Daily Answers

9-across – Land of composer entertaining fellow setter : ARGENTINE

10-across – Land – the Midi – for its year : SUDAN

11-across – Selective killing returned in kind, as maybe this would have it : ILLLUCK

12-across – Land of ours – weather English, too : UKRAINE

13-across – Land where people were addressed : YEMEN

14-across – Land, variant – Natal’s variant : TRANSVAAL

16-across – Nanny’s policy is to put flue underground where I and Salmon play : INTERVENTIONISM

19-across – Nice noises made by Brussels charlatans? : EUPHONIES

21-across – Land with activity on the other side : CONGO

22-across – Tool for prince’s use : PINCERS

23-across – Land of prohibition entering sign on pole : LEBANON

24-across – Victorian novelist and what to do with him, so to speak : READE

25-across – Drug : NEPENTHES

1-down – Goings on at home may, if I fell, change : FAMILYLIFE

2-down – A sticky object – that’s me – means one can be either too young or too old : AGELIMIT

3-down – Hospital worker, say, one after another : INTURN

4-down – See 14 : LINK

5-down – They come out from underground, given lift when poet’s about : DEBUTANTES

6-down – Telepathy leads to recipe with petrol to drink : ESPRESSO

7-down – A new identification for Currie? : EDWINA

8-down – 1 in 100? On the contrary, far less often : ONCE

14-down – Think about English girl in goal, first and last with supposed ancestor : THEMISSING

15-down – Table including a politician in the nude I attack personally : LAMPOONIST

17-down – Started again to write on love among climbing animals : REOPENED

18-down – One ninth’s infraction – leave car at Hackney pub : INNONTHE

20-down – Land of wordplay and inoculation : PUNJAB

21-down – Copper and singer changing 2 to 8, say : CUBING

22-down – See 18 : PARK

23-down – Opening for pen friend up in the far North : LAPP

1-across – 8’s thieves trapping birds, one caught, snared by Her Majesty : THEMUSICMAKERS

8-across – Romantic line in fashion making comeback : ELGAR

9-across – 8’s son dividing rivers : FALSTAFF

11-across – Instrument left to it, breaking short tool : ALTOSAX

12-across – Brisk movement leading man round two sharp corners east of South Carolina : SCHERZO

13-across – Half eat, then drink, then eat! : DIGIN

15-across – Way of talking about record’s image : DEPICTION

17-across – 8’s right – nothing is close to brass among wind : FROISSART

20-across – Leonard, one of the 1 acrosses, man in blue : COHEN

21-across – Oxygen capacity I set for the back of the head : OCCIPUT

23-across – University called to maintain resistance, though can’t do so? : UNARMED

25-across – A description here of 1 across, 9, 16 and 17? : PIECESOF

26-across – 25 2 dazzle : GLARE

27-across – Extras at the Edinburgh Festival? : FRINGEBENEFITS

1-down – enmark? Rest here : THELANDOFNOD

2-down – See 25 : EIGHT

3-down – Acts of rebellion America’s forcing through : UPRISINGS

4-down – Firmly set with home team up, sent outside : INFIXED

5-down – Drip surgery uses overhead : MILKSOP

6-down – Boat, or old chopper : KETCH

7-down – Overhaul regarding controversial habit again beginning to help : REFURBISH

10-down – Formal wear for a wedding, or for a funeral, we hear? : MORNINGDRESS

14-down – More surly, pained expression, one between royal father and daughter : GROUCHIER

16-down – 8’s male, single, clutched by girl endlessly : COCKAIGNE

18-down – Sweetheart is tempted to hug entertainer : ARTISTE

19-down – Time to put out sweet : TRUFFLE

22-down – Under great pressure, turning new nut : PECAN

24-down – Descartes’ considered conclusion passing through northern state to southern city : MIAMI

1-across – Lace re-worked in suit by couple having love and money without sex appeal : ACCELERATION

8-across – Russian plane attaining speed in a month : ANTONOV

9-across – Material beat : WORSTED

11-across – Commander getting information : GENERAL

12-across – Utopia in this time and place? : NOWHERE

13-across – Old man deprived of all these years : GRAND

14-across – Jersey etc, for primate slightly affected by smoke : CIGARILLO

16-across – State what Greenwich sounds like when inverted : TENNESSEE

19-across – Hide 106 balls? : COVER

21-across – Playing tie near course : AINTREE

23-across – Chess player heard to do what Humpty Dumpty did to friend – some egg! : TOPALOV

24-across – Moon-dweller’s destination, largely mistaken, backed by German setter : NORWICH

