Daily Answers

1-across – Fellow leads firm sailor on board : COSTARS

5-across – Relative size has girl worried : LARGISH

9-across – Start to roll a board game’s ten-sided die — set? : RADIO

10-across – Excited at nearing country : ARGENTINA

11-across – A fraction enter the inn drunk, then run away : NINETEENTH

12-across – Learner breaks sports equipment like this? : CLUE

14-across – Huge shock! Nostromo alien — can none get lost? : ASTRONOMICAL

18-across – Some expert activity, right, like hang-gliding? : EXTREMESPORT

21-across – Took drugs, thought to blow money : USED

22-across – Dessert from South Africa prepared in a globe : ZABAGLIONE

25-across – Art seldom ruined by him? : OLDMASTER

26-across – Traveller to welcome Terry inside : COMET

27-across – Excellent! McCartney’s being broadcast : STELLAR

28-across – Regular beans with poor diet wants a vitamin! Tempted? : ENTICED

1-down – Trick by one stealing gold crown : CORONA

2-down – Chairs in cars : SEDANS

3-down – Adult delivery men carry ones defections : APOSTASIES

4-down – Room key : SPACE

5-down – 508 : LIGHTENUP

6-down – Call inquiringly? : RING

7-down – 1 + 500 + 10 + 50 etc translated into personal speech : IDIOLECT

8-down – Wonderful cat, just not ordinary : HEAVENLY

13-down – Shape of diamond strangely alter­ed to save money, including copper : EMERALDCUT

15-down – Historical role player’s career not flourishing : REENACTOR

16-down – Vague sense to gather up American lubricant : NEBULOUS

17-down – A shoe size bigger than 9C, say, on conference goer : ATTENDEE

19-down – Because I’m travelling skywards, the speed of light is enormous : COSMIC

20-down – Hit sung loudly after dropping out : BELTED

23-down – One’s avarice has no end, yes? : AGREE

24-down – Author kept spinning plate : DAHL

9-across – Writing that could make me propose — a contradiction in terms? : PROSEPOEM

10-across – Thomas, poet and Nobel Prize winner : DYLAN

11-across – Is inclined to delete nothing from pieces of poetry : CANTS

12-across – Wildly romanced, clutching English or Italian love stories : DECAMERON

13-across – Nasty European immersed in ten gallons, perhaps : HATEFUL

14-across – Washed over front of crowd gathered together : BATCHED

17-across – Indulge, oddly, poetaster’s ending — his work’s limited : IDLER

19-across – Dedicated lyric to listeners that’s outstanding : ODE

20-across – Untrained old volunteers retreating in conflict : ATWAR

21-across – Reveals our country’s introducing new degrees : UNMASKS

22-across – Harsh about replacing author’s final piece : AUSTERE

24-across – Genuine article installed by company that signals danger : FIREALARM

26-across – Cut that 3, when split and reassembled : SEVER

28-across – Patriarch named in a chapter in part of OT : JACOB

29-across – Rhyming slang, say, is included by US author, male : LONDONISM

1-down – Starts off every poem in collection in style of Homer : EPIC

2-down – Boy with fishing gear, eg lines set on Westminster Bridge : SONNET

3-down – Poetic structures in novel serve in support of text : VERSEFORMS

4-down – French composition from Byron — delightful : RONDEL

5-down – Is the speaker on type of TV friendly? : AMICABLE

6-down – Source of first introduction that rhymes? : ADAM

7-down – Humorous bio priest cut and cut : CLERIHEW

8-down – Ascribed source of many rhymes before long : ANON

13-down – It’s found among 3, with fixed syllabic structure, similar to this : HAIKU

15-down – Radio station’s broadcast about reading — and writing? : TRANSISTOR

16-down – Elegy, say, cleared up : DIRGE

18-down – Fruit put on heap — one concerned next clue but one : LIMERICK

19-down – Nameless constable demolished barrier : OBSTACLE

22-down – Old man disturbed in tree : ALMOND

23-down – One upset about verse is completing stanzas : ENVOIS

24-down – Lots of islands having female dotty characters? : FIJI

25-down – Quartet’s initial scheme for 2, perhaps : ABBA

27-down – Frost’s old-fashioned poem : RIME

7-across – Where prisoners eat CO : CONSTABLE

8-across – CO appearing regularly in Schroedinger style : HENRY

9-across – He made reptiles vanish, recreating past magic : STPATRICK

10-across – First seen in Nightingale, undying resilience supporting each CO : NURSE

12-across – Inhale from a smoking thing : DRAGON

13-across – Strange, strange, strange: ultimately CO : SERGEANT

16-across – Where there’s a will there’s way? Contest disputed, not won : TESTACY

19-across – Tories’ top minister lacking means to gain goodwill for CO : TEACHER

22-across – Perhaps Cape Fear, Fahrenheit dropped after cold closes in : RAINWEAR

