Daily Answers

1-across – An arc, as if tan — um? This is very cryptic! : ARIDDLE

5-across – See 1 : WRAPPED

10-across – See 1 : UPIN

11-across – Boy reportedly on bridge — checked : CRISSCROSS

12-across – Buzz of social drinking? : ALDRIN

13-across – See 1 : ANENIGMA

14-across – Over-the-top material fellow observed by playing charades : HEADSCARF

16-across – Copper like a writer? : PENNY

17-across – One eaten by cannibal, due to ordering human takeaway? : ALIEN

19-across – See 17 : ABDUCTION

23-across – Comic admits funny intro beaten : DRUMROLL

24-across – Becoming rotten, though not in the middle — an old cracker? : TURING

26-across – Powdered substance in blossom on tree, we hear? : PLAINFLOUR

27-across – Murder: one covered up by Corleone, say? : DOIN

28-across – Untruth about alcoholic drink — it’s non-alcoholic : LIMEADE

29-across – My house accommodates an unknown knave : BYJINGO

2-down – Disgust dealing with lentil, say? : REPULSE

3-down – Currency turning up around capital in Iraq? : DINAR

4-down – Brief party outside the Church houses : LACONIC

6-down – Breakfast item, more premature : RASHER

7-down – Relevant page on internet refreshed : PERTINENT

8-down – Since given time to plug rise of celebrity, film pioneer : EASTMAN

9-down – Lesser eminence not entirely describing perfect maverick in poet : HILAIREBELLOC

15-down – Fantastic wall with inscription of mark in concrete : DREAMLIKE

18-down – Femme fatale lovelier, not very hideous : LORELEI

20-down – Just say before unloading lorry : UTTERLY

21-down – Old writing, sound from pen? : OINKING

22-down – Cap in deference then certainly lifted — like this? : DOFFED

25-down – More than one spoke Russian and Arabic originally: 502? : RADII

1-across – Giving a lift from college with family in car heading towards London : JACKINGUP

6-across – TV company takes in university youngsters : CUBS

8-across – I had an accident with nail gun in the groin : INGUINAL

9-across – Learned about a dead : READUP

10-across – The way things are, not even a T-shirt fits : ASITIS

11-across – ‘No rest for the wicked’, I moan, after besetting sin : INSOMNIA

12-across – Show about America becoming American : CIRCUS

15-across – Greek character goes by bike — you say this must be changed : MUTANDUM

16-across – March sung by a politician in theatrical style : HIGHCAMP

19-across – Deli item left for hotel : CLEESE

21-across – It looks like our security service’s repressed and dissipated : MISSPENT

22-across – Ionised matter engineered as lamp : PLASMA

24-across – Fellow making things up going on air : FLYING

25-across – Rothko finally using a mixture of it plain : OILPAINT

26-across – One widely admired vocally : IDLE

27-across – Complaint from hollow, dozy guard about leader of escape : DYSENTERY

1-down – Boatman’s led with a knave : JONES

2-down – Bitter, unending campaign meets habitual reaction : CAUSTIC

3-down – In refrain: Nessun Dorma : INNES

4-down – Send off to get free hospitality? Quite the reverse : GILLIAM

5-down – Hanging on first article one included in funny script : PARASITIC

6-down – A person pursuing another of the same sex : CHAPMAN

7-down – Specialised shops with a couple of bills for Spooner : BOUTIQUES

13-down – Noted agreement in the US: review aid and tie in with end of quarrel : INITIALED

14-down – Salvaged point and got even with current leader going ahead : SCAVENGED

17-down – Opposed by many people, the Spanish Inquisition’s first rising : HOSTILE

18-down – Phoney hypnotists? No, it’s fatal to be embraced by them! : PYTHONS

20-down – Boatman’s officer accepts a new start after drug discharge : EMANATE

22-down – It’s clear one is advanced : PALIN

23-down – Don Carlo, say? : MONTY

9-across – Trump’s change of policy dealing with mug : ABOUTFACE

10-across – Enhance diet thus, originally in difficulty : ADDTO

11-across – Be off with Conservative deal — catastrophe! : DEBACLE

12-across – Trouble in huge drunk guzzling last of gin : UNHINGE

13-across – Prayer required to join Republican Party : RAVE

14-across – System broken by main Irish party, open your eyes! : WAKEYWAKEY

16-across – Feed hare the wrong way, true to form : NURTURE

17-across – Vacuum-packed whiskey? : DOUBLEU

19-across – On a trip in the air, as a jet-setter? : HIGHFLYING

22-across – Throw something in a brown envelope? : BUNG

24-across – Abominable feeling rejected, son taking time out : NOISOME

25-across – Purplish-pink haze initially obstructing sun, say? : HEATHER

26-across – See 15 : STATE

27-across – Rock hid alpine plants : DELPHINIA

1-down – Asian characters with bureaucrat seen struggling to comprehend European character : MANDARINCHINESE

