Daily Answers

1-across – Booth is keen to help knock out variation : TELEPHONEKIOSK

9-across – Wildly erring as chasing round, needing this – could be personal : ORGANISER

10-across – Main body in government or society : TORSO

11-across – Leave bird, understood? : GOTIT

12-across – Greek leader soon holds willing number : AGAMEMNON

13-across – Vibrating outside line in tiresome style : TRYINGLY

14-across – Take weapons from girl and take into boy : DISARM

17-across – Release from striking by permit : OUTLET

19-across – Poet and boxer Benn not initially included : TENNYSON

22-across – Bird needs a fight to have fun : LARKABOUT

24-across – Administration taking notes : STAFF

25-across – V is for Volunteers in prospect : VISTA

26-across – Posh gear for prisoner outside a capital : CAPARISON

27-across – Left like godmother at christening? : HOLDINGTHEBABY

1-down – See 6 : THOUGHTSOFLOVE

2-down – See 6 : LIGHTLY

3-down – Contrition demands about 1-10 coins : PENITENCE

4-down – What stops one making Close bat? : OBSTACLE

5-down – 4 to listener makes spike get bigger : EARWAX

6-down – Funny thing afoot – shy vernal youths go contemplating girls: Thus : INTHE

7-down – See 6 : SPRINGA

8-down – See 6 : YOUNGMANSFANCY

15-down – No charge for accommodation for Yeats? : INNISFREE

16-down – Fellow at location of eruption? : HEATSPOT

18-down – See 6 : TURNSTO

20-down – New as new as new city : SWANSEA

21-down – Heard pair preserve bird : TOUCAN

23-down – Prize for one in chancery? : AWARD

1-across – Songs about academic retiring from the council : SYNODAL

5-across – Nazi embracing 2 with warmth : HOTNESS

9-across – Loutish altercation disheartened dandy : ROWDY

10-across – Book about a Teletubby, one with a musical instrument : BALALAIKA

11-across – Legendary thief’s incomplete course covering corrosion : PROCRUSTES

12-across – Scratch wild calling, say? : CARD

14-across – Almighty gasp and 6er catches cold : PANTOCRATOR

18-across – She takes care of reporters swallowing nonsense about investigator : PROTECTRESS

21-across – Novel sequence of Returning Officers : SAGA

22-across – 1 down said to get wasted by waster : DISSIPATER

25-across – See 8 : DEVIATION

26-across – Similative drunk in a casino composed Genius : ISAAC

27-across – Killer trapping 2 in hold : CONTAIN

28-across – Pardon encompassing 2’s thingamajig : WHATNOT

1-down – Mark of punishment or promotion : STRIPE

2-down – See 26 : NEWTON

3-down – Passing visitor upset tray in The Plough : DAYTRIPPER

4-down – Behold Elizabeth’s truncated subdivisions! : LOBES

5-down – Lily takes fourth rider’s train from York to Spain : HELLEBORE

6-down – Stimulant keeping student up for lecture : TALK

7-down – 21 cut short by unpleasant tendency to curve downward : EPINASTY

8-down – It measures dispersion of varied data in dots : STANDARD

13-down – Fly flag, bearing south before hailstorm : DROSOPHILA

15-down – Sister catches musicians devouring one sort of square meal, perhaps : NUTRITION

16-down – Bugger! Compiler interrupts 21 in fits : EPISODIC

17-down – Redeemed 4 in fake 2 : FORGIVEN

19-down – Purify the race : STRAIN

20-down – Knitwear for Icelandic extremists breaking revolutionary’s heart : TRICOT

23-down – Cyst is elevated to power : SINEW

24-down – Priest beheaded beast : LAMA

8-across – Walker round house follows doctor all the way : WHOLEHOG

9-across – See 1 : FORTEA

10-across – Contributor to crossword finds alternative to reason at its top : RHYMER

11-across – Patterns used in church : TRANSEPT

12-across – Ideal spot for the dentist : EDEN

13-across – Would-be re-purchaser of books – ___ like a ___ in bleak midwinter : WATERSTONE

15-across – Fliers and swimmers don’t seem respectable : RAFFISH

16-across – End of Jewish sentence for a female re-admitted : ALREADY

18-across – Putting into post not as good as expected, dismissing : APPOINTING

19-across – Things combined to express accusation of folly : UNIT

20-across – Search noisily around water for cause of tsunami : SEAQUAKE

22-across – See 1 : TRIFLE

23-across – It’s drawn from the bar : BREATH

24-across – Is odd room at pub the same shape? : ISOMORPH

1-down – Howdah dissipated derisive sound, bagatelle before a strong piece : WHOHADRASPBERRY

