Daily Answers

4-across – Accept view in court : TAKEUP

6-across – Spare server output that’s not used for protection of digital assets? : GAUNTLET

9-across – Correct wordplay is what’s essential to authors : PUNISH

10-across – Increase dependency on drugs after taking cocaine : ADDITION

11-across – This may obscure view of comic cycling around Berlin drunk : ROLLERBLIND

15-across – Part of service broadcast can’t work out clips : SANCTUS

17-across – New interpretation of Mother Earth Hypothesis : THEOREM

18-across – Calculated information about state delaying start of attack : INTENTIONAL

22-across – What provides opportunity for better way to collect rent? : ROULETTE

23-across – Servant left in fearful state by closure of company : FLUNKY

24-across – Express doubts about quotes in novel : QUESTION

25-across – Explanation for each set of points raised originally : ANSWER

1-down – Doctor lets us struggle : TUSSLE

2-down – Ruthless factory worker resentful having swapped starts of next rota : HARDBITTEN

3-down – Lingered around ring : ENGIRDLE

4-down – People who have the authority to sanction British boards : TOPBRASS

5-down – Family lazing around initially avoided being roused : KINDLING

7-down – Secular socialists taking part in revolution : LAIC

8-down – Can opener used for extracting sharp object : TINE

12-down – Transport hub close to Paris isn’t about to be demolished : BUSSTATION

13-down – Unused husks end up yellow eventually : BRANDNEW

14-down – Who might use manoeuvre to stop army division retreating? : EMPLOYER

16-down – Unusual tactic ignoring final third hedges widespread betting system : TRIFECTA

19-down – European country just east of France is far from sea : INLAND

20-down – State is instrumental in connecting reservoir to aqueduct : IRAQ

21-down – Cross and upset baby may do this audibly : MULE

7-across – Lesser array of heavenly bodies melting in our arms : URSAMINOR

8-across – Actor only 26 27, unable to light up though, just not winning : CLOSE

9-across – Trials coming in cycles for literary villain : BILLSIKES

10-across – See 8 : BUTNO

12-across – See 11 Down : NEESON

13-across – 26s hosts as it happens ideal, though superficial and emollient : OLIVEOIL

14-across – See 4 Down : ABURTON

17-across – Background music’s first beat in impromptu : AMBIENT

20-across – Jumpsuit for example, open flies, cooler with breeze finally coming in : ONEPIECE

22-across – Actor only 26 27, winning cry’s stifled as well : OTOOLE

24-across – See 8 : CIGAR

25-across – Film great only 26 27, problem geezer : HITCHCOCK

26-across – Americans’ nod to another, and on one’s dramatic failing, with no mad reactions, unfortunately – when only this? : OSCAR

