Daily Answers

1-across – Show partially deaf actor your works : FACTORY

5-across – The seabed : HAMMOCK

10-across – Linen eventually loose on female : FLAX

11-across – Play area just cut up : FAIRGROUND

12-across – They happen to be special occasions : EVENTS

13-across – Tried desperately to involve special troops in emergency : DISASTER

14-across – Police campaign reduced drug usage? : CRACKDOWN

16-across – Right to change horse’s strap : GIRTH

17-across – Fight a little bit : SCRAP

19-across – Spectre: he may give feeling of horror : THECREEPS

23-across – Extravagant behaviour in Everest base? : HIGHCAMP

24-across – Indisposed, for example? Absolutely! : ILLSAY

26-across – Anyway, like the blind? : REGARDLESS

27-across – It covers shoulders and head : CAPE

28-across – Annoyed about being bland : ANODYNE

29-across – Glen rocks with Scottish neighbour : ENGLAND

2-down – Report of rupture with a Latin boyfriend? : ALLOVER

3-down – Poison from canned meat? : TOXIN

4-down – Did not allow judge to be taken advantage of : REFUSED

6-down – Impressive time of year : AUGUST

7-down – Low number keeping quiet in soft light : MOONSHINE

8-down – Agree to have criminal transported : CONSENT

9-down – I may not buy operating system Kangaroo, for one : WINDOWSHOPPER

15-down – Come down to earth with more than a bump : CRASHLAND

18-down – Make a striking interruption : CHIMEIN

20-down – Bright red and blue round the edges : CRIMSON

21-down – Unserious writer is barred for children : PLAYPEN

22-down – Terrible danger in plot : GARDEN

25-down – Drink here as an anaesthetic : LOCAL

5-across – Old magistrate drops stone in kitchen appliance : JUICER

6-across – Dolly’s hit one boy embracing another : JOLENE

9-across – Onset of jitters, because on port wines : RIOJAS

10-across – Society not fully open about joint ruler’s rank : RAJASHIP

11-across – Leader of Labour’s in touch? That’s a shock : JOLT

12-across – Superb, enchanting joke’s swapped for £1,000 : MAJESTICAL

13-across – Expose sporty American observed getting tricked : OUTJOCKEYED

18-across – Taking rights away from obscure fellow mostly faking clothes : FORJUDGING

21-across – Horse which is valueless : JUNK

22-across – At work, I muse job is to expand : JUMBOISE

23-across – Magistrate touring great old city, one in India : JAIPUR

24-across – River bird’s a source of music : DEEJAY

25-across – In France, setter’s with man — a left-wing leader : JEREMY

1-down – Erotic writer stands out for everyone in Asian art : NINJUTSU

2-down – Jack and mates scrapped this? : JETSAM

3-down – What writer seeks, only in small quantity : MOTJUSTE

4-down – Vehicle, facetiously a Russian plane? : JETSKI

5-down – Vessel smuggling crude oil — it’s an inside job : JAILOR

7-down – Prophet and pilgrim the French sent to heaven : ELIJAH

8-down – Scheme with lies when playing darts, say : PROJECTILES

14-down – One abandons legal binding area of belief : JUDAICAL

15-down – Ordered woodworker to cut back in last stage : ENJOINED

16-down – Sunny and warm month, day keeping nothing cold : JOCUND

17-down – Hurt like one deliberating over case : INJURY

19-down – Person who punches rabbit : JABBER

20-down – Soldiers thus dance around, full of energy : GIJOES

1-across – Corrupt haves all at once inherit our greatest public asset : NATIONAL

5-across – See 1 : HEALTH

9-across – See 1 : SERVICE

10-across – People in court to condemn Jeremy Hunt neglecting the sick : JURYMEN

11-across – First to admire Mr Aneurin Bevan, our revolutionary 5 reformer? : OBAMA

12-across – Be rude about ’Arry, chap with scalpel : DISSECTOR

13-across – Rebellious 1 5 9 donning uniforms with singular irritability : LIVERISHNESS

