Daily Answers

9-across – No retiree is bothered to try to stick to the course : ORIENTEER

10-across – 2’s champion without league : BLACK

11-across – Talk about when to get prose narratives : SAGAS

12-across – Not taking turns suddenly? : ALLATONCE

13-across – Novelist reportedly to draw up 2 : WARWICK

14-across – Paper around light 2 : GARLAND

17-across – 2’s double embracing ace : TWAIN

19-across – 2 helps make possible evolution : LEE

20-across – In a lather about yellow smalls displayed under skimpy tops : SUDSY

21-across – 2’s one-off grand opera in religious setting : HOLIDAY

22-across – Hampshire’s opener Chuck out just after getting 2 : HOUSTON

24-across – Support for musicians group meets resistance : BANDSTAND

26-across – 2’s female shortage : FLACK

28-across – 2’s mishit shot one dropped : SMITH

29-across – Just after that mobile phone? True : THEREUPON

1-down – 2’s angry, blowing top : ROSS

2-down – One who owns indicator with switched centre section : SINGER

3-down – Dig Susanne’s transformation : UNASSIGNED

4-down – US city novel, the saviour of many a couple? : NEWARK

5-down – Rock group ELO before chorus comes in : PROLOGUE

6-down – Touch up instrument : ABUT

7-down – Gets one unconscious? Denied! : GAINSAID

8-down – A temporary refuge for Charlie, the broadcaster on E : SKYE

13-down – One who curses in the company of outside caterers at first : WITCH

15-down – ER, in cryptic clue terms, prepared for a new deal? : RESHUFFLED

16-down – Senior member of group of twelve, last being replaced by last but one : DOYEN

18-down – Fantastic place down under – moving in at last : ATLANTIS

19-down – To engage in demolition is unprofessional and uncultivated : LAYWASTE

22-down – Builders’ labourers, having shortened house, mend cracks : HODMEN

23-down – Full of hidden dangers, having a big mouth? : TRAPPY

24-down – 2’s right out of cleaner : BUSH

25-down – Area of London : SOHO

27-down – 2 dashed off among the top performers : KING

8-across – Smoke out the President, 11 to 25 : KEMOSABE

9-across – See 18 : SPEAK

10-across – See 18 : WITH

11-across – 18 doing good single movement between sides : LONERANGER

12-across – See 18 : TONGUE

14-across – Not knowing it’s turning out nice in the home? : NESCIENT

15-across – Make declaration about convulsions, however confined : TESTIFY

17-across – Bird of prey taking my sea bird with a double heart? : GOSHAWK

20-across – What about Napoleon accepting blame for inscription? : EPIGRAPH

22-across – Go-between for me, so South American agents dash : FASCIA

23-across – As 11 urged: Why I avail horse – for getting around : HIHOSILVER

24-across – : AXES

25-across – Leader of tribe now aware of 11’s sidekick : TONTO

26-across – Oh, for a break! A time one collapsed at La Scala : OPERAHAT

1-down – Artist needing to make bed among exclusive American people : SEMINOLE

2-down – Bear witness to Robin’s exploits and half show contempt : POOH

3-down – Magistrate and bachelor: I 9 10 22down 12 : BAILIE

4-down – One of a number of popes taking pride in the family? : LEONINE

5-down – Say nothing after exchange of sex tips – result of hot and steamy squeezing? : ESPRESSO

6-down – Media for advertising how Spooner’s days ended in Rhone city? : NEONLIGHTS

7-down – Glimpsed English and French kings splitting partition : SKREEN

13-down – : GOTOGROUND

16-down – One-time press cub taken in by sweet tart : FLATIRON

18-down – : WHITEMAN

19-down – Setter has hot turns in bed, needing cloth : CHEVIOT

21-down – Tip of toe indicated details – what to find at 90 degrees? : POINTE

22-down – See 18 : FORKED

24-down – See 23 : AWAY

8-across – Awkwardly situated home for relation without right : INBOTHER

9-across – Nasty note backed by notes of liability : ODIOUS

10-across – Divisions reported by one of the 21 : FAWKES

11-across – Perpetrator of 4 was consumer after a job : APOSTATE

12-across – 10 and co.’s ground : PLOT

13-across – Angled by racket that’s angered royal circle : CROSSCOURT

15-across – Painter on the fiddle didn’t finish food : RAVIOLI

16-across – Women without their Institute ignored, beaten and abused : WRONGED

18-across – Left in Yorkshire town, fruit may be past it : SELLBYDATE

19-across – Not a 1 thing to do to have partly kept books : VOTE

20-across – Fatally hold odd number inside : STRANGLE

22-across – Subaltern retaining final word on complaint : LAMENT

23-across – Yesterday’s man – who’s he? – in battle : FRIDAY

24-across – Performance with willow by first of batsmen, Grace – pilgrims’ leader – ‘s shot : BASKETRY

