Daily Answers

7-across – Drill then dart for twice-daily pain? : SCHOOLRUN

8-across – Bright element that’s metallic blue : AGLOW

10-across – Rise not right, owed what’s left : RESIDUE

11-across – One of a set with it is cutting well : INCISOR

12-across – Zip has caught a collar : NAIL

13-across – Cream: initial lump briefly whipped : ILLUMINATI

15-across – Hopeful cop bedecked in flag : WANNABE

16-across – Appropriate work of farrier or glazier? : FITTING

18-across – Bloomer putting pot like that on stove : AGAPANTHUS

21-across – Answer every crossword has, ostensibly acronymic : ECHO

23-across – Endless joy filling holes, sow seed? : PIGLETS

24-across – One wearing cap, hot, pull it off : TRIUMPH

25-across – Time in state halved for Greek character : DELTA

26-across – New Yorker, say, organ welcoming satirical voice? : EASTERNER

1-down – Player afterwards grabbing bath into which I dipped : THESPIAN

2-down – Flat arc on doughnut rings : CONDO

3-down – Diehard, both brute and louse, oddly? : TRUEBLUE

4-down – Base unit is placed there : INSITU

5-down – A dude describing life force in instant coffee : MACCHIATO

6-down – State possible response to ‘will she dance with me?’ in the Cavern Club? : ALASKA

7-down – Freud made some noise for da boise, and da crowd out loud – in a film? : SHRINKWRAPPED

9-down – Sequence of items tossed up above man, thousand more for female juggler? : WORKINGMOTHER

14-down – Soldier on with a lawyer initially – and one’s assistant? : PARALEGAL

16-down – Sugar in snacks chilled for Spooner? : FRUCTOSE

17-down – Coin wasted on old Chinese pottery, homeward bound : INCOMING

19-down – A record of events Nigeria cleared up for country : ANGOLA

20-down – Tuft of threads secured in effect, as Sellotaped : TASSEL

22-down – Five in love in Paris, split : RIVEN

1-across – Transfer over a million pounds at first for 17/6 : VAMPIRE

5-across – Last lines of sonnet recalled trapping end of penis in flies : TSETSES

10-across – Bonkers attempt to make a comeback : BATS

11-across – Marx brothers finally check out star of 19 : MAXSCHRECK

12-across – Bird mum keeps at home : MINA

13-across – Are Converse stocked by dispenser of style at Covent Garden? : OPERATIC

14-across – English footballers entertained by Rolling Stone’s version of Don’t Stop Believin’ : KEEPFAITH

16-across – Digger regularly on motorway is a nuisance in Scotland : MIDGE

17-across – Kids swapping sides to make descent : BLOOD

19-across – 17/6 for Austen novel : NOSFERATU

23-across – Hack maybe with Times tucking into top-notch biscuits : AMARETTI

24-across – Walker is one with no answer for parasites : LICE

25-across – Republican heavyweight following game show on Netflix : BRIDGERTON

26-across – Slice from return of Kyle Edmund is like 18 : EELY

27-across – Writer of Lady In Red ultimately inspired by pop duo : WYNDHAM

28-across – Noel Gallagher on vacation abroad eating hot chicken : LEGHORN

2-down – Greed of girl going both ways with 1 author : AVARICE

3-down – Dad consuming endless wine and food : PASTA

4-down – Traveller collecting a stamp in country : ROMANIA

6-down – Shoot gull : SUCKER

7-down – Deeper level supporting cast in audition : THROATIER

8-down – Female leaving attractive impression : ETCHING

9-down – Retired people bending over backwards perhaps to expel Tory 17/6s : EXTORTIONISTS

15-down – Stuck out reminder about pastry’s filling : PROTRUDED

18-down – Sea creature picked up young victim : LAMPREY

20-down – Doctor can feel Banquo’s issue : FLEANCE

21-down – Heart is broken by Brockwell’s latest puzzle : TICKLER

22-down – Attributes of Gaia, the nature goddess : ATHENA

24-down – Old doctor from General Hospital snorting cocaine : LEECH

1-across – Pain initially going, massage heavenly figure : CHERUB

5-across – Couple in Costa repeatedly like hot drinks : COCOAS

8-across – One with needles or fine tip for cotton reels : CONIFER

9-across – Caught a cheat having a fling? : CASTING

11-across – Point of view that’s raised in comment put online : OBSERVATIONPOST

12-across – Make love then get married – terrible fate : DOOM

13-across – Noted movie complex for capital : MONTEVIDEO

17-across – Frank with musician’s backing playing twice with feeling : NONONSENSE

18-across – Despondent: tending to vote Democrat : BLUE

20-across – Doctor then signs letter that deals with stress : TENSILESTRENGTH

23-across – Withdraw soldiers to front territory : RETRACT

24-across – One preparing table, perhaps after opening of Bollinger: it’s bubbly : BLISTER

25-across – Musician in film on piano : PLAYER

26-across – Most in pain, group swallowing tablets : SOREST

2-down – Workers not working easily : HANDSDOWN

3-down – Change what’s taught in school before class : REFORM

4-down – Pub to sing over Christmas karaoke’s final song : BARCAROLE

5-down – A part for erotic acting? Naturally they have fleshy bits in hot scene : CACTI

