Daily Answers

1-across – Welsh town archbishop enters further down the hill : LLANGOWER

6-across – Find backward soldier getting stuck into afters : DIGUP

9-across – Going on which 12 have no limits : WITHOUTSTOPPING

10-across – Three 21s back home for Nutkin? : YARD

11-across – Aboard craft, depart with Jason, ultimately seeking gold? I did : ARGONAUT

14-across – Section of flyover : VERMIFORM

15-across – Prince arrived before church deserted : AMEER

16-across – Provide for grub, having no support : CATER

18-across – Affected thespian has nothing in tights : PANTIHOSE

20-across – Question Time is shattering a mystical belief : QUIETISM

21-across – Pay for ex-Labour leader : FOOT

25-across – Characters emerging from lair in cloud take me to your leader : EDITORIALCOLUMN

26-across – Hot drink, perhaps, back of tabloid covers : NEGUS

27-across – Running errand with one terribly illiterate : NONREADER

1-down – Baseline match figures produced by him? : LOWRY

2-down – One less retailer, maybe, subject to my changes? : ALTERER

3-down – Old song composed enthralling sad trivia bod : GOOD

4-down – Mercifully unlikely to get lost on passing round one : WITH

5-down – Map of secluded place for future consideration? : RETIREMENT

6-down – As exemplified by Spassky offering Fischer a draw? : DIPLOMATIC

7-down – Forbidding a single sneer : GRIMACE

8-down – Dugout location : PAGETHREE

12-down – See 3 : VIBRATIONS

13-down – See 4 : COMPASSION

14-down – Madam’s stand-in at the Palace? : VICEQUEEN

17-down – Major rebellion in the pool, so to speak? : TAIPING

19-down – Pompous illegal member of ‘unt admits corruption : OROTUND

22-down – Drift in continent enormous : TENOR

23-down – See 5 : PLAN

24-down – See 6 : MOVE

9-across – Revolutionary nature led by conservative management? : UNALTERED

10-across – Report of the blooming ground effect : FLOUR

11-across – Term of endearment like American old hat : PETASUS

12-across – See 4 : SPROUTS

13-across – Raptor in loughs : ERNE

14-across – God’s said to be very upset : DEVASTATED

16-across – Standard destructive to soul and full of danger : PARLOUS

17-across – Hick’s knock – monarch batting : BUMPKIN

19-across – Job for an army? : OCCUPATION

22-across – Group with interest in Pablo Casals : BLOC

24-across – Form of satellite? No lie, that’s right : TELSTAR

25-across – Chinese food for the German dish : CHOWDER

26-across – Scottish town to expose in the news : NAIRN

27-across – Party for king of Italy in case related to 20 10, say : CALABRESE

1-down – Curl up with girl copper in boots, weird relative of 27 : PURPLESPROUTING

2-down – At speed needing a lot of energy and zip? : FASTENER

3-down – Hide sacred tree? : STASH

4-down – The EU is developing in relation to 27 : BRUSSELS

5-down – Poem by fool returning to port : ODESSA

6-down – A lot of trees in Paris to which setter took himself previously : AFORETIME

7-down – Resistant to decay when it envelops vehicle : ROBUST

8-down – I damage vehicle kept by John and Jimmy, national leader : PRESIDENTCARTER

15-down – Able to take part in race for books : COMPETENT

17-down – See 1 : BROCCOLI

18-down – It takes a plover to destroy a muntjak : KILLDEER

20-down – Hardy : COLLIE

21-down – Hour in second, hour in second, hour in second : THRICE

23-down – Try to influence student on ‘orse? : LOBBY

9-across – One distanced from decorative weaving, eccentrically performed : OVERACTED

10-across – 12 I think is superb : IRATE

11-across – Order a drink, knocking a bit back, having had the bottle : DARED

12-across – This rope keeps ship in line : CROSSWORD

13-across – 12 king of Norway back on the buzzer : BEEFALO

14-across – Male who may charge to follow tenacious type : BULLDOG

17-across – Unpleasant type retired over 12, as opposed to 28 : TIGON

19-across – Bloody 12! : RED

20-across – Suppose pub out of drink : GUESS

21-across – Long way back, however, round winding road : YEARDOT

22-across – Guardian gets into 12? : TANGELO

24-across – Moment taken to delete north in 26 signals : MORSECODE

26-across – Run old transport, not reaching home : EXTRA

28-across – 12 51 land, not many : LIGER

29-across – 12 disguising its centre : INTERSECT

1-down – 12 costing an old penny? : FORD

2-down – 12 stuff’s received English : GEORGE

3-down – Got through a lot of work and read her novel : HARDEARNED

4-down – Minor injuries turning up supported by firm plaster : STUCCO

5-down – Commercials or plot made into a film : ADSORBED

6-down – 12 some think is superb : KISS

7-down – Vessel providing shelter for terribly old pet : CANOODLE

8-down – Metal the most important part : LEAD

13-down – Nuts dry in tree : BATTY

15-down – 12 began to be converted into vehicle : LOGANBERRY

16-down – Doctrine in spirit is a contrivance : GISMO

18-down – Top Gear, where juvenile presenter finally breaks into jokes : GLADRAGS

