Daily Answers

1-across – ’e is adept and can be avoided : ESCAPABLE

6-across – Unhappy Hungarian leaders becoming ascetic : SADHU

9-across – Dismissed soldier is bizarre : OUTRE

10-across – Expenses for excursions catching game : OUTGOINGS

11-across – Old transport on river beyond the walls : EXTRAMURAL

12-across – Sovereign in charge is unrestricted : FREE

14-across – Forest guides keep rook within limits : RANGERS

15-across – Punch hurts during capture : NAILSET

17-across – Ties up and watches over aggressive dog : SECURES

19-across – Excellent drink taken with army engineers : SUPREME

20-across – Rex remains impulsive : RASH

22-across – Parliament has money for the wine : CHAMBERTIN

25-across – Bank clerk losing head conceals reputation of craftsman : ENAMELLER

26-across – Belts and hosiery : SOCKS

27-across – Poor girl’s obsession? : THING

28-across – Study clothes to change the point of delivery : READDRESS

1-down – European : ELOPE

2-down – Insensible jazz fan needs a shot in the arm : CATATONIC

3-down – A Frenchman consumes fruit in a his second home in town : PIEDATERRE

4-down – Boy gets scoundrel’s shoes : BROGUES

5-down – Card players and coach get on board : ENTRAIN

6-down – Try to get fired : SHOT

7-down – Philanthropist has name put in entrance : DONOR

8-down – A French woman with a couple of articles to disclose : UNSHEATHE

13-down – Ladies sped off and caused annoyance : DISPLEASED

14-down – Research critical? It’s on the up and up : RESURGENT

16-down – Doctor accepts the French exhibition : SPECTACLE

18-down – Student’s small choral composition : SCHOLAR

19-down – Boy has song from old capital of Israel : SAMARIA

21-down – Religious teacher grew dizzy on island : SWAMI

23-down – Model wearing cape, retreats : NESTS

24-down – Request to entertain royal composer : BERG

9-across – Intended heartlessly to follow United as a penance : ATONEMENT

10-across – America, for example, backing employment : USAGE

11-across – Stray doctor provided the end of treatment : DRIFT

12-across – Result of dental anaesthesia overdose? Idiot! : NUMBSKULL

13-across – In the middle of the red line : CENTRAL

14-across – Title giving lad more trouble : EARLDOM

17-across – Church chasing film vampire and bloodsucker : LEECH

19-across – Annoying electronic sound endlessly made by buzzer : BEE

20-across – Animal is a shy bear, by the sound of it : COYPU

21-across – Number making heck of a racket in exam : ORDINAL

22-across – Time for resolution as jury split by two different articles : JANUARY

24-across – Strangely unrecognisable without being criminal : LARCENOUS

26-across – Useless computers holding writer back : INEPT

28-across – Not a street where things happen : VENUE

29-across – Cockney pet mad about city : AMSTERDAM

1-down – What softens onion dhal, cooked with a tiny bit of turmeric : HAND

2-down – See 1 : LOTION

3-down – Gambler seen on top of tavern, he may be the finest yet : BETTERTHAN

4-down – Boys back-to-back in the doghouse : KENNEL

5-down – Deep trouble following street in the morning rush : STAMPEDE

6-down – Crazy nightmare might be the case for Brazil : NUTS

7-down – Study Arabic, half drunk, for 24 hours : SATURDAY

8-down – See 6 : HELL

13-down – G’day! Swap taps for some strings : CELLO

15-down – Side and corner shot? Think again! : RECONSIDER

16-down – Quiet and timid, like Mickey, Jerry or Stuart? : MOUSY

18-down – Long-term, it’s said you are in the finale : ENDURING

19-down – Raise little dog just for one’s holiday home? : BALMORAL

22-down – Fair, therefore bang on : JUSTSO

23-down – Schedule non-disclosure agree­ment after a long time : AGENDA

24-down – Nothing to be found between 13 down and 28 : LOVE

25-down – See 3 : EVER

27-down – Volume of customers : TOME

1-across – Loud singer drowning middle of soprano’s debut in Yerma : BRASSY

4-across – Female returning contraceptive gets rash : MADCAP

9-across – Robbery by British convict : BLAG

10-across – Share of permit curtailed action abroad : ALLOCATION

11-across – Note enclosed in letter found by large stream : RUNNEL

12-across – Sweden’s ruler losing new letter for a window-cleaner : SQUEEGEE

13-across – Conservative husband and wife prepared to meet well-informed cabinet member : CHIEFWHIP

