Daily Answers

1-across – In the US, summer gala fails to open : ESTIVAL

5-across – Gas for cooker extinguished originally : PROPANE

10-across – Beaten regularly, a mount : ETNA

11-across – Bit of a bloomer, perhaps : BREADCRUMB

12-across – Youngsters investing one grand in artistic movement : CUBISM

13-across – Doubt writers from America residing in outskirts of Stoke : SUSPENSE

14-across – Damaging 7, order parts : MALIGNING

16-across – Language is on flyers, written backwards : FARSI

17-across – 7 shell in case of sapphire : SPODE

19-across – Cheap 7, game : BADMINTON

23-across – Joined, head of warrior in fine 7 : WEDGWOOD

24-across – Slope on 7 : CANTON

26-across – Animal with sense of fear breaking 7 : CHINCHILLA

27-across – Get a bit of ash? : TWIG

28-across – A hospital department in work by the bucketload : APLENTY

29-across – 7 of ___ men in audiobook? : MEISSEN

2-down – Juicy 7? : SATSUMA

3-down – Two glazes spoil 7 : IMARI

4-down – Half-baked bun with meal — that feeds developing bird : ALBUMEN

6-down – Vegetable put back in larder on a piece of 7, say : RADISH

7-down – White material cut up, one dressed in impressive style : PORCELAIN

8-down – 29 potty deserved ruination : NEMESIS

9-down – Livingstone out of doghouse over Blairite having prioritised issue, a political icon : NELSONMANDELA

15-down – Need information covered by lists, briefly : INDIGENCE

18-down – Bakery that is quiet feeding old man : PIESHOP

20-down – Knotty skill getting computer memory erased, initially : MACRAME

21-down – Day, for example, wearing extremely offensive perfume : ODORISE

22-down – Who cares if porker given pork pie? : SOWHAT

25-down – Person’s bottom, wobbly seat? : NATES

9-across – Set right line up when cutting grass : REDRESSED

10-across – Transmitting a single short melody : ONAIR

11-across – Trendy types, including staff with parts : INCROWD

12-across – A foreign bloke inspires classy application : UNGUENT

13-across – Stroke, McIlroy’s last, that seals hole : PUTTY

14-across – Sidestep character in arena to buy drinks : GETAROUND

16-across – Put out call for a new bike — a good one aids well-being : WORKLIFEBALANCE

19-across – Pay back Polish over in French city with tablet : REIMBURSE

21-across – Go round collecting hot tubs : BATHS

22-across – Time Team’s creative pursuits : THEARTS

23-across – Son, more incensed, picked up drink : SANGRIA

24-across – Spell seabird’s singular shade : STINT

25-across – Current best team thrashed? I’m baffled : ITBEATSME

1-down – Mind shower pressure in boudoir : BRAINPOWER

2-down – Old orator blocks offensive revolutionary teacher : EDUCATOR

3-down – Store capital raised in motor yacht : MEMORY

4-down – Took weed maybe, not mint : USED

5-down – Versatile notice for Fair Isle set up : ADJUSTABLE

6-down – Bank on foreign article’s drivel? : DOGGEREL

7-down – Sweet leaves in France once cut : GATEAU

8-down – Indomitable courage a feature of Educating Rita : GRIT

14-down – Fix gaps in roof, like the other 14? : GOFORASPIN

15-down – Sewer’s darker mess needs shifting : DRESSMAKER

17-down – Left one carpet free : LIBERATE

18-down – Article about visitor dumping old stripper : NATURIST

20-down – Peninsula’s independent Russian butcher : IBERIA

21-down – Superior type pulled up perfect plant : BONSAI

22-down – Romantic novelist registered missing work : TASK

23-down – South American bishop’s brought in replacements : SUBS

9-across – See 28 : THEBRIDGE

10-across – Online buyer sorry about return of bag : ECASH

11-across – Woman shortly, I suspect, delivering the Queen’s Speech? : MIAOW

12-across – Old writer occupying peak in Jerusalem — a mountain! : SQUILLION

13-across – Thinkers arranging beer in line on the counter : CEREBRA

14-across – Slight lead after a fall, everyone left behind : AFFRONT

17-across – Painting located in London museum? There you have it! : VOILA

19-across – Law enforcers satisfied : MET

20-across – See 28 : UNDER

21-across – Knockout solver? : CRACKER

22-across – See 8 : FREEZES

24-across – Capital party for male mogs only, we hear? : KATHMANDU

26-across – Musical item with scores report­edly chasing old silent movie star : HARPO

