Daily Answers

1-across – It’s dope? Somehow get payment : DEPOSIT

5-across – State finding dodgy dealer has captured Charlie : DECLARE

9-across – Singing group many papers reported : CHOIR

10-across – Fruit getting fair public attention : LIMELIGHT

11-across – Made a lot of noise about article and talked nonsense : BLATHERED

12-across – Give much to the audience : ALLOT

13-across – South American’s back in a shopping centre : LLAMA

15-across – Disadvantages of feather edges : DOWNSIDES

18-across – Deride eating awfully twee vegan food : SWEETCORN

19-across – In double bed initially, diminutive nerd : DWEEB

21-across – One way or another, give a citation : REFER

23-across – Find Matilda’s a police officer : DETECTIVE

25-across – Instructs Eliot to get boxes : TEACHESTS

26-across – Here in Paris nobody goes for starters of some cake : ICING

27-across – Mostly metal or otherwise covering tip of superconductor : MAESTRO

28-across – Not in favour of a profit split after vacation : AGAINST

1-down – Bed heaving with lice making a bit of noise : DECIBEL

2-down – Shore up an exit and circulate : PROPAGATE

3-down – Heartless Harry’s up for wine : SYRAH

4-down – Back in Hanoi, dark latte with a chatty broadcaster : TALKRADIO

5-down – As St Paul’s finally said: march up : DOMED

6-down – Fainted as a result of error in viral illness : COLLAPSED

7-down – Rearrange lunch, there’s a dear! : ANGEL

8-down – Properties of cars : ESTATES

14-down – Then cracked up at the fart : AFTERTHAT

16-down – Spooner’s dispatched for a tinkle like the owl and the pussycat did : WENTTOSEA

17-down – Cube by artist who can manage food : DIETITIAN

18-down – Where balls are to cast up in rugby formation : SCROTUM

20-down – Corporation’s uncontrolled urge to enter speculation : BEERGUT

22-down – F-feeble fire : FLAME

23-down – Nightclub 50% discounted : DISCO

24-down – Country tableware : CHINA

1-across – Satisfied Press Association, say, over large print ad? : FULLPAGE

5-across – Open posh prawn cocktail : UNWRAP

9-across – Like common people in Bristol entering without guidance : UNTITLED

10-across – Ex-boozers acquiring unknown pub to host market : BAZAAR

12-across – As a result of love song’s opening : DUETO

13-across – Food from no ordinary urban quarter in unnamed European country : SPAGHETTI

14-across – Announcing retrospective – assign it a glum or pessimistic segment : PROMULGATING

18-across – Manufacture prototype one’s seen on runway? : FASHIONMODEL

21-across – Run a piece about hedonist : EPICUREAN

23-across – Use covering of tinfoil to wrap uncooked fish : TRAWL

24-across – Awful jerk’s penning paper : TRAGIC

25-across – Show confusion as small club’s getting to grips with Arsenal at last : SPLUTTER

26-across – Delay as detective meets the resistance : DITHER

27-across – 25 fences largely exposed in competitive environment : SNAKEPIT

1-down – Establishes heaps after gender reassignment : FOUNDS

2-down – State discovered art by Turner? : LATHER

3-down – Cover up bucket and regularly ruin collection : POTPOURRI

4-down – One might be in the pit as a Little Mix musical starts in tune : GREASEMONKEY

6-down – Welsh town’s tidy hotel : NEATH

7-down – Correct terminal of Stansted Airport for excursion of sorts : ROADTRIP

8-down – Possibly breakfast time : PORRIDGE

11-down – Writer of Black Swan keeping completely on topic : BALLPOINTPEN

15-down – Stunned as Kanye maybe getting into a fight : AWESTRUCK

16-down – Changed camp : AFFECTED

17-down – Surprisingly partisan candidate : ASPIRANT

19-down – Ultimately wanting Apple to supply computer : LAPTOP

20-down – Blood banks to control rough rate : CLARET

22-down – Ally in uniform caught man on board : UNITE

1-across – Empty large car? Earth cost appalling! : CHELSEA

5-across – See 1 : TRACTOR

9-across – Better garden party? : OUTDO

10-across – Helper turned to describe complicated graph for birth control : DIAPHRAGM

11-across – Forest dwellers seeing prophet come back to Earth? : PLANETREES

12-across – Posed with indignation and mockery : SAT

14-across – A patch liable to emerge from this feature of first floor letters : ALPHABETICAL

18-across – Contents of menu binder covered by German improvements : ENHANCEMENTS

21-across – See 12 : IRE

22-across – Brief time in fashion, a nose condom : NANOSECOND

25-across – Leisurely moo in field getting loud at the end : SLOWPACED

26-across – Representation is fine in net returns : TOKEN

27-across – At last, it’s my turn: give your blessing, try working together : SYNERGY

