Daily Answers

1-across – Cardinals heard worrying times : REDHATS

5-across – Passed rumpled suit : SPADES

9-across – About 100 request instrument : RECORDER

10-across – Boss in awful rage upon receiving fines : GAFFER

12-across – Fantastic new skill in retirement – covering rear in perfume : TRANSCENDENT

15-across – ‘Steal for fun!’ funny comedian initially howls : RUNOFFWITH

17-across – Translating the old English character : ETH

19-across – Science Museum exhibit associated with Hull? : EMU

20-across – Clergyman playing charades endlessly – party! : ARCHDEACON

22-across – Performer outside in Alien following extremely careful player : CLARINETTIST

26-across – Tenacious broadcaster buying Twitch : STICKY

27-across – Excellent English footballer : STERLING

28-across – Boxer, Leonard, shedding final tear? Not one to be overly sentimental : SUGARY

29-across – Covering up Bond’s boss as he had a dream : MASKING

1-down – Unusual challenge after US politician changes sides? : RARE

2-down – Ant’s co-worker on top of kitchen floor : DECK

3-down – ‘One flies first class’ – the King occupying crowd : AIRCRAFT

4-down – Inflexible tail : STERN

6-down – Food recipe cut into pieces : PRAWNS

7-down – International French leader enters submission to eliminate European conflict : DIFFERENCE

8-down – Challenging cat to climb into small object? Not hard : STRETCHING

11-down – School holds function with drink : SCOTCH

13-down – Bags cold, like ice : BRIEFCASES

14-down – Using model to describe language giving separation : INSULATING

16-down – Setter breaking promise worked slowly : WORMED

18-down – Values money above all else, initially over safe dollar : MEASURES

21-down – Row about two units of temperature for heart : TICKER

23-down – Encountered old gymnast finally climbing pole : TOTEM

24-down – Small number dividing 1,002 : MINI

25-down – Excited about pregnant horse? : AGOG

8-across – Shut up about a tenor being childish : IMMATURE

9-across – Greek letter hidden in vase for waif : URCHIN

10-across – Left with real estate : LAND

11-across – Bachelor saying revolutionary verse for profit? : BOTTOMLINE

12-across – Shopkeeper is coarser in speech : GROCER

14-across – Demote, say, during report : RELEGATE

15-across – Notice vehicle by church making progress : ADVANCE

17-across – A very old rogue having nothing green : AVOCADO

20-across – Passions of European movements : EMOTIONS

22-across – Be quiet as English lieutenant enters bar backwards : BELTUP

23-across – French and German articles by Bud fall short : UNDERSHOOT

24-across – Regularly assaulted somewhere in Greater Manchester : SALE

25-across – Verbose about river being green : GRASSY

26-across – Chime by entrance for payment collection building : TOLLGATE

1-down – Diminished quality of broadcast by one politician : IMPAIRED

2-down – Roadside assistance provider rejected driver’s first method of payment : CARD

3-down – Get in way of copper gong reverberating initially : CUMBER

4-down – Show daring act on river : FEATURE

5-down – Former Southeastern European, Victor and some other bloke getting upset : YUGOSLAV

6-down – Green material put up around old piece of wood I note : ECOLOGICAL

7-down – Bird allowed around pub : LINNET

13-down – Church treasure turned into alcohol : CHARTREUSE

16-down – Coy seer’s unfortunate squint : CROSSEYE

18-down – Concerns about the French jackets : DOUBLETS

19-down – Companions of key soldiers with time succeeded : ESCORTS

21-down – Initially made awful noise upending really expensive fertilizer : MANURE

22-down – Returned partly misspelt tobacco container : BOTTLE

24-down – Son with time becomes wise : SAGE

9-across – Power Electro developed drinking a filter coffee : PERCOLATE

10-across – Flap when lines cover mirror : LAPEL

11-across – Reject or push back outcast : REPEL

12-across – Dog from kids’ TV eats nibbles from baked egg roll, refusing fruit : BLUEBERRY

13-across – After repeat performance, Diamond gradually tailed off : TAPERED

14-across – Shoots one below rib, retires, loses a life : BIRDIES

17-across – Rueful Giant backs up 3 yards : SORRY

19-across – Cartoonish Viper’s beginning to kickbox with Athena! : KAA

20-across – Bob, you called for expensive steak : WAGYU

21-across – Introducing AI to disastrous event shows ingenuousness : NAIVETE

22-across – Harry chased Fire : RANSACK

24-across – Bumpy, late entering – not a failure : NODULATED

26-across – Sabre’s injured shoulders : BEARS

28-across – Take for a ride around Eliminator event : CHEAT

29-across – Lying dazed, Dynamite clutching head on crashmat : MENDACITY

1-down – Boom-box : SPAR

2-down – Support for offspring? : PROPUP

3-down – Perhaps Phantom registers first of your core exercises : ROLLSROYCE

4-down – Gossiped ‘Legend’s touching sailor on couch’ : GABBED

5-down – Weakish Shadow roughing up barmen : PENUMBRA

6-down – Bat-suit’s symbol : CLUB

7-down – Introducing Nitro, psyched up, somewhat willing to take a chance : SPORTING