28-across – Forgotten now, carrier of pooh sticks? : WATER

29-across – Pink loose robes, crimson when turned round : UNDERDONE

1-down – One crew, not a couple : ITEM

2-down – Darn pants or trousers, say, after skirts in rage : REPAIR

3-down – Fail, as Russian roulette player will wish to do? : DRAWABLANK

4-down – Fleece pulled up on stormy seas, port found in Ukraine : ODESSA

5-down – Instrument lobbed up in wheeze, throwing toys from pram? : PETULANT

6-down – See 8 : HELL

7-down – I fail financially to support soldier in legion : MANIFOLD

8-down – No chance the Prince of Darkness will slip up then? : WHEN

13-down – Conservative: I win having lost Conservative city : CIVIC

15-down – Instrument untangling long fur, help Manx : FLUGELHORN

16-down – Thinner track going uphill, what else can I say? : TURPS

18-down – Saint terribly worried, terribly worried : INASTATE

19-down – Dessert that would come back when booed, did you say? : MERINGUE

22-down – Blood and water etc I had: rinse cut around that : FLUIDS

23-down – Crystalline mineral unknown, image about right : ZIRCON

24-down – Fruit that won’t take off : KIWI

25-down – See 26 : MARX

27-down – See 8 : OVER

1-across – Have to follow safety test for record label : MOTOWN

4-across – Barker’s call for a cigarette : ROLLUP

9-across – First progenitor? : ADAM

10-across – Drinking wine, croon covers of Lead Belly in a bad way : SHOCKINGLY

11-across – During archaeological work, nothing’s in the shade : INDIGO

12-across – Unthinking king — born idiot! : KNEEJERK

13-across – He’s on the end of a cross termagant’s raving : TARGETMAN

15-across – European leaves America just like that : THUS

16-across – Material that floats in either end of creek : CORK

17-across – Distressed pangolins’ sound heard in church : PLAINSONG

21-across – Family member you heard laugh creates uproar : BROUHAHA

22-across – Foul air current inhaled by maternal grandmother : MIASMA

24-across – Break into mostly crazy book full of it : BONKBUSTER

25-across – Fare from India, not heading for Thai island : BALI

26-across – Shelter fenced off by a German lady : EILEEN

27-across – Perhaps ham or starter of piri-piri chicken? : PLAYER

1-down – Singer put on that fellow’s clothing article : MADONNA

2-down – Satisfied after raising sleuth’s rates : TEMPI

3-down – Rain-hit event wasn’t in entertaining hotel : WASHOUT

5-down – Men on island around northern British Isles : ORKNEY

6-down – See no good PM save on underwear : LONGJOHNS

7-down – Star is to divide opinion after striking finale : POLARIS

8-down – Seizing end piece, conceited revellers may get a punch here : COCKTAILPARTY

14-down – Art of songwriting shown by Elgar furiously penning dance music : GARFUNKEL

16-down – Nibble away at my caviar? Penny tucks into it : CORRODE

18-down – Wrong marks twice taken in by person setting exam : IMMORAL

19-down – Moving more freely, medic dives into one river, then another : NIMBLER

20-down – About to follow football team — it’s put out on field : MANURE

23-down – At intervals, gamely holding jacket for Bob Monkhouse? : ABBEY

8-across – Every now and then Joe has awful feelings of resentment towards a rival : JEALOUSY

9-across – Sexy kiss for Romeo’s fancy : EXOTIC

10-across – Top banana? : BEST

11-across – See 10 : OFTHEBUNCH

12-across – Swordsman who works at the end of the garden? : FENCER

14-across – Perhaps cold egg in Irish stew : RHINITIS

15-across – In essence, God, Buddha and Jesu use idiosyncrasy : ODDNESS

17-across – A prize being wasted : ATROPHY

20-across – Solvers surrounded by rats in flipping sanctuary? Don’t ask! : NEVERYOU

22-across – Relish being in Glasgow as a bisexual : WASABI

23-across – Accessories for Caroline and Peggy Sue? : SUNGLASSES

24-across – See 20 : MIND

25-across – Made up for United having dismal start : ATONED

26-across – Approach clear river : OVERTURE

1-down – Minister’s cut always included : REVEREND

2-down – Lacklustre meat cooked for fellow resident : FLAT

3-down – In time, hesitation can be fun : HUMOUR

4-down – Philistine’s tyres blown? That’s hard to explain : MYSTERY

5-down – Ramshackle antiquity appearing in adverts regularly : DERELICT

6-down – Big and bright benevolent heart at first : VOLUMINOUS

7-down – Korean-inspired meals can have it for starters : KIMCHI

13-down – Coming together, some work as nuns : CONVERGENT

16-down – Broadcaster’s drawback covered up : SKYWARDS

18-down – Champion welcomes a boycott of hot stuff : HABANERO

19-down – Picture a reason for a sensitive person to delay drinking tea? : MUGSHOT

21-down – Leave secured by you, once up for union : EQUITY

22-down – That woman is following her organisation’s desires : WISHES

24-down – See 2 : MATE