Daily Answers

9-across – Sinner, a boring enemy of Bush, said to be badly stressed : ADULTERER

10-across – Followers maybe in tube : TRAIN

11-across – City theme in tube? : EXTOPIC

12-across – Good animal, the Manx cat – could be a killer : GRAMPUS

13-across – Mother’s name for malediction : DAMN

14-across – Film text is Lean’s with Percy co-operating : SCREENPLAY

15-across – Worship tree now added to 10 : SERVICE

17-across – Last 3s for 10 with a lot of fur in it otherwise : TERMINI

19-across – Natural and unnatural duet about vulgar City : UNAFFECTED

22-across – At the end endless love comes to nothing : ZERO

23-across – Issues about pantomimist are ahead of tautology in announcement on 10 : STATION

24-across – Killed as Brer Fox didn’t need to be? : LAIDLOW

26-across – Primate or spirit missing some electricity : ORANG

27-across – Return of Cape grapefruit maybe coming round for one on 10 : PASSENGER

1-down – Talk among experts includes changes in ardour : PANELDISCUSSION

2-down – Now 10 27 arrival includes headless bust : CUSTOMER

3-down – See 23 : STOP

4-down – Very cold and largely clear – follows time right for vehicle : TRICYCLE

5-down – Accent on foot? : BROGUE

6-down – I remove greater objects from s-shoe : STRAINER

7-down – Fish on line in part of flower : CARPEL

8-down – Russian princess out of Asia, 2B if out in English city, unpleasant character : ANASTYBITOFWORK

16-down – Cross boundary where some festivities occur : INFRINGE

17-down – Pampas is where novel girl is about to dance : TREELESS

18-down – Way of thinking supplies good lie for your head : IDEOLOGY

20-down – A tax on a right to an image : AVATAR

21-down – Has 26 the ability to snack? : CANAPE

25-down – Couple commonly suggesting they should be assaulted : ITEM

1-across – Tersely discharges soldiers’ protests about introduction of bull : DEMOBS

4-across – Off spin is a nightmare for the user : BADTRIP

9-across – Misrepresented Lewes’s present Nimby position : ELSEWHERE

10-across – Leader of scout pack : STAMP

11-across – Fish without fin provided backs off : DANCE

12-across – Woman’s so perversely into football team’s tackiness : VISCOSITY

13-across – Strong US wind section from Boston or thereabouts : NORTHER

15-across – Hard to make out with wife? Needs sex appeal, idiot! : DIMWIT

17-across – Pro hogs set broadcast : FOSTER

19-across – Brow’s first furrows : BRIDGES

22-across – Converted believers may be turned outward : EVERSIBLE

24-across – Transport quite lacking on the way back : BACON

26-across – Lyricist is after page : PRICE

27-across – Be a casual footballer; quit before top level match? : KICKABOUT

28-across – Trap energy inside object like a motorised vehicle : ENGINED

29-across – Hand out gold star : METEOR

1-down – City day quarters, ice free : DRESDEN

2-down – Mediterranean island capital: sun not hot : MASON

3-down – Sportsman – not this one failing to open personal cover : BOWLERHAT

4-down – Reduced to fit in the sack : BLESSED

5-down – Insult county club : DISCO

6-down – Turning assets into cash is on the increase, each pound to be assimilated : REALISING

7-down – Secretary has to settle on a fruit : PAPAYA

8-down – Guardian state : WEAVER

14-down – Call about England’s top sporting event being back in business? : REOPENING

16-down – Some rigging involved American appropriating book : MAINBRACE

18-down – Filled out again : REBUKED

19-down – Composer accepting note should be split : BREACH

20-down – Rock star, one turned politician? : SENATOR

21-down – Work casually on foreign article : TEMPLE

23-down – The woman, all female, topless : SHEEN

25-down – Sun up in the outskirts of Cologne : CLOSE

1-across – West Side Montagues on king’s square with aqua-bike : JETSKI

4-across – Food holder, say, with medal out of bed : EGGCUP

9-across – 24 left out of fabric with point – strong point – when Francesca’s about : ANYONEFORTENNIS

10-across – Prayer shock, keeping last of the … : APPEAL

11-across – … 24 with breaking landlord’s cover : HOWSTHAT

12-across – House right for starters, thank you : PROPERTY

14-across – There is some way to make money on derivatives : YONDER

15-across – Do your best to be disruptive : PLAYUP

18-across – Solitaire the opera : PATIENCE

21-across – Flying to Pole held by different international body : ONTHERUN

22-across – Fall of French gentleman in Burgundian town : AUTUMN

24-across – Hunt for spoon, it may be: does it have social benefits? : QUESTIONOFSPORT

