Daily Answers

1-across – Sheltered by Verdun’s cathedral, free from harm : UNSCATHED

6-across – What’s that you said about Foot’s bulk? : HEFT

8-across – Fit Latin insertion into two articles on Mark, when ending’s scrapped : ATHLETIC

9-across – See 18 : SQUARE

10-across – See 18 : GARDEN

11-across – Netflix’s banner? : STREAMER

12-across – Races possibly still getting heartless threats : EVENTS

15-across – Just heard Dicky’s a total loss : WRITEOFF

16-across – Singer using broadcast primarily to contact one million heavenly beings : CHERUBIM

19-across – Lively male ejected from Blenheim outing : NIMBLE

21-across – Made personal changes to MBE : EMBODIED

22-across – Pocket violin’s chain is rather vulgar : KITSCH

24-across – Perhaps Frank has a large temper : ANNEAL

25-across – Wrapped up presents finally and moved like Donald? : SWADDLED

26-across – Made Wyoming houses a little damp : DEWY

27-across – Offence to have trails winding on the left : SINISTRAL

1-down – Extremist possibly drawing back following united labour front : ULTRA

2-down – Sultan’s food getting cool : SALADIN

3-down – Do something with current to produce muscle protein : ACTIN

4-down – Tool used on metal horse : HACKSAW

5-down – Abandonment bringing about Tories’ end : DESERTION

6-down – Spoils historical period carriage : HAULAGE

7-down – Found time to get flu badly — careless! : FORGETFUL

13-down – Fury exhibited by abusive he-men? Certainly : VEHEMENCE

14-down – Aid to following what’s said on TV about blue tit aboard ship? : SUBTITLES

17-down – New recruit about to go up inside arboreal breeding place : ROOKERY

18-down – Ground : MADISON

20-down – One providing the final act with thank-you party taking place in less than a full month : MATADOR

22-down – Asks about Vilnius’s top low-alcohol drink : KVASS

23-down – Native American beginning to load a basket : CREEL

1-across – Juvenile boozer skinned her nose : PUBESCENT

6-across – Move bishop, gentle prompt to sacrifice knight : BUDGE

9-across – Initially abashed after tot’s histrionics : DRAMA

10-across – Cobblers flash buttocks with glare : MOONSHINE

11-across – Third of examinees surprisingly pass April assessments : APPRAISALS

12-across – Star striker in conversation : BETA

14-across – Supervise model regularly snorting lines : OVERSEE

15-across – Country lass pursuing senator with energy : SENEGAL

17-across – Extremely poor male quietly stuffing birds : THEPITS

19-across – May well vomit, oddly tired at last of marrow : MYELOID

20-across – Take home sailors after first eyeing airmen : EARN

22-across – Mislays husband in grotto, almost a disaster : CLOSESHAVE

25-across – Close current books, meditative after loss of papa : INTENSIVE

26-across – Out of the way of hyenas, ideally : ASIDE

27-across – Waxed middle of torso to wear frock : GROWN

28-across – Mend great rips in clothes : GARMENTED

1-down – Supports uplifting relief work : PODIA

2-down – Curse lamb and sheep, straying together : BLASPHEME

3-down – Close to mine in his sampan, exercised nautical skills : SEAMANSHIP

4-down – In group covered by endless amnesty, travelling north : ENMASSE

5-down – Potters round and round in races with the French : TOOTLES

6-down – Party clobber : BASH

7-down – Stroke bull briefly : DRIVE

8-down – Stared at setter, downright outspoken : EYEBALLED

13-down – Downplay distress at dentures : UNDERSTATE

14-down – Harry not cutting flying : ONTHEWING

16-down – Drop most celebrated advocate of worldwide policy : GLOBALIST

18-down – See you welcoming one playing alone : SOLOING

19-down – Regrets American uncle turning up in rubber : MASSEUR

21-down – Retired doorman doffing cap, recreating the past : RETRO

23-down – Change date after two consecutive letters : EMEND

24-down – Many dons to get debanked soon : ANON

1-across – In the main, might augur set about a captive? : SEAPOWER

6-across – Bacon brought home as yet unslaughtered? : LIVING

9-across – See 24 : MUSTER

10-across – New palace overseas for Lothario : CASANOVA

11-across – Death ultimately captured by tormented Yeats, for example, in common parlance : ASTHEYSAY

13-across – Arm better, if leg’s bandaged : RIFLE

15-across – PM with brown ale dancing in nude : ANDREW

17-across – Shame about grubbiness, that needing clearing out? : PIGSTY

18-across – Thin rakes in back of storeroom? Correct : REMEDY

19-across – Tailor working in a marketplace : RIALTO

21-across – Parade flopped with minimum of wonga invested : SWANK

22-across – Free crack in plastic I’d seen : DISENGAGE

25-across – Survey soldiers entering country : PANORAMA

26-across – Con elected crony : INMATE

28-across – First of all, some tabloid, appallingly shabby it seems is where circulation has dropped to zero : STASIS

