Daily Answers

1-across – Brick left in ship at island : SPORTSMAN

6-across – German woman finds Germany a deceiver : FRAUD

9-across – 24, said 4, is formed by threefold God, final unity : ATALE

10-across – Qualifier for conversion by pet converter of laity on chapter : CATALYTIC

11-across – Reach 99 after a game of Sorry? : APOLOGETIC

12-across – Colourful film … : IRIS

14-across – … found in note to be quite good : FAIRISH

15-across – Clearing solvers of amorous gesture : GLADEYE

17-across – See 9 : OFSOUND

19-across – See 9 : ANDFURY

20-across – See 9 : TOLD

22-across – See 9 : SIGNIFYING

25-across – See 9 : BYANIDIOT

26-across – Authorisation for a relation … of the giraffe : OKAPI

27-across – Get rid of Times English : ERASE

28-across – Domestic protection for holy woman in 2 : DUSTSHEET

1-down – Flow and go away, say? : SCAPA

2-down – Chapels provide alternative to a party : ORATORIES

3-down – Monk becomes student on entering the notes : THELONIOUS

4-down – Play with commander in American study : MACBETH

5-down – See 9 : NOTHING

6-down – See 9 : FULL

7-down – Boss doesn’t open flower… : ASTER

8-down – …which follows many during homework in Athenian court : DICASTERY

13-down – Short-lived fly, disturbed, can sleep outside : CANDYFLOSS

14-down – Companies can be left on grass in 9 : FLOATABLE

16-down – Explain how to create bliss entertaining posh police : ELUCIDATE

18-down – Roman emperors were finally, but it could be reversed : DEIFIED

19-down – Beneficial payment of old money getting setback : ANNATES

21-down – A fixer elevated into a climber : LIANA

23-down – Teacher raised among the great may go through the mill : GRIST

24-down – Long sentence in novel, I fear : LIFE

1-across – Organised tour with lady, apparently : OUTWARDLY

6-across – Brook babbling in North Wales : RHYL

10-across – 5 settled with David, an American wordsmith : MAMET

11-across – A picnic for a fall guy? : APUSHOVER

12-across – What would Pavarotti do in Hyde Park, shout? : SINGOUT

13-across – Master Icarus hybridising the grape hyacinth : MUSCARI

14-across – Offensive remark from m-most anti-CRE c-characters : RACISTCOMMENT

17-across – Fear of death without a name, that old black magic, breaking into quiet laugh : THANATOPHOBIA

21-across – No good a northern family entering this Chinese city : NANKING

22-across – Musical interval happening in silence! : SEVENTH

24-across – One a Dyke trapped, investigated and identified : DIAGNOSED

25-across – Bride of Cornwall, say, managed to get out : REGAN

26-across – Behind, following day’s first cuckoo : DAFT

27-across – Slaving treaties formed when Spanish agreement sent nothing abroad : ASSIENTOS

1-down – See 16 : ONMISERY

2-down – See 16 : TOMAN

3-down – Might Network Rail respond to this battle cry? : ACTIONSTATIONS

4-down – Doctor the wine with carbon; it’s terrible! : DRASTIC

5-down – Familial blighters, according to 8 in 9 : YOURMUM

7-down – Essay’s thrust! : HAVEASTAB

8-down – Pop poet : LARKIN

9-down – Could be his best ever, the work of 8 : THISBETHEVERSE

15-down – Judgement of Solomon with baby calf: You say thin slices? : CUTINHALF

16-down – 8’s reflection in 9, perhaps: In a damn’ thorny mess, Ma. No? : MANHANDS

18-down – One clowning on a golf course : AUGUSTA

19-down – Bradman’s legs? : ONSIDES

20-down – See 5 : ANDDAD

23-down – Watchman! What of the black bat? : NIGHT

1-across – Volumes of fish with dessert : CODICES

5-across – Like the dove … : PACIFIC

9-across – … adrift in the ark? : ATSEA

10-across – Love came close without : OVEREGGED

11-across – The right locations for a deformed and scurrilous Grecian : THERSITES

12-across – Friend embracing alien with term of endearment : PETAL

13-across – One going in for a statement of Africanism? : RASTA

15-across – Having a minimal workforce, use head no end : ONEHANDED

18-across – British 1 down’s funny lot – cask masked casket : SALTCAKED

19-across – Station of royal anger? : KINGS

21-across – See 19 : CROSS

23-across – The second time a winter sportsman has become a Turkish general : SERASKIER

