Daily Answers

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

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