Daily Answers

7-across – In unpleasant way, skin horribly lousy : HIDEOUSLY

8-across – 9 6 16, eccentric American : CAMUS

9-across – We dominate, are pale-hued; ripe for revision, me? : DEADWHITE

10-across – 9 6 16 attributed to Reagan? : BYRON

12-across – 9 6 16 Jack, leading scorer in two legs : JONSON

13-across – Seabird never rejected skin of shark : SHAGREEN

14-across – Our team in African capital find cold reception : WELCOME

17-across – 9 6 16 with Richard, regulars at tennis : DICKENS

20-across – Pipe turned in spiral shape almost by old woman : NARGILEH

22-across – Glower, about to lend out : CANDLE

24-across – 9 6 16, usually first in a haunt of vice : AUDEN

25-across – Scrooge, say, broke, about to chuck last bit away : SKINFLINT

26-across – Dog refusing lead at end of day, troubled by fleas? : ITCHY

27-across – John’s eating no end of sausage in place in New Mexico : LOSALAMOS

1-down – 9 6 16 church has half of Room 101 at the front : CICERO

2-down – Going from either end over diocese, travelling the shortest route : GEODESIC

3-down – 9 6 16 dunking roll in tea? The opposite : BUCHAN

4-down – Discrimination, the charge against 9 6 16s? : ELITISM

5-down – Barman’s wife is in bed : LAWYER

6-down – See 9 : EUROPEAN

11-down – 9 6 16 is up to receive top honours : SAKI

15-down – Rising, point to foreign character: Beware void! : EVACUATE

16-down – See 9 : MALE

18-down – 9 6 16’s work: regal ruin, as family’s taken over : KINGLEAR

19-down – Tick on list, we hear, 9 6 16 : CHEKHOV

21-down – 9 6 16 massaged ego, then stopped short : GOETHE

22-down – 9 6 16 hoax involving American gunmen : CONRAD

23-down – 9 6 16 part of Germany, more central : LANDOR

1-across – Charlie’s ban on banter, perhaps … : HALFWIT

5-across – … quite the opposite, as good man breaking oath of old : EGGHEAD

9-across – Splendid local offering sent back : REGAL

10-across – Necessity is in recompense : REQUISITE

11-across – One hooked on bars? : CHOCOHOLIC

12-across – In Hyderabad, a legume? : DAL

14-across – Criminal snatches item, getting reprimand : CHASTISEMENT

18-across – Unfortunately, I’m too warty to impress old lover, a turn-off : MOTORWAYEXIT

21-across – Mock paper : RAG

22-across – Unsportingly unsporting? : NOTCRICKET

25-across – In list, people may be found : TRACEABLE

26-across – Total idiot missing introduction : UTTER

27-across – First of patients, moreover, carried by the other make of stretcher : SPANDEX

28-across – In European airport, wine on the counter regulated : ORDERLY

1-down – University out of time on brilliant poet : HORACE

2-down – Many, for example, feeding cat : LEGION

3-down – Plant is expected to hang initially within straggly bower : WILLOWHERB

4-down – Middle of body approximately below top in theory : TORSO

5-down – Lovely flower beds go — is cutting? : EXQUISITE

6-down – Sand in bottle : GRIT

7-down – Villain or devil incarnate, ultimately infernal : EVILDOER

8-down – Neither won nor lost many — chose randomly : DREWLOTS

13-down – Fruits served up with very little bread, flowing only somewhat? : SEMILIQUID

15-down – Opposition on the case, punch the air! : SHADOWBOX

16-down – Holding flag up, Australian natives found in honourable retirement : EMERITUS

17-down – Suffering evidence, magistrate lacking in religious education bamboozled : STIGMATA

19-down – Finally, loveless princess put on right slipper? : SKATER

20-down – Narrative including header in equaliser, getting level : STOREY

23-down – Doctrine was concerned with love, no answer to it : CREDO

24-down – Elephants perhaps identified by the ears, they say? : HERD

1-across – Finishes with a Damien, Desmond or Douglas? : GRADUATES

9-across – Default version of green energy : RENEGE

10-across – Good person to cruelly put down late offering from 30? : STOPPRESS

11-across – Satellite dish rented out, without Sky having the deal, initially : NEREID

12-across – Like our canines, can get bored? : DRILLABLE

13-across – Slight oscillation of 4 in Queens : QUIVER

17-across – Intake of Peruvian tamanduas? : ANT

19-across – Parts after Scotsman does, perhaps : RABBITS

20-across – Goes off trade bans by state boards : EMBARKS

21-across – Girl with a heartless sister : ANN

23-across – Either half of 6’s rhyme, providing colour that is part of a hand : PINKIE

27-across – One to kill 17 acrosses around 4am? Tiger, with no hesitation : FUMIGATOR

