Daily Answers

1-across – Dire Straits appearing in Cairo, Lichtenstein and Monaco, among others : ARTISTS

5-across – Ultimately, the swollen thyroid may be in a state : ENGLAND

9-across – Erotica in a little drama you finally produced : ADULT

10-across – Anger about half-cousin getting boost : ENCOURAGE

11-across – An Arab sultan, ignoring northern borders, turns a clean slate : TABULARASA

12-across – Viewers at last safe and all right : EYES

14-across – Disk tribute in one endless spread : DISTRIBUTION

18-across – Even a chemist falsified results : ACHIEVEMENTS

21-across – Woman right at all times : EVER

22-across – Skipping the introduction, brief look into past rewritten manuscript : PALIMPSEST

25-across – Get involved with gross revenue unit? Not us! : INTERVENE

26-across – Perfect trader declaration : IDEAL

27-across – Soft option, finally, that is stopping fast : LENIENT

28-across – Barber and clerk stripped youngster : TODDLER

1-down – Makes adjustments to suitable cutting plugs : ADAPTS

2-down – Tom’s hitches, when all clumsy : THUMBS

3-down – They go round the globe finding little trouble in rising oceans : SATELLITES

4-down – Cattle drive : STEER

5-down – Too much sex service right away is wrong : EXCESSIVE

6-down – Bitterness expressed in France once : GAUL

7-down – Obsessive on why they say relative having breakdown : ANALYSIS

8-down – Putting on clothes — something saucy? : DRESSING

13-down – Cross, nearly deceived over clue that’s reproduced : MULTIPLIED

15-down – News of athletes running around junction : THELATEST

16-down – See 9 : MATERIAL

17-down – Use intimidation in theatre with rising right national leader : THREATEN

19-down – Once again, ring to cancel : REPEAL

20-down – Winter’s Tale remake’s not as fresh : STALER

23-down – Awkward patient not at fault : INEPT

24-down – With nothing to do for love : FREE

8-across – Leaning back, a boy exercises a part of the 10 : AMYGDALA

9-across – Part of the 10 where heavyweight author files page : HIPPO

10-across – Critical moment on coming to this floating toilet : HEAD

11-across – Sexes, perhaps, mate in Germany’s capital city : PALINDROME

12-across – First of month welcomed by priests, old feast day : LAMMAS

14-across – Intensively study part of the 10 for spiked plates : CRAMPONS

15-across – Consider clamping journalist on a part of the 10 : MEDULLA

17-across – Paul coming backwards, couple come together : EMBRACE

20-across – Part of the 10 the norm, that is unlikely to be scalped : PARIETAL

22-across – Cake gone — and most of whiskey : PASTRY

23-across – Drunk ignores pub, feeling better for it? : SOBERINGUP

24-across – See 20 : LOBE

25-across – Foul eating starter of turkey, cover meat with fat : BASTE

26-across – Part of the 10, like that cushioning a blow : THALAMUS

1-down – Current measure, degree up with furious exercising? : AMPERAGE

2-down – Curse once wrapped up in bandages : EGAD

3-down – See 9 : CAMPUS

4-down – Unsound notion, as a member reported? : FALLACY

5-down – In May, county transfixed by a spirit : PHANTASM

6-down – Extra bits in box, belt and buckle finally hauled up : SPAREPARTS

7-down – Beastly lot has little time to get a closer look : ZOOMIN

13-down – Apparently tough poser is never really understood, maybe initially impossible? : MRUNIVERSE

16-down – Rubbish is learnt going places? : LATRINES

18-down – Church concerned with familiar city in part of the 10 : CEREBRUM

19-down – Brilliance breaking through for Britain at war? : BLIGHTY

21-down – A private’s ending in the army, a simple form of life : AMOEBA

22-down – Wood in, heart out : POPLAR

24-down – Bread 10 : LOAF

8-across – Leave fox, say, by lake : FURLOUGH

9-across – Struggle with compilers, reading the Spectator : VIEWER

10-across – Small vehicle, one not supposed to be working : SCAB

11-across – Lacking will to adopt Republican way in US : INTERSTATE

12-across – Hodgepodge of newspaper gossip rejected : RAGBAG

14-across – Force feeble soldier to show rhythmic steps? : FLAMENCO

15-across – Partner’s a dolly bird, ultimately flighty : OLDLADY

17-across – Notice overlapping left back is pugnacious : STROPPY

20-across – Reckon this person’s invested in property : ESTIMATE

22-across – Where you might be putting healthy food : GREENS

23-across – Hinting at hanky-panky, give guests shivers : SUGGESTIVE

24-across – See 21 : DEAL

25-across – Language of Native Americans gathering round lake : CREOLE

26-across – Wood bust, barrel tipped over : CHESTNUT

1-down – Having lead over British by a stroke, where many rounds are likely : PUBCRAWL

