Daily Answers

1-across – Asian shot, in the wars endlessly : PUNJABI

5-across – Pork faked in bed for swingers : HAMMOCK

10-across – US president in 22 : FORD

11-across – One insignificant, no good unqualified : INELIGIBLE

12-across – Bearing that is most extensive : WIDEST

13-across – Could be no stopping adoring fans ultimately going mad : ROADSIGN

14-across – Unsuitable quality rejected in Spain, unfortunately : INAPTNESS

16-across – Foreman’s dog? : BOXER

17-across – XX rating : SCORE

19-across – Church involved in issue on location in New Jersey : PRINCETON

23-across – Reformer’s follower reforming Hun later : LUTHERAN

24-across – Lips licked very strong cigarette : SPLIFF

26-across – Spike pierced by worst sort of spikes, perhaps : SPORTSWEAR

27-across – Highland town where women’s 22 going topless : WICK

28-across – My job is turning to jelly : SETTING

29-across – Finish clues, or rewrite : CLOSURE

2-down – More ideal thus : UTOPIAN

3-down – Hear legend captured by obscure character : JUDGE

4-down – Islander’s written about the sign of an illiterate 22 : BRIXTON

6-down – Dictator in Los Angeles brought up to be a brute : ANIMAL

7-down – Time in order in state 22 : MAIDSTONE

8-down – Feature of motorway about to enter European city : COLOGNE

9-down – German dog show? : JERRYSPRINGER

15-down – Stop suffering about skinhead in 22 : PARKHURST

18-down – Beginning to crease, crease and crease : CRUMPLE

20-down – Opening numbers to sing, unfinished : NOSTRIL

21-down – See 22 : OFFICER

22-down – Inside job : PRISON

25-down – 22 where art critic almost hauled up : LEWES

1-across – Crush a dignitary : PASHA

4-across – Mowlam on horseback – turncoat and rabble-rouser : MOBOCRAT

8-across – How plants grow flowers? Keeping warm, new doctoral research reveals : PHOTOSYNTHESIS

10-across – Fabric layer in poor health in church : CHENILLE

11-across – Coming out elliptical : GNOMIC

12-across – Keep maintaining peak condition and seize the reins : TAKEPOWER

15-across – Singer’s personal problem involving fool : BASSO

17-across – Remuneration Poles received for being anything but macho : PANSY

18-across – Terrorists I subsequently sent back come back : RETALIATE

19-across – Very bad habit, taking tabloid : TRAGIC

21-across – Drier item for sale aboard train : TEACLOTH

24-across – Sanctimonious author in Hamburg’s top hotel gets thrown out : HOLIERTHANTHOU

25-across – It’s true love! Given the stomach, I’ll do anything! : FACTOTUM

26-across – Take to Sky, receiving line from the Sun? : SOLAR

1-down – Overworks animal – tame one burrowing into the Spanish mountain : POPOCATEPETL

2-down – Smutty stuff on the royal family’s fabulous afterbirth : SOOTERKIN

3-down – Ex-boxer catches Zeus’s lover dressing : AIOLI

4-down – Transport for emigrants is a potential bloomer : MAYFLOWER

5-down – Rugby team’s memory : BYTE

6-down – Woman torn apart by aristocrat’s disaster : CHERNOBYL

7-down – A truth universally acknowledged at 10.10 in the morning : AXIOM

9-down – Philosopher – to wit, Hungary’s first player taking gold after end of match : SCHOPENHAUER

13-down – A scientific figure – pity his science is flawed : PHYSICIST

14-down – May her swine’s flesh putrefy in Yorkshire! : ROTHERHAM

16-down – Cricket ground’s turned small boy into fan of central Europe : SLAVOPHIL

20-down – Eros reflected on a smell : AROMA

22-down – Dog food containers I opened : CANIS

23-down – Summons jester to entertain the king : WRIT

1-across – Remove from one of princess’s 14 : DISLODGE

5-across – Cause its corollary : EFFECT

9-across – Demon not released in AB : EDMONTON

10-across – Capital of South Africa with water bird : ZAGREB

12-across – Discover about energy, also the type of opening to 13 : FINETOOTHED

15-across – Gatherings of rugby players abandon situations in the country : RURAL

17-across – One coming out with it – with some money I say’s gone out : DEBITNOTE

18-across – Check prison’s basic units? : STEMCELLS

19-across – Scut missing? Get minister : RABBI

20-across – Revival concerned with article in car establishment : RENAISSANCE

24-across – See 4 : WITHME

25-across – Return of colleague about 1BC constituting a single sound : SYLLABIC

26-across – Eat or talk turkey? : GOBBLE

27-across – Overcast without celebrities? : STARLESS

1-down – Climbing released oxygen etc from the chase : DEERFOREST

2-down – Main problem among a succession of schools : SEMINARIES

3-down – Question, when between 8s, the last part of one : ORNOT

4-down – Angry noise about love will not quite add up to extensive intelligence on monarch and young waitresses – that’s you, honoured models : GROWOLDALONG

