Daily Answers

1-across – Fats with everything: regime’s starters sent back : WALLER

4-across – European nobleman put out of sight starts to act like gloomy outcast : HIDALGO

9-across – Film maker’s pitch to another film maker : SPIELBERG

10-across – Composer overdid Ring – date cut : VERDI

11-across – Let out backward girl in congested city : WIDEN

12-across – What anagram of seen does to be rational! : MAKESENSE

13-across – Use it for film emulsion – back stage one can : GELATIN

15-across – Make ineffective contribution to foundation, eg a tenner : NEGATE

17-across – Still awake? Then get level : EVENUP

19-across – Go through life again accepting end of life of ease : RELIEVE

22-across – On the tube to Upminster, unlike the young man who accepted pioneering advice? : EASTBOUND

24-across – Drugs kill – and hinder in legal terms : ESTOP

26-across – Earl performs well, topless : HINES

27-across – Tar baby has Remus’ back problem eliminated with fertiliser : SALTPETRE

28-across – Hardy character with period marble piece? : TESSERA

29-across – Mercury component of isotherm escalation : HERMES

1-down – Don’t expect it to look different in print, PC-wise : WYSIWYG

2-down – One fat, round estate owner : LAIRD

3-down – Duke’s wife out of footwear : ELLINGTON

4-down – Feature of hedgehogs: kindling material! : HOGSKIN

5-down – Miles from Victoria’s entrance in middle of platform : DAVIS

6-down – Broken leg: rotten but held to improve vision : LORGNETTE

7-down – King Laurence lacks independence : OLIVER

8-down – Woody Allen heartlessly pursuing Channel Island : HERMAN

14-down – No score, therefore name G&S as crooner’s speciality : LOVESONGS

16-down – Dizzy spell – collapsed when hugged by soldier, that is : GILLESPIE

18-down – Abbot, rather too holy on the outside, heading a former European state : PRUSSIA

19-down – Jimmy’s jocular follower, a bit of a poser? : RIDDLE

20-down – Train old partner to iron : EXPRESS

21-down – We hear Sydney harbour’s centre etc he redeveloped : BECHET

23-down – Count on Brummie being admitted to foundation : BASIE

25-down – Art’s voluntary fighters taking on corporation : TATUM

1-across – : COHOST

4-across – : UPWARDLY

9-across – : WROTE

10-across – : THEREWASA

11-across – : MOLESPADE

12-across – : KNELL

13-across – : LASTQUESTION

17-across – : VARIATIONIST

20-across – : IMODE

21-across – : NAVIGABLE

23-across – : BILLIARDS

24-across – : ELBOW

25-across – : RESTHOME

26-across – : XOVERY

1-down – : COWSMILK

2-down – : HOODLESS

3-down – : STEWS

5-down – : PREVENTATIVES

6-down – : AWEEKTOGO

7-down – : DIAPER

8-down – : YEARLY

10-down – : TRAGEDIANFROM

14-down – : QUAKERISH

15-down – : ZIMBABWE

16-down – : OTHERWAY

18-down – : FIBBER

19-down – : JOULES

22-down – : GWELO

1-across – Result from heated serial inflation, say? : POPCORN

5-across – One-man band’s performance over chaps who are paid for their performance : GIGOLOS

9-across – Parisian ringer’s ring from a phone card in jail : QUASIMODO

10-across – Cleft splint won’t support it : INTWO

11-across – Waste disposal with disposed of worries : EATS

12-across – 505 making it, if humanly possible : GODWILLING

14-across – Size up Jenny? : ASSESS

15-across – Shallow river in no part ebbing : NOTDEEP

16-across – Court champion by putting the shot inside : PLEADER

18-across – A score more than one’s allotment : NINETY

20-across – An element of collaboration? : VICHYWATER

21-across – See 5 down : BUSH

24-across – Time Omar broadcast with earflaps : TRAGI

25-across – Tiny thing Mrs Fawlty left off Torquay’s statistical year initially : ITSYBITSY

26-across – Single payment for tax evaders? : LUMPSUM

27-across – Youthful pulse couldn’t shoulder it, mate! : OLDBEAN

1-down – Nelson on track to lose foot, taking umbrage! : PIQUE

2-down – Playwright with small part, usual failure … : PLAUTUS

3-down – … speaking of the same poet : OVID

4-down – Doctrine of 21’s son: leaderless Americans vote madly : NEOCONSERVATISM

5-down – Why no Republican gain in the Napa Valley? It speaks for itself! : GOODWINENEEDSNO

