Daily Answers

1-across – Missing first dance, policeman comes in for a drink : ALCOPOP

5-across – Empty three-master of the late Renaissance? : BAROQUE

9-across – Look it up, either way : REFER

10-across – Old invader cut call for Charlie Parker’s instrument : SAXOPHONE

11-across – Bangers and mash from a hospital chef for starters : CHIPOLATAS

12-across – An Indian, oddly, appearing in opera : AIDA

14-across – Publicise new tramline for transport interchange : AIRTERMINAL

18-across – Arrange part of Sachertorte, crumbling : ORCHESTRATE

21-across – Coffee machine capsules for schools : PODS

22-across – Those wandering around county town for trainer : TENNISSHOE

25-across – Tick in tack? Get away with you! : SKEDADDLE

26-across – Knotty problem with load, starting from mid-morning : NODAL

27-across – Man Ray’s art movement keeps Welshmen in check : DADAISM

28-across – Comes into force? : ENLISTS

1-down – Father in charge in car club on the continent : AFRICA

2-down – Commons’ leader leaving in wooden box : COFFIN

3-down – Strains of carol Pete’s arranged : PERCOLATES

4-down – Cooked tapas and ziti, say : PASTA

5-down – Perhaps Brownie pack arrived with artillery : BOXCAMERA

6-down – String of Pearls — part of Meyerbeer opera : ROPE

7-down – Intelligence rating that results from division : QUOTIENT

8-down – Looks closely at Cockney cocktails : EYEBALLS

13-down – Cold meal prison dished up : IMPERSONAL

15-down – Cad died before noon in Dutch port : ROTTERDAM

16-down – Calm, having made up? : COMPOSED

17-down – A boss of a detective department who’s hooked? : ACIDHEAD

19-down – Island ways reported : RHODES

20-down – Genuine manuscript showing spheres of activity : REALMS

23-down – Riviera city — home to European relation : NIECE

24-down – Gershwin’s turned up, covering for Indian : SARI

9-across – Travelling men hove to at sea : ONTHEMOVE

10-across – Supremo jittery, hiding display of feeling : EMOJI

11-across – It’s OK for Americans to call out these two figures : TENFOUR

12-across – Doctor added essence of phenol — it got nowhere : DEADEND

13-across – Happy working atmosphere : ONAIR

14-across – Gardening equipment, if lost, would be more concerning : SCARIFIER

16-across – The rich live off these obese people from the country : THEFATOFTHELAND

19-across – Spooner kept stuff from angry milliner : MADHATTER

21-across – Singular shape causes dispute about what it should be called : SCONE

22-across – One following second speaker : STALKER

23-across – Increasingly weird Labour leader heard going after family : KINKIER

24-across – Everyone is on board to make major bet : ALLIN

25-across – Geometric theory eccentric uncle maintains : EUCLIDEAN

1-down – PM fully extended dealing with dying cause : POSTMORTEM

2-down – Individual entered theatre a long time ago : STONEAGE

3-down – Artist establishes gambling location on outskirts of Izmir : RENOIR

4-down – Visit old city that’s somewhat grim : DOUR

5-down – One recruited in spring to oversee servers : HEADWAITER

6-down – Feel a git when drifting? Find something meaningful to do : GETALIFE

7-down – Series of notes Tudor emissary kept hidden : DOREMI

8-down – Peel initially rejected Irish nationalist demands : RIND

14-down – What rude customer in diner may give and get : SHORTORDER

15-down – Embarrassed by horse going astray — it’s a distraction : REDHERRING

17-down – Sadly, great philosopher’s got no time for Russia’s neighbours : ALASKANS

18-down – Spray creates a moister distribution : ATOMISER

20-down – Pair swapping academy for university is definitely on : DOABLE

21-down – Central fund gets involved in cut — that’s really bright : SUNLIT

22-down – Almost declare figure immediately : STAT

23-down – Excitement can be free after a trip? : KICK

1-across – Girls with good spectacles : GLASSES

5-across – Legacy of live pursuit : BEQUEST

9-across – Statue of one magician : IMAGE

10-across – Doctor made alarm spread : MARMALADE

11-across – Piece of bread and a tin containing European crayfish, perhaps : CRUSTACEAN