29-across – See 15 : BONARLAW

2-down – Australian runner in team, sub regularly used : EMU

3-down – Try to sell field : PITCH

4-down – Boy with drawers off toyed with balls : WORRYBEADS

5-down – Material passed round court relating to lower chamber : RECTAL

6-down – Large tree, birch : LASH

7-down – Alcohol-fuelled actor? : VINDIESEL

8-down – Book fighter, third of eight, odd number? : NOVELTYSONG

12-down – First thing in sixth line, technique beyond dispute : SPARROWFART

14-down – Online editor promoted assistant after rest overwhelmed by success : WIKIPEDIAN

16-down – Crack henchmen controlled areas : DOMINIONS

20-down – Writer with cups tipped over soda : BICARB

23-down – Player tiring in the end, one of the Yankees missing second half : GAMER

24-down – Do succeed, does Queen have to? : PASS

27-down – Drink served with gin, when initially announced? : TEA

8-across – What mermaid has to swing from side to side? : FISHTAIL

9-across – Demand to be released : RANSOM

10-across – Bloody unusual choice : RARE

11-across – On appeal, exam papers may be extraordinary : REMARKABLE

12-across – Temperature in reservoirs is baffling : STUMPS

14-across – Soldier uses upmarket tent, having old-fashioned specs : GIGLAMPS

15-across – One with lots of teeth worries a wife : FRETSAW

17-across – Bring chopper down here, smashing part of mouth into skull : HELIPAD

20-across – A drink where golfer finishes — and starts, we’re told : GREENTEA

22-across – Sounded like a pig has nothing put in pen : OINKED

23-across – Where reserve judge sits? : ONTHEBENCH

24-across – Go like the wind? : BLOW

25-across – Branded waterway’s name as being in wrong order : SEARED

26-across – Historic duchy, as standard, has a Duke : NORMANDY

1-down – Column’s parts lie in ruins : PILASTER

2-down – Article on Spain for you once : THEE

3-down – Vetoes keeping Irish children in Scotland : BAIRNS

4-down – Wisp of smoke hiding silver feathers : PLUMAGE

5-down – Stop meeting professional villain : PROROGUE

6-down – Taking a break when empty? : ONVACATION

7-down – Helping toy to work : DOLLOP

13-down – Mountain’s substance: keratin : MATTERHORN

16-down – As defence against infection, do any bit ordered : ANTIBODY

18-down – Did a nose so affected make breathing awkward? : ADENOIDS

19-down – Daughter needs sunshade at start of day : DAWNING

21-down – Hand over plaster covering : RENDER

22-down – Testament of woman, not us : OTHERS

24-down – Remarkably bare Scottish hillside : BRAE

1-across – Raft with hole initially lost at sea — not one of these then? : FLOATER

5-across – Body in garage, head of hair covered in drink : CHASSIS

9-across – Eleven in a room evens out, one’s assumed : AXIOM

10-across – Recalled by wife, occasional bear hugs ending in nookie — it’s exciting! : WHOOPDEDO

11-across – Abyss, constant by inference? : BOTTOMLESS

12-across – See 11 : PIT

14-across – Dubious pal, one happening to admit copying in the end — doing this? : PLAGIARISING

18-across – Agricultural system in formation of TUC, say? : CROPROTATION

21-across – Limb on nameless animal for security device : CAR

22-across – On bed, so set for whipping, bend over backwards : DOONESBEST

25-across – Indication of risk to bank direct, possibly? : BADCREDIT

26-across – See 21 : ALARM

27-across – Taken to the airport, say, from Cardiff, one escaping to the West : SEENOFF

28-across – About food, Spielberg film booked for a later date? : DIETARY

1-down – Food around which fire skirts — served so? : FLAMBE

2-down – Drug I took after work : OPIATE

3-down – Lines at end of book about sweet capers : TOMFOOLERY

4-down – Lid off delving tool, device dug into horse’s flank : ROWEL

5-down – Waspish insect has eaten one for breakfast : CROISSANT

6-down – Range and length problematic, say, for openers? : ALPS

7-down – Farm cleaner with novel disinfectants primarily introduced to tube from below : SHEEPDIP

8-down – Want marker secured by strand : SHORTAGE

13-down – 23 series on miracles, astonishing : MINORSCALE

15-down – Grasp Bob the Rat, though caged : GETHOLDOF

16-down – Local requirement to decorate a thousand or a million, say : ICECUBES

17-down – Breakfast time? : PORRIDGE

19-down – State of European geese, as seen in flight, when caught by duck : NEVADA

20-down – Squat where agent keeps spare tyre? : STUMPY

23-down – Celebrated, like musical work? : NOTED

24-down – Australian PM taking a percentage of popular vote : ARVO