Daily Answers

7-across – Dancing on drugs : TRIPPING

9-across – Pungent air envelopes Turkey : STRONG

10-across – Experience being trapped in unsafe elevator : FEEL

11-across – Church performer who evokes memories? : BELLRINGER

12-across – Sharp part they oddly found on bottom of car : BITTER

14-across – Cassette unravelled in ground­breaking action : TESTCASE

15-across – Return record featuring small exercise book : GOSPEL

17-across – Failures of devotees accepting second in place of victory : LOSERS

20-across – Poseur failing to hide, for example, unconscious inhibitor : SUPEREGO

22-across – Infernal path lacking love and depth : CURSED

23-across – Note nine mull about for a long time : MILLENNIUM

24-across – Butters ribs : KIDS

25-across – Go away and live with American bird : BEATIT

26-across – Main issue journalist spiced up : SEASONED

1-down – Short person from Athens can start to give time of day : GREETING

2-down – Stone heads of organisation promoting antiquated laws : OPAL

3-down – Expel from court detectives with cake : DISBAR

4-down – Fuel provider stocking reduced iron drink : ESPRESSO

5-down – Ex cooked with corn, herb and raspberry : BRONXCHEER

6-down – Answer involves revolutionary stage for benefactors : ANGELS

8-down – Set upon endless path with love — sweet! : GELATO

13-down – Others regularly dispose of a hollow tile to fit together without gaps : TESSELLATE

16-down – Tiny tree flowering forever : ETERNITY

18-down – Fixed second drink and stopped working : STEADIED

19-down – Unfortunate smell passes main parts : BODIES

21-down – Performing in duet together : UNITED

22-down – Fight doctor in film : COMBAT

24-down – Handle idiot : KNOB

1-across – Half area ignored by Liberal Party, in effect : FIFTYPERCENT

9-across – Female lost to prettier maiden : AIRER

10-across – Noted West Indian crop unruly mob gathered : BOBMARLEY

11-across – Agreed European parting leaves nothing : QUITESO

12-across – Challenged when given the job : TAKENON

13-across – The material placed in cathedral, as if from heaven? : ETHEREALLY

15-across – Double clues rejected : SPIT

18-across – Chaps abroad losing the odd schilling : BODS

19-across – Chant stopped by goal, poor result of on-field foul? : SENDINGOFF

22-across – Burrowing animal can hide all over the place : ECHIDNA

24-across – Long-distance travellers step right aboard : SPACERS

25-across – Pocketing ten quid, retired banker set forth : EXPOUNDED

26-across – African capital city running administration at outset? : ACCRA

27-across – Pal drops in at random after lunch : POSTPRANDIAL

1-down – Coat I relinquished keeps last of men supplied : FURNISHED

2-down – Antecedents, one more than Goldilocks had spoken of? : FORBEARS

3-down – Contrary lad with personal problem? : YOBBO

4-down – Struggling English master played like Bradman, bagging 50 : EMBATTLED

5-down – Offbeat position in city’s banks : CRANKY

6-down – Fabric, unknown line no Parisian’s stocking : NYLON

7-down – Frustrated participants in superhuman quest : MANQUE

8-down – Small seal picked up young swimmer : CYGNET

14-down – A country invaded by former queen, nominally great ruler : ALEXANDER

16-down – Established peace, banishing monsieur from a French region : PROVENCAL

17-down – Soccer bosses in working gear in India, taking a break : ONSAFARI

18-down – Offspring, it’s said, turned to drink : BREWED

20-down – Budgetary control initially fails disastrously : FISCAL

21-down – Change bill by a whisker : ADJUST

23-down – Native African transported by ship, possibly : HIPPO

24-down – Rising American prosecutor joining northern state : SUDAN

8-across – See 15 : MORIARTY

9-across – See 2 : AWAKE

10-across – Sequence from The Cameraman rewound for club : MACE

11-across – Appear lately to be untruthful in report? : LIEINSTATE

12-across – The Invader’s leader lost, missing the Italian beers : LAGERS

14-across – Next hopeless job candidate, parts of bio absent, not hired at last : ADJACENT

16-across – Is livid to watch The Saphead : SEETHES

18-across – Material United Artists may argue lacks global appeal, missing their premieres : AMALGAM

21-across – A cook embraces pepper crust method : APPROACH

23-across – Just a rotation in a crop : BARELY

24-across – Balanced matches, playing soccer where clubs cut grass back : SCOREDRAWS

26-across – Sell hard One Week : HAWK

27-across – Try South Africa, as briefly suggested : ESSAY

28-across – Articles drawn from Cairo and Tehran read back in persuasive speech : RHETORIC

1-down – Till unlimited crop etc, save water : ROTAVATE

2-down – Conscious of beginning with conception, then aftermath : WIDE

3-down – Offensive posters prompted by promenade cycling : TROLLS

4-down – Part of our Channel diplomacy’s ending again, amid shifting blame : LYMEBAY

