Daily Answers

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

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