Daily Answers

9-across – Atomiser sprayed around a perfume : AROMATISE

10-across – Person opposed to 27 backing place for better learner : LONER

11-across – Day behind bar in 27 work : SAVED

12-across – Criminal dares to get involved with dope : DESPERADO

13-across – The man’s receiving little knock in instances of corporal punishment : HIDINGS

14-across – One who incarnated 27 almost learnt lines : CONNERY

17-across – Sacred work is a tiny bit tacky at the outset : MOTET

19-across – Balletic movement not for Depardieu : PAS

20-across – Showing false modesty, leading around rodent : COYPU

21-across – Bob carries jug round? Impossible! : NOCANDO

22-across – This person, about to stop affair, is creator of 27 : FLEMING

24-across – Make blue colour hems in Gerald’s jacket : BRINGDOWN

26-across – Pulse in broth that needs stirring : THROB

28-across – A bridal accessory said to provide help : AVAIL

29-across – Like some accounts with exaggerated depiction : OVERDRAWN

1-down – Character from 27 works in Spielberg film : JAWS

2-down – How shoe may be repaired, outside very cracked : SOLVED

3-down – Character from 27 works readapting 27 works : PADDINGTON

4-down – Believers back from America? : HINDUS

5-down – Qualified teacher strikes to get retirement cover : BEDSOCKS

6-down – Creator of 27 in toboggan, raising £1,000 : GLUE

7-down – Take back grappling iron left in a risky way : UNSAFELY

8-down – 27 work about way to the north : DRNO

13-down – One who incarnated 27 English put in song : HYMEN

15-down – I need clout, fooling around — it’s in my DNA : NUCLEOTIDE

16-down – Not yet getting on with my inter­locutor, nattering emptily : YOUNG

18-down – Strategic opening of play in tense state : TACTICAL

19-down – Rules of behaviour for officer to keep to : PROTOCOL

22-down – See 25 : FINGER

23-down – 1 and 8 shot, including a hostile attack : INROAD

24-down – See 3 : BEAR

25-down – Person opposed to 27 shot after part of target : GOLD

27-down – English playwright sure to leave university : BOND

1-across – Frame in competition — lose it : CRACKUP

5-across – Three-legged rugby player? : FLYHALF

10-across – Somersault hit the roof : FLIP

11-across – Action of bandit with equipment breaking cover : BRIGANDAGE

12-across – Babies 2 27, rears on noisome nappies : TINIES

13-across – Stripling in 14 having dropped male off : TEENAGER

14-across – A group of soldiers in welcome treaty : AGREEMENT

16-across – Hand 2 27 : FLUSH

17-across – Member of old empire in La Paz must be optimistic, finally : AZTEC

19-across – Astronauts together step into wind : SPACECREW

23-across – Preserve order initially, drunk among native Americans : CREOSOTE

24-across – 2 27, as peas may be? : MINTED

26-across – Use spirit in container : MILKBOTTLE

27-across – See 2 : INIT

28-across – Disturb it splitting stone : AGITATE

29-across – Level in rugger, having lost every other one — win following defeat? : REVENGE

2-down – Like a billionaires’ club member, author reportedly has already joined? : ROLLING

3-down – Isle with earless goat? : CAPRI

4-down – Bum has soon, when whipped, come clean : UNBOSOM

6-down – 2 27, as arm may be? : LOADED

7-down – Sozzled, rich upper-class lady taking water under pressure? : HYDRAULIC

8-down – Fellers, those recording information? : LOGGERS

9-down – As may be bum, fairly 2 27 : SITTINGPRETTY

15-down – Something perhaps 2 27 when you bash in peg the wrong way : EYESOCKET

18-down – Bounce around sphere? One would be 2 27 : ZORBING

20-down – Move towards hugs for each host : COMPERE

21-down – When darkness is coming in ironwork? : EVENING

22-down – Lose fight admitting that was painful : BOWOUT

25-down – Unsophisticated church body touring India : NAIVE

5-across – Improvise as supplier of a cross, exactly what’s needed : WINGIT

6-across – Varied across goals achieved by top players : OSCARS

9-across – Go across for game : BRIDGE

10-across – Walk across, having finished backing favourites : OVERSTEP

11-across – Kind of word that either part of down clue can be, never across : VERB

12-across – Like some politics across the pond in programme about alliance : SENATORIAL

13-across – Stretch over and right every thing this makes with 8 : REACHACROSS

18-across – Moves across battlefield making me a nervous wreck : MANOEUVRES

21-across – Cross made by removing ends of protective jewel : MULE

22-across – Puzzle producing what sounds like a bad-tempered sign of approval : ACROSTIC

