Daily Answers

1-across – Not what Charles raked in for tales of Charlie! : PEANUTS

5-across – Covering northern bit is West Brazilian river mammal : MANATEE

9-across – See 7 : SHOUT

10-across – The Observer’s role with respect to two blood groups in record : ONLOOKING

11-across – Gilbert’s awfully bitter in catalogue : LIBRETTIST

12-across – Machine gun from Essex, are we told? : STEN

14-across – Little child’s chicken, in terror from all quarters : PANTOTHENIC

18-across – Scientology, say, located in Oregon? I hear what’s going on within : AUSCULTATOR

21-across – It’s not fair – Richard Arkwright took this to heart : DARK

22-across – Large employment, but not real professions : LIPSERVICE

25-across – Noble Italian knight’s uncertainty, wearing enchanting ring : MAGNIFICO

26-across – Get staff in over cooking smell : NIDOR

27-across – A trainee medic does nothing, we hear, to get around English waterfall : CALDRON

28-across – This principle can demonstrate mineral has been taken in by people other than us : THEOREM

1-down – Man who kicked ball round street for pound : PESTLE

2-down – A second assassinated President’s shown up the lowest form of life : AMOEBA

3-down – Turn cross, hopes dashed in venture, ruined : UPTHESPOUT

4-down – See 19 : SCOUT

5-down – Sweeter beer types to break silence? Inconclusive : MILKSTOUT

6-down – Name one liquid, a light element? : NEON

7-down – Fool touring endures 45-minute song? : TWISTAND

8-down – Unnatural selection of odd cues about Biblical opening : EUGENICS

13-down – Not going far from hospital or unfamiliar limits : SHORTRANGE

15-down – 3 collecting it, sister’s swallowing food : NUTRITION

16-down – Affecting all the people – and yours truly, looking up in photo : PANDEMIC

17-down – Representation of star a young woman’s moulding : ASTRAGAL

19-down – German kids go looking for high English Peak : KINDER

20-down – Crossword compiler forbidding vertigo : MEGRIM

23-down – See 27 : SNOUT

24-down – More sanctimonious mole? : PIER

1-across – Chaps like Paul Daniels not unknown among children’s heroes : MISTERMEN

6-across – Look back : KEEP

10-across – Simpson in return appearance needs a drink : RIOJA

11-across – Most autocratic of Old Left turning to fabricate in two ways : LORDLIEST

12-across – Evans once sang in great interpretation : GERAINT

13-across – Put new life into the lily-livered? : HEARTEN

14-across – Galileo ball gravity, very doubtful way to see the world : GLOBALVILLAGE

17-across – Pere Joseph’s crise en menage when one makes way for a revolution : EMINENCEGRISE

21-across – Fire? Holy smoke! : INCENSE

22-across – Philosopher spewing bile on outspoken idiots : LEIBNIZ

24-across – Turner developed without hindrance to wit : GRUBSCREW

25-across – Peruvian film maker”s completion here : INCAN

26-across – Turns before Romans : ACTS

27-across – ‘e guarantees to overwhelm Rusedski? Preposterous! : EGREGIOUS

1-down – Millstone leaving me without a g-groat, wretched! : MORTGAGE

2-down – Namely the Guardian’s quest : SCOUR

3-down – Doctrine arousing a militia’s anger : EGALITARIANISM

4-down – 19 figure with nothing against second chance coming first : MOLOTOV

5-down – Fish spread elevated – with Prince’s label : NARWHAL

7-down – The rule that is broken for freedom lovers : ELEUTHERI

8-down – Hardy, failed poet? Not lacking love : POTENT

9-down – Lag beating rap in time-wasting argument: how? : PLEABARGAINING

15-down – Centre of lens absorbed by outcrop, sadly, not in camera : OPENCOURT

16-down – Lashings of vitality one’s absorbed from Kent : SEIZINGS

18-down – Places wherein debates are read out in Old English : EXEDRAE

19-down – Old women being driven by unarmed combat? : COLDWAR

20-down – Sylvia Grahame’s part in making one 8 : VIAGRA

23-down – Accept their help, or gaol rears : NACRO

8-across – Particular rum : PECULIAR

9-across – Bugs catch a sound : ANNOYS

10-across – Meal in anorak, back to front : DINNER

11-across – One looking for seasonal treat : MINCEPIE

12-across – Track bird : RAIL

13-across – Maybe Cassandra’s turning these into pillars : PROPHETESS

15-across – Drink and drug taken into account in error : SLOEGIN

16-across – Reporter for The Listener hard-pressed? : FIREARM

18-across – Apartment is on film during final move : MAISONETTE

19-across – Point some clue ‘as taken : EAST

20-across – Roman general almost parched quaffing good drink : AGRICOLA

22-across – Character for whom 10 repeated eight times? : BATMAN

23-across – He was known for his rounded figures in fractions of numbers minus a thousand : RUBENS

