Daily Answers

1-across – ‘Crumbling gable’ artist’s symbolic subject : ALGEBRA

5-across – Spot storyline with school setting : SPLOTCH

9-across – Living accommodation north of the border : MANSE

10-across – First-rate access to attic? : TOPFLIGHT

11-across – Secret hero, roughly sixty : THREESCORE

12-across – Figure from report incomplete : STAT

14-across – Draw with number one in league to regain control : PULLONESELF

18-across – Unit at large performing survey : TRIANGULATE

21-across – Rod’s tipple laced with unknown ingredient : AXLE

22-across – Lots such as furniture maker might bid for? : AGREATDEAL

25-across – Canadian water hounds worried by horse : HUDSONBAY

26-across – Worker using kitchen roller about to leave : BAKER

27-across – Immense distance once covered by rodents from the East : STELLAR

28-across – Times added to article about Queen using such means : THEREBY

1-down – Acknowledges obsolete currency in islands : ADMITS

2-down – Groups retrospectively brought in by fare negotiators : GENERA

3-down – Dealing with buzzers sounding alert — I’m scared to enter : BEEKEEPING

4-down – Lark averse to cold? : ANTIC

5-down – Stratford flower seller, America’s rising star : SUPERNOVA

6-down – Two gents on air possibly a wonderful thing : LULU

7-down – See 14 : TOGETHER

8-down – Mimic successfully adopting new technology to get on : HITITOFF

13-down – Cat beetled off before one’s very eyes : DETECTABLE

15-down – Lie about secure provision for the smarter patrons? : LOUNGEBAR

16-down – Joins embassy staff : ATTACHES

17-down – Get caught after police knock off : DISLODGE

19-down – Shout down my left ear at first : HECKLE

20-down – Conservative needs unusual sensitivity, ousting almost all ministers : CLERGY

23-down – Anguish at heart of alien realm : EGYPT

24-down – Fine bird, one for the table : FOWL

9-across – One manipulates very big writer back at hotel : OSTEOPATH

10-across – This writer’s mellow still : IMAGE

11-across – Revolutionary shoe is too tight to accommodate foot : TOOTSIE

12-across – Choose independent state helping pupils work? : OPTICAL

13-across – Train monkey abandoned by staff : DRILL

14-across – The dos and don’ts of cloning new bitches, about ten? : BIOETHICS

16-across – They fight invaders who libelled Scot after Reformation : WHITEBLOODCELLS

19-across – Duplicate Mediterranean city corporation : SPARETYRE

21-across – Not all of these guests proceed without a break : SEGUE

22-across – Cat left snake trapped? It’s fair game : TOMBOLA

23-across – Defenceless Unionist called about Republican : UNARMED

24-across – Bottle first of port during function : SPINE

25-across – Jailer’s means of access to fast food? : CANOPENER

1-down – Engineer shouts about broken range : SOUTHDOWNS

2-down – Chop up, stir and boil fruits of hops : STROBILI

3-down – Personal matter of dubious value is not raised online : TONSIL

4-down – Meet following first-class service : FACE

5-down – Handed down item old medics wrapped in shiny stuff : CHROMOSOME

6-down – Parliament to mention rises based on consumption : DIETETIC

7-down – Start to train first person in Berlin in excellent exercises : TAICHI

8-down – The Spanish ambassador heads list : HEEL

14-down – Seductive performance led by clean comic : BELLYDANCE

15-down – They hold up supper regularly during breaks : SUSPENDERS

17-down – Spain agreed to host entire broadcast for private viewers : EYEHOLES

18-down – Joint holder’s fast time running round a school : LIGAMENT

20-down – Hairy place where weapons may be hidden? : ARMPIT

21-down – South Carolina mounts western trophies : SCALPS

22-down – Big canine, last of eight by Welsh river : TUSK

23-down – Stubbs preserved large bone from horse’s leg : ULNA

1-across – Landing ground needs helium for large computer : HELIPAD

5-across – Pastry with extremely sweet, coarse caramel base : STRUDEL

9-across – Japanese assassin held in Benin jail : NINJA

10-across – Nasty man leaving those left behind to protect dog : REPUGNANT

11-across – New brewery tsar dismissing English version of fruity beer : STRAWBERRY

12-across – Type of water bath : FONT

14-across – Inclined not to marry : SINGLEMINDED

18-across – Run away without paying for excellent piece of cheesy snack : WELSHRAREBIT

