Daily Answers

1-across – Able to restore compliance at first in central banks : MEDICINAL

6-across – House fixed in advance : PUTUP

9-across – Leading Brexiteer Boris ending, unfortunately, ruling people : GOVERNINGBODIES

10-across – Bet everything Spain makes a mark in football : GOAL

11-across – Amend E sharp bum note covers : REPHRASE

14-across – Drunkenly outspoken, narcissistic creature in the main : SHELLFISH

15-across – Retire, having left new regional capital : TURIN

16-across – Use a description of cider? : APPLY

18-across – Transparent ornaments, say, in some minimalist American music? : GLASSWORK

20-across – Maybe scratch both sides of Hindustani hat : HANDICAP

21-across – See 10 : LINE

25-across – For yours truly, where Trump is certain to create tragedy : PROMETHEUSBOUND

26-across – Desire what’s finally in butterfly net : YEARN

27-across – Spy once noting criminal on edge : RIMINGTON

1-down – Frenchman excited in ungodly place : MAGOG

2-down – Climbing, setter’s cutting palm tree branch off : DEVIATE

3-down – Caught group in army base : CORE

4-down – Slowcoach shaking off top cop : NAIL

5-down – Feller tricked about European turtle : LOGGERHEAD

6-down – Diviner Wessex girl mounted by forward man : PROPHETESS

7-down – Cryptic hint on vent into which one disappears : THINAIR

8-down – Boris: leader of party, awful sneak and rat : PASTERNAK

12-down – Ali G follows foreign character, one foolish target : CLAYPIGEON

13-down – His sentences add up to life : BIOGRAPHER

14-down – Careless friends lifted very soft grass skirts : SLAPHAPPY

17-down – Greek First Lady’s assistant straddling two gates : PANDORA

19-down – Poet cut capers in the tube : OVIDUCT

22-down – Turned around in cockney’s area of London : ENDON

23-down – Stick around American island : GUAM

24-down – About to welcome group flying in port : OBAN

9-across – Big comedown to dine with a faux French speaker? : AVALANCHE

10-across – Standard of jazz worried Spike, ladies and gentlemen, by the sound of it? : EIGHT

11-across – Quid, perhaps, charged originally to cut meat sandwiches : TOBACCO

12-across – Light in Greece, not entirely great : HELLUVA

13-across – See 23 : FOUR

14-across – See 20 : FORNOTHING

16-across – Questionable faith, a priestess ultimately loses it : HASAFIT

17-across – 50-peseta piece ready for the press? : TYPESET

19-across – Fat man, tactless : UNTHINKING

22-across – What’s up with newspaper in fictitious case, its views distorted? : HALL

24-across – What cinema promotes is of some importance : ANAGRAM

25-across – So-called trees, those found on the coastline : BEACHES

26-across – Last of all on card, Uganda: pick Kampala for African capital : DAKAR

27-across – Something written about in poem, new spins on certain verb forms : NONFINITE

1-down – Zulu had this soft touch, as travelling around desert : CASTOFTHOUSANDS

2-down – See 10 : BARBLUES

3-down – Trap fly in the ointment : CATCH

4-down – Exclusive, published extract : SCOOPOUT

5-down – Female bird impressed by male’s train, I see? : PEAHEN

6-down – Present finally wrapped up, also peel off sticker : SELLOTAPE

7-down – Scratching bottom, a disease is in large rodent : AGOUTI

8-down – Hands just level with heads in every sense : STRAIGHTFLUSHES

15-down – See 22 : OFMIRRORS

17-down – Old socialist, Spooner’s Napoleon X? : TONYBENN

18-down – Two beats for number one, perhaps? : SMASHHIT

20-down – Unpaid Hollywood actor? I don’t care much for that! : THANKS

21-down – Loose robe, child’s short one? : KIMONO

23-down – Media channel right for audio broadcasting : RADIO

1-across – Go past building that’s quiet just for now : STOPGAP

5-across – Recorded in parts with little enthusiasm : MINUTED

9-across – Old paintings lacking top grade frames — gold one’s a Turner : ROTOR

10-across – Old house in road actors initially rented : LANCASTER

11-across – Court calls solely for judges : FOOTFAULTS

12-across – Invalid reported danger in river : CROC

14-across – See 17 : ITSPERSONAL

18-across – Female lead at last — a new Bond producer’s change for the better? : ENHANCEMENT

21-across – Fling books round ship : TOSS

22-across – Knackered, as Cook was before last Test innings? : CLAPPEDOUT

25-across – Hounds manager that’s optimistic but not around during success : WHIPPERIN

