Daily Answers

1-across – Impersonate Little John, brother : DOMINICAN

6-across – Itinerant forgetting piano at end of two dances : HOBO

8-across – Cop punching old dog, grass … : CANNABIS

9-across – … that’s bad arrested by police : MILLET

10-across – Particular dock? : DETAIL

11-across – Freshly papered walls in rectory originally … : PREPARED

12-across – … fabricated — very pleased : MADEUP

15-across – Author dunking bread in drink : TROLLOPE

16-across – State again reviewing repeated notes in paper : REAFFIRM

19-across – Conclusion somewhat lacking heart again! : ENCORE

21-across – Capital: family has wasted it : KINSHASA

22-across – Boat netting five carp : KVETCH

24-across – Stick on bottom, wounding : BARBED

25-across – Setter’s dropping weight initially, so I hope that’s shifted : WHOOPSIE

26-across – Urge for fizzy drinks, reportedly : COAX

27-across – Native of central America in rare shower : REDPEPPER

1-down – Opener in difficulty to collect duck : DRAKE

2-down – Potty covered in hair, as an artefact : MANMADE

3-down – Swedish chemist knocking up supermodel once : NOBEL

4-down – Dumping grounds dry up, one of those filled with sewage : CESSPIT

5-down – Yours truly hit : NUMBERONE

6-down – Bag antique chamber pots : HOLDALL

7-down – Yikes, buzzer has caught its owner? : BEEKEEPER

13-down – A sovereign I preserve in instant coffee : AMERICANO

14-down – Royal couple aren’t faithful : PHILANDER

17-down – Switch unit to join fight : FUSEBOX

18-down – Girl expecting bread called for milk, perhaps? : MIAOWED

20-down – Threaten youngster on reservation? : CREEPUP

22-down – Money turning up in Copenhagen or Kolding : KRONE

23-down – Official announcer in Cork I hear regularly : CRIER

1-across – He dealt with state affairs a lot — wrong description of Boris? : AFATHER

5-across – Gridlock on motorway going west — go east : IMPASSE

9-across – Rudeness reciprocated leads to extremely serious complaint : PILES

10-across – Clue’s naughty about great man having a roving eye : LECHEROUS

11-across – Big Mike trapped by scary alien space travellers : COSMICRAYS

12-across – One repeatedly fired from EastEnders : STEN

14-across – Needing breaks? Could be Amazon job on the line : ENGINEDRIVER

18-across – See 1 : OFATLEASTSIX

21-across – Very short, my youngsters : LADS

22-across – Weird — say, who’d be taking you inside old knocking shop? : BAWDYHOUSE

25-across – Writer’s block getting worse? Initially, yes : HEMINGWAY

26-across – Tenant doesn’t have right key : ENTER

27-across – City in retreat — Coventry wingers showing good form : DECENCY

28-across – Name going up in the early stages : NASCENT

1-down – American star wearing nothing upstaged by a furry animal : ALPACA

2-down – Red colour largely visible amongst evidence of fire : ABLUSH

3-down – Jailed German boy, cunning little pest : HESSIANFLY

4-down – Head of state is stock market malefactor? No way! : RULER

5-down – Wish to travel? Minimal cost when cycling : ITCHYFEET

6-down – Phil’s number one cut — that was close! : PHEW

7-down – Lively and encouraging, though not winning : SPORTIVE

8-down – Tragically timeless in role set here : ELSINORE

13-down – Ships they’re scrapping about to be saved : FREIGHTERS

15-down – I catch visiting duke inside — pretty sick : INABADWAY

16-down – Saw in here money raised by cast? : TOOLSHED

17-down – Current unwelcome visitor camped in compound : PANDEMIC

19-down – Relatively famous broadcaster : AUNTIE

20-down – Coastal road : BEIRUT

23-down – Senior member makes the same money : DOYEN

24-down – Old Testament fellow : ONAN

1-across – Yearning to forego last tablet : ASPIRIN

5-across – Cat’s in the bag — start to hunt bear : STOMACH

10-across – Top-class gunmen conserve energy but waste material : UREA

11-across – Giving heart to sons at university breeding hogs : REASSURING

12-across – Zurich banker invests European cell contents : GENOME

13-across – Groom’s job? Running after bride at the start : BRUSHING

14-across – Get a load of Tories to tour British plant : EYEBRIGHT

16-across – Units in temple belt round it perhaps : WAIST

17-across – Ailsa Craig, say, has been rented : ISLET

19-across – Daniel ran off, stimulated by this? : ADRENALIN

23-across – Stalin’s enforcer concealed routine bugs : BACTERIA

24-across – A spruce shelters posh courtyard : ATRIUM

26-across – Unicef works with mint, dis­pensing lots of money : MUNIFICENT

27-across – Medic with very little cash for drug supplier : DRIP

28-across – Book season involving censor’s cases : BAGGAGE

29-across – Foreign invader, colonist with current information : ANTIGEN

2-down – Work in theatre bound to include good lines : SURGERY

3-down – It’s matured and gone off? Initially, yes : IMAGO

4-down – PM once rebuffs Democrat from an ME country : ISRAELI

6-down – Time to put out paper : TISSUE

7-down – A human staggered, inhaling foul air, the dope! : MARIHUANA

8-down – Med resort hosts international for Wolves, maybe : CANINES

9-down – Big bottle full of hard fruit containing radical sources of energy : CARBOHYDRATES

