Daily Answers

1-across – Accompanied by employer for the prosecution : ACCUSER

5-across – A time for little boy to be like a … : AERATED

9-across – … bracing note : TONIC

10-across – Writer of other than jokes : JOHNKEATS

11-across – George, writer on music and film, retains endless security with 26 by 10 : MELANCHOLY

12-across – See 24 : TIME

14-across – Dark and windy 12 with 26 by 10 : NIGHTINGALE

18-across – Cone, perhaps, Amos left tied up with string : STORMSIGNAL

21-across – First lady’s man to get transport to hospital : BUSH

22-across – Straight nose with run off for 26 by 10 : GRECIANURN

25-across – Don Juan-type hero among disguised clues : LECHEROUS

26-across – A swelling destination for electrons : ANODE

27-across – Declare seamen to be in low water? : AVERNUS

28-across – Fascinate non-standard parent with time for other things : ENTHRAL

1-down – Fall for 26 by 10 : AUTUMN

2-down – Light for Eric and Leslie : CANDLE

3-down – Back member of Lloyd’s initialled by American : SECONDNAME

4-down – H-half open up for the prince : RAJAH

5-down – The last reformer, an English king : ATHELSTAN

6-down – He did naughty things in the garden shed : RAKE

7-down – Girl with a cat, awfully sad : TRAGICAL

8-down – Norfolk town, always separate : DISSEVER

13-down – Nasty French article left in keeping of farm worker : UNPLEASANT

15-down – SOS – erring characters of Scots family include John, the film director : GRIERSONS

16-down – 10’s girl took ale with basil – potty! : ISABELLA

17-down – 26 by 10, girl who growed to a revolutionary : TOPSYCHE

19-down – Sound of Business Guardian’s jokes : HUMOUR

20-down – Show your face and turn victorious day into nothing : UNVEIL

23-down – Actors heard at religious level : CASTE

24-down – I’m my own enemy the while : MEAN

1-across – Domesticate smooth snake, doubly smooth, written in : TRAINSAND

6-across – See 1 across : BOATS

9-across – Russian girl knocking Irish boy over : NADIA

10-across – State unfinished hole is of burning value : CALORIFIC

11-across – Hotel suite’s seedy image : SILHOUETTE

12-across – Still one remains elusive? : YETI

14-across – Members of a gang and fragmented, you might say : BANDITS

15-across – See 21 : SANJOSE

17-across – Warrior setting island on fire : COSSACK

19-across – Component of a machine seen as an intricate kind of puzzle : CHINESE

20-across – Second notion back to front : AIDE

22-across – A morsel sprinkled on blue flower : ROSEMALLOW

25-across – Deny turmoil in part of Birmingham at reduction in sentence : ASYNDETON

26-across – Russian agreement should be brought into play immediately : TODAY

27-across – Sun god disheartened by oriental royal family : HOUSE

28-across – Shed, topless, embracing retired salesmen, which should get everyone talking : ESPERANTO

1-down – 252 gallons of wine is capital! : TUNIS

2-down – See 1 across : ANDPLANES

3-down – One trim turning up with smart clothing – an Italian : NEAPOLITAN

4-down – The wife’s providing support for line on high profile Tory family : ARCHERS

5-down – Having organised a cover-up, does a stretch : DILATES

6-down – Composer’s composer about to ‘arm himself with sawn-off arm : BURT

7-down – A biography with heart sent back by 6 14 : ALFIE

8-down – It’s wise to safeguard misuse of relic, as this would be … : SACRILEGE

13-down – Six-footer Paul’s significant? That’s hypothetical stuff : ANTIMATTER

14-down – See 6 : BACHARACH

16-down – First having left English port, left one in Yemen with too much on board : OVERLADEN

