Daily Answers

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

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