Daily Answers

1-across – Swear to hold on to chapter lay out : CONCUSS

5-across – Manual deployment of those who know the answer : HANDSUP

9-across – Berlin’s perennial crime? What’s this about? : WHITE

10-across – See 9 : CHRISTMAS

11-across – Colin Duke bored the pants off date, going It’s too shameful to reveal! : SKELETONIN

12-across – Timber arrangement doubling the animals boarded? : FOUR

14-across – Suit galoot altered to medium is an example of bad style : TAUTOLOGISM

18-across – See 11 : THECUPBOARD

21-across – Visit from Jack Frost with unsolicited double glazing offer? : COLD

22-across – Invariable condition of Superman Encyclopedia sequence : PERMANENCY

25-across – Falls for Lucy’s top, poor sap – on drugs : PROLAPSES

26-across – Barrage of insults about girl, butt having gone very round : SALVO

27-across – Involved with Dynasty : TANGLED

28-across – One bent on being a lawyer : SHYSTER

1-down – Like Daisy, firm and long : COWISH

2-down – Features about independent broadcasts : NOISES

3-down – Rough time to get flu, otherwise not memorable : UNEVENTFUL

4-down – Odd type of odd sock worn by one : SICKO

5-down – They like their greens, abhor liver cooked and left out : HERBIVORA

6-down – Origin of half child’s return fare : NOSH

7-down – As Blair rises in – I say – extraordinary meetings : SYMPOSIA

8-down – Over-butter one beef dish : PASTRAMI

13-down – Guardian solvers keep quiet, really : YOUDONTSAY

15-down – Leeds buns, hot but not crossed : UNBLESSED

16-down – Cook’s stand-by, shares put in pocket : STOCKPOT

17-down – I say, bowler, I say – that’s rather shabby! : WELLWORN

19-down – Band suitable for a low joint : ANKLET

20-down – See 12 : BYFOUR

23-down – Model grasps point of lawgiver : MOSES

24-down – See 21 : CALL

1-across – 21 weeks and 3 days before 15’s place … : CLEVES

4-across – … then 13 and a quarter in a pile … : HOWARD

9-across – … then 13’s little fish : PARR

10-across – Ability to act without orders is the first step : INITIATIVE

11-across – An impression about 5 is coming : ADVENT

12-across – Remove re-moved for good : EVERMORE

13-across – Mutiny seizes the right partner for a short 14 unknown otherwise : CATHERINE

15-across – … then another from Guy Mannering … : ANNE

16-across – … then another with a month on a drug : JANE

17-across – Good girl, an example to the cabinet? : GLASSCASE

21-across – Expert covered with piece of cloth, consequence of flukes : SHEEPROT

22-across – Good line in landscape included by 15 : BOLEYN

24-across – I sing – I used, anyway – not looking myself : INDISGUISE

25-across – Use horn both ways : TOOT

26-across – Direction about spirit as a source of power : ENGINE

27-across – Hat used on 22 and 4? : TOPPER

1-down – Girl’s name for archbishop among spies : CLAUDIA

2-down – 12 that’s weird : EERIE

3-down – Conqueror pursuing English needs a bouncer : EVICTOR

5-down – Nothing’s happening to the pointed arches : OGIVES

6-down – A nice cut keeps misanthrope looking like metal : ANTIMONIC

7-down – Killer in low joint came to 20’s 13 and 1 across’s 15 : DIVORCE

8-down – Bond’s plan used by our husband? : LIVEANDLETDIE

14-down – Want a skein and a string around Ireland : HANKERING

16-down – Fellow Scot’s sweetheart: he goes round upsetting pub : JOHNNIE

18-down – Zeus’ brother achieved minus : SUBZERO

19-down – 16 across heard to have improved vision : SEYMOUR

20-down – Wearing shoddy garment in 13’s place : ARAGON

23-down – Cease to prevent rising : LETUP

1-across – Spin on error at 17 or 20? I prepare tall story, if stitch fails badly : ITISALL

5-across – Ticked off time after time during retirement? : BERATED

9-across – Poor creature heard on the Melton Mowbray trail? : PIDOG

10-across – Royal Harry, eh? Abdicating for excessively good return from capital : PRINCIPAL

11-across – United teaming commander, sergeant and injured outside right : CONCORDANT

