Daily Answers

5-across – Is solver on setter’s side? Get it? : AREYOU

6-across – See 5 : WITHME

9-across – Punishment for lance-corporal, a good guy and mature : STRIPE

10-across – Compound of oxygen and hydrogen source of pigment? : OCHREOUS

11-across – See 22 : TOIT

12-across – Predominant elements in Yorkshire cricket? : OVERRIDING

13-across – No form, no win will provide for us henceforth : FROMNOWONIN

18-across – Top duplicator for footmen gains agreement among journalists: is this a threat or … : ONEOFTHESE

21-across – See 18 : DAYS

22-across – … a promise of time coming from me to stand drinks to Marshal Tito? : WHENIGET

23-across – See 22 : AROUND

24-across – Clever is a student that’s not depressed by Lawrence : ASTUTE

25-across – His start in Eastwood meant he had a patron : CLIENT

1-down – Stray from on/off county, the first one to reach its bay : DEVIATOR

2-down – Give up what will boost the personality? : FOREGO

3-down – In past time I beat my wife? Then it’s time for love : HITHERTO

4-down – Hatred is complex, but possible to follow : THREAD

5-down – Gold for god, the creator : AUTHOR

7-down – Quadrupedal current in Queen’s building : EQUINE

8-down – Lawrence, entertaining one on his own to dine, was killed by overwork : DONETODEATH

14-down – Soften the report of the scandal of Thurber’s Walter? : MITIGATE

15-down – I leave the odd diversion, usually leaving en masse : INDROVES

16-down – Articles only for this girl : ANTHEA

17-down – Bird to ring, by the sound of it : CYGNET

19-down – Speak about the Pole? Fancy! : ORNATE

20-down – Make it possible to catch some elephants outside : ENABLE

1-across – He lets no thin diva type forget last aria, perhaps in Patience : THEOPERA

5-across – Let oneself down, on the face of it : ABSEIL

9-across – See 1 : AINTOVER

10-across – See 1 : TILTHE

12-across – Outback worker needed: ‘s Mon Oncle available? : STATIONHAND

15-across – Take home British, but not English, figure : RHOMB

17-across – A lot to ask of a Lilliputian : TALLORDER

18-across – Pungent plant returned by river with railed transport : SMARTWEED

19-across – Be affected by food from a runcible spoon : MINCE

20-across – Catches the City unwilling to provide no life cover : HEARSECLOTH

24-across – He admitted all to his circus except miners : BARNUM

25-across – Conclude with one or less : INFERIOR

26-across – Agitation raised in the 16 : LATHER

27-across – When Guardian readers include Dome developers: what the devil! : ASMODEUS

1-down – Start of the Rangers’ collapse; Saints encroach : TRANSGRESS

2-down – O, Anna Neagle! You hadn’t a dreadful shape like this : ENNEAGONAL

3-down – Remind me, wasn’t he once the Italian PM? : PRODI

4-down – Kicking oneself in the gaudery, perhaps : RUEINGTHEDAY

6-down – One’s sting is in the hell-broth’s mild brown brew : BLINDWORM

7-down – Albert Einstein’s part in designing figure for the Folies-Bergere : ERTE

8-down – Careen this emblem : LEEK

11-down – See 1 across : FATLADYSINGS

13-down – O, he’s the fellow, they say, to chance upon some toothsome relic : ODONTOLITE

14-down – Saps environmentally friendly fog warnings : GREENHORNS

16-down – Where Beau Nash was immersed in his country residence? : BATHHOUSE

21-down – Firm about revolutionary principles : CREDO

22-down – Fourth World figure in Matabeleland : ABEL

23-down – Pack member putting one right in the club : BRAT

9-across – Put the said seed in the ground and pray for it : INTERCEDE

10-across – Divine in liquor? That’s bad : ADDLE

11-across – Richard III briefly : GLOSTER

12-across – Turn out, maybe, to the credit of Kipling’s dhole : REDOUND

13-across – Prophet like Tales from Shakespeare? : ELIAS

14-across – For children at the fete among lots of lions? On your head be it! : PONYRIDES

16-across – Following a clue to the Globe: Hamlet, Timon, Nym, Nerissa, Pansy, Pia – we’ve got muddled : ONEMANINHISTIME

19-across – See 16 : MANYPARTS

21-across – Some more letters to secure a new tenant : RELET

22-across – Fruit went off quickly, in brief : CURRANT

23-across – Language spoken in Alnwick and the south of France : SUDANIC

24-across – See 16 : PLAYS

25-across – Solvers in line for cricket trophy – for batting? : EYELASHES

1-down – Incomplete English edition of Othello put up: it’s likely to cost extra : SINGLEROOM