2-down – See 3 : OLDMANOFTORQUAY

3-down – The first plate from Alrewas, an almond cocktail, at ground level on alternative stage : THEREWASAN

4-down – Stir a fool 9, perhaps : AGITATE

5-down – Mercian’s present sound : OFFA

6-down – Problem arising among Christian symbols – make fateful decision : CROSSTHERUBICON

7-down – Philosophies : HEOPENEDHISLIPS

14-down – Downward movement concerning diplomatic staff : RELEGATION

17-down – It’s very cold in S-Spain : SIBERIA

21-down – Bill’s the man that’s suffering : ACHE

4-across – What adds up to three months? : SUMMER

6-across – Ultimately, mountaineers given their ultimate challenge – the most demanding : SEVEREST

9-across – Single bag in a state at top of the shop : NINETY

10-across – Russian plane drops from the sky onto first of enemies, proving major headache : MIGRAINE

11-across – Mouth filled with tossed salad in sauce : HOLLANDAISE

15-across – Splits, as credentials needed to enter sleazy bars : DIVIDES

17-across – It takes time, note, to go over again : ITERATE

18-across – Wind among fog and ice : COMINGOFAGE

22-across – Party on the fringes of black party : DINKYDOO

23-across – Dog docks domestic rival – doctor’s orders : CANINE

24-across – Died in captivity, protected by amphibian the wrong way : TWODOZEN

25-across – A rapacious desire? Yes! : AGREED

1-down – Bed a girl : BERTHA

2-down – The sharpness of crossword clues : DEFINITION

3-down – Seconds away from ram heading for man in river : DEARIEME

4-down – Take to court, claiming partners swindled in 4 across put-up job? : SUNSHADE

5-down – Wild animal takes half of meat : MANALIVE

7-down – No waiter stands up to pour out : EMIT

8-down – Getting in between, as small and cute : TWEE

12-down – Medic’s beginning to inject into side below rumbling gut : DISEMBOWEL

13-down – Reason why always going to exist without a raising of duty : LAXATIVE

14-down – Clergyman never prepared to be embraced by cardinal : REVEREND

16-down – Formal wear with green front : DICKYBOW

19-down – Mandarin duck variety : ORANGE

20-down – No waiter stands up? Correct! : EDIT

21-down – Jack Straw was once demanding facts : INFO

1-across – See 4 : TAKENATTHEFLOOD

9-across – Working well with fence – if it works : EFFICIENT

10-across – See 4 : WHICH

11-across – See 4 : FORTUNE

12-across – Glance at metal girder : EYEBEAM

13-across – Friday’s little ones missing mount : IDA

14-across – Laurel’s first got into supreme predicament without point : AIMLESS

17-across – Diamonds said wrongly in scorn : DISDAIN

19-across – Australian spider left behind : REDBACK

22-across – Inflamed and awfully sore externally behind the altar : REREDOS

24-across – Wish I hadn’t a plant? : RUE

25-across – Wearing specs, perhaps, have debts and finish back inside : OWLLIKE

26-across – Wise guy’s concession to some of the past : SOPHIST

28-across – One in prison has corn : MAIZE

29-across – See 4 : LEADSONTO

30-across – Nearly half the tennis in two northeastern forms : NINENINETEENTHS

1-down – See 4 : THEAFFAIRSOFMEN

2-down – Unbeliever gets little change from Indian mystic : KAFIR

3-down – Clue not used for bat : NOCTULE

4-down – Araucaria in May, reportedly tied in with dynamite in Welsh river, displays sign about fellow that volunteers knowledge, having chewed the fat with John Duke: Shed holds a medal for musical composition: let’s go! : THEREIS

5-down – Tennis player entertains the rash guy : HOTHEAD

6-down – Paucity of new characters in heraldic form : FEWNESS

7-down – Cart sinful love up to source of oil : OLIVEYARD

8-down – Denials of personality, hence Hain is not amused : DEHUMANISATIONS

15-down – Dinner without starter: meat eater gets thin round cut : MEDALLION

16-down – Give cards, mostly in pouch : SAC

18-down – Diamonds are cold : ICE

20-down – See 4 : ATIDEIN

21-down – Sovereign for £1,000 in spirit for citadel : KREMLIN

22-down – Second half beginning with the others’ skill : RESTART

23-down – Tear off toes in retort : RIPOSTE

27-down – Pub with sex appeal, n’est ce pas? : INNIT