Daily Answers

1-across – Advice unsuited to shy type attending fancy dress party : BEYOURSELF

6-across – Chances of good kids getting half cut : ODDS

9-across – Medical approach entailing silent treatment? : NILBYMOUTH

10-across – European knocked over loses a necklace : TORC

12-across – Actor embodied outcome of Little Bighorn, according to Spooner : BUSTERKEATON

15-across – Additional indicators : PLUSSIGNS

17-across – Old house often mocked in the suburbs : TUDOR

18-across – Serious award given to senior … : SOBER

19-across – … evicted, with seller hiding underground : TURNEDOUT

20-across – Engineer’s rig somehow providing power again : REENERGISING

24-across – Something Blue gets an occasional Epsom run : PORN

25-across – Cut line into heart? Funny story that : RIBTICKLER

26-across – Catch Euripides play on vacation : ESPY

27-across – Gorse and grass running wild — they will become belligerent : AGGRESSORS

1-down – Offer to acquire new tie : BIND

2-down – Cry out for the old record format : YELP

3-down – Insult nurse in conversation — that’s fine for you? : UPYOURSTREET

4-down – Small but perfectly formed animal : STOAT

5-down – Busy retailers rarely see one when they open : LATERISER

7-down – Type of salesman providing non-stop transport service? : DOORTODOOR

8-down – Back rank is just not good enough : SECONDRATE

11-down – American marines sent here lack preparation : LEATHERNECKS

13-down – It’s often abused by grocers dealing with multiples : APOSTROPHE

14-down – Purchase protection, but may get popped eventually! : BUBBLEWRAP

16-down – Wins with standard moves : GETSGOING

21-down – Very tasty piece raised spirit : SATYR

22-down – She inspired historians starting to chart life in Oxford : CLIO

23-down – Short text describing benefits : PROS

9-across – Fudge: is it devoured by old social workers to give weight conditions? : OBESITIES

