Daily Answers

1-across – Needlework more than enough to occupy sister : SAMPLER

5-across – Berated crazy speaker : DEBATER

9-across – Title of Sir Trevor not used in full : RTREV

10-across – Deceit to get a financial centre working again : MENDACITY

11-across – Maybe American partners at table less easy-going : WESTERNER

12-across – Seeing roll, one jokingly pulled sailor back : BAGEL

13-across – Parking where taxis do for a lark : PRANK

15-across – Feeling dreadfully intense before church : SENTIENCE

18-across – Girl worth €0.00001? : MILLICENT

19-across – Billionaire has these guarding his entrance? : GATES

21-across – A little reminder, for example, to ask repeatedly for money back : NUDGE

23-across – Have a nose for trouble? : SMELLARAT

25-across – A contribution to road safety, one digging up part of the pavement? : KERBDRILL

26-across – Mistake supplying energy to house : GAFFE

27-across – Considerately treat muscle during inactivity : RESPECT

28-across – Zany, get splashing in river : YANGTZE

1-down – Working men in drink get tight : SCREWUP

2-down – Materials processed in plant : MARESTAIL

3-down – Old French coin laid very oddly on top of escritoire : LIVRE

4-down – Look back on cars: extremely comfortable : REMINISCE

5-down – One offering free kebab, say? : DONOR

6-down – Bird : BRAMBLING

7-down – Feeble golf is an obsession : THING

8-down – Lawyer confused about old special plural : ROYALWE

14-down – One’s precariously balanced here on side of cutter : KNIFEEDGE

16-down – Our French colleague? Hardly : NOTREALLY

17-down – Deductions come to this positive result: catch academic at it : NETPROFIT

18-down – More ink spilled fixing name : MONIKER

20-down – Defiant remark, angry about article : SOTHERE

22-down – Shoots game : DARTS

23-down – Just over half moulded to the body? That’s very poor : SKINT

24-down – Gain access using emblem and name : LOGON

1-across – It makes perfect sacrifice, deed being hidden : PRACTICE

5-across – Painful bill — object, spending time : ACHING

9-across – It’s new in some lingo : NEOLOGISM

11-across – Way river runs into Irish port : LARNE

12-across – Vehicle has all soldiers heading off with speed in upper region : VANALLENBELT

15-across – Well turned-out exhibits at cattle show? : NEAT

16-across – Control comes with financial gift — main way to get in : DOMINATION

18-across – One of two is half expressing mutual relationship : RECIPROCAL

19-across – What the devil did is cruel : FELL

21-across – I’d sneezed — it’s bad — could antihistamines make one this? : DESENSITIZED

24-across – Jane keeps one place for eggs : EYRIE

25-across – Insecure in shelter, Argentinian lady turned over : TENTATIVE

26-across – Asian drunk, we hear — one in the pool? : TYPIST

27-across – British lord, grand, a very long time in club : BLUDGEON

1-down – Feeble joke — start to yawn : PUNY

2-down – French plane, one ditched in river : AVON

3-down – Old boy, taken in by baddy, gives expression of resignation : TOOBAD

4-down – Weather expert with cold capital to record is taking temperature : CLIMATOLOGIST

6-down – Schedule a novice driver needs to finish up in vehicle : CALENDAR

7-down – Is artist chosen son from chosen people? : ISRAELITES

8-down – Member of family can let urge get out of control : GREATUNCLE

10-down – A mountain — it’ll spread across more than one country : MULTINATIONAL

13-down – Component in dinner I get possibly : INGREDIENT

14-down – Fiddling at wrist, chap may let one slip off : WATCHSTRAP

17-down – Painless barking for dogs : SPANIELS

20-down – Looking angry, fellow being caught and put back inside : REMAND

22-down – President once with aspiration for boost : HIKE

23-down – Cut width in layer : HEWN

8-across – Boatman not featuring in Enigmatic Variations is attractive : MAGNETIC

9-across – Like to monitor typos in Guardian? No way! : IGUANA

10-across – A curse, deleting one article after another : ANSWER

12-across – Abuse from security service, apparently a special experience : MISTREAT

13-across – Second of second; second page; second sight : ESP

14-across – Enjoyed Independent: emerged with no content corrected : EDITED

16-across – Forever and always, including time with tiny changes : ETERNITY

17-across – Challenges again from different setters : RETESTS

20-across – OneNote audio input extension : ANTENNA

23-across – Spooner derides brown cowboy : STOCKMAN

24-across – Furthest off the mark with last two in Toughie : WIDEST

26-across – Solver seen in agony — ouch! : YOU

27-across – Stripped of flesh, act fatal: icy tombs found here : CATACOMB

28-across – Both Telegraph and Herald are noteworthy : SIGNAL

31-across – One challenges you to give in, taking on Observer, say : DEFIER

32-across – Video deception by leaders in dubiously elected executive presidencies fooling all, kindling enmity : DEEPFAKE

