Daily Answers

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

1-across – Regurgitated slime covers colt born to die : SUCCUMB

5-across – Ship sails into misfortune : FRIGATE

10-across – Going to be always last? : WILL

11-across – Look after cook after a coke : TAKECAREOF

12-across – 11 the 25 and the ____ 10 11 26 : SOUNDS

13-across – A Viking is a rider, as some would say : NORSEMAN

14-across – Early stage of development, say, reverting just so, to stop pain : ANALGESIC

16-across – Something to do with lips in rhyme for … : PURSE

17-across – … lines against the Irish : VERSE

19-across – One obsessed about endless copy after turn to knight in play : AGUECHEEK

23-across – Very bad fad ruled out : DREADFUL

24-across – Dispatch to err about top of pole for repair : RESORT

26-across – Unassisted writing among the fairies! : THEMSELVES

27-across – Top of pole badly opposed to 10 : NILL

28-across – Flavouring and keeping – I’m not blind! : ANISEED

29-across – Egg producer and marvellous queen nearly get on : FABERGE

2-down – Mythical beast and bird up to replace love in marriage : UNICORN

3-down – Pass on and stop : COLON

4-down – Painter’s friend is second to enter : MATISSE

6-down – Make a note of the best so far : RECORD

7-down – Prickly growth of society beset by old electoral opponents : GORSEBUSH

8-down – John Prescott got Jaws discredited : TWOJAGS

9-down – Flaying monarch outside pub, feel eager expectation at going round : SKINNINGALIVE

15-down – Girl keeping a chum to Mum in island capital : LASPALMAS

18-down – Deserve to hold article of clay : EARTHEN

20-down – Universal sea air helps to put continents together : EURASIA

21-down – Sound barrier broken by quiet listeners : EARPLUG

22-down – Feeble notes at celebration : EFFETE

25-down – See 12 : SENSE

1-across – Clue far from prudent : CAREFUL

5-across – 6 in proceedings amounting to very little : TRIVIAL

9-across – Ruler used by police as a measuring device : METER

10-across – Cut across plants with shock treatment : INTERSECT

11-across – Grace not rejected up north : DARLINGTON

12-across – Disheartened waiter takes it for what’s to be served : WRIT

14-across – Flag of convenience, third class : BOGSTANDARD

18-across – A tip – the cure may be what it claims to be : THERAPEUTIC

21-across – Teachers on the point of becoming heads? : NUTS

22-across – Outpouring of hogwash soiled pigs : IDLEGOSSIP

25-across – Present a tale about Hebridean town : STORNOWAY

26-across – Princely title from Spain found in the western part of America : AMEER

27-across – Pot thrower : PITCHER

28-across – Singer formerly relied on it for power : TREADLE

1-down – Blackhead’s pressing invitation : COMEDO

2-down – Club Bremner entertained expressed gratitude : ROTARY

3-down – Dane’s successor in favour of one currency, another being short : FORTINBRAS

4-down – Situated for leasing : LYING

5-down – Knock-for-knock cover? : TITFORTAT

6-down – Pillbox made of iron : INRO

7-down – C. Rice unfortunately gives me a shiver of cold comfort : ICECREAM

8-down – Tolerance given to election spiel from leader? : LATITUDE

13-down – State of old relation? : ANECDOTAGE

15-down – Welsh leader of advance into peninsula : GLENDOWER

16-down – Rises to pay for a drink : STANDSUP

17-down – Communist worker previously ate nothing but vegetable : BEETROOT

19-down – Port doesn’t ferment : OSTEND

20-down – Having no children to stimulate growth : SPURGE

23-down – Scout’s counterpart kept by alien in foreign country : EGYPT

24-down – Length of sermon in church : INCH

1-across – Copy cat, perhaps, is brought in to tickle one’s fancy : APPETISE

5-across – Exhibitor taking small fall : SHOWER

9-across – One painting about to get left outside : PORTRAIT

10-across – Tamed, all right, when flanked by gun : BROKEN

12-across – A measure of influence: love to castrate without force : ASAYOUNGMAN

15-across – Fix Shed in conclusion : EMEND

17-across – Unexpectedly phone one back – sicken of passion for novelty : NEOPHILIA

18-across – Egg warmer in island hill : INCUBATOR

19-across – Handle savage oriental invasion : WIELD

20-across – Effective outcome of simple men talking : IMPLEMENTAL

24-across – Old dears – about 49 : EXILES

25-across – Northerner with point to go on and on about : FINNEGAN

26-across – His traits are revealed in a 9 : ARTIST

27-across – Compiler has turned into fruit – hence, is abnormal : DEVIATES

1-down – Patchable one set in order : ALPHABETIC

2-down – Continuity of topless native amidst change : PERMANENCE

3-down – It charges for tailless fish : TURBO

4-down – Spot toys? : SPINNINGTOPS

6-down – Playwright pursuing he-man’s young bird : HERONSHAW

7-down – Come to watch : WAKE

8-down – Insignificant item of litter : RUNT

11-down – Gruesome obi egghead plotted to introduce to class : EMBOURGEOISE

13-down – Parting words an insult about Cummings exercise : SLEEPTIGHT

14-down – Instruments required for chap to act script : MANDOLINES

16-down – Call ships : DUBLINERS

21-down – Boredom that’s about to engulf itinerant nun : ENNUI

22-down – A short turn-up for the girl : VERA

23-down – Member of race said to be chosen : PICT