Daily Answers

7-across – Vagrant grew teary, consequence of having bath? : GREYWATER

8-across – Terse husband gripped by shame : PITHY

9-across – Lads use it, suffering lethargy : LASSITUDE

10-across – Northerners and fellow boozers : FINNS

12-across – Without any energy, three use tee for drive : THRUST

13-across – Look mean, having no weaknesses : AIRTIGHT

14-across – Lord’s holding first of enquiries into unruly mid-off : FIEFDOM

17-across – Leader shunning wholesale evidence of misery : WEEPING

20-across – Duke excluded from king’s company outside : ALFRESCO

22-across – Unkempt chap exhausted after long nap : SHAGGY

24-across – Is aware Primark now sells sandwiches : KNOWS

25-across – Arachne ultimately got by on £51 in cash : LIQUIDITY

26-across – Delivered letter: ending taken to heart : DEALT

27-across – Prime case of extortion following incident in Home Counties : SEVENTEEN

1-down – Parting buttocks audibly : BREACH

2-down – Right time to put on pants and woad? : DYESTUFF

3-down – Decrepit old man’s boob : PASTIT

4-down – Expressionless bloody monster : DEADPAN

5-down – Two-part coverage of British couple stopped by relatives : BIKINI

6-down – Good health of two mates, each with a shed : CHINCHIN

11-down – Strongly recommend 50% reduction in your wage : URGE

15-down – Manxwoman one defames? : ISLANDER

16-down – Loves to pinch scientists roughly : ORSO

18-down – Praise extremely powerful reviews : PLAUDITS

19-down – Name of man embracing love goddess : MONIKER

21-down – Most weirdly, bats return to natural habitat : REWILD

22-down – Then finally you kiss me, blind drunk : SOUSED

23-down – Threaten to go out to speak after close of meeting : GUTTER

1-across – Fine to recycle cans and waste : REFUSE

4-across – Locks up with this chain — orgy without clothes to tear : HAIRGRIP

9-across – Poison a river covered by smoke : CURARE

10-across – Telltale sign person lacking news to spread? : GOSSIPER

11-across – Side One’s ending: McCartney’s hit playing : MANCHESTERCITY

13-across – Weed in tent! Help me out : HEMPNETTLE

14-across – Airline left India for island : BALI

16-across – Nasty one’s after Tramp : MEAN

18-across – Touching story about one that’s capable of working again : REPAIRABLE

21-across – Treatment of tooth and nerve: cure available without licence : OVERTHECOUNTER

23-across – Comedy character by hotel — priest on show came down : ALIGHTED

24-across – Go anaemic, tablets individually knocked back : ELAPSE

25-across – Remain on chair with this? : HEADREST

26-across – Shave head of Britney Spears balder : BARBER

1-down – Stone cut film : ROCK

2-down – Rage, holding rounds for gun : FIREARM

3-down – Team without competition to enter : SARACENS

5-down – Drink drivers taking short month off work : AMONTILLADO

6-down – Holiday place with empty restaurant: stood up inside : RESORT

7-down – Copy salesman? Booze picked up by some? : REPLICA

8-down – Conga? Are members forced to follow it? : PARTYLINE

12-down – High-end property? Old tree, fellers cut into sections : EXTREMENESS

13-down – Quack from duck below nest on way : HOMEOPATH

15-down – Scales going up fully, needs to get trim on top : PRUNELLA

17-down – Red Arrows initially came flying over independent country : AMERICA

19-down – Set of regulars to barmen: ‘We pour over barrel here, perhaps’ : BREWPUB

20-down – Film singer, one impresses : ETCHER

22-down – Put on weight to get attention : WEAR

1-across – Throw drink over Labour leader after British PM’s predecessor? : BAMBOOZLE

6-across – Change reversed, having shaved my dog : FIDO

8-across – Don’t allow supporter to see player : BANJOIST

9-across – Old bones alongside black garment : BODICE

10-across – Creator, one upset about Hades : EDISON

11-across – First: last of course is later, however : EARLIEST

12-across – Throw a tantrum when baby eats plant : PLAYUP

15-across – Sturdy case: more flexible parts sliding around : SLITHERY

16-across – Hitler’s offensive struggle with weight? : BATTLEOF

19-across – Viable plan to trap pub rodent : GOPHER

21-across – See 16 : THEBULGE

22-across – Vegetable issue inspiring panic at first, beetle reportedly beginning to nibble on one : SPRING

24-across – Rotten muck in gesture : NOGOOD

25-across – Something found in kitchen, one-legged pig hiding in empty cupboard : CHOPPING

