Daily Answers

9-across – Rescue injured relative, overcoming resistance : RETRIEVAL

10-across – Kinsman from Paris one called regularly : UNCLE

11-across – Publicly sell uniform used in battle : AUCTION

12-across – Butcher’s attempt to get slimmer : CUTDOWN

13-across – Online information turned into lyric? : EPODE

14-across – Like a shrewd judge proceeding round diocese : FARSEEING

16-across – Training aided the muscles, producing withering complaint : DUTCHELMDISEASE

19-across – Old port drunk by others, apparently with a bad reputation : NOTORIOUS

21-across – Anticipating shower, daughter’s run off : DRAIN

22-across – Could they make porter empty beer jugs? : BREWERS

23-across – Gallantry about data that shouldn’t be asked of us ladies? : COURAGE

24-across – Looking back is somewhat more troublesome : RETRO

25-across – Point the finger at inapt clue — revision needed : INCULPATE

1-down – Mad dog near bombed battleground … : ARMAGEDDON

2-down – … attracted attention, having set off but run away : STUCKOUT

3-down – Priest at home in nightclub : DIVINE

4-down – Kitchen equipment put together without reference to wife : OVEN

5-down – Travelled between prospective southern terminals : ELECTRODES

6-down – Criminal turns — he’s pursuing lady : HUNTRESS

7-down – Rising international firm catching finest creatures in the sea : OCTOPI

8-down – Penny-pinching medium : MEAN

14-down – Dog clubs possibly go along with the rest : FOLLOWSUIT

15-down – Commando short of experience joining engineers in punt : GREENBERET

17-down – Arab carrier? : HORSEBOX

18-down – Rural tales a great success on two occasions : AGASAGAS

20-down – Pays for food after treasurer cleared out : TREATS

21-down – Subs essentially contributing to benefit twice : DOUBLE

22-down – Grain store : BARN

23-down – Stand up for male of the species : COCK

1-across – Kind of warrant restraining Simpson in conflict : TROJANWAR

6-across – Cold in prison : CAGED

9-across – See 24 : OVERHEELSINLOVE

10-across – See 22 : NOIR

11-across – Passage from Goethe really out of this world : ETHEREAL

14-across – In the kitchen with Spooner’s stalker? : FRYINGPAN

15-across – Big beast with Paddington, say, for a Londoner : BISON

16-across – Green skirt oddly removed at second attempt : RESIT

18-across – Grim and unpleasant leer interrupts game : CHEERLESS

20-across – Easy to clean hospital — used to be adept about it : WASHABLE

21-across – Procurer dropping the French spot : PIMP

25-across – See 4 : THECHIPSAREDOWN

26-across – Communist papers prepared again : REDID

27-across – Once confined, breathe one’s last inside — it’s practical : EXPEDIENT

1-down – Spike Milligan ultimately following God : THORN

2-down – Large size of honour bestowed on Manchester, say? : OBESITY

3-down – Long in 12 : ACHE

4-down – Open sandwich he threw out in crisis : WHEN

5-down – Stick round teens? It may be optimistic : ROSETINTED

6-down – City devastated by a current : CANTERBURY

7-down – Apple’s sold by them : GROCERS

8-down – Racket involving completely empty glass houses : DWELLINGS

12-down – Cut any tax, attack the reds without borders and without strings : UNATTACHED

13-down – Revelation from a policeman must turn up before evidence ultimately plays out : APOCALYPSE

