Daily Answers

7-across – Hundreds of runs etc — strangely, that’s admitted : CENTURIES

8-across – Amusing setter’s latest splits party fifty-fifty : DROLL

9-across – A hundred to clue 4 : FIVESCORE

10-across – A hundred pence to embrace that fellow ape : CHIMP

12-across – Cartoons from Japan are funny; matinees not showing ET : ANIMES

13-across – Support for sources of fresh water? Hear, hear! : WELLSAID

14-across – Resented being drugged inappropriately : GRUDGED

17-across – See 23 : THROUGH

20-across – Retires with everyone’s favourite vessels after every other raid : ADJOURNS

22-across – Boatman told to go for being inattentive : ABSENT

24-across – Lows include the core of a hundred states of mind : MOODS

25-across – Notes heartless move by way of working with African country, deporting the weak : MEMORANDA

26-across – Work on reported poverty : KNEAD

27-across – Gave wrong name and governed after false claims : MISCALLED

1-down – More than a hundred corrections to ignore : REGION

2-down – A way to understand about Boatman, broadcast digitally : STREAMED

3-down – Perhaps Vincent de Paul, a priest in Gascony, brought up burps : ERUCTS

4-down – Creates fresh draft from a hundred raw soldiers : REDRAWS

5-down – Born romantic: a hundred music scores all begun by one composer : BRAHMS

6-down – Perhaps ConservativeHome seized by slow type, heading for recession : SLUMPING

11-down – Put briefly into boiling water, cutting out new cold tripe : BLAH

15-down – Trade uncovered over a hundred finalists in European space station : RADIOONE

16-down – It’s worth a hundred cents to escape from Monsieur Obrecht : EURO

18-down – Perhaps glass ceiling: no opening for job with old head of company at its core : OBSTACLE

19-down – Fan of austerity called out as an inflexible parasite : ASCETIC

21-down – Showing pity for nothing: an empty hundred years, with no beginning and no end : OHDEAR

22-down – One hundred taken on by champion simultaneously : ATONCE

23-down – Good hundredth puzzle, accepted without debate? : NODDED

9-across – Bingo! Ring for professional visit : HOUSECALL

10-across – Jolly male’s fine disembarking from transport : MERRY

11-across – Extremely full? Offer third piece of toast and margarine : FLORA

12-across – Suggestions of how to clue ‘notes’ : OVERTONES

13-across – Don penning article on elements : WEATHER

14-across – Convicts in China heading to Shanghai : INMATES

17-across – Real trouble checking temp­erature in the future : LATER

19-across – Babe in film, one in Portuguese : PIG

20-across – Favoured king saved by Lewis heroine : LUCKY

21-across – Rod led astray chasing bowling technique : SPINDLE

22-across – Large animal in New York city : BUFFALO

24-across – DIY product recommended to stuff parrot? : POLYFILLA

26-across – Swear as 100p missing from wallet? : CURSE

28-across – Sport welcomes leading African-American goddess : FAUNA

29-across – Touring Spain first, one travelling light : SETONFIRE

1-down – Cook, one seen in bars, left out and drinking hard : CHEF

2-down – Dawn’s quality captures gold : AURORA

3-down – Bit of gardening: raking earth, cutting grass to be collected again : REGATHERED

4-down – Relish hero without ego : SAVOUR

5-down – Taking rest of Flake back in envy, perhaps the origin of gluttony : SLEEPING

6-down – Must shift spot of dirt : SMUT

7-down – Available to cover finale of Pac-man on Twitch — it’s wild! : FRENETIC

8-down – Look back over end of story with these : EYES

13-down – County loses energy : WILTS

15-down – Evil criminal left cinema : MALEFICENT

16-down – In essays, Oscar discovered authority : SAYSO

18-down – Test about old city den in books : TRIALRUN

19-down – Unique, like an empty House of Lords? : PEERLESS

22-down – Knockout with strength : BEAUTY

23-down – Clever grown-up skipping third of Ulster, taking in Ireland : ADROIT

24-down – Blow smoke : PUFF

25-down – Even flipping 50%, initially switching heads and tails : FLAT

27-down – PM once was disheartened and upset leaving country : EDEN

1-across – On reflection, gang needs to accept bereavement to flourish : BLOSSOM

5-across – Island’s problem with American transport: no terminus : SUMATRA

9-across – A second city’s somersaulting dance : SALSA

10-across – Fly with management, a feature of which is doubles all round! : DARTBOARD

11-across – Light composition of Rice, incorp­orating classical composer : CHANDELIER

12-across – Powder used by first alchemists : TALC

14-across – Raven, dog and rodent eating new fruit : BLACKCURRANT

18-across – Honourable dignitary’s after power lift : PRAISEWORTHY

21-across – Off-colour and about to enter shaft : RACY

22-across – Paying for fine inlaid top furniture item : PROFITABLE

25-across – Bad feeling of many against independence leader — one from Italy, maybe : HOSTILITY

