Daily Answers

1-across – Grace-and-favour water tower offered with ice bath : FORWHATWE

6-across – One propelling through the prison system? : SCREW

9-across – Old Bill, the past and former king : ONCER

10-across – Hazel’s assailant, a madman we find despicable : NUTWEEVIL

11-across – See 1 : AREABOUTTO

12-across – Neat how it adds up : STOT

14-across – See 1 : RECEIVE

15-across – Palindromist’s punt? : EACHWAY

17-across – At which point, wife confronts her age : WHEREON

19-across – No amateur supporter, ‘e would find it insulting : PROFANE

20-across – This depends on the listener : LOBE

22-across – ____, 17 the 8 21 : IKNOWABANK

25-across – Ordain him, for example, at church : PRONOUNCE

26-across – Stalk the prince and the baker’s daughter : PROWL

27-across – Cultist seeking return of an emperor : RASTA

28-across – Inspire once to have me bear the disruption : EMBREATHE

1-down – Did she grow to support the Young Pretender? : FLORA

2-down – A la what, Marcel? Bit over the top, isn’t it? : RECHERCHE

3-down – Add herb oil, mixed and seasoned : HARDBOILED

4-down – Distress you, brother? Bit over the top, isn’t it? : TONSURE

5-down – Otorhinolaryngologists here let one out on licence : ENTITLE

6-down – Slant society put on the royal bloomers : SKEW

7-down – Take top off evergreen with hammer : RIVET

8-down – Something of the 1 down’s rave-up, say? : WILDTHYME

13-down – The fruit of smelted copper slag : SCROGAPPLE

14-down – It goads horses to take up slower jumping! : ROWELSPUR

16-down – How do you fancy women? That could be tabu, love! Put a lid on it! : WHATABOUT

18-down – Refusnik’s Nietzschean input means nothing at all in Natal : NIKSNIE

19-down – Saw something of Solomon : PROVERB

21-down – Forces out air disasters : BLOWS

23-down – Minogue’s missile one found in a Scottish strait : KYLIE

24-down – Mrs Copperfield’s war-time confinement measure : DORA

1-across – They aren’t given to hide, say, in transports : VEGANS

4-across – See 6 : BARRETT

9-across – Cones indicate use of dak, sorrow resulting : ROADWORKS

10-across – Place for food and a smoke : JOINT

11-across – Happy scene provided by do-it-yourself students : IDYLL

12-across – Coming into range, a demon drink : ORANGEADE

13-across – Endless impertinence got up to mortify : NECROSE

15-across – Sikh will say what is to follow : SEQUEL

17-across – Don’t allow Scots lad a weight : BANTAM

19-across – Chap involved with girl left out of the picture : GRAPHIC

22-across – Rustic takes tea with western philosopher : CHAWBACON

24-across – Mount with drum : TABOR

26-across – Speak without reservation : UTTER

27-across – Dissolving a beer in it to get drunk : INEBRIATE

28-across – Visualise deposits in money? : FORESEE

29-across – Dress right for B and 23 : ROBERT

1-down – B of play in play : VERSION

2-down – Associate of B in train or boat : GRAVY

3-down – Innovative railway station at centre of spiral : NEWELPOST

4-down – Ticket to ride? A kiss – well in! : BUSPASS

5-down – Change arrangements relating to dance : REJIG

6-down – B, English, with revolutionary rabble at the Ritz : ELIZABETH

7-down – Reel in the summer when up? : TOTTER

8-down – Bird has to be about doubly kin to B : BROOKE

14-down – Bill is indeed a peculiar person : CHARACTER

16-down – Thrice prefixed in size of paper, ending in 45 minutes? : QUARTERTO

18-down – User of B with feature, for example, of the aristocracy in a way : MACHINE

