Daily Answers

1-across – Result of having a six-pack and losing it : BEERGUT

5-across – Paul & Co’s irregular verbs? : COPULAS

9-across – Gold-plated cube is so long : ADIEU

10-across – Most recent concoction after fruit crush : LIMERENCE

11-across – Worshippers’ bathing ritual starts with immersion in cleanest fluid : CELEBRANTS

12-across – Like a good dog in spring, I daren’t go barking : WELL

14-across – How to fry tuna? Add endless oil and stir for 10 : INFATUATION

18-across – Are all Getty items to be moved into an alternative suitable location? : TATEGALLERY

21-across – Short distance from born-again Christian : INCH

22-across – What Federer might earn after tax and expenses : NETPROFITS

25-across – Battle nerve is to bandage cut in retreat : GALLIPOLI

26-across – Country hotel takes precedence : INDIA

27-across – Unexpected departures artlessly scanned : PERUSED

28-across – See 12 : TRAINED

1-down – Turn pale when division changes sides : BLANCH

2-down – Hendrix belief oddly not palatable : EDIBLE

3-down – Murmurs of discontent as empty garages get filled with booze and jewellery : GRUMBLINGS

4-down – Archer has fooled assembly with a lie : TELLA

5-down – Stop skirting the issue of top ethnic Me Too movement : COMETOTHE

6-down – 15s food : PORK

7-down – Be a remainer? That’s pants : LINGERIE

8-down – Yell, perhaps, or be quiet, sweetest heart: if air is air and sea is sea … : SHETLAND

13-down – Exposed tax-averse rider : LADYGODIVA

15-down – See 4 : FALSEHOOD

16-down – Hang for having shotgun in part of Las Vegas : STRINGUP

17-down – Perfectionist finding swab originally left inside heart : STICKLER

19-down – Inside job I’d denied, as ordered : BIDDEN

20-down – See 8 : ISLAND

23-down – See 5 : POINT

24-down – See 6 : PIES

1-across – Lady R may suggest an isolated place : BACKWATER

6-across – Fraudster may be seen by senior policeman as excellent : DUPER

9-across – Reviled footballer may be Olympic medallist : DIVER

10-across – Storehouse once 10% full? : TITHEBARN

11-across – Endless complaint from one unable to fly : MOA

12-across – Athletic striker to move on without playing : FASTFORWARD

14-across – Africans’ leaders in no doubt even Britain expects little else : NDEBELE

15-across – Castle nearly losing odd bits in overcrowded area : ROOKERY

16-across – No end of fruit in pub for Simon : BOLIVAR

19-across – Letter read out succeeded after repeat, which you can bet on : GEEGEES

22-across – We move home with passion : HOMOSAPIENS

23-across – Piece trimmed is level : PAR

24-across – Old instrument people, snapping head off, abuse : VIOLATION

26-across – A fellow seizes one violently : AMAIN

27-across – Hard to leave boat looking shabby : DINGY

28-across – Harshness of way to travel about in state in America : STRIDENCY

1-down – Unpleasant sign when stomach initially turns over : BADOMEN

2-down – Eggs the Bard said wasted on the general : CAVIARE

3-down – Campaign of intimidation was forever struggling to encompass the end of Putin : WAROFNERVES

4-down – Child seat arranged for As You Like It : TOTASTE

5-down – Animal wheeling to take exact position between two groups of soldiers retreating : ROTIFER

6-down – American litigant in one of several ministries initially : DOE

7-down – Calm at opening position : PLACATE

8-down – Enters race without water and becomes exhausted : RUNSDRY

13-down – Doctor Arnold hides in state : RHODEISLAND

16-down – To be obliged to open sack was good : BEHAVED

17-down – Make fun of Frenchman opening part of race naked? : LAMPOON

18-down – Fake news in salesman’s returns : REPLIES

19-down – Having lost weight after golf, one picks up : GLEANER

20-down – Account for one dumped on prairie : EXPLAIN

21-down – Resilient, like May, could one say? : SPRINGY

25-down – From girl, a cry of surprise : AMY

1-across – Routine for Jewish comedian, dull person sounding drunk? : SHTICK

4-across – Puzzle given a couple of marks for wrong and right answers, we hear : ACROSTIC

9-across – Trapped in ditch there’s a bear : RUPERT

10-across – Nice dean working for decades : DECENNIA

11-across – Molecular scientist may use this — only he cannot go wrong : NANOTECHNOLOGY

13-across – They live in Europe and will be entertained by shouts : HOLLANDERS

14-across – Mass of fish traversing lake : CLOD

16-across – Useful cockney chap : ANDY

18-across – Car being introduced earlier, not very unsafe? : PRECARIOUS

21-across – Sinner finally welcomed to hot fires? Maybe Paradise! : THEWORLDTOCOME

