Daily Answers

9-across – Chum and I including odd touch, an Asian shrub : PATCHOULI

10-across – Aim in occupying corporation : POINT

11-across – Fly without loud instruction up to this point : SOFAR

12-across – Sort of wit with point primarily that’s good for cut and thrust : SWORDPLAY

13-across – Transport animal in unusual cart : TRAMCAR

14-across – Pasta first for Rico, as against tucking into garlicky mix : RAVIOLI

17-across – Dish Papa and I mostly acclaim : PILAU

19-across – Add last word in thoughtful man’s aphorism : SUM

20-across – Pianist’s shift away from upright, it’s said : LISZT

21-across – It turns 6, missing start in posh car : ROTATOR

22-across – Last of gold charms, possibly, and coins of antiquity : DRACHMS

24-across – Addition of glossy stuff not right, fading away : VANISHING

26-across – Don’t confront total lack of diamonds, say : AVOID

28-across – Analysis in form of opinion : ASSAY

29-across – Things lacking in old vocations : OMISSIONS

1-down – Composition almost put out without piano : OPUS

2-down – Man on a Scottish island : STAFFA

3-down – Kind of film about fungal growth in kind of pastry : SHORTCRUST

4-down – All but nullify a monarch that’s gigantic and awfully distant : QUASAR

5-down – Unusually prim goal for work lacking, in a way — such as this : LIPOGRAM

