Daily Answers

1-across – Son legally put end to court activity : SQUASH

4-across – It’s tossed in the air for last-gasp touchdown : PANCAKE

9-across – Train club in new way that makes things go more smoothly : LUBRICANT

10-across – Took again in about 24 hrs : RESAT

11-across – Producer of pictures, including kind of adult sci-fi movie : MANET

12-across – With whom one can have close call, hour being out of joint : NEIGHBOUR

13-across – 4 across, 8, and 14 all do this and I also have one : NAMEDAY

15-across – Works for essentials, say : KNEADS

17-across – Didn’t go steady, besotted : STAYED

19-across – Item’s aim framed by a mouthpiece : AGENDUM

22-across – Cover over offensive letter in home of midweek team? : SHEFFIELD

24-across – Fighter with five-stone advantage who beat heavyweight? : DAVID

26-across – Monk in a river, succeeding when he gets fish, in short? : FRIAR

27-across – Runs around a little while creating minor nuisances : FLEABITES

28-across – In leaderless Britain, left without serious consideration : LIGHTLY

29-across – Stuff about English and their once and future king? : GEORGE

1-down – Part of 24’s issue, having single-handedly taken on follower of Sun : SOLOMON

2-down – Like city, one in SA, lacking capital : URBAN

3-down – This occasion for celebration isn’t without appointed date in state : SAINTSDAY

4-down – Under pressure, a ploy for a snake handler : PATRICK

5-down – Potential bidder in auction, or this : NORTH

6-down – Fled back, lacking energy, inside a place for retirement : ABSCONDED

7-down – Complete, or incomplete course, about the writer : ENTIRE

8-down – Annual ceremony in England and in Germany in part of spring : MAUNDY

14-down – Taking care of second cycle : MOTHERING

16-down – Some of them end a blemish that’s not beyond correcting : EMENDABLE

18-down – Way to cook ocean fish, initially : DEEPFRY

19-down – Counterpart of 4 down, 24 and 29 again securing academic title : ANDREW

20-down – I’d turned up, clothed by greatest European dressmaker : MODISTE

21-down – Handy American source of energy moving East to North : USEFUL

23-down – Where cones are located on street in front of van : FIRST

25-down – Doctor or vet to get active constituent : VOTER

1-across – Fish in sea given drug, swimming with huge power : SUPERCHARGED

9-across – Pack leader of female kangaroos bouncing back : AKELA

10-across – Probation: message about it breaking through : NOVITIATE

11-across – Inebriate, Charlie leaving from the Highlands : SOTTISH

12-across – A film trailer for movie : AMISTAD

13-across – Beginning of fast: a tad suety, possibly? : FATTUESDAY

15-across – Comic actor, film star in audition? : IDLE

18-across – Survivor cut in Duel gets shiner : FIRE

19-across – Infant school’s last break, 1:10 curiously : ANKLEBITER

22-across – Video devoid of content in things like Gremlins develops : EVOLVES

24-across – Academic gained by working on novel, finally : LEARNED

25-across – Jumper something with hole, back grimy originally : GREENFROG

26-across – Opener enthusiastic about collecting runs : INTRO

27-across – Notes passed on correction of line in Jaws : CHAINLETTERS

1-down – Person watching abridged ver­sion of Poltergeist claiming little bit short : SPECTATOR

2-down – Whitish grey, a metal in The Color Purple : PLATINUM

3-down – American plot has department devoid of leadership : RANCH

4-down – Eat everything, including salt, and enjoy yourself : HAVEABALL

5-down – Market two films screened by opposite sides : RETAIL

6-down – Spot on end of nose needing operation after kiss : EXACT

7-down – State-provided range : MASSIF

8-down – Sound decoration for fiddle : MEDDLE

14-down – Following offence, criminal trials left : SINISTRAL

16-down – School in Close Encounters blows up : DETONATES

17-down – In Lincoln, key turning up for case : ABLATIVE

18-down – Get down ridge below peak of Fuji : FLEDGE

20-down – Poker like this, expected to win : REDHOT

21-down – A vehicle: it rolled forward! : AVANTI

23-down – Hiding in wardrobe, a handsome Caribbean charmer : OBEAH

24-down – See 18 across : LIGHT

1-across – Bird putting away pie has first-class beak : MAGISTRATE

6-across – President’s eighth vehicle? : BUSH

9-across – Cop working with lawyers is a plant : COWPARSLEY

10-across – Somewhere to kip either side of Dagenham : DORM

12-across – Delaying, blocking one with this tactic? : STONEWALLING

15-across – Mafia boss hides cockney behind new decorative covering : CAPARISON

17-across – Reverse of zero times this is number 54 : XENON

18-across – Put out Scottish team to get stripped off : ANGER

19-across – Rock music’s inspiring No 1s in prospect : PROGNOSIS

20-across – Favouring mine, one a politician’s appeasing : PROPITIATORY

24-across – Stroke sheep’s back and goat’s back : PUTT

25-across – Jack and Kelvin slicing wound that’s not dressed : STARKNAKED

26-across – Got up in something between red and white : ROSE

27-across – Promote latest odds in contest, which has many dimensions : HYPERSPACE

