Daily Answers

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

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