Daily Answers

1-across – Take off underclothing, finding impurities : DOPANTS

5-across – Humourless dandy recalled getting beaten by racketeer : POFACED

9-across – Under discussion, heart unit : CORPS

10-across – Bean soup, nothing less, for seconds? : RUNNERSUP

11-across – Note: I appreciate that award for a city on the Bay of Bengal : CHITTAGONG

12-across – Material sensed : FELT

14-across – Relationships entered into by male artist with desire to eat after smoking a joint : THEMUNCHIES

18-across – Kind that’s legally able to score in the box : CONSIDERATE

21-across – What melts? : THAW

22-across – Shoe, shocking pink, that is for a dish : PUMPKINPIE

25-across – Repeating time after time after time, I love breaking in : ITERATION

26-across – Lake where a bore recedes : GARDA

27-across – Lift near the ground : HEARTEN

28-across – Tube ending in passage alongside canary, say, in mine : PIPETTE

1-down – Two months to boil down : DECOCT

2-down – Fix round vessel for cake : PARKIN

3-down – Following closely, a lot on site for development : NOSETOTAIL

4-down – Shoot gun if really pressurised, snipers all heading northward : SPRIG

5-down – Complex in Naples welcoming university in Calabria, say? : PENINSULA

6-down – Maverick offering drinks on the house? : FREE

7-down – Shutting up gutless egotist is immense, as lippy perhaps? : COSMETIC

8-down – Stand in river maintaining exercise, upright : DEPUTISE

13-down – Raise your voice about staff making errors : SCREWINGUP

15-down – Performance killing act : EXECUTION

16-down – Maybe Celtic sofa initially like a bed? : SCOTTISH

17-down – Illicitly, a romance being filmed : ONCAMERA

19-down – See 6 : SPIRIT

20-down – Soldiers one threat : MENACE

23-down – Star in Canis Minor goes round : PINUP

24-down – Dull gospeller to his familiars? : MATT

1-across – A race of tossers? : PANCAKE

5-across – Sailor’s first thought to acquire marine weapon : SIDEARM

9-across – Henry had six weeks, not even taking four : WIVES

10-across – Refreshing place, Newgate Forest : TEAGARDEN

11-across – Criminally assist operatic website, masking fingerprint : AIDANDABET

12-across – Permission to leave last of the porridge : CON

14-across – MP, perhaps, in place of barrister? : MIDDLETEMPLE

18-across – Uncle’s villa I let out with no extra charges : ALLINCLUSIVE

21-across – See 12 : GEE

22-across – Crazy picosecond of peering into people : ENDOSCOPIC

25-across – Opening a manuscript, change in case we forget : AMNESIACS

26-across – Resistance to dressing for ceremonial office : MAYOR

27-across – Avoiding alcohol, French priest to preserve by adding salt : DRYCURE

28-across – No way at first for nasty types to be executed, no date being fixed : SINEDIE

