Daily Answers

9-across – During supper,for a terrible bore : PERFORATE

10-across – Coach artists with metal plating : TRAIN

11-across – Composer of silence’s leading drummer shut up : CAGED

12-across – Los Angeles Times reading in the endless place of intricate passages : LABYRINTH

13-across – Small insect going around light becomes confused : TANGLED

14-across – Charges a levy,reportedly : ATTACKS

17-across – Females with ordinary males : WOMEN

19-across – Unwrapped manuscript volume reveals poem : ODE

20-across – Ancient Britons,11 admit centre of Birmingham ‘revolting’ : ICENI

21-across – Permitted no German retreating to be captured? That’s merciful : LENIENT

22-across – Discovery of former chess champion: French opening popular at the start : FINDING

24-across – Raleigh left out another explorer for sport : WATERPOLO

26-across – Dismayed by arrangement when parts swapped : UPSET

28-across – Supercharged swimmer missing tail : TURBO

29-across – King Edward assumes burden to take off : SKEDADDLE

1-down – Two constants combined with speed of light – impressive : EPIC

2-down – Fabulous being doctor taking edge off extreme pain : DRAGON

3-down – Corruption of D.C. once Elon gets sympathy : CONDOLENCE

4-down – Fortified wine after conflict exchanging hands : WALLED

5-down – Film’s viral content: eating fibre : MEMBRANE

6-down – Celebrity seen in the Sun,say : STAR

7-down – Salt taken aboard without clothing – one stuck on vessel? : BARNACLE

8-down – Crawl a short distance : INCH

13-down – Cleaning assistant backing great deal to buy the Guardian : TOWEL

15-down – Giant rural building with three sides : TRIANGULAR

16-down – On reflection,it’s no good being smart : STING

18-down – Fervent sermons involving cross demons,perhaps : MONSTERS

19-down – Dismissed union leader wearing wrong shoe in toilet : OUTHOUSE

22-down – Stiff,old Buddhist supports Father? : FROZEN

23-down – Doing porridge first then dines out : INSIDE

24-down – Delivered pardon to unit : WATT

25-down – Public disturbance right outside Number 10 : RIOT

27-down – Dainty issue of Yorkshire peer? : TWEE

9-across – Increase each client’s capital : UPPERCASE

10-across – Odd airline’s dance : RUMBA

11-across – What Musashi Miyamoto eats? : SASHIMI

12-across – Suffer in German and therefore in Latin : UNDERGO

13-across – Reeves’ assistant,say,screwed up idea : AIDE

14-across – Cheats with every second bullet boring outraged readers : ADULTERERS

16-across – Publish in haste,lacking wherewithal to make papyrus : RUSHOUT

17-across – Commonwealth partner opposed to fruit being cut short twice : ANTIGUA

19-across – Modest fare returned to pub – followed by a spasm : UNEMPHATIC

22-across – Nothing emptied restaurant like an old club chairman in a blazer? : FART

24-across – Poetry in motion has new disorder : ENTROPY

25-across – Pepper setter,protected by horse : PIMENTO

26-across – Such as Shere Khan heard here? : TAIGA

27-across – Paid off bill,including cut for joint : AMORTISED

1-down – Aristotle unsure about game best unplayed : RUSSIANROULETTE

2-down – Turns sanctimonious bugger in backward glance : EPISODES

3-down – One slips during trial of lag : TRAIL

4-down – Illegally issued amidst a revolution involving untold number : SAMIZDAT

5-down – Making lax use of it : SEXUAL

6-down – Those with degrees dine out,inspired by good wishes : GRADIENTS

7-down – Become apparent in last of coffee blend : EMERGE

8-down – Signal most recent conversation – pronouncement while playing 1? : FAMOUSLASTWORDS

15-down – Source of pressure for Putin running amok includes wild romp before start of talks : KOMPROMAT

17-down – Kremlin-style : AGITPROP

18-down – Such transparency is not made with glass : GLASNOST

20-down – Require leads to end now; the act is looming : ENTAIL

21-down – Still a road to – or from – the Big Apple : ANYWAY

23-down – ‘I could be a toolmaker’ – Starmer’s first lie on the radio : SMITH

9-across – Continuing past main road turning right? Absolutely! : IMPERFECT

10-across – Over here taking puff,it’s exhilarating : HEADY

11-across – German takes road east and puts his foot down : HASTENS

12-across – Wrongly flippant about ancient region : ILLYRIA

13-across – Set aside vote to sack leader : ALLOT

14-across – Put right over what reactionary branch of mathematics? : SETTHEORY

16-across – Card rejected,sisters got angry on being detained – apology noted : MISSOTISREGRETS

19-across – Foreign seamen’s applications kept upfront – they’ll all be handled the same : NAMESAKES