1-down – Get Listener misdirection at last : EARN

2-down – Recognise one with all-consuming interests being upset : KNOW

3-down – Boatman replaces leader of house in Slough with fixed gaze : STARED

4-down – Skip Wee Stinker, inverting riddle’s outer limits : SCAMPER

5-down – About one oddly intense Genius : EINSTEIN

6-down – Certain old penniless escort on an ’orse : GUARANTEED

7-down – Release slow Orwellian nurse : UNFASTEN

11-down – ‘Make do with less’: politician ousted to go downhill fast : SKI

14-down – Rambling hesitation and bluster : ERR

15-down – The officer in charge preceding disloyal person in command, claiming divine authority : THEOCRATIC

18-down – Times creates puzzle that’s rather dry : EXTRASEC

19-down – Almost domesticated some pigs by the sound of drums : TAMBOURS

21-down – See 14 : ANT

22-down – Some really do by nature become uplifted by Everyman : ANYBODY

24-down – Awful systems — nothing odd here — create ineffectual people : WUSSES

25-down – Age of bird, not beast : EON

29-down – Good! One newspaper has flair : GIFT

30-down – What the Inquisitor does: challenges where you must set aside time : ASKS

5-across – Gently scuffed mat fills home — this one’s in mine : PITMAN

6-across – Old guy provided backing for servant getting married : FIGARO

9-across – Plot by Jack introducing primarily unjustified smear : BEDAUB

10-across – Not a hope, unfortunately, to get grape for wine : HANEPOOT

11-across – Reversal of fate, which may be indicative : MOOD

12-across – Parisian in silence lying sprawled in charming manner : ENGAGINGLY

13-across – Rogue calmed a politician being bombastic : DECLAMATORY

18-across – South American postman working in Barking again : PATAGONIAN

21-across – It’s used when serving starter of tinned fish : TRAY

22-across – Sweet male I dressed in tailored suit : TIRAMISU

23-across – More than one play area swarmed by tots : DRAMAS

24-across – Stupefied American enjoys tucking into G&T : AGHAST

25-across – Learner in Morgan gripping implement : PLIERS

1-down – Sit around frame of timber, cutting lumber : STRADDLE

2-down – Butler in film concealing right jumble : GARBLE

3-down – During May, one day before November 12? : MIDNIGHT

4-down – Small boat, early in the day, going through bridge : SAMPAN

5-down – Glutton penning poem about stray animal in Asia : PIEDOG

7-down – Stooge in love with English stage and screen actor : OTOOLE

8-down – As you can see, in each other down solution your plans have been thwarted! : THEGAMEISUP

14-down – Most bananas in pastries kept in sack : LOOPIEST

15-down – Went back over hint, tucking into wine : RETRACED

16-down – Priest has installed hot plate : LAMINA

17-down – Varnishes Otto’s agreed to put on slates : JAPANS

19-down – Christie’s starts to auction goods, I see, over time : AGATHA

20-down – Not one prearranged fight has European later showing swelling : NODULE

1-across – Hopping mad — we get VAT on traditional British fare : MEATAND

5-across – See 1 : TWOVEG

9-across – Now their work became less acceptable : WORETHIN

10-across – One type of racing at venue for another — largely a shambles : FIASCO

12-across – Slightly backtracking, show deference to biblical couple going steady : ONANEVENKEEL

15-across – Escapes, just about, on hearing wife’s in the vicinity : NEARMISSES

17-across – Bill’s old trouble : ADO

19-across – Neckwear could be junk, mostly : BOA

20-across – Plant ground more millet : IMMORTELLE

22-across – Checking work from one of the Royals playing game? : PROOFREADING

26-across – They may be in bed — one’s about to get up : IRISES

27-across – Like a teacher, used role-play at one college : DIDACTIC

28-across – ‘That OK then?’ Lad rudely: ‘I’m not interested!’ : TALKTO

29-across – See 28 : THEHAND

1-down – Admit money originally cut : MOWN

2-down – Dangerous to leave hotel, which is spacious : AIRY

3-down – One fashionable piece of writing? Could be yes and no : ANTONYMS

4-down – Countryman’s pronounced stoop : DEIGN

6-down – Nag’s sounding off — wife cross : WHINNY

7-down – Cutting through corruption, start to speak to meeting in a deeply emotional way : VISCERALLY

8-down – Sentimental slush — see right through the German beauty queen? : GOODLOOKER

11-down – Poet taking sweetheart round Spanish city : OVIEDO

13-down – Protestant archbishop’s first proscription overturned — past it sadly : ANABAPTIST

14-down – Can you connect with this form of humour? : LAVATORIAL

16-down – Half, nearly three quarters of words explosive : SEMTEX

18-down – United lifted in first leg a long time ago : STONEAGE

21-down – Move French regularly interrupting at the back : AFFECT

23-down – Tenor Domingo’s initial break : DRIFT

24-down – Given up before, this smoker : ETNA

25-down – Holed in one side, catamaran partly capsized : ACED