Daily Answers

1-across – Bound to return grand, do so after customs search? : REPACK

4-across – Hence 5 request : SOLICIT

9-across – Over fifty? Wrong! : FORTYFIVE

10-across – Train, one behind his partner? : GROOM

11-across – Heavy metal fan composer’s knocked over, given oxygen : GREBO

12-across – Vessel morphing to a lab vessel : CANALBOAT

13-across – See 17 : EXPRESS

15-across – Producing square eggs, might you lose? : MISLAY

17-across – E, say, on this for the trip of a lifetime once? : ORIENT

19-across – What toothless parrot might have to do when talking to do well : SUCCEED

22-across – Standard 21, as may be pronounced? : TRICOLOUR

24-across – When turning, bend back bones : SACRA

26-across – See 5 : EAGLE

27-across – Quite unfortunate about the gutlessly self-important : POOTERISH

28-across – Man manipulating the whole currency, nothing less : MASSEUR

29-across – Small and plump, short and 23 : STUBBY

1-down – One moving home’s new free housing great, with roof missing : REFUGEE

2-down – See 7 : PUREE

3-down – Describing old tea only brewed in Leicester, say, less hot : CEYLONESE

4-down – I’m still deciding to support backbone : STERNUM

5-down – Lawyer on beer: lager not entirely wasted : LEGAL

6-down – See 20 : CHOCOLATE

7-down – Something concentrated on river in book : TOMATO

8-down – Go over shortly, as something thrown : DISCUS

14-down – Hero’s left leaving Capulet or, WS’s writings suggested, his departure tempered melancholia? : PARTINGIS

16-down – See 14 : SUCHSWEET

18-down – Story written up about old soldier : TROOPER

19-down – See 14 : SORROW

20-down – 14 16? : DEATHBY

21-down – Run school division : STREAM

23-down – Orders last of cake — though evidently shouldn’t? : OBESE

25-down – Top a ton, one of four if human? : CLIMB

1-across – Poultry and moussaka? Oddly, nothing after : MUSKDUCK

5-across – Boatman’s settled in dead-end street or strip : DIVEST

9-across – Part of verse has line with something missing: gravity — it’s lightweight : FOOTLING

10-across – Spirits of dead-end kids: rebellious, outspoken, tuneless : SPOOKS

12-across – Perhaps stocks of Lada Ltd in Russia unreliable : INDUSTRIALS

15-across – Dead-end career next? : LATER

17-across – Pressure-formed, it’s de-ice spray for farmers : PESTICIDE

18-across – Flirting with dead-end relationship : DALLIANCE

19-across – Polish anthem endures in the heart : EMEND

20-across – Almost catches customer: not exactly cricket : GRASSHOPPER

24-across – Gather for a drink after day is done : DRUMUP

25-across – Drama of dead-end soul-searching wrongly denying anger : HUISCLOS

26-across – Shocking Scene One from brother’s production of Three Sisters? : NIECES

27-across – Set out again from a dead-end street in need of repairs : RESTATED

1-down – Drama in posh part of London, reported by Cockney woman : MYFAIRLADY

2-down – Stopped dead-end kids also taking pennies at checkout : STOODSTILL

3-down – Dead-end pub serves these parts of Yorkshire : DALES

4-down – Boat in canal, rot swirling in contrasting motion : CONTRAPUNTAL

6-down – Showing no concern for four in dead end : IMPASSIVE

7-down – Head over heels, aching for love : EROS

8-down – International meeting set up on time : TEST

11-down – A classy purée, ordered with bream etc : PARSLEYSAUCE

13-down – Boatman at helm of tug gets a good deal : RIVERPILOT

14-down – Attacked with hammer in deserted complex : TENDERISED

16-down – Measure of liquidity in climate of anger about bank sitting on gold : RAINGAUGE

21-down – Charge out non-resident’s take-away dinners : ONSET

22-down – Letters written in dead-end Middle East port : ADEN

23-down – Ill-mannered about dead-end street in Paris : RUDE

9-across – Swimming under drawbridge, perhaps, saving king, a girlfriend : INAMORATA

10-across – Might a match be like a straw? : DRAWN

11-across – Sailor having to do your job — pardon? : ABSOLVE

12-across – Boatman’s destroyer putting knowledge before relaxation? Not sure : LORELEI

13-across – Not good to be back : EVIL

14-across – Ceremony where member gets into scrap against unknown revolutionary — I see it! : BARMITZVAH

16-across – Brown, dark-shaped vessel : TANKARD

17-across – Preacher bitter about job : APOSTLE

19-across – Split with love held by god to be awful : HORRENDOUS

22-across – Biblical character delivered from 13 : LEVI

24-across – Tarnished then, Eiffel’s ultimate girl with green body let in, as cousin of 18 23’s lady? : LIBERTY

