Daily Answers

1-across – Makes special parts from spare plastic? : ANAGRAMS

6-across – Benefactor flawlessly working to protect Republican : PATRON

9-across – Entitled hoo-ha about traditional grub : TOADINTHEHOLE

10-across – Current prejudices dismissing first hint of affection for bin chickens? : IBISES

11-across – Everything is in place for learning very old language : UNIVERSE

13-across – Back,bottom,and top of a diamond? : SECONDBASE

15-across – Watch episodes pretty vacuously : ESPY

16-across – Each phone download carries over : APOP

18-across – Improper form of online chat : NONETHICAL

21-across – Idiot comedian Seth is a gas! : NITROGEN

22-across – More wary about guide regularly deserting halfway through : CAGIER

23-across – Immediate tension as a nut runs wild : INSTANTANEOUS

25-across – Uncovered fuels catch fire : IGNITE

26-across – Colour quality of tattoos on chap’s back and head : PINKNESS

2-down – Incompetent A-lister? : NOTABLE

3-down – Green jumper made from recycled rags by customer : GRASSHOPPER

4-down – House is different when the front is removed : ARIES

5-down – Fruit positioned alongside poison shrub,mostly : SATSUMA

6-down – Power goes to the head of local club chairperson : PRESIDENT

7-down – <span>Couple of leading pieces from this week’s </span><i>Observer</i> : TWO

8-down – Old writer given drink finally starts talking : OPENSUP

12-down – Formal clothing good to have after ironing : EVENINGGOWN

14-down – Disparage one framework supporting study : DENIGRATE

17-down – Pressure now on doubles partners,perhaps : PAIRING

19-down – In town,is ignoring every odd character best? Always! : NONSTOP

20-down – They don’t like people getting on : AGEISTS

22-down – Works partly shown on a carousel going round : CANON

24-down – Go on an icy run and nearly lose traction : SKI

1-across – Sort of leave work around the house : GARDENING

6-across – Venerated object to carry miles : TOTEM

9-across – A swimmer’s name forgotten – that’s his former name : ASWAS

10-across – Favouring potential new power source is an extravagance : PROFUSION

11-across – US plaintiff,kid’s mother : DOE

12-across – Revising creed,only if good for the planet : ECOFRIENDLY

14-across – French composer ponders,losing speed : DELIBES

15-across – Appropriate service held in the sea : MERITED

16-across – What may be knocked out of shy clown enthusiast : COCONUT

19-across – Ground given anti-slip winter treatment : GRITTED

22-across – Suck up the taste of Indian meal without dal in the end : CURRYFAVOUR

23-across – Sickness was carried in the air,it’s said : FLU

24-across – Had too much already,before we hear a tea going into the cooker : OVEREATEN

26-across – Perfect negotiator’s motto : IDEAL

27-across – Tall tree collapsed,locking in carbon : ERECT

28-across – Distasteful ruling holds up in turn : REPUGNANT

1-down – One relative or one of each sex : GRANDAD

2-down – Bad treatment of green wood : RAWDEAL

3-down – Rabbit that lays eggs? : EASTERBUNNY

4-down – I am godly? No I am not : IMPIOUS

5-down – Rum stuff,this material : GROGRAM

6-down – Not entirely tense character : TAU

7-down – Tasted some dish,make three changes? : TRIEDIT

8-down – One day,looked to be rich : MONEYED

13-down – Such a scream,having a very minor operation? : EARPIERCING

16-down – Weather pattern is working through a sequence : CYCLONE

17-down – As commander,sadly greet such a procession : CORTEGE

18-down – Kitchen appliance closed at the back? Not quite : TOASTER

19-down – Mature woman heartlessly breaking into clique : GROWNUP

20-down – Fabric,rich,folded over cheese : TAFFETA

21-down – One sported with hose,wetter holding this : DOUBLET

25-down – Amphibian wandered away,off its lead : EFT

1-across – Journalist on pills,doctors wrapped and prepared : DRESSED

5-across – No doctor around to begin with – on location,you must get into shape : POLYGON

9-across – E.g. oils winch occasionally for little lorry : ARTIC

10-across – Residual radiance of surrealist art we flog : AFTERGLOW

11-across – Get married in Windsor – possibly circumventing terms of it with divorce : TIETHEKNOT

12-across – This writer’s article for European Vogue : FAD

14-across – Faithfully taking on Park Run – straining Achilles at the start in a hazardous manner : PRECARIOUSLY

18-across – Leaders of certain African countries checking temperature after hot spells : INCANTATIONS

21-across – Sister removing bits from kitchen units : NUN

22-across – Awful trauma – so in hospital : SANATORIUM

25-across – I’m referee next : IMMEDIATE

26-across – Get material in audition and well up : SURGE

27-across – Brief initially taking legal advice concerning our negligence in court : LACONIC