25-across – Boatman follows core of convoluted book : VOLUME

27-across – About to tuck into sourdough! : BREAD

28-across – CO scaring me in a funny way : SCREAMING

29-across – Bad-tempered Republican leader ejected by CO : CABBY

30-across – Even cycling finds unexpected zeal around united country : VENEZUELA

1-down – CO allegedly held back with hesitation : DOCTOR

2-down – Time for New Yorkers to eat load of French food : ESCARGOT

3-down – Neither thanks mass uprising for CO : MATRON

4-down – Stick around a little, because this is sweet : GLUCOSE

5-down – Reduce tension in defeat: a tyrant’s leadership rejected across America : DEFUSE

6-down – Article about riot appeared : ARISEN

11-down – See 14 : TREE

14-down – Reheats damaged part of wood? : ASH

15-down – See 17 : TOR

16-down – Boatman’s origins in the arts reassessed : TAR

17-down – Admirer of oddly stupid, yet rugged, prominence : SUI

18-down – CO manifested in muscle oxidation : CLEO

20-down – Anonymous newspaper article uncovered abuse by CO : COLUMBUS

21-down – Carry on making endless profits : PROCEED

23-down – Not a major route to CO : ABROAD

24-down – Drink coming up with Spooner in the vicinity : NEARBY

25-down – Struggle with editor’s extremes in the Spectator : VIEWER

26-down – Sad lament for inherited status : MANTLE

7-across – Publicise footwear aid for a diver? : AIRPUMP

8-across – Attempt by shy little bird : GOSLING

9-across – Travelled, heading away from Welsh area : WENT

10-across – Broadcaster crosses barrier, becoming a drinker? : SWALLOWER

12-across – D-Day beach sergeant’s first news : SWORD

13-across – Joker and king involved with piquet : QUIPSTER

15-across – International holding of billionaire : LION

16-across – Round of cards — fast one : TRICK

17-across – One’s taken by the dancing, not love : HATE

18-across – Possibly an official enquiry from them, as a way to break awkward situations : STEWARDS

20-across – One who can bridle at Americans somewhat : TAMER

21-across – Feel rule needs changing about new carbon molecule : FULLERENE

22-across – Canned ham with top removed : HIGH

24-across – Promotional gift of loose cheese? Right out of it : FREEBIE

25-across – Wheeler’s modest loveless description of low-level celebrity? : CYCLIST

1-down – Secret device used with indignation? : WIRE

2-down – This allowed pub customers to get stuff off their chest : SPITTOON

3-down – Victoria wasn’t a married American journalist : AMUSED

4-down – Result of a failure to score: cocaine added to a kilo : GOALKICK

5-down – Fools around with large snowdrifts : CLOWNS

6-down – Note about US city : ONER

11-down – Agree Jacquie’s certainly guarding this : ACQUIESCE

12-down – Wader has to keel over after sun : STILT

14-down – Sort of a tree, one seen in refectory? : EATER

16-down – Spice up routine crime, perhaps : TURMERIC

17-down – Care worker’s flat support? : HOMEHELP

19-down – Pedestrian jazz performer left out and replaced by King : WALKER

20-down – Drawn to the old kind of patterned cloth : TIEDYE

21-down – Passion Tree, associated with ecstasy : FIRE

23-down – First bit of stomach fits into opening? Let out pants : GASP

9-across – Newspaper and music magazine once featuring old timer : METRONOME

10-across – Playing song live : ONAIR

11-across – French all lining river to get fish : TROUT

12-across – Promiscuity of Miss getting over love with head : LOOSENESS

13-across – See 4 : BEEFAND

14-across – Wise people round learner driver cutting speeds : ORACLES

17-across – Remove clip from one page, say : UNPEG

19-across – Abba song mostly average : SOS

20-across – Handy protection’s good before passion : GLOVE

21-across – Release songs for performance without payment : SETFREE

22-across – See 4 : CARROTS

24-across – Crowd get up where musicians play : BANDSTAND

26-across – Rows from couples: right to break up? : TIERS

28-across – Pile of money, money, money — small amount dropped off : MOUND

29-across – The Winner Takes It All demo good: Ring, Ring going to get remixed : GOLDMEDAL

1-down – Record label tense for release : EMIT

2-down – Initially Super Trouper dress is light … : STROBE

3-down – … Agnetha performing in English version of Mamma Mia dress on this? : COATHANGER

4-down – Record of Abba? Listened out for old song : BOILED

5-down – One of us upset getting left inside was once bad : FELONOUS

6-down – Turn up, initially taking chance on me : COME

7-down – Abba song in can following number one? : WATERLOO

8-down – Heavenly bodies in type of blood bank : ORBS

13-down – Music tones : BLUES

15-down – 16 to follow as lights roam around : ALGORITHMS

16-down – Group from Sweden: time to go over records : STEPS

18-down – Dancing Queen apt or The Name of the Game? : PETANQUE

19-down – Woman has sex with affairs : SHEBANGS

22-down – Pet fish died: bowl terrible, ultimately : CODDLE

23-down – Exaggerate, having finished act : OVERDO

24-down – Hit poor piano : BUMP

25-down – Face party : SIDE

27-down – So Long, half cut single : SOLO