21-across – Twist lid of tea container : TURN

22-across – Remembers spiritual lessons with short prayers : RECOLLECTS

25-across – Setter taking risk dancing in sweet garment : MINISKIRT

26-across – Drawer behind counter containing wide fabric : TWILL

27-across – One who’s left work about to go to Scottish island : RETIREE

28-across – Non-stop part of pretend lesson : ENDLESS

1-down – Trusty hen’s first over place to hatch eggs : HONEST

2-down – 8 at which siren destroyed ships : LINERS

3-down – Beginning of popular poem by Welsh conservative writer : PLAYWRIGHT

4-down – Terrible setting for end of boring requiem : DIRGE

5-down – Replace foreign reps wearing soft leather fabric : SUPERSEDE

6-down – Breeze from the south crossing German capital : RIGA

7-down – Cop given nuts spitting out large stones : DIAMONDS

8-down – Allowance got by lecturer before head of technology leaves position : LATITUDE

13-down – Turned on cash register contain­ing note with forged date : TITILLATED

15-down – See 23 : GRAPEVINE

16-down – Write to male exposed as love cheat : TWOTIMER

17-down – Instrument at home in dark red cover : CLARINET

19-down – Writer cries afresh about book : SCRIBE

20-down – Devotional songs sung by priest and son getting donations for the needy : PSALMS

23-down – Eager to join TV phone-in broadcast via the bush telegraph : ONTHE

24-down – Addict’s escort has no heroin : USER

1-across – Like the Duke of Edinburgh, soon had deer roundly shot : HUNDRED

5-across – I note all clogs designed with cleats may be an exercise in futility : SELLING

9-across – Want reform before midnight, in a manner of speaking : TWANG

10-across – Due to position, previous lover gone and nice Dior clothing disappeared : EXOFFICIO

11-across – Partial earnings, please, must be included : INCOMPLETE

12-across – Lackey of dodgy boss, mostly awful : DOGS

14-across – Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped? Awkward question: run with it! : NONSEQUITUR

18-across – An American politician? : STATESWOMAN

21-across – See 12 : BODY

22-across – One way to get salt when all else fails : LASTRESORT

25-across – Evidence of passion from Elvis to be reviewed : LOVEBITES

26-across – 1 across the origin of light and dark : UNLIT

27-across – Trap set in earnest, leave it out : ENSNARE

28-across – See 1 : YEAROLD

1-down – Paint brush finally adapted into a device holding pillbox in place : HATPIN

2-down – Subtlety shown by woman of faith taking over a church : NUANCE

3-down – Socialist hosts meeting that’s organised and strictly regulated : REGIMENTED

4-down – Live broadcast centre source : DWELL

5-down – Temporary abbreviation? : SHORTTERM

6-down – Left frequently in the attic : LOFT

7-down – Chocolate after Colin passes out is elementary : INCHOATE

8-down – Choice of words used by Lineker when admitting defeat : GLOSSARY

13-down – With a plate he can certainly make the earth move : JUANDEFUCA

15-down – See 5 across : NEWCASTLE

16-down – She asks what might be necessary on a bicycle : ISABELLE

17-down – Islands emphatically shut up about what some people do there : MALDIVES

19-down – See 5 across : COALTO

20-down – Art student undressed on vacation, ready to breed : ATSTUD

23-down – The asparagus served to you for starters is delicious : TASTY

24-down – Part of sabbatical group : ABBA

8-across – Let go of everything, including WPC’s protection : FIREWALL

9-across – Returning live president’s vehicles : EBIKES

10-across – Determined to hide kiss in explicit message : SEXT

11-across – Unfortunate snag in camp grooming activity : MANSCAPING

12-across – Characters covered in lava: perspiring, but they aren’t exactly smoking : VAPERS

14-across – Sharing one’s thoughts with cute touch, briefly : TWEETING

15-across – Believer in fake news article, Republican keeping dull routine : TRUTHER

17-across – Mass of waste paper cut by a composer : FATBERG

20-across – Refuse further contact with a foreign fellow in red pants : UNFRIEND

22-across – Nationalist policy from monarch getting in scrap : BREXIT

23-across – One new chronicle with current text, like the across answers here : NEOLOGISMS

24-across – Very extensive, nameless posts online : VLOG

25-across – Man United star that is as Aeneas to Achates : BESTIE

26-across – Musical cycle has style and contemporary sound : RINGTONE

1-down – Dog in cable host’s opening show : WIREHAIR

2-down – Fast, but not when in France! : LENT

3-down – Greek island with quiet ambiance — not half! : PATMOS

4-down – Time to invest in kites — they’re seen in the sky : PLANETS

5-down – Funny hue by red borders of reseda plant genus : HEUCHERA

6-down – Make invalid’s absorbing phrase open to debate : DISPUTABLE

7-down – Keep writing about new standard : PENNON

13-down – Put in grinding toil with hard calculus : ENTEROLITH

16-down – Efforts of heartless foes seizing empty Reichstag : ENERGIES

18-down – Descartes’s logical bit of algebra is on news : RAISONNE

19-down – Shot as a dart from Caesar heavenwards : ADASTRA

21-down – Required for reporter, any editors : NEEDED

22-down – Sailors thus about to enter Rolls : BOSUNS

24-down – Mark an X in 18 consecutive letters brought up : VOTE