Daily Answers

1-across – Funny stick of the Bailey : RUMPOLE

5-across – See 29 : HAVEIT

9-across – Painfully loud way to mount books : STRIDENT

10-across – Dockwra’s service supplies fish : WRASSE

12-across – Writer for whom the pale horse would be suitable? : RIDERHAGGARD

15-across – Winning team gets feathers inverted : UPSIDEDOWN

17-across – Deity of Norse underworld less than ours? : HEL

19-across – Digit applied to transcendental number : TOE

20-across – Unable to stand? : INTOLERANT

22-across – See 11 : MUSTBEOBEYED

26-across – Sharpen note during controlled return : DEBLUR

27-across – Creator of 1 across has medium-sized gold watch : MORTIMER

28-across – 12’s 11 22 in … : AYESHA

29-across – … t-temperature in which you take a razor to one with motion carried : THEAYES

1-down – Hurry faster for presidential features : RUSH

2-down – See 1 : MORE

3-down – Dodos may be canny folk : OLDBIRDS

4-down – Wise computer? : ERNIE

6-down – Constellation of gold on capital : AURIGA

7-down – A Greek islander on a London station not on the tube : EUSTACHIAN

8-down – The less familiar illumination said to be a means of measuring angles : THEODOLITE

11-down – Mrs 1 across and 12’s lady display bed – you both seem abashed : SHEWHO

13-down – Greek character to get badly limited by a means of education? By all means : MULTIMEDIA

14-down – Ungulates, one of them being subject to tax? : ASSESSABLE

16-down – Secure unit for philanderer, might one say? : DONJON

18-down – Find a new place for street destroyed by the French : RESETTLE

21-down – Sailor, alcoholic, is pink : ABLUSH

23-down – Constructed to be a torpedo carrier : EBOAT

24-down – Award for decapitating crowbar : EMMY

25-down – Almost national flag : IRIS

5-across – Museum left to antiaesthete : VANDAL

6-across – Helping with what happens at toy hospital? : DOLLOP

9-across – Actor’s graffiti in the gents, perhaps? : BOGART

10-across – Top brand of cigarette, capturing heart of 11, goes west : PULLOVER

11-across – The available alternatives to United going to pieces : MENU

12-across – Royal road lined with royal hypocrisy concerning trade : MERCANTILE

13-across – Global teams treated defective cell : MEGALOBLAST

18-across – It’s a flowering plant – two girls said so : POLYANTHUS

21-across – Gladly f-fib first : LIEF

22-across – Nail securing unattributed church rules : CANONLAW

23-across – Managed to break spooks’ skulls : CRANIA

24-across – Odds on bum being anything but thick : SPARSE

25-across – Bright little thing starting to sing of horse : SEQUIN

1-down – Cruelty to insects that’s supposed to help with rehab : ANTABUSE

2-down – What you put mouse on to catch up with chicken, perhaps : BANTAM

3-down – Register phone with higher pitch : ROLLCALL

4-down – Charity collecting nothing on time? Not quite : ALMOST

5-down – Nameless wild flower : VIOLET

7-down – Bound over the foreign dish : PAELLA

8-down – Rapacious bird, in flash, devouring rank fruit : SPARROWHAWK

14-down – Recorder’s catalogue of old foreign coins : ANNALIST

15-down – Black friend aboard public transport brought up creamy confection : SYLLABUB

16-down – Model straddling artist in first half of 9 : MORASS

17-down – Auspicious force invades country : BENIGN

19-down – Solvers once chased by country farmer : YEOMAN

20-down – Dupe’s audible relief : SUCKER

1-across – One beau in the sack, which is no place for a 24 : CHINASHOP

6-across – 3’s sister to see about road : EMILY

9-across – Bird that’s covered : CAPON

10-across – Welsh boy backs surrounding Wagner’s work with 8’s, which is 28’s : WUTHERING

11-across – Drug makes insect very stupid – should be born, not died : ANTIBIOTIC

12-across – Deity in authority : THOR

14-across – Comfort for the organist? : CONSOLE

15-across – See 10 : HEIGHTS

17-across – A month in charge of pre-empting 11? : ASEPTIC

19-across – White note is not legitimate : NATURAL

20-across – Security to change levels? : LOCK

22-across – Open land and seaside feature in 10 15 : HEATHCLIFF

25-across – One of five, the first, in Scarlett’s home, a town near Rome : TARQUINIA

