Daily Answers

9-across – Raven free to fly around, no worries : NEVERFEAR

10-across – It’s obvious Charlie’s a foolish old king : CLEAR

11-across – With meaningless opening word, joined broadcast : SOWED

12-across – Cereals so cooked in pot : CASSEROLE

13-across – Withdraws from circulation, but drops by : CALLSIN

14-across – Taking this to repair appliance perhaps retreat under challenge : BACKOFF

17-across – Burrowing into hill is very daring : BRAVE

19-across – Every direction but south: that’s unusual : NEW

20-across – Earth used to rotate very rapidly, some say : WORLD

21-across – Took part in court and behaved badly : ACTEDUP

22-across – Repair your old well : HEALTHY

24-across – Teacher coming up to retirement probably worth a lot of money : OLDMASTER

26-across – Probe deep inlet : SOUND

28-across – Old Jewish quarter not hard to reach : GETTO

29-across – Small animal we may hear that makes harsh cry : SCREECHER

1-down – Latest headlines caught in browsers : GNUS

2-down – Any of five letters read out is a confession : AVOWAL

3-down – House that’s revisited, often veiled : BRIDESHEAD

4-down – Danger signal as English tuck into some breakfast : BEACON

5-down – Not pleased to submit to old killer : CROSSBOW

6-down – What a revolutionary suffers? : ACHE

7-down – Start of operation with nothing on time : ZEROHOUR

8-down – Not charged in public punch-up: that’s not for all : FREE

13-down – Horse artillery in crisis meeting : COBRA

15-down – One growing wild may intimidate trembling players : COWPARSLEY

16-down – Hard to please feminine parent? Not at first : FADDY

18-down – Does it counteract a love potion? : ANTIDOTE

19-down – Most pine grievously for assistance from relative : NEPOTISM

22-down – Former Salisbury hotel area, excellent : HARARE

23-down – Party drug: after small quantity, I felt the hit : TOUCHE

24-down – Internet suffix given to Yankee — what a party! : ORGY

25-down – Minuscule part of anatomy : ATOM

27-down – Mend? Oh no : DARN

1-across – Steadies one in front of Britney Spears : BALANCES

6-across – Tory and scoundrel agree : CONCUR

9-across – Get to go on live act : BEHAVE

10-across – Large female wearing short coat, one exposed seam that’s cut : COALFACE

11-across – Meeting with former pupil first thing : OBSESSION

13-across – Writing solution at side of book by right margin : BRINK

15-across – Congress controlled by this? Offer to cut fossil fuel withdrawn : LIBIDO

17-across – Turn on old lover with call : EXCITE

18-across – Lies from Tories – fellows ousting European : BLUFFS

19-across – Good record label backing trendy star group : GEMINI

21-across – Complains: parking clamps ultimately put on wheels : CARPS

22-across – Justification to restrict beer : RATIONALE

25-across – More obscene husband and I parting through strain : FILTHIER

26-across – One might make a bust by exposing underwear : NICKER

28-across – Adult right to feed metres from magic mushroom? : AGARIC

29-across – Recovered from vaccination? Went too far : OVERSHOT

2-down – First-class Australian century against English : ACE

3-down – On both sides of gate, notice a gnome : ADAGE

4-down – Fed up? I’m smiling on camera to get lift : CHEESEDOFF

5-down – Area with dry rot rising : SECTOR

6-down – Dressed as college boy : CLAD

7-down – Enter it if up the spout? Is she now a mummy? : NEFERTITI

8-down – Uncomfortable one unlacing bustles : UNCONGENIAL

12-down – One reduces friction in party with relation : BALLBEARING

14-down – Go through old coins biting Queen on one : EXPERIENCE

16-down – Show Dirty Harry is half-hearted : BLUEPETER

20-down – Cut musical act : HAIRDO

23-down – Drinks from top of bottles : NECKS

24-down – Food not hot on cold plate : DISC

27-down – I work out after tablet : EGO

1-across – Local installation always needing power during strike : BEERPUMP

5-across – Retracting of a close to scene in G&S – obscurity round Penzance? : SEAFOG

9-across – Opening a fresh source of water in Yorkshire : APERTURE

10-across – Marine life in sea adjacent to America : MEDUSA

12-across – Tearful Australian dismissed by old Communist : MOIST

13-across – Found distressed after landing catch? That’s inconceivable : UNHEARDOF

14-across – Recruitment business account gathering in information over 12 months : AGENCY

16-across – French pastry being cooked — and in Paris : BEIGNET

18-across – Conservative, as originally recorded, boarding boat, being averse to road transport : CARSICK