6-down – Lover with sex appeal turned on cracking open the bubbly? : CASANOVA

7-down – In the morning I pass friend : AMIGO

8-down – See 16 : COORDINATOR

10-down – Become a couple for party : GETTOGETHER

14-down – Bowled in cricket match over one day: they might hold solution : TESTTUBES

15-down – See date go large, initially getting order for seconds : DELEGATES

16-down – Do I monitor racy act in shot? : INTIMACY

19-down – Former partner that is into sister that’s hotter : SEXIER

21-down – Alan confused about time of delivery : NATAL

22-down – Go on stage and record : ENTER

1-across – Grasshopper fouled D-Day kit : KATYDID

5-across – Look likely to make an honest offer : BIDFAIR

9-across – Riddle of the Jumblies’ craft : SIEVE

10-across – Let walrus swim in lake : ULLSWATER

11-across – Car may tour a couple of lochs at the very least : MINIMALLY

12-across – Two novices go to ski here : TYROL

13-across – Invariable outfit I had : RIGID

15-across – Irritably, William accepts deferred payments : BILIOUSLY

18-across – She may offer sick camper aid : PARAMEDIC

19-across – Shout out, giving this direction : SOUTH

21-across – 1-0 for United : INONE

23-across – Reproached at length and clipped round side of head : EARBASHED

25-across – Husband, unpack the vegetables : MANGETOUT

26-across – What may arrive with biscuits some mutt’s about to eat for all to see : GOUDA

27-across – Leaving space for astronauts : REENTRY

28-across – Recklessly determined, but fail after entrance : DOORDIE

1-down – Coins and notes only, they say, in disputed region : KASHMIR

2-down – Sweetly pretty princess growing up: she’s 11 or 12 perhaps : TWEENAGER

3-down – Hope engineers can plug reservoir : DREAM

4-down – It’s needed for the rest of the partners : DOUBLEBED

5-down – Lead off folk and blues singer that shows guts : BELLY

6-down – Some Irish devices stop working : DOWNTOOLS

7-down – Announced change for place of wedding : ALTAR

8-down – Sport convention in the country : RURALLY

14-down – One’s utmost effort in French is condemned upfront : DAMNEDEST

16-down – Part of shoe considered torn : LACERATED

17-down – Undeclared reserves that melt away when the heat is on? : SLUSHFUND

18-down – More disapproving of Mike opening elementary book : PRIMMER

20-down – Need to do this, suffering dry heat? : HYDRATE

22-down – Cat’s very light weight : OUNCE

23-down – At rear of pasture, thin tree : EBONY

24-down – Problems a good grocer halved : AGGRO

9-across – Looking to the future, no boundaries for isolated farmstead : LONGRANGE

10-across – Sounding surprised to be in Big Issue, initially showing faith : BAHAI

11-across – Subscribe here to view wild depravity? Dire letters sent out : PAYTV

12-across – Boatman bargains in magazine : IDEALHOME

13-across – Hollow pine eggcup to end of balustrade where nails are visible : PEEPTOE

14-across – Queries resolved in magazine : ESQUIRE

17-across – Good Housekeeping’s first to be incorporated: it’s a limited market : NICHE

19-across – This magazine made millions before our time : MAD

20-across – In West Indies, USAid in disarray? : IANDI

21-across – Magazine for more keen cycling : HARPERS

22-across – Clue for item in magazine : TIMEOUT

24-across – Association of spoof rapper with magazine and books : ALIGNMENT

26-across – Clue for this magazine : SMASH

28-across – Nothing to replace article dropped from unspecified magazine : VOGUE

29-across – Fever: any beds? Job cuts; trimmed on all sides and levelled : EVENEDOUT

1-down – More than £1.50 for magazine : CLIP

2-down – Easy for text to include name fully, finally on magazine’s cover: this could get a gut reaction : ENZYME

3-down – Magazine report to look into tax, on teletype even : PRIVATEEYE

4-down – Covered by magazine soon enough : INTIME

5-down – Araucaria: say a dream that is gone, on dying : REVEREND

6-down – Early victim of a brother’s envious loathing from the start : ABEL

7-down – Misrepresented no-one with hit news magazine : THEONION

8-down – Magazine is virtual, if excelling in visuals : LIFE

13-down – Joke by foremost of cartoonists, second place in this magazine : PUNCH

15-down – Inquirer Magazine: ‘Viz at last matures!’ I fall about : QUIZMASTER

16-down – Live as misogynist? Principally pointless : EXIST

18-down – Surrey perhaps cold for Frenchman in union : CARRIAGE

19-down – Boatman’s post allegedly went astray when picked up : MASTERED

22-down – Magazine: ‘Rattle needs new arrangement’ : TATLER

23-down – One seen on a rostrum or a rock : ORATOR

24-down – A daily occurrence in Australia, witnessed in popular vote : ARVO

25-down – Perhaps wedge lifted root : NEEP

27-down – See 26 Across : HITS