Daily Answers

1-across – News of lentil soup, for example – nice to cook : INTELLIGENCE

8-across – Faddish, in theory, like a sort of compass without leaders : ISMATIC

9-across – Victims of 7 fight and fight with Howard in cinema : SPARROW

11-across – The power of the law, at a stretch? : LONGARM

12-across – Supplier of nourishment put by an expert into a child : TAPROOT

13-across – Something to do with vengeance reportedly causes a stink : WREAK

14-across – Thus far the little pig is without errors and omissions : THEREUNTO

16-across – Awfully odd beggar, like victim of 7, but beasts : BADGERDOG

19-across – Flying beast, male, to swim? : BATHE

21-across – Place for cattle with no entry to loch : RANNOCH

23-across – The first lady and the others at the top : EVEREST

24-across – Wild waves – that is our prospect : SEAVIEW

25-across – Point to paid assassin succeeding where Disney succeeded : WHITMAN

26-across – White cliffs of the South, which is at the heart of trained horses : SEVENSISTERS

1-down – Very large fellows with semi-organised exterior : IMMENSE

2-down – Victim of 7, old ship with title docked first : TITLARK

3-down – Dot’s follower among the ransacked went by train? : LOCOMOTED

4-down – Something put in to rinse the clothes : INSET

5-down – Cut up politician on the French pattern : EXAMPLE

6-down – Drawing goes round on the wagon to begin with : CARTOON

7-down – Economise on performance – bag a brace : KILLTWOBIRDS

10-down – See 7 : WWTHONESTONE

15-down – Victims of 7 for 5, so we all dispersed : EAGLEOWLS

17-down – Such as this comic hero died – and live : DANDARE

18-down – If it’s up to me, I have to be bringing tears to eyes, etc : EMOTIVE

19-down – Straightway the old priest is put in the old well : BEELINE

20-down – Mother’s ruin is taken for drinking : THERMOS

22-down – See 9 : HAWKS

8-across – Strange habit in unknown part of Asia Minor once : BITHYNIA

9-across – £1 accepted by idiot – not so bright : TWILIT

10-across – One’s oversight may make the front page : EDITOR

11-across – King Kong, perhaps, about to eat fruit : GREATAPE

12-across – Trade in wood and port : DEAL

13-across – Result of earthquake to which property may be subject? : GROUNDRENT

15-across – Copy of leading track sport : TRACING

16-across – Strange man? Blair is held to be quite the opposite : ANTONYM

18-across – Record in entire chaos – that’s careless : INDISCREET

19-across – Elegant stock : NEAT

20-across – As eggs with hair would be, comparatively speaking : SHAGGIER

22-across – Sport with a subversive appearance : FACADE

23-across – Nifty as a Dior fashion model : ADROIT

24-across – There’s no end to war decoration at the right time of year : NOVEMBER

1-down – Conceal first a little stream, then a greater : PIDDLETRENTHIDE

2-down – Colourless, devoid of fashion : WHITELACKINGTON

3-down – End organic modification of male attributes : ANDROGENIC

4-down – Archbishop Fisher’s quarry : LANGTON

5-down – Most yeast strains can produce undesirable swelling : STYE

6-down – Season arrived without being carried : WINTERBORNECAME

7-down – Tanner, the name of youth leader : SIXPENNYHANDLEY

14-down – Term of office? : NINETOFIVE

17-down – See 4 : HERRING

21-down – Letter to volunteers from No 10 : IOTA

1-across – A lounge prepared for 13 on the May the first : ANGELOU

5-across – Observed the end of Man – out of the wood? : SAWDUST

10-across – 13 a tall guy? : LONG

11-across – Prevalence in half French town? : ENDEMICITY

12-across – See 10 : FELLOW

13-across – Camera in operation 14 from where we are : AMERICAN

14-across – Western men with fairy article : HESPERIAN

16-across – A fall guy : USHER

17-across – Disappointing weather for 13 : FROST

19-across – Proximity causing many to lose head : CLOSENESS

23-across – Gush of these nine13s, perhaps, turned off in use : EFFUSION

24-across – See clearly – 13 : LOWELL

26-across – High wire holds 13 flower : HELIOTROPE

27-across – Pound of the 13 bible : EZRA

28-across – Caucasian male dropping English 13 : WHITMAN

29-across – 13 may be said to be more amusing : WITTIER

2-down – Late Tertiary personality turning up in East Anglian river : NEOGENE

3-down – Singular communist editor of Wisden : ENGEL

4-down – When it breaks out, endless weaponry will be used. . . : OPENWAR

6-down – . . .by the military, with a sign about their leader : ARMIES

7-down – Emily the 13 in the back yard like a child? : DICKINSON

8-down – Having taken a chair, I had a meal which will be enough for me : SATIATE