26-across – Fungus shape : MOULD

27-across – Drop gets player finally into touch : TRICKLE

28-across – Playing clarinet and briefly leaving performance : RECITAL

1-down – Cross bishop breathes irregularly etc : BISECT

2-down – Painting has the power that a mechanic could make good use of : OILCAN

3-down – Shock — southern ladies running riot round prison! : SCANDALISE

4-down – Decoration somehow made large : MEDAL

5-down – Vehicle’s way over left side of carriageway, by a river : STREETCAR

6-down – Classic story: Short Time from the pen of Francis? : MOBY

7-down – Time’s against Shakespeare’s wife? Husband’s off in the direction indicated : THATAWAY

8-down – Recklessness of car almost hitting a centre of population : AUDACITY

13-down – Marry Hitch? Perhaps, but it’s not indicative of a steady heart : ARRHYTHMIC

15-down – Old playwright having no bottle has eg a whisky accompaniment : COWARDICE

16-down – Work period top protection wear for the Met? : OPERAHAT

17-down – Has life in Cairns destroyed flowers? : NARCISSI

19-down – Take criminally bad union leader before court : ABDUCT

20-down – Strong Brussels youth raised in a medieval way : FEUDAL

23-down – Bill’s comparatively astute : FLYER

24-down – See 6 : DICK

1-across – Some olives are wasted : STONED

4-across – Had a laugh when jilted around the third of July : CHUCKLED

9-across – ‘Grow up pal’, she said, ‘you are in’ : MATURE

10-across – Hot Romeo spotted in local : TROPICAL

11-across – From bad to worse in terms of eating and heating? : OUTOFTHEFRYING

13-across – Innocent king follows ethnic diversity : INTHECLEAR

14-across – Young Simpson nudging along a spoilt child : BRAT

16-across – Appealing and periodically acquitted : CUTE

18-across – Was uncertain about old elastic pants : OSCILLATED

21-across – See 11 : PANINTOTHEFIRE

23-across – Brief account round home : BULLETIN

24-across – Legitimate appalling successor to Elizabeth the second : LAWFUL

25-across – Simple job to enquire after Yeats edition : EASYTASK

26-across – African-American mostly pursuing knowledge : KENYAN

1-down – Total love for wrestling : SUMO

2-down – Turns to organisation without seeing the evidence : ONTRUST

3-down – Aristocrat with gongs and rings here : EARLOBES

5-down – Animal, vegetable, plant : HORSERADISH

6-down – Larks in bushes : CAPERS

7-down – Happier when Starmer after change of heart supports leaders of leftist unitary councils : LUCKIER

8-down – Ray indeed is happy : DELIGHTED

12-down – Conservatives delay demoting leader to begin with — they’re unbelievable! : TALLSTORIES

13-down – Powerless South American island quietly coming up : INCAPABLE

15-down – Two thirds of models fall hopelessly for past lover : OLDFLAME

17-down – One leaves mangled genitals in knots : TANGLES

19-down – Tight old solver’s admitting disagreement : THRIFTY

20-down – Convince strangers to welcome brotherly love? : INCEST

22-down – Family of Cyril Allen gutted : CLAN

1-across – Commercial lines are damaging … : ADVERSE

5-across – … determined to provide late fix : DEADSET

9-across – Reservation about navy being toasted : BURNT

10-across – Complain about health group creating a drug production facility : GROWHOUSE

11-across – College let head show some inexperience : CALLOWNESS

12-across – It reveals excitement as we pick up ambassador : WHEE

14-across – Junior executive position often advertised in the back window : BABYONBOARD

18-across – Goethe’s gift wasted? You really don’t know, not having it : THEFOGGIEST

21-across – Techie type emerging when the power died finally : NERD

22-across – US gunman is surprisingly modest : UNASSUMING

25-across – Head onto secondary route — it’s showing green : BROADBEAN

26-across – Local loses name when backing musical : EVITA

27-across – Book is on what make us who we are : GENESIS

28-across – Move DIY into section that shows profit : PAYDIRT

1-down – Group vacated Coventry to establish religious office : ABBACY

2-down – Stout caring heart needed in unpleasant surroundings : VIRILE

3-down – Helping reserve to create means for allocating scarce resources : RATIONBOOK

4-down – Nigel gets beaten up — he nicked someone’s marbles : ELGIN

5-down – Let’s shape go if you eat too many like this : DROPSCONE

6-down – Long to be a revolutionary : ACHE

7-down – Left leader in a fight : SOUTHPAW

8-down – Half of find submerged in ancient city gives diver problem : THEBENDS

13-down – It’s peculiar, butler says, in a complicated sort of way : ABSTRUSELY

15-down – Distribute green bins — they’re very green : BEGINNERS

16-down – Links up over wire to capture unpleasant insect : STINKBUG

17-down – It starts breaking up communication in the US : DEARJOHN

19-down – Coastal resort that has some edge in India : RIMINI

20-down – Shocked as top lawyer suffers with tension : AGHAST

23-down – Put nuts back, having no time when night’s over : SUNUP

24-down – Supplements found in coating of acid drops : ADDS