Daily Answers

1-across – In the main, worms knocked back single drink : PALOLOS

5-across – Name withheld from rough comedian : GAGSTER

9-across – A musical 12 felt one’s collar : ELTON

10-across – Nigel’s fantastic club in Los Angeles : INGLEWOOD

11-across – Pirate getting to follow a socialite down under : SILVERTAIL

12-across – See 21 : JOHN

14-across – Floor makes an accusation; heard leaks in the paper : DECKLEEDGES

18-across – Where, in Paris, victory secured existence for the boundless Proust, bearing potential fruits : OVULIFEROUS

21-across – This mineral’s down the toilet : BLUE

22-across – A legal 12 goes after Harris, capturing united Germany for theirtheologian : RUDOLFOTTO

25-across – A Dominican 12 : PATRICIAN

26-across – Entertainer Michael would be more or less for this sporting 12 : BARRY

27-across – North American girl taking cocaine thus : NASALLY

28-across – A 12 of the Church, religious leader during plague : PRESTER

1-down – Request return of record at leisure : PLEASE

2-down – A merry 12, to tell it as it isn’t : LITTLE

3-down – Idolise Len, maybe, for application to woodwork : LINSEEDOIL

4-down – A passionate 12 briefly is and isn’t : SAINT

5-down – Bill in Rome to make fruit tree go round : GUGLIELMO

6-down – An arty 12 in Cobbett’s London? : GWEN

7-down – Diligent, even if inexact : THOROUGH

8-down – Loose ends sure to cause bad manners : RUDENESS

13-down – Live with a female in animal’s home in Uncle Remus story? : BEASTFABLE

15-down – Lack of judgment? Ethnic rights wallahs, as expected, admit it : CREDULITY

16-down – Copper leg gets a grip : BOBBYPIN

17-down – Another arty 12 dealing blow to university down under? : AUGUSTUS

19-down – Adopt tactic to reduce insurgent troops bit by bit : ATTRIT

20-down – Mystery figure in the arbour is a manufacturer of missile launchers : BOWYER

23-down – Happy to have first to confess : OWNUP

24-down – Juliet poorly portrayed by an acting 4 12 : JILL

1-across – Infamous robber’s, one both sides accepted, born despicable person and sissy : BIGGIRLSBLOUSE

9-across – Beast at Newgate : OLDNICK

10-across – Meat dish cut with disgusting filling, non-starter : GOULASH

11-across – As was Lord Archer, doing well, but lost head : LYING

12-across – Always drink in question where grass is grown : HAYMEADOW

13-across – Island covered in black stuff also featured highly : COSTARRED

14-across – Taunt wolf : SCOFF

15-across – William stole, going back to America : RUFUS

17-across – Suffering with unfortunate face-lift, heading for dentist : AFFLICTED

20-across – If you want thick, get this: right lot of racists admitted to their problem? : CORNFLOUR

22-across – Roll island over after little time : TABLE

23-across – Jaw’s got rearranged by John Prescott : TWOJAGS

24-across – Bird finds nut with top : PELICAN

25-across – See 8 : HAIRBLOWNABOUT

1-down – Lacking identity, adapt idiotic celebrity to such beastly impulses : BIOELECTRICITY

2-down – Almighty faculties for birds : GODWITS

3-down – Something which clarifies tenor’s admission to female? : ISINGLASS

4-down – See 8 : LIKEHER

5-down – Astonished to see mad guy clutching sweetheart asleep? : BUGEYED

6-down – Body producing seed as love you garbled : OVULE

7-down – Difficult person’s average constituents? : SOANDSO

8-down – As 23 : THEWIFEDOESNOT

14-down – Trace Incas struggling to embrace cash register : SCINTILLA

16-down – Previous name of island Quito lost to sucker in short raid : FORMOSA

17-down – Waking after drinking party, topless : AROUSAL

18-down – For the record, a winner’s first on the front foot : FOREPAW

19-down – On top of business, explorer raised a quid? : TOBACCO

21-down – Style of British leader, which is exchanged for French : FLAIR

7-across – Half Henry in novel soil : BESMIRCH

9-across – Article, the right thing to wear : ANORAK

10-across – Just one : FAIR

11-across – Animal writer puts happiness first : JOYADAMSON

12-across – Very narrow opening for scruff : SLOVEN

14-across – Cheers a Guardian : APPLAUSE

15-across – Rip-off around pump? : PARISH

17-across – Archbishop’s solution : ANSELM

20-across – Timekeeper on final bend : PENDULUM

22-across – Scottish personality not in high fashion : BASELY

23-across – Rock musician gets a dollar, first to last : CHUCKBERRY

24-across – Name and number : MANY

25-across – General’s pulse : LEGUME

26-across – Sporting officials put the wrong pole at the end of the loch : LINESMEN