12-across – Dream up? : STAR

14-across – See 1 : PARTOFLIFES

18-across – Reassure cup contenders: no point going in for this treatment : ACUPRESSURE

21-across – Even characters in Centauri make the case : ETUI

22-across – Gulf’s found here in space, sailor having one solution : ARABIANSEA

25-across – Bad Samaritan losing right to name this devil : TASMANIAN

26-across – Heron flew from Robin Hill in dire need : IRENE

27-across – That old work’s conclusion: Queens is in New York! : YONKERS

28-across – So might the Chancellor open with a kiss : OVERTAX

1-down – Adman’s effect a smash hit? : IMPACT

2-down – Typing order to move from the sidelines : INDENT

3-down – Plant requiring some paring : ANGIOSPERM

4-down – The cheek! Psyche has stored fat! : LIPID

5-down – King of Ireland’s brother, a Scot born with our failing : BRIANBORU

6-down – See 1 across : RICH

7-down – Having inside information on the employees, one takes prisoners : TIPSTAFF

8-down – Three ducks! Lords playing so sadly : DOLOROSO

13-down – This is sick! Ali G’s performing among Europeans! Ban it! : ILLEGALISE

15-down – Tones down on music : RESTRAINS

16-down – See 1 across : TAPESTRY

17-down – 16 from here to the French Kiss, then forward! : AUBUSSON

19-down – Claim what the tipster offers verbally : ASSERT

20-down – B-Bardot’s eyes encompassing a 16 here : BAYEUX

23-down – Instrument to uphold the Simpson arrest : BANJO

24-down – See 12 : GAZE

8-across – : LETALONE

9-across – : ALIENA

10-across – : XRAY

11-across – : WASHINGTON

12-across – : TRUMAN

14-across – : FOURBALL

15-across – : KENNEDY

17-across – : CLINTON

20-across – : QUEENBEE

22-across – : JESTER

23-across – : EISENHOWER

24-across – : BUSH

25-across – : NORDIC

26-across – : YEOMANRY

1-down – : PEARTREE

2-down – : ZANY

3-down – : GODWIN

4-down – : VERSIFY

5-down – : HABITUAL

6-down – : RIDGEBONES

7-down – : INFOAL

13-down – : MONTEVERDI

16-down – : DABCHICK

18-down – : OPENSORE

19-down – : SEAWAYS

21-down – : UNISON

22-down – : JARGON

24-down – : BEAT

1-across – See 26 : OPENING

5-across – About to leave French city, one originally providing base : IGNOBLE

10-across – A talk at university? Smart chap cuts the second half : ALEC

11-across – Very hard worker in a pit given notice first : ADAMANTINE

12-across – See 6 : GREENE

13-across – Chemicals found in regions? Not initially, man admitted : REAGENTS

14-across – See 26 : ESSENTIAL

16-across – It’s like an American to give up – English will get stuck in! : QUIET

17-across – Tender chest though cold has been shifted : OFFER

19-across – See 26 : SENTENCES

23-across – One abstaining may find Cheers! inappropriate, we gathered : ESCHEWER

24-across – Declare 50 on in game with Nos 1 and 3 out : ALLEGE

26-across – See pained 12 halt – discontentedness possibly produced by this introduction? : THEDREADED

27-across – Climb is said to be painful : SOAR

28-across – Skill shown in front when given female backing : PROWESS

29-across – Philosopher completed article about sin : DERRIDA

2-down – Look up in city – see a star : POLARIS

3-down – Husband ensconced in pleasant nook : NICHE

4-down – Most mean to install an audio receiver in comfy home : NEAREST

6-down – Author in terrible rage about meat too raw to eat? : GRAHAM

7-down – Going off or about to come back? : ONTHETURN

8-down – Aperture that’s clear embedded in sealant : LUNETTE

9-down – Regret Arcadia being spoilt by wealthy patrons : CARRIAGETRADE

15-down – See how lady without line plastered cosmetic : EYESHADOW

18-down – Genevan chess player : FISCHER

20-down – Foolish talk from the Yorkshire and England player of yesteryear : TWADDLE

21-down – Author’s creator in the country : ENGLAND

22-down – Time to have mourning clothes, woollen garments : TWEEDS

25-down – The author’s one taking all unexpectedly : LOSER