Daily Answers

1-across – Predatory type not approved by union : WILDCAT

5-across – Summon everybody to enter competition : CALLUP

9-across – Vast sum Nero wasted: nothing saved : ENORMOUS

10-across – Shatter in manifest cold : SHIVER

12-across – Linesman appointed at Palace : POETLAUREATE

15-across – Estrangement from a people embracing untruth : ALIENATION

17-across – Attack is in good shape : FIT

19-across – A doctor’s round for relative : DAD

20-across – Disputing remark on profit : GAINSAYING

22-across – Coming out for air, regret it’s cooler : REFRIGERATOR

26-across – Nick a translation of Sartre : ARREST

27-across – Shocked when a page got boring : APPALLED

28-across – Best time for mowing meadow, do we hear? : HEYDAY

29-across – Currency invested in support for plant, a hot one : CAYENNE

1-down – Question about energy that goes into cheese-making : WHEY

2-down – John, name for diver : LOON

3-down – Sort of interest in enclosure : COMPOUND

4-down – Wounding remark finally hurt relative : TAUNT

6-down – A horse moves on to dry land : ASHORE

7-down – Romance is nothing connected with business : LOVEAFFAIR

8-down – A proportion of leaf carrying recent damage : PERCENTAGE

11-down – From airline, gift for primate : BABOON

13-down – Not so hairy — rubbish! : BALDERDASH

14-down – One that kills for pride by swooping around : BIRDOFPREY

16-down – Go with some extra velocity? : TRAVEL

18-down – Mark a pig going over some wood : MAHOGANY

21-down – Seat is bad for sleep : SIESTA

23-down – Ginger, perhaps reduced and added to a jelly : ASPIC

24-down – Aircraft’s detailed schedule : PLAN

25-down – It is an advantage to go slowly : EDGE

9-across – Start down — you moved left with your back to the wall : INTROUBLE

10-across – Hoylake’s third, middle of green — I fancy chance of eagle here : EYRIE

11-across – Old politician’s wife out — heat up meal : HIGHTEA

12-across – Charlie, turn key to go outside! Mug! : ASSAULT

13-across – Cycling articles for celebrity magazine : HEAT

14-across – In fix, getting nothing after foolishly trusting flipping politicians : FIANNAFAIL

15-across – One’s well-known but talentless : NOTABLE

17-across – Badly wanted to pursue prince : PITCHED

19-across – Last month dons still sick — that’s rough! : UNCULTURED

22-across – Fixes wheels — it prevents issue : SNIP

23-across – Are taking money during period running country : AMERICA

24-across – Oversight describing short politician as bore : CALIBRE

26-across – Hear about right offering little reward : LEARN

27-across – Turn-on : ENTRENOUS

1-down – Hang out with horrible characters, becoming like Boris, ironically : RIGHTHONOURABLE

2-down – Still good, old woman’s figure outwardly : STAGNANT

3-down – Billy — perhaps initially the best ever : GOAT

4-down – One bar’s busy and one’s rough : ABRASIVE

5-down – Soldiers with major are outstanding : REMAIN

6-down – Winger studied recording before kick-off : REDSTART

7-down – Wound up mate originally in a cunning volte-face : TRAUMA

8-down – ‘Following ladies sleep around’ sounds like a witty comment? : NEXTSLIDEPLEASE

16-down – What do we have to pay? They’ve been charged a hell of a lot! : BILLIONS

17-down – Labour minister, who once attacked political correctness, claims most of others exaggerated : PRESCOTT

