Daily Answers

1-across – One word and all hell’s let loose — they’ll pay for this : HEADSWILLROLL

10-across – Close up Oscar sees audience’s dirty : OCCLUDE

11-across – Rarely on time, you held policeman up : MOUNTIE

12-across – Calculate silence about United’s the end for Ole? : GAUGE

13-across – Joke repository includes one that’s extremely hard-hitting : PUNCHIEST

14-across – Considered scoundrel comedian at heart : RATED

16-across – Backing pub name — on reflection like the Oracle : PROPHETIC

18-across – Relation’s arrival welcomed by mother : NARRATIVE

19-across – Crowd’s last intimidating display in capital : DHAKA

20-across – Play country in Africa — no trouble over touring : PYGMALION

23-across – Duo use lime to catch bird : OUSEL

24-across – Mostly Messi is accommodated — it’s what we do with celebrities : LIONISE

25-across – That bloke with nice bum about to join conversation : CHIMEIN

26-across – Laments about teachers not getting money — hypocrites! : PLASTERSAINTS

2-down – Battle to get space at bar : ENCOUNTER

3-down – Work out one day’s been wasted : DEUCE

4-down – Give birth with assistance : WHELP

5-down – Old Vlad in the Netherlands climbing? Only it’s flat! : LEMONSOLE

6-down – Ride like this for dosh? : ROUGHSHOD

7-down – Gone to pick up tea inside : LATTE

8-down – Elbow possibly cut by stake not a sporting injury : JOGGERSNIPPLE

9-down – Locate patient lost in market area : PETTICOATLANE

15-down – Exaggerated performance of car? Admits being misled : DRAMATICS

16-down – Angry gripe about disgraceful advantage given only to a few : PRIVILEGE

17-down – Passing nurse in van : TRANSIENT

21-down – Grumble increase’s ultimately trivial : GROWL

22-down – Cuts? Nothing’s been mentioned : NICKS

23-down – Animal in one pen being mounted : ORIBI

1-across – Doctor can predict one will be clumsy : ACCIDENTPRONE

10-across – Carpet salesman also on edge : REPRIMAND

11-across – Try to persuade some regular guests : ARGUE

12-across – Honour a team’s first principle : AXIOM

13-across – Friend not in the church for pseudoscience : PALMISTRY

14-across – Ignorant French article precedes a fight with Europe : UNAWARE

16-across – Another hearing actual TARDIS oddly stopping : RETRIAL

18-across – Naked celeb acted, discovered by director and chosen : ELECTED

20-across – Drunk chose to drink lager at first : PICKLED

21-across – Mostly pack rupees after liquidating capital : UPPERCASE

23-across – Smell carrion meat every now and then : AROMA

24-across – Volunteers guarding inter­national artist’s jewellery : TIARA

25-across – Soldier with drug amongst 11 raving — forging bond : GUARANTEE

26-across – Meter is broken, coming outside to get plug : ADVERTISEMENT

2-down – Top theatre’s first Evita cast to mesmerise : CAPTIVATE

3-down – Emu I lift from the bottom entertains hip insider? : ILIUM

4-down – Test disheartened pupil before English lesson : EXAMPLE

5-down – Small catch when man working on the house accepts direct debit : TIDDLER

6-down – Sensible king swaps sides first, I see : REALISTIC

7-down – Evening things out, removing wrinkles at last : NIGHT

8-down – Half-heartedly encourage hard nut, struggling during extremely tedious valuable pursuits? : TREASUREHUNTS

9-down – Material for the Guardian, as per PA? : RECYCLEDPAPER

15-down – After reshuffle, Attlee ran for deputy : ALTERNATE

17-down – Stolen? I’ll walk clear of all charges arising : ILLGOTTEN

19-down – Drink’s rough, reportedly : DRAUGHT

20-down – Houses preferred by sailors : PREFABS

22-down – Phone up after pressure is checked : PLAID

23-down – Panic room beneath sadly unfinished : ALARM

9-across – Self-assured, able to absorb study after study : CONFIDENT

10-across – In time, about to come to same conclusion : AGREE

11-across – Curtains made at home, apart from fringes : DEATH

12-across – Revise a city rent that’s bound to bring better profit : CERTAINTY

13-across – Sign agreement — book available outside without question : NODOUBT

14-across – Around lake, watch person catching fish : TICKLER

17-across – Gamble on it, backed in place of many mounts : TIBET

19-across – Purpose shown by predecessors of foe : END

20-across – Group of players that’s gross? On the contrary : NONET

21-across – Because, for example, ultimately it’s true : SINCERE

22-across – Release call for peace by superpower : QUIETUS

24-across – Doctor is clad by a colleague to prepare for theatre : DRAMATISE

26-across – Tries and dismisses following court’s conclusion : TAXES

28-across – See 27 : THING

29-across – Old soldier in unit invested in food processor : CANNONEER

1-down – Decorated with diamonds above and below : ICED

2-down – Private patients are treated here : INWARD

3-down – Outline conversion of hotel suite : SILHOUETTE

4-down – Eschewing even bits of theory, create lines of verse : TERCET

5-down – Educated learner’s initially expelled, with poor grade repeated : ITERATED

