Daily Answers

1-across – Fancy 22 : RELISH

4-across – Lost in forest, one desperate to be out of it : STONED

9-across – Dodge 22, briefly : SCAM

10-across – Asian film titles in battle : VIETNAMESE

11-across – Trap 22 : CORNER

12-across – 22: shop’s last supply : PRESERVE

13-across – Natural extrovert, you said, ultimately seen in nude, is playful : UNSTUDIED

15-across – Cook 22 : STEW

16-across – Stone tossed back by a giant : MEGA

17-across – Bums of leaders in a 22 : FREELOADS

21-across – Notice rogue secreting second heart, say : EMOTICON

22-across – Dip in hole : PICKLE

24-across – Those with few lines spoiled by a stripe covering fifth of circle : BITPLAYERS

25-across – Post 22, we hear? : JAMB

26-across – Talk ending in sympathy with maker of ’omburgs? : YATTER

27-across – Verse in South African country reduced by 3/8ths : STANZA

1-down – Animal caught, enclosure not closing, bolted cages : RACCOON

2-down – Yellow loser : LEMON

3-down – Children holding minister upside down, separated : SEVERED

5-down – Person fixing pot, could be smelly thing with lid lifted : TINKER

6-down – Second movement : NUMBERTWO

7-down – Deny diva, so distraught over wife : DISAVOW

8-down – Second arrivals: gather each in skips : REAPPEARANCES

14-down – 22 in 11 : TIGHTSPOT

16-down – 22 provided, filling baby feeder? : MUMMIFY

18-down – Clearly show way out: ask shortly to come in : EXPOSIT

19-down – Top up, girl in 22 : DILEMMA

20-down – Grate 22 : SCRAPE

23-down – Greek character with endless salt served up type of American cuisine : CAJUN

9-across – Condition of premature baby: wrinkles between sides of head : EARLINESS

10-across – Sailor almost finished in the crow’s nest? : ABOVE

11-across – Pasta placed on paper shortly : PENNE

12-across – Rest of the pint for husband? : OTHERHALF

13-across – Last up on tour, singular London landmark : STPAULS

14-across – Small boy is unable to sing : DESCANT

17-across – Musical instrument’s horrible groan : ORGAN

19-across – Turn on hair product : GEL

20-across – Produce new animal and slice it up, say : CALVE

21-across – Prepared to be heavily criticised, drinking litres : PLANNED

22-across – Dingy church in French port : DUNKIRK

24-across – I’m surprised chatty fan collapsed : FANCYTHAT

26-across – Barbarian companion’s irrational feeling : HUNCH

28-across – Some oaths we are to … this : SWEAR

29-across – Stick to these glasses : LORGNETTE

1-down – Being the other way up makes water escape slowly : SEEP

2-down – People recently engaged now use precautions, primarily this? : PRENUP

3-down – An essential for the Latinist : SINEQUANON

4-down – Votes cast about embargo, initially : VETOES

5-down – Funny shape, old Lily : ASPHODEL

6-down – Piano : PAIR

7-down – Presumably a short deprecatory remark : NOTATALL

8-down – One giving honey, following meat : BEEF

13-down – Small shop offering large spoon : SCOOP

15-down – It’ll be round in a minute : SECONDHAND

16-down – Slightly change start of walk in wood : TWEAK

18-down – Relatives’ extraordinary earnings : GRANNIES

19-down – One has some responsibility for this divine little creature? : GODCHILD

22-down – I’d most hatred, on and off, for old fool : DOTARD

23-down – Pub brewing tea, as is natural : INNATE

24-down – Safety device that may be installed in a bomb : FUSE

25-down – Garden in America this short? : YARD

27-down – Told to mend part of sock : HEEL

8-across – Ask one fellow 20 : POSEIDON

9-across – What about craft for Gaia? : EARTH

10-across – God in bar : MARS

11-across – Further cost unfortunately about right for removing devices : EXTRACTORS

12-across – Rash reason 20 uses pressure to force out leader in marathon : HERPES

