Daily Answers

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

8-across – Impenetrable row of crops at one end of the country? : CORNWALL

9-across – Scores four? Many more : EIGHTY

10-across – Work to do, then, promptly : ONTHEDOT

11-across – Philosopher speaking in a crackly whisper : RUSTLE

12-across – One’s stocking up, ready for the occasional visitor to drop in : FATHERCHRISTMAS

15-across – Boxed in, one has a trying time : JUROR

16-across – Request directions, being awry : ASKEW

20-across – Not really expect to describe Bob’s family quarrel? : HOPEAGAINSTHOPE

21-across – Run after small girl, who may be on thin ice : SKATER

23-across – Mountain originally broken in seven pieces : BENNEVIS

25-across – Audibly breathe a cunning plan : WHEEZE

26-across – Many distributed our menus : NUMEROUS

1-down – No working period; time for lunch? : NOONDAY

2-down – How mortgage may be secured free of charge : ONTHEHOUSE

3-down – Crazy about one girl : MAID

4-down – Spotted large number at church in past : BLOTCHY

5-down – Miserly girls just avoided accidents : NEARMISSES

6-down – Are they before or after chickens? : EGGS

7-down – Starry artists tell a reviewer’s hiding : STELLAR

13-down – High-level plot for gore and mayhem : ROOFGARDEN

14-down – All the same, these letters give a basic education : THETHREERS

17-down – Factory on holiday emptied and idle : WORKSHY

18-down – Grand group of swingers : BIGBAND

19-down – Pick one parent as the best : OPTIMUM

22-down – Secured change of diet : TIED

24-down – Handle call : NAME

1-across – Students read this current old diary in Times : BIOLOGY

5-across – A short delay in Switzerland leads to complaint : CATARRH

10-across – Mark awards ceremony, taking sides : SCAR

11-across – Charlie stops negotiating drugs course : MEDICATION

12-across – Film posh Young Conservative dancing : PSYCHO

13-across – Annual growth margins excluded insulin supplier : PANCREAS

14-across – Very funny rocks lecturer kept in cupboard : PRICELESS

16-across – Plump person regularly feasts on turkey, apart from innards : FATTY

17-across – A lot of sailors secure firm part of mast : ACORN

19-across – Check rooms in monastery for controversial sources of therapy : STEMCELLS

23-across – Hero fell among stars : ACHILLES

24-across – Spot the sack that’s put on board : NOTICE

26-across – Dracula’s health indicator? : BLOODCOUNT

27-across – Bring up Republican auditor behind back : REAR

28-across – Georgia came across art in French cells : GAMETES

29-across – Question odd features of ballet during concert : PROBLEM

2-down – Fake coins found in Ireland — one’s coated in enamel : INCISOR

3-down – Joely Richardson’s helping London theatre : LYRIC

4-down – Tropical plant, one with large swelling on root? : GUMBOIL

6-down – Grave, perhaps, that may reveal one’s origins : ACCENT

7-down – A fine caterer arranged support, following operation : AFTERCARE

8-down – Old order to disperse rhino at intervals with sensitivity : RIOTACT

9-down – Relish opening a huge English paper that’s 16 : ADIPOSETISSUE

15-down – Steroid is working after short time in heart : CORTISONE

18-down – A 22 ordered article in the Listener? : COCHLEA

20-down – Keep watch on idiot in Othello, for one : MONITOR

21-down – Briefly want sugar magnate to produce food for young : LACTATE

22-down – Protection in bed? That’s old hat : CLOCHE

25-down – Beat biblical epic, getting shot of the Tablets : THROB

1-across – Like the Ancient Mariner’s ship, tide- and weather-battered : DEADINTHEWATER

9-across – Refuse to accept bad copy? Yes man! : SYCOPHANT

10-across – African mentioning child’s foot : TUTSI

11-across – Criminals being executed? They start off being first rankers : ROOKS

12-across – One enforcing a go-slow emptied water barrel into reservoir : SPEEDBUMP

13-across – Character of composition briefly requires pens : STYLUSES

14-across – PC in court opened eyes? : WOKEUP

17-across – Private meal changed in second : SAPPER

19-across – Large amount put on paper in set period : TIMESLOT

22-across – A month back, foul up badly in it? That’s irregular : GUERRILLA

24-across – A lot of insects took to the water to cross river : SWARM

25-across – Notice a lady is president twice : ADAMS

26-across – Fish product is ready to drink? : ISINGLASS

27-across – Perhaps church support aero­nautics, though something hairy : FLYINGBUTTRESS

1-down – Girl’s staidness cracked: maybe a flare-up : DISTRESSSIGNAL

2-down – Fish : ANCHOVY

3-down – There’s no way to break sinful fraud : IMPOSTURE

4-down – In football move, run faster to leave United floundering : TRANSFER

5-down – Approval as European joins up : ESTEEM

6-down – Took part, having excellent day — about time : ACTED

7-down – More than usually insulting, artist chucked press out : EXTRUDE

8-down – After fruit drink, book entertains those who like to wallow : HIPPOPOTAMUSES

15-down – Slip-up on particular area in speech : OVERSIGHT

16-down – Sweet I stuff into ill-fitting suit : TIRAMISU

18-down – Overcome impudence that holds state up : PREVAIL

20-down – Before a long time, lake lost because of this? : LEAKAGE

21-down – Being extravagant with jewellery all over uniform : BLUING

23-down – Sage from Dublin I dropped completely : RISHI