26-across – Turn back on man while sleeping? : BEND

27-across – Worry about itinerant pal lacking support : STRAPLESS

1-down – See 25 : BOARD

2-down – Joke leader’s assumed great power : MAJESTY

3-down – See 22 across : ONION

4-down – Spot, for the lady, some instruments : ZITHERS

5-down – Getting on, this setter is flipping barmy : EMBARKING

6-down – Join in search, interesting for a short while : FADDISH

7-down – Style of drake, with cuss? : DUCKSARSE

13-down – Vile profanities in opera lacking appeal : LOATHSOME

14-down – Some way through introductory pieces, music finally stops : PRECLUDES

17-down – I appreciate that offer to cover characters central to plot in newspaper : TABLOID

18-down – Processing of ferric oxide, ultimately more intense : FIERCER

20-down – People making peanuts heading for insolvency in opening story : PORKPIE

22-down – Ship — that which you can bet on having capsized : SLOOP

23-down – Squares introduced to fashion, in essence : NINES

1-across – Comic friend of Ollie attending party in Belfast : STANDUP

5-across – In dispute, heard report of expulsion : ATISHOO

10-across – City’s form is OK, every now and then : OMSK

11-across – One union in debates spouting pious words : BEATITUDES

12-across – Container for ale, mostly dull and plain : TUNDRA

13-across – Sprinkling part of garden on eastern side : BEDEWING

14-across – Like a prophet travelling once around Rome, say : FARSEEING

16-across – Second-rate ‘Strictly’ particip­ant entertaining one and all — such may offer fun at Blackpool? : BEACH

17-across – See 16 : BALLS

19-across – Is brevity so different? Yes! : VERBOSITY

23-across – Performance by a Kentish rebel not half showing a lot of power : GIGAWATT

24-across – See paper suffering setback — get angry about it : REGARD

26-across – Casual home worker, collecting very little money, starts to complain intensely : INSOUCIANT

27-across – Bottle of essential medicament finally disposed of : VIAL

28-across – Wanting to be like opponents at table competing : ENVYING

29-across – Recordings of songs introduced by agent : REPLAYS

2-down – Food and drink for entertaining politician leading old city : TEMPURA

3-down – End troubled about a king in the altogether : NAKED

4-down – Offence caused by display of buttocks, bishop coming down with anger : UMBRAGE

6-down – Short journey with poem in the Tube : TRIODE

7-down – Friends gathering around wife — after end of troubles they cry : SQUAWKERS

8-down – Abuse of cocaine widespread? : OCEANIC

9-down – Vehicle on notable run aiming to be eco-friendly : CARBONNEUTRAL

15-down – Strong man turning up, politician dancing and jumping : SALTATORY

18-down – Tricky navigation — a time one must leave city with a bridge : AVIGNON

20-down – African people go off into depot : BAROTSE

21-down – Volunteers having to hang around a large area once : TARTARY

22-down – Boaster’s idle talk, something to fool you? : GASCON

25-down – Paid pounds for something at auction : GAVEL

1-across – Hollow and dry instruction to dog the German PM : PITTTHE

5-across – Celebrity embraced by poor love child : BASTARD

9-across – More mature half-hearted serial killer : RIPER

10-across – One gathers second coming starts with Nemesis : SCAVENGER

11-across – Left perished in disarray, having accepted Theresa’s final command : LEADERSHIP

12-across – Opinion polls ease off and make things worse : PILE

14-across – Miserable record playing into the small hours : DISCONSOLATE

18-across – Infirm relatives abandoning a region of England : HOMECOUNTIES

21-across – Novice found in empty room : TYRO

22-across – Film maker genius, about 18 : EISENSTEIN

25-across – See 16 : HASSAILED

26-across – Is sick after five cancelled bypasses : OMITS

27-across – Strategy is to cross from the East by a philanderer : PLAYBOY

28-across – Country in the centre of Europe madness : ROMANIA

1-down – Secretary on job release : PAROLE

2-down – Tails partner that takes in work : TOPHAT

3-down – Suit : THREEPIECE

4-down – Stops, doesn’t start and relaxes : EASES

5-down – At last, green tailless lizard found in bath coming up for a nibble : BRAZILNUT

6-down – See 24 : STEW

7-down – Many ogle vicar, one stripped in church : ANGLICAN

8-down – Had the temerity to acquire knowledge and became dim! : DARKENED

13-down – Convenience of Western warnings on Arab uprising : WOMENSROOM

15-down – Essentially, copper is outside entrance to Room 101 with partner : CRUCIALLY

16-down – Quiet entering tortuous path, hit and attacked — too late! : THATSHIP

17-down – Divine food in Asia: my best restaurant’s oriental starters : AMBROSIA

19-down – See 12 : PELION

20-down – See 12 : ONOSSA

23-down – See 1 across : ELDER

24-down – Rogan josh balm? : LAMB