15-across – Fool’s endless foolish talk : PRAT

16-across – Faith leader shot close to synagogue : POPE

17-across – Tonic in US mixed with last of finest malt : STIMULANT

21-across – Chemist originally sold new mineral for facial blemish : COLDSORE

22-across – Bad start to card game : CRUMMY

24-across – Rascal went back on a promise about boiling tea : DEGENERATE

25-across – Elected leader leaving topic for discussion to the others : THEM

26-across – Doctor tries to pinch bottom of overweight model : SITTER

27-across – Beasts devouring last of creature’s vital organs : HEARTS

1-down – Plant mid-July in scrubland : BULRUSH

2-down – Gas found in Norway under Jason’s ship : ARGON

3-down – Fall for a bird : SWALLOW

5-down – Add to account about European uprising : ACCRUE

6-down – Important church described by Catholic Herald collapsed after a time : CATHEDRAL

7-down – Planned programme in favour of Jung’s initial shock treatment : PROJECT

8-down – Baked dish containing cut of beef and hard pate mixture is only a very brief hit : FLASHINTHEPAN

14-down – Sensible partner once getting exercise and new addition to weight loss plan : EXPEDIENT

16-down – Media coverage of old women’s skill : PROWESS

18-down – Knife for staff eating the bananas : MACHETE

19-down – Figures in new colours : NUMBERS

20-down – Sailor’s father setter listened to : POPEYE

23-down – Extreme vessel caught out : UTTER

8-across – Fake spirit — rubbish, so returned : IMPOSTOR

9-across – Cold as a bouncer? That’s a bit rough : CHOPPY

10-across – Co-operate with Brand, say, and dance : PLAY

11-across – Rabbit’s old small home not about to be put on tip : COTTONTAIL

12-across – Scuttle made from small dish : SCURRY

14-across – One who’s resigned at last — if sacked? : FATALIST

15-across – Label from opening of stopwatch? : STICKER

17-across – See another way to protect cutting — put in the shade : ECLIPSE

20-across – Relentless Danube flows over a treetop : UNABATED

22-across – Hard to get into run-down boat : DINGHY

23-across – Player paid journalist to admit pamphlet’s overlong : PROTRACTED

24-across – See 10 : BALL

25-across – Creep abandons heroin chic, being noble : HEROIC

26-across – Butcher’s ex-partner disposes of veal finally : ONCEOVER

1-down – Understood there are no bounds to simplicity : IMPLICIT

2-down – Stiff wind is a serious setback : BODY

3-down – The blue bed turned up inside squat : STOCKY

4-down – $1,000 seal, please : GRATIFY

5-down – Working actor’s introductions to Independent’s crossword puzzle : ACROSTIC

6-down – Drunken sot in passenger seat, traditional victim of a lightning strike? : POSTILLION

7-down – Light science work by jerks : OPTICS

13-down – Music genre behind Nadir : ROCKBOTTOM

16-down – Transport lobby? : ENTRANCE

18-down – Great poet’s school gets worse : SCHILLER

19-down – With leader gone, political and social agitation is an issue : EDITION

21-down – Newton and Drake, sadly, were annoying : NARKED

22-down – French from over Channel take off : DEDUCT

24-down – See 2 : BLOW

1-across – Mountain ledge offering place of refreshment for one : SCAFELL

5-across – What Mussolini’s supporters were to bring about : PRODUCE

10-across – Animals run away, first to last : CATS

11-across – Displays bowls of healthy breakfast food : BRANDISHES

12-across – One acted on making protest : OBJECT

13-across – Steamy and hot on the outside, turning purple : AMETHYST

14-across – Herald quiet about bad fellow, type falling short : PRECURSOR

16-across – Nasty noise increased for listeners … : GROAN

17-across – … with this malfunctioning? : ORGAN

19-across – Magic hospital admitting deficiency : BLACKARTS

23-across – A mother with opportunity to get bargain non-alcoholic drink : ADAMSALE

24-across – Critic beginning to rattle American relations : RUSKIN

26-across – What could be seen as my one load of dubious cash? : FUNNYMONEY

27-across – Control what causes flooding, we say : REIN

28-across – Looking unwell, wanting disease got rid of : FLUSHED

29-across – Maybe waste words introducing cross reference : SEEPAGE

2-down – Church given warning signal — it may contain explosive : CHAMBER

3-down – Some careless officer found upside down in a ditch : FOSSE

4-down – Bloater’s not a bad sea food item : LOBSTER

6-down – Oxford martyr cleared with straight line laid down : RIDLEY

7-down – Uneasiness I must hide in phoney rhapsody : DYSPHORIA

8-down – Radical Argentinian university associated with a London club : CHELSEA

9-down – OAP leads conga, having worked out musical instruction : DACAPOALSEGNO

15-down – 150 workers end squatting inside — demanding types : CLAIMANTS

18-down – Comedian given stick, loveless greeting : RODHULL

20-down – Historian’s report of Cumbrian city : CARLYLE

21-down – What sounds like traditional office task in Asian town : TAIPING

22-down – Breasts shown by the old woman in old musical : MAMMAE

25-down – Tricky situation when energy’s lacking in fight : SCRAP