Daily Answers

1-across – Gave an impression of having got going : TOOKOFF

5-across – Inside, if I correctly recall, is like death to Roman emperors : DEIFIC

9-across – O for a ramification with American pipe? : BRONCHUS

10-across – Still to be paid on arrival by the Listener : ARREAR

12-across – Food of other years, not back : STREAKYBACON

15-across – Plunder seizing little and going on doing so : REPETITIVE

17-across – Where wit leads this little boy’s means : HAL

19-across – A little job to be a member? : SIT

20-across – Dog for girls – English chow? Not so : WELSHCORGI

22-across – Pipe for little girl while entertaining the street : PENNYWHISTLE

26-across – Smoker’s request: get off the bus! : ALIGHT

27-across – Blood circulating in pipe : CLARINET

28-across – I search the net with spirit in 67 1/2 : ENGINE

29-across – Setter and solver’s about to back party for chapel goer : METHODY

1-down – Coming up to be next to pipe : TUBA

2-down – Pipe gets award – there’s nothing in it : OBOE

3-down – Show lack of interest at reportedly Australian pictures : OSCITATE

4-down – Groovy pipe? : FLUTE

6-down – Dress carried up to a point : ENROBE

7-down – Pipe complementary to … : FRENCHHORN

8-down – … one that sounded: soft drink is around : CORANGLAIS

11-down – Heavens! Round number doesn’t work : SKIVES

13-down – Supporter’s part of chair back, the last place for a name : BRASSPLATE

14-down – Raised position on feet : UPSTANDING

16-down – Have problems at first with article at the start : TEETHE

18-down – Second to go faster – no ace, a villain : SCELERAT

21-down – Hypnotherapy partly exposed by crusher : PYTHON

23-down – Two little girls in bewitched town : SALEM

24-down – Ruin for The Sound of Music : UNDO

25-down – Don’t go for support : STAY

1-across – Deadlock from an unresolved sit-in? : STANDOFF

5-across – See 26 : DEVILS

9-across – He scored from penetrating for the Ukrainian side : PROKOFIEV

11-across – House call : BINGO

12-across – Gay Scot, a MacDonald, swearing in 21! : GORDONRAMSAY

15-across – Love giving one aching back : EROS

16-across – Wrong name on the rota: how many more? : NOTANOTHER

18-across – Coupling of Heloise and Abelard? : LOVERSKNOT

19-across – Drink for adult travelling with Noah : ARAK

21-across – New York slums where 5 on 25 are prepared? : HELLSKITCHEN

24-across – Max or daughter leaving scar : CLIFF

25-across – Switch bet on runner up here : HORSEBACK

26-across – Loved this! Led Astray by Kingsley Amis : THEOLD

27-across – One of 2 in 22, but only 1 in 3! : SYLLABLE

1-down – A month with the Camerons’ division : SEPT

2-down – Prophet with a reduced majority : AMOS

3-down – Works of Bramante and Brunelleschi, a twosome detailing some with elevation : DUOMOS

4-down – Cod alternative from conservationists’ fresh find; I’m OK battered! : FRIEDMONKFISH

6-down – Make much of dodgy last character with no blame attached : EMBLAZON

7-down – Deadly poison present! It’s all around us! : IONOSPHERE

8-down – Like an unpaid quarryman on the rocks? : STONYBROKE

10-down – Died in vain, sadly; can Edwina produce from 21? : VINDALOOCURRY

13-down – Dare to telephone the Queen? : BELLTHECAT

14-down – Tory against privileged lives could be fitting : CONVULSIVE

17-down – Believing there’s no vacancy among the Guardian’s owners, say : TRUSTFUL

20-down – Critic with pronounced opinions on author Anna : SEWELL

22-down – William Brown’s cloven foot : IAMB

23-down – Island state in the Garden of England : SKYE

9-across – Greeting to expect at the end of next month : HALLOWEEN

10-across – Spanish flower? Yes, in German wine : RIOJA

11-across – Boy in group that will keep out water : SEALANT

12-across – Scene of 50% or 100% of operations … : THEATRE

13-across – … in which to see As You Like It? No problem : EASY

14-across – Better than the best could be going too far : OVERTHETOP

16-across – Warmonger in final destination for atomic research : HARWELL

17-across – Sheep turned back at entrance to island town : MARGATE

19-across – I tremble at possibility that could be dispensed with : REMITTABLE

22-across – One learning about food from Mozart : ILRE

24-across – Family doctor visiting trendy VIP? : KINGPIN

25-across – See 22 : PASTORE

26-across – Reign around the river : NIGER

27-across – Versatile performance of air with endless tobacco : ACROBATIC

1-down – 22 25 article about drug going to crooked man for 1,000 : THESHEPHERDKING