28-across – Others yelled regularly for transformation : RESTYLE

1-down – Cutty’s type of sea : CHOPPY

2-down – Catch mate briefly on the way up : ENTRAP

3-down – Using a digger as weapon to secure poor-quality residence : SHOVELLING

4-down – Summer snake : ADDER

5-down – A bracelet designed for future identification? : TRACEABLE

6-down – Long-suffering : ACHE

7-down – Deal using diplomacy to secure managed end of hostilities : TRANSACT

8-down – Turn up volume in bank from elsewhere : REMOTELY

13-down – Nice and within the rules to show small busts? : STATUETTES

15-down – Order hot items for starters and a cherry pudding : HIERARCHY

16-down – Fancy seeing us as clever people! : GENIUSES

17-down – Insert implement in cut : SHOEHORN

19-down – Essential wear first and foremost for Shrek character : DONKEY

20-down – After love, packed for Danish port : ODENSE

23-down – See 14 Across : ORDER

24-down – Pole in a fight : SPAR

1-across – South Park’s leading character properly animated : SPRIGHTLY

6-across – Bag a bed : SACK

8-across – The sacrifice of the mass? : HECATOMB

9-across – Rope’s end pulled back arresting a run : LARIAT

10-across – Odds on bad weather? That’s a wrench : SPRAIN

11-across – Precariously balanced, title finally is between the same three sides : ONONELEG

12-across – Like a bone? Please help yourself : OSTEAL

15-across – Len, 8, accepted by teacher : DEIGHTON

16-across – I’m on an unrestricted diet and rove around on the other part of the bus : OMNIVORE

19-across – Messenger has some further messages : HERMES

21-across – People separating to secure new significant others : PARTNERS

22-across – Shot on the table in sanctuary : SAFETY

24-across – Churchill heard noise from horse : WINNIE

25-across – Starstruck old woman found a husband : OVERAWED

26-across – Part of course: all of it except the start : HOLE

27-across – Theft punished with fine, far from the first : FIFTEENTH

1-down – Having great inclination to soak : STEEP

2-down – One drunk is concerning a flyer after takeoff? : REALALE

3-down – Complaint of old lady needing to inhale oxygen : GROAN

4-down – Forbidden steak occasionally, signalled displeasure : TABOOED

5-down – Loudly express desire to tour round in the buff : YELLOWISH

6-down – Sound from brakes perhaps a sort of owl : SCREECH

7-down – Companion has no time for book opening : CHAPERONE

13-down – Son champing to leave hospital department, firm being agreeable : SIMPATICO

14-down – Not bound to negotiate lease blockhead is holding up : LOOSELEAF

17-down – Said to be so different from say profound : INTENSE

18-down – Safe after a struggle to truss enemy up, relax : EASEOFF

20-down – Being in control brother finds a burden : REFRAIN

22-down – Riddle, special one, posed by reflective woman : SIEVE

23-down – Start of the 26 taking most of the force : TEETH

7-across – Second half of Mozart’s organ composition is imperious : ARROGANT

9-across – Meghan’s opening Spare for old lady : MOTHER

10-across – Grey area’s shrinking : ASHY

11-across – Sculpture of T’ang empire is steep : IMPREGNATE

12-across – Jumper cleared ditch in Irish festival : FLEADH

14-across – Rat Scabies finally backing metal singer : SNITCHER

15-across – Spiteful wife’s like a viper? : WASPISH

17-across – Revolutionary force concerning mardy bum : REDARMY

20-across – 24ac loos unfortunately out of use : OBSOLETE

22-across – Moaned audibly after hip locked up : INSIDE

23-across – Players in cocaine blunder before Queen’s : CRICKETERS

24-across – Speculate about the end of Joe Root : BEET

25-across – This is one party game : CLUEDO

26-across – John pinching Nick’s lines in chat room : LOCUTORY

1-down – Supporter trouble is on the rise for City : BRASILIA

2-down – Angler pulled up unknown fish : DORY

3-down – Shower in toilet is hot : LAVISH

4-down – Here, the Marseillaise wins award for muppet : IMBECILE

5-down – Spooner’s old woman skewers seafood : STONECRABS

6-down – Car sounding like FAB 1? : BEETLE

8-down – Outspoken Bond intoxicated secretary : TYPIST

13-down – Tackled editor following program on fish : APPROACHED

16-down – Kent lose badly in sporting event : SKELETON

18-down – 22dn edges away from Pulp singer : MIDGEURE

19-down – Bar pulled up about adult show : REVEAL

21-down – Drinker is only just fine for start of evening : BARFLY

22-down – Vet dropping soft animal : INSECT

24-down – The Two Ronnies initially leaving soup : BOTH