Daily Answers

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

8-across – : QUANTITY

9-across – : REALLY

10-across – : JINX

11-across – : DRUGADDICT

12-across – : YORKIE

14-across – : GRIMALDI

15-across – : UMPIRES

17-across – : WHITING

20-across – : VIVERRID

22-across – : CHERRY

23-across – : XENOPHANES

24-across – : LOOT

25-across – : FLANGE

26-across – : MAINTAIN

1-down – : TUBIFORM

2-down – : ONYX

3-down – : PIDDLE

4-down – : ZYMURGY

5-down – : BROADISH

6-down – : HARDCASTLE

7-down – : SLICED

13-down – : KNIFEPOINT

16-down – : EARTHMEN

18-down – : NARCOTIC

19-down – : ADENOMA

21-down – : IDEALS

22-down – : CUSPID

24-down – : LATE

1-across – Literary idiot crumbling a dry bun in boat : BARNABY

5-across – Literary lady’s place reportedly in the vegetable garden : SHALLOT

10-across – Hold 1 16’s 25 : GRIP

11-across – In vain going in one’s stockinged feet? : BOOTLESSLY

12-across – Nothing left after payment for antique fair : TOLLOL

13-across – Vehicle that goes backwards on hills had a 17 28 in … : TRACTORS

14-across – … this country’s weather in a translated language : UKRAINIAN

16-across – See 1 : RUDGE

17-across – Annal, perhaps, of Labour politician: the man’s Conservative : SHORT

19-across – Distinguish Archer, giving him a role : TELLAPART

23-across – Dice carrot, say, as 2 of 8 : CUBEROOT

24-across – Chinese general followed by the bad guys in 1 16 : GORDON

26-across – Setter securing home in club in the soup : MINESTRONE

27-across – Food for those who live alone : VEAL

28-across – See 17 : HISTORY

29-across – The beginning of beginning? Have a go at grasping this theological mystery : TRINITY

2-down – Growth on ‘ead – growth on head – giving one a bell : AIRLOCK

3-down – Country, one without love and friend : NEPAL

4-down – Little half of capital old city : BABYLON

6-down – Hunt the painter, opening : HOLMAN

7-down – Model for foot, one for backside, curtains for all : LASTTRUMP

8-down – Summons to Pullman’s girl, good cleaner : OILYRAG

9-down – Breach caused by creative skill arising in … : CONTRAVENTION

15-down – … a friend of the environment seizing me before time of treaty : AGREEMENT

18-down – Garter’s first word about rebellion by elusive character : HOUDINI

20-down – Garter, say, the French half including the Guardian : LEGWEAR

21-down – Brazilian diplomacy read in vain to 24 : RIOTACT

22-down – Magician at the wheel? : POTTER

25-down – Bird with mosaics if not available : RAVEN