2-down – Barnacle goose building a shed for soap? : CLEANSER

3-down – R for 4 hall, 12, 22, 24 etc : ROYAL

4-down – Celebration for little alternate 5s? : FESTIVAL

5-down – Home for celebrity between losing cases : INSTAR

6-down – Ecologically sound instrument for novice : GREENHORN

7-down – Straw men and lovebird dance : FOOTIT

8-down – Achieves pole position to escape ten-decker structure : TAKESPRECEDENCE

15-down – Resurrected company playing poker with ante : KENTOPERA

17-down – Saucy creature, right into whisky : MALAPERT

18-down – Miscellany giving pointless warning about capital musicians : ALLSORTS

20-down – For Norman, a generous run : MANAGE

21-down – Do away with keeping a periodical : ANNUAL

23-down – Tree near Midland town : ASHBY

1-across – Bounder jumps a long way with the blues : CAFARD

4-across – Movement taking its time to notice one in past : ADAGIO

9-across – Fame’s 7 for a while : HOUR

10-across – And … could be for a limited time? : SHORTRANGE

11-across – Top idiot’s 7 : BEHEAD

12-across – Supplier of juice causing organ trouble : LIVERAIL

13-across – Go wrong in battle for sapodilla : NASEBERRY

15-across – Susan’s 7 just men? : STAG

16-across – Ancient port in Irish county that’s 7 : TYRE

17-across – Likely winner bats for homers : FORMHORSE

21-across – Main time for business that’s 7 : HIGHSEAS

22-across – Musical interval’s 7 for one from Middle East : SEMITE

24-across – Loved piece about push-bike : VELOCIPEDE

25-across – Horse chestnut with white bits : ROAN

26-across – Period when court official’s 7? : SUMMER

27-across – Fruit hot-housed by French school : LYCHEE

1-down – Disease to pass without hard time : CHOLERA

2-down – Workshop’s given up with 7 : FORGE

3-down – Unhealthy desire to retain uranium deposit : RESIDUE

5-down – Case for gift that’s 7 : DATIVE

6-down – Dictator in drive for equipment at expanding port : GEARRATIO

7-down – Running track’s quality is constant : ONGOING

8-down – Garden equipment firm with flower as a fair attraction : ROLLERCOASTER

14-down – The marrow flourished with this in the soil? : EARTHWORM

16-down – Practise without a shot in the arm : TRICEPS

18-down – Control in retreat that’s 7 : MASTERY

19-down – Satisfy one wearing two ‘ats in the Home Counties : SATIATE

20-down – Death to vilify but 7 : DEMISE

23-down – Parade when sovereign’s 7 : MARCH

12-across – Take it on holiday : EASY

13-across – With Huxley dropping us, I go to Emerson : WALDO

14-across – Not sorry to find single girl game: do I get caught? : UNAPOLOGETIC

15-across – Bergsonian type retaining its effect after 5 : VITALISTIC

16-across – Germany and its world abode : DWELT

17-across – A day for love on the North coast : THURSO

18-across – Cross the border and I’ve blown it : INVADE

19-across – * Almost my native town overhead : HOMBURG

20-across – See 8 : CARNIVAL

22-across – Wheelwright returning politeness to whistle-blower? : FERRIS

24-across – * Blower and light piece of music kept separately in contact : THANKYOUVERYMUCH

25-across – Reckless king going to extremes when a broadcaster’s about : KAMIKAZE

27-across – In heaven there’s a place for drinking – anything but stout : SKINNY

29-across – * Turn it up with a little money: it’s quiet and awfully lonely inside : IPUTA

32-across – With branches making a profit, reportedly – a rupee, about : RAMOSE

33-across – Anonymous witch tortured in Dresden? : CHINATOWN

34-across – The premier premier? : MAJOR

37-across – Car found on mat : AUTO

38-across – Source of fragrance some of which more 12, we hear : FREESIA

39-across – See 29 : SPELLONYOU

40-across – * Model : LILYTHEPINK

42-across – I ride out having thought about returning with nostalgia : DESIDERIUM

44-across – Wait about for a wave : CAROLLER

47-across – Divine headgear causing ill-feeling, as with America : PETASUS

49-across – First of letters in Greek from essayist to lawman : LAMBDA

51-across – Draw alien companion : ETCH

52-across – Go by grass to get Caribbean dish : PEPPERPOT

55-across – Labour and Peasant leaders could be political : FOOTBALL

57-across – Piece of verse about the building of Llanelli, an elaborate one : VILLANELLE

58-across – Eggs take some hoeing, they say : HARDROE

59-across – Girl with old coin : ANNA

1-down – The Wisdom of the Fool: that’s a name for the church : SAPIENCE

2-down – Wild canary to whom poetically faithfulness was fashionable : CYNARA

3-down – * First Sunday for a Bangladeshi leader backing enemy to the limit : AWHITERSHADEOF

4-down – Flourished with craving for bacon : FLITCH

5-down – Come after mixing the stuffing : FORCEMEAT

6-down – Been put under the table blotto? : OUTDRUNK

7-down – Borrow book – novel – a novel about King George : LAVENGRO

8-down – * Continue on into Ash Wednesday? : DONT

9-down – Am I working or idling, Harry? I’m not sure : POTTERER

10-down – Sanctuary for ancient species needs guru – me, if possible : REFUGIUM

11-down – Media for artists’ works : OILS

20-down – Witches with horns left off were fighters for the Kirk : COVENANTERS

21-down – One of the foregoing, perhaps, meeting with royalty : ASCOT

23-down – Study of ENT centre exposed in holiday orgy : RHINOLOGY

24-down – Actor Virginia’s climbing trunks? : TREECREEPER

26-down – Runner using alias for half his work : AKABUSI

27-down – Home counties not home to St Lawrence : SEAWAY

28-down – For 20 down’s ally – or Edmund’s – flattens a date : IRONSIDES

30-down – Municipal officer finds head of peregrine falcon : PLANNER

31-down – Got one’s teeth into grainy dish coming up dry : BITSANDPIECES

35-down – Round and round and round round junction : OROTUND

36-down – * Boy embraced by girl: boyfriend : GLADALLOVER

41-down – Stop concealing the footpath home, little fellow : HALFPINT

43-down – See 8 : STOPTHE

45-down – A Latin translation of sucker : ANTLIA

46-down – Waiting for break in, nod off : ONHOLD

48-down – Hunting expedition is turning round in the distance : SAFARI

50-down – 1000 BC entry into senior citizen’s headgear : MOBCAP

53-down – See 3 : PALE

54-down – Converse, as some do, of necklace : TORC

56-down – King’s girl : LYNN