Daily Answers

8-across – It’s hard to hit aggressive person carrying empty syringe with drug : BULLSEYE

9-across – Horrid village in Hertfordshire : NASTY

10-across – Gawp in Northumberland : OGLE

11-across – Artist claiming newspaper and book fabrications : HALFTRUTHS

12-across – Former England football manager bearing critical assessment : REVIEW

14-across – Making comeback, shoot to get point in game : NINEPINS

15-across – Record one knock : EPITAPH

17-across – Entrance each way obstructs vindictive woman : BEWITCH

20-across – Happy to see first of crooks put before a heartless judge : CAREFREE

22-across – Moose head the wrong way round in North Lanarkshire : BONKLE

23-across – Wide region cultivated used to be virtually for Alsace farmer : WINEGROWER

24-across – Hops associated with a place in Devon … : BEER

25-across – … and this one in Nottinghamshire : BUNNY

26-across – Gas followed by a gas endlessly in babies : NEONATAL

1-down – Man in hole under brown, smelly pile : DUNGHEAP

2-down – The sky may be low : BLUE

3-down – North Yorkshire village formerly covered by broadcast : SEXHOW

4-down – Mix contains article from Madrid in Worcestershire : BELLEND

5-down – Popular opinion, for example : INSTANCE

6-down – Theory attaching potassium compound to nitrogen : ASSUMPTION

7-down – Crusher, however, disembowelled in ring, shortly : PYTHON

13-down – See 22 : INTHEBEANS

16-down – Paints left above 24 downs : PORTRAYS

18-down – What may have contained Frenchman going the wrong way? : CULDESAC

19-down – The Guardian given nasal tone in East Riding village : WETWANG

21-down – A novel smell, widespread : AKIMBO

22-down – Leicestershire village, Hari Dickcots? : BARTON

24-down – Smile offering support : BEAM

8-across – Deceive the world by letter : DOORBELL

9-across – Son of 26 player : TOMTOM

10-across – An empty award : OBOE

11-across – Work to conceal about a hundred Romanian notes : OPHICLEIDE

12-across – Fraudulent transaction : FIDDLE

14-across – Elvis’ car crash : CLAVIERS

15-across – Game to the people of 23 : WHISTLE

17-across – Mary’s lost crew : CELESTE

20-across – At home amid blood : CLARINET

22-across – Spot the lady : ZITHER

23-across – Cor! : FRENCHHORN

24-across – Some talk of potato : TUBA

25-across – 12 : VIOLIN

26-across – Seed in sheets of glass : PANPIPES

1-down – It’s stupid to hoot at mistake when your head’s in it : BOOBYISH

2-down – Out of prison without payment : FREE

3-down – Plead for a person to leave : BEGONE

4-down – Contrive to do chalk portrait of experienced journalist? : OLDHACK

5-down – The usual help said to be for defence in the West : STOCKADE

6-down – The setter’s where the tympanum is, providing an obstacle : IMPEDIMENT

7-down – International flower scene? : BORDER

13-down – Poor girl student has no time to grieve : DISGRUNTLE

16-down – More than four inches, as penned? : LONGHAND

18-down – I’m afraid I’ll break the circuit : TREMBLER

19-down – Uncooperative agent holds up the left : STROPPY

21-down – Was the poet a home bird? : LARKIN

22-down – Tales of a Buddhist seraglio? : ZENANA

24-down – Model and success could be identical : TWIN

1-across – See 8 : SHEWAS

4-across – See 8 : HONEST

9-across – The father of Waterloo? : ABBA

10-across – Seed spilling, see! His need disturbed the Church : DEHISCENCE

11-across – Two-man quarry : VICTIM

12-across – Morse’s menage backing code with stratagems : WALRUSES

13-across – Stardust is seen in some scanner by Protestant : CALVINIST

15-across – See 8 : MANS

16-across – Poet speaking of Psyche : OVID

17-across – Ruthless order to setter on Korean diet? : DOGEATDOG

21-across – Carter’s wit, hopeless case : WAGGONER

22-across – Wholly enthusiastic without books : INTOTO

24-across – ie sloop hut constructed for steersman’s comfort : PILOTHOUSE

25-across – See 8 : GAME

26-across – Amazon in retreat from the Old Man’s island : HOYDEN

27-across – Abraham’s tomb here in the Bronx : HEBRON

1-down – The Severn Bore’s starting as rain falls around : SABRINA

2-down – Record turn in the lunar cycle : EPACT

3-down – Potentially bad sign for the corporation : ABDOMEN

5-down – Volatile girl one grabs in the market! : ONSALE

6-down – Agent surviving without pre-euro currency : EXECUTANT

7-down – They admit mates to the masters’ circle : TICKETS

8-down – Posh, his vice was her misfortune. That b__ song a mama’s woe? C-could be! : SHEWASPOORBUT