21-across – Become a total bore,might you say? : GOTHE

22-across – Still escorting Desperate Dora,a very old date : YEARDOT

23-across – Ground with different entrance nearer the action : INFIELD

24-across – Passed out moving closer to Bermuda Triangle : DELTA

25-across – Don very deficient in self-regard? F——-! : PROFANITY

1-down – One holding up other road users : HIGHWAYMAN

2-down – Premature ejaculation initially upsetting – maybe it’s the French letters : EPISTLES

3-down – Minister a bore about his subject : PRIEST

4-down – Guy called out for drinks : TEAS

5-down – Half of street parking removed,snaps seeing constraints : STRICTURES

6-down – See 21 Across : WHOLEHOG

7-down – Cut in pub brawl in Mexican neighbourhood : BARRIO

8-down – Picked up small bird : MYNA

14-down – Joiner Snug’s first key tip – act differently : STICKYTAPE

15-down – Previous times OK – runs during training steady : YESTERDAYS

17-down – Rock band’s origin occasionally embellished : OBSIDIAN

18-down – <span>Cast! She finally got callback regarding </span><i>American Beauty</i> : ESTHETIC

20-down – Very few spotted? : MEASLY

21-down – Have a good laugh at bull that’s cute? : GUFFAW

22-down – Why worry about alien? : YODA

23-down – Going over the top,Romeo’s tackling very hard : IRON

8-across – Packed Oslo twice up for development : POPULOUS

9-across – Get into a habit that is holding back career : INURE

10-across – No longer the thing,to retire? : EXIT

11-across – Means to go east of state road : EXPRESSWAY

12-across – Pretentious sitcom character nevertheless catches cold in this country : BUCKET

14-across – My name is – goodness – dirt! : IMPURITY

16-across – Date agreed? Possibly lower : DEGRADE

18-across – Musician reversing taxi,grabbed by the male police officer : CPEBACH

21-across – Key used in song of praise – a bugbear : ANATHEMA

23-across – Paper is,however,full of decay : PERISH

24-across – Now into April and start of Spring presidential reviews of troops? : MARCHPASTS

26-across – Give up blow? : KICK

27-across – Loud footwear is tacky : CLOGS

28-across – Paint bird and cat soaking up sun : EMULSION

1-down – Every reason you should order sex on cue! : NOEXCUSE

2-down – Clean break when book replaced by daughter : DUST

3-down – Follow the sun and be destroyed? : GOWEST

4-down – One month before electronic components will be contamination-free : ASEPTIC

5-down – Smart but somewhat inhibited : BITE

6-down – Paying member,inferior to writer,Regina : SUBSCRIBER

7-down – Caught ascending with loss of pressure to achieve take-off : DEPART

13-down – Handy means of felling oak with the car’s explosive power : KARATECHOP

15-down – Report the old man : POP

17-down – Something spotted when one had got up,eyes opening : DIE

19-down – Commercial produce around tree cut : CASHCROP

20-down – Stand is protecting England’s earliest plants : DAISIES

22-down – Parvenu ancestral housing shade : NUANCE

23-down – Hike – or gym exercise? : PUSHUP

25-down – Fool around with second hand : PASS

26-down – Klimt’s definitive work? Plonker! : KISS

8-across – Deduce gold found across island is substandard : INFERIOR

9-across – Market unpopular permit : OUTLET

10-across – Let’s rise up with unlimited energy : TIRELESS

11-across – Brigand put rodent in dish : PIRATE

12-across – Cellists forking out for small gifts : STOCKINGFILLERS

15-across – Jerk succeeded in plans to return : SPASM

16-across – Main setter’s disreputable : SEAMY

20-across – Ignored cyclist cycling around back of van alarmingly : DISCONCERTINGLY

21-across – God of love following a vote : APOLLO

23-across – Hotel with concept and means to provide refuge : HIDEAWAY

25-across – Sense one unit changed with time : INTUIT

26-across – Sorted out and replaced bottoms of shoes worn by Victor : RESOLVED

1-down – After eleven alien enters some concern : ANXIETY

2-down – Rearrange Colt pieces to be capable of retraction and protrusion : TELESCOPIC

3-down – Awful funeral song – not good : DIRE

4-down – Quiet about wise man making forecast : PRESAGE

5-down – Remark about pelvis regularly getting flatter : COMPLIMENT

6-down – Prison unrest I resolved partly : STIR

7-down – Saucy uniform heads of resources brought to upset : PERTURB

13-down – Tons unsaid about details : INSANDOUTS

14-down – Inadequate Los Angeles blokes on board : LAMENTABLE

17-down – I am trapped in unsuitable inverted drum : TIMPANI

18-down – Hear son running to Portuguese woman : SENHORA

19-down – Caught less productive maid perhaps : CLEANER

22-down – Oaf left unconscious : LOUT

24-down – Short dance record : DISC