Daily Answers

1-across – Dismiss shipping channel that circumvents US state : SENDAWAY

5-across – What’s coughed up for saying nothing : SPUTUM

9-across – Finely wrinkled mat on which Uruguay get beaten : RUGULOSE

10-across – Strong feelings about student hobbyist : ANGLER

12-across – Infested with bits – bits that really matter : NITTYGRITTY

15-across – Unexpected development in dance : TWIST

17-across – Not so great a penalty incurred for luxuriant growth : LEAFINESS

18-across – Scholar caustic about one-on-one religious teacher : MAHARISHI

19-across – Unpleasant treatment partially reversing lameness : ENEMA

20-across – Impale a spud, stifling beginning of Mary’s hymn : STABATMATER

24-across – First-rate drug available to all, retrospectively, in an ideal world : UTOPIA

25-across – Undone twice in Elba – or twice in four years? : BIENNIAL

26-across – Musical genre’s rubbish – no heart to it : GARAGE

27-across – One annoyed about the consistent summer temperature : ISOTHERE

1-down – Unexpectedly release from prison sentence : SPRINGTIME

2-down – Almost drunk carrying plate and candle : NIGHTLIGHT

3-down – Partner inhaling oxygen mixture : ALLOY

4-down – An aria a slut’s performing from South Pacific : AUSTRALASIAN

6-down – Foul in penalty zone that shouldn’t be visible : PANTYLINE

7-down – Largely agree such a story is implausible : TALL

8-down – Note in old currency : MARK

11-down – Composer not quite admitting singer’s right to one rare instrument : STRADIVARIUS

13-down – King and country collecting tipsy toper’s familiar pieces : REPERTOIRE

14-down – Electronic digger crossing stream in light footwear : ESPADRILLE

16-down – Hiding hasty penetration of object : THRASHING

21-down – Painter got up two hours before midday : MANET

22-down – Animals raised to be vocal : SUNG

23-down – North African territory unlikely to be cultivated : MOOR

1-across – German volume with article by Scots writer : BUCHAN

4-across – Defence against batterer – retreating trap : RAMPART

9-across – Back Prince grasps purpose with help : LENDAHAND

10-across – Flier defying logic with mirth : MICRO

11-across – Flier holding a name for a girl : JANET

12-across – Limits sticker for holy land : PALESTINE

13-across – Think how to bounce back? : REFLECT

15-across – Assembly due to accept the lovesick’s report : SOVIET

17-across – The leg-pulling church, down : KIDDER

19-across – See 17 : MINSTER

22-across – Learner has a go chasing a car – excessive sense of self-worth? : AUTOLATRY

24-across – Not squeaking under the influence? : OILED

26-across – Flier’s problem: its leader requested service : PRANG

27-across – Female magistrate rebelled without love, writing unruled lines : FREEVERSE

28-across – Jumper showing signs of exertion? : SWEATER

29-across – King painting Ben Hur’s father? : ARTHUR

1-down – The real LBJ needed protective covering : BELLJAR

2-down – Standard that shall be : CANON

3-down – A temple largely by instinct given to anti-multiculturalism : APARTHEID

4-down – Holey things the oracle spoke in : RIDDLES

5-down – Complaint that is ma and pa’s initially : MUMPS

6-down – Deviser of the melting of the Arctic : ARCHITECT

7-down – Tool brought up from the Shuttleworth collection : TROWEL

8-down – A politician in a little trap for wasps? : JAMPOT

14-down – Best method of frater aid? : FAIRTRADE

16-down – Island city takes a turn in the front cover : VANCOUVER

18-down – Corruption providing the Queen with an invisible revolutionary : ROTIFER

19-down – A month on the border causing havoc : MAYHEM

20-down – Beast perused expensive reports : REDDEER

21-down – University river with Manx cat? : CAMPUS

23-down – See 10 : LIGHT

25-down – Left Christian grouping at hospital – no place to be left in! : LURCH

1-across – ‘ow, so to speak, to line threadbare carriage? : BAROUCHE

5-across – See 15 : ABITCH

9-across – Did quick sum, as Steptoes did on the way to London : TOTTEDUP

10-across – Tree-dweller procuring a copper utensil : POTATO

12-across – Street in Theatreland holding clue to The Meaning of Life? : FORTYSECOND

15-across – Deceitfulness involving female’s somewhat cold and hard to take – and then you die : LIFES

17-across – Now attending repeatedly : ATPRESENT

18-across – Would Afrit’s anagram have disentangled this? Absolutely not! : FARFROMIT

19-across – Reporter’s goin’ around a plant : LUPIN

20-across – Congestion Zone? Infringements here may lead to on-the-spot punishment : PENALTYAREA

24-across – Misconduct, when filling metal carrier? : LEADAS

25-across – I have pink and white flowers for St David’s Day, which cuts the work in two : TAMARISK

