Daily Answers

7-across – Way traitor changed game plan : STRATAGEM

8-across – Mother on returning finds traveller : NOMAD

9-across – Guide died next to one clergyman’s residence : DIRECTORY

10-across – Strong husband overwhelmed by shame : PITHY

12-across – Live warning in advance : BEFORE

13-across – Engineered and hence improved : ENHANCED

14-across – Hid strays regularly in hut : STASHED

17-across – Small heart label with glue on : STICKER

20-across – Pair hire out piece of jewellery : BRACELET

22-across – 50% off rich Eastern European stew regularly and other food stuff : CHEESE

24-across – True resident having change of heart : LOYAL

25-across – Thought five lost out in misguided investment : SENTIMENT

26-across – Small land mass is left by alien : ISLET

27-across – Priest having final,final bit of white wine getting drunk : PLASTERED

1-down – Conflict from saint abounding : STRIFE

2-down – Very hungry bird over America : RAVENOUS

3-down – Throw the French into bastille? : CASTLE

4-down – Try net that’s offered up for comfort : HEARTEN

5-down – Signal satellite to accept note : MOTION

6-down – Money pool for fabric : CASHMERE

11-down – Bird caught cap : CHAT

15-down – Ties root around animal : TORTOISE

16-down – Touches headless fish : EELS

18-down – Macerate disgusting meal : CREAMTEA

19-down – Play game : OTHELLO

21-down – Nationalist following conservative party is afraid : CRAVEN

22-down – Before exam copper is most astute : CUTEST

23-down – Depressed star gaining understanding : SUNKEN

8-across – Ploy contrived by Dr. No that eliminates the competition : MONOPOLY

9-across – Muffed her cue that involves up to three other players : EUCHRE

10-across – Shoot and fracture : SNAP

11-across – Retaliatory principle that applies to surrounding solutions : TWOCANPLAY

12-across – Be astounded finding trunk filled with goods? : BOGGLE

14-across – Swallows in air currents : DRAUGHTS

15-across – Place for mate,in more ways than one : ONBOARD

17-across – Location for people holding hands and eating : ATTABLE

20-across – Caught in small mob,use claws : SCRABBLE

22-across – A coin’s tossed in gambling scene : CASINO

23-across – See 11 : ATTHATGAME

24-across – What follows foxtrot on radio brings beat back : GOLF

25-across – Activity in court that makes offence clear? Just the opposite : TENNIS

26-across – Copy book ahead of time as popular local activity : CRIBBAGE

1-down – Rent,perhaps,around quarter in centre of city : DOWNTOWN

2-down – Part of ship that’s unaffected by overturning : POOP

3-down – Sally’s kind,in other words : SORTIE

4-down – Minor ways in which Fourth of July is captured by women in US : BYROADS

5-down – Plenty of power in short book,securing upturn of payment : MEGAWATT

6-down – Small points about attack – it’s unfair to blame them : SCAPEGOATS

7-down – Utter a diatribe,repeating its beginning : ARRANT

13-down – Firm,for instance,set up painful new version of hide-and-seek? : GEOCACHING

16-down – Replace workers in advance,putting boot dreadfully in : ROBOTISE

18-down – Flies part of journey in pants : LONGLEGS

19-down – Gag about mother’s chance to get even : REMATCH

21-down – Boat in sea – in sound,say : CUTTER

22-down – Service provider moved around in circle : CLERIC

24-down – Nasty remark greatly upset European : GIBE

7-across – Spartan friend at heart : BASICALLY

8-across – Islander agreed in Munich to accompany vehicle : JAVAN

9-across – Divert kids and react excitedly : SIDETRACK

10-across – Blunt force ultimately shown by military,one sailor dismissed? : EMILY

12-across – Nancy’s in the Centre again : ENCORE

13-across – Officer content listening to match : COINCIDE

16-across – Extend beyond and above the knees : OVERLAP

19-across – Pet and grope swimmer : CATFISH

22-across – Outsider with sexy trousers? : LONGSHOT

25-across – When up this might conceal courage : BOTTLE

27-across – Finished once more supplying buttered,identical sandwiches : REDID

28-across – Couple again hands to those who put things right : REPAIRMEN

29-across – Double top : TWICE

30-across – Son said: ‘I’m ordering for entrée’ : ADMISSION

1-down – Budget period lacking information provider : RATION

2-down – Dire roof needing repair,this might prevent disaster : FIREDOOR

3-down – Author caught in Welsh town : BARRIE

4-down – Everyman is a former English footballer : ALLCOCK

5-down – Singer turned up with coat,it was found over the road : TARMAC

6-down – Songbird exhausted eating each of ants at first : BALLAD

11-down – Family essentially returned to capital : LIMA

14-down – One-time British company involved in pharmaceutic industry : ICI

15-down – The cycling character : ETH

16-down – Product from well-limited stews : OIL

17-down – Tense,absent from school for a long time : EON

18-down – Native American ignoring a priest suffering : ACHE

20-down – Art school briefly enjoyable before travelling,not being old : FUTURISM

