Daily Answers

1-across – A number of battered slices again is missing : ANALGESIC

6-across – Long spur that’s commonly shed by tree : PINE

8-across – Counterfeit dollar takes in global body completely : ALLROUND

9-across – Bold page — auspicious : DARING

10-across – I would, to get in fight just before the weekend : FRIDAY

11-across – Odd priest returns holding new born : ABERRANT

12-across – Bar — one’s p-paradise almost! : IMPEDE

15-across – Put in sprawling Masai country : MALAYSIA

16-across – Ponder a time run out : CHEWOVER

19-across – Foot of lady dancing round court : DACTYL

21-across – Slippery slope, embracing America’s Act of Union? : ESPOUSAL

22-across – See 6 : NEEDLE

24-across – Which may help the steersman shoot : TILLER

25-across – Lifting rumpled nightie over Vera’s head : THIEVING

26-across – Fancy Latin president : AKIN

27-across – Tucking into typical pub grub, randomly repeat: Stationery case : PAPETERIE

1-down – One who mixes up daughter-less psychologist : ADLER

2-down – Refrain from speaking with gold figure, prune! : ABRIDGE

3-down – Floor wood beam : GAUDY

4-down – Gun: right type of action for ducks and drakes? : SIDEARM

5-down – Set about being a clubber? : CUDGELLED

6-down – Paint Dover fish? : PORTRAY

7-down – Ninety ton, miserable lightweight! : NONENTITY

13-down – It helps an artist represent silk match : MAHLSTICK

14-down – Spy uses overhead projection — abandon : EAVESDROP

17-down – As a certain fabric adapts well on being injected with oxygen : WOOLLEN

18-down – Sort of desk getting first 25% off duty in port, perhaps : ROLLTOP

20-down – Means of cutting film after opening : CLEAVER

22-down – Newton into deceitful poetic smear : NOINT

23-down – Pierce soft fruit : LANCE

5-across – Light, don’t go straight? : BEACON

6-across – Fighters — not setters! : BOXERS

9-across – Promise to donate a little money found on the shelf : PLEDGE

10-across – Boy sounded in pain, as went like the wind? : BILLOWED

11-across – Report taking some dumb angle : BANG

12-across – 4 down, time to work? : NINETOFIVE

13-across – Soldier in cooler — persevere dude! : INFANTRYMAN

18-across – The devil’s home, where you might give a jot? : SCRATCHPAD

21-across – Space where mini-Australian marathon’s beginning : ROOM

22-across – Cruel getting double the stick, I see : BARBARIC

23-across – Little movement from fool and companion : TWITCH

24-across – Place elsewhere, on seeing through the ears? : RESITE

25-across – Here there’s success with that girl : HITHER

1-down – Top Welsh town : CARDIGAN

2-down – Break or mend, so new : MODERN

3-down – John on track, getting cleaner : TOILETRY

4-down – Start to complement : SETOFF

5-down – Everyone’s into tuneless song : BALLAD

7-down – Some puckish elves put aside : SHELVE

8-down – Remains of roast to share — beef? : ABONETOPICK

14-down – True account with clergyman : ACCURATE

15-down – Flawless atmosphere and mean : AIRTIGHT

16-down – I race madly round capital in London — it’s long and bad for you : ECLAIR

17-down – Dog doing tricks? Agree : CONCUR

19-down – A challenge inspiring British no more : ATBEST

20-down – Particular dock? : DETAIL

1-across – Fish, carp skinned for old cavalryman : HUSSAR

4-across – A travesty, fishy fizzy drink? : CHARADE

9-across – Given a flyer, teal fled in a panic carrying first of eggs : LEAFLETED

10-across – Harpoon small fish : SPIKE

11-across – Ray gobbling river fish : BREAM

12-across – Embellish crypt with this series of art works : TRIPTYCHS

13-across – Fish’s gathered in, a little under a foot : TENINCH

15-across – Plastering material to see in face that’s been knocked about : GYPSUM

17-across – Communist sticks by workers, wiping brow : ENGELS

19-across – Score in second haul of fish about right : SCRATCH

22-across – Smothered in sauce, local appearing put out again : REPUBLISH

24-across – Obliged to leave, depart finally amid word of appreciation : GOTTA

26-across – Cat attack not kicking off : OUNCE

27-across – Emin’s back in seaside town, quiet retiring star! : PENTAGRAM

28-across – Sci-fi fan runs after vacuous Kirk into wood : TREKKER

29-across – Dumped unceremoniously in seat, by the sound of it? : THROWN

1-down – Fish — stop to catch one before unhooking heads : HALIBUT

2-down – Small fish, rock : SHAKE

3-down – Dance laden with male trips : ALLEMANDE

4-down – Pair of fish for an apple : CODLING

5-down – Equally prepared for benefit : ASSET

6-down – Battle where a trap may be tried? : AGINCOURT

7-down – Remarkably English, one side of literature? : EVERSO

8-down – One’s running — the pain from it? : STITCH

14-down – Old coin ending in circulation with European note in particular : NINEPENCE

