITY

17-across – Number like itself written in pen : SEVENTY

20-across – Canadian province with idiot president, degree going to head : MANITOBA

22-across – Revolutionary colours invisible for the bloody right-wing politician : SILVIO

23-across – See 22 : BERLUSCONI

24-across – Juvenile competition hurrying along unemployment figures? : SACK

25-across – Unable to conceive aristo getting heard : BARREN

26-across – Herb, reversing into US school, crashed : COLLIDED

1-down – Fairly reasonable collection is taken in church : CHEAPISH

2-down – Figure quoted in Hackney, £ 0.00? : FREE

3-down – See 24 : DOCTOR

4-down – A couple of ways to rise from a gland : ADRENAL

5-down – Animal having to munch through fruit : GREATAPE

6-down – Rep was beaten up with scoundrel, one getting booted : SPAREWHEEL

7-down – See 8 : FOREST

13-down – Singing, one taking transport uphill to see capoeira, say : MARTIALART

16-down – Kinky full S & M : THOUSAND

18-down – Fool, singer and birdwatcher : TWITCHER

19-down – Two Conservative leaders overseeing a holiday destination : MAJORCA

21-down – A celebrity unknown, not written down, becoming killer : AXEMAN

22-down – See 15 : SHIELD

24-down – Rubbish swimmer rushes up to see PR man : SPIN