23-across – 60% of bars across France produced this wine : BARSAC

24-across – More precisely, repeatedly runs across two articles : RATHER

25-across – Wild animals that may be camouflaged when crossing? : ZEBRAS

1-down – Lie in bed, poorly — it’s impossible to get down : INEDIBLE

2-down – End of chase, heading off people on horses — we get down from them : EIDERS

3-down – Person who agrees with fool put down : ASSENTER

4-down – About employer who makes things go down in America? : CAUSER

5-down – Perturbed re snow, go downhill : WORSEN

7-down – Observe, in present and past, move up and down : SEESAW

8-down – Drink with Irish patron in Ulster town : DOWNPATRICK

14-down – Down amongst them is one of the shortest company releases : COUNTIES

15-down – Looking down on king, old hat : SOMBRERO

16-down – One taking steps to provide first part of down clue’s requirement, we hear : DANCER

17-down – Breaking law, say, that describes how things fall down : ALWAYS

19-down – Oddly deficient, down to last husband? Bound to be honest : ONOATH

20-down – Warship went down, part of larger group : SUBSET

9-across – Overall, we are mad to cut foreign tour : OUTERWEAR

10-across – Left old university? Not entirely true : LOYAL

11-across – Six Counties writer bowled over by Peg in lane : NINEPIN

12-across – What students want to be study­ing, having dropped Latin? : EARNING

13-across – Wet track limits Asians every so often : RAINY

14-across – Seamen hit rocks, struggling with this? : MAINSHEET

16-across – Average salmon caught as menu item? : PARFORTHECOURSE

19-across – Covering spinner for one that’s heading off : BOWLERHAT

21-across – More devoted trustee admits regret : TRUER

22-across – High wind in game cramping current cricket club : PICCOLO

23-across – PA tried various fliers : DIPTERA

24-across – It entails taking men on board, ending with mate : CHESS

25-across – Magpies making latest move in 24 : NEWCASTLE

1-down – State lead over posh bar out of town : COUNTRYPUB

2-down – Less generous member of Wasps, say, inspires one : STINGIER

3-down – Work hard in Test to win prize : TROPHY

4-down – Check rule, having lost golf : REIN

5-down – Clean medical department, bandaging artery first : PREEMINENT

6-down – Amateur regularly left wrong score in the Open : ALFRESCO

7-down – Nothing’s shown up in extra writer’s ID : BYLINE

8-down – Game’s up! Sell! : FLOG

14-down – Dull detail about champion’s final exchange? : MATCHPOINT

15-down – Secure roller that produces result in court : TIEBREAKER

17-down – Obscure cricket side, Irish, impresses head office : ONEHORSE

18-down – Better game allowed to get in the way : ROULETTE

20-down – Opening’s briefly unpleasant in rain : WICKET

21-down – Recommend Lion maybe for game once : TIPCAT

22-down – As a unit, Wolves press forwards : PACK

23-down – County academic keeps 20 : DOWN

1-across – River flowing through scrubland where fire started : HEARTH

4-across – Limited clothing for which most of naked crew laboured : NECKWEAR

9-across – Famous Egyptian bottles light brown in colour : MOUSE

10-across – ‘Wrecked boat at sea’ framed by artist retrospectively : SABOTAGED

11-across – Leaves for meal here, as char­acters from Dallas bow out : SALADBOWL

12-across – Queen admitting age retired to women’s quarters : HAREM

13-across – Complex machinery caught nation’s port out : CONTRAPTIONS

17-across – Utilise flexible measures to gain one’s ends? : BENDTHERULES

20-across – Picasso’s mate previously netting l million in recession : AMIGO

21-across – The authorities collaring lawyer on Calais street wish they hadn’t : RUETHEDAY

23-across – Approaching insolvency: the result of breast reduction op? : GOINGBUST

24-across – Nutmeg’s morning reflection on uniform flavour in food : UMAMI

25-across – Friendly boss recited contra­dictory verse : PALINODE

26-across – Shanty sung by sailor not having good time? : SEASON

1-down – In under par, but missing one’s original place : HOMESICK

2-down – Queue behind a Parisian who’s hooked : AQUILINE

3-down – Be inclined to stifle Republican’s rage : TREND

5-down – Trimming faulty tile with NHS emblem : EMBELLISHMENT

6-down – Where Cook encountered queen’s WWI recruiting officer? : KITCHENER

7-down – Ring engineer up in terminus : ENGIRD

8-down – Design a modern detailed cover for detection gear : RADOME

10-down – Gave away drinks for all, having sought best price : SHOPPEDAROUND

14-down – Instrument anxious gardener carries round : REEDORGAN

15-down – Joyful kids put these on to celebrate : GLADRAGS

16-down – Beast set up insubstantial northern empire of old : ASSYRIAN

18-down – Obsession to finish call : HANGUP

19-down – Prominent ornament I put in last : FINIAL

22-down – Stockings plugged by posh fashion company : HOUSE