6-down – Irish growth finishing disastrous slump, you said : SPUD

7-down – King is jolly mad such guys spoil things : KILLJOYS

8-down – Put off visit : STAY

13-down – Mammal I caught in nasty trap : TAPIR

15-down – A rival soap broadcast in port : VALPARAISO

16-down – Abrupt attack is capturing court, you said : ICTUS

18-down – In US city cash is tight, initially, for classical scholar : LATINIST

19-down – Runs into coach, going north into changing part of London : SURBITON

22-down – Taunts with it and starts to scoff : DIGSIN

23-down – Charming activity of husband, putting diamonds in rings : HOODOO

24-down – What’s glass, holding liquid, contributing to joviality? : VIAL

25-down – Batons in audition that you will finally pass across? : STYX

27-down – In hurry, fling small amount : DASH

7-across – 12 more Spaniards ate crackers : DRAMATIS

9-across – It’s not entirely lost on guest speaker : TONGUE

10-across – Shortage in change? Absolutely! : AMEN

11-across – Possums say Paul is off on another planet : MARSUPIALS

12-across – Characters listed in play : TILDES

14-across – Cover a municipal role : CAPACITY

15-across – See 23 : CHICKEN

17-across – Extend length of bird : STRETCH

20-across – Gun-toting kid somewhere on an island : YARMOUTH

22-across – Reason sensation happening : WITHIT

23-across – Dish, one quaking at the prospect of investiture? : CORONATION

24-across – Stalemate followed by defeats, officially stop game : DRAW

25-across – Diamonds in cargo, oddly, for Roman consul : CICERO

26-across – See 7 : PERSONAE

1-down – Search bottom parts, unattractive : FRUMPISH

2-down – Sign form, seen regularly : OMEN

3-down – See 24 across : STUMPS

4-down – Actress ultimately given daffy part as tramp : STRUMPET

5-down – Unwise to move since tired : INDISCREET

6-down – 15, something to do with a fast one, say? : PULLET

8-down – Tidy wood : SPRUCE

13-down – Broke down, having erased scores, might you say? : DECOMPOSED

16-down – Sovereign inspiring couple to catch lion, say, for master : EDUCATOR

18-down – Hit before lunch, perhaps with a new ball : CHINAMAN

19-down – Sixties’ model losing weight, tiny little thing : SHRIMP

21-down – Lovely person — who’s teaching Oxbridge students? : ADONIS

22-down – Get to taste bitter : WINTRY

24-down – Abandon GP and surgery : DROP

9-across – Love a lecture Degas originally introduced : ADORATION

10-across – Current chairman passes round golf flyer : IMAGO

11-across – Dull hack’s book : MATTHEW

12-across – Gunmen guard, say, a Times craft event : REGATTA

13-across – Good sides keep fit in white : GLAIR

14-across – Bowler traps a Kent opener that appears in 12 : SPINNAKER

16-across – Citizen largely vandalised location of hangings : NATIONALGALLERY

19-across – Study coin displayed behind bars : INCUSTODY

21-across – Drunk one’s out of it : SKULL

22-across – A traveller gathered about 18 : TEMPERA

23-across – Couple hosts one extremely serious artist : MATISSE

24-across – Tearful woman’s provincial honour : NIOBE

25-across – Former PM’s organ fund : LIVERPOOL

1-down – Amusing lad edited miscellany : SALMAGUNDI

2-down – Left artist exactly what’s needed: a painting : PORTRAIT

3-down – Swimmer’s article seized by lawyers : BATHER

4-down – Struggle with angle : VIEW

5-down – Straight new English bishop in vile collars : UNERRINGLY

6-down – Raving mad learner grabs one old instrument : VIRGINAL

7-down – Scorer to do what setters do without : BARTOK

8-down – Artist’s intermittently good year : GOYA

14-down – Each boy wears black at the appropriate time : SEASONABLE

15-down – Food flown in for queen cooked jolly early : ROYALJELLY

17-down – Outside broadcast setting almost more offensive : OBSCENER

18-down – Paint bird and cat eating last of carcass : EMULSION

20-down – Carved 2s arrived with sailor : CAMEOS

21-down – Rocket placed on vessel : SATURN

22-down – Shade of paint in Tiepolo : TINT

23-down – Make weepy film without one : MOVE

1-across – Report covering achievement, having abandoned a refuge : SAFETY

4-across – Firing weapon, one flying straight over ship, then boat cut in half : CROSSBOW

9-across – Not quite noon, expected later : NEARLY

10-across – Brief hint: solver needs answer that’s water off Australia : TIMORSEA

11-across – Short script edited with info and photo that’s traditionally found in newspaper : PORTIONOFCHIPS

13-across – Backing of king sufficient, say : FOREXAMPLE

14-across – Accordingly caught by better goalkeeper : ERGO

16-across – Pavilion ultimately remains — his design? : NASH

18-across – Children’s author admitting actions an online threat : RANSOMWARE

21-across – Like track I see in English city, start of line from small village? : ALASPOORYORICK

23-across – Right battle it’s clear : CONSOMME

24-across – Announcement of written arrangement, a charge on smokers etc? : SINTAX

25-across – Grand people in sweaty shifts : STEINWAY

26-across – Film us leaving cat with tailless dog : PSYCHO

1-down – Air circulating on jumbo jets all finally used up : SONG

2-down – Suggestion: somewhere to go in all seasons : FLAVOUR

3-down – Source of news then oddly allowed after, not leader : TELETEXT

5-down – Review of short play in theatre adaptation? : RHINOPLASTY

6-down – Slump that was painful after gutting of sawmill : SLOUCH

7-down – Top row of vehicles? : BUSTIER

8-down – Shower mat slipping on top of that : WHATSMORE

12-down – Beastly sound arising, father’s about to threaten diminutive figure : OOMPALOOMPA

13-down – Spanish Steps short of energy dry up — entertainment, barely? : FANDANCES

15-down – Clever lot, males promoted before relations : SMARTIES

17-down – Playwright born a Native American : SHAWNEE

19-down – Small vinegary drinks for abstainer, perhaps? : ASCETIC

20-down – Complex put on private residential area : UPTOWN

22-down – Fair old pan having bottom scrubbed : EXPO

1-across – Wood gathering: men getting stuck in : FOREST

4-across – Briefly box after punch connects : HITCHES

9-across – Piece of glass cut to press on specimen, primarily? : COVERSLIP

10-across – Suffer at home with endless treatment : INCUR

11-across – Sun with awful piece : SCRAP

12-across – Criticise defender that’s down : KNOCKBACK

13-across – Kiss off date is with fumble : DISMISS

15-across – Drink for one running, heartlessly rejected : EGGNOG

17-across – Fine after parking in tight spot : PLIGHT

19-across – Do it bent over on small potty : BONKERS

22-across – Conclusion that’s around 50-50? : CLOSECALL

24-across – Learner, following two lessons, to drive off : REPEL

26-across – Cancel important date at short notice : ERASE

27-across – Sport legend on choice when playing : ICEHOCKEY

28-across – Woman’s entertaining magazine cover : SHEATHE

29-across – Poster, including cropped picture, to go up : ASCEND

1-down – Fixed cocaine, old fellow shot up and took drugs : FOCUSED

2-down – One aimlessly walking dog? : ROVER

3-down – Strong bandages : STRAPPING

4-down – In book, a certain part of body : HIPBONE

5-down – Jiffy bags hard and heavy : THICK

6-down – Journalist on Dettori’s love for riding gear : HACKAMORE

7-down – Come to buffet : STRIKE

8-down – Men in magazine mostly lay hands on trousers : BLOKES

14-down – Stick shift: top gear essentially when racing : SELLOTAPE

16-down – Using room for assembly that’s big : GINORMOUS

18-down – Possibly meet at one or later? : TEATIME

19-down – Put up film poster at the top : BILLET

20-down – Spread out: scattered having changed hands : SPLAYED

21-down – Admission of masters degrees ultimately filled out by college : ACCESS

23-down – Up before court : ERECT

25-down – Drink at 18? Put down water bottles : PEKOE