Daily Answers

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

9-across – See 14 : LEAUTIFUL

10-across – I’m surprised its main resident’s number is 6660? : IELLO

11-across – Wild animal audibly entering forest here : CAIGA

12-across – See 14 : AGAINSTME

13-across – Rich area could do with calling : MAYFAIR

14-across – Song requesting fair and touching conditions for relationship? : IFISAID

17-across – Religious leader detailing talk to Cockneys : RABBI

19-across – Petition for head of employment to be arrested? : SUE

20-across – Inter Milan’s back showing sentimentality going forward : TWEEN

21-across – See 14 : YOUHADA

22-across – Dessert returned, we hear, hot stuff : BAKLAVA

24-across – See 14 : YOUHOLDIT

26-across – Adult locked up, say, for part of flight : STAIR

28-across – Relatives, boundless, free : UNTIE

29-across – See 14 : BODYWOULD

1-down – Rather unconvincing description of anorexic patient : CLIC

2-down – Incestuous song? : FAMILY

3-down – Rising star leading vessel to a piece of poetry : OTTAVARIMA

4-down – See 2 : AFFAIR

5-down – Trifle 1 in escape : FLEABITE

6-down – See 1 : LIIN

7-down – Flourished 1 in competition : FLATRACE

8-down – See 24 : MOVE

13-down – Take a wife for Shakespeare indeed! … : MARRY

15-down – … description of argument transformed by Keats to wit : ITTAKESTWO

16-down – She’s Italian, and no mistake : DONNA

18-down – In periods what French wine features on opening : BOUQUETS

19-down – Merely looks on supports : STANDSBY

22-down – Happen to put money down on fish : BETIDE

23-down – Bill using public transport? You can count on it : ABACUS

24-down – I’ve been waiting for reply from rival on board : YOUR

25-down – Set aside old mistake – see about it : OVER

27-down – See 25 : RIDE

1-across – Please see Special Instructions for clues : JIGSAWPUZZLE

8-across – : OLDWOLF

9-across – : UNSTUCK

11-across – : SKIMMED

12-across – : FIFTIES

13-across – : QUEST

14-across – : VERYLIGHT

16-across – : EXHIBITED

19-across – : DIXIE

21-across – : TORTONI

23-across – : MARINER

24-across – : YATTERS

25-across – : NEIGHED

26-across – : WORDLESSNESS

1-down – : JUDAISE

2-down – : GROMMET

3-down – : AFFIDAVIT

4-down – : PLUFF

5-down – : ZESTFUL

6-down – : LAUDING

7-down – : CONSEQUENTLY

10-down – : KISSTHEBRIDE

15-down – : RUDIMENTS

17-down – : HORATIO

18-down – : BOOKEND

19-down – : DORMICE

20-down – : XANTHUS

22-down – : ISSUE