Daily Answers

1-across – Article in Times left unfinished without a herb used in soups : BAYLEAF

5-across – One feeds three queens : CATERER

10-across – It emerges from opening a 12, initially : FOAM

11-across – Drink left over in group refreshed army : BLOODYMARY

12-across – Parent drinks a gin, disposing of one big bottle : MAGNUM

13-across – Tin in hamper, second container of 25? : DECANTER

14-across – Leader to lead with three articles : TOPBANANA

16-across – Pale Guardian covers bestseller with renewed energy : WHITE

17-across – Carpet that is ancient, small and austere : SCOLD

19-across – Fruit in soft drink that’s oddly part of 9, maybe? : CHIPOLATA

23-across – 29’s wi-fi picked up bang outside : CRAYFISH

24-across – Cat grabs a radio’s top sound producer : LARYNX

26-across – PM devouring every island’s dessert : PEACHMELBA

27-across – Almost completed northern range : OVEN

28-across – From memory, boy’s gutted, given red card : BYHEART

29-across – Cook stepped around lobster for one : DECAPOD

2-down – A very old poster in firm’s green : AVOCADO

3-down – Most of French paper’s yellow : LEMON

4-down – Coach unable to accommodate male, 16 : ALBUMEN

6-down – Cite a fruit extract that’s talked about by some : ADDUCE

7-down – Colonist guzzling new prince’s dairy product : EMMENTHAL

8-down – Austere English composer’s blocking film : EARNEST

9-down – Battered dish? He loathed it on toast : TOADINTHEHOLE

15-down – Result of eating too much beef? : BELLYACHE

18-down – Transport about half of veal where it’s sliced? : CARVERY

20-down – Staff regularly asleep? It’s the drink : PALEALE

21-down – Cross to put outside old Islington pub : TANGELO

22-down – Seethe a short way into series : SIMMER

25-down – A carpenter from the south put away nearly new wine : RIOJA

1-across – Fishy sanctuary for a lot of Americans? : CARPARK

5-across – See 17 : BOARDER

10-across – Fishy weapon? : PIKE

11-across – Where local workers are detained : BEHINDBARS

12-across – Sounding hard, nothing has replaced one chapter in something easy : PHONIC

13-across – Soldier on set I look to knock over : KEEPITUP

14-across – Bone goes with third of fillets, fishy Italian dish : BOLOGNESE

16-across – Middle Eastern city in Doha, I fancy : HAIFA

17-across – One gliding along, fishy pupil at Eton, say : SKATE

19-across – Targeted by marketing strategy, left shambolic extremists initially in command : LEAFLETED

23-across – Fishy water? Helper on the way : CODRIVER

24-across – Fishy weapon? : RAYGUN

26-across – Central circles with rings around — might these be flowers? : PERENNIALS

27-across – Predator catching egg layer : COAT

28-across – Deception, fishy fizzy drink? : CHARADE

29-across – Mannerly, fishy chap? : GENTEEL

2-down – Reaction, by the sound of it, when apartment evacuated and I go away! : ATISHOO

3-down – Tart up, on prodding feather once? : PREEN

4-down – Second river crossed in heading on — point of no return? : RUBICON

6-down – First of orders signed — sounded like Napoleon? : OINKED

7-down – Dump in African capital with English religious job : RABBINATE

8-down – Material originally sewn into each frill, one of two pads : EARMUFF

9-down – Dramatic Irishman secreting fishy weapon? : SHAKESPEAREAN

15-down – 27, for example, wife found in location of canal : OUTERWEAR

18-down – 9 recognises king, these days the vagrant : KNOWETH

20-down – Divine number and letter mentioned? : FORESEE

21-down – Follow fast runner, then slow : EMULATE

22-down – Flattened garden ever rising, to some extent : EVENED

25-down – Vessel unknown, number spoken by U-boat crew? : YACHT

7-across – Smooth passages of play set goal in motion : LEGATOS

8-across – After losing first point, nervously receives this? : SERVICE

9-across – 17 across, a wide man neither side wanted : INGE

10-across – Former PL team’s left wing back dives, missing header and second 12 across? : EXPLETIVE

12-across – Rubbish dances by Strictly star : BALLS

13-across – Detective suffering derision from press team : IRONSIDE

15-across – A delay put back festivity … : GALA

16-across – … the 25th one, perhaps, for Puck? : FAIRY

17-across – Academic official content to provide answers : DEAN

18-across – Can perhaps shoot game here? : PRESERVE

20-across – Retiring Bengali vicar’s well-mannered : CIVIL

21-across – Streetcars, buggies or slow-moving 3? : STROLLERS

22-across – Some Penguin ‘Football Facts’ : INFO

24-across – Sadly bicker about who’s first to give name for an Antarctic glacier : BERWICK