28-across – Diminish link,say,bringing sons together : ASSUAGE

1-down – Want daughter to join our home : DEARTH

2-down – One of two that is reared by the King : EITHER

3-down – Criminal in car chase looking for sweetener : SACCHARINE

4-down – Had coffee for one day on order : DRANK

5-down – Tip and pour or spread mixture : POTPOURRI

6-down – It might be Hollywood Boulevard for Grease : LARD

7-down – Or try to get fairground prize? : GOLDFISH

8-down – A Dyson Airblade was primarily designed for the current time : NOWADAYS

13-down – Sandwich maybe hot – nothing goes through connected properties : TOWNHOUSES

15-down – Coach horse cutting almost all risk : CHARABANC

16-down – Perhaps honesty box is originally in lane for change : BIENNIAL

17-down – English funny about working to be profitable : ECONOMIC

19-down – Dossier parties surrendered before,essentially,Gerald Ford made it : SIERRA

20-down – Current measure of a politician regularly missing debrief : AMPERE

23-down – Ring some Sloane Rangers up : ARENA

24-down – Loaded without opening port : ADEN

1-across – Be frustrated: ‘Wake up,love!’ : COMETONOTHING

10-across – A Tory leader gets personal after feature film involving political corruption : CHINATOWN

11-across – Foolish eccentric humans – it’s how things are : INTHE

12-across – Not suspecting local temperature’s dropped : NAIVE

13-across – Bound to collapse,several inside revealed : UNBOSOMED

14-across – Collected setter’s mea culpa to boss? : AMASSED

16-across – Brats cycling to party gathering round – go away! : SKIDDOO

18-across – Women in a frenzy talked of Vlad’s ‘cojones’ : MAENADS

20-across – Quick turnover of work force – bar short : UPTEMPO

21-across – Timeless bonnets as originally described worn at Ascot? They will be : NOSEBANDS

23-across – Not kosher – I eat hot food unlikely to be this : SUSHI

24-across – Spain game not international match : EQUAL

25-across – In superlative form,finally attracted interest : TRENDIEST

26-across – See 11 : CIRCUMSTANCES

2-down – One soldier : ORIGINATE

3-down – Duck seen around English Channel : EVADE

4-down – Imposing tax on Tudor : OROTUND

5-down – Old Sky feature raising money for public transport : OMNIBUS

6-down – Punishment advice from Spooner: ‘Don’t suffer alone!’ : HAIRSHIRT

7-down – Mount different part of insect : NOTUM

8-down – Observe lawyer taking more time to squash start of malicious gossip : SCANDALMONGER

9-down – Old grids and notes recycled for students of Araucaria? : DENDROLOGISTS

15-down – Confused doctor has another look up ‘sick at heart’ : SHAMBOLIC

17-down – Part of play when Romeo goes – revelatory material : DAMASCENE

19-down – Problem: politicians – not ours,Trump principally – invading safe space : SANCTUM

20-down – Not used – succeeded breaking free : UNSPENT

22-down – Countryman picked up female number 4 on farm? : SAUDI

23-down – On screen Mr Bean gets a little doolally in car : SEDAN

1-across – Paddy in sensible jumper at first gets a degree of comfort : ROOMTEMPERATURE

9-across – Make a break-through and exploit an opportunity : CREATEANOPENING

10-across – Online extra involving ten mathematical characters : EMAILATTACHMENT

13-across – Attire for the Lido with roughly two GCSEs,minimum : SWIMMINGCOSTUME

16-across – Drunk professional taking note at popular conference for body-building regime : HIGHPROTEINDIET

17-across – Former girl-friend with soldier taking steps in Spanish art form : FLAMENCODANCING

20-across – WW1 vessel made from scale bus remains : ECLASSSUBMARINE

23-across – Dined out with Applecross refugee : DISPLACEDPERSON

1-down – Former BBC newsreader who is Jeremy Vine’s wife disturbed old Cheshire calf : RACHELSCHOFIELD

2-down – Surgical surfaces somehow obliterate pangs : OPERATINGTABLES

3-down – Complete ruin of tenor and alto transcription : TOTAL

4-down – Originally massive old avian NZ resident once : MOA

5-down – A wander up to historic Portuguese city : EVORA

6-down – It’s a winner during matches regularly : ACE

7-down – Club name on pick-up trucks for water board in northern England : UNITEDUTILITIES

8-down – Conclusion – of course! : EIGHTEENTHGREEN

11-down – Brown and green phonetic letter : TANGO

12-down – Takes in poor Shona wears : HASON

14-down – Tree that’s found on satnav on borders of Lancashire : MAPLE

15-down – Belief for which a Native American died : CREED

18-down – Function at company – just a very short time : COSEC

19-down – <span>Inhuman geek regularly at </span><i>The Cloud </i><span>over the channel</span> : NUAGE

21-down – The sun should even things out : SOL

22-down – Hospital space available in the garden : BED