Daily Answers

9-across – Walk where mountains crossed by East European to the west : ESPLANADE

10-across – Vessel restricted, contrarily packed with oxygen : UBOAT

11-across – Leather making a comeback with chic designer : KLEIN

12-across – Very much in the past, occasional ale drunk : AGOODDEAL

13-across – Degenerate leader on tour of constituency’s ending in a number of beds? : LAYERED

14-across – Edge on high in wrong position : OFFSIDE

17-across – Wireless device turned on before interval : PAGER

19-across – See 7 : SAM

20-across – Cold drink pumped with gas : RHEUM

21-across – House in pain detailed on air : WINDSOR

22-across – Means of communication, 28 : TWITTER

24-across – Part of clock checked when wound back, slow : DIALPLATE

26-across – Flower, not a sausage, for bird : DAFFY

28-across – Sound from 22 down reasonable, reportedly? : CHEEP

29-across – 1, 6 and 10 shuffled for switchboard number : EXTENSION

1-down – Master part of 24, for example : BEAK

2-down – Little Mexican legend with zip, so easy to miss one whizzing about : SPEEDY

3-down – Owners of smart rabbit warren tidied up burrows regularly : WARNERBROS

4-down – 24’s tale : CANARD

5-down – Hole inverted, nothing in squash bottle : JEROBOAM

6-down – See 16 : FUDD

7-down – Gunslinger certainly before noon holding old competitor of ours up : YOSEMITE

8-down – Natural opener not opening with the others : ETAL

13-down – See 25 : LEPEW

15-down – Supporting offers made hostile : FORBIDDING

16-down – Hunter: feud with me and devious leporine rival originally animated : ELMER

18-down – See 2 : GONZALES

19-down – Flagship boarded by king : STREAMER

22-down – Pretty tiny wings for canary : TWEETY

23-down – Aroma with allure picked up, imperial food : TIFFIN

24-down – See 26 : DUCK

25-down – Noisome Casanova, footballer on page, keen to read up about it : PEPE

27-down – Cosmic principle adopted by sovereign a year after uprising : YANG

1-across – In law, handrails to be fitted for protection across the country : HADRIANSWALL