1-down – Rapidly calculating for a short time – long time’s a failure : TERAFLOP

2-down – Resurrection of old poem by chieftain : EMIR

3-down – Trusty worker or horse : TROJAN

4-down – Exposed to drugs, having reclined outside : LAIDOPEN

5-down – People like Cassandra’s emotional state raised by mystery author : DOOMSAYERS

6-down – Well-known top and tail of a mouse : FAMOUS

8-down – Colour up in bed for the time of your life : HEYDAY

13-down – Accurate translation from Ovid cures one : VERIDICOUS

16-down – Sailor’s complaint of his food? : SALTBEEF

18-down – Pretend to be sick and remain undergraduate : MALINGER

19-down – Gypsies raised on a pound, which is unprincipled : AMORAL

21-down – Repeats of city weeders : ECHOES

22-down – Climber, thin, holding the line : BRYONY

24-down – Nuts on the boat : MAST

1-across – See 14 : EATERS

4-across – Inclined to take Narnia lion to Tumnus, firstly : ASLANT

9-across – Device inside which awful if trapped? : LIFT

10-across – Women letting new boys go around with decapitated kippers : LANDLADIES

11-across – Toulouse-Lautrec’s filmed sex symbol virtually captures Miss Andrews’ heart with headless mammoth : MOULIN

12-across – Delinquent offered non-alcoholic drink’s bloody angry, extremely! : TEARAWAY

13-across – Paul’s about to compile, going back into business for very little money abroad : CENTESIMO

15-across – Slough residence for rakes? : SHED

16-across – Masticate, or repeat audibly for training? : CHEW

17-across – Fielder right in deep about to be beaten : SLIPPERED

21-across – Goya’s bereavement accommodated by homeless relative : COLOSSUS

22-across – Reni’s A Lion is Heard : AURORA

24-across – To understand about alcoholics having turned over notice outside hen party is a deep thing : SEAANEMONE

25-across – Guardian editor exploited : USED

26-across – Bernini’s Poland copied – a fake, and he too! : APOLLO

27-across – Seal of approval given on condition when delivered : ASSENT

1-down – Personification of English religious book : EPITOME

2-down – Something running from baby, a leak initially : TOTAL

3-down – Gives in Listener puzzle – one torn out : RELENTS

5-down – Ruler of African country losing heart to lieutenant : SULTAN

6-down – See 26 : ANDDAPHNE

7-down – Cezanne’s Labour Party searched for reshuffle? : THECARD

8-down – Rembrandt’s basic structure encapsulated by whatever, having fewer clothes : ANATOMYLESSON

14-down – Van Gogh’s hope shattered thanks to drug being absorbed by his subjects’ meal? : THEPOTATO

16-down – Line turning up around slum to acquire disease : CHOLERA

18-down – See 7 : PLAYERS

19-down – Resolute scorer in cricket match dismissing opener : EARNEST

20-down – A grand in addition : ASWELL

23-down – See 11 : ROUGE

1-across – : THINGSOFLIFE

8-across – : URETHRA

9-across – : ALIGNED

11-across – : ROOTLED

12-across – : YELLOWS

13-across – : ELDER

14-across – : MAKEWATER

16-across – : JAZZBANDS

19-across – : VAPID

21-across – : COMPLEX

23-across – : HARVEST

24-across – : SWEETEN

25-across – : NEUTRON

26-across – : WINDINGSHEET

1-down – : THEGOOD

2-down – : INHALER

3-down – : GUARDSMAN

4-down – : OVARY

5-down – : LAIDLOW

6-down – : FINDOUT

7-down – : QUARTERJACKS

10-down – : DISCREDITING

15-down – : KISSHANDS

17-down – : ZAMBEZI

18-down – : BELATED

19-down – : VERDURE

20-down – : PIERROT

22-down – : XENON