Daily Answers

1-across – Socrates’s killer shows a hesitation to bolt : HEMLOCK

5-across – Manage venture for widow : DOWAGER

10-across – Instant credit : TICK

11-across – Teachers’ recipe? It promises to be wholesome! : NUTRITIOUS

12-across – Arouse and race the French : KINDLE

13-across – Scoundrel acquires a popular firm making clothing : RAINCOAT

14-across – Medication sorted out Gail’s acne : ANALGESIC

16-across – Regret drinking port with royal head of state : RULER

17-across – Little or no time to follow screening : SCANT

19-across – Rose’s inelegant disposition : EGLANTINE

23-across – Persist in support for architectural feature : PILASTER

24-across – Mate’s attempt to be sorry : PALTRY

26-across – Film director developed erotic club : BERTOLUCCI

27-across – Talk about item of clothing : CHAT

28-across – Soldiers to pursue struggle for survival : RATRACE

29-across – Hide drug among the soapsuds : LEATHER

2-down – Rabble-rousing lacks its initial impression : EDITION

3-down – Enjoyed song about monarch : LIKED

4-down – Admit new church is bound by regulations : CONCEDE

6-down – Duck doctor in spring : ORIGIN

7-down – Battle for a drink on playing area : AGINCOURT

8-down – Bird slow to to imitate : EMULATE

9-down – Opening quietly paper of a kind that gives the betting : STARTINGPRICE

15-down – Ancestral building — a royal house : LANCASTER

18-down – Fit in with artist’s wild fantasy : CHIMERA

20-down – Warn parish priest getting into a lift : APPRISE

21-down – Ran over judge? Tell us the story! : NARRATE

22-down – Character with inclination for one toiletry containing iodine : ITALIC

25-down – Permissible but to some extent duplicitous : LICIT

1-across – Drier and somewhat boring experience that’s tedious : DISHRAG

5-across – Rock and roll fan after work briefly proved alluring : TEMPTED

9-across – Dog handler with more in secure pens : WHIPPERIN

10-across – Lines I don’t know in performance venue : ODEUM

11-across – Hindu ascetic American’s greeting with grunt : YOGI

12-across – Regime with a skint, corrupt parliament : ATKINSDIET

14-across – Foremost of intellects in class? : GENIUS

15-across – Vote to imprison one, then check for innocence : NAIVETY

16-across – Bill getting the water for Nancy’s group still on stage : TABLEAU

18-across – Continue gambling? That’s about right for Norman’s neighbour : BRETON

20-across – Short-changed minor name in finance : ROTHSCHILD

21-across – For fellow, this address might be used : PROF

24-across – European assents, one giving a spirited response? : OUIJA

25-across – Aid for flier getting good deal on gold hat : AUTOPILOT

26-across – Islander with a sore bum getting into heavy metal : FAROESE

27-across – Grass coloured bags with no tears : DRYEYED

1-down – Note mocking the cost of the partnership? : DOWRY

2-down – Record-breaking hotel which is at the seaside : SHINGLE

3-down – Gripped and picked up like a gift : RAPT

4-down – Hero taught to perform with stage manager : GARETHSOUTHGATE

5-down – Young reporter and undatable eccentric rang : TINTINNABULATED

6-down – He has criminal still to uncover behind facial injury : MOONSHINER

7-down – Luxury biography of female artist : THELIFE

8-down – Not very bright setter does his best Russian : DIMITRY

13-down – Let go of key emergency facility : FIREESCAPE

16-down – Don’t stay on the road — it’s a bore : TURNOFF

17-down – Sportsman catching one more out there : BATTIER

19-down – See 7 : OFRILEY

22-down – Rank claimed by guard — it effectively rises : FETID

23-down – Spades do some digging, moving easily : SPRY

1-across – Go to fix theatre broadcast : REPAIR

4-across – Peruse file obstructing stock problem : BROWSE

9-across – Handyman sailor taking wheel on autumn winds : JACKOFALLTRADES

10-across – Current head of zoology inspired by minor genius : WIZARD

11-across – Poor conductor, not a learner devouring music mag : NONMETAL

12-across – He complains bitterly about film supplier : RETAILER

14-across – Irish author’s sister inhaling smoke : STOKER

15-across – I’m above getting upset missing a film : BMOVIE

18-across – Flying through divided country with no leader : AVIATION

21-across – Pair of kings hosting Brussels pomp : GRANDEUR

22-across – Party member that infuriated the Queen : HATTER

24-across – Group on American cape beyond river showing diligence : INDUSTRIOUSNESS

