Daily Answers

1-across – Jump across, initially moving right to left, to arrive at different levels : STRATA

5-across – Finishing touches for scripts by Dan Levy, showing correct use of language : SYNTAX

8-across – TV show judge’s entertaining pooch? : TERRIER

9-across – Can I spoil first drink : MARTINI

11-across – Clue to make WAG punish cleaner : WASHINGUPLIQUID

12-across – See Mark’s predicament : SPOT

13-across – Stable’s opening tack room — it’s slow : SNAILSPACE

17-across – After five Americans leave bar area ready, ale’s drunk — and some kind of wine? : ELDERBERRY

18-across – Note start of month has new moon, occasionally : MEMO

20-across – Broadcast porn deal matters for pair that grind : PESTLEANDMORTAR

23-across – Discovered this book with way-out jacket for present : EXHIBIT

24-across – Small bottle found in a drug smuggler containing cannabis, mostly : AMPOULE

25-across – Books Lineker, say, without support : GANTRY

26-across – Article on excited UK Green insiders’ legendary response to rising water level : EUREKA

2-down – Beginning to beat out precious metal, striking head : THRESHOLD

3-down – Sharp police unit infiltrating revolutionary spies : ACIDIC

4-down – A rector overseeing organ recital, originally raised church’s sense of superiority : ARROGANCE

5-down – Rearing mountain lions making a university review … : SUMUP

6-down – … new animal sanctuary — first to accept incarceration, essentially will make most irritable : NARKIEST

7-down – Brussels supports aid arrangement for so long : ADIEU

8-down – Perhaps Harrovians and partners, entering drag race : TOWNSPEOPLE

10-down – Most of river reaches English channel eventually : INDUECOURSE

14-down – After baffling air raid film, turned shed light on : IRRADIATE

15-down – Stunned banks withdraw from Mae West fight : AWESTRUCK

16-down – Sick have small portion under doctor — it might well be boring : DRILLBIT

19-down – Small change for policeman : COPPER

21-down – Kitsch outfit dismissed with a sound : SCHWA

22-down – Nervous, puzzling 5 across, 10 down : ANTSY

1-across – High point after New Year’s Day for one cleaning up : JANITOR

5-across – Nothing on course to relieve irritation : SCRATCH

9-across – Nurses undressed in Broadway show : ANNIE

10-across – Poetry covering page in old books was extravagant : OVERSPENT

11-across – Third person by eighth vehicle? It may be fruitful : GOOSEBERRYBUSH

13-across – Resistance with some current inclination : RAMP

14-across – Peru and Iran unfortunately in run-down state : UNREPAIR

17-across – Firm is no merchant holding dubious label : MISNOMER

18-across – Scottish island hiding unknown girl : ISLA

21-across – May Eden, say, tend to be found between 11 and 13? : PRIMEMINISTERS

23-across – Possession of unopened tranquillisers and joint : OWNERSHIP

24-across – Something on the menu is finished article : PASTA

25-across – A lot of rudeness shocked consumer, finally : ENDUSER

26-across – Retired model is a source of revelations : EXPOSER

1-down – Woman changing gender in France in short trousers : JEAN

2-down – Description of rank cod and onion men prepared, tucked into by girl : NONCOMMISSIONED

3-down – One with faith is tense on a job : THEIST

4-down – Character in Sophocles married sexually open-minded figures : RHOMBI

5-down – Formally induct government that’s promising : SWEARING

6-down – Dump large grass skirts, getting made over : RESTYLED

7-down – Work set in France and Spain, then US and Israel’s so awful : THESUNALSORISES