12-across – Level recreation area removing back section : PAR

14-across – Measure of liquid found in dive’s nerve centre? : HEADQUARTERS

18-across – Woven indoor carpet is included : INCORPORATED

21-across – Heads of traditional eatery assembled meal : TEA

22-across – Phone has place to rest in caravan : MOBILEHOME

25-across – Remove cream covering minute appetiser’s top : ELIMINATE

26-across – Player is rubbish and about to be rejected : ACTOR

27-across – Son with cap going back to play area : SANDPIT

28-across – Quite high during play : TOTALLY

1-down – Snag caught in strange light : GLITCH

2-down – Calculator in a taxi returned by you and me : ABACUS

3-down – Love article in knitted sweater : SWEETHEART

4-down – French philosopher lifted spicy fruits : SUMAC

5-down – Prevent artist, copper and district attorney getting fish : BARRACUDA

6-down – Square vehicle : QUAD

7-down – Former lover with abundant special specimens : EXAMPLES

8-down – Guess Walcott gets increase : THEORISE

13-down – Trial never organised beside the point : IRRELEVANT

15-down – Toiletry item old and young explorer found in pit : DEODORANT

16-down – Lean on the French ship, exhausted : LISTLESS

17-down – Bring about celebration : OCCASION

19-down – Column with a line related to mail : POSTAL

20-down – Stake fish for shop : BETRAY

23-down – Awkward writer upset during sex : INEPT

24-down – Piece of vital importance is drooping : LIMP

1-across – Italian heiress left to confront heartless idea : PORTIA

5-across – ‘Isms’ tend somehow to determine outlooks : MINDSETS

9-across – Demanded to be at home with little girl and boy : INSISTED

10-across – Sick-looking friend needing cover : PALLID

11-across – Notice French art showing Hell to Milton : ADES

12-across – Lack of vitality very little to the fore in worship : VENERATION

13-across – City raised endless soldiers : BREMEN

15-across – The fellow dressed in fancy state, ultimate in elegance? : AESTHETE

17-across – Instruments in a car so complicated : OCARINAS

19-across – Male snake gets angrier : MADDER

20-across – Sees what’s wrong — nothing right in illustrations : BISHOPRICS

22-across – Frothy stuff provided by helpless pub server : BARM

23-across – Not just a Parisian trade event : UNFAIR

24-across – Rejected everywhere, we hear : THREWOUT

25-across – Slippery types falling over support, being less alert : SLEEPIER

26-across – Look to imprison a revolutionary in Texas city : LAREDO

2-down – What’s done to criminal, I fancy, not following a particular line : OMNIDIRECTIONAL

3-down – Follows one side turning up on cricket field before match? : TAILS

4-down – I invent an unusual solution to a snake bite? : ANTIVENIN

5-down – Fellow holding party has upset an iconic female : MADONNA

6-down – Measurement in a communic­ations circuit one person has installed : NEPER

7-down – Spotted copper nabbing group in outdoor building : SPLOTCHED

8-down – Ninth drought and one will be suffering — crops being this? : THINONTHEGROUND

14-down – Party member in demonstration having to make haste : MARCHHARE

16-down – Active males rest twice a year? : SEMESTRAL

18-down – The firs chopped? One may get a dramatic change of scenery : SHIFTER

21-down – Religious type is hit on the rebound : PARSI

22-down – Hat left out in alcove : BOWER

8-across – Bearing thanks, King George departed to tour Thailand : ATTITUDE

9-across – Be no longer in the lead? : EXIST

10-across – Support the other side : BACK

11-across – One day in seven I’ll eradicate ragwort, primarily with this? : WEEDKILLER

12-across – Determined supporter boring Sylvester Stallone : STEELY

14-across – Gary isn’t cast in 1960s’ TV series : STINGRAY

16-across – E-lation? : ECSTASY

18-across – Drunk pinches copper and metal : MERCURY

21-across – A British party is caught after doing a U-turn, sharp : ABRASIVE

23-across – Sturgeon’s playing a bugle : BELUGA

24-across – Everton gutted — thumps in dodgy penalty : PUNISHMENT

26-across – Leaders of Newcastle usually taunt Sunderland fans : NUTS

27-across – Swimmers swim on vacation, including exercise by river : SPERM

28-across – Everybody loves a posh royal, one who’s an old predator? : ALLOSAUR

1-down – Local network installed in loft by the ocean : ATLANTIC

2-down – 10 : MINK

3-down – Move around the Tube, essentially underground in America : SUBWAY

4-down – I serve differently to conclude Federer’s final game : REVERSI

5-down – Bill’s old schoolmaster : BEAK

6-down – Every other Briton’s reasonable and related by blood : BIOLOGICAL

7-down – In Judea, the nativity reveals deity : ATHENA

13-down – Delivers suspect walk-on part? I’d stumble over scenery : EXTRADITES

15-down – Announcement: 50% off diamonds! : ICE

17-down – Runner is climbing over the summit of Kilimanjaro : SKI

19-down – Just terrible losing crown : RIGHTFUL

20-down – Common soldier : GENERAL

22-down – Having no immediate use, king leaves in musical style : BLUESY

23-down – Adult abandons fight over oxygen container : BOTTLE

25-down – Opening of honeypot? I’m not sure — tip from Pooh Bear : HUMP

26-down – Feature of numbers with natural base : NOSE