Daily Answers

1-across – Monkeys with dirty child not right wearing hats : CAPUCHINS

6-across – Leader avoiding fresh hazard : RISK

8-across – Percussionist’s effect is diverting, full of spirit : DRUMROLL

9-across – Steer, following ring road to reach city : OXFORD

10-across – Small ruminant or two going west : DIKDIK

11-across – Landed on island, in custody of Catholic queen’s army : MILITARY

12-across – Familiar with international being dropped off outside ground : USEDTO

15-across – Most vulgar broadcast coverage of the Oscars : COARSEST

16-across – I’m going to manage in style : FAREWELL

19-across – University in country area yielding capital in Africa : LUANDA

21-across – Making response, Charlie moves to the front : CREATION

22-across – Post a second notice : ASSIGN

24-across – Famous disabled London columnist? : NELSON

25-across – Army’s initial breaches endanger sovereign : IMPERIAL

26-across – Stephen Spender’s caged birds : HENS

27-across – Clear Devon waters hosting unique rodent : EXONERATE

1-down – Joe in US chasing my dog : CORGI

2-down – Smooth, like well-oiled locks : POMADED

3-down – Could it be grandfather, white-headed — I’m blown away! : CLOCK

4-down – Religious doctor claims one should get injected : ISLAMIC

5-down – Dropping the lot after club’s last game : STOOLBALL

6-down – Proves false and won’t take son out for tea, we’re told : REFUTES

7-down – Startled schoolmaster forced to speak : SURPRISED

13-down – Outsiders to stage child’s play, a blow for Brighton? : SEABREEZE

14-down – Jesse’s father forced niece’s submission : OBEDIENCE

17-down – Passes England’s opener, run out close to stumps : ELAPSES

18-down – Patchy skin condition spreading into leg : LENTIGO

20-down – Country fair Jack missed in song : AUSTRIA

22-down – Generous porter letting politician in : AMPLE

23-down – Grand people’s prayer : GRACE

7-across – Essentially alters fake ivories, smuggling in article : DENATURES

8-across – Whopping G&T Scot tucks into : GIANT

9-across – Some in pride twirling crude capes : LIONESSES

10-across – Two players about to strike ball on table : WHITE

12-across – Bravo — just dazzling! : BRIGHT

13-across – Antipathy from states about to besiege India : AVERSION

14-across – Gracious after country gent wastes energy wriggling : SQUIRMY

17-across – Dotty, with drop of sherry drunk : SPOTTED

20-across – Two servings of cooked meat, one from the same side : TEAMMATE

22-across – Happen to find compiler black demure clothes : COMEBY

24-across – Grace shown by opener bagging a couple of fifties : KELLY

25-across – Protecting the earth, driver perhaps in leafy area : GREENWOOD

26-across – Criticise what rapper does? : KNOCK

27-across – Fuzz finally stops free dope supply — it’s put on ice : DEEPFROZE

1-down – European monarch twice hosts one stranger : EERIER

2-down – Childminder again skinned Australian fish : NANNYGAI

3-down – It could enlarge bags of spice emptied in buffet : GUSSET

4-down – Ground near the capital : TEHERAN

5-down – Fellow is hesitantly nurturing dreams : WISHES

6-down – Love movie nobody catches involving pair exclusively : ONETOONE

11-down – What’s up with politician getting illegal substance? : HEMP

15-down – It’s said playing snooker is the Brits’ forte? : QUEUEING

16-down – Off one’s head, swallowing drug or alcoholic drink : MEAD

18-down – Overworked miner with two shifts : TIMEWORN

19-down – Dog to slip inside bank : TERRIER

21-down – Intent to do harm, one caught punching guy : MALICE

22-down – Business securing great deal in budget : CHEAPO

23-down – Medal of British and French football side : BRONZE

1-across – Way of meeting online, mostly new — once divorcee goes out to bag fellow : VIDEOCONFERENCE

9-across – Second half of Kama Sutra covers ground that’s hot! : SUMATRA

10-across – Slipped disc, finally sent up on last pair of crutches : ESCAPED

11-across – Ladder with its step shortened : RUN

12-across – Might one break clay when firing? Or has potter messed up? : TRAPSHOOTER

13-across – One planning romantic breaks with American husband : MACHINATOR

15-across – See 2 : RAAB

18-across – Pulls in stomach muscles following end of liposuction : NABS

20-across – Second note put in score is wrong : SUPERTONIC

23-across – Vegetable is raw, needing seasoning : GREENPEPPER

25-across – Hang back to talk : GAS

26-across – Desire to be wealthy? Caviare is served : AVARICE

27-across – Character who discovered Treasure Island after a large cut, we hear : ALIBABA

28-across – Food from scattered seeds: crop that might be corny? : PROCESSEDCHEESE

