Daily Answers

1-across – In season? : FLAVOUROFTHE

8-across – Able to supply Sainsbury’s first, they vowed : OBLATES

9-across – Groom takes look round capital : COLOMBO

11-across – The best time to work, setters say : TOPDOGS

12-across – Movements of American singer unknown — is about to tour : SCHERZI

13-across – See 1 : MONTH

14-across – Rate working for police? Coppers quietly resigning : INCIDENCE

16-across – Hope country girl’s a sport — endless tease earlier : RURITANIA

19-across – Used bad language very loudly in centre of Leeds : EFFED

21-across – This is disappointing — you used to be sexy nurses : WASHOUT

23-across – Scary! It’s flashing like a dirty old man : SATYRIC

24-across – Potter’s equipment kept by artist : RWANDAN

25-across – Can’t stand around outside Nancy’s posh residence : CHATEAU

26-across – Ian presently sick but he may be rallying : TENNISPLAYER

1-down – Writer thought, ‘Shut up!’ : FELTPEN

2-down – Guide to China’s ancient city : ANTIOCH

3-down – Thing is, sweetheart, boss is busy working : OBSESSION

4-down – Exercise care carrying around bombs : RACES

5-down – Did Nick check spaces in folder? : FILCHED

6-down – Diamond’s greatest hit in series? : HOMERUN

7-down – Cheeky artist’s preparation for marriage : BOTTOMDRAWER

10-down – Dominic tribute not popular — somehow it won’t set a precedent : OBITERDICTUM

15-down – Attic maybe calls for conversion, like this one inside : CLASSICAL

17-down – Put on again for men in bar : RESTAGE

18-down – Walked on both sides of road — noted repairs : TRODDEN

19-down – Royal family member nearly punching you once round mouth : ESTUARY

20-down – Picked up nude after driver’s warning: ‘Don’t do it!’ : FORBEAR

22-down – Can Tranmere Rovers finally get points? : TINES

4-across – What programmer does is computer-generated : CODING

6-across – Prince with second officers : MARSHALS

9-across – Intelligence one’s giving Arabs : IRAQIS

10-across – Awful quality of discs, regularly scratched : DIRENESS

11-across – Dancers rolling cigs around both hands : CHORUSGIRLS

15-across – Old man welcomes card player with poker face : DEADPAN

17-across – Lacking faith in vessel, do glide westwards : GODLESS

18-across – Crazy investing sadly returning capital once : DARESSALAAM

22-across – Turned up clutching one lady’s undergarment : CAMISOLE

23-across – Person sacrificed sheep the wrong way : MARTYR

24-across – Feeling of aversion in country, moving south-east : DISTASTE

25-across – Computer’s flipping small parts on screen : CAMEOS

1-down – Correctly positioned current units on manoeuvres : INSITU

2-down – Are six fags put out? They may be in bed : SAXIFRAGES

3-down – Fools Sun journalist given appraisal : ASSESSED

4-down – Mint drink isn’t quite finished in match : COINCIDE

5-down – Fancy loading packing area on a slope : DIAGONAL

7-down – Top ten introduced by a spinning record : APEX

8-down – Band quiet after covers of Sinatra : SASH

12-down – Idea that is sweeping angry elite away : GENERALITY

13-down – On average, driving aid making a good comeback? : REPARTEE

14-down – Old German bread Frank’s putting away quietly : OSTMARKS

16-down – Set out to break part of bike stand : PEDESTAL

19-down – Dave stripped, given a rating for divine figure : AVATAR

20-down – You’ll be sent on a trip by this leader of air force : ACID

21-down – Adult writing about love in book : AMOS

1-across – Cold sore : BITTER

4-across – See 10 : PARENT

9-across – Weasel’s relative staff and I put back in absurdly long hole? : PINE

10-across – Egg beater father damaged — might he be coddling? : HELICOPTER

11-across – See 9 : MARTEN

12-across – Tiny spot that’s pink on leg : PINPRICK

13-across – Drug that’s popular filling plate beside me : MESCALINE

15-across – Old strip with hat in yellow and pink, primarily : ANDY

16-across – Three quarters of twelve people on a Hebridean isle : JURA

17-across – Game, one prodding virile chap? : STUDPOKER

21-across – One doesn’t believe it: number reversed in account : AGNOSTIC

22-across – Wee like wee? : PIDDLY

24-across – Circling oil platform, sustainable power demanded — privileged few going to the country? : GREENWELLY

