Daily Answers

1-across – Some maps and books first : ATLANTA

5-across – Explorer on two wheels? : RALEIGH

9-across – Scot of good family with flower : GENTIAN

10-across – Endless plane ended : CONCORD

11-across – Put under the spotlight to punish one, perhaps : SHINEUPON

12-across – Stick with the old cosmetic : BATON

13-across – I keep my eyes open for pointless disputes : ARGUS

15-across – Simple services for girls, about maybe 60% of women : LOWMASSES

17-across – City continues to express contempt about making much 3 : JEFFERSON

19-across – A number at auction : SALEM

22-across – Song of traveller not quite antique : CAROL

23-across – Excavation went quickly, keeping society in bad odour : DISGRACED

25-across – Peter, insect eater : SANTAFE

26-across – Competitive bird no good without tail : EMULOUS

27-across – Book of verse? : NUMBERS

28-across – River with no turning : TRENTON

1-down – The first month? : AUGUSTA

2-down – Wickedness found in archbishop : LANSING

3-down – What the hooter makes when one’s inside it : NOISE

4-down – A lion’s distressed without sleep : ANNAPOLIS

5-down – Rhetoric invariably contains dangerous stuff : RICIN

6-down – Craft from Boston lag terribly : LONGBOATS

7-down – Quillwort is old English: try cutting off the end : ISOETES

8-down – News has new beginning – punishments : HIDINGS

14-down – Report of chorus work by retired general with piercing look : STEELWARE

16-down – Coils shed water when open to the elements : WINDSWEPT

17-down – Elevators functioning : JACKSON

18-down – Grocer, first of that name in the old marketplace : FORTNUM

20-down – Sentry’s third change to provide bar to work : LOCKOUT

21-down – 18’s partner entertaining princess : MADISON

23-down – Order something to wear : DRESS

24-down – See 12 : ROUGE

1-across – Put off remit, having to squeeze pus out : SUSPEND

5-across – A little money causes discomfort for those on reservation : APACHES

9-across – President admits his country getting maltreatment : ABUSE

10-across – Stimulating drink, perhaps – favourite one absorbed by fermented pears : APPETISER

11-across – Eighth Earl Spencer was furious, being criticised : DISPARAGED

12-across – Drink from one side of vessel : PORT

14-across – Liquid food makes dog suffer bladder weakness, we hear : COCKALEEKIE

18-across – Drink brings tough old bird to God : BOILERMAKER

21-across – Trendy, the way of the month : INST

22-across – Little drink knocked back, then a drink, then beginning to drink a drink : PINACOLADA

25-across – No tailors confused by those with scissors : TONSORIAL

26-across – Drink ends in addiction – come along you alcoholics! : NEGUS

27-across – One may dangle each bishop in gravy at first : EARRING

28-across – Fruit from islands replacing meat with bread : BANANAS

1-down – Three characters needed to produce modest drink : SHANDY

2-down – Fruit drink : SQUASH

3-down – Beautiful thing, old solver caught in embrace of wayward teacher : EYECATCHER

4-down – Drink tops a performance : DRAMA

5-down – Viewer’s favourite to lift drink : APPLEJACK

6-down – Drink’s shown up in fruit salad : ASTI

7-down – West Sussex town shouldn’t get cold feet? : HASSOCKS

8-down – Agents turn up round Piccadilly establishment, demanding drink : SPRITZER

13-down – Approach menacingly with something hairy, wearing nobody else’s : BEARDOWNON

15-down – Turning round politician is a job for me : COMPILING

16-down – Stopping kind of mechanism in the drink : ABSINTHE

17-down – Drink Frenchman’s sauce up : PILSENER

19-down – Extent of error to ruin drink : MARGIN

20-down – Roman general rejects posh drink : CASSIS

23-down – Don’t prepare a day before party : ADLIB

24-down – Mouth one very dry place : GOBI

1-across – Treat maybe with stories about storm : REGALE

4-across – The guy whose love is returned : CHAPLIN

9-across – Bond in river at junction with river : DEBENTURE

10-across – Great writer? : SCOTT

11-across – Horse for Western at work on time : OPERA

12-across – Will’s books : TESTAMENT

13-across – Discusses planting willow in rivers : DEBATES

15-across – One heard to get squeezed : LEMMON

17-across – I won’t leave Goodwood for uninteresting nonsense : DRYROT

19-across – Artisan in the making : SINATRA

22-across – The things one does when partner swallows a fly – O bother! : WAYOFLIFE

24-across – Better than a loan? : GRANT

26-across – Don’t let anyone hear the doctor’s confession? : DROWN

27-across – Mark enters desert when it’s not hot with chintzy fabric : KALAMKARI

28-across – Partners in opening : STEWART

29-across – Fly from three sets : TSETSE

1-down – Buttons for Glenn : REDFORD

2-down – This is on the house : GABLE

3-down – The rose-red city : LANCASTER

4-down – Mould for game on railway or beach, say : CHESSEL

5-down – Confused by scene of more regrettable events : ATSEA

6-down – What Bohemian king did seemed to call for raised finger : LOOKEDOUT

7-down – Where modern pictures are heard to drop off? : NUTATE

8-down – Low beast being identified? : CURTIS

14-down – Spooner’s to be united with anorak : BARRYMORE

16-down – Mix magnesium with deuterium : MINDGAMES

18-down – Take in kitten playing with little shiny object : TRINKET

19-down – Girl from Australia : SHEILA

20-down – A way to get higher direction : ASTAIRE

21-down – Vegetables for stock at one’s house, say? : SWEDES

23-down – Article follows with love : FONDA

25-down – Something for any of the thirteen separately : APART

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