19-down – To equip with new parts, strong lever ultimately has to lift it : RETROFIT

22-down – Figure disappeared through borders of Tuscany : TWENTY

23-down – Book 3’s out : ESTHER

24-down – 12 on foot : MULE

25-down – King’s heading to the bottom – lower rank : EARL

27-down – Singer for whom composer knows no limits : ALTO

9-across – Merops is the son of a Welshman with love for America : APIVOROUS

10-across – Could be Barbara, but if 20 : SANTA

11-across – End of the matter invaded by males : EPHESUS

12-across – One giving birth to insect : ADAMANT

13-across – Kin to waterproof in which to paint : OILS

14-across – Ruth absent from such : HARDBITTEN

15-across – One 23 shaken by banshee : HASBEEN

17-across – Insert first section of 26’s film subject : SERVANT

19-across – No streaky game? : BACKGAMMON

22-across – First red card in Indonesia : ACEH

23-across – The unfinished, unbegun legal judgments either side of the week : THATWAS

24-across – Knowing one’s stuff – but when shall I do the downs? : CLUEDUP

26-across – Mislay unknown director : LOSEY

27-across – Issue featuring men smitten with Greece : EMERGENCE

1-down – Have a little drink, man! Courage! Get addicted! : TAKETOTHEBOTTLE

2-down – Man commonly said to be so when wearing kilt? : NICHOLAS

3-down – Girl about 13 : LOIS

4-down – Director of The Apple Cart? : COXSWAIN

5-down – Fascist worthy encircles south German forest : OSWALD

6-down – Quarters sound more friendly where branches are trained : ESPALIER

7-down – The truth is what happens below : INFACT

8-down – Spread white paint on gap for such an 18 : WAITINGTOHAPPEN

16-down – Side roads for inserting words? : EDGEWAYS

17-down – Hot day for reptile turning into female on river : SCORCHER

18-down – 26’s work by 2 21: who he is shows in how he talks : ACCIDENT

20-down – Injurious sounding part of sentence : CLAUSE

21-down – See 5 : MOSLEY

25-down – Impulse for our generation : URGE

1-across – Original S with martyr close to martyry : ALBANY

4-across – Original S reportedly no longer flying : CONCORD

9-across – This pattern flattens fields in the US : GRIDIRONS

10-across – 18th S – don’t get out make-up : BATON

11-across – Dip falling sharply : STEEP

12-across – English mother, mother arising : EMANATIVE

13-across – Original S finally losing way, soldier claimed : ATLANTA

15-across – 28th S car : AUSTIN

17-across – One’s stirring a portion of Italian – the macaroni : ANTHEM

19-across – Girl has to go over time : BRIDGET

22-across – Bird with separate crest : PARTRIDGE

24-across – Smack son punching sweet man? : TASTE

26-across – Peaceful individual keeping element of nuclear reactor behind back : HINDU

27-across – Lesser runner in last metre, collapsing : STREAMLET

28-across – The check contained by it : THEREIN

29-across – Father’s almond confection : OLDMAN

1-down – 23rd S, great area : AUGUSTA

2-down – 43rd S, those who will be themselves, we hear? : BOISE

3-down – Catch a drink – one’s hammered : NAILPUNCH

4-down – One animal eats another with a Neapolitan ice cream : CASSATA

5-down – Superb cake turned up in old African region : NUBIA

6-down – Getting on ain’t big, ain’t clever : OBTAINING

7-down – 38th S tragically no longer flying : DENVER

8-down – 34th S continued being upset about old African leader : TOPEKA

14-down – Far-reaching agricultural conclusion applied to farm : LONGRANGE

16-down – 32nd S – I’m no devil! : SAINTPAUL

18-down – 30th S – so sane is off? : MADISON

19-down – Black drug pusher unable to focus : BLEARY

20-down – Original S with flower on : TRENTON

21-down – In the lead, go for result : UPSHOT

23-down – See 10 : ROUGE

25-down – 33rd S has fair male : SALEM