25-across – Animal’s smell masking another one : REEBOK

26-across – Learned man tripped over wife : FELLOW

1-down – Clear about boxer’s energy : REALISE

2-down – Perfectly constructed contract, according to auditor : PUKKA

3-down – He has no faith in candidates promoting Democrat : INFIDEL

5-down – Juniors on board watching figures : RATINGS

6-down – What the French stole, drilling vessel : WHALEBOAT

7-down – Raise tax in European shelter : ELEVATE

8-down – One who smooths way into image-enhancement : PLANER

13-down – Bill undertaking possibly hazardous trip : ADVENTURE

16-down – Probe digger fording a river : MARINER

17-down – Short celebration includes revolutionary dance music : ELECTRO

18-down – Handy warning to drivers arriving at Calais? : ADROIT

19-down – Employed around head office, not contracted out : INHOUSE

20-down – Supervised position of lumberjack? : OVERSAW

23-down – Number alto rehashed using standard harmony : TONAL

1-across – Bar where XXXX’s brewed Dutch settler drinks : BOOZER

4-across – More than one bound to get drink in bar : MARGINS

9-across – Bar beginning to rock, joint almost back in mood : TOBLERONE

10-across – Russian dish baked without filling, virtually inedible at first : BLINI

11-across – Useless exercise by pioneer oddly forgotten : INEPT

12-across – Money returned by the way, covered by bill for meat : BEEFSTEAK

13-across – Buttocks finally scratched by short Middle Eastern woman famous for modelling : TUSSAUD

15-across – Flipping dull, echoing gong : TAMTAM

17-across – Hat figure put on head, turned around : BONNET

19-across – Old annalist understood everyone here : TACITUS

22-across – In shelter, female with long fingernail given a wide berth : LEFTALONE

24-across – Name a character in the centre of big Gulf state : DUBAI

26-across – Wine bar frequented by sweet Fanny Adams : SOAVE

27-across – Elastic band found in small bar : SCRUNCHIE

28-across – Supporter left in street, befuddled : TRESTLE

29-across – Jolly casual punches in bar : GALAXY

1-down – In bar, risk bottles : BETWIXT

2-down – Game of cards seldom breaking banks : OMBRE

3-down – Trouble looking worse ultimately, certainly with retinue : EYESTRAIN

4-down – Old player, female in the field grabbed by supporter : MAEWEST

5-down – Something to solve on double-decker : REBUS

6-down – Travelling, some fork taken in country, heading for town : ITINERANT

7-down – Barry, it could be said, appears difficult : STICKY

8-down – Bar supporting bridge venture? : FORBID

14-down – Drifter on bar, overly sensitive type : SNOWFLAKE

16-down – Staff party in a new part of Greece : MACEDONIA

18-down – Foot I test out, trapping two balls? : TOOTSIE

19-down – Tentative insight as to why crack is filled with two gases : THEORY

20-down – Queen Mary, say, getting bottom scrubbed, so cold : SHIVERY

21-down – Private sector’s heart broken by waste : CLOSET

23-down – Head off alien, green head off! : AVERT

25-down – State of Brazil’s sheepish comment about greeting : BAHIA

1-across – Baseball player’s gear suitable for athletes : SHORTSTOP

6-across – Like an athlete now running with sudden passion : INTHE

9-across – See 6 : HEATOFTHEMOMENT

10-across – Tempting food I introduced to club : BAIT

11-across – Regret returning down under, sole region sharing its bread : EUROZONE

14-across – It’s barely legal abroad : JUSTABOUT

15-across – Society’s branch register : LODGE

16-across – Conservative party’s desire? : CRAVE

18-across – In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words : PLAUSIBLY

20-across – Spread out, following teacher precipitately : HEADLONG

21-across – Complaint of US soldier largely ignored : FUSS

25-across – Unusually mature Derby poet, 37 or so : BODYTEMPERATURE

26-across – Passage from paper is read back : SINUS

27-across – Over the moon in darkness? : DELIGHTED

1-down – During the Raj, Sir Henry stops prejudice rising : SAHIB

2-down – Love changes female organs : OVARIES

3-down – Squashed parrot’s foot on perch : TROD

4-down – French actor the worse for wear, we’re told : TATI

5-down – Lively pal and I keeping punter busy before match : PRENUPTIAL

6-down – Heretic in occasional outbursts striking a priest’s bottom : ICONOCLAST

7-down – Tiny ledge for climber to view, lacking breadth : TOEHOLD

8-down – Very next note dropped by me in bank : EXTREMELY

12-down – Dependent nations worried liberal outsiders in places : SATELLITES

13-down – Like the compulsive buyer heading off in a rage? : HOPPINGMAD

14-down – Spooner’s pressman commiss­ions famous cricketer : JACKHOBBS

17-down – Stop a squad playing : ABANDON

19-down – Fragrance in Paris that breaks spell : BOUQUET

22-down – Lay out pound in old coins : SPEND

23-down – Timber trade : DEAL

24-down – Suppress government’s initial report : BANG