2-down – Beautiful lady’s alias, an outrage with tree for city : ATROPINE

3-down – This was a man, not a beast, almost American : BRUTUS

4-down – Comic writer’s tragedy : LEAR

5-down – Practises economy in relation to World War I scene : RETRENCHES

6-down – Promoter of togetherness between a Lapp and a Russian : PANDARUS

7-down – Past ending, a short name and a bad one holding it, in 4 : EDMUND

8-down – See 23 : HEND

14-down – Matters of precedence between a religious man and one with family connections : PRIORITIES

15-down – Sept 1: is MCC playing? There’s doubt : SCEPTICISM

17-down – Assess value and supply information about article : APPRAISE

18-down – Article on Coriolanus with missing sections, a peri-ed piece? : IOLANTHE

20-down – Working on my own radar, I didn’t need RADA : NORMAN

21-down – See 20 : RODWAY

22-down – Ape making little noise in military unit : COPY

23-down – Joycean role with movement gracious as in the old days : STEP

9-across – What Bowdler did abroad – back street entrance about ten pence : EXPURGATE

10-across – Employed in treating sinuses : INUSE

11-across – English plovers in Dallas : EWING

12-across – News on TV, including point presented in a refined manner : GENTEELLY

13-across – Cases of witticism in a sledge : LUGGAGE

14-across – Man, maybe, that’s in glasses : SPECIES

17-across – 27s work like one? : CHARM

19-across – 3s for the first part of 13 across : POD

20-across – 28, the English point of view : ANGLE

21-across – More reliable, hence supporting? : SOUNDER

22-across – Macbeth surprised about Cawdor is a gas : METHANE

24-across – The noises you can hear are being dropped : CLANGOURS

26-across – Monkeys don’t have a good time, quite the reverse : TROOP

28-across – Hide concealing the end of the yarn : SKEIN

29-across – Signs show all those loveless creatures, acid freaks : THEZODIAC

1-down – 23s, etc at heart : CETE

2-down – There’s tension here, but it’s early days : SPRING

3-down – Preset reminder holds little weight : PROGRAMMED

4-down – It could be people that hear a horse in a storm : GAGGLE

5-down – Rudolf as comic relief? : REDNOSED

6-down – 2s upset Scottish burgh : NIDE

7-down – Structure for rooks : BUILDING

8-down – 12s or 26 downs – I’m out to be a clinger : BEVY

13-down – Range needed for destroyer to drop first torpedo : LOCUS

15-down – Tax on ale, it may be for 26 downs : EXALTATION

16-down – Investment in herons : SIEGE

18-down – Flattered by removal of prefix three times from the impure : ADULATED

19-down – Hobbies, etc mean turning up the right clothes : PURSUITS

22-down – Does the Queen have to pass it? : MUSTER

23-down – He had an affair, naughtiness aroused by Venus? : ADONIS

24-down – Those 22s throw to 28 : CAST

25-down – Go with the crowd : GANG

27-down – 1s prepare to travel : PACK

1-across – False pride: it resolves current disruption : TIDERIP

5-across – Say, shall we inform the President? This guy could build bridges! : TELFORD

9-across – Re-dial with a change of heart : ABOUTFACE

10-across – See dignity in this joint : MITRE

11-across – See 12 : GAME

12-across – : TWOCANPLAY

14-across – See 12 : ATTHAT

15-across – An hour in the fashion editor’s set up : THRONED

16-across – Arnold Bennett initially turned on Denry Machin: I find that rum! : BACARDI

18-across – No backbone, naturally, in this poor wretch : INSECT

20-across – Hope to stay in traction? Not with this treatment! : OSTEOPATHY

21-across – See 24 : TRAP

24-across – : MOUSE

25-across – As innocent as the two boys in green : LILYWHITE

26-across – What Shiva would do to some Franco-Hellenic battleground : DESTROY

27-across – Barak’s cover in the UK-Malay trouble : YAMULKA

1-down – Dialectal distinction within the dynasty : TWANG

2-down – Muck-spreaders find it entrancing : DOORMAT

3-down – Degenerate English teaching by this : ROTE

4-down – The 24 21 for one: Will happy with it; a-any dissension? : PLAYWITHINAPLAY

5-down – Macbeth, Act 1: Thesps hotly disposed : THESCOTTISHPLAY

6-down – Flavouring’s a sour disappointment when added to the pot : LEMONGRASS

7-down – Talon torn from goldfinch : ORTOLAN

8-down – Mates with this look to make Bucks Fizz? : DOEEYED

13-down – The driver of Blake’s fire appliance? : CHARIOTEER

16-down – Flourished as Leopold? : BLOOMED

17-down – They stop the current flow of coppers retaining an informer : CUTOUTS

19-down – Warm drink : CORDIAL

22-down – Religious representation from religious separatists : PIETA

23-down – Big fish in this : SWIM