Daily Answers

1-across – Regular traveller close to lovely European capitals : SHUTTLE

5-across – Idle adult joins retired mother’s country : AMERICA

9-across – Muddled socialist leader removed from seat : ADDLE

10-across – Finding record’s finished? Then ask why : DISCOVERY

11-across – Project vehicle in Star Trek : ENTERPRISE

12-across – Wood has to be chopped up : ASH

14-across – Aired ham? : RADIOAMATEUR

18-across – Spilt cod onto shirt? This may straighten things out : ORTHODONTICS

21-across – Penny left cat with girl : UMA

22-across – Singer kidnaps film-maker — good for rival : CHALLENGER

25-across – Tough English soldiers deserted first and were killed : BUTCHERED

26-across – Tory or pleb? Not even a metaphor : TROPE

27-across – As cryptic as solutions? : ANSWERS

28-across – Serious being in play by Wilde : EARNEST

1-down – Small steps to rooms : SPACES

2-down – At university, daughter cooked tea, which is news : UPDATE

3-down – Teacher to shake hand of God : THECREATOR

4-down – Ancient tree : ELDER

5-down – Italian town? I’m lost with tense worker and aide : ASSISTANT

6-down – Love 20% off … oooo! : EROS

7-down – It’s time TV rejected repeats : ITERATES

8-down – A New York wife’s present at unknown location : ANYWHERE

13-down – Fans then scream ‘City!’ : MANCHESTER

15-down – Is drink carrier’s bubble rising in lines of temperature? : ISOTHERMS

16-down – US district and country trades duck for uranium : COLUMBIA

17-down – Titan carries books on island, a legendary one : ATLANTIS

19-down – Disregard first engagement after ring’s worn over another : IGNORE

20-down – Holy man supporting Pope Romanus’s cardinals, that is : PRIEST

23-down – House deposit : LODGE

24-down – Woman admits love for footwear : SHOE

8-across – A fivefold representation of the first person to become an artist : AIWEIWEI

9-across – Short song embraced by revolutionary had poetic quality? : RHYMED

10-across – Condense message about effectiveness of skin treatment? : BOIL

11-across – Minister, one very celebrity-oriented type of preacher : REVIVALIST

12-across – Tiny tot’s back needing a scratch? : TITCHY

14-across – Losing weight using nice drug freely : REDUCING

15-across – Marine creatures in line by rocks : SEAMICE

17-across – Unexpected spare time — yours truly is out for a walk : TRAIPSE

20-across – Story about bad back inclined to go wrong : FALLIBLE

22-across – Outlaw put a strain on Irish town : BANTRY

23-across – In literature, playwright Simon is one sort of writer : LIBRETTIST

24-across – See 10 : DOWN

25-across – Umpire’s decision in game — a catch in the deep? : RULING

26-across – Sanctity of Hindu festival by Scottish water : HOLINESS

1-down – Poison making one number — one going to bed, confined : NICOTINE

2-down – Words of commendation by no means rare : WELL

3-down – Leading characters in key operation : QWERTY

4-down – Amount of radiation that could make one restive : SIEVERT

5-down – Demonstrator concealing identity or one giving something away? : PROVIDER