5-down – Pest from the West: part of picture, one about Boatman : PAIN

6-down – Railcar put in motion — not at all like The General : PARTICULAR

7-down – See 23 : KEATON

13-down – Submit reward for audience initiative : ENTERPRISE

15-down – Not a fan of Sherlock Jr — or my aim, it is not true! : JIM

17-down – Venerable in middle age : ERA

19-down – Admits every wrongdoing involving heartless outlaw : ALLOWSIN

20-down – Old readers embracing comic art at The Playhouse? : THEATRE

22-down – Steamboat Bill once passed after ending up with King Edward’s crown on board : PACKET

23-down – Funny rebuke about person who did good work a hundred years ago, a comic genius : BUSTER

25-down – What you’ll see in a diary, regularly ending in darkness : DAYS

26-down – Try for goal, not starting to laugh : HOOT

1-across – Highland castle, central part opening, we hear? : CAWDOR

4-across – Caution shown when playing king, fearful scoundrel nicking it? : YELLOW

9-across – Test of right and left, all characters on the far left : ORAL

10-across – See 12 : TOTHEDOZEN

11-across – Vale on borders of Cymru, reportedly? : SEEYOU

12-across – Square peg moved then to practise intuitive approach quickly, so to speak? : NINETEEN

13-across – Very old woman said to predict failure in honest spy : PYTHONESS

15-across – In Potsdam, I design pots! : AMID

16-across – Third note, then second note : MEMO

17-across – Travesty reversed in perfect game for children : MINECRAFT

21-across – After refurbishment, Chinese restaurant at first improves : ENRICHES

22-across – Bony thing, angle on figure by the sound of it? : COCCYX

24-across – Biscuit that’s new behind unopened sponge cakes, filling hole : GINGERSNAP

25-across – See 4 : CARD

26-across – Sudden flood of arrivals ruins new hospital : INRUSH

27-across – Get back on with success : RECOUP

1-down – Where servers cut, machine with battery dead : CARVERY

2-down – See 20 : WALLY

3-down – Amount produced revealed change : OUTTURN

5-down – Flower and rotten nut they leave on stage : EXEUNT

6-down – Old trainer in ring made of metal, iron : LIONTAMER

7-down – Shrimpy shrimp went : WEEWEED

8-down – Pay cut with last of cheques in post, frantic : ATONESWITSEND

14-down – A beauty has boss and I overwhelmed by lust : HUMDINGER

16-down – Revealing garment, quick way to dress topless crime writer : MANKINI

18-down – Fugitive better protected by witness after heading for Egypt : ESCAPEE

19-down – Social life oddly uplifting for life form on Venus? : FLYTRAP

20-down – Picture puzzle endures, did you say, on mural, fancifully? : WHERES

23-down – Candies and chocolates and others: source of all of those? : CACAO

9-across – Ordered the two cars -— actor needs to get into one : CHARACTER

10-across – Run after one foreign friend or another : AMIGO

11-across – Benefits from fermented drinks : SAKES

12-across – Killer fish, nasty type : GARROTTER

13-across – So-called dramatist’s unusual breadth : THEBARD

14-across – Section of regiment old officer reprimanded : TOLDOFF

17-across – Like tragic Shakespearean couple, they’re matched in 26 : BLACK

19-across – See 17 : AND

20-across – See 17 : WHITE

21-across – Wrongly recasts one in role of Desdemona, say : ACTRESS

22-across – Famous actor, one found in more demanding title role? : OLIVIER

24-across – Record our scene, omitting everything within formal speech : DISCOURSE

26-across – Part of which, essentially, that’s like Othello in certain ways : CHESS

28-across – He composed short part of speech I had misdirected : VERDI

29-across – Officer, in short, not wrong about one sharing authority : COLLEGIAL

1-down – Both couples in cast switched parts of play : ACTS

2-down – Some yarn that is making small piece of cloth : HANKIE

3-down – Strike, subject to restraint, likely to collapse : RAMSHACKLE

4-down – Person that’s good and mature presented in theatre : STAGED

5-down – Pair delivered speech, appropriately shared : PRORATED

6-down – One’s taken over a board game -— Othello he couldn’t stand : IAGO

7-down – Top performers, some Adonis outrivalled, flipped : VIRTUOSI

8-down – Tie up one of the conquerors of 23 : MOOR

13-down – Part of leg the person speaking in a part raised : TIBIA

15-down – Bass wiped with cloth, cooked : LOWPITCHED

16-down – French poet’s always less restrained : FREER

18-down – Creative skill from excited star, I hear : ARTISTRY

19-down – Some in crew translated play? That’s not realistic : ABSTRACT

22-down – Work of 28, or of 13 across, but less hard : OTELLO

23-down – Left initially from part of Africa for part of Europe : IBERIA

24-down – Raised support without very noted portrayer of Desdemona, say : DIVA

25-down – Miss Shakespearean title role -— endlessly upset : OMIT

27-down – Second type of material used in fateful 2 : SILK