25-across – Roy’s header really annoys 3 : RANGERS

1-down – 17 across having doubled lead, end result is tight : MEAN

2-down – Bloomer showed up, leading to one-all game : CAMELLIA

3-down – Briefly run some cricket team : ROVERS

4-down – Stand on this, maybe, and see more? Yes, now encroaching heads shifted : CEREMONY

5-down – Originally all versions of it described sitting ducks : AVOIDS

6-down – A team lacking women in some area : ACRE

11-down – Cooked pig liver, edible starter? That’s right : PRIVILEGE

12-down – Times article on current ‘right’ way to travel : BYAIR

14-down – Slow-paced, lazy speech after tie lost : DRAWL

16-down – Warning forward respectfully, this may be tugged : FORELOCK

17-down – Little mischief-makers, half of Devon’s swimmers : DEVLINGS

19-down – Second team’s inside men in charge : SCREWS

20-down – Laid-back Corinthian’s teammate? : CASUAL

21-down – Watched part of play broadcast : SEEN

23-down – Conveying charge from governing body, with rule essentially being ignored : FARE

1-across – What’s not real? Defending habit, I’m saying it is : MYTRUTH

5-across – Comic patter not right — starts to make tasteless crack : ATTEMPT

9-across – Oscar avoiding comparatively humourless artist : DURER

10-across – Safe from the flood — keeping daughter oblivious : INTHEDARK

11-across – Sex? Nothing doing! : LOVEMAKING

12-across – Vale! Leaving disheartened, having failed : GLEN

14-across – Wrong! Isn’t that easy going round now : THISINSTANT

18-across – Meal that, for Spooner, needed something alcoholic : PACKEDLUNCH

21-across – Vlad crosswords reportedly finish off country : IRAN

22-across – Royal ‘leper’ under pressure — he’s not himself : ROLEPLAYER

25-across – Romeo in fix around college and university : PRINCETON

26-across – Cancel culture’s ending? Heartless construct : ERASE

27-across – Comedian’s back, one with incisive material : NANKEEN

28-across – Coming on, tries to be inventive : INSTORE

1-down – Working method required to cover large part of course : MODULE

2-down – Flourish of trumpets at the start — king entering queen’s home : THRIVE

3-down – Item turned up unbroken : UNREMITTED

4-down – Nothing gained by rustic cricket shot : HOICK

5-down – 8! That’s early in the morning for some into raves : ATTENTION

6-down – Next time — what about November? : THEN

7-down – On record join Bread singer : MEATLOAF

8-down – Accept some money for watch : TAKENOTE

13-down – Like changes round pub — they work on the surface : ASPHALTERS

15-down – Telling crook about books : ILLGOTTEN

16-down – Leave home carrying penny metal fastener : SPLITPIN

17-down – Event in Illinois accounted for uprising : OCCASION

19-down – Bundle of energy upset a lot of the same nurses : DYNAMO

20-down – Suspend band on radio : FREEZE

23-down – News in Brussels on current malaise : ENNUI

24-down – Hard to stop virtuoso for long : ACHE

5-across – Foreign nobleman and ruler on horse : JUNKER

6-across – Attack right back stops posing no threat : STRAFE

9-across – Left-wing militants rejected a suit jacket from Norma : ANTIFA

10-across – Where cars race about madly, dashing at intervals : AUTOBAHN

11-across – Ironstone in social gathering : FEST

12-across – Overture from Fauré playing, then I hear scale : FAHRENHEIT

13-across – Eager man is in Guardian presses producing a Berliner version? : GERMANISING

18-across – Breed of pet rat eating pork pie wife brought around : ROTTWEILER

21-across – Genuine article returned broken by Charlie : ECHT

22-across – Miss one buried in funeral ground : FRAULEIN

23-across – Half-heartedly mouth entertaining answer for emperor : KAISER

24-across – Left-leaning parties saving time where men were detained : STALAG

25-across – Regime change in places with extremes of temperature : PUTSCH

1-down – Too inept to move like a ballet dancer, perhaps : ONTIPTOE

2-down – Amount to part of a whole account : BEHALF

3-down – Says with stammering tongue, primarily? : STUTTERS

4-down – Money maintains company known for flying fortress in Africa : CASBAH

5-down – Judge present Times journalist to be doomed : JINXED

7-down – Code cracked by unspecified number of people in a group : ETHNIC

8-down – One on board managing rough treatment : MANHANDLING

14-down – Patron Saint oppressed by a menace abroad : MAECENAS

15-down – Most wanting to stop working in tense shifts : NEEDIEST

16-down – Dangerous creatures in lingerie business, at first : COBRAS

17-down – Repeatedly say nothing about heartless executive? How exasperating! : SHEESH

19-down – Brown coats unusual for top Democrat : TRUMAN

20-down – Remind people of lecherous fellow getting ahead : RAKEUP