25-across – Following man, say, gripping racket : HEEDING

26-across – Cousin of 18 23’s island named so well, islander maintains : ELLIS

27-across – Baby given one piece of cake, as basic measure : CUBICINCH

1-down – Smoke in this heater, it drifts round top of grate — inside less warm : CIGARETTEHOLDER

2-down – Article found in car under female, selling one’s soul? : FAUSTIAN

3-down – See 24 : WORLD

4-down – Preserve that speech, agenda in funny children’s book : JAMESAND

5-down – Cousin of 18 23’s place left among serving women : HARLEM

6-down – A speech under leadership of director shows love : ADORATION

7-down – Physiologist parking a car on its roof, not entirely : PAVLOV

8-down – See 24 : ENLIGHTENINGTHE

15-down – Plant beginning to grow inside developing base, grass : SAGEBRUSH

17-down – Timeless custom to support a little growth, producing capital : ABUDHABI

18-down – See 4 : THEGIANT

20-down – Coarse trio at heart, smooth : RIBALD

21-down – Stage effect putting track in rollers : DRYICE

23-down – See 4 : PEACH

1-across – Fairies, tail first, surrounding little girl — 9 was sick of it : SELFLOVE

5-across – Retriever of horse reportedly about to cancel : GUNDOG

9-across – Steward’s sickness reaches tenth book : MALVOLIO

10-across – Top Italian number in store : SILVIO

12-across – Spinner, say, or bad fairy : TROLL

13-across – Pirate investigated, having feature of eagle : HOOKNOSED

14-across – Donation on edge, as is and not was : PRESENTTENSE

18-across – Duck in house with duck on road I see announced as alternative? : HOMOEOPATHIC

21-across – A fowl or two and yet in a flutter : WYANDOTTE

23-across – Ill-natured one taking on guild : TRADE

24-across – Opening gallery? : LOUVRE

25-across – Where flowers go from home counties to get prizes : SEAWARDS

26-across – Back pay, say, for bauble : GEEGAW

27-across – Being in a row on purpose : ADESSEIN

1-down – Fabric with costly interweaving — ditto without it : SAMITE

2-down – See head raised, loosely bound : LOLLOP

3-down – Maker of clothing, giants for the use of, to appear important : LOOMLARGE

4-down – The man’s a sweetheart in the way he sings an aria : VOICHESAPETE

6-down – See 23 : UNION

7-down – Aria of the Peacemakers about Love : DOVESONO

8-down – Exercise of virtue to become queer when river rises : GOODDEED

11-down – Out of view of motorist that’s crazy : ROUNDTHEBEND

15-down – Wests in Nottinghamshire turn to Ephesus and Syracuse, perhaps? : TWINTOWNS

16-down – Get up with a lot of fish about, for example : SHOWALEG

17-down – Take prisoner, clutching at green : IMMATURE

19-down – Playwright goes right off the wall : BARRIE

20-down – Aria making head turn — Domingo’s first in opera : NESSUN

22-down – See 20 : DORMA

9-across – Hate Arab horse having its wings clipped : ABHOR

10-across – Count, smitten with love, twisted like a bud : CONVOLUTE

11-across – Endure a dance, an old person’s affair? : LASTFLING

12-across – Stock bar with booze : BANAL

13-across – Paper bundle: energy-deficient power source that’s injurious : BALEFUL

15-across – The opposition eating flipping eggs? Prove it! : THEOREM

17-across – Dish of dog fish : CURRY

18-across – Bureaucracy’s advice about bug : RED

20-across – Ghostly Arthur once associated with court knight : ASHEN

22-across – Perhaps local injections units? : NUMBERS

25-across – Nick the Unfinished’s sneakiness : STEALTH

26-across – Camp joke about Uruguay’s premier getting lost : GULAG

27-across – Officer responsible for politician getting second desk? : CONSTABLE

30-across – Conductor to-be went on horseback : ELECTRODE

31-across – Cake decorator Penny put in the dock : PIPER

1-down – Composer’s coach initially lectured on Ring: Wagner’s finale very loud! : CARL

2-down – Mountain resort songbird? : WHISTLER

3-down – See 1 : ORFF

4-down – Great poet and dramatist’s second scary film? : SCHILLER

5-down – Fancy getting a rise — about $1,000 — sir? : KNIGHT

6-down – Old jacket on male roué with top missing gets a delayed reaction : DOUBLETAKE

7-down – Spin merchant, Tina? : TURNER

8-down – Live two lives as an inventor? : BELL

13-down – Food conveyance up and working : BACON

14-down – Front opening gives a bias to boxers etc. : FLYWEIGHTS

16-down – Masses welcoming new champ : MUNCH

19-down – Bury’s opposite Pluto — and between : DISINTER

21-down – Blooming Teddy boy dance by Prince — a rare heavenly sight! : HALEBOPP

23-down – Grain factory on film : MILLET

24-down – Portion of corset elastic : SECTOR

26-down – See 29 : GREY

28-down – See 18 : TAPE

29-down – Tea before the scheduled hour holds up a work unit : EARL