Daily Answers

1-across – Indian cookery with its origin at sea : BALTIC

5-across – Money heard to support GI : DOUGHBOY

9-across – Protected by French painter cut short on the road to love : INGREMIO

10-across – Reason to hold one hand? No real reason : WHIMSY

11-across – Early, about the start of day, Conservative is the last thing one wants to hear : BEDTIMESTORY

13-across – A negative before long : ANON

14-across – Historic family past its sell-by date? : OLDSTOCK

17-across – With Is he good at heart? comes a thought of merriment : WISHBONE

18-across – Stood with unaffected scent : ROSE

20-across – The House on the South Island : CHRISTCHURCH

23-across – One getting about on a mountain camel : ALPACA

24-across – Discover Pole detailed to keep 26, maybe : SMOKEOUT

25-across – When optimum and maximum could be dangerous? : ASBESTOS

26-across – Hinny’s mummy’s incongruous sashes : SHEASS

2-down – Relative’s ‘abitual resort : AUNT

3-down – Tree from tree – throw away the incomplete : TEREBINTH

4-down – Funny thing, fishy perhaps, about Araucaria : COMEDY

5-down – I hoped foursomes would be played in the 4 of 19 : DROMIOOFEPHESUS

6-down – A French bearing in a fantastic youth leader is awkward : UNWIELDY

7-down – Believer’s timeless crime : HEIST

8-down – See 12 : OFSYRACUSE

12-down – An end to vacation : ANTIPHOLUS

15-down – It lights up to take Mrs Blair when one’s in the wrong place : TORCHIERE

16-down – Picture the thing left by painter first : PORTRAIT

19-down – Fears receiving capital punishment for mistakes : ERRORS

21-down – See 22 : INANE

22-down – Scottish theologian lacking intelligence over destination of wood : DUNS

1-across – Girl, or boy, or girl circumventing South Yorkshire, initially : LINDSAY

5-across – Sea captain’s second fish : SKIPPER

10-across – Wear out in battle : FRAY

11-across – Headless little men on the subway are strict timekeepers : METRONOMES

12-across – Outside the terminus is a high speed internal connection : TENDON

13-across – Time for a drink in the space between the notes? : INTERVAL

14-across – Overpaid Royal swallowing paper contraceptive : DIAPHRAGM

16-across – Forger’s silence about small boy’s return : SMITH

17-across – Scottish trees are a pain in the Bahamas : BIRKS

19-across – Guys can be redirected to the local branch : SUBAGENCY

23-across – I share your opinion of the double entendre : HEARHEAR

24-across – Good backing received and understood by Kafka’s changed character : GREGOR

26-across – Rush to secure a vehicle for leader of convoy : CARAVANEER

27-across – Record broken by front runner : TAPE

28-across – Pop back and forth round hideout with bits missing : ADDENDA

29-across – Musicians having afterthoughts about The Hen? : PLAYERS

2-down – Salieri production at the National : ISRAELI

3-down – Nymph given deadpan publicity : DRYAD

4-down – Social worker, not a socialite, touring Malta : ALMONER

6-down – Involved old cricketer at close of play : KNOTTY

7-down – Broadcast opposed to Imperial weights? : PROGRAMME

8-down – Refined by a gentle modulation : ELEGANT

9-down – Begin to frame question on phone to would-be phone user’s 4 29 : STRINGQUARTET

15-down – Freak storm about to disturb writer’s inscrutability : POKERFACE

18-down – Republic’s state-reared antelope : IRELAND

20-down – Portending a month by the river : AUGURAL

21-down – Officer reserving right to become barber : CROPPER

22-down – Consider the overdrawn fish : REGARD

25-down – Submission to topless toffs : ENTRY

9-across – Support chambers supportive of one’s nation : PROPATRIA

10-across – Strong and fit for romance : FABLE

11-across – Great Space Odyssey film making comeback, seen all over the place : IMMENSE

12-across – Succeed with strip : PULLOFF

13-across – Neither you ____, flipping smooth : IRON

14-across – One over the eight, claiming mad character born gossip : CHATTERBOX

16-across – Cheese dishes tender, use hash : FONDUES

17-across – Jerk turns in tangible performance : RECITAL

19-across – Reportedly, piece easy – that’s not so bright : NIGHTLIGHT

22-across – Warning suggests hen party? : OMEN

24-across – Forces which turn into doubt or questions : TORQUES

25-across – Bar about a quarter, up to date : ABREAST

26-across – Vindication for reversible gesture : VSIGN

27-across – Make yourself scarce, when badly appraised : DISAPPEAR

1-down – Construction put in to really annoy, perhaps : SPLITINFINITIVE

2-down – Prosperous location where many drag in benefit : BOOMTOWN

3-down – Speak of chief state : MAINE

4-down – Attend to holes in trousers : BREECHES

5-down – Reprimand Rover? : CARPET

6-down – A criminal harbours assailant in winter, providing extreme comfort : AFFLUENCE