26-across – Complaint Democrat ignored — language! : MALAY

27-across – Sort that out, son! Most of college cuts Unite rejected : SEETOIT

28-across – Thankful he’s left school : OBLIGED

1-down – Quarrelling in street commonplace : STRIFE

2-down – Choice of brew after first love gets promoted : OPTION

3-down – Partner’s life Grindr ruined : GIRLFRIEND

4-down – Flipping Dua Lipa’s eating what? : PILAU

5-down – Mammal on metro upset me : MONOTREME

6-down – Almost managed to climb over fence at back : NEAR

7-down – Instruction to code-breaker on the outside : TUTORING

8-down – Urgently holding court right away : DIRECTLY

13-down – Bad storm and hail round east with temperature remaining constant : ISOTHERMAL

15-down – Was suspicious — something fishy about Test cricketer : SMELLARAT

16-down – Wives : NEWTOWNS

17-down – Thirties’ simpleton as comic film cliche : THISTIME

19-down – Con government has setter going round bend : DOGLEG

20-down – Stopped being unadventurous for audition : STAYED

23-down – No! Ukip leader’s going to run as a Liberal? : PINKO

24-down – Colleague in work on left, not right : OPPO

1-across – See 25 : SOCKET

4-across – Limits of range and colour on very big screen : REREDOS

9-across – Shock at end of boxing match, after a reversal of direction : ABOUTTURN

10-across – Tack on horse : PINTO

11-across – Indian state: state China finally backed : ASSAM

12-across – Pastry with light filling needing dash of Drambuie — might spirit be found here? : FAIRYLAND

13-across – Rotating marker, draw round old vessel : TUGBOAT

15-across – Having admitted affair, those in special relationship knocked over in boxing challenge? : SUDOKU

17-across – Tapestry of fibres, these worn : BRIEFS

19-across – Tools in sulk grasped by babies : PUPPETS

22-across – Letter oddly penned by a German artist — one’s not true : ADULTERER

24-across – Scottish writer, like Dylan Thomas? : WELSH

26-across – Runner drinking fine wine : TOKAY

27-across – Do exercises with largest warhorse : OLDSTAGER

28-across – Crack nut, leaving kernel with sufficient gravy? : SOLVENT

29-across – Show with fake news how internet so needs overhauling : THETWO

1-down – Two animals closer? : SEALANT

2-down – Our love bites sweet, initially — disagree? : CROSS

3-down – Unscripted show in which police upset over engineers : EXTEMPORE

4-down – See 29 : RONNIES

5-down – Come back with very little money to deposit in bank : REPLY

6-down – I can’t be sure head will protect new job : DONTASKME

7-down – See 2 : SWORDS

8-down – Cold food in batter? : BUFFET

14-down – Art set to inspire entertainment aboard ship : GARFUNKEL

16-down – Electrical device that works like a ducking stool, supposedly : DIPSWITCH

18-down – Order large yellow blocks : SORTOUT

19-down – Imitation stick spearing foot : PARODY

20-down – Sad and cheerless intros: film director cut upbeat music : SCHERZO

21-down – Model wants juice served up in aperitif : PASTIS

23-down – Herb, a healer by the sound of it? : THYME

25-down – Match point — shock possible here? : LIGHT

1-across – What’s deer caught? It’s a fish : STICKLEBACK

9-across – Bread fellow’s given around lunchtime? : CHAPATI

10-across – Bed wicked nurses? One goes further : ADVANCE

11-across – Study image in it? : IDENTIKIT

12-across – Mum’s feller securing a feather for this cap? : SHAKO

13-across – Peter’s good … : SAFE

14-across – … not very accommodating airliner for vacation : PRECARIOUS

16-across – Doing business, perhaps, but not ready for firing : ATHALFCOCK

19-across – Honey bun : CHOU

20-across – Kilo of gold centimes deposited for timber in New Zealand : KAURI

21-across – One circuit of Paris or relief work of printer? : ALAPOUPEE

23-across – Prize-winning author left union of workers on retirement : NAIPAUL

24-across – Catty papal successor to Damasus II? : LEONINE

25-across – Personal message-sender about to lose bottle? : NERVEENDING

1-down – Address mess in which husband and wife find themselves? : STATEOFTHEUNION

2-down – Not appropriate to doze during sex : INAPT

3-down – Electrician’s knack with repairs — can this help with ladies’ upkeep? : KNICKER

4-down – See 3 : ELASTIC

5-down – Slicing a fish, this number is recommended : ADVISORY

6-down – Sarply moving major piece about a national swimmer — I like this work’s power : KANGAROOHOPPING

7-down – Skirmish can grimly set out useless employer’s problem : SCRIMSHANKING

8-down – Press slammed Omen sequel — end of countdown cut : LEMONSQUEEZER

15-down – Like impressionists’ work? Mr Goodman retains one in two : PLEINAIR

17-down – Buttonholing guy on lake, one does delay rising star : CHARLIE

18-down – See 17 : CHAPLIN

22-down – In which antique Greek weighed two Bolivian pots? : OBOLI