Daily Answers

1-across – Vice squad heartily entertained — say no more! : CLAMUP

5-across – Position not conducive to firing CO? : HALFCOCK

9-across – He’s out, free to work where 8 is : HOUSETOP

10-across – Time, perhaps, Hamlet returned? So it is : TRAGIC

11-across – Rows in Costa following this order : ALTERCATIONS

13-across – Finishing early, read up on boss : STUD

14-across – An achievement, of course — yes, picked up a good looker : EAGLEEYE

17-across – Runs through a tunnel breaking out : UNLEARNT

18-across – Mysterious travellers returned from occupying country : UFOS

20-across – Main treatment centre : HOSPITALSHIP

23-across – Fury over Rex playing a stage villain : VIRAGO

24-across – Suddenly got nasty with a small number : TURNEDON

25-across – Heading off, one subsidising fellow journalist short of fare : UNDERFED

26-across – Repeat right away what’s left : ESTATE

2-down – Spoils look of tin-openers : LOOT

3-down – Deal inappropriately with the Wolverine State : MISHANDLE

4-down – Little boy is holding it : PETITE

5-down – Not on — Telegraph, evidently worried, showed sign of panic : HYPERVENTILATED

6-down – Left with broken heart — man you dumped not wanting to do anything : LETHARGY

7-down – An animal in bed : COATI

8-down – Child one is longing to lift up to secure access to Santa? : CHIMNEYPOT

12-down – Strangely resonant — it is loud : STENTORIAN

15-down – ‘Stuff it!’ — Queen unhappily entertaining Johnson : EQUIPMENT

16-down – Crooked aristocrat caught — one beyond redemption : WRITEOFF

19-down – It should be paid daily : CHARGE

21-down – When there’s no actual fighting, he’s great in the gym : PEACE

22-down – Presenter short, so had to show up : HOST

1-across – Father about heartless perform­ance: ‘It’s supposed to be funny’ : SATIRE

4-across – More than one mountain creature in the same place gets very cold : IBICES

9-across – He’s declared sane after treatment, in a state of being mentally alert : CLEARHEADEDNESS

10-across – More work here, more pleasure here? : UTOPIA

11-across – Like some roads with bit of confusion — two traffic lights but only one right! : CAMBERED

12-across – Dense group of trees in which little son hides : THICKSET

14-across – Fellow, one left being given time inside, shown to be this? : GUILTY

15-across – Portraying an image of a type of chemical bond involving carbon : ICONIC

18-across – Trees we’d chopped in small areas of land : REDWOODS

21-across – Roman emperor, hiding in enclosure, secured position : FOOTHOLD

22-across – Spy on street creating trouble : MOLEST

24-across – Ban duke? Squabble about some rehashed stuff : BUBBLEANDSQUEAK

25-across – Idiots in European port missing an entrance to shipping : TWERPS

26-across – Ogle, needing to grab comp­anion? Well he might! : LECHER

1-down – Mess made by quiet group in school : SPLOTCH

2-down – Take a walk, parking vehicle first : TRAMP

3-down – A learner missing from practice picks up again? : REHEARS

5-down – Insect and nothing more, Spooner’s said, in drinking vessel : BEERMUG

6-down – New income set to provide a small amount of money : CENTESIMO

7-down – Half the people looking to catch us have a sneaking feeling : SUSPECT

8-down – Militant Millicent, reportedly one turned on by Americans : FAUCET

13-down – Officer studies information, schematically presented : CONSTABLE

16-down – Queen being grabbed by womaniser in court game : CROQUET

17-down – Draw together as in an intimate photograph : CLOSEUP

18-down – On a bike, one’s headed North, East or West? : RIDING

19-down – Some Eden with love gone, abandoned territory : DEMESNE

20-down – Misery of endless want keeping the old man in : DESPAIR

23-down – Irish water in sunless bog : LOUGH

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