Daily Answers

1-across – Disconcert one who does concert : RATTLE

4-across – Internal ruse to get fuel, we hear : GASTRIC

9-across – Limb grasped by animal of Cheshire 7 : CAMEMBERT

10-across – Some of service to queen gets on top of chef : TOQUE

11-across – Groan in fantasy at bird : TITUS

12-across – Could be slower, especially at lights out : POWERLESS

13-across – Name of worker with house across the Atlantic : ANTHONY

15-across – It isn’t brave to cry out with pain : YELLOW

17-across – Hell encompasses unknown stars : HYADES

19-across – 7’s list in issue : STILTON

22-across – 7’s left turn is in season : PORTSALUT

24-across – Man of note in hotel garden : ELGAR

26-across – Ruse to get city car : DODGE

27-across – How they go in the heavy artillery? : GREATGUNS

28-across – 7 with underground features : CHEDDAR

29-across – Slips animal into period : ERRATA

1-down – 7 for educated girl keeping her bed : RICOTTA

2-down – Try speed without oxygen: end of experiment : TEMPT

3-down – Lloyd’s upset about adapting mews for 7 : LYMESWOLD

4-down – Entrance not straight, getting at partners inside : GATEWAY

5-down – Diversion of stray wolf : SATYR

6-down – 7’s not caught in game, a strong point : ROQUEFORT

7-down – VIP may be big and hard : CHEESE

8-down – Row regularly on river, in a way more like the sea : DEEPLY

14-down – Tragedy bi-variant, lamented by McGonagall : TAYBRIDGE

16-down – Not so much to report of red 7 … : LEICESTER

18-down – … part of which retains runner for race : STLEGER

19-down – I am home to badger the Queen : SETTER

20-down – St Philip on a donkey raised a Shakespearean maid : NERISSA

21-down – I coped badly with being lyrical, Greek style : EPODIC

23-down – Pay out at price at start and finish : SPEND

25-down – 7 pair in silver turns up : GOUDA

1-across – Mute foe thought man knew sod all. Rubbish! He has it all here! : THESUMTOTALOF

10-across – Nail so digitally invasive : INGROWN

11-across – It’s selected for Jeremy Clarkson’s vehicle : TOPGEAR

12-across – See 1 : HUMAN

13-across – See 1 : KNOWLEDGE

14-across – Had one with interfering daughter : OWNED

16-across – Bikini, say, worn by nanny? On the contrary, this Shiah wouldn’t wear that! : AYATOLLAH

18-across – Dryden’s imagination resembled the wings of what, Macaulay? Wild cat, one with horns : ANOSTRICH

19-across – Now that is superior, the last word! : ADIEU

20-across – About sadly to update the French Revolution : COUPDETAT

23-across – Name two setters without an original muse : MNEME

24-across – Rod, one way to divine water : STEWART

25-across – Take one firm, dry active cheese : RICOTTA

26-across – Politician who had miracle recovery : MICHAELHOWARD

2-down – 12 line in speech from Saki : HUGHMUNRO

3-down – Raspberries emitted by tinned French horn : SCORN

4-down – Two thousands without insurance or capital : MINSK

5-down – One correcting awful stoop injecting Ecstasy at hospital : OSTEOPATH

6-down – Confound circles when backing a horse : APPALOOSA

7-down – One knight died upright : ONEND

8-down – With which ramblers wildly caught sight of acres : RIGHTOFACCESS

9-down – She engages with our poor planet’s pollutant : GREENHOUSEGAS

15-down – Dispatch deer protecting fox at entry of hounds : DOTODEATH

16-down – Child left in a lift, he thought : ARISTOTLE

17-down – Dudley’s superior mousetrap? : LEICESTER

21-down – Computer inquiry throwing out child minders : UTERI

22-down – Lamp runs central to Tubby Clayton’s body : TORCH

23-down – Parrot with bill stuck in gullet : MACAW

4-across – Shelter in the trench from the French disease : DUGOUT

6-across – Lulu with fan may be offending : UNLAWFUL

9-across – Footballer’s absorbing books on the beach? : PEBBLE

10-across – Something of a paradox? Yes, year and month’s about right : OXYMORON

11-across – From funny setter, witty crossword starts now : TWENTYFIRST

15-across – See 11 : CENTURY

17-across – A good buy, apart from the profit : BARGAIN

18-across – Intend to study the pattern : CONTEMPLATE

22-across – 15, half of it in beautiful Devon village : CLOVELLY

23-across – Coloured outside like the pole of ambition? : GREASY

24-across – Giving makes one out at elbows : BESTOWAL

25-across – A serious problem for capital, if my second changed sides : PLAGUE

1-down – Beast takes space traveller round : BULLET

2-down – The Spanish don’t allow cattle: one up to the steadfast in mind : INEXORABLE

