Daily Answers

1-across – Lancer told to choose an entrance : PICADOR

5-across – Went down as a result of what happened in a gastric haemorrhage : TUMBLED

9-across – House sold off around mid-April : LORDS

10-across – City is suitable for everyone involved in commercial vehicle insurance : VANCOUVER

11-across – Girl, nine, starts wearing ponytail twisted in an affecting manner : POIGNANTLY

12-across – Writer having a change of heart and spirit : BRIO

14-across – That guy talks to turbans? : HEADDRESSES

18-across – Staff working to prop organisation, but not too much : MANONTROPPO

21-across – Bloody half of literary device : GORY

22-across – Deceptive advocacy of dire perils and sin : LIPSERVICE

25-across – Leaving us can make it relax and wallow : LUXURIATE

26-across – See 6 : POINT

27-across – Route to get ‘bravo’ out of theatre land : ROADWAY

28-across – Medium or perhaps strong? You can have instant coffee at first : PSYCHIC

1-down – Agent cut up for bowel problem : POLYPS

2-down – Magpie? Five to feature in my papers : CORVID

3-down – Dines out with song to provide some realism : DISENCHANT

4-down – 2 given intravenously : RAVEN

5-down – Like Bob Dylan in blue and brown, heartlessly plugged out : TANGLEDUP

6-down – New motion, top item to be debated : MOOT

7-down – Oliver is having one portion? Must be feeling queasy : LIVERISH

8-down – One little and quiet place to sleep on the river : DORMOUSE

13-down – Me, 21, grappling with a PhD in population studies : DEMOGRAPHY

15-down – One on the tail of pair planning lurid hijacking : AIRPIRACY

16-down – Criminal unclothed to reveal somebody with no special powers : SMUGGLER

17-down – Refusing food when a refusal reportedly damages you : ANOREXIA

19-down – Complete and utter European : FINISH

20-down – Digestive movement with vigour : PEPTIC

23-down – Expensive soak in marinade : STEEP

24-down – 2 involved in murder : CROW

7-across – Rubbish kisser’s naughty coming first : BADMOUTH

9-across – Start of FedEx round, flipping overdue: like someone awaiting delivery? : FOETAL

10-across – Boxing match, essentially with star sees knock out : STUN

11-across – He left a fluid around badger’s home: they might come out at night? : FALSETEETH

12-across – Chest tender following cold : COFFER

14-across – Churchmen with energy at the start: they can lift an organ : ERECTORS

15-across – Stupid person put on island : DONKEY

17-across – A lot of McDonald’s milk products on the turn : MYRIAD

20-across – Most difficult son with ultimate challenge : SEVEREST

22-across – Gorge in do to welcome in a New Year : CANYON

23-across – Rose more sick swallowing a tablet? : PAINKILLER

24-across – Pad of paper with note written inside : FLAT

25-across – Love saucy thing : RELISH

26-across – Work out sum, learn figures : NUMERALS

1-down – Diet of mostly odd junk? : FASTFOOD

2-down – Signal with no hands : OMEN

3-down – One on internet is more confident around female : SURFER

4-down – Swear on English TV heartlessly in a way that’s weak : EFFETELY

5-down – American president awfully boring : PEDESTRIAN

6-down – One takes orders from one wearing hose : WAITER

8-down – Joining hospital not as new case : HOLDER

13-down – Repeatedly in fear? Thing will ultimately get chewed : FINGERNAIL

16-down – Seeing curvy figure providing cover for OK! : EYESIGHT

18-down – Make love and left partner crazy : DOOLALLY

19-down – Taken to beer without opening tin cans : STOLEN

21-down – Tablet around midnight? Date getting high : ELATED

22-down – Hour in deep sleep showing quality of shade : CHROMA

24-down – Axe tree down to earth : FIRE

8-across – For middle of month, put in one unknown soldier, historically : JANIZARY

9-across – Back a time and a place for events : ARENA

10-across – Dramatically it follows the winter’s end, we hear : TALE

11-across – Some February mail — around middle of month lets naive get excited? : VALENTINES

12-across – Springtime festival’s call for help : MAYDAY

14-across – British admitting poet wanting to return in April : BROWNING

15-across – Be scrupulous with slight touch after start of summer : STICKLE

17-across – March, perhaps, for international event : PROTEST

20-across – Said with relief where royalty goes in summer sometimes : BALMORAL

22-across – Saint seen in one page of annual publication? In a way that’s fair : JUSTLY

23-across – Frantically organises to contain end of spring hostility : AGGRESSION