6-down – Candidate wants success in this, taking so long reading : BYELECTION

7-down – Boards succeed when limiting costs ultimately : GETSON

13-down – Caravan about to disappear before wet weather : CAMELTRAIN

16-down – Naval right established by sailing father or son over time : CABOTAGE

18-down – Scrap not ending with desire to be harridan-like : SHREWISH

19-down – Place wrecked by heroic Joshua, originally : JERICHO

21-down – Like a couple crossing island vales : ADIEUX

22-down – Courage in conflict — that’s nothing for ace : BOTTLE

24-down – See 2 : DONE

9-across – Design bags and clothing item : LANDSCAPE

10-across – Came up with a 21 down adornment : AROSE

11-across – The Guardian’s backyard in close season : NEWYEAR

12-across – Gave notice about guard coming up short : AWARDED

13-across – Primate stripped off plant seller : LORIS

14-across – Mix 21 and serve with starters of rice : POTPOURRI

16-across – 9 21 downer to limit PM’s inspiring skill : CAPABILITYBROWN

19-across – Complaint one’s put on wrong pants suit : SINUSITIS

21-across – Writer stalks singer? : GRASS

22-across – Dear academic leaves city for 21 down city : BABYLON

23-across – Green monkeys around lake’s edges? Correct : ENREGLE

24-across – Brazilian removes this drinker’s seat one’s broken : PUBIC

25-across – Awfully chastened with regret in story : THESECRET

1-down – Crowds seizing cotton fabric for arms : FLINTLOCKS

2-down – Spy gathers women’s medic is one in 21 down : SNOWDROP

3-down – Lords losing head, making bloomers : ASTERS

4-down – See 24 : HAIR

5-down – Condition to enter Roman town’s ruins : DEVASTATES

6-down – Pet and a ferret around in a resting place : CATACOMB

7-down – Plot of book series : BORDER

8-down – Feeble fellow, one unwanted in bed : WEED

14-down – Historical region spread, preserving a language : PALATINATE

15-down – Badly singe small coins, which emit sparks : IGNESCENTS

17-down – Leaves one around Roman building : BASILICA

18-down – Men furious earl’s broken into hothouse : ORANGERY

20-down – Privileged people pocketing a billion? : NABOBS

21-down – See 25 : GARDEN

22-down – Group flying, by the way, in Rolls : BAPS

23-down – PM essentially disappointed England : EDEN

1-across – Cancer subject has inner resistance? : TROPIC

5-across – As it was written by King: ‘head disorder’ : SICKNESS

9-across – Cross put against capital Latin vocal composition : MADRIGAL

10-across – Repair men are to attach a new handle : RENAME

11-across – Free, one Parisian figured, to be injected with drug : UNENCUMBERED

13-across – Seafarer and lackey forced to accept it’s American capital : SALT

14-across – To recover from cold, possibly act stern : CLAWBACK

17-across – Corporate fling? Unruly mob, sadly : BODYSLAM

18-across – See 13 : LAKE

20-across – Parking, about to be doubled, is quite haphazard: it must come first : PREREQUISITE

23-across – A way to end a driver’s career : ESCAPE

24-across – A dictum formulated to include line of Jewish legal code : TALMUDIC

25-across – Smallholder : POCHETTE

26-across – Father, look at the funny sailor! : POPEYE

2-down – See 23 : ROAD

3-down – Pet playing with quarry blocks : PARQUETRY

4-down – Film star’s detective partner : CAGNEY

5-down – Investigating MPs ‘southern elite’, pledge support : SELECTCOMMITTEE

6-down – Grain medium implanted in eye covering : CORNMEAL

7-down – Present time, or one time after noon? : NONCE

8-down – Easter treat, consisting of lime mixed with cold nitrogen and steeped in a sort of wine : SIMNELCAKE

12-down – Model, carrying gator, swanning round part of Brazil : MATOGROSSO

15-down – Crafty means of removing water from the bottom of rubbish footwear : BILGEPUMP

16-down – Expressive English and Latin quote about new inside : ELOQUENT

19-down – Boost Duke’s broadcast : FILLIP

21-down – American insect’s joint end : ROACH

22-down – See 13 : CITY

5-across – Beetle to traumatise backward scholar : SCARAB

6-across – Make a mistake with commission : ERRAND

9-across – Charlie inclines to abdominal pain : CRAMPS

10-across – Team cuts lease for occupier : RESIDENT

11-across – Does one river meet another? : DEER

12-across – Thought to be against partiality of the left : CONSIDERED

13-across – Wind down temper when the game is safe : CLOSESEASON

18-across – Winger is an Oxford player with courage : BLUEBOTTLE

21-across – Illicit drugs found in storage area : GEAR

22-across – Writer is to wallow in drink : TROLLOPE

23-across – Mean to entertain Indian poet : PINDAR

24-across – Insecurity makes director fret : DANGER

25-across – Wrongly aspire to approbation : PRAISE

1-down – Something soothing uttered in royal retreat : BALMORAL

2-down – Prevents Bill making wine : BARSAC

3-down – Unfaithful lover is scared off : CRESSIDA

4-down – Women confuse totter : WADDLE

5-down – Mortar used for levelling a long passage : SCREED

7-down – Silly fool is to slip on island : DONKEY

8-down – Nurse keeps Rex and me, an avant-gardist : TRENDSETTER

14-down – Being upset, Kitty’s done with the night’s billet : STOPOVER

15-down – Ignored a change of material : ORGANDIE

16-down – Ruddy girl’s relieved : FLORID

17-down – Head eats a new type of savoury : CANAPE

19-down – Genial criminal in west London : EALING

20-down – Great power of representative in republic : EMPIRE