18-down – See 21 : KNOWTHE

19-down – Tidy the house and wipe the floor : CLEANUP

21-down – Turn East just downtown, OK? Easy! Yahoo! by 6 14 : DOYOU

23-down – See 21 : WAYTO

24-down – Tool for tots, we hear : ADZE

1-across – Hoarse by the sound of it : CROQUET

5-across – Choreographer keeps Wally in reserve : MASSINE

10-across – Bob trimmed tail : SCUT

11-across – Baseness of Tina and Lily frolicking with a king : ALKALINITY

12-across – King meets a German in an unploughed field : LEARIG

13-across – Battleship? : TUGOFWAR

14-across – Boer gets atlas reproduced as a navigational aid : ASTROLABE

16-across – Active soldier fell in the drink : AGILE

17-across – Diamond tricks : DARTS

19-across – Defective crockery : BADMINTON

23-across – Wrong about cold fish eating a lizard : SCINCOID

24-across – Having an argument : ROWING

26-across – Clear one working during feast at midday : MERIDIONAL

27-across – One is a Moslem leader : IMAN

28-across – Seychelles force doesn’t start working together for gain : SYNERGY

29-across – A wander round hospital waste holder : ASHTRAY

2-down – Noisy episodes : RACKETS

3-down – Question a sailor in the Middle East : QATAR

4-down – Backer supports English version of the gospel : EVANGEL

6-down – Claim legal misrepresentation over a point : ALLEGE

7-down – Colt’s offspring may be a rogue : SONOFAGUN

8-down – Clear delivery : NETBALL

9-down – Ray’s getting on : SKATEBOARDING

15-down – Grasping red wine found in border plunder : RETENTIVE

18-down – Perjury? : ARCHERY

20-down – Sense : MARBLES

21-down – A Minoan puzzled about all sorts of things : OMNIANA

22-down – Putting in crates : BOXING

25-down – Silence : WHIST

1-across – Maitresse : FRENCHMISTRESS

9-across – : SIRANDREW

10-across – See 18 : BELCH

11-across – 7 and the lady : ETHER

12-across – See 9 : AGUECHEEK

13-across – Spur Dr Bond to drink a lot of wine : MOTIVATE

14-across – Vehicle with groove in it for the honourable orator : BRUTUS

17-across – Modest conclusion to game : NOSIDE

19-across – Fair that may be overtaken : PASSABLE

22-across – Russian writer has an answer that”s about right to 5 : LERMONTOV

24-across – Be removed from Ms Bhutto : NAZIR

25-across – Sort of dressing makes one annoyed : CROSS

26-across – Arms, etc I set on fire when embraced by 18 10’s wife : MILITARIA

27-across – Setter’s model in grave to head into obscurity : MYSTERIOUSNESS

1-down – Catching nothing but cold to make milk churns safe? : FISHERMANSLUCK

2-down – Result of being talked about even if one’s out of it? : EARSHOT

3-down – Managed to be unnatural : CONTRIVED

4-down – Sarcastic s-setters of colours in storm and turbulence : MORDANTS

5-down – Points raised satisfactorily completed : SEWNUP

6-down – Medieval instrument of torture becomes useful : REBEC

7-down – Do the crossword : SOLVENT

8-down – 9, 14, 16, 18, etc the first part of 12 for writers about the district : SHAKESPEAREANS

15-down – Gives good vibes to cure one’s tears : RESONATES

16-down – Badly translated tenth book, one notoriously abused : MALVOLIO

18-down – : SIRTOBY

20-down – Strange business with rare outcome : BIZARRE

21-down – Apple with no core, a vulgar forgery : STUMER

23-down – Start where the filming is done : ONSET

9-across – Venetian cuts his oeuvre : CANALETTO

10-across – See 3 : OFTEN

11-across – Such a fowl as the owl? Nonsense! : ELEGANT

12-across – The nature of de Gaulle’s driving force : ESSENCE

13-across – Relative that is found in Newchurch : NIECE

14-across – Sound like Macavity, for one : PRACTICAL

16-across – See 3 : ASKFORCREDITASA

19-across – Heard to pay for switch : HAIRPIECE

21-across – I’m his replacement; push off! : IMSHI

22-across – See 3 : REFUSAL

23-across – See 3 : OFFENDS

24-across – See 3 : DONOT

25-across – Like Scott’s revival of The Goon Show, I see! : NEOGOTHIC

1-down – New cars he’s wrecked with this cleaner : SCREENWASH

2-down – Neither considered nor armed response on tap here! : KNEEJERK

3-down – Countersign a safe deal: a No tick offered to DSS persons or affluent characters : PLEASE

4-down – The way to reverse: steer! : STOT

5-down – Disputed deed involving ocean’s islands : DODECANESE

6-down – Dante, or his sister, consuming congealed Swiss potatoes : ROSSETTI

7-down – Not stressed, but needing a pick-me-up : ATONIC

8-down – Joan temporised a little before the stake : ANTE

14-down – Body of demonstrators against joining Labour? : PICKETLINE

15-down – Cockroach in cafe’s let out : LEAFINSECT

17-down – How co-stars play or work both ways on location : OPPOSITE

18-down – Sailors in the drink : ABSINTHE

20-down – Chicken Newton preserved in … in fat : INFANT

21-down – Such inspiration doesn’t ebb : INFLOW

22-down – John, Free Democrat hero of Exmoor : RIDD

23-down – Discobolus could lose some weight : OBOL