14-down – Spirit elements : FIREWATER

17-down – Put on hold dispatch about distinguishing brand feature : SUSPEND

19-down – Perfect example of endlessly tepid and selfish dedication : EPITOME

22-down – Wine for one into porn, perhaps : PINOT

23-down – Group shelled prawns : CAMP

24-down – The way Helen leaves Ovid hero : HEAD

1-across – Trump, perhaps, to slip up badly : POPULIST

5-across – Exerts heavy pressure on joint — shortly notices : KNEADS

9-across – House in miniature around back of Hyde Park : YOSEMITE

10-across – Haddock, part of it with bread : FINNAN

12-across – King’s ambassador fine, say, following commotion : HEADOFSTATE

15-across – Gun, one produced on stage … : PIECE

17-across – … an animal with no lines stars : ANDROMEDA

18-across – A number shared meal : TEAFORTWO

19-across – Foolish to eat a bit of radicchio leaf : FROND

20-across – Play, with this? : ADOLLSHOUSE

24-across – Chemist’s position serious : LIEBIG

25-across – Forty-eight hours backchat that’s boring? : YADAYADA

26-across – Representative comes out of bin cleaner : DUSTER

27-across – Relax, supplying energy for one in grief : DESTRESS

1-down – Film course for one with a problem : PSYCHOPATH

2-down – Goodbye to the outside, going in to die in alley : PASSAGEWAY

3-down – Waiting period as posh car collects bachelor : LIMBO

4-down – One’s group of rebels relaxed at first in comfort : SATISFACTION

6-down – Sounds of foxtrot that are heard in the wings : NOISESOFF

7-down – Family member is cow : AUNT

8-down – Suggesting Louis XIV collapsed? : SUNK

11-down – Fussy car rental : HARDTOPLEASE

13-down – Get people back into perpetual strife? Nothing in it : REPOPULATE

14-down – From barn, as horse led out, they steer : HANDLEBARS

16-down – Judge’s last case bringing back memories : EVOCATIVE

21-down – Almost home, where this is? : HEART

22-down – Succeeded with hat, lost it with feet? : SLID

23-down – Man’s house and college spoken of : KEYS

1-across – Frantic doctor nurses English XI and German XI : BESIDE

4-across – See 1 : ONESELF

9-across – Terror about to finish soon : IMPENDING

10-across – Bizarre journey, moving right to the east : OUTRE

11-across – That is skirting issue still : IMAGE

12-across – Tiny chest, bust that’s fake : SYNTHETIC

13-across – Boy digs into brownies and plum, being offered nothing else : HOBSONS

15-across – See 13 : CHOICE

17-across – Solve problem about right back : DORSUM

19-across – A learner follows more advanced kind of thinking : LATERAL

22-across – Scots remarkable at compre­hending the German primer : UNDERCOAT

24-across – University teachers admitting middling grade is rough : UNCUT

26-across – African native’s internet domain? : ELAND

27-across – A silly price for sketch : ADUMBRATE

28-across – Goddess on film cried sadly, desiring lost youth : MIDLIFE

29-across – See 28 : CRISIS

1-down – Tramp keeps jazzy shirt, I think, for tourist site : BRITISH

2-down – One takes off clothes, turning brown : SEPIA

3-down – Hairy and desperate chap rogues manhandled : DANGEROUS

4-down – Exploding cigar no good for one’s health? : ORGANIC

5-down – Biblical character and husband shape up : ENOCH

6-down – People about to tour country in vehicle : ESTATECAR

7-down – They prevent issue in Norman Mailer’s writings? : FRENCH

8-down – Dutch or transatlantic pageant winner : MISSUS

14-down – New York girl group makes fast connection : BROADBAND

16-down – Released song that’s top in terms of quantity : OUTNUMBER

18-down – Reversal of space-time where craft are made fast : MOORAGE

19-down – Indicator of base books with lots of mawkishness : LITMUS

20-down – See 7 : LETTERS

21-down – See 1 : MUSEUM

23-down – Set that’s endless — one spoke and spoke : RADII

25-down – Schoolchildren maybe working : CLASS

7-across – Fiery, like Harry and Henry? : HOTHEADED

8-across – Guerrilla starting to enrage king with insolence : CHEEK

9-across – Factory made by : FLOURMILL

10-across – Part of Roman villa block : ANVIL

12-across – Merchant recalled wine with skill : TRADER

13-across – Youths are sorely upset, having caught German measles : ROSERASH

16-across – Judge turning up to free 6? That’s annoying : JARRING

19-across – Supporter’s prison triumph, ignoring the odds : STIRRUP

22-across – More shaky bowler, one spins … Catch! Bravo! : WOBBLIER

25-across – Ratify a company report : AFFIRM

27-across – Sheep penned within limits of jail is highly rated : JEWEL

28-across – Cryptically spot expenses? : OVERHEADS

29-across – Price to reserve afternoon down by the sea : COAST

30-across – Figure Trump a bum to hug his outspoken easy one : TRAPEZIUM

1-down – Arrest old learners breaking into vehicle : COLLAR

2-down – Must regularly fear bear : SHOULDER

3-down – Horror film-maker’s hit? : HAMMER

4-down – Vaults and nimbly clears end of pommel : CELLARS

5-down – Entire NHS in trouble, losing ten to bruise : SHINER

6-down – Naughty people dress oddly around 6.50 : DEVILS

11-down – Can I have your attention? You sound drunk : PSST

14-down – Voice, 99% of which is N and O? : AIR

15-down – In Houses of Parliament covering independence : HIP

16-down – Scary film cuts finale to generate discussion : JAW

17-down – Tease royal’s firstborn : RIB

18-down – One moving home throws out small pin : NAIL

20-down – Umpire: ‘It’s very simple after opener’s dismissed to get set again’ : REFREEZE

21-down – Seen on course down waterways : DRIVERS

23-down – Fairy king and queen embraced by retired aristocrat with love : OBERON

24-down – Bank’s peak rates tumbling? It’s a front : BREAST

25-down – British Rail’s happy for heart­less worker to be outside — unexpected? : ABRUPT

26-down – Leaders of research and development include Underground scheme for Circle line : RADIUS