25-across – Tin treated for corrosion awaiting maturity, perhaps : INTRUST

26-across – See 11 : INTELLIGENCE

1-down – Bill gets skin disease reportedly from sea anemone : ACTINIA

2-down – American money, very little of, is focused : CENTRED

3-down – Mud in your eye coming up without a lot of speed for old dandy’s curls : LOVELOCKS

4-down – Tree sharing name with primate : ROWAN

5-down – Illegal bowler in controversy’s in the right : THROWER

6-down – Surprised at a mole having to do porridge : OATMEAL

7-down – In 26 gaga characters acquire camels etc : BAGGAGETRAIN

10-down – See 1 across : DUETOGRAVITY

15-down – Minimal clothing might be partly starred : GEESTRING

17-down – Ulster river in 12, not for the press : NONIRON

18-down – Queen finds river sternutatory : ERRHINE

19-down – Put Matthews in England team as winder : CAPSTAN

20-down – Affection returned by amazingly true bird : VULTURE

22-down – Solver’s in line for solvent : ETHYL

1-across – No 10, possibly, in revolt fiasco : SCREWUP

5-across – Music combination to depend on wearing underwear : BHANGRA

9-across – Member of religion cut short god’s thanks : RASTA

10-across – Saying entire political party needs energy : UTTERANCE

11-across – Shelled sea creature getting round in chipboard buggy : BRACHIOPOD

12-across – Marshland inhabitant repulsed beast with club : REED

14-across – Injured thumb tops caught in secateurs somehow revive : RESUSCITATE

18-across – Spoilsport legal person rotten about exercise : PARTYPOOPER

21-across – See 12 : MACE

22-across – Composed clue about cinema’s altered view of Church unity : ECUMENICAL

25-across – Word with Cherry, say, at first sign of the Channel: End of the line for Brummie? : NEWSTREET

26-across – Weller well before Davis? : SAMMY

27-across – Sign of otic injury? Keep to one side! : EARMARK

28-across – See 25 : STATION

1-down – Crashing bores holding court, finally flash on and off : STROBE

2-down – Cork, not for the first time, wraps drugs in material : RESEAL

3-down – Kept open by the alert, brave investigator : WEATHEREYE

4-down – The world’s a small place – moving out : PLUTO

5-down – Shakespearean character associated with drink and toast : BOTTOMSUP

6-down – Rockers possibly creamed off church melodies : AIRS

7-down – Sort of dark grey with bluish sheen not encountered in western girl : GUNMETAL

8-down – City of Lincoln and river: a sort of Eden : ABERDEEN

13-down – Cameron Isle is out of the Pacific island group : MICRONESIA

15-down – Vet unexpectedly puts dog’s name on bridle : SPOTCHECK

16-down – Sparkling wine medium discovered in chopped peanuts : SPUMANTE

17-down – PanAm’s top aircrew broken by commercial competition : PRICEWAR

19-down – Seafood dish from Monkey Island : SCAMPI

20-down – Sportingly ignore the rain when actors are performing? : PLAYON

23-down – Dull high school sort of lesson : MATHS

24-down – Portico ermine supplier shortened : STOA

8-across – Composer’s love for battle : BORODINO

9-across – See 3 : SCOUT

10-across – A cast that’s pale : ASHY

11-across – Heartless devil to record unknown science of ethics : DEONTOLOGY

12-across – Chinese leader holding mountain and river : MAMTOR

14-across – Leave sirens struggling to exhibit bloody nature : GORINESS

15-across – Son, child to Margery : SKIDDAW

17-across – Eating place chasing leader for soup plates : SCAFELL

20-across – Leave in counterfoil – it contains hogwash : SWILLTUB

22-across – Write The Return of the Past : PENDLE

23-across – Embezzlement is a gamble – don’t start! : PECULATION

24-across – Vicar has pawn on white king’s file : POPE

25-across – Trendy setting of Globe : INGLE

26-across – Tool with large eye and no head held by giant, approved ruler : GOODKING

1-down – Chine? : HOGSBACK

2-down – Award given to American city : TONY

3-down – One doing more good turns? : KINDER

4-down – See 25 : BOROUGH

5-down – Drug and drink taker – boy’s secret : ESOTERIC

6-down – Punkah for tranquillising supporter : COOLINGFAN

7-down – Coaches that may be easy : STAGES

13-down – A girls’ duet playing? What a bore! : TIDALSURGE

16-down – Edentate, one dropping editor to mix with artist : ANTEATER

18-down – Girl has some weight, being well padded : LILYPOND

19-down – Shorten a game? : ABRIDGE

21-down – I leave message for family : WREKIN

22-down – Wing tip dropped out of view : PINION

24-down – Fish after 17 : PIKE