25-across – Gaudy night flier: it returns bacterium back to hospital : TIGERMOTH

26-across – Came into being with irrelevant name? : AROSE

27-across – Plant of bestial tendency : ASTILBE

28-across – Prod Scotsman with cards : POKEMON

1-down – Mat is company for Daisy : COASTER

2-down – What happens to 5 down characters in face of radiation : DISPERSAL

3-down – Love in a little boy means everything’s 9 : CHAOS

4-down – Peace with au pair gaining religious knowledge and doing so quickly? : SHORTWORK

5-down – A crowd in the cupboard : PRESS

6-down – Hawker producing the sound of birdsong with fish : CHEAPJACK

7-down – Get a picture hat without a struggle : FIGHT

8-down – About a hundred were first cooked by Molly : CODDLED

14-down – Inherited from Lancaster? : ANCESTRAL

16-down – Wine producers with joint to be exercised in church : ELDERSHIP

17-down – Toothlike depression the setter is making : DENTIFORM

18-down – Boozer keeps company with painter in the Indian Ocean : SOCOTRA

20-down – 5 down enters child operator : SURGEON

22-down – How disgusting to put in books the suggestion of a moral law! : OUGHT

23-down – See 18 across : SMOKE

24-down – See 18 across : STACK

9-across – Slow runner, say, the French salute : TRICOLOUR

10-across – One second and a half behind at racetrack : IMOLA

11-across – Extraordinary lack of furniture : NOTABLE

12-across – Plant pot has value, though chipped : MUGWORT

13-across – Travel in pale truck : WAGON

14-across – One following a subject forecast securing a very low grade : PREDICATE

16-across – Students ritually find riotous gig still rocking : LITURGIOLOGISTS

19-across – What Valentine was given isn’t a funny cover : SAINTHOOD

21-across – Material I am given to study : DENIM

22-across – X, King of Scotland : MALCOLM

23-across – A terrible beat, out of order for dance : LAMBADA

24-across – Cat in part of pound : OUNCE

25-across – Thrills with prostitute, that’s what gets biker going : KICKSTART

1-down – For Swan Lake demonstration, pools need digging – getting stuck in may be turned to advantage : STONEWALLS

2-down – Be drunk on the bench? Keep still : SITTIGHT

3-down – Thief’s short name : ROBBEN

4-down – Writer’s fondness for fine fabric : LOVE

5-down – Confined vehicle took me over valley : TRAMMELLED

6-down – Keep talking to the police : SINGSING

7-down – See 1 : DONOTA

8-down – 4’s weapon encountering low resistance : DART

14-down – See 1 : PRISONMAKE

15-down – Medicine sample sot’s drunk : EPSOMSALTS

17-down – Considered caging big beast not at first in short supply : RATIONED

18-down – Dismiss rule about goal area : SENDAWAY

20-down – One’s country : ISLAND

21-down – Prosecutor put on false personality to get silk : DAMASK

22-down – See 8 : MOOR

23-down – See 4 : LACE

1-across – Flower’s a boring plant in US soil : MARIGOLD

5-across – One following the other team : TANDEM

9-across – Vehicle’s on both sides, too : LANDROVER

11-across – Food warning’s pointless : BACON

12-across – Sort of short phrase about love’s marksman : SHARPSHOOTER

15-across – Premier at turning press down : TAMP

16-across – Incidental call for a late start : OCCASIONAL

18-across – Drink that toasted Latimer? : BLOODYMARY

19-across – Girl’s failing : MISS

21-across – Engaging gear in intent to travel : ENTERTAINING

24-across – Excuse about day off one improvised : ADLIB

25-across – Sailor’s shanty: MacDuff : YACHTSMAN

26-across – Still holds the French team : ELEVEN

27-across – Quiet villain has look-in as a preliminary : PROLOGUE

1-down – Soft centre’s left in : MILD

2-down – Little bit of litter : RUNT

3-down – Nepalese express surprise at King Mat turning up : GURKHA

4-down – Disagreeable firm in the City? : LIVERYCOMPANY

6-down – Food for Rambo is a problem : AMBROSIA

7-down – It involves serving at sea : DECKTENNIS

8-down – Stones’ fan? : MINERALIST

10-down – Train fare from here : RESTAURANTCAR

13-down – Firm friend on the same team : STABLEMATE

14-down – One thousand count in extra plant : IMMORTELLE

17-down – Fertile, about to act and charming : ADORABLE

20-down – Drop in sections against illegitimacy : INSTIL

22-down – Initially sad face is complacent : SMUG

23-down – Bent on a bob? : KNEE