3-down – Second in contest for most of school time: needs periodic reading : GASMETER

4-down – Pickpockets take credit for assessing lubricant : DIPSTICK

5-down – Gadabout been left inside is seen from the side of the house : GABLEEND

7-down – Cape supporting antelope : FORE

8-down – See 7 : LAND

12-down – Long jump by jumper holding false coin : FLYINGLEAP

13-down – Soldier that’s dropped gave tongue for few miles in Persia : PARASANG

14-down – Deployed hand ‘n’ eye to be mother of two queens : ANNEHYDE

16-down – Pawnbroker’s cat resident in cabin : UNCLETOM

19-down – Word of now stressed importance in bringing up children? : PAROLE

20-down – Strikebreaker takes notes on flower : SCAB

21-down – See 20 : IOUS

1-across – Sin of Grant I drove him to rue: I’ve reformed, realising this? : TOERRIS

5-across – She regrets holding Mercury back: 5 one spent on new vestment given to weaver, 12 to the poet : SIGHTOF

9-across – Smell – one confronted by 4 in 9, 12 to the poet : HUMAN

10-across – See 1 : TOFORGIVE

11-across – I did it to show you an example : CONFESSION

12-across – Got out of touch with gent, nearly, after one left ghosts out : LOST

14-across – See 5 : VERNALBLOOM

18-across – Unheard condemnation of dead agents in project fronted by new rep : PREJUDGMENT

21-across – See 27 : ROSE

22-across – Annie, say, backing hooker to bring Ireland to justice : ORPHANGIRL

25-across – Rocker – not a roller – one looking round for the Advertiser : SLOGANEER

26-across – Troy’s hippy! : ILIAC

27-across – We’ve added up and added up, 12 to the poet : SUMMERS

28-across – 27 aren’t, except when following onset of shower : SUNLESS

1-down – Sound of move on Church in a second : TCHICK

2-down – Whose is this fur? The writer’s not sure : ERMINE

3-down – North Dakota admitted to wrangling over Suez meeting points : RENDEZVOUS

4-down – Position of organ? There’s suspicion about it : SITUS

5-down – Endlessly put up with constriction of rolled-up pancake and choke : SUFFOCATE

6-down – Spear US politician, producing blood : GORE

7-down – Resistance a bit upset about places for raising American flag : TRICOLOR

8-down – Fletcher’s release from prison duties? : FREETIME

13-down – Refraining from messing about in boats, ten holed up : ABSTENTION

15-down – They see Team B holding up bull’s incitement : REGARDERS

16-down – Tells of values – antique copies, pair is accepted : APPRISES

17-down – Gents having no memories: that’s sad, that’s unwanted : MENSROOM

19-down – See 1 across and 9 : DIVINE

20-down – First sign of frizzy hair, 12 to poet : FLOCKS

23-down – Smothered badly, 12 to me, 12 to poet : HERDS

24-down – See 9 : FACE

1-across – Comes from the East and takes the car about : DERIVES

5-across – Ambiguous form of help in back yard? : DELPHIC

9-across – Do art student’s protracted speech : DRAWL

10-across – See 23 : HEWOULDNT

11-across – Fast mover on river backed by another feature of Sydney : OPERAHOUSE

12-across – King : KEEL

14-across – See 23 : RESTAURANTS

18-across – Satisfied expression in the midst of poverty retained by notorious firm which has many faces : ENNEAHEDRON

21-across – See 12 : OVER

22-across – Loudly call out number, if there’s time during election : VOCIFERATE

25-across – Successfully confronting, not in the house opposite : OUTFACING

26-across – See 1 down : EXIST

27-across – Reins in about five hundred in notes : KIDNEYS

28-across – Happiness is to be about half well dressed : DELIGHT

1-down – Wasn’t 23 _____, 10 : DIDNOT

2-down – You are upset and so is left-winger : READER

3-down – Sceptical French placing West African lake on New Guinea : VOLTAIRIAN

4-down – The school doctor’s a fool : SCHMO

5-down – Ground floor row and its consequence : DOWNSTAIR

6-down – Praise was axed : LAUD

7-down – See 23 : HADMEANT

8-down – Sword encompasses grand upper-class : CUTGLASS

13-down – Royal house takes Manx town with zest : ORANGEPEEL

15-down – Roman historian gets fat on first Guardian : SUETONIUS

16-down – See 23 : METOCOOK

17-down – See 23 : INVENTED

19-down – Saw Chinese principle lose tension outside : SAYING

20-down – Group of palindromes : SESTET

23-down – Awfully fat woman designed a house that revolved around t’ kitchen – not me: I’m for eating out, as the 19 goes : IFGOD

24-down – See 23 : HAVE