26-across – German lady reveals her country’s wrongdoing : FRAUD

27-across – Stand what one can stand at and live : EASEL

28-across – 6 across is second among measures : ELLISBELL

1-down – Firms need a drink : COCOA

2-down – Inability to change into £10 in coppers : IMPOTENCE

3-down – One out of three sisters – one out of nine, with brother – in stake : ANNEBRONTE

4-down – Not a single loo in the house? Explain! : HOWCOME

5-down – Moody and irritable with an appeal to be signed when heard : PETTISH

6-down – Garden, English part of : EDEN

7-down – Murdoch with her last lucky lot : IRISH

8-down – Ash covering all good day girls that repent : YGGDRASIL

13-down – Some fighting forces retain numbers for boxing : FISTICUFFS

14-down – 3’s sister’s not a good girl and the rest turn up to keep her : CHARLOTTE

16-down – Wild urchin are causing a storm : HURRICANE

18-down – Is inclined to enter church to achieve purification : CLEANSE

19-down – Game or its object? : NETBALL

21-down – Place reserved to accommodate deity : CERES

23-down – Cuban field marshal? : FIDEL

24-down – Optimistic beast? : BULL

1-across – Sort of tie makes do without edge : CLIPON

5-across – Address for letter in which doctor’s admitted endlessly relapsing state : DEARSIRS

9-across – Church member lancing a boil : ANGLICAN

10-across – Actor’s holiday afloat : CRUISE

11-across – Character in film having cast in post-war use? : AUSTINPOWERS

13-across – Settled into a self-made bed? : PAID

14-across – See 13 : THEPRICE

17-across – Proclaimed ruler of legendary characters around years before German assent : LADYJANE

18-across – See 17 : GREY

20-across – Go mad, getting sectioned : DEPARTMENTAL

23-across – Our Junior Correspondent’s written about punishment involving president : PENPAL

24-across – Sounding right, German car forges ahead : AUDITORY

25-across – Individual resting in coach for a time : STONEAGE

26-across – The old state servant : YEOMAN

2-down – Hierarchical system within Network Rail? : LINE

3-down – Having lots of mates in work, steady love with randy characters : POLYANDRY

4-down – Least unpleasant of Venice’s tours : NICEST

5-down – Troublemaker’s unusual he-man tendencies : DENNISTHEMENACE

6-down – Preach to converted senior linesman : ARCHPOET

7-down – Wife’s loud complaint’s cut short : SQUAW

8-down – Created a stir getting lost on overlooking confined region : RESTRICTED

12-down – See 2 : MANAGEMENT

15-down – Opera cast riot about pass/permit : RIGOLETTO

16-down – Every object stitched up on underside of chap’s cloak : MANTILLA

19-down – Heavy cigar daughter inhaled : STODGY

21-down – Diana Spencer’s trembling : ASPEN

22-down – See 8 : AREA

8-across – Stressful time for which the Guardian’s on grass and heroin : RUSHHOUR

9-across – Having opening for neck in the red clothes? : OWNING

10-across – Clipping of honeysuckle as yellow as a bed of roses : EASY

11-across – Print sparked off criticism, rather than art, in artist : LITHOGRAPH

12-across – Old horseman finds fish by a river : HUSSAR

14-across – Kentish aggregate, peak submerged : SEAMOUNT

15-across – Pudding I love, half of cake, readily available? : TAPIOCA

17-across – Mother tries to produce geniuses : MAESTRI

20-across – Time company retired calculating people, never ever leaving : OCCASION

22-across – A rally’s ending in love! Who’s for tennis? : ANYONE

23-across – Food suggested by team? : MINCEDMEAT

24-across – From which some qualify for passion : HEAT

25-across – Wants to find imaginative conclusion in stories : YEARNS

26-across – Ring back repeatedly, or knock : POOHPOOH

1-down – Dance partners of 26 returning as playthings? : HULAHULA

2-down – A Scottish island’s call for sailors : AHOY

3-down – Wood supplier very much liked to have middle shed : POPLAR

4-down – Bull in pain has to cry out : PROTEST

5-down – Imagine man’s widow with meat and a port : YOKOHAMA

6-down – Very much, only more somehow, impressing America : ENORMOUSLY

7-down – South African harness on the Costa del Sol, perhaps, I removed : INSPAN

13-down – One relaying messages from island: Crop failing! : SPINALCORD

16-down – Youthful nation’s short on beauty : CHILDISH

18-down – Team born to riot? : RENTAMOB

19-down – Messy bed lacking occupant, head and toes nowhere to be seen : UNKEMPT

21-down – Atrocity over a war scene : CRIMEA

22-down – Swift, perhaps, to gild god? : AUTHOR

24-down – Native American bound to have one : HOPI