Daily Answers

1-across – The Guardian’s ebb? It changes at dusk : WEREWOLF

5-across – Petrified out of one’s mind? : STONED

9-across – Rush – fancy losing head! – to find revelation from animal behaviour : ZOOMANCY

10-across – Monster will continue tediously : DRAGON

11-across – Second note a classical note? That would be telling : RELATING

12-across – Trainee 1 down to go slow at the wheel? : POTTER

14-across – Joint order for news of monster : HIPPOGRIFF

18-across – Witchcraft? : BROOMSTICK

22-across – River with Irish source : IRWELL

23-across – Monster to sunbathe, eating a lot of chips, perhaps : BASILISK

24-across – Monster in the course of going or gone : GORGON

25-across – Sixth Commandment, part of the Bible that’s highly dangerous : VIRULENT

26-across – Change one’s team and live? : RESIDE

27-across – Propelling barge through tunnel’s a warming job for women and children : LEGGINGS

1-down – Jolly good point followed by headless 10? : WIZARD

2-down – Grub getting ‘eated in part : ROOTLE

3-down – Ghost artist with surrounding : WRAITH

4-down – Student model among ancient Britons took in an authorised person : LICENTIATE

6-down – Up worn track to Irish water, a little seasonal one : TURLOUGH

7-down – Close one held by sailor, taken by walker after dark : NIGHTAIR

8-down – Scales dropped from dunderhead with frill : DANDRUFF

13-down – Concentrate on one of the sail pieces? : SPECIALISE

15-down – A. Pontifex, contractor : ABRIDGER

16-down – Problems with the pigskin at 12’s school – a growth”s developed : HOGWARTS

17-down – Sol that’s variable: with big bird above, sol varied just the same : EMULSOID

19-down – Monster needing some surgery: setter’s coming in : SIMURG

20-down – Monster accompanied by Ernest from EastEnders? : WIVERN

21-down – Rays to get on for speed : SKATES

1-across – Ignorant Ramist misconstrued Pythagorean theory : TRANSMIGRATION

8-across – God a woman? … : THORA

9-across – … Ergo, boxes with philosopher : SOCRATES

11-across – Bags of silence aboard toboggan : LUGGAGE

12-across – Let out : RELEASE

13-across – Dishonestly borrow from dopehead behind bars : CADGE

15-across – Sample spin doctor with TV set that’s faulty : TESTDRIVE

17-across – Almost provide cover for fellow rebel : INSURGENT

20-across – One in the star’s back cavity : SINUS

21-across – Southern prospector’s tool : SPANNER

23-across – A blemish is produced by a parasitic worm … : ASCARIS

25-across – … carrying blood and causing a row : VASCULAR

26-across – Shocking gay activists shedding silver : OUTRE

27-across – Deals involving Lang and Hitchcock productions: is this 1 across? : METEMPSYCHOSIS

1-down – Carry round beer extracts in darkness : TOTALECLIPSE

2-down – Part of the morning on top of Golgotha : AMONG

3-down – Secret pro and the trauma she engendered : SHAMATEUR

4-down – Look closely at small creature keeping quiet : INSPECT

5-down – Fabulous bird turned up in the CP’s archive : RECORDS

6-down – Toad’s feature reflected by plate of fish : TRAWL

7-down – A long time in alternative treatment : OPERATION

10-down – Point to competitive riders drinking half of cassis in northeast London : SEVENSISTERS

14-down – Knock peg out, taking in Bath University jamboree : DISPARAGE

16-down – Pretty female vicars needed for washing up? : DISHCLOTH

18-down – A palfrey almost slipped in piece of headgear : EARFLAP

19-down – Dug shaft for conveyor of refreshments : TEATRAY

22-down – Fussy about hospital providing a suitable place : NICHE

24-down – Famous person upholding drug charges : RATES

1-across – Reforming socialist stars in Carry On Channel Swimming? : SIDNEYJAMESWEBB

9-across – Rosebush hybridised with male figures : RHOMBUSES

10-across – Outspoken against your pub’s not opening : VOCAL

11-across – Capital of the Iberian Revolution, where Spain counts for nothing : NAIROBI

12-across – Scotsman marooned on these islands? : SOLOMON

13-across – Player missing this would be snookered? : CUE

14-across – French woman got up to speak first of this hibiscus : ROZELLE

17-across – Paradoxical pink growing bulky in the Garden of England : SKYBLUE

19-across – Such deception employment for a winter ploughman? : SNOWJOB

22-across – What Otis regrets after a count-down? : LIFTOFF

24-across – Is able to leave our Danish king with tribesman : UTE

25-across – This nudibranch is nearly all guesswork : SEASLUG

26-across – It blooms with one condition: the prophet must be held back : FREESIA

28-across – Barking? Yes – on record! : AYELP

29-across – Detailed British Airborne Division to meet superior Irish leader : BRIANBORU

