Daily Answers

1-across – Race as hare-like creature? Or is it hard coming in 100mph? : HALFMARATHON

8-across – Power-grabbing person gaining at the expense of others : USURPER

9-across – Friend Heather is becoming tiresome : PALLING

11-across – G.B.’s to plunder Scot, we hear? : SHAVIAN

12-across – What’s on garden gets rid of possible pollutant : TOPSOIL

13-across – Bewitch or honour a husband? : OBEAH

14-across – New ideas stem from a little drink : DEMITASSE

16-across – Minister admitting relationship : PARKINSON

19-across – Beheaded king’s old woman : CRONE

21-across – Educational paper covering jazz quartets : TETRADS

23-across – Like fans in a party clique : ADORING

24-across – Skin condition I get after period of abnormal eating : LENTIGO

25-across – Deeply emotional offering trendy present? : INTENSE

26-across – Re gales: what’s brewing? This might tell you : WEATHERGLASS

1-down – A superior prisoner – he gets outside transport in lorry? : HAULAGE

2-down – Language after drink is nonsense! : LAPPISH

3-down – Kitchen preparations in commercial in residence headed by mum : MARINADES

4-down – Transplant material sent to hospital department : REPOT

5-down – One pillar rising up over grass? It’s a tree : TALIPOT

6-down – Not promising nothing less when there’s nothing involved : OMINOUS

7-down – Beating typhus is goal in famous medical centre : GUYSHOSPITAL

10-down – They fly, angels do – swirling around with glee : GOLDENEAGLES

15-down – Dangerous to humans? Roy is so brutal to chap as a gypsy : MANEATING

17-down – Regret about the holding up of night train : RETINUE

18-down – Poet’s confession about not liking the oldies? : IMAGIST

19-down – Island a monster set up as a republic : CROATIA

20-down – Lines up in store for special deal : ORIENTS

22-down – Had a conversation in the bar : SPOKE

1-across – Laughing at non-U African Queen? : BANTER

4-across – Braveheart still 8’s epic, hence not in front of the children : LITTLE

9-across – Old if unqualified : AGED

10-across – Wealth is tedious if by it confined : PROSPERITY

11-across – Bob or Tom spotted cockney solver : SAWYER

12-across – See 4 : PITCHERS

13-across – Female instrumentalist and sailor among journalists : PSALTRESS

15-across – See 4 : HAVE

16-across – See 27 : FIVE

17-across – Alien in tunnel is no intellectual : SIMPLETON

21-across – Business going bust should consolidate : FIRMDOWN

22-across – Take another setter also to your heart? : LOVEME

24-across – Old? Ninety? Born so as to make her a hundred and ten : ENIDBLYTON

25-across – Top of sycamore tree in the window : SASH

26-across – See 23 : DAGAMA

27-across – 24’s friends initially f-four with an animal around : FAMOUS

1-down – Second and first positions of lever by friend of ….. : BIGEARS

2-down – ….. 24’s 4 tern : NODDY

3-down – Top man’s agent in capital return : EMPEROR

5-down – Setter’s set point – credit when object’s discreditable : IMPUTE

6-down – Draw round nearly half the players for historic relay : TORCHRACE

7-down – Genderless vegetable topped and tailed by sponsor of poetry : EUTERPE

8-down – Sorry range for one on blended tea : COMPASSIONATE

14-down – See 22 : LOVEMYDOG

16-down – Feeding may be insincere : FEIGNED

18-down – One chasing order for fast food in Italy : POLENTA

19-down – Gradual assimiliation means the world is not Conservative : OSMOSIS

20-down – Man of faith replaces fascist’s end with his head : MOSLEM

23-down – Opposed to a trick about a dog : VASCO

1-across – Show contempt for the reportedly bamboozled in the area : DISTRICT

5-across – Article covered by remote ancestor : FATHER

9-across – Gets back to work miracles : RECLAIMS

10-across – 5, I _____ give a lone cat lentil soup : CANNOT

11-across – … nothing but consommé then after raid? : ALLCLEAR

12-across – Baker’s vehicle kept by receiver of spills : BICARB

14-across – 22,1 down town in 1 across of 16 : WASHINGTON

18-across – Be unctuous without authority, sprinkling ale as precaution : SMOKEALARM