1-down – Ran up trouble for Dr Fox, first into the doorway with such language as would suit 10 and co. : UNPARLIAMENTARY

2-down – Mark of disease – English one: having one I come to Down district pool : POCKETBILLIARDS

3-down – Sounding like champagne, demand your head in concrete terms : PHYSICALLY

4-down – The first cause for 10 and co. : TREASON

5-down – Explorer’s game with no score in 12 with no time : POLO

6-down – XIV split American style, memorable for turning up 16, 4 and 12 … : FIFTHOFNOVEMBER

7-down – … has its day with monastic office held by designer Mary about New Year : QUATERCENTENARY

14-down – Follower of Dada has not finished a carriage and a table : SURREALIST

17-down – 12 leader’s setback give taxi man new heart : CATESBY

21-down – Hospital fellows’ alleged appearance : GUYS

1-across – : JEKYLLANDHYDE

10-across – : OLDMAID

11-across – : VIALFUL

12-across – : AGAIN

13-across – : MARKTWAIN

14-across – : SHOCK

16-across – : QUINTUPLE

18-across – : FIRSTHAND

19-across – : XERES

20-across – : REICHSRAT

23-across – : CLEAR

24-across – : GATENET

25-across – : UNREADY

26-across – : ZEBRACROSSING

2-down – : ENDEAVOUR

3-down – : YEARN

4-down – : LEDUM

5-down – : NEVERMIND

6-down – : HEARTHTAX

7-down – : DEFRA

8-down – : WOMANSUFFRAGE

9-down – : BLANKETSPRAYS

15-down – : KITCHENER

16-down – : QUADRATIC

17-down – : PORCELAIN

21-down – : INTHE

22-down – : TRURO

23-down – : CERES

9-across – A Circe becoming confused in wild art of fugue : RICERCATA

10-across – Where all roads lead in the Italian trail : AROMA

11-across – Prima Ballerina Assoluta’s 1 20, say? : MARGAUX

12-across – Soldier leading famed offensive with Lawrence in the lines : OCTETTE

13-across – Myths, songs and legends from the Gwynedd archives : EDDA

14-across – Signs of Oberon’s engagements in the field? : FAIRYRINGS

16-across – Scores and dismounts … : GETSOFF

17-across – … after making this sort of cushion? : WHOOPEE

19-across – Field Marshal wearing old silk before lunch, ie a sad retreat : AUCHINLECK

22-across – Philip, an author rejecting two heights : ROTH

24-across – War’s over! Raise hats outside and broach a barrel : DRAWOFF

25-across – Record the artist in him, the son of Joseph : EPHRAIM

26-across – Tea lady : ROSIE

27-across – The old paying guest hasn’t died; he’s studying divinity : THEOLOGER

1-down – Fine wine contaminated, take urine sample. Regard ccs! : PREMIERGRANDCRU

2-down – Short case: Regina correct, OK? : ACCREDIT

3-down – Curtains for Polonius behind this ville? : ARRAS

4-down – Enemy, reported in a loud conflict, not so green as he looks : FAUXNAIF

5-down – 1 20, the Eiffel oeuvre? : LATOUR

6-down – 1 20, but a sculpture in hot iron melts : HAUTBRION

7-down – 1 20 – un peu sheepish with 22s23? : MOUTON

8-down – They serve the French in vats of Bordelaise at room temperature : VALETSDECHAMBRE

15-down – Tracked car around the Six Counties, dogged by journalist : MONITORED

17-down – King bound by the Establishment in a wider context; it could be worse! : WICKEDER

18-down – Applicators for styled fringes : PROBANGS

20-down – See 1 : CLASSE

21-down – And, in France, fail miserably to overcome with 22s23: 1 20 : LAFITE

23-down – Liberal carpeted about the family issue : CHILD