Daily Answers

1-across – Dance exercise starting on time … : PROMPT

4-across – … ending in breaking plate : FINISH

9-across – Citizen poking about there at show house : NATIONALTHEATRE

10-across – A number in school in bad odour … : STENCH

11-across – … getting through exam, almost grumpy about it : SURVIVAL

12-across – House an actor may have in his pocket : PROPERTY

14-across – Country-style nickname Alice could give either twin? : TWEEDY

15-across – Snooty chap astride flanks of horse, lining up for this? : THEOFF

18-across – Why film star may get fat? : DIETRICH

21-across – Mammal long suffering in agony : PANGOLIN

22-across – If B was Brown and C was Cameron … oh dear! : DISMAY

24-across – Venue that may offer pleasure? O, hooray! : ROYALOPERAHOUSE

25-across – Bouncer’s horse in dead heat, right? : TIGGER

26-across – Teacher with degree pulled back out of the rubble : DEBRIS

1-down – Place teacher, not the head, as cover for break : PLASTER

2-down – Two forwards crush one that may be in the soup : ONION

3-down – Cat finally loth to stop longer : PANTHER

5-down – Come in to join her: I take part : INHERIT

6-down – I serve in US army: never would I work for Walt? : IMAGINEER

7-down – Here one may learn from a bible in stiff cover : HARVARD

8-down – Magazine’s good year overcoming financial problems : GLOSSY

13-down – As capital, bad smell about yen, a principle for the Chinese : PYONGYANG

16-down – What a reverse — a big defeat — don’t interrupt! : HEAROUT

17-down – Being nauseating fouls me up : FULSOME

18-down – Animal in River by Turner : DONKEY

19-down – Play and blow for time : ENDGAME

20-down – How one might briefly describe the Princess Royal’s body? : CHASSIS

23-down – Thoroughly search small playing area? Not quite : SCOUR

1-across – Wanting to keep buzzing off, English leaving part of the 12 20 : ANTIBES

5-across – Living in caravan, I’m a tearaway : ANIMATE

10-across – Pay doesn’t start for years and years : AGES

11-across – Retailer taking morning or start of evening off : IRONMONGER

12-across – Island insane, might some say? A holiday destination : FRENCH

13-across – With investment of company, go towards Judas? : TURNCOAT

14-across – One’s spotted fiddle involving Labour leader in Mr Brown : DALMATIAN

16-across – Flexible athlete’s back after a short breather : AGILE

17-across – Goodbye to hello in past narrative : STORY

19-across – Flat carrier, individual pockets for shopping : BETRAYING

23-across – Drink in trailer for cow, perhaps? : RUMINANT

24-across – Struggle to eat animal product for plant eater : VEGGIE

26-across – Characterise type of camera, capturing nothing, say, the wrong way round : PIGEONHOLE

27-across – Line drawn for missile launcher, old hero in Cuba : OCHE

28-across – Last relative tackled by forward : PERSIST

29-across – Matelots close to feckless so 12, one gathered : SAILORS

2-down – Country, one with capital in Abuja : NIGERIA

3-down – Serious issue with stock stolen by popular author : IBSEN

4-down – European PM embracing male nickname : EPITHET

6-down – Now I shall become mean, having croaked, monsieur? : NOMORE

7-down – See 6 : MRNICEGUY

8-down – Something afoot, follow around one that’s sus­picious : TOENAIL

9-down – Safety practice, case of choice blocking device : CONTRACEPTION

15-down – Cruel, no thanks to the 12? : MERCILESS

18-down – Territorials waste bully? : TAURINE

20-down – See 12 : RIVIERA

21-down – One going in lower, not both : NEITHER

22-down – Part of the 12 20 film confined to it, we hear? : CANNES

25-down – Show hostility, having to wax lyrical initially : GROWL

1-across – Passed round communists, reactionary and twisted : DISTORTED

6-across – Put money away but deliver fancy vase : SAVE

8-across – Winner by a nose: pig out on this? : VICTORIA

9-across – See 8 : SPONGE

10-across – Slight addendum for drinks : SLURPS

11-across – Tools that could make us listen : UTENSILS

12-across – It makes you sick to see ice cap melting : IPECAC

15-across – Augustus returns to besiege Italian city, as sewers working : SUTURING

