Daily Answers

5-across – Show advertiser dog : BARKER

6-across – More than one dog pants : BOXERS

9-across – Report of standard weapon : CANNON

10-across – Order contains coercive measure : SANCTION

11-across – Fat dog on lead in fact : FLAB

12-across – Cobra peeps out,seeing Rover? : SPACEPROBE

13-across – The cat peers out,studying spaniel? : TEACHERSPET

18-across – Locum excited,so seductive? : TEMPTINGLY

21-across – Dog’s dinner? : CHOW

22-across – Banker heading for jail with Sunak once and Johnson : JPMORGAN

23-across – Paul’s holding dog back – temper! : MODIFY

24-across – Yapper,lurcher’s head bitten by parasite : TALKER

25-across – Articulation of feeling for money : TENNER

1-down – Great sacrifices at imperial French city : GRENOBLE

2-down – Crime clear,set up for court action : TENNIS

3-down – Clues: dogs : POINTERS

4-down – Dog cluer? : SETTER

5-down – Dog solver : BEAGLE

7-down – Clue: solvers’ dog : SCOOBY

8-down – Seller with key,say,a geezer : ESTATEAGENT

14-down – Ceiling plastered with resin initially more sticky : CLINGIER

15-down – Awfully nice dog nips rear of postman,getting letters mixed up? : ENCODING

16-down – Dog fed old cracker : SEXPOT

17-down – Dog lover has female kennelled : WOOFER

19-down – Dog,spaniel : POODLE

20-down – Complain loudly when first of youths ‘it ‘ard? : YAMMER

1-across – Paraded remains in eg case of emerald : SASHAYED

5-across – Foot perhaps first place navvy protects : LABOUR

9-across – Conspicuous wealth being accepted by old money is extremely unusual : OPULENCE

10-across – See 5 : LEADER

12-across – Spies wanting glimpse of naval vessels : NARKS

13-across – <span>Game show for which </span><i>3-2-1</i><span> signifies the end?</span> : COUNTDOWN

14-across – Arizona sorts out religious adherents : ZOROASTRIANS

18-across – Rod with supports catching exhausted little fish : STICKLEBACKS

21-across – Service his car,needing repair in a flipping day : EUCHARIST

23-across – One splitting bill is sound : NOISE

24-across – Greyish-white colour fine in more stable older browser : SILVER

25-across – A large collection of people,seemingly asleep,voted : BALLOTED

26-across – See 24 : SURFER

27-across – Present line manager ultimately not as tough : TENDERER

1-down – Awful squalor seen around a posh part of London : SLOANE

2-down – See 1 : SQUARE

3-down – Lacking cover,strata crack in Aussie landmark back in the day : AYERSROCK

4-down – Reference enclosed plan of action about losing current climbing assistant : ENCYCLOPEDIA

6-down – Ward off State Department’s closure : AVERT

7-down – Informally,wife left daughter in love with sultanate : OLDWOMAN

8-down – Infrequency of poor earners beginning to save : RARENESS

11-down – Confirm statute ban is dodgy : SUBSTANTIATE

15-down – Again aroused by opening in eminently pleasant lady’s top in crimson : REKINDLED

16-down – Judges female donkeys? : ASSESSES

17-down – Printed notice to be distributed round : CIRCULAR

19-down – Whale,maybe unexpectedly free,felt dire : FILTER

20-down – See 19 : FEEDER

22-down – <span>Singer in </span><i>Slade </i><span>left</span> : ADELE

9-across – Sportsperson heading off to tour India is more insecure : RICKETIER

10-across – A top dog? : ALPHA

11-across – Unpleasant bumps from Westbound tube : WARTS

12-across – Public school lying about boarding pays for additional comments : FOOTNOTES

13-across – Philosopher to take stock in conversation : RUSSELL

14-across – A way to stop boozers getting guts : INNARDS

17-across – JD Vance admitting a part of personality is dull : VAPID

19-across – Time for one naked picture : MAG

20-across – <span>Gallery screening </span><i>The Last Of Us</i><span> makes sense</span> : TASTE

21-across – Poor hospital registrar initially overwhelmed by gas in kidney unit : NEPHRON

22-across – One replacing Yankee in movie series to show flesh : CARRION

24-across – Granny and her daughter saved by outlaw superhero : BANANAMAN

26-across – Talent spotter not the first to take name and number : COUNT

28-across – <i>American Idiot </i><span>capturing the heart of James Garner</span> : AMASS

29-across – Chief of Argos once organised one-man AGM : AGAMEMNON

1-down – American people putting up with monster : CROW

2-down – Mark E Smith’s head rattles : SCARES

3-down – Journalist playing final for Wycombe Wanderers : NEWSREADER

4-down – <i>Wicked </i><span>stars in Fulham stores</span> : SINFUL

5-down – Trevor maybe right to wear yellow? : BROOKING

6-down – <span>Beginning of </span><i>Roll Over Beethoven</i><span>’s finale</span> : DAWN