9-down – Inside most of the land between sea and river is 13 : ADGARALLANPOE

15-down – Attitudiniser after Geller”s model : POSTURIST

18-down – Give food and drink to one making decisions about silence : REFRESH

20-down – Mozart’s associate to go to bed in a dress : SALIERI

21-down – Spend, spend, spend – rise of record-breaking powerful increase : SPLURGE

22-down – Rattles damaged stairs : SISTRA

25-down – 14 temperature for grain : WHEAT

5-across – : BLOODY

6-across – See 5 : MINDED

9-across – No booze for Jack Turner’s ugly sister : GORGON

10-across – Seat of the Spencers east of this Trent-side village : ALTHORPE

11-across – The Soldier’s Tale starts with the Colonel, say? : GIST

12-across – Niobe’s claim for attention? : CRYINGNEED

13-across – The apostle’s mother-in-law sobs wildly, lacking in two saints : BARTHOLOMEW

18-across – Adams’s Pihsretaw thus folded? : DOWNTURNED

21-across – Angeleno’s place in point-to-point dash : ELAN

22-across – Fount of inspiration needed after again failing PPE : AGANIPPE

23-across – The price of fish thrown back, say : CHARGE

24-across – : ENGINE

25-across – See 24 : DRIVER

1-down – Putting a barbarian in goal could be the last place to put him! : GOLGOTHA

2-down – Avon, I see, could be arcadian for Adam : EDENIC

3-down – Mean to go into denial with this game supplier : NINTENDO

4-down – Modern little woman at home with neighbour : ADJOIN

5-down – : BOOGIE

7-down – : DOPPEL

8-down – Chucker-out of children held in suspense here? : BABYBOUNCER

14-down – Not following suit, can force hold the rear? : TRUMPING

15-down – The Observer’s remedy? Yes! One meal ticket between two Europeans : EYESALVE

16-down – See 5 : WOOGIE

17-down – See 7 : GANGER

19-down – Name the ass docked in infancy : NONAGE

20-down – Propped up to perform part of the service? : DECARB

1-across – Space for Einstein…the present”s in the post : KNOWSNOBOUNDS

10-across – Advancing from Congo in good order : ONGOING

11-across – Rubber stamp’s first for love from my sister in Paris : MASSEUR

12-across – Episcopal joint : MITRE

13-across – Order flowers on island, first picked from 10 11 5 6 7 14 12 15 4 : OMBUDSMAN

14-across – Relation in water, neither black nor white : SEPIA

16-across – Commonplace rope attached to piano : PLATITUDE

18-across – Some terrorists in charge of ban : INTERDICT

19-across – They are abominable readers with McCourt’s book : YETIS

20-across – The great majority are close to thriller writer Gavin : NEARLYALL

23-across – Rebellious dog? : BOXER

24-across – Put back the remaining deposit : RESTORE

25-across – Chatter idly and quietly to conductor : PRATTLE

26-across – : PARLIAMENTARY

2-down – Club for other things besides drug : NIGHTSPOT

3-down – Mean time may have worth : WHILE

4-down – Black fiddler holds string : NEGRO

5-down – Dr Robert’s outside – final consequence of explosion : BOMBBLAST

6-down – Raises a flower to encourage fallen child : UPSADAISY

7-down – Fancy there’s little point in drink : DREAM

8-down – See 26 : COMMISSIONERS

9-down – Put in paper about sewage and woody growth in Edinburgh : PRINCESSTREET

15-down – Funny pair left dessert – I shouldn’t have swallowed it : APRILFOOL

16-down – Season of the above : PRIMAVERA

17-down – Speak about beast, an alien in Staffordshire : UTTOXETER

21-down – Eat as required in mess? : ATSEA

22-down – Drinks noisily, which shouldn’t happen : LAPSE

23-down – Serpentine route to be proud of : BOAST