26-across – See 10 : PEELER

27-across – The writer’s opinion is that this is not unimportant to fantasise either : ASISEEIT

1-down – Sexy woman has it off in the bank : BITOFFLUFF

2-down – Go a long way in on drug and pay this to come back out? : RETURNFARE

3-down – Consume on or before this Tuesday – be alert! : USEBY

4-down – After interminable period, prepare to be introduced to what Singer does in party : HOUSEWARMING

6-down – For living I circulate and ring round Pan-American district : BLOODCELL

7-down – See 24 : TRAY

8-down – See 22 : HOOK

11-down – This could put team-mate in trouble – and it has! Op modified records, when admitted : HOSPITALPASS

13-down – Risk writer’s taken up in drink – perishes, disfigured at the end : JEOPARDISE

14-down – Cover for schoolboy having swallowed 10, they say : ETONJACKET

16-down – Completely clear pub to accommodate band? The opposite : STRIPBARE

21-down – Poet put one t in affirmative : YEATS

22-down – Double joint provided by this cook, trimming edge : CLIP

23-down – See 3 : DATE

1-across – Senior relative : BRITISH

5-across – See 1 : CASTING

9-across – See 1 : BROAD

10-across – Noble, comprising a small coin and a penny, in thick fog : PEASOUPER

11-across – A bolting lettuce, perhaps, on way back whatever happens : ATALLCOSTS

12-across – See 19 : HILL

14-across – See 1 : CORPORATION

18-across – Battle with Homeric objective grips America last of all, in outrageous fashion : MONSTROUSLY

21-across – See 6 : ROLL

22-across – America’s late guide to viewers and listeners? : WHITEHOUSE

25-across – Stimulant to archaeological work not altogether from Italy : DIGITALIN

26-across – Wandering? On the contrary, worse than that : NOMAD

27-across – Champs Elysees no see? : EYELESS

28-across – Play casually following Roundhead round platform : ROSTRUM

1-down – Beast of former years entering craft : BOBCAT

2-down – My tears are a river – it’s the pressure : ISOBAR

3-down – Not nice point about railroad : INDELICATE

4-down – Beast has joint on order : HIPPO

5-down – Chorus to a work of Sellar and Yeatman, say : COAUTHORS

6-down – Gentle revolution in aeronautics? : SLOW

7-down – Devil with legal authority going without saying : IMPLICIT

8-down – Falsifying costume with heather : GARBLING

13-down – What beast and craftsman discussed on beach : MANYTHINGS

15-down – Books holiday in areas with securities for shrubs : ROOTHOLDS

16-down – Top university with everyday story scene : AMBRIDGE

17-down – 25, ___ out! : ANALOGUE

19-down – Arithmetician’s greeting to students of pioneer school : SUMMER

20-down – Fashion models not on high frequency : SELDOM

23-down – Number with alternative, of course : TENOR

24-down – Halo then for the old hovel? : STYE

8-across – Apron stage for this at a 1? : PINAFORE

9-across – Some Trollopean saga that hasn’t finished with her : AGATHA

10-across – Silence the band, Rod! He’s the Mikado’s top brass : SHOGUN

11-across – Swede, but a failure in 12 : RUTABAGA

12-across – Ravi’s a great artist with origins in his music : RAGA

13-across – Round of bread? 15 with 17! : CHEESEROLL

15-across – How do you treat a prize fish? With utter frustration! : STUFFIT

16-across – Albion’s treachery, according to French mind. Why speak of it? : PERFIDY

18-across – Church office handicaps old English, without a reformation : DEACONSHIP

19-across – Measure for Measure originally a novel : EMMA

20-across – Odds on favourite initially eating nothing; ‘e’d indulged : SPOONFED

22-across – Beaumont’s chaste whore haunts emporia, naturally, and some shipping … : ORIANA

23-across – … of which she, having written the news, left our order in the commissary : PROULX

24-across – Gilbert’s plaintiff has a leaning to disaster : ANGELINA

1-down – A ___, Falstaff say, soundly dubbed and noted in the Marx canon : NIGHTATTHEOPERA

2-down – Bogart’s key opening Italian car with Roman child inside, one from the 6 in a 1 : LARGOALFACTOTUM

3-down – The train one hopes to catch between a 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8? : CONNECTION

4-down – Hides from this singer, say? : FERRIER

5-down – Heard opening movement : GAIT

6-down – A 1 production for several bible thumpers : BARBEROFSEVILLE

7-down – Bohemian’s warming words at a 1, icy in Cheam, in between two articles : CHEGELIDAMANINA

14-down – Left repose? Ugh! Could this be how the homeless rest? : SLEEPROUGH

17-down – Ibsen heroine in credit with The Mousetrap : CHEDDAR

21-down – Alluring, cunning and as friendly as George? : FOXY