28-across – It’s mad, backing this president! : HOOVER

29-across – Like the ref, Heather closely follows game : WHISTLING

30-across – Enthusiastic? Missing second half, lost rag : THESUN

31-across – Look at dog’s make-up : EYESHADOW

2-down – Going round club … : ROTARY

3-down – … wrongly lied about 6 … : DIPOLE

4-down – … sporting a real one : AERIAL

5-down – Letter the writer left in printer? : EPSILON

6-down – Model fashion magazine left out — fat character recently back on TV : TELETUBBY

7-down – Currents flowing round sides and top of electric fences : RECEIVERS

8-down – Explosive speech in The Mitre? : HEADDRESS

14-down – Sip alcoholic drinks, some of Andy Murray’s favourites : DROPSHOTS

15-down – Quit a group supported by One Direction, originally : ABANDONED

16-down – I’d turned up to see dessert served up and shared out : DIVIDEDUP

17-down – Leica stated old film rating : ASA

18-down – Number of lions eaten by 19, contrarily : TEN

22-down – Timeless toy that’s blue, like 26 : NAUGHTY

24-down – Drunkards after almost 6 rounds? : DIPSOS

25-down – City in the style of a 6 : LAALAA

26-down – 12 holes for the 6s’ 28 : NOONOO

1-across – Worldly ways taken to heart by Orwell and Jonson? : CARDINALPOINTS

8-across – Nothing left for racketeer, might you say? : NADAL

9-across – Play with regal family taking precedence? : KINGLEAR

11-across – Whitewash thicker walls a little bit : TROUNCE

12-across – Endless burden carrying cross around, one kept under pressure : AEROSOL

13-across – Arouse in pronounced climax : PIQUE

15-across – Pirate on film, miser : SKINFLINT

17-across – Criminal arrested smuggling uranium, valued highly : TREASURED

20-across – Wrestle so with the character : ETHOS

21-across – Demanding figure, ours miscalculated : ONEROUS

23-across – Masses round Mogadishu’s capital, like a city in Kenya : MOMBASA

25-across – African educational establishment is back in the shade : TUNISIAN

26-across – Total cut : SCORE

27-across – Article by writer in amendment of correction exposed performance? : OPENAIRCONCERT

1-down – Fiddle and individual piano parts stop painfully slow movement : CONSTIPATION

2-down – Rienzi overture so long, cut for broadcaster : RADIO

3-down – One defames the Maltese, say : ISLANDERS

4-down – Leg chains buckled as knelt : ANKLETS

5-down – Punch absorbed by Carthaginian cut tongue : PUNJABI

6-down – Apathetic sort, jockey dropping lead hurdling last in National : IDLER

7-down – Bottoms of Degas, Vermeer and Modigliani covered in hair — look who’s talking! : THATSRICH

10-down – Numbers in this sub-zero temperature expanded? : OLDTESTAMENT

14-down – Rudely push in character for audition, then start : QUEUEJUMP

16-down – Identical somersaults nailed by cooler member of brotherhood : FREEMASON

18-down – Piece of Borodin is so Russian, revolutionary composer : ROSSINI

19-down – Far from holy day I found near Christmas? : DEMONIC

22-down – One having broken legs, that might make you cry? : ONION

24-down – Make reparation around lunchtime? : ATONE

9-across – Family members have to run dynamo : GENERATOR

10-across – Insect maturing and going off at first? : IMAGO

11-across – Pity about European container train : RETINUE

12-across – Sister Elizabeth drinks English port : NEPTUNE

13-across – Like blood as it enters the ear? : VENUS

14-across – Works in gallery, longing to welcome one school : PAINTINGS

16-across – US pentathlete is getting revised score : THEPLANETSSUITE

19-across – Daughter lives with farmer, a rye producer : DISTILLER

21-across – Chap recalled collecting 14 : EARTH

22-across – Exceptionally huge : MERCURY

23-across – Nice setter right to carry up PCs etc : JUPITER

24-across – Fellow breaks needle and arm : RIFLE

25-across – Fiat’s big guns touring Italy : ORDINANCE

1-down – Put out a horse adjudged to have secured a victory : AGGRAVATED

2-down – Popular view, for example : INSTANCE

3-down – Superior American guards took flight : URANUS

4-down – Viewer’s complaint occupied middle of last year : STYE

5-down – Old radio stations broadcast over river Rhine, primarily : TRANSISTOR

6-down – Girl’s set drugs in rows : DISPUTES

7-down – Ace goes back to top : SATURN

8-down – Soldier grabs 5 for 23 : JOVE

14-down – Divers here aplenty, when analysed on TV : PENALTYBOX

15-down – Worked with crook: sped off with deer and two horses : SHEPHERDED

17-down – Unhurried one bound to block light : LEISURED

18-down – Bother Irish girl not on vacation : IRRITANT

20-down – Way to start widespread conflict : STRIFE

21-down – Ten cut disc and show growth : EXPAND

22-down – Dams releasing energy : MARS

23-down – Sport owed money to auditor : JUDO