25-across – Don’t accept responsibility for row about broadcast : DISOWN

26-across – Description of shield, old and new, after endless conflagration : BLAZON

1-down – I get through after a month making gin : JUNIPER

2-down – River reduced into drink : TROPE

3-down – Painter of king with his lady friend the queen : KNELLER

5-down – Entry : GATEWAY

6-down – Girl with attitude : CONSTANCE

7-down – Any of us could be archbishop : PRIMATE

8-down – Old carriage bringing wages, nothing for companion included : POCHAY

13-down – Article removed from 8s disturbed by relative with mental problem : PSYCHOSIS

16-down – Listless neighbours rendering the year satisfactory : LANGUID

17-down – Range of original 6 in seat : PURVIEW

18-down – Write article on G for George Town : PENANG

19-down – Sad at having fault rehashed : TEARFUL

20-down – Creator of romance in politics? : CAMERON

23-down – Firsts last, being stone : TOPAZ

1-across – Need to imprison individual, given bird for current transgressions? : CRIMEWAVE

6-across – Turn left for 18’s work : BEND

8-across – See 6 : SINISTER

9-across – Old airline approaching a country : PANAMA

10-across – See books, then a work of 18 : LOLITA

11-across – Post sack, work of 18 : PALEFIRE

12-across – Man finally after scarf to get hot : STOLEN

15-across – Watch muscle getting into condition : SPECTATE

16-across – Noble sailors in the wake of rotten stink : HIGHBORN

19-across – Field where Kipling’s Khan holds power : SPHERE

21-across – Mass killer won’t initiate search alongside a grave : ATOMBOMB

22-across – Given a very meticulous leader, I’m backing plant : MIMOSA

24-across – Enemy in action, one from Sana’a, perhaps : YEMENI

25-across – Dish bound to pong, ending at the front : KEDGEREE

26-across – Still go : SHOT

27-across – Great player has to fight in Balkan city : MOVIESTAR

1-down – Punch has old material : CHINO

2-down – First : INITIAL

3-down – More subordinate to a 27? : EXTRA

4-down – Fitting a support, large fitting : APROPOS

5-down – Shift lies with spare trainers : ESPALIERS

6-down – Use stake to secure fine tangle : BENEFIT

7-down – Miners muse over conclusion of Thatcher, appearing superior figure : NUMERATOR

13-down – Pearl divers hit their target, primarily : THIRTIETH

14-down – Economy at first breaking no record is beginning to mint fresh coinage? : NEOLOGISM

17-down – Lover of 10, one hitching from Hull, perhaps, heading for Torquay : HUMBERT

18-down – Writer brings to mouth very fine port : NABOKOV

20-down – See 17 : HUMBERT

22-down – Little thing that bites short dwarf : MIDGE

23-down – Downright thin : SHEER

1-across – Plant Araucaria with fellow : MEDICK

4-across – Where nursing is in progress : ONWARD

9-across – Girl once tender exemplifies … : ANNA

10-across – … famous Alaskan airfield, either way … : PALINDROME

11-across – … as does her longer form : HANNAH

12-across – Musician suffering roasting : ORGANIST

13-across – Girl put in light which is for boarders : SKATEPARK

15-across – Houseboy showing quality : HALL

16-across – : MARK

17-across – Portion of Genoese zabaglione cooked by crook : SLEAZEBAG

21-across – Doesn’t the Guardian exist with 2, 4, 23, 2, 4 to 22 for a 10? : AREWENOT

22-across – What retains vessel is not available as it isn’t old age : NEWERA

24-across – Unable to hear sound of love? That’s slanderous : DEFAMATORY

25-across – Drunkards should they be converted don’t talk : FISH

26-across – About 8 German joiner is rough … : UNKIND

27-across – … as by the sound of it is the yarn : CREWEL

1-down – Individual : MANJACK

2-down – Portrayed as haggard? : DRAWN

3-down – A rhyme for Nick? : COPSHOP

5-down – I leave in a single movement, not being myself : NONEGO

6-down – Gill ruined Kate and Irina : AIRINTAKE

7-down – Old girl brought up to receive prophet : DAMOSEL

8-down – Pirate captain’s story by one of the family? : BLOODRELATION

14-down – Reappearance of old 8 to do with little 25 : THROWBACK

16-down – Cent covered by extra gold piece : MORCEAU

18-down – Pest in year one having a loss : ANNOYER

19-down – Love – love in a lover”s head – produces mist : AEROSOL

20-down – Opposed to first class in pub to no effect : INVAIN

23-down – Defective part in forerunners of the Web having band of brothers at the end of the line : WEFEW