Daily Answers

1-across – Tramp’s clues, ultimately knocked back: awful feeling : SYMPATHETIC

9-across – Left hospital department, soldier returns with round mark on skin : LENTIGO

10-across – Frantically, peer needs potty : LIKEMAD

11-across – Go through take-home pay? Empty purse first : PENETRATE

12-across – Tickle the ivories: you perform sonata, finally, when retired : AMUSE

13-across – Change the order in a McDonald’s : PERM

14-across – Briefly watch fashions: they’re often imitated : ROLEMODELS

16-across – Sewer in the main street runs with muck outside : SEAMSTRESS

19-across – Covers not featuring model’s first poses : ASKS

21-across – Slip outside from fire after smoke retreats : GAFFE

22-across – Public appeal put business on strike : BOXOFFICE

24-across – Son having short paddy; it is getting several looks : SHUFTIS

25-across – Perfume’s no good: smell at the back is rank : COLONEL

26-across – On which performers stand out: huge stars performing with the theatre, primarily : THRUSTSTAGE

1-down – Shocking and unsafe: LA star moving houses over this? : SANANDREASFAULT

2-down – Film bagging Oscar is not dry : MOIST

3-down – Group of drivers carrying very old clubs make green : AVOCADO

4-down – A Greek ordeal: English with nightmare after vacation : HELLENE

5-down – Carry advanced weapon: acknowledge those giving it up for you? : TAKEABOW

6-down – Unusual crime scene — PC out to get subject : COMPUTERSCIENCE

7-down – Excellent tip from sommelier getting drink : SLAPUP

8-down – They feed the young and you, we hear, over summers, not initially : UDDERS

15-down – One allows donkey to get put down : ASSENTER

16-down – It’s most wise to decline drugs on start of tour : SAGEST

17-down – Cryptic puzzles on transport : REBUSES

18-down – Correct to interrupt senators on both sides: they’re involved in Congress : SEXACTS

20-down – Bargains in fantastic sales, opening from Thursday : STEALS

23-down – Iron everything upside down for man : FELLA

9-across – Papers can’t lie? Wrong, just the same : IDENTICAL

10-across – Is Puck good? Ring a friend : AMIGO

11-across – Some ‘iffy’ remedies returned? On the surface, that’s rough : EMERY

12-across – Upset our shy girl right away, as a rascal might : ROGUISHLY

13-across – Saw son cut down to 1, for easier assimilation : SPOTTED

14-across – Another married lover : ADMIRER

17-across – Game is second sale item not won : LOTTO

19-across – Department investigating contracted detective’s retirement : CID

20-across – Lots of actors originally starred in a musical : CASTS

21-across – Crack marksman departed with detective : DEADEYE

22-across – Name saint or pope? Brother no longer can : FRANCIS

24-across – Artist back in stock, in refined Colorado town : KITCARSON

26-across – Creamy-white, like a Welshman? : IVORY

28-across – Stoned female content to down 10 beers : NIOBE

29-across – Playing darts, lady is mean and wicked! : DASTARDLY

1-down – See 24 : SIZE

2-down – Straight there, after travelling round : HETERO

3-down – Unadventurous guy? Then the woman stripped off : STAYATHOME

4-down – Small-minded? Afraid so! : SCARED

5-down – Conservatives behind the Times newspaper, not the Scotsman : OLDGUARD

6-down – Stood next to current queen : RANI

7-down – Well-off area: right district selected originally for a Keith or Gordon? : RICHARDS

8-down – Doctor X, vegan animal rights activist : MOBY

13-down – Humming after crossword essentially well-constructed : SOLID

15-down – Flute? Part played is routine : MECHANICAL

16-down – After tip-off, gets hold of fruit : RASPS

18-down – Farm vehicle turned up, worked into drawing : TRACTION

19-down – Unfaithful lover is 4 after straying : CRESSIDA

22-down – Death of European with no middle name : FINISH

23-down – Lots of people, 8 being the 25th of them? : CROWDS

24-down – Long for the longer sleepers perhaps half of LNER and one third of LMS used : KING

25-down – Attention-seeking expression in article by the Edge : AHEM

27-down – More than one solver yet to finish? Child’s play, perhaps, using this : YOYO

1-across – Very good Austen novel when keeping quiet in the afternoon : PIPEMMA

5-across – Bad booze endlessly knocked back as contraband? : ILLEGAL

9-across – Charge enemy finally — viciously attack male beast : BILLYGOAT

10-across – Dismiss puzzle — must pee : STUMP

11-across – Chinese city Christian? : XIAN

12-across – An animal sound in outdoor area? One may take note of that : GAMEWARDEN

14-across – The woman’s covering part of body — what is that part? : HEARER

15-across – Being germ-free, is almost passed for work : ASEPSIS

16-across – Rodents ’orrible woman has in the open on island : AGOUTIS

18-across – Get a round going? Drink not available, we hear : TEEOFF

20-across – In Christian Union teach odd chaps — this convert is still learning : CATECHUMEN

