Daily Answers

1-across – Black cricketer : BOYCOTT

5-across – Manager asking for one hundred and ten percent, essentially not troubled by number being irrational : ANTONIO

10-across – Blue drink : DOWN

11-across – Lack of sense, including smell? That’s being cruel : INHUMANITY

12-across – Dog’s first run out, before nap in front of number 13 : BAKERS

13-across – Peaceful angler disturbed, coming across 11 : RELAXING

14-across – Chief supports old woman wearing corset : MAINSTAYS

16-across – See 12 : DOZEN

17-across – One letter Puck’s forgotten is out of order : AMISS

19-across – Very fine paper soon in recycling? Sort daughter binned : ONIONSKIN

23-across – Designed home with escape routes? : INVENTED

24-across – Unofficial border : FRINGE

26-across – Number scored in extra time? : EIGHTDAYSA

27-across – See 26 : WEEK

28-across – Some things regularly interpreted as self-love : EGOTISM

29-across – Quality shown by 13 with Dead Head after too much drug intake : ODDNESS

2-down – In order to see dragonflies, a fellow hid in long grass earlier : ODONATA

3-down – See 5 : CONTE

4-down – Film following Jedward, say, in women’s clothing : TWINSET

6-down – Meal ordered in city : NAMELY

7-down – Vile smell around American seen outside Number 10, repeatedly : OBNOXIOUS

8-down – Keen to show decimal point : INTENSE

9-down – May’s content as a Tory? Deny this, surprisingly : THIRTYONEDAYS

15-down – Shelter from the sun, after tanning back in sun first : NISSENHUT

18-down – Providing people to work for Chelsea now? : MANNING

20-down – Bad worker is laid-back and rude : OFFHAND

21-down – French painter’s admission : INGRESS

22-down – Playing duet on tablets works : ETUDES

25-down – Have short article in current New Statesman : IOWAN

9-across – Parasite was a parliamentary leader, said Spooner? : HEADLOUSE

10-across – Minister detailed one side of the story? : RECTO

11-across – Trouble brewing at first, plant in a stew perhaps? : POTHERB

12-across – Point covered by this or otherwise, to be concise : INSHORT

13-across – Season as seasona, it’s reported? : NOEL

14-across – Poor character recalled in rogue : CINDERELLA

16-across – Trying jerks in family — something positive about it? : YANKING

17-across – Where one may be taught a lesson with ice down jockstrap, might you say? : PRIVATE

19-across – Plaything Aladdin, perhaps, has to avoid : RUBBERDUCK

22-across – Film Keith clued cryptically? : SOME

24-across – Whitish gallery hasn’t a range of colours : PALETTE

25-across – Model I love in performance : DIORAMA

26-across – Muse of Homer, a touch inspiring? : ERATO

27-across – Impressive responsibility of the police : ARRESTING

1-down – It became apparent, then it became a mother or a father? : THEPENNYDROPPED

2-down – Pub’s opening, soon to host the nation’s heroes : PANTHEON

3-down – See 23 : FLIES

4-down – Awkward adding jewels to one’s booty : BUMBLING

5-down – Losing seat : BEHIND

6-down – Padding delicate area, knotted rags — ribbed fabric : GROSGRAIN

7-down – See 17 across : SCHOOL

8-down – In money, pound taken to entertain maiden fair? Absolutely not! : DONTMAKEMELAUGH

15-down – See 22 : LIKEITHOT

17-down – Best honours, we hear, for Spanish fighters : PICADORS

18-down – Perfumed lorry carrying odorous muck around, initially : AROMATIC

20-down – Note in plain song : BALLAD

21-down – Track player, runner and winger : DEEJAY

23-down – Swimming fish, or else biting insects : HORSE

5-across – Lives first lost in robberies : EXISTS

6-across – Tough material with zero camouflage : OXHIDE

9-across – Complaint of stock company with receding work : COWPOX

10-across – Show model pirouetting round American transport : AIRTAXIS

11-across – Popular eating area for Asian city : XIAN

12-across – America’s opponents thrashed 5-1 also : AXISOFEVIL

13-across – Communication problem during Vietnamese New Year period : TEXTMESSAGE

