Daily Answers

1-across – Emergency treatment gets tree settled : FIRSTAID

5-across – Effect when one member passed bill : IMPACT

9-across – The top line is miners take time – little time – to strike gold : NUMERATOR

11-across – Major opera? : NORMA

12-across – Not making anything of a blueprint for reform : UNPROFITABLE

15-across – American edition, somewhat imperfect? : USED

16-across – Pre-privatisation payments for animal that’s endangered at two points : WATERRATES

18-across – Set fire to window as illumination for procession? : TORCHLIGHT

19-across – Look what verse can do : SCAN

21-across – Two residences in one? : MANSIONHOUSE

24-across – Big mouth of model talking! : DELTA

25-across – Unwilling to keep worrying Colin about minimum wear : LOINCLOTH

26-across – Prizes in the direction of an article : AWARDS

27-across – Soldier retreating – no wild talk – it could be blissful : IGNORANT

1-down – See 4 : FUND

2-down – Change of level of racket : RAMP

3-down – Seat lost on purpose, we hear : THRONE

4-down – World bank is, in lofty manner, anti-trade union movement : INTERNATIONAL

6-down – See 4 : MONETARY

7-down – Some score it a tedious affair, a turn-up for loops, etc : AEROBATICS

8-down – Coming across as model to wild party-goer on wrong note : TRAVERSING

10-down – Sport causing disturbance – eating meat, nothing more : RIFLESHOOTING

13-down – Formula for going round one checked for duration with versatility in computing : MULTIMEDIA

14-down – Sulk by Fitzgerald, Reagan leading her a dance : PETRONELLA

17-down – Square stones connected with eastern country : THAILAND

20-down – Film produced by a gypsy choir : PSYCHO

22-down – Fish with a tail? : CODA

23-down – Bird talk? : CHAT

1-across – 17 retreat for damsel and alumnus : BODIAM

4-across – 17 to keep its raison d’etre aflame? : WARWICK

9-across – Silent and cunning, approaching 17 : DUMBARTON

10-across – 17 of stone : FLINT

11-across – Oz feline : OUNCE

12-across – Kitchen implement required, if she’s licking without the man around : FISHSLICE

13-across – Clerical residence where European retains English lines : DEANERY

15-across – Ruddy article’s unfinished on 17 : ROSYTH

17-across – Man fought to be heard : CASTLE

19-across – Put up with plague, though dejected : HANGDOG

22-across – Super little honey store deposited in flower by environmentalists : EXCELLENT

24-across – 17s for the setter : THEME

26-across – 17 must be strong in the middle : CORFE

27-across – 17 in which to cage monster : PENDRAGON

28-across – Move gracefully to the main 17 : SWANSEA

29-across – River and rocks, or 17 : RADNOR

1-down – Plot to cross the water to the 17 : BEDFORD

2-down – Some show dreadful spirit : DEMON

3-down – Intended to be disheartened after a pedestrian puzzle causes incredulity : AMAZEMENT

4-down – Barbara 17 : WINDSOR

5-down – One setting for a 17? : RUFUS

6-down – I keep up without it having started : INITIATED

7-down – Singular product of excitement offered the equipment for nine more : KITTEN

8-down – Close to rout at conclusion of Derby : STUFFY

14-down – One setting for a tree : ARAUCARIA

16-down – Health farms a strain – a questionable intake of nothing? : SANATORIA

18-down – Specimens cut up will include the side of the head, but no extremities : EXEMPLA

19-down – Very much hostile to the witch hoarding money : HATING

20-down – One gathers the rest in the country, though many deported : GLEANER

21-down – Dodges the obstacles : FENCES

23-down – 17 where guides may be heard : LEEDS

25-down – 17 – Madrid’s name for London’s? : ELGIN

1-across – Support the environment through force of habit : SECOND

4-across – See 1 : NATURE

9-across – Juice extractors engendering motile hose panic : THEOILCOMPANIES

10-across – Critical Chaldean chap : URGENT

11-across – Old dog, before going out, runs to supplier of new tricks : PROCURER

12-across – Hair grip needed here like a hole in the head : FOLLICLE

14-across – Surrounded with road hoardings: time to get out : AMIDST

15-across – Beau-ideal having trouble with ‘is new intake : ADONIS

18-across – Man of the people puts oil distribution beyond pressure : POPULIST

21-across – Greek islander making hash of it in essence : CORFIOTE

22-across – Judge who contended with a bit of an ass : SAMSON

24-across – With this restriction, dissolute plier got on train : PETROLRATIONING

25-across – Old, poor dear Plato’s talking shop : EXEDRA

26-across – TV presenter staying in bed : ANCHOR

1-down – To wit, her weight rises with movement : SCHERZO

2-down – Some hitch in the garlic supply? : CLOVE

3-down – Such fluvial languages gathering nothing by ear : NILOTIC

5-down – John Brown’s baby’s cold remedy: take out a jar! : AMPHORA

6-down – Sir Thomas Browne wrote to replace funeral tea supplier : URNBURIAL

7-down – As Milton was with no perception of his 22 in Gaza : EYELESS

8-down – Make one of two : COUPLE

13-down – Red falcon falling to an earthly host : LANDFORCE

16-down – Deciphering English codes, I see : DIOCESE

17-down – Ruins the Porsche’s lines, does it? : SPOILER

18-down – French ready with chopper to cut such profits : PRETAX

19-down – Enthusiasm is rising between father and son : PASSION

20-down – He suffered consonantly and so madly set a thesis : SPOONER

23-down – He did scream a lot round Norway! : MUNCH

1-across – As worn by fatherless seven-year-old Sigmund? : FREUDIANSLIP

8-across – Servants all losing head on line : HELOTRY

9-across – Overwhelm with inverted ironwork? : OPPRESS

11-across – Joy-riding, initially in a van that’s out of control : NIRVANA

12-across – Walk for a disabled lawyer : ALAMEDA

13-across – Monotonous setter boarding express : SAMEY

14-across – Addressing a reproof : TALKINGTO

16-across – Curiosities of old trains: independent end-to-end carriages : BRICABRAC