14-across – 20 imbibing contents of glass, viscous stuff : MOLASSES

15-across – Mole, for example, with bad joint, did you say? : DIARIST

17-across – Farah and 20, those called upon : MOBILES

20-across – Sporting god secured by the rack, or somehow enslaved? : OLYMPIAN

22-across – Bird with 20 in shooting? : PIGEON

23-across – Frequently found in spring, dead tissue in mouth : SOFTPALATE

24-across – Reportedly, something green on the table — trees : BAYS

25-across – Trunk kept by tenant, or sold : TORSO

26-across – Trainer asleep I gathered before start of race : ESPALIER

1-down – 20 chap surrounded by 20 British islands : COMANECI

2-down – 20 in elevated Egyptian city : ZEUS

3-down – Bags in stock, those remaining for one with a blocked nose? : UDDERS

4-down – Little bit inspired by some science : ANATOMY

5-down – Ogler is a cavalier in place for Muslim women : SERAGLIO

6-down – Dissident in favour of analysis : PROTESTING

7-down – 20 god exercises : THORPE

13-down – A batter in 20 boundaries : PARAMETERS

16-down – Main call by patriots initially welcomed by Muslim 20 : SHIPAHOY

18-down – Eye Scot about to claim first in pentathlon — these races adapted? : ECOTYPES

19-down – Worker, 20 star : ANTARES

21-down – Depend on cash, having invested thousand on ring : LOOKTO

22-down – Power is useful for 20 : PHELPS

24-down – 20 run : BOLT

7-across – Slip, perhaps, if turning round tree : FIELDER

8-across – For every reversal, stand up and go through it again! : REPRISE

9-across – Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret? : PSST

10-across – Late but no one cares : UNMOURNED

12-across – Jolly nasty female replacing king with prince : HAPPY

13-across – One has to stand by Washington in restrained approach to the house : DRIVEWAY

15-across – Gets on and leaves top off : AGES

16-across – MacGregors’ leader plunged into burn for cover : SMEAR

17-across – Block and : SETT

18-across – Unconscious after dropping off front of ledge, losing blood externally? : SLEEPING

20-across – Faculty fellow has secluded place : FLAIR

21-across – She’s accepted responsibility for a minor crack : GODMOTHER

22-across – Hack’s first letter goes on record : EVER

24-across – It turns plug when new drive head is inserted : SPINDLE

25-across – Snout stuck in pipe? : TOBACCO

1-down – ‘Smack’ in Greek is ‘skampili’ : KISS

2-down – Aquatic creature apt to play around yard in addition to going outside : PLATYPUS

3-down – Buy and eat fresh peach : BEAUTY

4-down – Dicky’s exempt from ordinary jurisdiction : PECULIAR

5-down – Vincent possibly accepts knight as royalty : PRINCE

6-down – Took a stimulant, being exhausted : USED

11-down – Bust might end around top of leg or between knee and ankle! : MIDLENGTH

12-down – The philosopher and the man come together : HEGEL

14-down – Trying to get more behind? : AFTER

16-down – Like salt, for instance, covering one battered roll : SAILORLY

17-down – Shows no character when depressed : SPACEBAR

19-down – Conclusion: don’t start improving : ENDING

20-down – Hide line crease : FURROW

21-down – Break free eventually and look amazed? : GAPE

23-down – Carve the rocks around cave’s entrance : ETCH

4-across – Musician’s time to follow sextet again : VIBIST

6-across – Stripping off, assistant crime-fighter breaks gun out : UNROBING

9-across – What stalker does for walks, oddly : PROWLS

10-across – Time : BIRDCAGE

11-across – Lager better in a cocktail? It’s too bad : REGRETTABLE

15-across – Address to superior officer going back and forth in wind : SIROCCO

17-across – Name again protected by secret? It leaks : RETITLE

18-across – Thin quality of cape put on head of Swiss bank? : SLENDERNESS

22-across – Alaskan often on the pull is quiet after sex : MALEMUTE

23-across – Guy backing fighter where he had a thrilling fight? : MANILA

24-across – River feature, one parent of ugly ducklings? : ASWANDAM

25-across – Sci-fi writer’s bit of exaltation in religious group : CLARKE

1-down – Princess has aged no end : ISOLDE

2-down – Wanting wood mite burned, unfortunately : UNTIMBERED

3-down – Loss of guts from fish biting large parts of line : COLDFEET

4-down – Evil at heart, become bad and spiteful : VIPERISH

5-down – British feller’s posters : BLOGGERS

7-down – Trump, scratching bottom, is a terrible fellow : IVAN

8-down – Errand boy not following viable plan : GOER

12-down – Shades including black on woodcut : TBONESTEAK

13-down – Harder pork pie consumed by pilot : STEELIER

14-down – Each French writer holding universal sway : PERSUADE

16-down – Setter gasping a small feature of Windows : CASEMENT

19-down – Swallowing tablet, recover in truth : REALLY

20-down – Desperate disheartened Madame Bovary? : EMMA

21-down – After opening of bottle, down coke in New York : BLOW