6-down – Draft sure to be composed by a crook : FRAUDSTER

7-down – Old book, last in period : EZRA

8-down – See 4 : TOBE

11-down – See 4 : THEBESTISYET

13-down – Bambi clone could be other than oil and water : COMBINABLE

14-down – Revolutionary is screened for quarters : RESIDENCES

16-down – Tearful priest keeps church line to the left : LACHRYMAL

21-down – Panelled room? : SOLAR

22-down – Minor branch of knowledge? : TWIG

23-down – Raise qualifications for counterfoil : STUB

9-across – Found popular effect to retreat during ceasefire : INTRODUCE

10-across – 11 boy on the ball : ALERT

11-across – They sound sad, disheartened, given son to praise : BLESS

12-across – Ordered to eat tree, a lunatic swallowed : TOLERATED

13-across – See 4 : HOFFMAN

14-across – Berceuse with which Louis XIV’s court composer entertains sailor : LULLABY

17-across – Coffee order sent back for alternative? : MOCHA

19-across – 11 muzzle for hound : CUR

20-across – European inspection announced : CZECH

21-across – Little beast’s heading off to collect source of money : OATMEAL

22-across – Probe one criminal over sign of fire : GALILEO

24-across – Woman’s protecting leafy area, one offering shelter : HARBOURER

26-across – 11 sturdy old hat : STALE

28-across – 11 drink, hot : RANDY

29-across – Bird gathering seed, duck – hard to find insect : TIGERMOTH

1-down – Endless feat of Caribbean gymnastics required extension : LIMB

2-down – Way to be brought up in life, failing inward reference : ITSELF

3-down – On which mouse eaten by swallow, superb : CONSUMMATE

4-down – 11 load of rubbish by ‘omo sapiens? He plays a part : DUSTIN

5-down – Bit one removed from particular measure contained in small units : CELLULAR

6-down – 11 leader’s retreat : LAIR

7-down – Important suit state sector’s half ruined : TESTCASE

8-down – Boss to get a grip? : STUD

13-down – Somewhat doltish, I’m body-builder? : HIMBO

15-down – Struck all wrong, E flat : LACKLUSTRE

16-down – Grass up on old couple, being philistine : YAHOO

18-down – Hotel trade gets sensitive about tripe, rip-off : CATERING

19-down – 11 star’s speed : CELERITY

22-down – 11 rubbish where some store it? : GARAGE

23-down – 11 country having to intimidate : LEANON

24-down – Run shock report : HARE

25-down – 11 thin, put on ten stone : ONYX

27-down – Arnie’s last option melted? I’ll be back! : ECHO

9-across – Composer for clarinet’s first man – disaster engulfs second one : CHERUBINI

10-across – Deer gives tongue with energy : MOOSE

11-across – See 27 : AGIRL

12-across – Member isn’t in time to do his job : LEGISLATE

13-across – 23 semiprecious bird holding back agents : JASPERY

14-across – See 27 : LIKEYOU

17-across – A peasant sounds indifferent to a king : KULAK

19-across – Money’s sound in 23 : PAY

20-across – See 26 : ITNOW

21-across – Leaves the church taking seat outside : SECEDES

22-across – Break not fatal, if you’re up before ten : TIMEOUT

24-across – Setter’s poem sent back in part from palace to castle : ROYALMILE

26-across – 5 6’s pale bird splitting in cry of pain : IWANT

28-across – See 13 down : THING

29-across – 50% full or empty? Betwixt and between : HALFDRUNK

1-down – Bill gets acknowledgment in the minutes : ACTA

2-down – See 22 : DEVILS

3-down – Needing a large collar like Europa, perhaps : BULLNECKED

4-down – Place surrounded … surrounded by … by … marksmen? : BISLEY

5-down – Writer’s family goods: a field day : KINGSLEY

6-down – See 5 : AMIS

7-down – On the contrary, not a single one undesirable to Hitler : NONARYAN

8-down – Listen! Listen! 5 6 liked it : HERE

13-down – 5 6’s filmed bird unconvincing in a car : JAKES

15-down – Siegfried’s wife : KRIEMHILDE

16-down – In the Sun we try to be dry : UNWET

18-down – 5 6’s juicy milk shake’s a one-off : LUCKYJIM

19-down – It’s cheap, being composed of others’ work : PASTICHE

22-down – 5 6’s man has informed about many problems : THEOLD

23-down – Work on a problem off-line that’s unfathomable : OPAQUE

24-down – Hamelin’s problem the resurrection of the body? : RATE

25-down – Identification to get on-line is pointless : LOGO

27-down – 5 6’s confused Kylie with Kali – outrage! : TAKE