20-across – Piece of wood’s rotten? Stop surfing : LOGOFF

22-across – Docile character accepting English downpour, the idiot : LAMEBRAIN

23-across – Drink not supplied promptly, taking extra time : LATTE

24-across – Stylish harbour in the Seychelles : SPORTY

25-across – Various therapies I dropped —see the charges here : RAPSHEET

26-across – S is one mistake in it : SIERRA

27-across – Not just power tool user? : PARTISAN

1-down – Composer having king amongst supporters : BRAHMS

2-down – Yellow flower improving serene rocks : EVENINGPRIMROSE

3-down – Indulge computer industry for minute in Strasbourg : PETIT

4-down – God’s forbearance displayed around Biblical city : MERCURY

6-down – The French, very into food and improving the mind : ELEVATING

7-down – They established institutions in which orphan forgets trace of lost parents : FOUNDINGFATHERS

8-down – Military group ready to intervene in turn for writing on the wall? : GRAFFITO

11-down – Exclamation over a book, or antihero in one : AHAB

15-down – Pin down late supporter about tense, tense situation : NAILBITER

17-down – College in university ranks visionary specialists? : OCULISTS

19-down – Put down an unanswerable question : KOAN

20-down – Feel bad, upset about imminent script : LINEARA

21-down – New take presented by working actor-director : KEATON

23-down – Elizabeth Taylor initially accepting singular musical heart-throb from the past : LISZT

1-across – Quintessential replica yacht set adrift : ARCHETYPICAL

9-across – Conscious campaign to stop atomic energy : AWARE

10-across – State suffering penalties : PALESTINE

11-across – 24 hours to protect house in the old country : DAHOMEY

12-across – Most advantageous silence over Epstein, oddly offed beforehand : OPTIMUM

13-across – Lacking direction, driver ultimately unable to deliver milk : RUDDERLESS

15-across – Stagger out to lunch in wrong direction : STUN

18-across – Reportedly breed fish : RAYS

19-across – Recent maps misplaced cliff : ESCARPMENT

22-across – Inebriate elite was in charge : PICKLED

24-across – Degenerate’s expression of contentment, lying back in bed : CORRUPT

25-across – Endless slum in country almost making Italian scoff : SPAGHETTI

26-across – One who’s far from brilliant husband material : CLOTH

27-across – Suffering with inflammation around cut : WRETCHEDNESS

1-down – Sheepishly advanced and knocked stuffing out of lackey : ABASHEDLY

2-down – Maidens make sandwiches and a light meal : CREAMTEA

3-down – English politician, extremely tawdry and hollow : EMPTY

4-down – See a lowly junk in arm of Pacific : YELLOWSEA

5-down – Giant shih-tzus regularly unmoved : INSITU

6-down – Saw Chinese leader blocking American order : AXIOM

7-down – Pasty and wine picked up for ramble : WANDER

8-down – They may spread disease in clever minds : VERMIN

14-down – Go on date long after all else has failed : LASTDITCH

16-down – Quivering wings of tender bird briefly infested with lice : TREMULOUS

17-down – Pal cries out for a breather : SPIRACLE

18-down – Most indecent cleavage is in Paris : RIPEST

20-down – Irritable, tense and so on, Harry loses heart : TETCHY

21-down – Told that leaders must leave square : OLDHAT

23-down – Professorship of Prosthetic Hairdressing : CHAIR

24-down – Liberal dons scolded youngster : CHILD

1-across – Support clubs in remote region : BACKWOODS

6-across – Snub I assume hides prejudice : BIAS

10-across – A politician with one excuse for failure : ALIBI

11-across – Sad effort forming compromises : TRADEOFFS

12-across – Support place in south-east for church tower : STEEPLE

13-across – Gatecrash popular event finally getting bawdy : INTRUDE

14-across – Examination of progress turning in quota by Bury : INTERROGATION

17-across – Candy caught working with ferocity travelling around Newcastle area : CONFECTIONERY

21-across – Believe singer holding monkey is a better bargain : CHEAPER

22-across – Money lenders more certain to be found in America : USURERS

24-across – Took the lead from sanctimonious individual left holding drug : PIONEERED

25-across – Throw a loop : SLING

26-across – Regularly snaffled cash box : SAFE

27-across – Steersman sorted out disordered situation : MARESNEST

1-down – Carries family hat worn on ceremonial occasions : BEARSKIN

2-down – Plant initially consumed colony of bees : CHIVE

3-down – Whiskey cooler photographer gives young rascal : WHIPPERSNAPPER

4-down – Active regarding getting article ready : ONTHEGO

5-down – Turned over rugs in academy showing endurance : STAMINA

7-down – Chimney in pub by church produces effect : INFLUENCE

8-down – Son first to meet Virgin Queen and nun : SISTER

9-down – Novelist quits rewrite about Republican puppet masters, perhaps : VENTRILOQUISTS

15-down – Reprimanded American’s annoyed : TICKEDOFF

16-down – Agreement accepted by rowing team makes a kind of sense : EYESIGHT

18-down – Facial hair : EARDRUM

19-down – Middle of masthead below boom : THUNDER

20-down – Head of strategy manages fields : SCOPES

23-down – Chuck out timeless fabric : EXILE