16-down – A few lines, silver fish hooks and a perch to be gutted : PARAGRAPH

18-down – Fish, small fish : SKIPPER

19-down – Haitian leader buried in revolution, cross beneath it, monolithic statue : SPHINX

20-down – Male parent cracking and failing as a leader : HEADMAN

21-down – Sample fish, including last of blenny : TRYOUT

23-down – Cold fish : BLEAK

25-down – Supercharger cutting fish : TURBO

1-across – View from large castle — king’s away first : OUTLOOK

5-across – Messi runs by one, then many — it’s shocking! : SEISMIC

9-across – Yankee river for y’all up North? : YOUSE

10-across – Chaotic place with heroin injected by heathen meat eater : ZOOPHAGAN

11-across – Fielding position gets another 1006 balls? : EXTRACOVER

12-across – First Lady’s bit of 17? : EVE

14-across – I may work with insects a bit, not forgetting ant : BIOSCIENTIST

18-across – Records of English schooling or otherwise : CHRONOLOGIES

21-across – Mother undressed girl : ANN

22-across – Rising, minister’s answer: No start to synod? : REVOLUTION

25-across – Quantity of money left out to grip Trump’s soul : BUCKETFUL

26-across – A hobbit’s sword : BILBO

27-across – Horse’s tail pulled by bull in spring and autumn? : EQUINOX

28-across – Ruling family is extremely dirty and filthy : DYNASTY

1-down – O Little Town, sung to baby ox, ends in trouble : OXYGEN

2-down – Makes fun of square relatives : TAUNTS

3-down – Musical drama is not funny, it’s lots of action : OPERATIONS

4-down – Instrument carried by Jack : KAZOO

5-down – Ex-foreign secretary wears small girdle for washing : SHOWERING

6-down – Egyptian architect misses pet being around, in my humble opinion : IMHO

7-down – They produce deft, magic lines when flowing : MAGNETIC

8-down – Unions, caught in the past, get right with socialist leader : CONCERTS

13-down – Between cities and at home, queen wears head garment : INTERURBAN

15-down – Wild animal lives for uncertain times : SILVERFOX

16-down – Bends over books by lecturer on European game : SCRABBLE

17-down – Magnificent men on board said to make wine : GRANDCRU

19-down – See 7 : FIELDS

20-down – Cartoon dog, Spot, catches new balls : SNOOPY

23-down – Head of Ofsted lied about being drunk : OILED

24-down – Material girl : JEAN

1-across – Adulterous cavalier lax with two redheads at a time : EXTRAMARITAL

9-across – Since it needs milk, sort leaves for tea : ASSAM

10-across – Move towards Virginia holding that thing in jar : GRAVITATE

11-across – See 25 : RACKETS

12-across – See 18 down : CHECKER

13-across – Old focus of a student’s attention, daughter’s after filthy swine : BLACKBOARD

15-across – Ace in hearts, possibly, a king : FACE

18-across – See 15 : CARD

19-across – Hand in the air, it’s true! : STRAIGHTUP

22-across – Metal content of mug or cup, perhaps? : URANIUM

24-across – Wise guy, king with open access? : KNOWALL

25-across – They’re taken to court : BADMINTON

26-across – Author, possibly K or M — S is wrong : AMISS

27-across – Exuberant man jumped on plaything : BOUNCYCASTLE

1-down – Hollow story in every song that’s designed for relaxation : EASYCHAIR

2-down – Top features in magazine for British high-flyer : TIMPEAKE

3-down – A real giant for starters, the Guardian … : ARGUS

4-down – … Guardian giant, artist, utterly charming, initially breaking into a song : ARAUCARIA

5-down – One stands up as a Van Gogh painting : IRISES

6-down – A second taken by surprise : ABACK

7-down – Orb nicked from the famous Greek composer raised in European capital : ZAGREB

8-down – Last of twelve, always standing in order : DECREE

14-down – Essay under workbook for healthcare profession : OPTOMETRY

16-down – Engineer casual with tie loose : ACTUALISE

17-down – Knight abducted by prince, soldier unaware : IGNORANT

18-down – Old singer-songwriter caught private detective hired by wife? : CHUBBY

20-down – European resembling pond life, if a tad over the top? : POLISH

21-down – Is man one, perhaps? : SIMIAN

23-down – Sound car going over circuit : AUDIO

24-down – Sort of dark, in darkest passage : KINDA