19-down – See 18 : GUNNER

20-down – What householder pays for a dog at present? : CURRENT

21-down – Bit of neck, namely what may go round it : SCRUFF

23-down – 8’s said to be doubly kin to B : BURNS

25-down – One of the second water, doubly kin to B : BLAKE

1-across – Essential to beat retreat in opposite direction : MATERIAL

5-across – Flower rented 1 across : CAMLET

9-across – 1 across : DUNGAREE

10-across – A renegade like Turner’s 1 across : SATARA

11-across – 1 across quickly drapes large room : SHALLOON

12-across – 1 across student interrupts visit : POPLIN

14-across – One spotting gull’s 1 across : SEERSUCKER

18-across – Beauty surrounds fabulous creature at 1 across : BROCATELLE

22-across – Nothing to add about 1 across : MUSLIN

23-across – Election results in 1 across : COTELINE

24-across – Postman’s 1 across : SENDAL

25-across – 1 across made in Belize : ZIBELINE

26-across – Extra points for 1 across : MOREEN

27-across – Hellenic-styled 1 across : CHENILLE

1-down – Instant food is fashionable : MODISH

2-down – Helmet that takes in : TINHAT

3-down – Join again in truth : REALLY

4-down – Wind up and it turns : ANEMOMETER

6-down – Something very similar to behold in a fever : ANALOGUE

7-down – Thin as marijuana : LEAFLIKE

8-down – Mostly concise about wet footwear : TRAINERS

13-down – Slatternly one cut up in short pieces : TROLLOPISH

15-down – A crowd hoisted a whole cow’s stomach : ABOMASUM

16-down – Killer is jail-bird with love for right : POISONER

17-down – A penny damages – jolly steep : MARINADE

19-down – Cut new river : SEVERN

20-down – Stuff including top-notch circulation of issue : FILIAL

21-down – A wise renegade keeps quiet : SERENE

1-across – Copper is inserted in a drain in church : PISCINA

5-across – Excavation into unusual heap in the cemetery : EPITAPH

9-across – Show pain about number in favour measured by Beaufort : WINDFORCE

10-across – Possible sequel to extra painting : MURAL

11-across – One that has got into corruption causes disturbance : RIOT

12-across – Charge a supporter opposed to a holiday area : COSTABRAVA

14-across – Far off assistance, I’m sorry to say : AFRAID

15-across – Some pictures are : ILLUSED

16-across – Fellow-worker is compelling without one : COAGENT

18-across – No.1 sage is in point : WISEST

20-across – Dogfish : NURSEHOUND

21-across – Very considerable backing for a stone : MEGA

24-across – Confederate : REBUS

25-across – Is different on a line where summers are similar : ISOTHERAL

26-across – See 16 down : LOCKING

27-across – When my prince will come in the form of a samoyed : SOMEDAY

1-down – The captive monarch: she’s kept in a mount : POWER

2-down – Number 4’s out of order : SUNROOF

3-down – Unreliable for a brief moment when leaderless : IFFY

4-down – State in exposure : AIRCONDITIONING

5-down – Choose endlessly well-to-do former partners without name : EEECTRICWINDOWS

6-down – Stop the crowd within roughly two miles : IMMOBILISE

7-down – The atmosphere is captivating : AIRBAGS

8-down – It’s two thirds empty and lies low : HOLLAND

13-down – Premier musician keeps one ward diverted : PADEREWSKI

16-down – Little money to get hold of when backing a sovereign : CENTRAL

17-down – People of intelligence about to hole up for a way of keeping fit : AEROBIC

19-down – See 1 : STEERED

22-down – Love in a friend isn’t pure : ALLOY

23-down – A friend much wronged? : CHUM

1-across – Tchaikovsky hero’s individual spirit : ONEGIN

5-across – Call, in poet’s translation, for one with jewelled ear : ETHIOP

8-across – Said solver’s treated amorously, not like Burns’s love : YORKIST

9-across – Put the frighteners on abandoned byre : COWSHED

11-across – The usual runs on banks from investments : STOCKSANDSHARES

12-across – In which pupil appears to flag : IRIS

13-across – Painter given money to turn fish-eater : TINTORETTO

17-across – Not owing a pound, retired into fitted kitchen : INTHEBLACK

18-across – Elemental spirit? : FIRE

20-across – Fish getting mad among non-alcoholic drinks by 4 6, they say : TANGLEWOODTALES

23-across – Poisonous yellow deformed stunted growth, after the Sun : RAGWORT

24-across – Abstraction to go with daylight : ROBBERY

25-across – Italian and German articles in silent flight : GLIDER

26-across – A month on the border produces chaos : MAYHEM

2-down – Traction’s treatment for druggy : NARCOTIST

3-down – Composer’s connection between notes : GLINKA

4-down – Winkle with sodium compared with iodine on top of … : NATHANIEL

5-down – Spanish hero with a line to the Yard? : ELCID

6-down – Goldie embracing the Thunderer for the first part of 26 : HAWTHORN

7-down – Going into the red compared with 17? : OTHER

8-down – Small objects during the last programme with 21 6, they say : YESMINISTER

10-down – Author of computing system, a plaything for even half a TV outfit : DOSTOYEVSKY

14-down – What the spy in the cab said about cat, pig and sheep : TACHOGRAM

15-down – A lake you have drunk – reel with mirth : THIRLMERE

16-down – Factor caused by mirth arising during meals? : FEELCOLD

19-down – Initially short and fat from Australian beer : STUBBY

21-down – Boy goes on batting when uplifted : NIGEL

22-down – See 18 : WATER