Daily Answers

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

1-across – Be an undiscriminating audience at meeting place of 5s : CLAPHAM

5-across – Stock melody : STRAIN

9-across – WWC for 5s : WATERLOO

10-across – Gun tester unmasked with 5s : CANNON

12-across – What pupil says about teacher’s game with 5s : LONDONBRIDGE

15-across – Promoter of a duel invaded by the Inland Revenue? : VALUEADDED

17-across – Mother love took the chair : MAO

19-across – The myth of electrocution : ROC

20-across – Kept girl without acknowledgment among the Muses : MAINTAINED

22-across – Sound getting louder in disorder’s for 5s : CHARINGCROSS

26-across – Test alternative business : ORDEAL

27-across – Plum sponge with 5s : VICTORIA

28-across – See 10 : STREET

29-across – One out over or under the 23 : SLEEPER

1-down – Say where people sail that 4 : COWS

2-down – Poet hasn’t died before : ANTE

3-down – Ran outside line and caused grief : HARROWED

4-down – Gave tongue in a temper, say : MOOED

6-down – Nature will provide for a lot of drinking : TEAURN

7-down – An agreement by a circle, a small one, on age? : ANNODOMINI

8-down – Ad hoc terminology among numbers strangely crowned : NONCEWORDS

11-down – Doctor’s a home bird : INTERN

13-down – In a bad case, a right to be grasping : AVARICIOUS

14-down – Rowan parts with shortage, getting strangely worse about it : BLACKADDER

16-down – Doctor Christie familiarly boring : DRAGGY

18-down – Record of social status put in : CASSETTE

21-down – Good-speed, Kidd! : PIRATE

23-down – Abuses much seen here : RAILS

24-down – A little fall : DROP

25-down – A quiet melody or two : PAIR

9-across – Repeat customary practice, injecting drug : REITERATE

10-across – In Badagara, I take a dip in India : RAITA

11-across – In which one may be driven to drink : SIDECAR

12-across – Economy independent of government knackers ‘arry : PRIVATE

13-across – Unbroken defect’s sound : WHOLE

14-across – Blinking time, hour of midnight : TWITCHING

16-across – Undertake precise manoeuvre and make old tender thing feel sexy? : TURNONASIXPENCE

19-across – Further adjusting compound interest, grand goes on : RESETTING

21-across – Stick to working title : BARON

22-across – Mild, with no 1 : PACIFIC

23-across – Where suspects held without trial, bear it in mind : BRITAIN

24-across – Still raging in river : PHOTO

25-across – Ball-to-boot serenade? : IGETAKICK

1-down – As a pond thaws out, entering empty river : FRESHWATER

2-down – In conversation, witty person overcomes tiresome one, the beast : WILDBOAR

3-down – Delivery of orders at regular intervals, prompt : RESCUE

4-down – Valid target in hoopla, perhaps? : FAIR

5-down – Hopeless couple parting signed off : DESPAIRING

6-down – Sweet thing in well gripping game, a hundred ahead : FRUITCUP

7-down – African capital where monarch renounces name Muhammad : KIGALI

8-down – See 4 : GAME

14-down – Semisweet item is cut with one bite taken out : TEABISCUIT

15-down – Author holds US state up not as a harmless native of America : GREENSNAKE

17-down – See 25 : OUTOFYOU

18-down – Totally blissful condition’s ending in vicar getting drunk : NIRVANIC

20-down – See 12 : SECTOR

21-down – Marriage’s restraint, it’s said : BRIDAL

22-down – Poet sees another holding his head : POPE

23-down – Bleat that’s not from sheep? : BEEF