14-down – Liberal taken in by pointless bloody self-approbation : VAINGLORY

16-down – See 8 : OFARICH

18-down – No harm in looking through it? On the contrary! : EVILEYE

19-down – Seat raised bearing a device : OTTOMAN

20-down – Remove Oxford United? No, he’s reunited! : UNSHOE

23-down – Woods imitated at Harfleur? : TIGER

11-across – : UNBONNET

12-across – : PHILIPS

13-across – : RHEA

14-across – : NOUS

15-across – : CHARLOTTE

16-across – : DEIFIC

17-across – : IRONWOOD

18-across – : EDDIC

21-across – : FRANCK

22-across – : VERB

24-across – : LUCAS

26-across – : LORDROWTON

29-across – : ELIZABETH

32-across – : HURST

33-across – : CATO

35-across – : ROSS

36-across – : NIECE

37-across – : OVERTHROW

38-across – : SIRWILLIAM

39-across – : DARCY

41-across – : MILL

43-across – : APHONY

46-across – : ENROL

47-across – : MARYJANE

49-across – : LYDIAN

51-across – : GEORGIANA

53-across – : COLD

54-across – : LARA

55-across – : CHAPLIN

56-across – : TRAINING

1-down – : INCOURSE

2-down – : TOCSIN

3-down – : INSCROLL

4-down – : STRAND

5-down – : APPLIERS

6-down – : TINT

7-down – : RIME

8-down – : USED

9-down – : TROIKA

10-down – : HELIAC

19-down – : DELPHI

20-down – : CARDRIVER

21-down – : FORSTER

23-down – : BUZZSAW

25-down – : CATHERINE

27-down – : WICKHAM

28-down – : OUTDO

30-down – : LAOZI

31-down – : BINGLEY

34-down – : SEAMER

39-down – : DILIGENT

40-down – : YARRAMAN

42-down – : LANDLINE

44-down – : PAYDAY

45-down – : ODIHAM

47-down – : MEANTO

48-down – : JOCUND

50-down – : NICE

51-down – : GEAR

52-down – : OILY

1-across – Brassiere holds this disruption! : BUSTUP

4-across – Title for Cabinet Minister and companion: one’s heard them listening in? : RHONCHI

9-across – Transsexuals kept in at flat : APARTMENT

10-across – I go touring city : TURIN

11-across – Advanced strike on the City : HITEC

12-across – Drake often seen here once in N5 in flight : ONTHEWING

13-across – Minima for bank book A – or it’s going bust : RESERVE

15-across – : RATIOS

17-across – Some relaxation in store – for 8? : RETAIL

19-across – : THERAPY

22-across – Henry’s bucket wouldn’t, but Liza’s advice did : HOLDWATER

24-across – That is wonderful, but the Guardian is about to be in debt : WOWEE

26-across – Grass is affected by this and so tense : ERGOT

27-across – One across heard to include North/South river plant : AARONSROD

28-across – Offa, perhaps, named French actress : DITCHER

29-across – One throwing cards in case : FOLDER

1-down – Left tanner outside for gossip : BLATHER

2-down – Begin pavement pictures? : START

3-down – Cunningly-placed curari bait’s taken out bee hives : URTICARIA

4-down – It turns down, but it could turn up : ROTATOR

5-down – See 21 : OFTHE

6-down – Vehicle, one wanderin” around for the order for meat-eaters : CARNIVORA

7-down – See 21 : ISNIGH

8-down – I’m old and grey, having taken a couple of tabs long ago : EEYORE

14-down – Help to explain our crossword compiler’s clue : SHEDLIGHT

16-down – Korean art we took and touched up : TAEKWONDO

18-down – Reluctant to broadcast Disraeli’s novel : LOTHAIR

19-down – He stands the charge in the storeroom : TORERO

20-down – One giving in years, one more senior : YIELDER

21-down – How old hi-fi strengthened beat? Armageddon outa here! : THEEND

23-down – I’ll tell you when to observe nightingales : WATCH

25-down – See 21 : WORLD