9-across – Miserable? I’m about to become a king : MIDAS

10-across – Diarist’s manner not extremely honest : ANNEFRANK

11-across – Leisure finds French composer in empty library : LIBERTY

12-across – Bishop leaves church worker in suspense : ABEYANT

13-across – One puts the squeeze on Tom’s team : THUMBSCREW

15-across – These spots not considered : RASH

18-across – Make significant changes out of boredom : REDO

19-across – Food additive spoiling muesli that is eaten by Father : EMULSIFIER

22-across – Abrasive republican slogan? : SCRAPER

24-across – A little bit of male offensiveness gets Charlie arrested : MODICUM

25-across – A new gender identity in this part of the country? : MIDDLESEX

26-across – Crop sounds novel, some say : EMMER

27-across – Scruffy nest situated in the country : UNITEDSTATES

1-down – In disguise, spy entertaining unionist Conservative : HIDEBOUND

2-down – Define and date key part of vault : DESCRIBE

3-down – Essential to spend first year in the country : ITALY

4-down – Beyond compare, I could be no plainer : NONPAREIL

5-down – Holding back, made one be carried gently : WAFTED

6-down – Capital has to be banked in US city : LHASA

7-down – A cross on centre of altar shows charm : AMULET

8-down – Rough plan from special executioner : SKETCH

14-down – Exposed to disrepute, ignoring order to be made up : COMPRISED

16-down – Showing no special preference, not land up catching show : ASITCOMES

17-down – Stew made like this on the American frontier? : WILDWEST

18-down – Start again and take for granted pressure is off : RESUME

20-down – Observe scripture lesson — and what is being studied? : REMARK

21-down – Tempting fruit basket’s last one made in Java : APPLET

23-down – Managed to suppress party as a health hazard : RADON

24-down – Team in university start a fight : MIXIT

1-across – Women inside satisfy and swing : SWERVE

4-across – It’s said to cause a smile, mostly eating last of pork chops : CHEEKS

9-across – Given can, send him out to get drinks from these? : VENDINGMACHINES

10-across – Broken it: left arm looks like a bishop’s hat : MITRAL

11-across – Hated duke, missing country, pissed off : DESPISED

12-across – Viral content contains detailed class film : MEMBRANE

14-across – Marks & Spencer talk about introducing new stores initially : STAINS

15-across – Part of six-pack: Mark carrying can out : ABLOOM

18-across – Steps in field: too much going over shoe : STILETTO

21-across – Neat flat : STRAIGHT

22-across – Wishing I’ll give you a lift to golf : HOPING

24-across – Numbers racket? Discloses suspect : COCKTAILDRESSES

25-across – Fairy godmother’s back after prince enters scene : SPRITE

26-across – Middle of day, time to stand still : ATREST

1-down – Larger toilets regularly reviewed and disinfected : STERILE

2-down – Get down from this? English clubs out of drink : EIDER

3-down – Ordinary against Australia – turned up exhausted : VANILLA

5-down – Cheats caught breaking up families : HOCUSES

6-down – Kill time with ale drunk around pub, endlessly : ELIMINATE

7-down – Woman visited illegal liquor shop : SHEBEEN

8-down – Dirty rim of mug used for a brew : SMUDGE

13-down – Natural identifier of two pens: the first one has run out : BIOMARKER

16-down – Bar with a great deal: they don’t cost much : BUTTONS

17-down – Traveller to admit following motorway : MIGRANT

18-down – Pay to come down : SETTLE

19-down – Be left at home with that woman needing sex : INHERIT

20-down – Close to engagement to one man: I touch ring at one point : TANGENT

23-down – Topless model filling vacant Penthouse spread : PASTE

5-across – Writer of Morse inserting line that’s not so friendly : COLDER

6-across – We backed out of the wrong crowd : THRONG

9-across – Generates deposits to get money after … : SPAWNS

10-across – Cambridgeshire pub following certain code from the start? : INNATELY

11-across – Kind of art — work of 13? : DECO

12-across – Transforming study with a famous 13 : DENATURING

13-across – Kind of solver who doesn’t obey set of rules? : CODEBREAKER

18-across – Secrecy measure unknown in Princeton, strangely : ENCRYPTION

21-across – Contact group of spies : RING

22-across – Agree Leonardo’s last section has been enciphered? : COINCIDE

23-across – English composer providing part for violin that’s played by quartets : BRIDGE

24-across – For rousing passion, unfinished symphony by Beethoven eclipses his fourth : EROTIC

25-across – Some abodes sailors selected in port : ODESSA

1-down – Fellows upset over nothing worked alone : FLEWSOLO

2-down – Became aware of couple holding hands, surrounded by offspring : SENSED

3-down – A teach-in switching parts leaves much to be desired? : CHINATEA

4-down – Who, for example, inverted degenerate set of principles endlessly? : DOCTOR

5-down – Key change of price around end of month : CIPHER

7-down – Like some 18th-century music style in madrigal anthology : GALANT

8-down – Evening drinks in inn, reds we mixed : DINNERWINES

14-down – Clear European vote in line with law, under pressure : EXPLICIT

15-down – Noblemen on time, namely enter­ing before everyone else? : EARLIEST

16-down – Along with the letter, poem put in secret text : ENCODE

17-down – Riddle cracked in game : ENIGMA

19-down – Free, in a way, but it comes at a cost : RANSOM

20-down – Unimportant person could be problem for murder detective or winemaker : NOBODY

1-across – Pictures in large book needing effort : TOILSOME

5-across – Ate fast, secured door and ran off : BOLTED

9-across – Stole cab involved in a sort of race : OBSTACLE

10-across – Go to prison? One’s a shining light : BEACON

12-across – Outlaw goat and its offspring : BILLYTHEKID

15-across – Nick is excellent with top : NOTCH

17-across – Stimulate a Svengali into action : GALVANISE

18-across – Alexander and eight of the Germans bring sailboat on shore : SANDYACHT

19-across – Friend from Northumberland hill country : NEPAL

20-across – Notice quail buffeted in such gales : EQUINOCTIAL

24-across – Nervous of attack by a force : AFRAID

25-across – Delirious, seeing entire chaos in football club : FRENETIC

26-across – Don’t show opening of conversat­ion in camp programme : HIDEHI

27-across – Double-faced couple took part : TWOSIDED

1-down – Noted his job is on the slide : TROMBONIST

2-down – Rude to limit area for protecting : INSULATING

3-down – I say, look at me — so disreputable : SEAMY

4-down – Taking to the air, its members are bonkers : MILEHIGHCLUB

6-down – Exaggerated being in debt … : OVERDRAWN

7-down – … show approval of credit : TICK

8-down – Accomplished teacher has energy : DONE

11-down – Not many hands on ghost ship? : SKELETONCREW

13-down – Small nail with sharp end carefully located : PINPOINTED

14-down – Source of water put in a favourable position : WELLPLACED

16-down – Dishy? No, he may appear like a tomboy : HOYDENISH

21-down – Ice creams dropped on the motorway : CONES

22-down – Unhappy about hard race : DASH

23-down – Poke right inside compartment : PROD