18-across – Grotesque capital city is a disappointment : ANTICLIMAX

21-across – Twirling figure is succeeding : NEXT

22-across – Do beers get drunk in official containers? : REDBOXES

23-across – Fool? Wrong, half a fool : OUTFOX

24-across – Order for players playing tune, following tab : EXEUNT

25-across – A contender to be a Catholic saint : XAVIER

1-down – School subject’s stopped because it’s of little value : SIXPENCE

2-down – Party animal regularly shows lack of physical control : ATAXIA

3-down – Affectionate, posh men given obligations : UXORIOUS

4-down – Be obsessed with order, close to compulsive : FIXATE

5-down – Eye-catching and stimulating Romeo’s dumped : EXOTIC

7-down – One poking needle around gets amazing remedy : ELIXIR

8-down – He’ll stuff fish covered in salt water droplets : TAXIDERMIST

14-down – Contacting relation, dropping line about Spain : TELEXING

15-down – Old lady having issue with complex integer : GENETRIX

16-down – English queen’s clothing is appropriate : ANNEXE

17-down – East African’s wild region in south-west : EXMOOR

19-down – One doctor touching Roman tile : IMBREX

20-down – South African sailor kidnapped by Chinese people : XHOSAN

9-across – Public strip show hit for six when covering election : HOIPOLLOI

10-across – Comment for the audience from a team with strange ideas : ASIDE

11-across – Morning gone, chameleon switches position : ECHELON

12-across – See 24 : QUARTER

13-across – It’s a virtue, yet returning to cover it would be daring : MERIT

14-across – High ebbs and flows, primarily catching nothing : STONEDEAF

16-across – Satchmo’s gripe? : STOMACHDISORDER

19-across – Not on in church to finally lose face for a drink container : COFFEEMUG

21-across – Lots of coal fires : SACKS

22-across – Scientist’s note in box : CHEMIST

23-across – Compiler again broke monitor? Good reason to 25 : MEMENTO

24-across – The south-east corner is in the 5th and 6th arrondissements : LATIN

25-across – Relish the moment I’m deep in trouble chasing vehicle : CARPEDIEM

1-down – 22 across use poorly written notes : SHEETMUSIC

2-down – Other arrangement supporting strike so far : HITHERTO

3-down – Try hitting net after start of Badminton Cup : GOBLET

4-down – Tribe with the magic lantern : CLAN

5-down – Messing up passage, turned to squirming right away : MISQUOTING

6-down – German approval on the rise of united China is hot stuff : JALAPENO

7-down – Cub stars? : LITTLE

8-down – See 7 : BEAR

14-down – Diagrams showing Lewis after school holding up one train : SCHEMATICS

15-down – Fierce protests arising from company’s internal store layout : FIRESTORMS

17-down – What helps one go without head on beer? A pint, possibly : APERIENT

18-down – A nice end for troubling decades : DECENNIA

20-down – Fnooze party? : FIESTA

21-down – In clothes? Emperor? Always! : SEMPER

22-down – Young creature giving rise to endless criticism : CALF

23-down – See 23 across : MORI

1-across – Style said to be warped by traditionalists for a start, anti-bourgeois : DADAIST

5-across – Soft item with no end to flatten, not this then? : FELTHAT

9-across – Person in book group : NONET

10-across – Desolate scene where love in poems can degenerate : MOONSCAPE

11-across – Machinations of Belgian in Poirot ultimately impossible to grasp : INTANGIBLE

12-across – Knee higher — this lower? : CALF

14-across – See 25 : TWOTOGETHER

18-across – See 28 : IMPROVEMENT

21-across – Step by entrance, we hear? : GAIT

22-across – Daydreaming male catching end of member on a zip : STARGAZING

25-across – Deduce how to make a square? : PUTTWOAND

26-across – Indian garment pinned back by pandit — oh dear : DHOTI

27-across – Material in bread, sharp : NANKEEN

28-across – Part of house in need of refurbishment? It could be better : ROOMFOR

1-down – Idiotic supporting cruel feeding swindle in fast food chain : DUNKIN

2-down – See 1 : DONUTS

3-down – Enthusiastic about country’s rise and fall? : INTONATION

4-down – After a rise, police on good rates : TEMPI

5-down – Moving freely, ankle screws removed? : FOOTLOOSE

6-down – Sumptuous boozer : LUSH

7-down – A bounder stood up amid laughter — why no sex tonight? : HEADACHE

8-down – Bird circling ridge to find tropical plant : TREEFERN

13-down – A marked village showed wart, unfortunately : WESTWARDHO

15-down – Plain wet to practise excessively : OVERTRAIN

16-down – For example, tit measurement spawning novel : WINGSPAN

17-down – Bread — Croatian money? : SPLITTIN

19-down – Hint — problem with cue? : TIPOFF

20-down – One tucks into revolting gruel, less appealing : UGLIER

23-down – Qualification for Bellerophon, say? : RIDER

24-down – Precious little deeper than bottom of pit : TWEE