2-down – See 13 : CLUB

3-down – Mathematician being revolutionary, ignoring Newton : TURING

4-down – Isolated and quiet university? Swell! : SHUTOFF

5-down – Going topless, paramour’s shy and gloomy : OVERCAST

6-down – Top worker kept for rendezvous, when things start to go bad : BESTBEFORE

7-down – Some cancel tickets for 2 : CELTIC

13-down – Intimidation not unknown by academic staff in Oxford group : BULLINGDON

16-down – Racer’s outfit on TV has beaten rest : DRAGSTER

18-down – Literary procurer caught by cop and a Russian : PANDARUS

19-down – Accompany guards about entrance : BEWITCH

21-down – Conventional wood treatment that’s reasonable : SQUARE

22-down – Faces of great, glacial mount? : GEEGEE

24-down – See 6 : DATE

1-across – Pudding, not starter, interrupting fish dish : SOUFFLE

5-across – See 26 : SABBATH

9-across – Forever turning old and dirty, every second lying back : TIDAL

10-across – On with it! : HAPPENING

11-across – English author the Guardian’s translated is back on the box : CHESTERTON

12-across – Fishwife who survived? : PARR

14-across – In basic parts of music, end improvised around heavy metal for maestri : BANDLEADERS

18-across – Deals with cities built to be stretched? : ELASTICISED

21-across – Bound to need patience, ultimately — a virtue? : HOPE

22-across – Dressing prime minister, one is an oddball : MAYONNAISE

25-across – Short garment beginning to rise in sketch by a couple of artists : RARASKIRT

26-across – Old group ending in tub can’t get c-clean? : BLACK

27-across – Gain in knots with set distance travelled : EASTING

28-across – Outside broadcast on golf tournament : OPENAIR

1-down – Club welcoming hot talent : SHTICK

2-down – State that is dividing America, pants? : UNDIES

3-down – With rigging of ballot admitted, suits go to pieces : FALLTOBITS

4-down – Five into nine, the rational number : ETHER

5-down – Greek dramatist breaks to pocket first of cash, after bribe : SOPHOCLES

6-down – Alcoholic drink preferable, not teetotal : BEER

7-down – A philanthropist controlling computers proves perturbing : AGITATES

8-down – Dangerous Goth losing heart in the clutches of wicked Irish king : HIGHRISK

13-down – Venial story about Pasquale, perhaps? : PARDONABLE

15-down – Blinking Titanic sunk, no good : NICTATING

16-down – Delicate creature, speaking clock needs to rest voice? : SEAHORSE

17-down – Some fortification in fleece and horns, for example? : RAMPARTS

19-down – Capital cheers outstanding nation : TIRANA

20-down – Cock and hen? : PECKER

23-down – Trump gone, party! : OUTDO

24-down – Drink a can, almost : ASTI

1-across – Nurse to show soldiers tablet to arouse : ENERGISE

5-across – In retirement, some staff offering to go away : EFFOFF

9-across – Girl in group to follow one trained to lead : GUIDEDOG

10-across – Disheartened one in mixed school called for attention : COOEED

12-across – Sweep in the morning, empty bags : GAMUT

13-across – Timber 24? : TWOBYFOUR

14-across – Brainless act breaking bit of wind : BASSCLARINET

18-across – Lying bums hide beneath their disguise : FALSEBOTTOMS

21-across – Indian being place with hot produce : SLOTHBEAR

23-across – 6 oddly died on film : VIDEO

24-across – Boxer twice making excuses for failure : ALIBIS

25-across – Strike pay condition making it hard to walk? : CLUBFOOT

26-across – Attempts papers : ESSAYS

27-across – PC getting off cocaine drunk beers in unknown numbers : CYBERSEX

1-down – Take on English date : ENGAGE

2-down – Mystery Machine’s case, again leader lost Shaggy? : ENIGMA

3-down – Serious Daphne essentially missing Scooby-Doo? : GREATDANE

4-down – Meddling kids initially snoop, eh? Most plausible : SMOOTHSPOKEN

6-down – Rear characters in Scooby-Doo following one that likes to eat : FOODY

7-down – Private 11? : ONETOONE

8-down – Ally of Freddie regularly dropped charge : FEDERATE

11-down – Firm left recent meeting in a way that’s subsidiary : COLLATERALLY

15-down – Terrible bore, Velma can be detached : REMOVABLE

16-down – Bad leg not visible during play : OFFSTAGE

17-down – They could be vacant females taking debauched one inside? : FLOOSIES

19-down – Horrid Scrappy-Doo is taking a turn : ODIOUS

20-down – Top layer runs into bed with old lover : CORTEX

22-down – Terrifying Shaggy : HAIRY