Daily Answers

9-across – Wore thick pants, something Protestants have : WORKETHIC

10-across – Do parts of us smell? : ODOUR

11-across – Prime Suspect’s original episode cut short : SEVEN

12-across – Asking RAF technicians about operation : SKINGRAFT

13-across – According to Spooner, only that man Francis lives here : HOLYSEE

14-across – Well-oiled Indian bowling team : INDRINK

17-across – Dame Edna’s initial career as terrible mother : MEDEA

19-across – Edges away from very pale woman : SHE

20-across – Art of jazz trumpeter Armstrong touched us magically at the start : TATUM

21-across – Prevented from winning, VIP wept : NOBBLED

22-across – Decent chap keeping member in trousers? : GARMENT

24-across – Spill the beans and reveal one’s unmarried : SINGLETON

26-across – Spy provides this home phone number : INTEL

28-across – Pickle and cheese sandwiches start to niff : BRINE

29-across – Gutless Amazon repellently exploit workers — they make you sick : NAUSEANTS

1-down – Cow moos, repeatedly expelling gas in Welsh valleys : CWMS

2-down – Doctor left to collect Arachne’s eyewash : DRIVEL

3-down – Medical labs in Netherlands engaging retired bouncer : TENNISBALL

4-down – Virginal Conservative on speed : CHASTE

5-down – One idiot about to go around and disperse depleted uranium, say : ACTINIDE

6-down – Interminable sex act finally taking toll : BONG

7-down – Fan of Elizabeth Taylor is eccentric : ROYALIST

8-down – Kid brother cheers up : BRAT

13-down – Vacuous, happy folk in Maidenhead : HYMEN

15-down – Stubborn butcher met dire end : DETERMINED

16-down – Well-groomed male observed guards : KEMPT

18-down – Sophisticated editor backing British broadcasting : DEBONAIR

19-down – Making dopey son search for love online : SEDATING

22-down – Class describing imaginary number for Einstein? : GENIUS

23-down – Surviving by hiding in a tent abroad : EXTANT

24-down – Cries of old boy wearing socks inside out : SOBS

25-down – Lascivious look of Bluebeard oddly vanishing : LEER

27-down – Six excluded from Liberal whip : LASH

1-across – ABC, gesture eloquent in the extreme : BECKET

4-across – Capital punishment method once : STOCKS

9-across – Just light : FAIR

10-across – Not prepared for a picnic to be free? : UNHAMPERED

11-across – Capital briefly storing pretty vacant old documents : PAPYRI

12-across – In decrees, I declare myself ABC : WILLIAMS

13-across – Cutters suffice, or otherwise : COIFFEURS

15-across – Praise ABC : LAUD

16-across – Raise male : COCK

17-across – Summer in effect’s beginnings for ABC : AUGUSTINE

21-across – Where people tried to crawl drunkenly around middle of pub : LAWCOURT

22-across – Voice carried beyond state bridge : RIALTO

24-across – Challenging in game, chip balls up? : IMPEACHING

25-across – In crib, a beautiful young child : BABE

26-across – ABC sure to injure back : RAMSEY

27-across – Figure everyone can see boarding express : STATUE

1-down – Revolutionary abroad embracing victory swagger : BRAVADO

2-down – ABC, mind and body ultimately : CAREY

3-down – Unfortunately, dieter’s eaten last of gateau, it’s learned : ERUDITE

5-down – Church ABC : TEMPLE

6-down – Nectar: it’s spread around top of pork crackling : CREPITANT

7-down – Held back — like flowering plants, perhaps? : STEMMED

8-down – Psycho’s screen exhibitionist meeting death shortly : SHOWERCURTAIN

14-down – Five notes on paper this soothing? : FACECREAM

16-down – ABC, bird catching worm finally ending in despair : CRANMER

18-down – Happy with Conservative post, perhaps? : UPRIGHT

19-down – Dignitary ill-equipped? : NOTABLE

20-down – ABC, old character touring Sark etc : RUNCIE

23-down – Father ABC : ABBOT

7-across – Fabric obtained from male sheep : BUCKRAM

8-across – Mentally unbalanced setter joining most of staff in place to have a drink : BIPOLAR

9-across – Rush meal by river : TEAR

10-across – Long to get hold of narrow piece of cloth : PINSTRIPE

12-across – Hard up family found in vacated squat : SKINT

13-across – Prepared to look for a partner that’s fashionable : UPTODATE

15-across – Mine hard substance : PITH

16-across – Be inclined to adopt summer’s latest fashion : TREND

17-across – Gang found in Cheshire town, reportedly : CREW

18-across – Ten dimes sent as deposit : SEDIMENT

20-across – Black stack of building material : BRICK

21-across – University in conservative soap opera setting : CAMBRIDGE

22-across – Money for parties at hospital : DOSH

24-across – Bird eating a little green man? : MARTIAN

25-across – Cathy’s first to meet girl in charge of Wuthering Heights, say : CLASSIC

