Daily Answers

1-across – Playwright’s issue is catching : SONNETS

5-across – Try one who won’t drink to entertain the locum : ATTEMPT

10-across – Fuel provider variously contains it : DERV

11-across – Row with the Lord about heaven? : OTHERWORLD

12-across – Playwright’s partner of 25 has trouble with wrong return : ADONIS

13-across – Cornish game in which some people make mistakes : POLPERRO

14-across – Admit legality of maverick Coe’s reign : RECOGNISE

16-across – Good girl of 26’s is a girl that’s budding : GEMMA

17-across – No moving spirit from here : STILL

19-across – Putin speaking French? I’m not accepting that! : DISPUTANT

23-across – Trojan exchanged in a truce : TEUCRIAN

24-across – Turn to face the plain holding baby’s head : OBVERT

26-across – Writer of the month has had us in for a meal : JANEAUSTEN

27-across – Wasn’t he satisfied with the flood warning? : NOAH

28-across – … x 2.5 – that’s what happens in heartless heaven : SEVENTY

29-across – Was the journalist discriminating against women going topless? : EXISTED

2-down – Late love leaves right away : OVERDUE

3-down – Actor working 9-5? : NIVEN

4-down – Author of Months and nothing else – ie Seasons : THOMSON

6-down – Playwright’s partner of 20 has a turn : TURTLE

7-down – Piece work included in flight : ELOPEMENT

8-down – See 9 : PILGRIM

9-down – Collection attributed to playwright by press legitimation? Pah! : THEPASSIONATE

15-down – See 18 : OFLUCRECE

18-down – Playwright’s treatment cut short by enemy returning money to church : THERAPE

20-down – False hope – nothing’s coming from Arizona : PHOENIX

21-down – Tell of animal in Arne’s work : NARRATE

22-down – Quiet! Quiet! Play the game! : PIQUET

25-down – : VENUS

4-across – Goody-goody! Good time! : PIGEON

6-across – Bard of Welsh salient, I gathered : TALIESIN

9-across – Hard worker, given time, managed to collar Simpson : TROJAN

10-across – An ode from the third man, a Yank: a Cafe boss in old Casablanca : LIMERICK

11-across – Old, wretched Conservative twice removed from the list : EXDIRECTORY

15-across – Here hopeful dippers filled bath from barrels : BRANTUB

17-across – How pasta should be ‘eld out before wrapping : ALDENTE

18-across – Herein Knopfler once starred, is it not right? : DIRESTRAITS

22-across – There’s always one! A wine-growing valley in Cyprus : AYIANAPA

23-across – This culture’s a lot of bull? No! I’m an idiot! : MINOAN

24-across – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s affectation? : PRETENCE

25-across – Permit one to run from fleshy smell of mushrooms : BOLETI

1-down – Height ratio distorted power of the Montgolfiers : HOTAIR

2-down – With which one sees far via close, endlessly blending : VARIFOCALS

3-down – One Cheshire banker, absorbed by Hereford’s, died astonished : WIDEEYED

4-down – Something from the kitchen garden: Pressure different bees! : POTHERBS

5-down – Bargain lot : GOODDEAL

7-down – Don’t go to s-sleep : SKIP

8-down – Victory for her folks up East : NIKE

12-down – Where anything’s possible with PC? Yes! Caber-tossing! : CYBERSPACE

13-down – BBC by radio destroyed: a tragedy! : ANTIGONE

14-down – Capital of High Priest to accept lapse? Capital! : HELSINKI

16-down – Vintner departed sorry mess for box consumer : TVDINNER

19-down – One horn’s enough for these ungulates : RHINOS

20-down – Songs around this before the Ashes? : CAMP

21-down – See 20 : FIRE

1-across – Man who does cartoons about Communist city in North Italy is permanently traumatized : SCARREDFORLIFE

8-across – Morality in Lambeth? I can’t believe it : ETHIC

9-across – Energy went with ecstasy in call from graveyard : CEMETERY

11-across – Make cross with holy smoke : INCENSE

12-across – See about continuing joke from the distant past : LONGAGO

13-across – He wrote in French of the person he fought : DEFOE

15-across – Punish severely for breaking nail during evasion of work : SKINALIVE

17-across – Extreme East German following Hilary, for example : OUTERMOST

20-across – Something wrong? Get another driver : HITCH

21-across – Some you can hear on your own in a cell : NEURONE

23-across – Playwright who uses the Internet? : WEBSTER

25-across – Shedder of Caesar’s blood other than vermilion : CINNABAR

26-across – Photographers’ ink? : SEPIA

27-across – See 10 : MINEEYESDAZZLE

1-down – See 10 : SHEDIEDYOUNG

2-down – Specific commercial for wine, say : ADHOC

3-down – Teller of tales disturbs our trance : RACONTEUR

4-down – 23’s game with foam turning into strange fluid : DUCHESS

5-down – See 4 : OFMALFI

6-down – Extraction of oscillating tongue : LATIN

7-down – Proper person to make a catalogue : FORMALIST

10-down – 4 5’s epitaph by chap at contest in which he has heartless referee born by agreement with lawman in Scotch mist at an outbuilding that’s got non-U solvers into muck : COVERHERFACE

