Daily Answers

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

1-across – So it doesn’t cost the earth! : DIRTCHEAP

6-across – Articles about court proceedings : ACTA

10-across – Where Madame de Staël received her coiffeur, or vice versa? : SALON

11-across – Mortified after Switzerland somehow gained king : CHAGRINED

12-across – Bill Shakespeare’s imbibing one drink : BACARDI

13-across – The Queen’s speech to some of her people : ENGLISH

14-across – Erstwhile 27’s words sadly sum up the trend RN had among thy sailor boys : NOTHINGBUTRUM

17-across – See 14 : SODOMYPRAYERS

21-across – Question rejection of French sweetener refined with oak : QUERCUS

22-across – Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of carolus : OSCULAR

24-across – Americans accepting leave in Spain, or here in France : AQUITAINE

25-across – Black race characters turning bitter : ACERB

26-across – See 14 : LASH

27-across – Sir Joseph Porter was ordering list starboard during wet crossing : FIRSTLORD

1-down – Refuse to accept these? On the contrary! : DUSTBINS

2-down – Widow hasn’t time for Remembrance of Things Past : RELIC

3-down – Advise against treatment of direct action: an abomination : CONTRAINDICATE

4-down – Topped attractive work of art : ETCHING

5-down – Level achieved at entering appeal, you say : PLATEAU

7-down – One gaining assurance from prisoner: I’m free for rehabilitation! : CONFIRMEE

8-down – See 14 : ANDTHE

9-down – Choir agent rang changes with an air from the Vatican : GREGORIANCHANT

15-down – Making society debut, sat with with one’s food inspectors : TASTEBUDS

16-down – Blamed when journalist swallowed copy : ASCRIBED

18-down – The old woman’s pet dog : MASTIFF

19-down – Initiate one into mole catching! : PIONEER

20-down – Old American wife will be heard to yell : SQUALL

23-down – Skipper’s direction leading to some remote, illicit uprising : LIETO

8-across – : DELEGATE

9-across – : NKOMO

10-across – : RHEA

11-across – : BOMBAYDUCK

12-across – : QUELEA

14-across – : CHEYENNE

15-across – : VEINOUS

17-across – : JACKDAW

20-across – : FOLLICLE

22-across – : MARTIN

23-across – : SANDERLING

24-across – : KITE

25-across – : GREBE

26-across – : EPISODIC

1-down – : HENHOUSE

2-down – : XEMA

3-down – : ZAMBIA

4-down – : PETMICE

5-down – : INCAMERA

6-down – : WOODPECKER

7-down – : TOUCAN

13-down – : LANDLADIES

16-down – : UNCURBED

18-down – : AVIATRIX

19-down – : YEZIDEE

21-down – : ORANGE

22-down – : MAGPIE

24-down – : KNOT

1-across – Man’s cover of limb? : GARMENT

5-across – Moor’s 1 across to stream round us : BURNOUS

9-across – One across the border’s 1 across : ASCOT

10-across – Colour bar on bearing 1 across : REDINGOTE

11-across – Rigged up portion for 1 across : POURPOINT

12-across – Halo on St Benets 1 across : LOONS

13-across – 1 across that’s loose change : SHIFT

15-across – 1 across near to community carrying little weight : NIGHTGOWN

18-across – Mousey witness to taunt about 1 across : DUNGAREES

19-across – 1 across for birds : DUCKS

21-across – Dock liner to vessel’s 1 across : SLOPS

23-across – 1 across in which a coarse soldier’s fitted out? : GARIBALDI

25-across – Woolly cap or a Ted’s 1 across : DRAPECOAT

26-across – Go round 1 across : SKIRT

27-across – Rained slightly on starting point for 1 across : SPATTEE

28-across – Curse about the limits of 1 across : SWEATER

1-down – Whale’s lightweight discharge : GRAMPUS

2-down – Cutting off sound and corrupting influence that’s uplifting? : RECLUSION

3-down – Preclude short bearing in wire, perhaps : ESTOP

4-down – Delay joining in rat race : TARRIANCE

5-down – Wait a while : BIDET

6-down – Deleting r from curly : RINGLETED

7-down – Nils bound book with decorative strip : OVOLO

8-down – Relative hurries when followed by it : STEPSON

14-down – Fleeting rains splashed in shelter : TRANSIENT

16-down – Way fish swallows, it’s painful to stomach : GASTRITIS

17-down – For example, diviner eye doctor keeps cut ends apart : OCCULTIST

18-down – Turfs round a wheeled seat : DOSADOS

20-down – Model induces king to hurry about : SKITTER

22-down – Part of tomahawk found in Nebraska : OMAHA

23-down – Fumble for more than a G-string? : GROPE

24-down – Meantime kept beat : BASTE