21-down – Comes to by nurses : ATTENDS

23-down – Numbers of consecutive punches : ONETWO

24-down – Girl suppressing a long hiccup : GLITCH

25-down – Supporter against FA banning children in large republic : BRAZIL

26-down – Hole up in sound mattress : LIELOW

1-across – Exhibit in lawsuit after beastly female steals husband : SHOWCASE

5-across – Worker in taxi from Cambridge : CANTAB

9-across – Freedom of man getting married; not good after bender : ELBOWROOM

11-across – Cut grass to scorch : SINGE

12-across – They waited on Dua Lipa rumours circulating : PARLOURMAIDS

15-across – Work with nurse for free : OPEN

16-across – One might make cut: legend spotted around part of golf course : KEYHOLESAW

18-across – Well-known spin bowler is adjusting length,primarily after deliveries : PROVERBIAL

19-across – Swinger in party with men : DOOR

21-across – Critical cases from pandemic,rest needing treatment : PREDICAMENTS

24-across – Talk over split with wife,finally : ORATE

25-across – Take out in afternoon: empty tabernacle after mass by Priest : ELIMINATE

26-across – Drug case for Supreme Court : SEDATE

27-across – Finish perhaps with German bomb : EGGSHELL

1-down – Start to make out with date : SEED

2-down – Eyeballs letter at start of overdraft by bank : ORBS

3-down – Company tense around wages,initially: every year stock dropping? : COWPAT

4-down – Carry knife: it might stick out of back : SHOULDERBLADE

6-down – Fit device shortly after clot : ASSEMBLE

7-down – Fault at net making return: that woman receives no points in this? : TENNISSHOE

8-down – Defensive formation: animal calling across river : BREASTWORK

10-down – Inviting German without getting dressed up : MOUTHWATERING

13-down – Very excited getting cuddles: they might get laid on table : SOUPSPOONS

14-down – Outside of baseline with tennis stroke up front : BEFOREHAND

17-down – Local to let ecstasy tablets pass around – on the contrary : RESIDENT

20-down – Takes off small bloomers while walking : STRIPS

22-down – Tiny tot born: lend a hand,curtly : BABE

23-down – Heath was defeated : FELL

1-across – Joke about Conservative in T. Blair ridiculously amusing thing – British system often breaking down? : PUBLICTRANSPORT

9-across – Butcher giving yours truly a butt end of ham in batter : MEATMAN

10-across – Rubbish plant : RHUBARB

11-across – Gosh,3/8 of 16 down? : EEK

12-across – Person encouraging Welshman to fill vacancy in Tonypandy saw application? : TREESURGERY

13-across – Lover with sensation in tool : NUTCRACKER

15-across – A short riddle that seems very unlikely! : ASIF

18-across – Stamp nothing on wood : LOGO

20-across – Criminal speaking French,very successful student : TRESPASSER

23-across – In the course of confab,one topic known to provide grievance : ABONETOPICK

25-across – Get a move on,one leaving Waterloo : RUN

26-across – Getting tired initially,man with head on recliner lying back : RECEIPT

27-across – Pull to keep secure in traction : DRAWING

28-across – Case of passenger resilience came with travel when forced – onto this? : RAILREPLACEMENT

1-down – Demon bird breaking surface of perennial plant : PIMPERNEL

2-down – See 6 : BRACKET

3-down – Green carpet over river,one mile ahead : IMMATURE

4-down – Touch what may be sharpened in prong : TINGE

5-down – Apparent offenders ending in hellfire after others saved by God : ARRESTEES

6-down – Mark of literature half read amid loud squawking of chicks? : SQUARE

7-down – Asses in that way carrying king’s daughter uphill : ONAGERS

8-down – Cat-flaps so? : TABBY

14-down – Ginger root with cream : CARROTTOP

16-down – Period dedicated to uncharitable banking institution’s ending : FORTNIGHT

17-down – Chest hidden in London tree – somewhere in that city : PARKLANE

19-down – Greek character after starter from Greece,certainly not cold Italian food : GNOCCHI

21-down – See 28 Across : SERVICE

22-down – Wrinkly,I don trousers : SENIOR

23-down – River has run drier : AIRER

24-down – Country shown in chart,a little weightless? : INDIA