14-down – I reduced time when climbing in marshland – I must have pasta : FETTUCINI

16-down – A vague chat includes down with Canadian lake : ATHABASCA

18-down – Spend too much and you get worried about part of speech : OVERBUY

19-down – In the direction of conflict among foxes : TOWARDS

22-down – Cat’s weight : OUNCE

24-down – Stone of supreme extremes : TOPAZ

9-across – Bookbinder giving morganatic offspring a six-pointed stag? : HALFROYAL

10-across – 21s are turned to the lady : OTHER

11-across – State involvement with United Nations causes complaint : TETANUS

12-across – Basis of 21 across, numbered 20 : CALCIUM

13-across – Quasimodo’s intuition? : HUNCH

14-across – Leaps with verve breaking rotten laces : CABRIOLES

16-across – Italian, Spanish, Anglo-German – a cue, possibly : ROMANCELANGUAGE

19-across – Energy with which I’m instated – by meter reading? : ESTIMATED

21-across – A cue needs what may be long as a margin : CHALK

22-across – Intoxicate by swallowing the ultimate? : PLASTER

23-across – Fast and dishonest-sounding creature : CHEETAH

24-across – See 23 down : ROUND

25-across – Tree with weight like 21 across : LIMESTONE

1-down – 21 across picture a success, is it not? Not so good outside : WHITEHORSE

2-down – The best contains a metal, a precious one : PLATINUM

3-down – 16 whose 22 across is? … : FRENCH

4-down – …? something like 21 across, not hesitating to give college servants : GYPS

5-down – 10 ungulate of 10 colour from 1 died in place of 21 across : BLACKBOARD

6-down – Mug with no lid formed ornamental 22 across : MOULDING

7-down – Don’t talk to the brook like a screech owl : SHRILL

8-down – Margin of stone? : BRIM

14-down – Curate disposed to trust what isn’t divine : CREATURELY

15-down – If he’s taken stuff, you probably didn’t notice : SNEAKTHIEF

17-down – Poem on ascent of domesticated worm : NEMATODE

18-down – Adjustment causing Toad pain : ADAPTION

20-down – Timber reportedly costing more in storm centre : TEACUP

21-down – Stuff for 5 part 2 may be big or hard : CHEESE

22-down – Leave your vehicle among the trees? : PARK

23-down – Pay us a call when you recover consciousness : COME

9-across – Garbo’s role cut during allied retreat : NINOTCHKA

10-across – Old settlers died with oil pollution : OBOLI

11-across – Clubs carried by wild native of the Isle of Wight : VECTIAN

12-across – When do you want amenity management? : ANYTIME

13-across – Andorra’s finalists leave for recreation town in Andalusia : RONDA

14-across – See 1 : CHALLENGE

16-across – No old artisan legion hit trouble with Romans’ road direction : INASTRAIGHTLINE

19-across – Old solvers’ Everest trip in the recent past : YESTEREVE

21-across – See 4 : FELTI

22-across – Passageway laid out of prison : SNICKET

23-across – Leavings from manic old vegan : COLDVEG

24-across – Computer operator in short-term employment : MOUSE

25-across – See 4 : WATCHEROF

1-down – Excited NUS, eager in icy TV hell, examined here? : UNIVERSITY

2-down – A swindle and without a contract killer? : ANACONDA

3-down – Barbarian at the helm, say : ATTILA

4-down – It seeks Keats’ Hellenic effort with Homer, detailed somehow in 1 14 across’s intro : THEN

5-down – Thus journalist slants Healthy Latin no good in healthy English : HASANANGLE

6-down – College getting good deal from linguist : POLYGLOT

7-down – Drink and drug I take regularly : POTION

8-down – See 4 : LIKE

14-down – Church primate left nowt dodgy in this part of Leeds : CHAPELTOWN

15-down – Time out from the ironing? : EVENINGOFF

17-down – See 4 : THESKIES

18-down – Dressed for company : INLIVERY

20-down – Scholars bought up solecism : SLIPUP

21-down – Almost occupy your old rank : FILTHY

22-down – See 4 : SOME

23-down – Conspiracy right up his street? : CATO