1-down – Keep handling fruit : PAWPAW

2-down – State prosecutor found at bottom of Russian river : NEVADA

3-down – Tending to agree ant’s head is only half conscious : ASSENTIENT

4-down – They exist in actuality and in potential : ENTIA

5-down – Make fewer pronouncements, being displaced : STATELESS

6-down – Old port in the wood : DEAL

7-down – Strip of paper better, say, submitted to prince informally : ANDYCAPP

8-down – They protect brains of women in gestation : MENINGES

13-down – He may have to fight racism, even in disguise : SERVICEMAN

15-down – Describe where prepared food is eaten after cooking : DELINEATE

16-down – Railwayman taking over his place in front : VANGUARD

17-down – Tree’s strong desire to shoot up in island : ALDERNEY

19-down – Best friend thus rendered incapable of dropping litter? : SPAYED

20-down – Unwarranted alarm about carbon being in short supply : SCARCE

23-down – Band that holds cut flowers : OASIS

24-down – Gets value intermittently for cheated brother : ESAU

7-across – Doctor to hug feet of each patient? It’s an idea : THOUGHT

8-across – One looking for a geranium? : FORAGER

9-across – Strong desire, at first, to urinate facing the other way : DEEP

10-across – This planet’s evolving, not 50 years ago : INTHEPAST

12-across – Graphical user interface needs department’s manual : GUIDE

13-across – Steelyard demolished, not one to be converted again : RESTYLED

15-across – Stop Dorothy holding Lion’s tail or Tin Man’s bottom : DONT

16-across – Oversleep? I see alarm : PANIC

17-across – In favour of Democrat president : FORD

18-across – Pasta made by a river over iron pan : MACARONI

20-across – Hard, long problem : HITCH

21-across – Officially purchase novel via phone : BYTHEBOOK

22-across – Where shy women undress? : HOME

24-across – Newspapers ditch leader to cover ultimate issues : RESULTS

25-across – Head of technology backs plastic-free PC monitor : PREFECT

1-down – Outside cover of old magazine, nothing inside : SHOE

2-down – Muzzle tiny pup, now go shaking tails furiously : GUNPOINT

3-down – Do well to make 4 go into 3? Not quite : THRIVE

4-down – Legal fellow’s 33% orange since being shaken up : FORENSIC

5-down – Many stars party and kiss everybody at the end : GALAXY

6-down – Tend to be troubled by depression? : DENT

11-down – Director of volunteers managed to get into trouble : TARANTINO

12-down – Instrument for surveying Roman parts? : GROMA

14-down – Land what takes skill! : EARTH

16-down – Launches campaigns : PROJECTS

17-down – Fine cut of beef, finally to rescue from a stew : FETCHOFF

19-down – King rat races against charioteer : ARTHUR

20-down – Travellers welcome king and queens : HIKERS

21-down – Drink that’s preferable for non-drinker to leave : BEER

23-down – 1,001 computer expert tips on hand-held devices : MICE

9-across – Why on earth argue about old money? It may offend : DIRTYWORD

10-across – Half of sisters like girl’s name : NUALA

11-across – Light in the past — dieting worked : IGNITED

12-across – Fancied fish — considered not having starter : IDEATED

13-across – Drift to one side round middle of bend : TENOR

14-across – Get outta here! One doesn’t appreciate what it costs : GOINGRATE

16-across – Cool in a minor way? : DOWNWITHTHEKIDS

19-across – Solver gets extremely near solution for one of the above : YOUNGSTER

21-across – Snap elastic getting in close for knee trembler : ASPEN

22-across – So defending what the Sun produces is wicked? : SATANIC

23-across – Sticker, it’s on old dish : BURRITO

24-across – My Joe’s best friend? : CORGI

25-across – Very silly wearing hat to keep cool : INFANTILE

1-down – Dead embarrassed accepting hand heartless lady granted : ADMITTEDLY

2-down – Tea with last slice of lemon in that’s only just been made? : BRANDNEW

3-down – Destroy decrepit touring vehicle — use this to get round instead : OYSTER

4-down – Charge round interrupting 19 : LOAD

5-down – Mind training for novice in top celebrity run : ADMINISTER

6-down – Sweet-talk model believing head’s gone : INVEIGLE

7-down – Ray adopts Republican slogan : MANTRA

8-down – See 3 : CARD

14-down – Enters carrying food, so don’t hold back! : GETSTUCKIN

15-down – Stormy on end of line — where is the president? : EISENHOWER

17-down – This will cater for the rest of the passengers : WAGONLIT

18-down – Hinted setter’s bed contains a lot of bugs : IMPLICIT

20-down – 21 down, son says : UTTERS

21-down – Consummate one relationship in the van — angry words follow : ARRANT

22-down – Held up in Gatwick — customs are disgusting : SUCK

23-down – Following story about strike : BIFF

8-across – See setter embracing individuals lacking love : LONESOME

9-across – Reluctant lover’s initial vow : LOATH

10-across – Funny person brings forward time for threesome : TRIO

11-across – Lover’s vow shocked artless female lover : IDOLATRESS

12-across – Playboy or Spooner’s certifiable criminal? : LADMAG

14-across – Risk passion, following break-up : ENDANGER

15-across – Japanese leader with fat lover : ABELARD

17-across – Lover in transit, on the move : TRISTAN

20-across – Italian lover: see one repeatedly be so frisky : CICISBEO

22-across – Drugs blocking awful feeling of lover : DESIRE

23-across – Try dry fleece worn by hot, dishy type : HEARTTHROB

24-across – Attractive Polish lover : BUFF

25-across – Endless waiting to get 4? : LIMBO

26-across – Lover in group styled hair before ball : LOTHARIO

1-down – Entrance part of party crowd in gilded ball : DOORJAMB

2-down – Lover’s part in Swedish erotica : HERO

3-down – Follow around flipping idiot in love : DOTING

4-down – Suitor admitting, say, what he wants? : LEGOVER

5-down – Lover with nothing on makes a bloomer : OLEANDER

6-down – Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly : PATRONISES

7-down – Lover introducing the verse from Larkin? : THISBE

13-down – Married slim girl with a fluctuating weight : MILLIGRAMS

16-down – Again, do up rogue’s clothing, about to pinch bum : REBUTTON

18-down – A warning about lubricant: it gives you a lift : AEROFOIL

19-down – Shortly accepting ordinary kind of love : COURTLY

21-down – One playing lute’s a lover : ISEULT

22-down – Maybe sleeping around leads to tense, edgy argument : DEBATE

24-down – Lover picked up ribbon : BEAU