21-across – Passes time in classical fashion : DIES

24-across – One judge is far from happy : IRATE

25-across – Man bitten by dog? One may indicate disease : BIOMARKER

26-across – Good student losing heart, one gathers : GLEANER

27-across – Taught nothing revolutionary after expression of disapproval : TUTORED

1-down – Old boy restricted by disease — one gets lots of letters : POBOX

2-down – Devastation in small community with new leader : PILLAGE

3-down – PM once having a supernatural power? : MAYA

4-down – Thrown overboard, Magnus — huge figure : AVOGADROSNUMBER

5-down – Nearing the end of the holiday, everything else having gone wrong? : INTHELASTRESORT

6-down – Girl, a female always getting a nasty illness : LASSAFEVER

7-down – Wicked rogues pinching 500 dollars in Haiti : GOURDES

8-down – Lake Superior has trees and American flowers : LUPINES

13-down – Bird certain to fly around river and around end of forest : ARCTICTERN

16-down – Bowing as a group around church : ARCHING

17-down – Make faster progress than unfashionable people : OUTRACE

19-down – Loud user of tongue in a flash : FLICKER

22-down – Instrument with arrows pointing north : STRAD

23-down – Spirit abuse needs to be cut by half : MALT

1-across – Crafty animal getting last of food : SHREWD

4-across – Optical illusion created by image moving over river : MIRAGE

9-across – Something used by students to study in bed : CRIB

10-across – Silly me! Heroin taken during voyages in military vessels once : TROOPSHIPS

11-across – Cake that’s special gone off : SPONGE

12-across – Vocalist entertaining a Latin author : SALINGER

13-across – Part of year depicted in end of sonnet by old poet : TRIMESTER

15-across – Goddess heard in place to stable horses : MEWS

16-across – Course provided by alternative practitioner leaving base close to Oslo : PATH

17-across – Last warning about women close to retirement getting money for the future : ENDOWMENT

21-across – Patent obtained by a patient’s first carer? : APPARENT

22-across – Attempt to keep one pound in hat : TRILBY

24-across – Relative taking extremely tender stable hand to a safe place : STRONGROOM

25-across – Source of chef’s cooking fat causing wind : COIL

26-across – Former partner playing tune in order to leave the stage : EXEUNT

27-across – One with obsessive interest in the origin of Arabia translated Koran : ANORAK

1-down – Fight about retro tool : SCRAPER

2-down – Bird runs over waste receptacle : ROBIN

3-down – Twins wrong to take drugs to one appearing in court : WITNESS

5-down – Naughty child meeting a large American animal : IMPALA

6-down – Articles on European Union kept by fellow returning to old seat of learning : ATHENAEUM

7-down – Fast train meant primarily for Luxembourg’s third head of state : EMPRESS

8-down – Unease caused by Conservative standing in for magnificent leader in enormous country : CONSTERNATION

14-down – Cops tricked individual supplying class A drug : METHADONE

16-down – Tube for liquid in mine covering domestic source of electricity : PIPETTE

18-down – Tomato spilt on new silken fabric : OTTOMAN

19-down – Toff beat old club on the golf course : NIBLICK

20-down – Former president of America consumed by misguided anger : REAGAN

23-down – Experience cold during most of season : INCUR

1-across – Shady location for surfers : DARKWEB

5-across – Heretical movement beyond control after number retired : GNOSTIC

9-across – Turn, facing celebrity’s back : PIVOT

10-across – Muslim land in east joining assembly of UN at last : SULTANATE

11-across – Abridged song a source of inspiration : COMPRESSED

12-across – See 11 : AIR

14-across – Formerly arm 25% of workforce? : QUARTERSTAFF

18-across – On the verge of binding the enemy over — it’s taken long enough! : ABOUTTIMETOO

21-across – Nationals from banks of Nile roam south, full of enthusiasm : NEW

22-across – See 21 : ZEALANDERS

25-across – Damaged elastic wears thin : INTHEWARS

26-across – Italian team’s season not begun : INTER

27-across – Better in French clubs avoiding risk : ENHANCE

28-across – Proxy rule regarding unopened office : REGENCY

1-down – Dramatist on vacation taking in legendary show : DEPICT

2-down – Do up bows of each vessel within slipway : REVAMP

3-down – First of items dropped by steward behind small storage containers : WATERBUTTS

4-down – Footing bill, initially lacking change : BASIS

5-down – Peruse underlying facts about primitive duck : GOLDENEYE

6-down – Old ladies switched venue for sporting event : OVAL

7-down – Delinquent, one that’s sadly dropped out : TEARAWAY

8-down – Leave fair, out of sorts : CLEAROFF

13-down – Phenomenal cockney pooch caught in a police trap : ASTOUNDING

15-down – Repeat fee European bank first set up : REITERATE

16-down – Mum queueing where traffic’s heaviest? : MAINLINE

17-down – Plague hunter possibly gets two-hour shift : DOGWATCH

19-down – Bell-ringer’s relations not converted : SEXTON

20-down – Raptor thus brought up its food : OSPREY

23-down – Nearer snatching the lead, but never a victor : LOSER

24-down – Unrewarding tip : LEAN