7-down – Johnny-come-latelies finished sweet in seconds : UPSTARTS

8-down – Rod Stewart’s original music : BARS

13-down – 15 in close-up : RAVEN

15-down – 1 ball-breaker : NUTCRACKER

16-down – Winger supporting Middlesbrough’s centre-back : STERN

18-down – Briefly stop by 1 peacock : POPINJAY

19-down – Dr No’s junk mail consisting of one word only : MONOMIAL

22-down – <span>Couples from </span><i>OnlyFans</i><span> regularly plugging radio chat</span> : CONFAB

23-down – <i>Animal Magic</i><span> occasionally pulled up over endless crap</span> : IGUANA

24-down – Dress up for 1 : BRAG

25-down – Where you might see a birdie from Payne Stewart : NEST

27-down – High-pitched sound can grate at first : TING

7-across – Root cause to lose heart: crumbly eclair : CELERIAC

9-across – Associate of monastery is not quite spherical : OBLATE

10-across – Almost entirely set free : QUIT

11-across – Leader of choir admits Baker,a sweary person : COVENANTOR

12-across – Thrill of subtle colour across lake : TINGLE

14-across – One tin and initially three beer bottles in Spanish resort : ALICANTE

15-across – Give a hard look round very fast : STARVE

17-across – Mastered Latin to gain respect at last : LEARNT

20-across – In middle of long play perhaps catheter failed : ACTTHREE

22-across – Speaking Italian today in the arcade : LOGGIA

23-across – Incest took place in such a room? : TWINBEDDED

24-across – Buzzer has become loud? : WASP

25-across – Inability to recognise pitch in strip oddly missing close by : TINEAR

26-across – Richard Of York … for one was a jogger : MNEMONIC

1-down – English vehicle,one with another about to block this,the height of danger in Italy : VESUVIUS

2-down – Allowed to involve son in case : LEST

3-down – <i>The Fellowship of the Ring</i> : CIRCLE

4-down – Unhappy expressions of dejection said to reduce business : DOWNSIZE

5-down – Briefly village’s terrible rainfall drowning paying guest : LLANFAIRPG

6-down – Oust team’s wingers for new formation: that’s the limit! : UTMOST

8-down – Roughly check about a reservation : CAVEAT

13-down – Custodian,energetic type,hiding key on purpose : GOALTENDER

16-down – Green supporter pens joke,ultimately one of several in column : VERTEBRA

18-down – Racist is doddery,of an age with the dinosaurs : TRIASSIC

19-down – Beautiful-sounding woman and mother? A malicious old one : BELDAM

21-down – Owner of shell company with no time to be author : COWRIE

22-down – Left snake for its opposite : LADDER

24-down – Global medical body comes to a halt : WHOA

1-across – Showing foresight,stay busy to get rid of a cold : PROPHETIC

6-across – Drunk as well as teetotal,so abandoned : HIGH

8-across – Dance passion,sergeant? : FLAMENCO

9-across – Visual colour mixing ring replaced by one : OCULAR

10-across – Very cold – about forty seconds to get inside : FROSTY

11-across – Out-of-date date? Take care : GOSTEADY

12-across – Given a lift,Australian is hugged by Ruby? : RAISED

15-across – Lime,say,ornamental button for tiny jumper : TREEFROG

16-across – Space programme at first offers venue for prospective buyers : SHOWROOM

19-across – CRAFT CAPSIZED BY COUGAR – POWER LOST SHOCK! : TRAUMA

21-across – Mince pies still not tempting at first … : ELLIPSIS

22-across – Richard’s coastal features? : CLIFFS

24-across – See 6 : ANDDRY

25-across – Hospital quota for oxygen supply? : AERATION

26-across – See 1 Down : BEAR

27-across – Satire – grr,awful,that’s official! : REGISTRAR

1-down – Panda,originally arboreal,sadly an endangered species : POLAR

2-down – Boundless universe with short relative assimilation process : OSMOSIS

3-down – Scottish woman attached to railway unit : HENRY

4-down – Considered unfinished article nothing unusual : THOUGHT

5-down – North American people’s plates showing signs of ageing : CROWSFEET

6-down – Precarious organisation has,of course,new department introduced : HOUSEOF

7-down – Shield fell over – offending soldier placed here : GUARDROOM

13-down – Nobles had to be trained for fair : ASHBLONDE

14-down – One acting without love – male for instance,a pessimist : DOOMSAYER

17-down – Stranger’s bust wired : WEIRDER

18-down – Essential to have one good horse : MUSTANG

20-down – Star American pioneering scientist : ALISTER

22-down – See 6 : CARDS

23-down – On-air bloomer often seen on Bake Off : FLOUR