6-down – Figures turned up at short notice: not a lot : DATA

7-down – Pilgrim, speaking directly, left home : FRANKLIN

8-down – Exact straight line passed over centre of gravity : LEVY

13-down – One form of what time is? Minutes, perhaps : NOTES

15-down – A certain opinion on iconic TV broadcast : CONVICTION

16-down – Assesses lab subjects, having injected drug : RATES

18-down – Tribe’s difficulty dividing African country : BENJAMIN

19-down – Microscopic part for pupil, say? : EYEPIECE

22-down – Most powerful men on board, but not at court : QUEENS

23-down – Communicated with head of French department, initially, around ten : TEXTED

24-down – What’s required you must pay finally? : DUTY

25-down – A river journey for ancient boat with many oarsmen : ARGO

27-down – Reign thus, badly and absolutely! : SURE

1-across – Report of chronicler on burial site, potentially a cracker : CRYPTANALYST

8-across – Perhaps quote too much love poetry with uniform content : OVERUSE

9-across – Robin flying around church’s inner passages : BRONCHI

11-across – Stern composed features female’s lacking : AUSTERE

12-across – An ancient Greek is charged with negativity : ANIONIC

13-across – Most of sole behind cat’s third claw : TALON

14-across – Toddlers kept engaged by this dramatic series? : PLAYGROUP

16-across – Interminable street party growing louder : CRESCENDO

19-across – Variety of wine bar bottles 50 cents : BLANC

21-across – Enduring stars in stage terms? : LEGENDS

23-across – Moulded sink thrown away : DIECAST

24-across – Emit cry of pain close to mummy, looking rather sickly : YELLOWY

25-across – Whiff of sodium beginning to develop? : NASCENT

26-across – I feel dry runs should be organ­ised and easy to follow : USERFRIENDLY

1-down – Oily liquid cools off, covering middle of street : CREOSOL

2-down – Agreed! And, if we’re taking turns, I’m off : YOUREON

3-down – Engineers in open hut worried at that point : THEREUPON

4-down – Nile region once served up excellent cake : NUBIA

5-down – Releasing toilet pipe : LOOSING

6-down – Twinkling finale for virtuoso part in duet : SECONDO

7-down – Jerk stabbing Caesar’s associate, maybe with passion : ROMANTICALLY

10-down – Immobilise one cover raised in Peru’s old national gallery : INCAPACITATE

15-down – A worthless African party orig­inally encouraged shirking : AVOIDANCE

17-down – Gives precious coat to US serviceman left wearing scraps : ENGILDS

18-down – Means of preserving grim impartiality : CANDOUR

19-down – Revered head of board removing editor : BLESSED

20-down – Nutmeg’s supporting commercial plugging superb college : ACADEMY

22-down – More furtive adult missed by violent killer : SLYER

1-across – It’s prepared during social event in space : DISTANCE

5-across – Setter’s role is to communicate : IMPART

9-across – Ruminant and insect run away to get married : ANTELOPE

10-across – Royal runs off, allegedly : PRINCE

11-across – Sacrifice bad English jewellery : OFFERING

12-across – Spouse detailed to return with catch : ENTRAP

14-across – Assorted charts lead to places of worship : CATHEDRALS

18-across – Butcher left these with a set of choppers : FALSETEETH

22-across – Cut out tax : EXCISE

23-across – Make light of not working after performance : PLAYDOWN

24-across – Clergyman keeping company with another : DEACON

25-across – New star dies in accident : DISASTER

26-across – Leftie eating endless leeks smelt awful : REEKED

27-across – Passion leading to hot dispute in airport : HEATHROW

1-down – Monster depriving old horseman of oxygen : DRAGON

2-down – Leave the outskirts of Seville with upper-class twit : SETOFF

3-down – Everyone at university about to appeal : ALLURE

4-down – Capital trick involving hen being changed into paper leaf : COPENHAGEN

6-down – Prepared to go round a bottom­less piece of ice that’s steep : MARINADE

7-down – Newborn adopted by holy man rejected as strange : ABNORMAL

8-down – Unlawful occupation of locked resort? : TRESPASS

13-down – Mistress in a chateau having friendly talk with girl : CHATELAINE

15-down – Culprit placed old farthing on part of fireplace : OFFENDER

16-down – Instructed to include seal to prevent entry : BLOCKADE

17-down – Gnome set out to find precious rock : GEMSTONE

19-down – Despot’s extremely tetchy outburst : TYRANT

20-down – One may carry drink : PORTER

21-down – Article represented a patron saint : ANDREW