25-across – See 15 : CAPP

26-across – Reflective poem set in Spanish city : TOLEDO

27-across – Storm damage : CHARGE

1-down – See 24 : BRIGADE

2-down – Message to take down, quickly read out? : TWEET

3-down – Fuel compared to first of oil in middle of well : ETHANOL

5-down – Mysterious vessel in time capsized : ARCANE

6-down – Tongue in pain ultimately, doctor operates to sew it up : ESPERANTO

7-down – Overly sweet claret drunk with last of sherry : TREACLY

8-down – Combination of painful and exciting strokes? That’s it! : SLAPANDTICKLE

14-down – Bodily hole in shade of pink : CORPOREAL

16-down – Pace jerk has wrong, upped : JOGTROT

18-down – Lower temperature necessary in the end above church altarpiece : DIPTYCH

19-down – Better shears cutting coat of ewe : ECLIPSE

20-down – Drunk was irritated : STEWED

23-down – Look back in anger after Nov 31, fancifully? : DECOR

9-across – Sport in setting hard to endure : GRUELLING

10-across – Put back stone in a ring, last in series : OMEGA

11-across – Part of memoir I shortened in language using fewer letters : IRISH

12-across – Means to find unknown numbers without using 14 : PHONEBOOK

13-across – Without skill, in particular : NOTABLY

14-across – Use it to produce solutions, oper­ating literally crazy lab gear : ALGEBRA

17-across – Namely, how to recover something after breakdown : TOWIT

19-across – Skill, in particular : ART

20-across – 12, 15 and 24 across all do this, 3 25 : ORDER

21-across – Most of Corsica disrupted by centre of storm that blows across Med : SIROCCO

22-across – Supplier of fuel while mother shelters in her ruin? : GASMAIN

24-across – Where people read overlapping signs : LIBRARIES

26-across – Like his tragic partner, he can be 3 : ROMEO

28-across – M’s predecessors left bomb test site : ATOLL

29-across – Other son secures flat for timely break : ELEVENSES

1-down – Fruit very unlike peach, reportedly : UGLI

2-down – Like her tragic partner, she can be 3 : JULIET

3-down – Odd chap, albeit like characters in set : ALPHABETIC

4-down – Diagnostic aid ordered, in a way, like 23 : BIOPSY

5-down – I admit grasping zero, not knowing ABCs : IGNORANT

6-down – Counterpart of 10 I found in area : ZONE

7-down – Bishop, in protest over base, put out of service : DEMOBBED

8-down – A, B, or C, perhaps, in book : MARK

13-down – Determined to upset A, B, C etc : NOTES

15-down – They help explain article run in some magazines : GLOSSARIES

16-down – Repeatedly answer right about first person in OT? : AARON

18-down – Finally found surprising expression in opus that’s akin to dictionary : WORDBOOK

19-down – In minimal pieces, include note in middle of gamut : ATOMIZED

22-down – In turn, endlessly recite sequence of letters? It’s true : GOSPEL

23-down – Line inserted in book on time, virtually : ALMOST

24-down – It was used when setting clue : LEAD

25-down – Colleague completely unknown in 14 : ALLY

27-down – Expel outcast, ignoring law’s reversal : OUST

9-across – One born to drink in bar, it is dilapidated boozer : INEBRIATE

10-across – Beloved number, if multiplied by two : HONEY

11-across – Room in grid without margins : ATTIC

12-across – Given up, having declined to hold information back : ABNEGATED

13-across – Leader of Opposition bitten by cook, a 6 : GORILLA

14-across – Bit of a writer with taste for old club : NIBLICK

17-across – Change number, if multiplied by three : MONEY

19-across – Uniting words: number, if multiplied by five : IDO

20-across – See 22 down : DREAM

21-across – Treatment of pore with dye, producing a poetic tear : EYEDROP

22-across – Brew on tap is over a barrel : INASPOT

24-across – See 1 : BALLERINA

26-across – Intellectual Australian language not quite right : GREER

28-across – Covers I see pulled back, a relative number : HASTA

29-across – Six balls each, four more polished off too much : OVEREATEN

1-down – Number in shower of rain behind a fairly round object, circled by number of muses : NINA

2-down – Sun dog : SETTER

3-down – Super chap on film, builder : BRICKLAYER

4-down – See 28 : MANANA

5-down – Number also wearing blazer, less fashionable : FERNANDO

6-down – Caught by gunshot, huge bully : THUG

7-down – In and facing out : ONSTRIKE

8-down – Old scorer, winger by the sound of it? : BYRD

13-down – Simplest of hits: number, if multiplied by three : GIMME

15-down – Untidy and wet, torn blankets left under couch : BEDRAGGLED

16-down – Groomed male maintained houses : KEMPT

18-down – Excessive pointers point : NEEDLESS

19-down – Pen like that entering mark shortly : IMPRISON

22-down – Speech number : IHAVEA

23-down – See 1 : PRETTY

24-down – Strike securing hard currency : BAHT

25-down – Style arising in Havana, legendary : ELAN

27-down – Call number, if multiplied by two : RING