Daily Answers

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

1-across – Excitement in 13 : BUSTLE

4-across – Dogs’ 13 : BOXERS

9-across – Attendants stop crime : LADIESINWAITING

10-across – Order 13 : GARTER

11-across – 13 slips : BLOOMERS

12-across – Cloudy June regularly broken up in happy fashion : JOCUNDLY

14-across – Tunnel finding uranium, black, in rock : SUBWAY

15-across – Reportedly, worked when called for : NEEDED

18-across – Finished piece of cake as fried eggs cooked? : OVEREASY

21-across – Uplifting 13? : THERMALS

22-across – Source of power no good in cutting pair of keys : ENGINE

24-across – Kinky adult scene isn’t a perverted crime : INDECENTASSAULT

25-across – Exit, say, on ship : EGRESS

26-across – Lay out with 13 on? : INVEST

1-down – Confident display of 13 against 1 across : BRAVADO

2-down – Change 13 : SHIFT

3-down – Glossy featuring licentiousness – then blushing : LUSTRED

5-down – Speakers – they answer the phone short of exercise : ORATORS

6-down – English boy in fur appears worthy : ESTIMABLE

7-down – Performed tune, lifting drink : SANGRIA

8-down – First to strike overcomes head through superior : SNOBBY

13-down – Wiggle nude bottom without women’s items like these? : UNDERWEAR

16-down – Better luck having lost lead after backing Newcastle? : ENHANCE

17-down – Artists’ 13 : DRAWERS

18-down – Say how one may be shot in the workplace : ONSITE

19-down – Some winos remember to write up transcendentalist poet : EMERSON

20-down – 13 for model not attached? : SINGLET

23-down – Serious accent : GRAVE

1-across – Translation of novel by Snow, if 13 : LEOPARD

5-across – God needs vocal supporters : BACCHUS

9-across – Pretty girl that is censored in advance : CUTIE

10-across – Regretful as result of losing cat? : NOSTALGIC

11-across – Some applause for entertainment, a knotty piece : ROUNDTURN

12-across – Goodbye, no good legislator! : SOLON

13-across – Formerly 11 shortened down under : OUNCE

15-across – Swear to include light, ease and comfort : CUSHINESS

18-across – Example of what fate has in store for their work : FORETASTE

19-across – Instructor’s lost in student body : TUTOR

21-across – 12 13 in 20 : DOZEN

23-across – Pressure clean taking 8 to cover and finish : SANDBLAST

25-across – Refuge when mythical player has abandoned us without a horse : ORPHANAGE

26-across – 13 1 is in the air : OZONE

27-across – Best clothes for cruising? : TOPGEAR

28-across – Groove for stabiliser seems to be marginal. : KEYSEAT

1-down – Pact to see number of vehicle? : LOCARNO

2-down – Leading dog to expose bean? : OUTRUNNER

3-down – Leading could be of steam : AHEAD

4-down – Exposes 20 13s : DENOUNCES

5-down – Beast takes bowl from Cockney : BISON

6-down – Everyone here is a graduate; the third girl to the left is a model : CLASSLIST

7-down – Boy and girl producing dialectic : HEGEL

8-down – Not long in the ring? : SECONDS

14-down – Old number united with 8, say, to reduce guilt : EXTENUATE

16-down – Novelist catches up, keeping first on call : STEINBECK

17-down – One more attitude to put at the end : EXTRAPOSE

18-down – Disbelief in fairies said to disappear slowly? : FADEOUT

20-down – Stand another round and withdraw : RETREAT

22-down – Last student’s no student, raised to close gap : ZIPUP

23-down – Step for which teacher’s retained appreciation : STAIR

24-down – 13 in youngster with an alcohol problem : BOOZY