19-across – Abandon the B-team : SCRUB

21-across – Bloody attractive woman there, just on the left! : REDDISH

23-across – Here tub-thumper stands to flatter and fight : SOAPBOX

24-across – Sleds reversing over a lake bird : SEAGULL

25-across – Obscure tavern in which king meets low woman, it is rumoured : INKHORN

26-across – Spooner”s preferred form of transaction? : PARTEXCHANGE

1-down – Maximum/minimum comfort? Neither is complete support : FULCRUM

2-down – In the beginnings of each year, the Royal Family is timeless, but it is not tideless : ESTUARY

3-down – Sly trader could be involved in dye trade : DRYSALTER

4-down – Marketplace has gone with the sun : AGORA

5-down – Bribe the Queen”s Singers : SOPRANI

6-down – Back Joe to smuggle old instrument in ? he”s cool : ICEBERG

7-down – Recurring pain may be what”s taken away poet? : CHINESEBURNS

10-down – Big hoax involving Don with outward appearance of windmills? : SHADOWBOXING

15-down – He may help you gain access to hair fashion : LOCKSMITH

17-down – One confused and in a state : INDIANA

18-down – Unlimited alcohol consumed in a limited time factor : ALIQUOT

19-down – Loose nurse harbours need : SLACKEN

20-down – Some extra for women in tatters – detailed here : RIBBONE

22-down – A snail left one in a spell : HELIX

1-across – Darling, did you hear the disgraced cricketer’s defence? A Welsh address produced all the starred items : JOHANNSEBASTIANBACH

11-across – ‘As to be gloss, then: display enthusiasm about it : SAINTMATTHEWPASSION

13-across – Have valedictions the power to give vegetables to insect, … : PEASANT

14-across – … a flower to the English … : EASTER

15-across – … and beans for the drinker? : COFFEE

17-across – Fibre for mats is a luxury : SISAL

19-across – To cry uncertainly, perhaps, may be judicious : SOBER

20-across – Like the little ball pusher supplied to Home Guard? : SPHERULAR

22-across – Always a sweater for father? Yes, as long as the pea-green boat was at sea : AYEARANDADAY

24-across – One who speaks 10 at this time : ORATORIO

26-across – The typical fool on the British road : BMINORMASS

27-across – Dispute about aristocrat and aristocratic? : ARTOFFUGUE

30-across – Boggled about recipe with varying variations : GOLDBERG

31-across – One with child – pregnant – lies sick : SINGLEPARENT

32-across – Invalid objects, sick at international body’s backing for restraints : NULLITIES

35-across – Shoot bird in bed : LAYER

36-across – Economist, if professional, would be one who takes the pledge : MISER

38-across – Someone of importance at home to the Queen : ERNEST

40-across – Seasonal pudding could be meat in an alien faith : FLAMBE

41-across – Have chips with it? It sounds a foolish trick : SILICON

44-across – A gate the Communist leader formerly had a right to : BRANDENBURGCONCERTO

45-across – Water supply at beauty spot: Communist has one in Dundee’s house : WELLTEMPEREDCLAVIER

1-down – Riding habits from English public house in the sticks? : JOSEPHS

2-down – Town in Israel twinned with Luton, say? : HAIFA

3-down – Object of the beautiful game is one for the girls : NETBALL

4-down – Silence at the back! It’s sunk : SHAFT

5-down – Speak live, breaking embargoes, something like French in the kitchen-garden? : BUTTERBEANS

6-down – S-Scotsman about to think in French like the Fairy Queen? : SPENSERIAN

7-down – Mark, the journalist, announces himself : IMPRESS

8-down – Channel of exorbitant payment for bouquet : NOSE

9-down – Do I have permission to proceed, buddy? : AMIGO

10-down – As much of a trouble as I can get a grip on? : HANDFUL

12-down – Released upwards: nothing remains for the chase : DEERFOREST

16-down – Driver gets encouragement to contain a disturbance : CHARIOTEER

18-down – One posing as police? O no! : SPECIAL

19-down – Clever about addition at home and home is a bank : SANDMARTIN

21-down – Biscuit cooked at a fair : RATAFIA

22-down – Advocates of catharsis first of importance in glasses : ALBIGENSES

23-down – Figures in tomboy’s rhyme : RHOMBOI

25-down – Russian boy raised among scientific researchers is putting the clock back : REGRESS

28-down – Game astronomer swallowing nasty bug gets the shakes : RUGBYLEAGUE

29-down – Range of force for computer operator, a country dweller : FIELDMOUSE

33-down – Protracted acknowledgment of medieval weaponry : LONGBOW

34-down – An umbrella not altogether necessary under the sun – hence belladonna and chips? : SOLANUM

36-down – Mother, reportedly a deprived person, gets some stick : MALACCA

37-down – Ill-feeling was current, partly so, without love : RANCOUR

39-down – Poles suffer from exponent of go-slow : SNAIL

41-down – Someone who turns to ice and grits his teeth? : STOIC

42-down – Welsh friend’s expressed surprise at soldier : CORGI

43-down – Alter the ebb? : EDIT