Daily Answers

1-across – Dodgy dealer’s wealth comes from awful crime : CAPITAL

5-across – See 1 : OFFENCE

9-across – Note anger about places issue will develop : UTERI

10-across – Fiddle with metal casing finally breaking : VIOLATING

11-across – Military group’s demand to tuck into bananas etc : TASKFORCE

12-across – Sage stuffing for burger is hideous : RISHI

13-across – Long time, an unspecified amount : YEARN

15-across – Main city’s much spoken of Welsh address : OFFENBACH

18-across – Trifle dish in which to put a piece : BAGATELLE

19-across – Records order where races are run : EPSOM

21-across – I touch frames for picture : MOVIE

23-across – Cutting quality of performing acts in set : CATTINESS

25-across – Criminal’s basic characteristics seen in Leave voter : KIDNAPPER

26-across – Predator caught in northerly forest : TAIGA

27-across – When working, warn a cruel boss one might explode! : NUCLEAR

28-across – See 27 : WARHEAD

1-down – Simple sort of number line by swelling family : COUNTRY

2-down – Force media people to go north of Hadrian’s Wall, say : PRESSGANG

3-down – Crook to hurry, absorbed by paperback? : THIEF

4-down – Footballers can spin with wrong turns : LIVERPOOL

5-down – Putting on weight, figure gets gas : OZONE

6-down – Bouquet of paper across the Channel? : FRAGRANCE

7-down – Arrests partners holding hands without trouble : NAILS

8-down – Eccentric single with obligation to wear heavy hot stuff : ENGLISH

14-down – Showing no shame, a compiler’s in sacred place : NOTREDAME

16-down – Chance to shoot fox behind cockney trio : FREETHROW

17-down – Stainless steel ingredient from follower of a Regency writer? : AUSTENITE

18-down – See 1 : BUMPKIN

20-down – See 8 : MUSTARD

22-down – It’s essential to believe, dictating from scripture : VEDIC

23-down – Person who manages business, one selling up : COPER

24-down – Start off season in one side of Italy : INTER

8-across – Possible regret on waking house­bound granny, initially? : HANGOVER

9-across – Biblical character, writer briefly embracing a mystic syllable : NAOMI

10-across – See 25 : CARD

11-across – As heavy traffic carries on backing up, trouble ensuing : NOSETOTAIL

12-across – Song stretching out for US singer-songwriter : CAROLE

14-across – Regular relief from daughter? : CHANGING

15-across – Classical thinker attached to army unit : PLATOON

17-across – ‘Safe place for a show’, girl claims — this way for entertainment! : SEVENTH

20-across – Approach sign in race after diversion : COMENEAR

22-across – Looking good with this short-term concept? : TWENTY

23-across – Get better price after Queen holds a shade back : RECUPERATE

24-across – See 12 : KING

25-across – Magician, say, reversing curse that’s beset player : TAROT

26-across – Wet bum covered in thorns? Don’t 23! : GETWORSE

1-down – In large space, a fish enjoyed itself : HADABALL

2-down – Artist virtually climbing over the hill, some might say? : AGED

3-down – See 17 : AVENUE

4-down – Cut in three, strict rule finally broken : TRISECT

5-down – Admit what I did in the restaurant I visited? : INITIATE

6-down – European songwriter endlessly penning contrapuntal pieces, blowing top : PORTUGUESE

7-down – See 22 : VISION

13-down – See 14 : OFTHEGUARD

16-down – Food in old crusts of toast, scrap sandwiches : OMELETTE

18-down – Rhea, for example, bird ahead? : TITANESS

19-down – Attack a rule in speech : ARRAIGN

21-down – Godfather’s code in theatre mostly sent up : OMERTA

22-down – See 22 across : TWENTY

24-down – Bird gathering speed on water : KNOT

1-across – Previous message in a bottle? : POLICE

4-across – See 1 : RECORD

9-across – Representative of pretentious nobility : SNOB

10-across – First part of appeal by Romeo to seduce novice : APPRENTICE

11-across – Cold and shivering, crazy about love : CORYZA

12-across – Suggestion made by boozer on due process : INNUENDO

13-across – City came first before village in fiction : CAMBRIDGE

15-across – He or she with the Guardian who tormented 24 : ZEUS

16-across – Bob kept locked up by 1 down : HOPE

17-across – Self-styled reference, lexicon, dictionary and so forth : THESAURUS

21-across – Selfish attempt to disrupt regenerated cities : EGOISTIC

22-across – In June, Scotland is a cultural hub : UNESCO

24-across – One bound for America with Philistine on board : PROMETHEUS

25-across – See 14 : FONT

26-across – Key in her top type : HALTER

27-across – City couples, happily married, on the telly at last : SYDNEY

1-down – She opened a box of letters from Dad? : PANDORA

2-down – Look, baby, that’s not a pressure group! : LOBBY

3-down – Man essentially fat — it’s his bread : CHAPATI

5-down – They leave old tune out : EXEUNT

6-down – Not going out with macho types, you finally become available : ONTHEMENU