1-down – My servant works for church committee member : VESTRYMAN

2-down – Tory MP virtually led into taxi following party : DOMINIC

3-down – Top revealed belt : OUTSTRIP

4-down – Sailor also called port in Japan : OSAKA

5-down – Releases colour, like a peach? : FREESTONE

6-down – Think tank ultimately concerned with Conservative squeezing : RECKON

7-down – Flipping rubbish hotel that mostly is solvent : NAPHTHA

8-down – Billed one with some ingredients rising : EIDER

14-down – A lovely head showing wisdom : ACUTENESS

16-down – Second leg: in the dressing rooms? : BACKSTAGE

17-down – Creature mainly living from fir nuts collected by squirrel : STARFISH

19-down – Stingy thing following sale, shelled out at the start: it might be in stock … : BEEFALO

21-down – … it reminds you to buy new silver product : NAGWARE

22-down – Private home page : INSIDE

23-down – Understanding of golf pars when going round : GRASP

24-down – Tartan Army’s leader wearing top to support Portugal : PLAID

1-across – Commonly, chap had a mass of hair slicked back with this : POMADE

4-across – About to make a mistake, wearing sensible white : SANCERRE

9-across – This to eat gives one bellyache : GROUSE

10-across – Vigorous, I shake the talc around : ATHLETIC

11-across – Garment that only half suits one : PAIROFTROUSERS

13-across – It’s clear rebel got drunk down here : BEERCELLAR

14-across – One coming from Holland forced to return : EDAM

16-across – Using head, attack bum : BUTT

18-across – The whole country after one day backing candidate : NOMINATION

21-across – Innovative way to make dog run? : GROUNDBREAKING

23-across – No danger of fog, it’s understood : ALLCLEAR

24-across – Have nothing to do with row about pig : DISOWN

25-across – Died, I make quite clear, in great suffering : DISTRESS

26-across – Sly creature in pop song? : WEASEL

1-down – Shakespeare’s mistress and attendant : PAGE

2-down – Perhaps a place in hotel raised charge to stay : MOORAGE

3-down – Departs one precise area : DISTRICT

5-down – Different tea interval organised : ALTERNATIVE

6-down – Pass our flag : COLOUR

7-down – Retired person returning has to go over the same ground : RETREAD

8-down – Duty officer : EXCISEMAN

12-down – A field of runners is so energetic : FULLOFBEANS

13-down – One played with infant: kind of mother! : BABYGRAND

15-down – Supports suggestion not to finish bottom : BACKSIDE

17-down – Title character misspelled in our list : TROILUS

19-down – Sort of rock, belting out half-ugly noise : IGNEOUS

20-down – Rod left in rage : ANGLER

22-down – As dye plant, use some vanilla : ANIL

7-across – One in irrational panic or con­cealing the onset of anxiety : PARANOIAC

8-across – Catch girl with boy’s heart : LASSO

9-across – They buy things from menu, cross when order is wrong … : CONSUMERS

10-across – … because the French girl … : CARLA

12-across – … put a whiskey into another drink to catch a boy : GAWAIN

13-across – Game prince left, to be replaced by a democratic leader : CHARADES

16-across – No-fault break-up: it might be what, say, Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth had : NUTLOAF

19-across – Boatman spotted in report: it doesn’t look good : EYESORE

22-across – Leaders of banks accept some economic restrictions, as this effectively is a way to control inflation : BASERATE

25-across – Tuck in before we get growth : CREASE

27-across – Girl to change hotel : EDITH

28-across – Fixed penalty discussed in connection with compromised ideals : FINALISED

29-across – Our queen, looking back to girl as a princess? : REGAL

30-across – Extends merger of tech giants : ELONGATES

1-down – Girl from outskirts of Yokohama not above dancing a lot : LATOYA

2-down – Planet has room for a boy : MARSHALL

3-down – Boy and not adult male : NORMAN

4-down – Boy to prepare for journey with intermittent steroid injection : PATRICK

5-down – Able to take girl into the country : CANADA

6-down – Wagner’s girl is more daring, removing clothes : ISOLDE

11-down – Boy to get surgery at last to become a woman : LADY

14-down – Beast last to be caught by fleece : DZO

15-down – See 17 : SUE

16-down – Catch name? Boatman : NAB

17-down – In time, is girl a soft thing to be discarded? : TIS

18-down – Unconventional, androgynous: a boy coming out : ALAN

20-down – That girl’s free article for boy : SHERIDAN

21-down – Level up, housing sick boy : NEVILLE

23-down – One was even a boy : ANDREW

24-down – Catch spouse getting up, leaving last part of newspaper : ENTRAP

25-down – Shed a tear about girl’s cleavage : CRANNY

26-down – A good person, just a boy : STEVEN