6-down – Duplicity involving many in parliamentary restriction : GUILLOTINE

7-down – W.C. Fields providing one for visitors? : LATRINE

8-down – Makeshift plughole? : STOPGAP

13-down – 21 senior’s utterance falling on deaf ears? : READMYLIPS

16-down – Decisive celebrity toppling old chess champ : PIVOTAL

17-down – Old forty-niner’s title call : EXCLAIM

19-down – Corrosive influence in support of the Guardian : TRUSTEE

22-down – His surprise was noted : HAYDN

23-down – Lincoln died in his sleep : ABED

1-across – Policeman at seaside reported a tree : COPPER

5-across – Singer found only in wood and water : JUSTIN

8-across – Anarchic movement puts barrier round platform : DADAISM

9-across – Made a mistake and got softened up? : FLUFFED

11-across – They have openings for speculators – note: everything’s at the speed of sound among the trees : PINBALLMACHINES

12-across – The one who wins the girl’s love? : HERO

13-across – See 5 : TIMBERLAKE

17-across – Shelley’s editor edited without thinking : HEEDLESSLY

18-across – Whisky for beer : MALT

20-across – Birds get on with old king that’s admitted member of Cambridge body : ROBINSONCOLLEGE

23-across – The day before the Sabbath is a high point : EVEREST

24-across – French boy losing his head: time for something he’s got? : ACQUEST

25-across – Flower could be the same when cut : THAMES

26-across – A line that isn’t in favour : AVERSE

2-down – Poem about universal Balkan currency in action before 19 in 18 : OUDENARDE

3-down – Original border circumvented by friend : PRIMAL

4-down – One who paints modern girls in action before 2 : RAMILLIES

5-down – Cream of jest – affair’s not Irish but Orange : JAFFA

6-down – See Arthur about his father – Irish, not Orange? : SOUTHERN

7-down – Lower international organisation – I must be joking : INFUN

8-down – Paid the wrong bill to send off a sub? : DEPTHCHARGE

10-down – I don’t agree to delete another two insets : DISSENTIENT

14-down – Battle by lake with cold and hot material : BALACLAVA

15-down – Knowledge of a missing Trojan 12 about battles : AWARENESS

16-down – Apple in action before 4 : BLENHEIM

19-down – Floss wanted memorial tablet : PLAQUE

21-down – See 1 : BEECH

22-down – Polar 12’s report of grain : OATES

9-across – Haile Selassie was very distant: take wine round : RASTAFARI

10-across – 20 3’s 12 quick-fit staff nearly botched has some padding : BREAK

11-across – Jolly subject to examine outside state : VERMONT

12-across – See 22 down : HOLIDAY

13-across – Standard team? No, superior! : LIEGE

14-across – Buddhist canon shows what to do with light fantastic, less familiarly? : TRIPITAKA

16-across – Mensa member, perhaps, titillates Uncle Dicky : INTELLECTUALIST

19-across – Bill from PC World – source: northern town : GATESHEAD

21-across – This type shoots back : SERIF

22-across – One getting more distressed carrying appropriate receptacle? : MOURNER

23-across – An essential for marriage, orgiasts state : GEORGIA

24-across – Mystic in water went with current : SWAMI

25-across – See 22 down : GOLIGHTLY

1-down – See 22 : TRAVELLING

2-down – Hungry, so certain to eat 1 in 10 stew : ESURIENT

3-down – See 20 : CAPOTE

4-down – See 10 : FAST

5-down – Unseemly kid with light he’s thrown : HIGHKILTED

6-down – An attempt to hold up influenza by a Muslim prince : ABULFIDA

7-down – An ex-colleague of mine and her anagrams : HENDRA

8-down – All right to uncork the wine? : OKAY

14-down – Lords relieve themselves in fashion? : THEPEERAGE

15-down – See 10 : ATTIFFANYS

17-down – Blowing a fuse with SA in decline : LOSINGIT

18-down – Cross, having to carry dress that’s wet : IRRIGATE

20-down – Genuine fellow with top books penned : TRUMAN

21-down – Mud-filled hollow in Berkshire : SLOUGH

22-down – 20 3’s volatile good-time girl stylishly having all : MISS

23-down – General IQ getting on for fifty, on target : GOLD