24-across – Stretch between spring and end of autumn : SPAN

25-across – Our group on board? Reduced fare from Japan : SUSHI

26-across – Specimens one removed from tall buildings after test : EXAMPLES

1-down – Cause of cloudiness that affects visibility in fall : CATARACT

2-down – Help for speaker that comes before November : MIKE

3-down – Heart specialist’s trick taking in Republican on the Fourth of July : HARVEY

4-down – Information on courses, some tribally set up : SYLLABI

5-down – You can’t miss it on board at sea before year’s end : BARNDOOR

6-down – Names dynasty one’s located among offspring being raised : DESIGNATES

7-down – Oktoberfest setting for local by replacing TV, bit by bit, in pub : BAYERN

13-down – Russian revolutionary’s except­ionally discreet about doctor : DECEMBRIST

16-down – Test ground with it, as rule : LORDSHIP

18-down – Violently attacked about pound being rescued : SALVAGED

19-down – Upset last month over mail being misdirected, it’s asserted : CLAIMED

21-down – A flurry about Burmese title that’s imposing : AUGUST

22-down – Place in Alaska where gold’s found after start of summer : JUNEAU

24-down – Short part of year for some Irish clan : SEPT

9-across – Constitutional capital of Afghanistan twice : WALKABOUT

10-across – As some boats flew, though not originally : OARED

11-across – Party checked : PLAID

12-across – Help out, or fail to help children’s author : DOONESBIT

13-across – Empire behind supporter : OTTOMAN

14-across – Capital of Lebanon twice bombed, returned to former glory? : REBUILT

17-across – Capital of Norway twice 14 for birds : LOONS

19-across – Sign letter for the auditor? : CUE

20-across – Block hiding other blocks : INGOT

21-across – Tango, then go for twist : TWIDDLE

22-across – Get hot man — capital! : BAGHDAD

24-across – One capital of France, twice 14, covering items : PINAFORES

26-across – Swollen stem: squash in retrospect : TUBER

28-across – Capital of Latvia twice 14 sought prize : GRAIL

29-across – Briefly stir cream perhaps into strong coffee, creation of barista : FLATWHITE

1-down – Reportedly, break up exchange : SWAP

2-down – Able to bend, one held in place : PLIANT

3-down – One capital of Spain twice 14, arranged by chance : RANDOMISED

4-down – Capital author : LONDON

5-down – In the beginning, coat user shivering : ATSOURCE

6-down – Capital getting up in the morning : ROME

7-down – Time capital of Germany twice 14, more than 23, roughly speaking? : TREBLING

8-down – Every second gone and rift opening underground : ADIT

13-down – Anything to eat ends in small hole for small predator : OWLET

15-down – Capital I would secure to invest in coffee : BRIDGETOWN

16-down – Conveyed Theodore Roosevelt’s letter opener? : TOTED

18-down – Eastern books on article in window : ORIENTAL

19-down – Leave sign for musicians hosting upcoming meetings : CLEAROFF

22-down – Again, relocate a US capital : BISSAU

23-down – 14, build new capital : DUBLIN

24-down – Call for paper : PAGE

25-down – Considered material : FELT

27-down – Bird, tail by the ear? : RHEA

7-across – Attractive : HUNKYDORY

8-across – Nasty smell from yeast in kitchen : STINK

9-across – Mixture of material made up of different substances used where builders work : COMPOSITE

10-across – Pounds of British food : BEATS

12-across – Son never swimming in river : SEVERN

13-across – Disturbance about Turkish leader in European parliament : STORMONT

14-across – Couple suffering most woe : TWOSOME

17-across – Tradesman taking plane initially to timber : PLUMBER

20-across – Doctor wearing redder old hat : SOMBRERO

22-across – Mostly stupid new Sunday exercises : SITUPS

24-across – Place for special card : SPACE

25-across – Increase penalty in the end following misery initially at a Shetland winter festival : UPHELLYAA

26-across – Tin with old-fashioned tobacco : SNOUT

27-across – Soprano interrupting tap dancing in polished comedy : SLAPSTICK

1-down – Mat over hollow surface is wrinkled : RUGOSE

2-down – Captains fish in empty seas : SKIPPERS

3-down – Strange numbers raised price in betting shop : ODDSON

4-down – Demonstrate in favour of group returning to Thailand : PROTEST

5-down – Master forced to group pupils by ability : STREAM

6-down – Case of sunstroke initially stopping nice tan developing : INSTANCE

11-down – Animal with large hood : COWL

15-down – Big women going up and down on one leg : WHOPPING

16-down – People adopting independent manner : MIEN

18-down – Fish stew consumed in grotty motel : MATELOTE

19-down – Put together dish containing a bit of lemon to follow starters of chilled Ogen melon : COMPILE

21-down – Support in reverse : BACKUP

22-down – Travel guide translated phrase : SHERPA

23-down – Spot, say, for fish : PLAICE