27-across – See 26 : NOMINATED

1-down – Actor only 26 27 in easy win? : CRUISE

2-down – Roles seemingly manufactured, one’s less than gracious : BADLOSER

3-down – McKellen, say, as a star? : SIRIAN

4-down – Selected, an actor only 26 27 lost : GONEFOR

5-down – Bee, insect in shirt : BLOUSE

6-down – Capital I invested in a tabloid scam : ASUNCION

11-down – Actor only 26 27 returning only unopened letters? : LIAM

15-down – Most crooked, with one opening prize : BANDIEST

16-down – Sign captain up : OMEN

18-down – Unquestionable note in Nordic novel : IRONCLAD

19-down – Meat thus coated with toxic substance : VENISON

21-down – Delay before mountain climbing of a particular mode : PLAGAL

22-down – Purple light skimmed over personal documents : ORCHID

23-down – Beaten, when lapped : LICKED

1-across – Woodwork that Tennyson finally expected to do : CROSSBAR

6-across – Shrivel, bringing tail well forward to coil : WRITHE

9-across – In a daze, replaces nothing right? : STUPOR

10-across – Raised V-sign as greeting? : HIGHFIVE

11-across – Conference perhaps in shade to change leader of attack : SPEARHEAD

13-across – Slow down as short pause announced : BRAKE

15-across – Stupid old bat doesn’t have a purpose : OBTUSE

17-across – See a list with nothing in it : VACANT

18-across – Under the influence no leader is strong : RUGGED

19-across – Trunk internally dry, water may be here? : BOTTLE

21-across – Hot island … and another … and half of another : HAITI

22-across – I approve hotel ad : BEMYGUEST

25-across – Listens, as composer gets into harness : GIVESEAR

26-across – Oil company executive’s ending in cell : MOBILE

28-across – Nervous, especially if one has vertigo? : ONEDGE

29-across – One shuts up gun and reclines to relax : SILENCER

2-down – Become weak from endless repetition : ROT

3-down – Pigment, one chimps perhaps gather up : SEPIA

4-down – Having less on round the trunk in novel location : BARCHESTER

5-down – What to put in the back? Try again : REHEAR

6-down – Amusing people, other halves : WAGS

7-down – Six-footer playing well, he tells me : INFORMANT

8-down – Drop litter and show anxiety : HAVEKITTENS

12-down – Incorporate mistakes in starting off a new generation : PROCREATION

14-down – Fitting substitute comes across a little short : PAROXYSMAL

16-down – Drunken schoolmaster seen in the front row : TIGHTHEAD

20-down – Wreckage as bride’s partying : DEBRIS

23-down – Pope’s headgear, not the topper : URBAN

24-down – Just the sea at Calais, close to Dieppe : MERE

27-down – Believe guards aren’t honest : LIE

7-across – Able to control movement in Europe? : CONTINENT

8-across – Type of poem in small volume : MODEL

9-across – Meaning of clue missing start and finish : INTENDING

10-across – Vehicle opening for Paul Walker? : TRAMP

12-across – 4 has time for whiskey in The Ship : TANKER

13-across – World almost consumed in flood : SATURATE

14-across – Celebrity dropping E in planetarium? : STARDOM

17-across – Senior royal essentially admitting one’s out of touch, perhaps : SENSORY

20-across – State accepting unfinished Italian resort is deplorable : CRIMINAL

22-across – Price of golf covered by Daily Express leader : CHARGE

24-across – Great thing that could come before those going my way : SUPER

25-across – Wild boars with tendency to get thirsty? : ABSORBENT

26-across – Person who fools party queen recently : DUPER

27-across – Sick aunt to recover of course : NATURALLY

1-down – Briefly awkward situation with a bit of a looker : CORNEA

2-down – Person who exposes Kate’s error oddly upset : STREAKER

3-down – Angry diners getting more sarcastic : SNIDER

4-down – Granny is taken in by old-time Cockney merchant? : ONANIST

5-down – Jug possibly holding 3 flowers? : POURER

6-down – Tailor comes across as outspoken on terrace : SEAMSTER

11-down – Viewer’s complaint ends in references about Mary Whitehouse : STYE

15-down – Tutors prepared to admit Oxford University is far from straightforward : TORTUOUS

16-down – Sound from 11 piece contributing to calypso in Kingston : OINK

18-down – Actor delivered gloss for Spooner : SEANBEAN

19-down – Socialite family entertaining posh doctor : CLUBMAN

21-down – Soldiers without indication of fear become submissive : MEEKEN

22-down – Half Man Half Biscuit leading us in refrain : CHORUS

23-down – 8 ogling actress : GONGLI

5-across – Against holding some light material for art : CRAYON

6-across – Way to fire women dipping into a cash supply : ATWILL

9-across – Dalmatian maybe here, without new medical support : SPLINT

10-across – What’s found in all other across answers for priests : THECLOTH

11-across – Bit of flipping Battenburg finally remaining : NETT

12-across – Writer considered clue, then shut up : FELTTIPPEN

13-across – Dealing with entry in sports day, ready to broadcast later : PRERECORDED

18-across – Judge Anne Rice a terribly tragic writer : JEANRACINE

21-across – Salesman with nothing to reclaim after a default : REPO

22-across – Magic book forbidding love and anger : GRIMOIRE

23-across – Pat lady’s coat, dressing queen in dull fashion : DRABLY

24-across – Put large star in Palladium : PLACED

25-across – Comment from Jeremiah in weak part of Bible : LAMENT

1-down – Railing criminal tries to follow cop around : BANISTER

2-down – Rather small men, not quite noble : SORTOF

3-down – Witness cheers up cryptic setter : ATTESTER

4-down – Charge very little cash, which is a boost : FILLIP

5-down – Person who manages to fix one office machine : COPIER

7-down – Unpleasant look about abstemious character : LETTER

8-down – A lot of acid in land’s mineral deposits : STALACTITES

14-down – Grasped fighter’s grass skirts : REALISED

15-down – Tired and emotional bride ate nuts : EBRIATED

16-down – Get furious with cryptic clue for ‘rent’ : LETRIP

17-down – Program from tech giant, leader in tech : APPLET

19-down – Aussie native not feeling alright, not content : NUMBAT

20-down – Make popular finale with understanding of music : ENDEAR