7-down – Take in siblings, degree coming up : ABSORB

8-down – Elfin intimacy only a part cryptic, no definition : SELFEXPLANATORY

15-down – American bit of fluff finds Aussie toilet out of order, according to Spooner : DUSTBUNNY

17-down – Tries again with tip of stake to run through : REHEARSE

18-down – Who disheartens stonemason, you might say? : TOMBAKER

20-down – Bulb not entirely lit in climbing rock face : GARLIC

21-down – Behind doors that are locked, having been picked : INSIDE

23-down – Good crime for source of claret : GRAPE

1-across – Equipment for cutting out journalistic cliches? : HACKSAWS

5-across – Irritation only 75% can get along without : NEEDLE

9-across – Impressive words I note – but not quite back on time : VERBIAGE

10-across – Ploy, with hearts only, to amass and retain the cards you’ve got : TACTIC

12-across – Source of rallying cry of POs? : ROYALFLYING

15-across – Cowboy’s home cooking is done on it : RANGE

17-across – Reaper’s greeting time off work : SICKLEAVE

18-across – Exterior space – on the contrary, indoor space : FRONTROOM

19-across – See 11 : CECIL

20-across – Turncoat going in to recover pointlessly working backwards : RETROACTIVE

24-across – All over article in church, producing unpleasant reaction : EMETIC

25-across – After reflection, Lord Lieutenant is to cross the threshold : DOORSILL

26-across – See 11 : GEORGE

27-across – Having removed the blue colour after being in company? : CENSORED

1-down – Transport providing crossing in main, retired on paper : HOVERCRAFT

2-down – Williams & Co are no longer managing : CARRYINGON

3-down – Unmoved yet : STILL

4-down – See 11 : WIGGLESWORTH

6-down – Greek musician not all there in the City of the Gospel : EVANGELIC

7-down – The numbers are a bit stuck up : DATA

8-down – Score a century entering the ground : ETCH

11-down – Cunning goggle-wearer, good circler: come, it’s who? I’m our inspiration’s full entitlement : AIRCOMMODORE

13-down – Faint cries emitted by Pope, perhaps : SANCTIFIER

14-down – Rich source of oil on the list? : WELLHEELED

16-down – Squeezing a pound from next girl to work : EXTORTING

21-down – See 12 : CORPS

22-down – Cold Mountain? : BERG

23-down – The object of a woman’s love? : HERO

1-across – Tom left Ginny dancing in place of sailing : LYMINGTON

6-across – Topping garment, maybe not male, for team mistress : ABIT

10-across – Social gathering mentioned in I Thessalonians : SALON

11-across – Copies single after critic Camille, the opera : PAGLIACCI

12-across – Commercial in Latin that works in a way : ROADMAN

13-across – Educated girl housekeeper gets cheese : RICOTTA

14-across – Fiend at entering struggle, that is : DEMONSTRATIVE

17-across – French wine waiter put me right off boy with books and film : SOMELIKEITHOT

21-across – Greek character, humorist, not starting and not returning : OMICRON

22-across – Look noisily for beer and coastal food plant : SEAKALE

24-across – One of us : BRITISHER

25-across – See 6 : ONTHE

26-across – See 6 : SIDE

27-across – Vote for return of an old negative is painfully optimistic : POLLYANNA

1-down – Fiddle in general brings fictional detective : LESTRADE

2-down – Toast to singer? : MELBA

3-down – Game with no net’s joined to dance : NINEMENSMORRIS

4-down – The Crest to go faster than 1 nm per hour? : TOPKNOT

5-down – Country turning up trumps about liquor : NIGERIA

7-down – Support effective powers to limit of being fed up : BACKTEETH

8-down – Island once called beautiful thanks one with little colour : TAIWAN

9-down – What may slip onto some ribs, carrying a threat – it isn’t fair : DISCRIMINATORY

15-down – Unable to explain setter’s corpse – detail that’s died : MYSTIFIED

16-down – Greek character including those of Crete and so forth : ETCETERA

18-down – Yearn for a dance, a simple ball? : LONGHOP

19-down – Knighthood for poor Lester can stay in the air : KESTREL

20-down – Political philosopher’s book going for nothing among tramps : HOBBES

23-down – Some amazement at the villa? : ASTON