18-down – Manual worker right — there’s an unpleasant smell inside : HANDBOOK

20-down – Islander in secret announcement : CRETAN

21-down – Hairy nude carrying a little weight — not that impressed! : UNAWED

25-down – Dance around, getting suggestive look : LEER

7-across – 15 boxes you in : POPULAR

8-across – Couple of 15s surrounding a Monopoly area : MAYFAIR

9-across – 15 cut, we hear? : PEAR

10-across – Caustic substance alive with 15 : QUICKLIME

12-across – Reportedly 15s, something green on the table? : BAIZE

13-across – It seems likely jerk is ready to pen article : IDARESAY

15-across – Frame that’s attached to pan in storeroom, did you say? : TREE

16-across – Crop: one planted in network? : MAIZE

17-across – Promotion featured in biography, perhaps : HYPE

18-across – 15, old one : CHESTNUT

20-across – 15 briefly clipped back : ROWAN

21-across – Plant cherry to the left beside acorn, I gathered : CORIANDER

22-across – Steer back of coach onto 15 : HELM

24-across – Layer right inside bourbon, for example : BRICKIE

25-across – First lot shortly arranged for the arranger? : FLORIST

1-down – Feature of 6, where white bishop begins? : CONE

2-down – A fourth tequila drunk : QUARTILE

3-down – Vessel’s a part of 15, by the sound of it : BARQUE

4-down – Lifesaver in 15 that’s close to 8 : PARKLANE

5-down – Removed cooler position : OFFICE

6-down – 15 with blunted needle? : PINE

11-down – Nick climbs around it after I set up : INITIATED

12-down – Hard copy up 15 : BIRCH

14-down – Country shortly after revolution importing small 15 : ASPEN

16-down – Official 15 : MANDARIN

17-down – 15 god embraced by US actress : HAWTHORN

19-down – 15 is looking good : SPRUCE

20-down – Very little trust after borders abandoned in Iraq : RARELY

21-down – Part of 15 in port : CORK

23-down – 12 down 15 south of lake : LASH

1-across – Stoppage time with Italian team getting goal : INTERMISSION

9-across – Plant with yellow spike : ORPIN

10-across – Lead away from party line : SIDETRACK

11-across – It covers pot belly fine, ultimately coat’s for going out : TEACOSY

12-across – Very strong drug? Primarily it’s found in drink : CAFFEIN

13-across – Bum stops in prison : BEHINDBARS

15-across – Support Remain : STAY

18-across – Stop on the way : REST

19-across – Running caravan over grass? On the contrary : SCAMPERING

22-across – Gear for going off motorway: heading to junction going around slow-moving traffic : JIMJAMS

24-across – Tramp’s in contact with relation : STEPSON

25-across – English real butter oddly spread on cold toast : CELEBRATE

26-across – Speak of sin restraining love : VOICE

27-across – One picks up booze and ales: try rehab when drunk : BREATHALYSER

1-down – Accuses single male going with beauties : IMPEACHES

2-down – Tense one running and dancing : TANGOING

3-down – Rough lines outlining snake : RASPY

4-down – Bad taste of home furnishings? Let me see : INDECORUM

5-down – Leave TV not connected : SETOFF

6-down – Talk over judge : ORATE

7-down – Bath gushing in middle : HOTTUB

8-down – Pub atmosphere is accommodating for someone wanting a good meal? : SKINNY

14-down – Character supports strike : BACKSLASH

16-down – Drawer describing artist as ‘more eager’ : THIRSTIER

17-down – Soldier waits on reinforcements : RESERVES

18-down – Turn down release by Queen : REJECT

20-down – Sex is good: climax with that woman, husband’s away : GENDER

21-down – Initially, applicant with medical degree on day left a covering letter : LAMBDA

23-down – Second pound fairy regularly left for this? : MOLAR

24-down – Magic mushroom : SWELL

7-across – Supreme soldier’s horse : PARAMOUNT

8-across – I leave European city as champ : MUNCH

9-across – Fruit that might be blown? : RASPBERRY

10-across – What remains after fool picks up high explosive : ASHES

12-across – Celebrity: extremely risky to like the Sky at Night? : STARRY

13-across – With tail of badger, it helps brew love potions : PHILTRES

16-across – Act of avoiding the answer after retirement to ‘Do you spend?’ : EVASION

19-across – Spooner’s corrupt father on TV makes portable furniture : TENTBED

22-across – Most sharp statues crumble with time : ASTUTEST

25-across – Country surrounding Reading? Certainly not! : NORWAY

27-across – Cove to squeal out loud : CREEK

28-across – 17 is not the heart of bingo in afterthought : PAINTINGS

29-across – Play, perhaps, Hamlet, involving Claudius’s crown : DANCE

30-across – Catches prisoners stealing land : CONTRACTS

1-down – Sailor returns with another rock : BASALT

2-down – 5 and 1 primes? Wrong — they’re figures of the imagination : VAMPIRES

3-down – 5050 ÷ 1 close to infinity? That’s remote : LONELY

4-down – Seduces sexy partners right away : ENTRAPS

5-down – Group supports students’ uprising at dusk : SUNSET

6-down – Plan the start of school: a little science, then English : SCHEME

11-down – Lithium and iron sparkle : LIFE

14-down – Polish stone endlessly : RUB

15-down – Vicious man’s raising hell : SID

16-down – Rent finally collected by each foreign letter : ETA

17-down – Knack of regularly slicing carrot : ART

18-down – My numbers! : ONES

20-down – End trimmed fur being gathered by volunteers online? : TERMINAL

21-down – Shabby hotel hides a new drug : ETHANOL

23-down – Ignoring It, it’s the best horror film : SCREAM

24-down – In Paris a supermarket removes Tango for major international operation : UNESCO

25-down – Tiny robot working at nine : NANITE

26-down – Pyongyang’s typical contribution to having acute worries about the world : ANGSTY