8-down – Leave time to get star into successful promo : HITTHEROAD

12-down – Good stuff! Work by Polish player from long ago : GRAMOPHONE

15-down – In a jittery state, go as fire’s spread : FOIEGRAS

16-down – Monkey sports with one female between two rivers : PERISHER

19-down – Spot one like Rees-Mogg occupy­ing grandiose residence : PIMPLE

20-down – Return of Pétain and Quisling, say, wanting power increase : STEPUP

22-down – Piano tune for possible performers of duet : PAIR

1-across – Top judges flirt with one of Diana’s entourage : SUPREME

5-across – Complicated birth involving oxygen and end of term clots : THROMBI

10-across – Foremost of storytelling authors, keenly ironic : SAKI

11-across – Filibustering film style? : SLOWMOTION

12-across – Papers urging revolution in event of the 28 : PRAGUE

13-across – Gatepost partners for cruciverbalists : YOUANDME

14-across – Period when hostilities, inter­rupting aid, end badly : EDWARDIAN

16-across – See 1 : COURT

17-across – In Los Angeles, hopeless retailer : ESHOP

19-across – Solitude of one very Latin about love : ISOLATION

23-across – Introduces 13, with the woman being immoral : USHERSIN

24-across – See 12 : SPRING

26-across – Dogmas aside? : FIXEDIDEAS

27-across – Refuse and return some aviator glasses : GROT

28-across – Over five accessories for this decade : SIXTIES

29-across – Shock the French after kick-off? : STARTLE

2-down – Stale so not broadcast : UNAIRED

3-down – Say, are you home before midnight, feeling sorry? : RUING

4-down – Fool male with ladies problem … : MISLEAD

6-down – … comedy blood? : HUMOUR

7-down – Leaving contentious point on painful condition : OPTINGOUT

8-down – Stupid mistake to make bread : BLOOMER

9-down – Measure by sexism? An odd activity! : BODYMASSINDEX

15-down – Making up is indicated, say after lunchtime : ATONEMENT

18-down – His aim’s to produce fish : SASHIMI

20-down – Spits blood and isolates? Not a problem! : LOSESIT

21-down – On the pitch that hurts a long way : OWNGOAL

22-down – Aim for wash, spin, dry, yes? Take clothes off! : ASPIRE

25-down – American exactitude shown in stiff feature : RIGOR

1-across – Tomb’s terrible curse: help! : SEPULCHRE

6-across – Drop small piece of sugar : SLUMP

9-across – Have breakfast, as all the king’s horses and men did : GOTOWORKONANEGG

10-across – One day, start to eat and fill up : SATE

11-across – Jargon in capital university describing, say, beer : LEGALESE

14-across – Marvellous month ending with a starry event : SUPERNOVA

15-across – Prophet almost died, drenched in water : HOSED

16-across – Dismissing one set of Nazis, control group of law enforcers : POSSE

18-across – Badly alarmed by North Dakota, an unreal place : DREAMLAND

20-across – Exhaust me, returning to America retired : EMERITUS

21-across – Spades sever rabbit’s tail : SCUT

25-across – One’s mad to have these pro­tected creatures in church : BATSINTHEBELFRY

26-across – Discharge ambassador, who’s in drink : RHEUM

27-across – Lose voter? Terrible for president : ROOSEVELT

1-down – Sounds exasperated by announced dimensions : SIGHS

2-down – Worst and best refuelling place : PITSTOP

3-down – In the light, wife is off colour : LEWD

4-down – Arthur tries to conceal injury : HURT

5-down – Old partner one scolded is free of blame : EXONERATED

6-down – Hot seat may shatter the unadventurous : STAYATHOME

7-down – Waste of time, what you may do to protect the environment? : USELESS

8-down – Wilful greedy guts was in charge : PIGHEADED

12-down – Committee said umpire is wrong : PRAESIDIUM

13-down – Would, say, ship provide a job for Ali Baba? : WOODCUTTER

14-down – Peter’s excited to receive an honour at start of school year : SEPTEMBER

17-down – Ghost is a little suspect, really : SPECTRE

19-down – Trouble for each major enemy : ARCHFOE

22-down – Go to join street meeting : TRYST

23-down – Looking embarrassed by love? Have another go : REDO

24-down – Hours before present : HERE

1-across – Jam? In tagliatelle? : TAILBACK

5-across – Old citizen is a hard worker : TROJAN

9-across – Paint nudism au naturel, finally implicated in recurrent commotion : EMULSION

10-across – Refuse to acknowledge one’s outwardly depressed : DISOWN

12-across – Street’s not a place for events and functions : VENUE

13-across – Old motorbikes feature thrills with skill rounding junction : KICKSTART

14-across – Very well and appropriate baffle, as if playing inside : FITASAFIDDLE

18-across – You’ll find that to the west of Mexico father cooks first, provided with tiny capacity oven : PACIFICCOAST

21-across – Piddling half-pint? : SMALLBEER

23-across – Primarily austere, mostly illiberal, quiet sect : AMISH

24-across – Liable to change : LABILE

25-across – Driver for pointless proportionate representation : OPERATOR

26-across – Hokusai’s fifth boat illustration : SKETCH

27-across – Yet my Mrs may be fearful of Tyger’s appearance : SYMMETRY

1-down – Where you can find venue with beers to store letters of faithful followers : TWELVE

2-down – They say you again got entangled with an American native : IGUANA

3-down – Doctrine about Caesar, oddly not shown in sculptor’s work : BASRELIEF

4-down – Timekeepers extremely eager, but not this one : CLOCKWATCHER

6-down – In Singapore, I’m searching for a source of fizz : REIMS

7-down – Risk of standard diet originally eaten by kangaroo, after a change of heart : JEOPARDY

8-down – Half past seven in the evening is a time of depression : NINETEEN

11-down – Coy orphan, age uncertain, a subject for deep study : OCEANOGRAPHY

15-down – Where to share pictures of fashionable males : INSTAGRAM

16-down – See 1 : APOSTLES

17-down – Bravo for Mike in rush for game : SCRABBLE

19-down – Order giving rise to rubbish joke : DIKTAT

20-down – See 8 : THIRTY

22-down – Return visit to wrap one’s flower : LILAC