1-down – Enormous shade screening top of garden : HUGE

2-down – Brawl as drink stops sergeant major getting his cocktail : SKIRMISH

3-down – Friend held up favourite brown moth : LAPPET

4-down – One on court in engagement with Djokovic initially is set down : DICTATED

5-down – Rich source of opals found in new mine close to Witwatersrand : MONIED

6-down – Get on all right in audition : FARE

11-down – Disgusted by new American at university not standing! : NAUSEATED

12-down – Share of extremely substantial diamonds : SLICE

14-down – Time spent making slight modification : TWEAK

16-down – Couple stop as way to end a game of tennis : TIEBREAK

17-down – Almost cool meal suitable for infants : CHILDISH

19-down – Prisoner I meant to rescue : INMATE

20-down – German car in which soundly to defeat the French : BEETLE

21-down – Geological deposit found in Jurassic layer : CLAY

23-down – Spain overcomes popular revolution : SPIN

9-across – Money problem for the shoe-dwelling old woman? : OVERISSUE

10-across – Siege in the style of Farah? : ALAMO

11-across – Bearing of player in the Iran-Contra affair : NORTH

12-across – Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe! : CARNIVORE

13-across – Green Goblin initially breaks into Number 10 — Spider-man’s unaffected by this : VERTIGO

14-across – Uri can’t bend screen : CURTAIN

17-across – Grown out of Nick Park’s 1993 trousers? : WRONG

19-across – Crew finally returns from Vietnam : MAN

20-across – Country ignoring church, starting to descend into sin : GREED

21-across – In the future city goes left, then sideways : LATERAL

22-across – Stop fighting when armistice really starts : POSTWAR

24-across – Trouble in bed? Politician’s nail breaks : COMPLAINT

26-across – Continue with German sausage roll? Not I : RENEW

28-across – Offers to capture rebel leader and those taking flight : BIRDS

29-across – Infamous doughnuts, with holes on the outside, eaten in North America : NOTORIOUS

1-down – Ripped into eight or nine pieces : TORN

2-down – One bringing up children behind the Queen : REARER

3-down – Griffin she turned into food : FISHFINGER

4-down – Like Jack in The Shining: extremely scary – chop, chop! : PSYCHO

5-down – Fuel container Tom can’t use, but ___? : JERRYCAN

6-down – Vehicle that carries regular team and another : TAXI

7-down – Spoil bag, so tea’s stewed : SABOTAGE

8-down – Men’s back exercise — skipping, say? : ROPE

13-down – Maybe I swear to overthrow the French : VOWEL

15-down – Officials arrest girls misbehaving without latitude : REGISTRARS

16-down – Bottom of messy drain : NADIR

18-down – Take for a ride via trams? : OUTSMART

19-down – Mmmm … I’m upset by large cats : MILLIONS

22-down – Small European bird spotted in outskirts of Prague : PETITE

23-down – Dowager welcomes knight’s opening : WINDOW

24-down – Young English 8? : CUBE

25-down – Craving for flour — is it regular? : LUST

27-down – Direction to the Guardian’s street : WEST

7-across – Help turned into helping waves : RADIATION

8-across – Channel something heard well : SOUND

9-across – A moonlit romance ultimately makes one thus : EMOTIONAL

10-across – Declared 48 hours before D-day, what makes privates presentable : BIDET

12-across – Going nowhere in commercial break : ADRIFT

13-across – Those against accepting defeat are in the soup : CROUTONS

14-across – Some Laurel and Hardy finally in a fable that’s been rewritten : BAYLEAF

17-across – Decide about a city in the US : SEATTLE

20-across – The next sound as well is a bird : COCKATOO

22-across – Small dog locker with doubled top : COCKER

24-across – Start off continent expedition : HASTE

25-across – What covers essay by learner is found : ESTABLISH

26-across – Flinch from overflow in cesspit : WINCE

27-across – Had search party status evaluated externally : POSSESSED

1-down – Cultivated member ate out : FARMED

2-down – Poor hearing, when one is in the wind : MISTRIAL

3-down – All-out extremely tight sumo wrestling : UTMOST

4-down – Leaves to set up taxi firm : TOBACCO

5-down – Then compete and start to turn red : SOVIET

6-down – Fiendish foxtrot gives way to tango from within : INTERNAL

11-down – See 16 : DOTE

15-down – A dreamer with no name is fragrant : AROMATIC

16-down – Fancy diet not a cure : ANTI

18-down – Credit slip uncovered: don’t say a word — it’s sensitive : TICKLISH

19-down – Sun now, then rain : MONSOON

21-down – 18 not 51, may be vulgar : KITSCH

22-down – Harsh lectures to the audience : COARSE

23-down – Evenly and softly to begin with, that’s right: not so hard : EASIER