22-across – Shire shorthorn initially like 16 1 across : COUNTY

23-across – Hear 5 charge ancient American city : SYRACUSE

24-across – White man has this country’s tail in a twist : ALBINO

25-across – One inside piano is one within rights : PRISONER

26-across – Spotted being of little consequence : MEASLY

27-across – See 10 : TELLALIE

1-down – See 22 : DURHAM

2-down – Reaper with unhealthy bits of cell : SICKLE

3-down – Is that true about friend? : REALLY

4-down – Order follows number and Bible story is like : COMPARABLE

6-down – A heartless minister : ARABIANS

7-down – Cordial welcome for new pastor here – unless male : HENPARTY

8-down – Antbears poisoned with arsenic : RATSBANE

13-down – Complaint about her 5 and his etc, subject of 10 27 : CHERRYTREE

15-down – I like this big hole – it links Auroral viewpoints : ISOCHASM

16-down – First shuttle British? : COLUMBIA

17-down – Lookout being dispatched by train? : SENTINEL

19-down – Dependant boy or girl holding beast : VASSAL

20-down – Boy, weirdo, returning by underground route : TUNNEL

21-down – I’ll fly to 14 : GEORGE

1-across – A Lammas Day return : IGUANA

4-across – A little bit of poetry amid the silence? : MODICUM

9-across – Cabinet minister, French marshal keeping her out : PETERHAIN

10-across – Common words set to music about local leader : SLANG

11-across – Is without cover and identification? : SNAKE

12-across – Alcoholic compound of setter and solver’s spare report : METHYLENE

13-across – Sign missing from reference books, in a manner of speaking : DICTION

15-across – You are red from embarrassment : READER

17-across – Mythical member : GORGON

19-across – Vegetable finishes telescoped on the first : KALENDS

22-across – Translated, I love the poor shrimp’s deficiency of structure : AMORPHISM

24-across – Purveyors of electricity to stun? : GECKO

26-across – Self-starter’s peculiarity : SKINK

27-across – Move to show pride in Lawrence’s full interjection : GODSTRUTH

28-across – Award for service in Guevara/Reagan contest? : CHEVRON

29-across – See 19 down : DRAGON

1-down – Devil does effect lacking spontaneity : IMPOSED

2-down – Going too far from useful trade : ULTRA

3-down – Gunners worried about initiation of little baby : NURSELING

4-down – Senior pupil on TV : MONITOR

5-down – Miller’s answer? : DUSTY

6-down – Church sign in its response : CHAMELEON

7-down – He robs one in the street, which is a facer : MUGGER

8-down – Grand place for a bank account! : CAYMAN

14-down – School kids walking promise subsequent meeting with … : CROCODILE

16-down – … everyone a prince at heart : ALLIGATOR

18-down – Northern lingua franca making hammer superfluous? : NAILGUN

19-down – Kick-off time and the party has tediously to continue : KOMODO

20-down – Girl died with cry of triumph during immoral act : SIOBHAN

21-down – It takes light years to analyse a number : PARSEC

23-down – Fireside game? : POKER

25-down – Held on to carbonised source of air : CLUNG

1-across – Church girl’s cup : CHALICE

5-across – Woman to summon return of old record : SHELLAC

10-across – Girl’s lost in network : GRID

11-across – Death’s head, for example, makes a riddler largely mum : SPHINXMOTH

12-across – See 25 : STREEP

13-across – Fish with no means of identifying coil : SOLENOID

14-across – Cheer for scented plant with underground source : ROOTSTOCK

16-across – Principals on the square avert danger with gold : GRAND

17-across – Exclusive ice cream server : SCOOP

19-across – Pull from funnel set in ice : INFLUENCE

23-across – Break a lung : BREATHER

24-across – Hunter finding game with stick : NIMROD

26-across – As well over in the ivory cleaner : TOOTHPASTE

27-across – Debauchee inclined to be a gatherer : RAKE

28-across – Leading light let out to give alarm : STARTLE

29-across – Put air into home at boring point : INFLATE

2-down – Beginning of Hamlet’s speech not finished by friend : HORATIO

3-down – See 16 : LODGE

4-down – 9’s outside mine where there’s no main drainage : CESSPIT

6-down – Name for spinach and lettuce : HANDLE

7-down – The watch : LEMONTREE

8-down – Insectivorous insect with no name eating the larger insects initially : ANTLION

9-down – Board meetings for 16s : CHESSCONGRESS

15-down – Company director’s ketch? : TWOMASTER

18-down – Cavil – there’s nothing right with cover for wheels : CARPOOT

20-down – Light left before fleet : LANTERN

21-down – Davy had no time for architectural ornament : CROCKET

22-down – Fellow on line displays nonconformity : CHAPEL

25-down – Actor’s line in film studios covered by politician : MERYL