7-down – Degenerates rejecting holy books for many years : DECADES

8-down – Jump scared, being a youngster : SPRINGCHICKEN

14-down – Batman’s plot, if convoluted, is the first in which to get immersed : BAPTISMAL

16-down – Primarily hooked on gin, his work included : HOGARTH

18-down – Soft sea creature, tailless and timid : SQUISHY

19-down – Strange uniform governess put conservative leader in : UNCANNY

20-down – Figure is poorly situated after I’d gone : STATUE

23-down – Delicate female drowned in rising river : ELFIN

8-across – Laugh about foreign article, sloppy stuff requiring a rubber? : SUNCREAM

9-across – Record line by Pavlova, for example? : ANNAL

10-across – Dish, while in pot, Greek character covers : LAMB

11-across – How dare he wear the van out! : WHATANERVE

12-across – Stick nose in object worn round neck, did you say? : MEDDLE

14-across – Produce notes about Arctic, giving a lecture : SCOLDING

15-across – Baby feeder squashed by bricks — no need to worry : LETITGO

17-across – See 10 : PASANDA

20-across – Kind of desert carrier not entirely accepting European cause of disease, possibly : BACTERIA

22-across – Political machine cruelly rejecting part of manifesto by a majority : MAYBOT

23-across – Agree hedges opening at the end — feature of labyrinth? : COMPLEXITY

24-across – Nothing in heads of negotiators as deadline approaches : NADA

25-across – 104 fancy holiday destination : CORFU

26-across – Bum of leader’s taking a beating : FREELOAD

1-down – European in America entertained by south-east African : SUDANESE

2-down – Scoundrel requires system for paying up : SCAB

3-down – Two minutes of relief? : WEEWEE

4-down – Mission Paul set up, fishy? : EMBASSY

5-down – Italian sculptor welcomes a second lover : CASANOVA

6-down – Provocative chopping of nice new log : INCENDIARY

7-down – CON split? : CLOVEN

13-down – Division in home arising over creative work, gradually become estranged : DRIFTAPART

16-down – See 18 : GORGEOUS

18-down – As is a femme fatale? : DROPDEAD

19-down – Please keep Friday cleared: the following 24 hours is to take priority? : SATISFY

21-down – Now achievement of tennis player eclipsing that of batsman? : ATONCE

22-down – Chaos in spring over the border : MAYHEM

24-down – Zero tolerance in the end for African runner : NILE

1-across – Jazz pianist lacking second sense : HEARING

5-across – State capital’s toilet working : JACKSON

9-across – It’s on target, but network device fails to start : OUTER

10-across – Heavenly movement of songs mater composed : AIRSTREAM

11-across – Transport provided by old flame out with Latin oddball : EXULTATION

12-across – Right after a blue cheesy stuff : SKYR

14-across – Mark was a consumer backed by man, one with reservations : TICKETAGENT

18-across – Living nightmare of greeting the world around mid-morning! : HELLONEARTH

21-across – Cross appropriate to duke : FORD

22-across – Michael can shift — power-driven? : MECHANICAL

25-across – What made a clot hack a long cut with one? : COAGULANT

26-across – Knock spots off front of trousers and rear : TRUMP

27-across – Drastically reduced, as certain windows are after large insertion : SLASHED

28-across – ‘City of Love’ backing onto Lancashire town? Not quite : LINCOLN

1-down – House above the dam? : HOOVER

2-down – King Ben’s second after Paul’s music partner : ARTHUR

3-down – Pain initiator overcome with resistance : IRRITATION

4-down – Present relative temperature : GRANT

5-down – Who talks twaddle like ‘gas in mock enclosure’ : JARGONEER

6-down – Attractive dock above the end of Cologne : CUTE

7-down – Spotted old Hollywood star in drag : SPECKLED

8-down – Having no problem with sums of money initially kept in a tureen that’s cracked : NUMERATE

13-down – State of laundry? Not bad : WASHINGTON

15-down – Former county college grade with ‘plus’ added : CLEVELAND

16-down – Truth of the matter? One isn’t party to bandit behaviour : THEFACTS

17-down – English opera in trouble again, having to hold back non-English part : GLORIANA

19-down – Court’s disguised trapdoor : SCRUTO

20-down – Tie fleece round cheek : CLIPON

23-down – Raffles off the lot almost? : HOTEL

24-down – Uncultivated country’s transport hub just opening : BUSH