1-down – Minute clothing label is fake : MOCK

2-down – Peer’s wife getting into crack : GAWP

3-down – One may forget how to get in bar? : SCATTERBRAIN

4-down – What a recidivist does to get hashish, for example : RESIN

5-down – Art’s lifted mood now, Keats reveals : TAEKWONDO

7-down – More possibly out playing with key player : UTOPIANIST

8-down – Make uniform in nursing terribly soigné : HOMOGENISE

11-down – Six leaner and sporting six-footers : ALEXANDRINES

13-down – Fighter protects old man where work is rough : SCRAPPAPER

14-down – Deep Throat may reveal this stuff in dodgy toilets : EPIGLOTTIS

16-down – Ripping story about shipwreck in shaky grounds : SOPHISTRY

21-down – Knocked back pill, red and sweet : TORTE

22-down – One seabird’s rising, another’s coming down : SKUA

23-down – Python seized by intrepid lemur : IDLE

9-across – Hindu extremists imprisoned by corrupt Italian state : LITHUANIA

10-across – Language of North India : HINDI

11-across – More gut-rot for foodie : GOURMET

12-across – By the sound of it, had babies and stopped, but not at 7 : BERTHED

13-across – Drunk may do this to house plant, if rejected : TOPER

14-across – The Guardian’s probing rip-off after cannabis mix : POTPOURRI

16-across – Best lean meat stew includes small snack : EATBETWEENMEALS

19-across – Quiet, tough yet pliable bushes : SHRUBBERY

21-across – Top half of 21 down or its cover : VISOR

22-across – Bank may be following its lead appliance : BLENDER

23-across – Club has pop music duo touring east of Calais : WESTHAM

24-across – Nothing gets one out of a river for another : RHONE

25-across – Species that’s endangered as a result of a tiny alteration in Trump’s tone : ORANGUTAN

1-down – Turkey, perhaps, flags a British deal, but not as planned : FLIGHTLESS

2-down – Scarlet woman’s in position, Mr President : STRUMPET

3-down – Whisper from Parisian walls : MURMUR

4-down – Garments found in train wreck, oddly strewn : KNIT

5-down – Dodgy bar in beastly hotel needed for starter : CARBATTERY

6-down – In the distance, see author struggling to get capital : KHARTOUM

7-down – Fix monarchy by getting rid of outsiders and implementing reform : ANCHOR

8-down – Topless 2 say victory, how not to play it and somehow intend to cover that : WIND

14-down – Prisoner at 7 or 12 up about redhead ladies : POWDERROOM

15-down – See 8 : INSTRUMENT

17-down – Centre of Luxembourg was no longer represented : EMBODIED

18-down – She got involved with Tate exhib­ition, initially as art lover : AESTHETE

20-down – Fine ale served up primarily to make one horny : REEBOK

21-down – After 6, guru gives a strange appearance : VISAGE

22-down – See 1 : BIRD

23-down – See 4 : WEAR

1-across – A measure of drink knocked back in bunk by this awfully fine writer : CALLIGRAPHIST

10-across – Victim, leader of Empire, falling back, true to form — his Shakespearean cry? : ETTUBRUTE

11-across – M-Musk, is it? : MELON

12-across – Place to land like an aeroplane? : JETTY

13-across – Anglican spraying 21 about : EPISCOPAL

14-across – See 4 : MAXIMUS

16-across – Roots cut in short eruption : RADICES

18-across – Subzero puzzle? : NONPLUS

20-across – Intellectual, moving reference? : WALKING

21-across – Drink: large bottles small, in a cutback? : PEPSICOLA

23-across – Wander westwards around northern area : MANOR

24-across – Bird with you in country, did you say? : CRANE

25-across – I’m opening my very friendly invitation and heading for exciting city in Florida : KISSIMMEE

26-across – See 20 : ENCYCLOPAEDIA

2-down – Neutralising chemical: two animals elected to drink it : ANTITOXIN

3-down – Throw up near vestibule : LOBBY

4-down – Too much on principle in Americans supporting English — some cheek! : GLUTEUS

5-down – Workshop where priest wel­comed by father, though not initially : ATELIER

6-down – Boy I see, one climbing under dwel­ling briefly — very dangerous : HOMICIDAL

7-down – Splash featuring a county : SALOP

8-down – Mark of an African nation’s hous­ing predicament — American concerned with issue? : BENJAMINSPOCK

9-down – Hang-gliders flying over centre of Coventry rose here, perhaps? : ENGLISHGARDEN

15-down – Craft: ship defended by armed forces deserted by one sailor : MILLINERY

17-down – Hearts captivated by mysterious spelling of magician in Asian city : CHIANGMAI

19-down – Cause to lose sleep about king having left dive : SNORKEL

20-down – Greeting he implied, when this? : WHATSUP

22-down – Basic smooth talking? : PLAIN

23-down – Reportedly key state : MAINE