15-down – Instinctive activity to do with washing clothes : BREATHING

18-down – Bone up over in opera house : SCAPULA

20-down – A German consumes final sort of protein : ELASTIN

21-down – In university, English Literature’s flipping pointless : INUTILE

22-down – Selection of poetry in Greek requiring effort : TRYING

25-down – Arm reinforcements organising raid to capture island : RADII

1-across – Senior officer found with drug in empty shed is investigated : SCOPED

5-across – New price includes chemist’s third formula : RECIPE

8-across – Passionate Australian given another room with American : AMOROUS

9-across – Firm agreement : COMPACT

11-across – Regimen is proven to regenerate flower : EVENINGPRIMROSE

12-across – Play bagging nation’s first award for excellence on Broadway : TONY

13-across – People injured by throwaway garments? : CASUALTIES

17-across – Place where meat gets cooked in mould is beside small lake : ROTISSERIE

18-across – Commotion caused by heads of state talking in riddles : STIR

20-across – Alien contrives to secure a spell in the military : NATIONALSERVICE

23-across – Revered former editor pinching a large journalist’s bottom : EXALTED

24-across – Retiring Queen and followers prepare for alternative employment : RETRAIN

25-across – Heavy drinking session sees new head of department drowning in ale : BENDER

26-across – Revolutionary coming back to eat pub grub? : DINNER

2-down – Stop king and fool becoming bound together : CLOSEKNIT

3-down – Verbose professional listened to short musical phrases : PROLIX

4-down – Specify putting giants’ pants in river : DESIGNATE

5-down – Bishop adopting star competitor : RACER

6-down – Put in an appearance outside retro car plant : CAMOMILE

7-down – Short coat given to old philosopher : PLATO

8-down – Herbicide makes a chap a goner, unfortunately : AGENTORANGE

10-down – Troy’s first prophet turned up to encourage woodworker : TREESURGEON

14-down – Without cover, nudes ruin broadcast : UNINSURED

15-down – Fancy popular gallery having racist leader in charge! : INTRICATE

16-down – Various roads set out : ASSORTED

19-down – Brother returned short letter to person from Brest : BRETON

21-down – Sign made by team leader at sporting event : TRACE

22-down – Dared tangle with a snake! : ADDER

1-across – A bicycle for travel? Not having it : CELIBACY

5-across – This castle is on a sort of rock : GLAMIS

9-across – Pilot programme, its result fixed : SHOWTRIAL

11-across – One hides face as guest loses it : VISOR

12-across – Glowing report dispatched after I left hot sweets : INCANDESCENT

15-across – Listen, lightweight — you shut up! : OYEZ

16-across – Lone Ranger without emotion failed to crack puzzle soon : BEFORELONG

18-across – Feature of restaurant came first on bill: a pound off lodging : TABLEDHOTE

19-across – Scheme Aussie natives announced : RUSE

21-across – King’s present unfeigned anger : FRANKINCENSE

24-across – Joint of deer not available, needing replacing : ANKLE

25-across – Put down flags, turning to speak, and vanish : EVAPORATE

26-across – Teachers of French you sort out : TUTORS

27-across – Drug adulterated? That’s a blow : UPPERCUT

1-down – Part of tooth finally falls into mug : CUSP

2-down – Game’s up for contraceptive : LOOP

3-down – Impersonate Blair, making a mint : BETONY

4-down – Mat crawling with lice, suggesting a worrying trend? : CLIMATECHANGE

6-down – Generously offered ladies one drop : LAVISHED

7-down – Where we all leave service book : MASSEXODUS

8-down – Plans to bring up pastries, breaking siege : STRATEGIES

10-down – Nurse person entitled regularly to have assistance round in the morning : LADYOFTHELAMP

13-down – Town’s new poet, struggling, drilled soundly : PONTEFRACT

14-down – Feeble type felt regularly full of expressionless misery : WETBLANKET

17-down – Tie from end of November week can get rearranged : NECKWEAR

20-down – Like to run, not on the flat : ASLOPE

22-down – Drier used in hospital constantly : TALC

23-down – Fresh water essentially where it may breed : NEWT