23-across – Terrible row about a fool losing head in station : RADIOTWO

24-across – Fan wants victory immediately : WINNOW

25-across – Travel to sacred ground that is located by church : GODSACRE

26-across – Guy may be so enthusiastic : ONFIRE

1-down – European run with Coe on the outside : SERB

2-down – Feature of vessel on lake is excellent, excellent! : TOPSAIL

3-down – Soldier in company wanting ‘proper speech’ spoken : CORPORAL

5-down – Teacher is funny, little child being first one to grin : CHESHIRECAT

6-down – Old group allowing in church cat : OCELOT

7-down – Work outside home with fine alloy sheet : TINFOIL

8-down – Monster making one cautious — b*** hell! : CHARYBDIS

12-down – Fellow erred — wrong ingredient for home-made wine : ELDERFLOWER

13-down – Copper finally enters to pick up ruffian, one put down in a hot spot? : HEARTHRUG

15-down – Part supporting heartless undertaking : FRACTION

17-down – Study English penned by theologian — it’s awful : DREADED

19-down – Huge virile-sounding Turk : OSMANLI

20-down – Journey’s end sealed by sound of horn on a car : TOYOTA

22-down – Sounding like a bird, not half quaint : TWEE

1-across – Shoot up, ingesting drink and drug before adult show : SOAPOPERA

6-across – Suffering composer lowering his final note : GRIEF

9-across – Try everything Steve Bell’s done, including old works : DOONESLEVELBEST

10-across – Explorer’s vacant homeland in poetry : ERIN

11-across – Hanging here, a pair of females dress down to go outside : SCAFFOLD

14-across – Fix hose by grass : TIGHTSPOT

15-across – Can — it reportedly contains salt : NITRE

16-across – He’s gloomy about Englishman returning : MOPER

18-across – Fibs about figure’s special element of pride : LIONESSES

20-across – Fish by Scottish island, one with many tongues? : LINGUIST

21-across – Picked up stick or doorpost : JAMB

25-across – Serviceman spied jumping up and down regularly : MANICDEPRESSIVE

26-across – Belgians live here, not an idiot : TWERP

27-across – Best to return bonus put in pocket : TOPDRAWER

1-down – Creep in small lounge : SIDLE

2-down – Very fond of a social call : ADORING

3-down – Frank’s refusal to bring down leader : OPEN

4-down – Spanish translations of ‘the girl’ : ELLA

5-down – Bill calling for support : ADVOCATION

6-down – Spy picture’s red frames getting on fine : GOLDFINGER

7-down – One snake seized by bats etc in vessel : ICEBOAT

8-down – Decay in iron I cut from neat arrangement : FETIDNESS

12-down – Incite about game on computer and parting drink : STIRRUPCUP

13-down – With nothing colourless, bouquet’s full of colour : OPALESCENT

14-down – Moved tile 1mm — it fixed window : TIMELIMIT

17-down – Making up for wrong article, change pens : PENANCE

19-down – A spectacle that is captured by rolling waves? : SEAVIEW

22-down – Dim leader of Britain, a tragic figure : BLEAR

23-down – What to do to present western music style : WRAP

24-down – One with habit that’s a bit flipping presumptuous : USER

1-across – Not eating a little butter? Well remembered : OFFPAT

5-across – Source of petroleum as strand is developed : TARSANDS

9-across – In advance, dish out jam : PRESERVE

10-across – Permits expressions of pain, after all : ALLOWS

11-across – Mickey captivated by this play? : THEMOUSETRAP

13-across – Refuse to disallow capturing rook : BRAN

14-across – A wearing sort of business : RAGTRADE

17-across – Venomous six of the Romans die : VIPERISH

18-across – Roughly losing head in a fight : BOUT

20-across – Concerned with part of the orchestra coming back : REPERCUSSION

23-across – Calls loudly and turns to buy drinks? : SHOUTS

24-across – This school once was sanctioned : APPROVED

25-across – Wealth from work uncle wasted at end of life : OPULENCE

26-across – Women pine regularly for young men’s embrace : LADIES

2-down – Playing well in this class : FORM

3-down – No longer apprehensive of grammatical term : PASTTENSE

4-down – Attempts to include old people in party : TORIES

5-down – Press articles on country arrest­ing a small number : THEFOURTHESTATE

6-down – Dragon is ridiculously slow, for one : ROADSIGN

7-down – A home key : AFLAT

8-down – Destitute person’s way of escape from top floor? : DOWNANDOUT

12-down – Holiday vessel said to belong to its staff : CRUISESHIP

15-down – Folk hero is to steal, wearing mask : ROBINHOOD

16-down – Bishop once said to be struggling : DIOCESAN

19-down – Spied moving towards lake, scatter : DISPEL

21-down – Well-matched piece of pure quality : EQUAL

22-down – Only a stretch of water : MERE