16-across – Very French to approve sin : TRESPASS

19-across – Quiz programme ends with: Set up secret recipe for pancakes : CREPES

21-across – Sprinkled on the middle of pizzas left parched outside : DRIZZLED

22-across – Scrambled egg in a biological process : AGEING

24-across – Richard heard of cheap goods order : DIKTAT

25-across – By stripping, tempt that jerk to become forceful : EMPHATIC

26-across – Man possibly read out passage : ISLE

27-across – Axes elm tree that’s crooked to a large extent : EXTREMELY

1-down – Exercise monkey but not man : DRILL

2-down – Mocking report that’s highly sexed : SATYRIC

3-down – Scary creatures arising from lesser gods : OGRES

4-down – Teaching only half 20s China : TEACUPS

5-down – Suffering indigestion when extremely dirty and contaminated apple core eaten : DYSPEPTIC

6-down – Champion trail around the poles : SPONSOR

7-down – Unofficial law enforcer poet from Rome right away topped one from Florence : VIGILANTE

13-down – Primarily people of rank artist represented here : PORTRAITS

14-down – See 22 down : CHARLOTTE

17-down – See 19 : SUZETTE

18-down – Most blue West End seats not left first : SADDEST

20-down – Up at 11, almost out : ELEVATE

22-down – Strange place, with pet eating tart for dessert : APPLE

23-down – Curious about Philistine being rowdy : NOISY

7-across – Nothing left in river for sheep : FOLLOWER

9-across – China bearing in the same direction, after a little time : TEASET

10-across – Heading for trouble, cuddle gorilla : THUG

11-across – Worked like a phone, perhaps, having screwed up both nuts : PUSHBUTTON

12-across – Duck flew backwards into rat : CANARD

14-across – Bird leading fish : STARLING

15-across – Prayer books, whatever : LITANY

17-across – Six short loose dresses, Serbian, perhaps? : SLAVIC

20-across – Turkey keeps messy room cleaner : FLOORMOP

22-across – Right in bear, a little hair : STRAND

23-across – Butcher avid, target fell : GRAVITATED

24-across – Mule, perhaps, finding love in lady : SHOE

25-across – Animal on a thoroughfare, chicken or mouse? : COWARD

26-across – Ending in Germany, look out : YACHTING

1-down – Bath fluid filling other half of hood put into storage : MOTHBALL

2-down – Slimy thing one’s shot : SLUG

3-down – Southpaw’s head rubbed lightly, as hit : SWIPED

4-down – Sloth drinking bath, the little thing hammered? : STUBNAIL

5-down – Ingenious brackets against girder fixed at one end : CANTILEVER

6-down – Lion in for horse : HEROIN

8-down – Weather is embraced by spider, perhaps? : RESIST

13-down – Vanuatu or Eritrean capital’s diverse style : ARTNOUVEAU

16-down – Worm meat done in a stew : NEMATODE

18-down – Shark identified fox : CONFOUND

19-down – Eating too much, mole suffering with pimples : SPOTTY

21-down – Young male hogs run over to get a bit of bacon : LARDON

22-down – Beguile with something to chew up during date : SEDUCE

24-down – Location of some animals, it emerges : SITE

1-across – Sound of laughter from warmonger, cut short repeatedly : HAWHAW

5-across – Drive off from established place for driving practice : ESTRANGE

9-across – Attention I needed in trial, being most distressed : TEARIEST

10-across – Wise counsellor somehow errs on no test, ignoring duplicates : NESTOR

11-across – Seeing double, mistakenly means to invest : SIEGEENGINES

13-across – Things like doughnuts, consumed more than once by motorist, originally : TORI

14-across – Over extended time, splits substances in chemical analysis : REAGENTS

17-across – Narrator’s ultimate joy is storytelling : RELATION

18-across – This couple twice said to trim fruit tree : PAIR

20-across – Use bold arrangement that gender-balanced quartet plays : MIXEDDOUBLES

23-across – Dance music or rap endlessly reprised : CHACHA

24-across – Repeats excerpt from writer, a testimony : ITERATES

25-across – Zero cost for tenants, including one from distant region : ORIENTAL

26-across – Disapproval old king briefly echoed : TUTTUT

2-down – Cuts lines on graph : AXES

3-down – Greeting Rosalind, then mother, in Asian city : HIROSHIMA

4-down – Did some work on plot in short act, half-heartedly : WEEDED

5-down – OK with risky venture — in return, earn pile, possibly, after its end : ENTREPRENEURIAL

6-down – Tool wasn’t holding one up : TENONSAW

7-down – Attack incomplete, much seen in score : ASSAI

8-down – Eg concert I botched in relation to omission from The Planets : GEOCENTRIC

12-down – Heavenly body mostly struck that woman as alluring : COMEHITHER

15-down – By the way, stupidly pen stupid article on time : ENPASSANT

16-down – Covering wood with fine spray, was careless with hands : MISDEALT

19-down – Legal right in court for individual using lawyer? : CLIENT

21-down – Person who presents medal, as spelt out : EMCEE

22-down – Before university, old boys getting information on courses : MENU