Daily Answers

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

8-across – : TRUEBORN

9-across – : LOCKER

10-across – : USED

11-across – : ATAVENTURE

12-across – : BIOPSY

14-across – : CALCUTTA

15-across – : EMPLANE

17-across – : ENFIELD

20-across – : FRESHMAN

22-across – : RIMINI

23-across – : IMBRANGLED

24-across – : EDEN

25-across – : LAUNCE

26-across – : THETHING

1-down – : IRISHISM

2-down – : PEND

3-down – : ROSARY

4-down – : ENHANCE

5-down – : FLUELLEN

6-down – : ECOTOURISM

7-down – : REGRET

13-down – : PALESTRINA

16-down – : NOMINEES

18-down – : LANTERNS

19-down – : INFLATE

21-down – : RAMSAY

22-down – : REDEEM

24-down – : ECHO

1-across – Maim swindler’s accomplice, being hot stuff : SCOTCH

4-across – See 1 across : BONNET

9-across – Essential information needed against politician – emphatically! : VITALSTATISTICS

10-across – Location of Hollywood idol in need of new material? : CALICO

11-across – Ljungberg, say, has reason to get excited, rounding Manchester’s No 1 to get Arsenal’s fifth : NORSEMAN

12-across – See 23 : THEBAKER

14-across – All but in the clear over Batty Bernhardt’s detailed self-introduction : NEARAS

15-across – See 14 : DAMMIT

18-across – Panther’s what’s caught by man on time : BAGHEERA

21-across – A cosmetic joke : ONELINER

22-across – I can’t find my way, but motorway has left ahead, 14 15 : ALMOST

24-across – Feminine freedom fighter acquires rock in faraway country, the gossip : FLIBBERTIGIBBET

25-across – Scores in cricket competition, it’s clear : TWENTY

26-across – See 25 : TWENTY

1-down – Small hamper containing a vegetable : SPINACH

2-down – Animal king a debut for composer describes : OKAPI

3-down – Robe that reveals bird’s round buttocks : CASSOCK

5-down – It’s not very long after love letter : OMICRON

6-down – Books on Germany found in famous cathedral : NOTREDAME

7-down – A piece to play, zero volume, extending so long : TOCCATA

8-down – Standard, forbidding one : BANNER

13-down – Beadle introducing people competing on buzzer : BUMBLEBEE

16-down – Reduce to nothing extra-terrestrial ring : ANNULET

17-down – I won’t cross the line to give the fellow a beating : TANGENT

18-down – How things get repeated up amongst the Tory backbenchers : BYROTE

19-down – City is as good in luminous appearance : GLASGOW

20-down – Reddish-brown American band getting into line : RUSSETY

23-down – Horribly numb with heartbreak after the loss of a family man with Rolls : MRBUN