Daily Answers

4-across – Drink after drink — going topless, very laid back : SUPINE

6-across – False name employed in evident chicanery : INVENTED

9-across – Latin song by tenor: The Cowboy’s Accessory : LARIAT

10-across – Aircraft manufacturer, Dr Kee’s manoeuvring guide : BAEDEKER

11-across – Farewell drink interrupts Victor’s speech : VALEDICTION

15-across – Roll along clumsily? Not ruled out when short of oxygen : TRUNDLE

17-across – Elder’s after nook for ornamental garden feature : BAYTREE

18-across – Suppression of college at one time associated with mental disorder : CONCEALMENT

22-across – Force instrument on ex-vice president — no pressure! : VIOLENCE

23-across – Tip: one has to be cut for a salad ingredient : ENDIVE

24-across – Sid’s snapped flower — calamity! : DISASTER

25-across – Holds up part of theatre : STALLS

1-down – Pun about helper working as a volunteer? : UNPAID

2-down – Consumed by fashionable South African furniture, one’s voracious : INSATIABLE

3-down – Bent figure study, extremely clunky : TENDENCY

4-down – It’s vital swimming in rough sea to look forward with relish to good food : SALIVATE

5-down – Oil production in South American country’s very risky : PERILOUS

7-down – Nick, having very old wife, finally says: ‘Enter a nunnery!’ : TAKE

8-down – Free up king’s ceremonial weapon : DIRK

12-down – Snogged after party, Jersey-style? : CREWNECKED

13-down – Right time to burst above the ground, like a tube : ARTERIAL

14-down – After exploit, the woman’s down : FEATHERS

16-down – Slim, stop crushing Rex! : DECREASE

19-down – Advanced, gaining ground initially — hour’s duration : LENGTH

20-down – Keen to back singer : AVID

21-down – See 7 : VOWS

1-across – Araucaria’s £500 crossword? : MONKEYPUZZLE

9-across – In a blog entry, one gets put forward : POSIT

10-across – Bike part from Benin? True, surprisingly : INNERTUBE

11-across – Whimsically remove 19’s county from state : DECLARE

12-across – Teams of 6 making a comeback : ELEVENS

13-across – Unintended eating from tins is back happening? Not at home : SNACCIDENT

15-across – Flyer billed at length by hotel : IBIS

18-across – Rook? It’s a bird : GULL

19-across – Who am I, off with sister on vacation in Clare, perhaps? : IRISHWOMAN

22-across – Am I nuts swimming in this? Yes : TSUNAMI

24-across – Suffering ups and downs, as extremely nervous? : BIPOLAR

25-across – Long-winded government-speak? Floundering fleabag fibs regularly : BAFFLEGAB

26-across – Le Bon compilation? Great! : NOBLE

27-across – Eight Miles High? One’s in this guitar shop, playing before … : STRATOSPHERE

1-down – … beginning to smoke a chillum : MUSICHALL

2-down – Tweeter is Greek character with thick hair? : NUTHATCH

3-down – Deport half of 11 out of 12 shortly : EXILE

4-down – Writer was angry, maybe about Thackeray hero : PENDENNIS

5-down – Readjusted to show zip : ZEROED

6-down – Leftover unpalatable Scotch egg, primarily indicating a bad egg : LOUSE

7-down – Cards passed around : SPADES

8-down – Positive indications in last of many letters : YESSES

14-down – Fish head removed by daughter during party? That’s bold stuff : DERRINGDO

16-down – Bottom spot, with blistering pace: ultimately just last on the buzzer : BUMBLEBEE

17-down – Pair of coppers employed for a trivial sum : TWOPENCE

18-down – Manages to understand both Sun and Times : GETSBY

20-down – Maybe 19’s fate, after swallowing two tablets : NOREEN

21-down – Bloomer occurring more regularly, we hear : DAHLIA

23-down – Ineligible female included in squad : UNFIT

24-down – Sort of jazz dance covered by black European : BEBOP

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