30-across – Izaak Walton’s conclusion? : THEENDOFTHELINE

1-down – Thus not contracting a habit? On the contrary, one’s averse to psychiatrists : SHRINKRESISTANT

2-down – Red hot Indian’s wrapping wrap : DHOTI

3-down – Involve king in mobile confusion : EMBROIL

4-down – Shallow water frozen beneath mere : JUSTICE

5-down – Outrages a teacher without employment : MISUSES

6-down – Cabbage served around the Spanish sausage : SAVELOY

7-down – Camel oils treated scored bullfighter : ESCAMILLO

8-down – A near-confutable miscalculation for the remainder of the Greens? : BALANCEOFNATURE

15-down – Creatures hunted from Whipsnade? The heartless _____: should be in a cell! : ZOOGAMETE

16-down – John left spectacles behind : LOO

18-down – Some lack air fare from Auckland? : KAI

20-down – Resin drink consumed by ascetic Hindu : JALOPIN

21-down – Bete noire: to eavesdrop with a disapproving expression : BUGABOO

22-down – One with a newt in his collection? Livingstone, I presume? : LEFTIST

23-down – Issue raised by Banquo : FLEANCE

27-down – I hear you finish up with us: order one! : SUOMI

1-across – Stick man in heart of heart : COHERE

4-across – Trouble with French umpires? : FRACAS

9-across – See 25 : ALLY

10-across – See 12 : BACKBURNER

11-across – Which is the more offputting? Defeated addiction : KICKED

12-across – … Don Renrub? : PUTONTHE

13-across – Money not allowed, they say, for semi-military sound : BRASSBAND

15-across – See 25 : PHON

16-across – See 11 : LONG

17-across – St Francis could see all right, still keeping one genetically modified : STIGMATIC

21-across – How many people do you need for open war? A thousand? : MANPOWER

22-across – Stature, top to toe, of King Henry? : EIGHTH

24-across – Capital in almost vulgar likeness : COMPARISON

25-across – An inclination by respected colleague with half the choir at a time : ANTI

26-across – The heart has a military sound : KERNEL

27-across – He set course for a desert island : CRUSOE

1-down – The dog on the right is one of mine : COLLIER

2-down – Agreement to follow Henry, king of the free market : HAYEK

3-down – Polish and half Hungarian city turning up on a roll : RUBADUB

5-down – The groove should be discounted : REBATE

6-down – Austrian region : CARINTHIA

7-down – Cat and dog turn up mates round the field, he wrote amusingly : STEPHEN

8-down – A prize for crazy nut Curtis: did he get it for needlework? : ACUPUNCTURIST

14-down – Wader used by cockney woodworker? : SANDPIPER

16-down – See 7 : LEACOCK

18-down – Like the 23 on the other side, on return of French boy to work : GREENER

19-down – See 11 : INTOTHE

20-down – Don’t go straight to the southwest – veer off : SWERVE

23-down – See 11 : GRASS

4-across – Glasgow’s back with Forest’s keeper : WARDEN

6-across – Consider taking degree in perfume provision : POMANDER

9-across – Continue to get Amerindian more than half confused : REMAIN

10-across – Supplies at high speed railway’s starting point : STOCKTON

11-across – Aid to Biblical Studies with chapter formerly including New and Old Testament books : CONCORDANCE

15-across – Reversed charges, ringing female prophet’s descendant : SHEREEF

17-across – High-flier to call back about celebrity : BUSTARD

18-across – Is a modern London district about to produce a great mind? : ISAACNEWTON

22-across – Threaten to incorporate a college : IMPERIAL

23-across – Covering the part of Trinculo, Mr Outrageous makes a comeback : ORMOLU

24-across – Credit securing Knight Commander’s timepiece for baby : TICKTOCK

25-across – Expert bridge player interrupting successful chess player? : MASTER

1-down – Country that produced Murray’s first dictionary : MEXICO

2-down – Spooner’s kicking Dick into part of south London : TOOTINGBEC

3-down – Saint grasping rudiment of electric organ : PANCREAS

4-down – Swot and cram, revising evidence of underground activity : WORMCAST

5-down – What’s left after dropping a hint : REMINDER

7-down – Like too much and mark the wrong vowel? : DOTE

8-down – Unsavoury oddball going topless : RANK

12-down – Legal case involving space experts’ reversal and undoing : DEFEASANCE

13-down – Seaside plant – was MP holding two in either hand? : SALTWORT

14-down – Corrupt dean getting gold sovereign from the old chancellor : ADENAUER

16-down – Find new home for good in 15’s fiefdom? : EMIGRATE

19-down – Yellowish stuff making some corn grow : EARWAX

20-down – Unused to the flavouring : MINT

21-down – Gamble on half the range : SPEC