8-down – Apollo oddly pulled back from dirty manoeuvre : PLOY

13-down – Pugilist Fury is stony with rage : TYSON

15-down – Transport aircraft company sent a letter to Spooner : ROWINGBOAT

16-down – Steal set of bones, but ultimately put it back : SKULK

18-down – Maybe Comet is thinner, climbing to grip top of net : REINDEER

19-down – Accurately measure board I’m hiding in hollow tree : KEEPTIME

22-down – Part of Yorkshire getting worked up : RIDING

23-down – A farm animal is one of three : ARAMIS

24-down – Kind? Bionic? Erm … a little! : NICE

25-down – Obstructions from the net sap energy from Steel in ascent : LETS

27-down – Finals of Gladiators next Saturday? I’ve something in my eye! : STYE

1-across – Hours spent with GM grass : SORGHUM

5-across – Refuse to be kept uncivilised, without latitude : SALVAGE

9-across – Turn it up to secure starter for light bulb : TULIP

10-across – ‘Innocent’ gangster’s early years : CHILDHOOD

11-across – Race against sporting extra all round the country : NATIONWIDE

12-across – Atkinson but not with horse : ROAN

14-across – Intricate bin liner stuffed with hay holds tonnes : LABYRINTHINE

18-across – Once a state prosecutor, Earl starts to mete out annoyance : EXASPERATION

21-across – See 6 Down : LUCK

22-across – Rectories rebuilt including one item of corresponding furniture : ESCRITOIRE

25-across – Rose, for instance, gets worker into row : EGLANTINE

26-across – Relating to ancient people being locked up : INCAN

27-across – A wife leads one into a small island state of SE Asia : SARAWAK

28-across – Meals cooked in – wow! – sweet wine : MALMSEY

1-down – Glossy took part in protest with youth leader : SATINY

2-down – Church dignitary’s head removed – it’s Tell! : RELATE

3-down – Seahorses’ cerebral features : HIPPOCAMPI

4-down – Bird’s large open mouth devouring Bill! : MACAW

5-down – Outing on coast to see maritime phenomenon : SPINDRIFT

6-down – Dicky all ducky making fortune! : LADY

7-down – A game soldier taking on American defence : APOLOGIA

8-down – Beset by gender fluidity, one’s put at risk : ENDANGER

13-down – Seat ingrained with a dirt mixture was in the dock : STOODTRIAL

15-down – Standard court’s mark : YARDSTICK

16-down – Health of SF writer imbued with new energy source, initially : WELLNESS

17-down – Very casual, drifting right of certain vessels : VASCULAR

19-down – A sign the Church is involved in leak : PISCES

20-down – Quite small as a 16-year old, say? : TEENSY

23-down – Evidence of cold inert gas introduced to drink : RHEUM

24-down – Design a Whirl centre nibble : GNAW

8-across – Celebrity given sack, so show off : NAMEDROP

9-across – Have great fun taking in a show : REVEAL

10-across – Corruption by some police repelled autocrat : DICTATOR

11-across – Mistake about an exile : BANISH

12-across – Prestige award no. 1 to pair on exercise in tropical land : NOBELPEACEPRIZE

15-across – One pelted round small city : MINSK

16-across – Partner’s catching Papa’s disease : MUMPS

20-across – Old invader wanting ready rewards, fighting in this? : HUNDREDYEARSWAR

21-across – Fish out of water, or one on the bed : KIPPER

23-across – Among engineers, Turing failed to convince : RINGTRUE

25-across – Class contains one who is far ahead of the rest : GENIUS

26-across – Veto? It’s your choice : FREEVOTE

1-down – After bank holiday, go off to take up caring role : JANITOR

2-down – Gun on grouse moor expects to attract disapproval : GETTHEBIRD

3-down – Humour about the origin of religion that may be holy : WRIT

4-down – Role in clinic is plain : SPARTAN

5-down – Result of huge explosion, rubble can spread round area : CRABNEBULA

6-down – A month going up one of many English rivers : AVON

7-down – Overturn limit on dimensions : CAPSIZE

13-down – Make to kill germs: across your vision, in your ears : PASTEURISE

14-down – Four smashing trophies, staggering! : RHPOSITIVE

17-down – In early summer, spin round English tree : JUNIPER

18-down – Holmes is in Imogen’s farm : MYCROFT

19-down – Very incisive state of mind, or the opposite : VACUITY

22-down – Great discomfort to be expected at a French breakfast : PAIN

24-down – They don’t approve the hooter being sounded : NOES