Daily Answers

1-across – Plant rejected a kind of strike after one fellow sacked : FUCHSIA

5-across – Current protection scheme in tatters — need extremely qualified expert : TESTAND

9-across – See 5 : TRACE

10-across – Widespread infections gathered speed? I’m in charge, initially : EPIDEMICS

11-across – Attempt to stay safe at the moment — in support at first : STAYATHOME

12-across – Life of Brian not getting an Oscar? : BRIO

14-across – 17 accomplished nothing with firm and in government : DIDOHARDING

18-across – Rallies, as before, when looks like holding : REASSEMBLES

21-across – Amorous behaviour not un­known in secluded little spot : NOOK

22-across – Heard cab at rank is a security problem : DATABREACH

25-across – Bungling Boris maybe completely lost — it has been said before : ITERATION

26-across – Is it as one originally maintained? : IOTAS

27-across – Goal? Fail to score with keeper getting back : MISSION

28-across – Rest have told a story earlier : LIEDOWN

1-down – Fixation with France and French — want to be guillotined! : FETISH

2-down – Virginia entering picked up bow tie at first and a possible alternative : CRAVAT

3-down – Dessert was served as flight attendant was called : STEWARDESS

4-down – Letter on where to drink beer : ALEPH

5-down – Beat prince — one kept celebrating achievement : TRIUMPHAL

6-down – Guide leaving town — he knows what’s coming : SEER

7-down – Drops environmentally unfriendly car India produced : ACIDRAIN

8-down – Lives lost in Kansas city — manage to move : DISLODGE

13-down – Heading for Spitalfields, one Ripper suspect’s an underworld figure : PROSERPINE

15-down – It’s hell! Very angry about country : DAMNATION

16-down – Getting mates in party at end of day — is money overcoming resistance? : CRONYISM

17-down – Rank boss near useless! : BARONESS

19-down – Out of sorts, accused up-and-coming left-winger : CASTRO

20-down – Picked note up in canteen before leaving : CHOSEN

23-down – Obsessive over new record : ANNAL

24-down – Queen showing Thatcher animosity? On the contrary : RANI

1-across – Place first and last letter next to a square : PLAZA

4-across – Denial of strike from head: actual lines : REBUTTAL

8-across – One treats people in waves from terrible apartheid riots : RADIOTHERAPIST

10-across – Hopeless with pitch that’s firm? Australia following on edgily at first : TONEDEAF

11-across – Flyer complained after vacation about flying Ryanair across Belgium : CANARY

12-across – Reacting from chemistry: one courting with hug and kiss at the start : OXIDATING

15-across – Do work in part of Africa : CONGO

17-across – Dog muck outside of church : POOCH

18-across – Managed hospital: sick suffer : GOTHROUGH

19-across – Hand back profit : RETURN

21-across – Irish rascal spotted pinching a record by Prince : SPALPEEN

24-across – Start to miss EastEnders: ITV breaks with these? : ADVERTISEMENTS

25-across – It makes it hard to go in court to describe barren years’ sex lives : CYSTITIS

26-across – Screens international games : TESTS

1-down – Dropping unit from sky appears to get rotor damaged : PARATROOPERS

2-down – With one against playing back slow piece of music : ANDANTINO

3-down – Don’t catch an STI that’s going around Love Island : AVOID

4-down – European man, to stop itching, is trying once more : REHEARING

5-down – See 11 : BIRD

6-down – Entertainer turning up at party, initially with tower of presents : TAPDANCER

7-down – Sailing all over the place : ATSEA

9-down – They hit bars playing music from 10: only sip shot when hammered : XYLOPHONISTS

13-down – Horrible injury from fighting? Men split : ABHORRENT

14-down – Driver might go through these short tee positions following golf ace : GATEPOSTS

16-down – North America to deploy soldiers — they make one sick! : NAUSEANTS

20-down – Now daughter and adult play outside : TODAY

22-down – Tramp’s wearing tight cap : LIMIT

23-down – Put back model in collection : STET

9-across – Cast out from here? : STAGEDOOR

10-across – Play around in floor in Japan : KYOTO

11-across – Training with international aristocrat not off to a flyer : PEWIT

12-across – Dancing, it’s linked to being the most gracious : KINDLIEST

13-across – Prime Minister familiarly wel­comes northern old city with French greeting : BONJOUR

14-across – Nurse abandons joining up programme : LISTING

17-across – Informally, we first breakfast over porridge : BRITS

19-across – Without limits, invest in pound : PEN

20-across – IT company starting to invent new revolutionary clouds : NIMBI

21-across – Cars having many applications : LOTUSES

22-across – Ran away riding a horse that’s tired : FLAGGED

24-across – One has no trouble getting their kids to eat greens : HERBIVORE

26-across – Eats quickly? Not so fast, picking up fine when it’s brought back : WOLFS

28-across – Planet Earth’s becoming over­heated — let’s get leaders to retire : GLOBE