10-across – 1 + 500 + 500? Er … I can do this! : ADDER

11-across – Harry Kane’s got wind : SNAKE

12-across – Movement before a fall? : RAINDANCE

13-across – Program in Excel — to begin with it can ease the pain : CODEINE

14-across – Messi dribbles around 1, then 50, like a rocket : MISSILE

17-across – Swear on screen : BLIND

19-across – Main reason to get excited — Reagan’s quit : SEA

20-across – It’s deep inside wallaby’s sack : ABYSS

21-across – Article about solar storm, one failing to win award : ALSORAN

22-across – Start to reduce crush — please, fall back! : RELAPSE

24-across – Most irritable conservative Jewish leader is in Paris : CRABBIEST

26-across – 19 fighting to capture Troy, enemy’s capital : WATER

28-across – One getting into expensive car to compete : RACER

29-across – Exploits solicitor’s drink : MILKSTOUT

1-down – Crow loses tail and several feathers around neck : BOAS

2-down – Woman has called regularly to announce … : HERALD

3-down – … team’s success revoking card 14 : SIDEWINDER

4-down – Violent prick going quiet to loud : FIERCE

5-down – Wine initially gives me intoxi­cation and sight issues : ASTIGMIA

6-down – Unhappy eating starter of nutritious grains : SAND

7-down – Know I study fifty puzzles — not following? : IDENTIFY

8-down – Plant 3 in Dublin : TREE

13-down – British company first gets soldiers Indian beer : COBRA

15-down – Everyone in performance on wobbly set is most superficial : SHALLOWEST

16-down – Result of Sun hacking into telecom company : ENSUE

18-down – Fashionable position, for example : INSTANCE

19-down – Broken down bus means travelling light : SUNBEAMS

22-down – Conductor and what he shook when much younger? : RATTLE

23-down – Perhaps Palin’s modern language : PYTHON

24-down – Ignore economic regulations primarily to monopolise wheat : CORN

25-down – Time flies? It might! : BIRD

27-down – S-sailor upset to see these leaving ship : RATS

1-across – First chapter on one subject : TOPIC

4-across – Broken bones set — it’s done conscientiously : ONESBEST

8-across – Top man in Hatton Garden included in deal? : KINGOFDIAMONDS

10-across – Credit cuts all the same, flipping cheek! : TEMERITY

11-across – Apparently takes action against publisher : ISSUER

12-across – Listened in with appreciation, then reprimanded : EARWIGGED

15-across – Line taken by a king that was shot at Agincourt : ARROW

17-across – Works the land undisturbed, taking spades back : TILLS

18-across – Fixed result condemned by party : RUSTLEDUP

19-across – Linen salesman returns no outdated clothing : NAPERY

21-across – Dr Spooner’s disposed of heart abscess caused by virus : COLDSORE

24-across – Pioneering tsar’s exotic voyages : PEREGRINATIONS

25-across – Troubled wife avoids fights with son : RESTLESS

26-across – Dressing Ayr’s latest civic dignitary : MAYOR

1-down – Prepare to testify to conduct that ends violently : TAKETHESTAND

2-down – Semi-dim friend keeps count with mounting energy : PENUMBRAL

3-down – Singers from church knocked back port : CHOIR

4-down – Veteran sent up guns in un­opened case : OLDSTAGER

5-down – Feel anxious, hampering style : ELAN

6-down – Reserves unlikely to find a place where work’s paid for : BOOKSTALL

7-down – Unfortunate case of Hindu ascetic begging alms : SADHU

9-down – Relapsed badly after triumph, resulting in draw : CROWDPLEASER

13-down – Rebel is compelling, knight admitted : INSURGENT

14-down – State capital one missed when touring : DESMOINES

16-down – Set to record unknown cancer therapy : RADIOLOGY

20-down – Bug in water very close to surface : PEEVE

22-down – Barrier breached by workers’ alliance — it’s a fact : DATUM

23-down – In short, there’s no female candidate for board? : BRIE

1-across – Perform decisively in shabby affair : MEANBUSINESS

9-across – Nothing to salute in officers’ camp? : OFLAG

10-across – Fine clues sold for a pound : CLOUDLESS

11-across – Desperately anxious, pointing cryptically to knee? : MADKEEN

12-across – Poacher in river or lake breaking heart : TICKLER

13-across – Around Stoke, nasty trace from this source of industrial pollution : SMOKESTACK

15-across – Cautious and tired, losing energy : WARY

18-across – Responsibility for tax : DUTY

19-across – Brief topic set out in cable : FIBREOPTIC

22-across – Female, a gem that cheat pulls : FASTONE

24-across – A class act : PERFORM

25-across – Offer by Conservative candidate : CONTENDER

26-across – Don’t insist on greeting being heard : WAIVE

27-across – Flyer, insured for a crash, works easily : USERFRIENDLY

1-down – Clumsy admiral to get transferred : MALADROIT

2-down – Fish certainly around island : ANGLESEY

3-down – Forbid eating firm meat : BACON

4-down – Zippy little number to bear evidence of damage : SPORTSCAR

5-down – Indicate agreement with reserve, there’s nothing doing : NODICE

6-down – Period charm : SPELL

7-down – World of society in care of doctors : COSMOS

8-down – For one fishing, nothing right in salmon river : OSPREY

14-down – Rabbit hoping to avoid duck? : TAILENDER

16-down – Writer on computer matters, unknown expert : AUTHORITY

17-down – Men supporting bachelor disput­ed something for wedding? : BORROWED

18-down – Spoil appearance of part of the cafe, disabled needing a lift : DEFACE

20-down – Slicing tops off salad plant is burden : CUMBER

21-down – Put a fold in party clothes : DOGEAR

23-down – Partly fills in useless hole in the head : SINUS

24-down – Contract is in wallet : PURSE

7-across – Acknowledgement came out: yours truly wrong? : MEACULPA

9-across – Giantess, great runner : AMAZON

10-across – See 6 : LIFE

11-across – Flies in flight, perhaps, circling druggie in Australia : TROUSERZIP

12-across – Savoury pudding crony fails to finish? : HAGGIS

14-across – In acerbic manner, money invested in presidential coinage? : BITINGLY

15-across – Squat plastered in refuse — how stupid? : DENSITY

17-across – Rodents cooler in student accommodation? : DORMICE

20-across – Ground is wet in a country in Africa : ESWATINI

22-across – See 24 : POCKET

23-across – Times analogy failing to comprehend point, to say the least : BYALONGWAY

24-across – Artful Dodger, say, best Dickens character : PICK

25-across – Release attention-seeker in relative, shortly : UNCOIL

26-across – Ultimately, wad super fat : DRIPPING

1-down – Background: what a lady may not wish to reveal about it : HERITAGE

2-down – Some land already claimed, Russians excited, first of all : ACRE

3-down – Release of this undesirable unlikely, initially confined to accommodation in block? : FLATUS

4-down – Voice disagreement after brief collapse : FALSETTO

5-down – Cypriot man : PATRONYMIC

6-down – Flipping English cram onto perfect Greek island, visiting nightclubs etc : SOCIAL

8-down – Having smuggled in drugs, a Mafia leader on Alcatraz moving cell : AMOEBA

13-down – Plastic bags Belgian hasn’t opened, carrier of basket : GASBALLOON

16-down – Percussion instrument, altering when beaten : TRIANGLE

18-down – Three quarters of team recognise shape : CRESCENT

19-down – In short film, female animal seen : VIEWED

21-down – Saw not going to lose teeth, originally : SAYING

22-down – Therapist calling for sparkling water? : PHYSIO

24-down – Channel going in deep I pulled towards the surface? : PIPE