Daily Answers

1-across – Had maiden caught in cold shower some offensive words? : HATEMAIL

5-across – Plan to get English degree after school : SCHEMA

9-across – Form 1 starts to consider some well-known books : CLASSICS

10-across – After work, seller is to escape getting involved : OPTOUT

12-across – Source of inspiration in lecture, having switched sides : ERATO

13-across – Bishop in staggering movement, hero in act of defiance : REBELLION

14-across – Book to excite man into tales : LAMENTATIONS

18-across – Scot and Austrian working together in a branch of science : ASTRONAUTICS

21-across – Added time had arisen after injury : ADARSHENI

23-across – Island thus seen looking west from Roman harbour : OSTIA

24-across – Interrupts with instruction to reduce wickedness : CUTSIN

25-across – Mars — a visit : VITIATES

26-across – City’s place of vice, always hiding its face : DENVER

27-across – Physicist showing anxiety with short memory : ANGSTROM

1-down – Prime minister on television, one seeking to steal information : HACKER

2-down – Emperor’s function to keep rule in India : TRAJAN

3-down – Sugar upset tot before Virginia tucked into fish and duck : MUSCOVADO

4-down – Put away in vehicle, packed in box: drug smuggled in : INCARCERATED

6-down – Black stuff with core of soft or hard material : COPAL

7-down – Them old books? I study some­thing on the computer! : EMOTICON

8-down – A bit like part of Birmingham, creating surprise? : ASTONISH

11-down – Treat bionics unconventionally as medical specialist : OBSTETRICIAN

15-down – Note penned by investigators for geological study : TECTONICS

16-down – Weapon housed in rotten stable : BALANCED

17-down – Distress of nurse once, char­acteristic concealed : STRAITEN

19-down – Country with rupee coin : STATER

20-down – Carriage provided when Dane, maybe, is given honour : HANSOM

22-down – Criticise bargain with Europe, finally : SNIPE

1-across – Covert behaviour’s appropriate, though heartless : STEALTH

5-across – Bail due for revision in hearing : AUDIBLE

9-across – Bare minimum of instructional books — effectively treat as one : INTHEALTOGETHER

10-across – Gifts of pink and yellow roses to make up? : PEACE

11-across – See 10 : OFFERINGS

12-across – Reason address fails to start? One may be drunk : RATIONALE

14-across – Vestment about to be given extravagant lining : COTTA

15-across – Gathering clamour breaks record : CROWD

16-across – Powerful ray left sea bream floundering : LASERBEAM

18-across – Glimpses tenor in embrace of lovelorn soprano : SIGHTINGS

21-across – New acid revitalised battery : NICAD

22-across – A tyrannical male condemned food processor : ALIMENTARYCANAL

23-across – Showcase clothing in general : KITCHEN

24-across – See 23 : DRESSER

1-down – There’s no end of unstable footwear : SLIPPER

2-down – Particularly reliable source of cash among sweetshop’s stock? : EXTRASTRONGMINT

3-down – Vassal’s superior, grand persona sent up in song : LIEGELORD

4-down – Below-zero greeting? : HELLO

5-down – Distance from a kid climbing headland : ALOOFNESS

6-down – Bleak start for Doctor Foster : DREAR

7-down – Like badly-synced dialogue offstage? : BEHINDTHESCENES

8-down – Set up a route regularly crossing one continent or two : EURASIA

13-down – Favourite leader’s lost weight where some US VIPs have gained stones : ARLINGTON

14-down – Extremely little basis for appalling narrative : CHRONICLE

15-down – Slavonic firms on fire : COSSACK

17-down – A rum old collection assembled bit by bit : MODULAR

19-down – Sufficient power to operate choppers : TEETH

20-down – Perceptive wife cleared out grate : SHRED

1-across – Who would happily make you smart : SADIST

4-across – Could be pet’s collar, missing top piece : RABBIT

9-across – Satisfied to clean and beat cloth : FULL

10-across – A holy play brought in to stir up Windsor? : ROYALHOUSE

11-across – Digger said to be made sexually unproductive : SPAYED

12-across – Four obliged to join a decentralised rally : BOUNDARY

13-across – Ground earth to be removed from border fortress : EDGBASTON

15-across – Ride south with Peg : SPIN

16-across – Plant’s day off : DILL

17-across – Almost share in public function : OPERATION

21-across – Old person says ‘rain dances’ : ASSYRIAN

22-across – Key exercise to cut pound? : OPENER

24-across – Two-tongued individual, bachelor utilising mobile : BILINGUIST

25-across – Cast getting drunk over at premiere of Shrek : TOSS

26-across – Stones gathered at bottom of cliff before new show : SCREEN

27-across – Tuck, the musical, gets a new lead : CREASE

1-down – Dismissed and baffled : STUMPED

2-down – Catch the sheep? : DOLLY

3-down – Banks of getting temperature right inside trousers : STRIDES

5-down – Completely exhausted, disagree on going topless : ALLOUT

6-down – Rex withdraws from foxhunting, possibly result of pricked finger? : BLOODSPOT