24-across – One planting forest in Germany, drawing lots : GARDENER

1-down – Advice for one with wet laundry wishing to be carefree? : LETITALLHANGOUT

2-down – Unwelcome Australian native breaking wind burps, one short of oxygen – flee! : FUNNELWEBSPIDER

3-down – Lecturer accepts Sir to be scrapped at college – it brought about indiscipline : DISRUPTION

4-down – Gripper’s swindle, gripping swindle : CRAMPON

5-down – The police bearing grass : LAWN

6-down – When umbrella is up, is it down? : UNDERTHEWEATHER

7-down – Is reply made at odds with sale? Don’t ask me! : MYLIPSARESEALED

14-down – End up in almost total misery with composer in European city : HEIDELBERG

17-down – 8 way to roam : STRANGE

21-down – Oven – what’s put in it? Not starter : OAST

1-across – Women of Germany turned over in mind game : WILDFOWL

5-across – Bid has power to reproduce sofa : CANAPE

9-across – Sailor on mound for the most part a hypocrite : TARTUFFE

10-across – Hurt bad tip : OFFEND

12-across – Union’s on record about having an advantage : ONEUP

13-across – Obstructively defend – nothing original in evasive manoeuvre : STONEWALL

14-across – Rumour about stingy business graduate – is this a … : ONEARMBANDIT

18-across – … miser? No – review with penny, which provides wealth : MONEYSPINNER

21-across – Always missing at end of week, he has a late drink : SUNDOWNER

23-across – The point of 7 or 3? : NORTH

24-across – Setter stays with spy master in the same place : IBIDEM

25-across – Even doing joint, here goes mine! : TURNSPIT

26-across – Semicircular advice to Annie: It’s a little valuable : NUGGET

27-across – The wanderer prosecutes over headless corpse’s first appearing : ODYSSEUS

1-down – A rower’s drug consumption, up front, his own circles : WETBOB

2-down – Where provisions are left, more ‘abit-forming : LARDER

3-down – Prince pays pauper pittance – an old coin for starters? : FOURPENNY

4-down – Is this the purpose of a Dutch auction? : WIFESWAPPING

6-down – Start to film in a story – what’s it all about? : ALFIE

7-down – Australian city set down in a semicircle : ADELAIDE

8-down – Tissue paper’s beginning to line object after a delay : ENDPLATE

11-down – Grassland worn down? We both agree about it : COMMONGROUND

15-down – What confines Terpsichore & Co when outside range : APENNINES

16-down – Failure to ring embassy : OMISSION

17-down – Continua? : UNENDING

19-down – Good Jack’s contracted influenza : GRIPPE

20-down – Mother of Achilles in this film? : THETIS

22-down – Such characters fill robes effortlessly! : OBESE

9-across – Parrot sealing fate is without a chance – all that happens to it? : LIFESTORY

10-across – Soft and luxurious : PLUSH

11-across – Wild thing ‘as to go to the gallows : MUSTANG

12-across – Friend to pocket green, this for the pot : CHILLUM

13-across – The Sound of Music is capital : SEOUL

14-across – Top bloke will dry up holding dry run shortly : PATRIARCH

16-across – Employing cells with cell, hot ice cream melts : ELECTROCHEMICAL

19-across – Document writer from The Sun in charge, riot breaking out : SOLICITOR

21-across – Important man to snatch award briefly : NABOB

22-across – Flier achieves half height in bed : COALTIT

23-across – Vile, becoming rotten in month – throw it : JAVELIN

24-across – Guide employer round hospital : USHER

25-across – See 4 : TIMENOSEE

1-down – Welsh town top to toe with flowers – great stuff! : OLDMASTERS

2-down – Horse cryptically described at sea : OFFSHORE

3-down – Country needing prime minister without extremes? : ISRAEL

4-down – Entury? : LONG

5-down – One striking perfect shot, Yorkshire opener held up by scorer : EYECATCHER

6-down – Select film regularly repeated featuring Bob Hope : OPTIMISM

7-down – Did he serve wine from Churchill’s cabinet? : BUTLER

8-down – May I draw your attention to a bit of skirt : AHEM

14-down – Old pro offering definition for 19? : PROSTITUTE

15-down – Huge salamander brings misery to drinking session : HELLBENDER

17-down – I bitch when sent up, then go silent : TACITURN

18-down – Jewish mystic troupe touring island : CABALIST

20-down – For your answer look for hate, perhaps : LOATHE

21-down – Prayers said for some chicken – oven awaits : NOVENA

22-down – Group providing hit : CLUB

23-down – Start to desert ship? : JUMP