29-across – Some stars spotted in Poundland, Rome? Daring! : ANDROMEDA

1-down – Republican’s second in command, please reply : RSVP

2-down – Scientist: rising radical gains success : DARWIN

3-down – They’re on the top floor or shelf? : PENTHOUSES

4-down – Heckle King and Queen’s agent : BOOKER

5-down – Founding father’s honest, nothing being overturned : FRANKLIN

6-down – Glances up, drains third of stout, cheers! : SKOL

7-down – Coward catches bishop’s virus regularly on front of mask element : NOBELIUM

8-down – English cricketer is 4 of 16? : ROOT

13-down – Child left scene of confusion : BABEL

15-down – Hospital boy’s raised to court daughter with fragrance : SANDALWOOD

16-down – Wear down to earth, as Her Majesty might say : GRIND

18-down – Organised crime not building telephone system : INTERCOM

19-down – After test regarding the country … : PASTORAL

22-down – … fellow lied about section’s answers : FIELDS

23-down – £1,000,050,500 unlimited menu for anniversary : GOLDEN

24-down – Boss tells Grant to leave : HUGO

25-down – Object displaying kite mark : ITEM

27-down – Playwright: ‘That’s a wrap!’ Not quite : SHAW

7-across – Regular join should include one? : SOLDIER

8-across – ‘Rotting food swindle’ admits épicier, finally, in the middle of Paris : CARRION

9-across – Advantage of wife leaving club : EDGE

10-across – Legendary ruler giving away universal ring case for scarab, say : ARTHROPOD

12-across – Como is too wet in the middle! : MOIST

13-across – Conflict causes female to lose stone at first, getting lighter : MISMATCH

15-across – They have nothing to do with Eric introducing elements of a deal? : IDLE

16-across – Ex-PM, having been given a roasting? : BROWN

17-across – See 24 : WORD

18-across – Free entry of one into Grexit arrangement has advantage, initially : EXGRATIA

20-across – See 15 : HANDS

21-across – No builder’s storeyed construct­ion should be by river : DESTROYER

22-across – See 6 : FORD

24-across – A consummate example — end of argument! : THELAST

25-across – No good entering antelope country : ENGLAND

1-down – Suitable travel make-up : GOOD

2-down – Publicity she wrongly associated with Brummie’s sticker : ADHESIVE

3-down – ‘Ratio of a right angle bearing’ — jargon! : SECANT

4-down – Tabloid turned up with: ‘Ron is terribly camp’ : GARRISON

5-down – ‘King George’, a soft old man’s tipple : GRAPPA

6-down – English writer makes US president : FORD

11-down – Fleeting romp turned into weeping : TEMPORARY

12-down – See 6 : MADOX

14-down – Large asteroid sequence broadcast : CERES

16-down – Support : BUTTRESS

17-down – You wouldn’t expect this bend on trip : WINDFALL

19-down – Dwelling briefly on final answer : RESULT

20-down – Worn inside the woman’s waders : HERONS

21-down – Writer’s pulse : DAHL

23-down – Peel, elected after resistance, died : RIND

1-across – Charlotte races about in this? : CHELSEA

5-across – See 1 : TRACTOR

9-across – Copy of Two Thousand and One, with music finale : MIMIC

10-across – Runs out of air? Oh dear! : DIARRHOEA

11-across – Supports bar locks : BUTTRESSES

12-across – Tie the knot after most excellent love is given : BEST

14-across – Get some sleep before family calls for tableware : NAPKINRINGS

18-across – See 3 : GLORIAMUNDI

21-across – See 12 : OWED

22-across – Each letter is liberal : PERMISSIVE

25-across – An underground place of humiliation : ABASEMENT

26-across – See 24 : LUNAR

27-across – 19 artist’s work to fade out ultimately, such a recipe for disaster : THEKISS

28-across – See 27 : OFDEATH

1-down – Meet something funny with B Ford : COMEBY

2-down – NY Times singularly spreading hatred : ENMITY

3-down – Celebrity passes what sounds like ambulance during a limo trip : SICTRANSIT

4-down – Range in the Arabian desert : ANDES

5-down – In train wreck, old Sophocles? : TRAGEDIAN

6-down – Wrong to be suspicious with a promotion : AWRY

7-down – Pony went bust worth not much money : TWOPENNY

8-down – Drive to evaluate Spooner’s lily pad? : ROADTEST

13-down – Are you, as they say, taken in by strong Arab commander leaving home course? : FRUITSALAD

15-down – Starts to put record straight about some current spoilers : PAMPERERS

16-down – Endlessly going off on tirade is not clever : IGNORANT

17-down – Website tribute about the centre of Aleppo : HOMEPAGE

19-down – Life in Paris before Napoleon evacuated a capital city : VIENNA

20-down – Scarcity put right inside 28 : DEARTH

23-down – ‘Head off, bottom up’ as a slogan : MOTTO

24-down – Surgeon’s first working rule: man, I like the aortic valve! : SEMI