7-down – Hampshire river flow try-out : TESTRUN

8-down – Heavily used when preparing to play the pantomime villain, eastern boy Prince Lew, maybe? : EYEBROWPENCIL

14-down – 1960s’ play and film, featuring American club with revolving bar : BILLYLIAR

16-down – Vicious comeback by female? Pay no heed : DISMISS

18-down – Bird shown as ‘duck’ in list : ROOSTER

19-down – Manage to put rhyme into Anglo-Saxon language : OVERSEE

20-down – Confess member’s short of $1,000, for the record : SINGLE

23-down – One of those who makes a film host? : EXTRA

1-across – Doctor doesn’t start working out inspirational woman : EUTERPE

5-across – Order press to cover key letter from Plato : OMICRON

10-across – Periodically fancy that series of old deeds : ACTA

11-across – Roosevelt settled for Republican surveying device : THEODOLITE

12-across – Cretan king’s mother’s contribut­ion to neuropathology : EUROPA

13-across – Sit papers dealing with main god : POSEIDON

14-across – Wary bishop is hosting Democrat Eddy near Sicily : CHARYBDIS

16-across – Lots of deities : FATES

17-across – English lad gathers new wood : EBONY

19-across – Check claim involving northern dispute : CHALLENGE

23-across – Playwright succeeded with horror story : SCHILLER

24-across – Old statesman exercised coercion on leaving : CICERO

26-across – Star characters in Disney film : WHITEDWARF

27-across – Circus figure’s painful back : EROS

28-across – Ill-fated lover’s articles, two of them foreign : LEANDER

29-across – One who likes to scorn club first : IRONIST

2-down – Rustic forbidden to appear in a French church : UNCOUTH

3-down – A long time to muse : ERATO

4-down – Favourite city medic’s future wool supplier : PETLAMB

6-down – Coach amused stinging swimmer, one of 21 : MEDUSA

7-down – Grow crop, last of rye bordering vital ground : CULTIVATE

8-down – Open University book inspires college sequel : OUTCOME

9-down – High priest of soul maybe told about dancing : TERPSICHOREAN

15-down – Film dog in colour, one interrupting service : RINTINTIN

18-down – Barman tours clubs with a European bunch of boozers : BACCHAE

20-down – Cryptic clue about providing radical Morning Star : LUCIFER

21-down – Repulsive women try to cuddle up, hugging Romeo : GORGONS

22-down – Promise place on Fringe : PLEDGE

25-down – Theban king about to rip off trousers : CREON

1-across – Big money, cigars … not one involved in this : BRITAINS

5-across – Peace and love? Left first to cut through pretence : SHALOM

9-across – See 22 : CONTRACT

10-across – Wife’s getting frisky with actor on Peaky — not a good one : ANASTY

12-across – Herbert’s story entertains a majority of regulators : THERMOSTATS

15-across – Exercise in order for man? : BIPED

17-across – Queen stage musical review — initially it’s repetitious : ITERATIVE

18-across – Bird : CORMORANT

19-across – Tame! Newcastle after setback having big clear-out : ENEMA

20-across – See 10 : PIECEOFWORK

24-across – Selfish being last to come and first to leave : EGOIST

25-across – Press release about bishop — it’s explosive : TIMEBOMB

26-across – Maneater makes advance prince rejected? : OGRESS

27-across – Developed at last the battery’s storage capacity : TERABYTE

1-down – Books turned up in seconds, one after the other : BACKTOBACK

2-down – Hosts banquets, taking quick look round inside — Duke’s not there! : INNKEEPERS

3-down – Free bar — I’m full to capacity : ABRIM

4-down – Required to stop poverty, no end to sick state’s failing : NECESSITATED

6-down – Greeting Henry with hot drink outside : HANDSHAKE

7-down – Remain in Mulholland Drive? : LAST

8-down – Jennifer finally leaving as Johnson was dressing : MAYO

11-down – Guardian’s German writer taking one in : PARENTHESISE

13-down – See 1 across : GIGECONOMY

14-down – Strange about a king turning into stone : REMARKABLE

16-down – Poor shot selection at start splits Mark’s supporters in opening frame : DOORPOSTS

21-down – She has nothing over Ruby : FREDA

22-down – Variable working horror — cue to act over numbers initially on it? : ZERO

23-down – See 22 : HOUR