2-down – Jazz band particularly inadequate — unconvincing style? : COMBOVER

3-down – See 18 : STOCK

4-down – Grand very good price? Steep! : MACERATE

5-down – In shelter, stick vegetable : LEGUME

6-down – Ready: set up to tackle Wimbledon’s top seed : CASHEWNUT

7-down – Midnight mass’s ending in dark and damp European city : GDANSK

8-down – Nervous: my old age pitiable — it was all so blissful once : LOVESYOUNGDREAM

15-down – Kansas gallery after painting : SUNFLOWER

17-down – Tobacconist inhaling good quantity of muck : DUNGHILL

18-down – Ludicrous, ultimately embarrassing and a slight con: UK — seen as this? : LAUGHING

20-down – One’s played God, unwittingly inspiring transgression and revolution, first of all : GUITAR

21-down – Beaten side latterly, with stuffing knocked out, surrenders : YIELDS

23-down – Chairman hugging companion, butch : MACHO

1-across – Speciality of doctor : SYNONYM

5-across – Worries British people apart from us : BOTHERS

9-across – Author who used commas a lot : ROGET

10-across – Organised time trial for 14 : LITERATIM

11-across – Very noticeable, it’s said : PRONOUNCED

12-across – 14 describing action concealed by clever boy : VERB

14-across – 6 or 21, or 16 : WORDFORWORD

18-across – Trimmed text with revised line typed in appropriate way : EXPEDIENTLY

21-across – Promise that’s repeated about James in agent’s introduction : BOND

22-across – Waxy substance ruined unfinished masterpiece : SPERMACETI

25-across – He has put in sign that’s used to find another 14 : THESAURUS

26-across – 10, from landlord’s point of view : TOTHE

27-across – Daisy’s family members introduced by male teachers : MASTERS

28-across – Fighters in ring charged for spectacle : TOREROS

1-down – Secure input intermittently for text : SCRIPT

2-down – Sign agreement importing stuff that’s sticky and worthless : NOGOOD

3-down – I win on date arranged for cross-country? : NATIONWIDE

4-down – Foreign city that’s lost nothing in translation : MILAN

5-down – Dairy product, say, fellow’s taken into club : BUTTERFAT

6-down – Evacuate the room for a certain period : TERM

7-down – Trading hub located in centre, potentially : ENTREPOT

8-down – Person of importance, or no one in particular : SOMEBODY

13-down – Anatomist speaking on less shiny part of head : GREYMATTER

15-down – Stuff sent abroad again in middle of Brexit — breaking stories : REEXPORTS

16-down – Unusually brave little boy in story copied exactly : VERBATIM

17-down – One’s surprised, initially, about writer’s candour : OPENNESS

19-down – See 26 : LETTER

20-down – What’s numbered 14 — 14 as source of strength : SINEWS

23-down – Take a break about one in second test : RESIT

24-down – 14 with capital English worker raised : NAME

1-across – She inspires musicians, top pair leaving Blue Peter, sadly : EUTERPE

5-across – Malign injection, one in tongue : PANJABI

10-across – Special quotation does attract him : STAG

11-across – Those playing away read result elsewhere : ADULTERERS

12-across – Fights are ultimately few and far between : SPARSE

13-across – English players cross a street somewhere in New York : EASTSIDE

14-across – Box in odd Scottish ensemble : ORCHESTRA

16-across – Big noise making contribution to Gaelic language : CLANG

17-across – American in front of gallery getting on : USING

19-across – Voice witty remark about second last : UTTERMOST

23-across – Our start and our finish perhaps, short of money? : CREATION

24-across – In good spirits, sending out tweets? : CHIRPY

26-across – Listener writer’s defending superior concert hall : AUDITORIUM

27-across – Lover of poetry dispatches one big flyer : SWAN

28-across – A local star embarrassed about being in two pieces : ASUNDER

29-across – Version of The Trout drops leading section : RAINBOW

2-down – At uni, Jack tackles work at the usual level : UPTOPAR

3-down – Rave about introducing liberal scorer : ELGAR

4-down – European opens factories making a suite : PLANETS

6-down – Lacking source, most plump for evidence : ATTEST

7-down – First person in Paris, odd, clinches deal for city : JERUSALEM

8-down – Barman’s old staff filling wine store : BORODIN

9-down – Tune librarian ordered for last night’s singalong? : RULEBRITANNIA

15-down – European suspended heretic : HUNGARIAN

18-down – Small supporter welcomes a composer : STRAUSS

20-down – Accolades come in a burst : ENCOMIA

21-down – Second number limits disheartened opera singer : SOPRANO

22-down – Hairy sailor occupies mansion : PILOSE

25-down – Children’s author nearly stood up dramatist : IBSEN