17-across – Allocated by month: care reduced, deadlines trashed : CALENDARISED

20-across – Pain of north European country losing monarch : NEURALGIA

22-across – Theatre cancelling 50% of surgical procedures : OPERA

23-across – Current wife describing time in MRI machines? : IMAGERS

24-across – Skint!, one dental nurse said monotonously : INTONED

25-across – Require extremely large hypodermic? : NEEDLE

26-across – Available drug seized by frantic matrons : ONSTREAM

1-down – Regularly sneers at poor old counsellor : NESTOR

2-down – Hospital study following Bert’s last suture : THREAD

3-down – Rusting, lidless box hid a can containing nothing : OXIDATION

4-down – Ensure bandage moved lower : ABERDEENANGUS

6-down – Superior neighbour sounded weird : EERIE

7-down – Are still taking pulse, for example of Flora : LIMETREE

8-down – Barbarians entertaining very French lady after game : HUNTRESS

10-down – Right now I fib about blood group, for good reason : JUSTIFICATION

14-down – Sat at home twirling surgical instrument : HAEMOSTAT

15-down – 10 new non-invasive procedures advanced the study of feet : SCANSION

16-down – American stops small community rejecting very bad treatment : ILLUSAGE

18-down – Attempt to raise spirits of Irishman with case of champagne : SEANCE

19-down – One behind the other in Accident & Emergency : TANDEM

21-down – Local London football team spurned by Poles : AREAL

9-across – Hector is by definition adorable : PERSECUTE

10-across – Tree surgeon’s plant is about right for me : FIRST

11-across – In retreat to meet up: majority of one, missing a member : AMPUTEE

12-across – Got together in hospital with a composer : SMETANA

13-across – Exploit dispute minister rejected in agreement : OVER

14-across – Shabby at interrupting dog instructions : DOWNATHEEL

15-across – More delectable than a salmon terrine is egg roll for starters : TASTIER

17-across – Actual consumer suffers with a twist in the tail : ENDUSER

19-across – Planning a set dinner to finish badly : ENDINTEARS

22-across – Formerly one in a hundred? On the contrary : ONCE

23-across – Object to experimental mice being present locally : ENDEMIC

24-across – What to wear in case? : LAWSUIT

26-across – Preserved member of an ancient civilisation : INCAN

27-across – It’s King Lear BBC can blame for losing odd characters treatment : TIGERBALM

1-down – He just appears gentle around climax: he made it up : SPEAKOFTHEDEVIL

2-down – Eliot, Eliot & Eliot : TRIPLETS

3-down – Gone sinister : LEFT

4-down – See you when you arrive, but not first off : AUREVOIR

5-down – See 10 : PERSON

6-down – Had an impact on camp : AFFECTED

7-down – Shops here are holding scoundrel : ARCADE

8-down – Still confused about a copy of the Iliad? : ITSALLGREEKTOME

16-down – Half in the dark and troubled in my disgrace : IGNOMINY

17-down – Hears endless adverts? Not with these! : EARPLUGS

18-down – See 10 : SINGULAR

20-down – Conclude being educated not at fault : DEDUCE

21-down – Thrill from sexy act with her unclothed : EXCITE

25-down – See 13 : WORK

1-across – Cleaner fuel? Yes and no : CHARCOAL

5-across – Uniform at school is vulgar stuff : KITSCH

9-across – Take advantage of old bed one enters : EXPLOIT

10-across – Having pistol, loved to drill through card : SIDEARM

11-across – Sex goddess very exciting at first to students : VENUS

12-across – Thoroughly searched, managed to get fired : RANSACKED

13-across – Artist can’t get anyone to pose for this : SELFPORTRAIT

17-across – Beating faulty machine tests : CHASTISEMENT

20-across – Taking pains to enjoy oneself : MASOCHISM

22-across – Having much of the same quality? : EQUAL

23-across – Hear a heavyweight attempt to deceive : TRYITON

24-across – Moving north in earnest to be as close as possible : NEAREST

25-across – Sorry, failing to keep a Catholic devotion : ROSARY

26-across – Online factory work? : ASSEMBLY

1-down – Chopstick? : CLEAVE

2-down – A large tree, or a small plant : ALPINE

3-down – The high point of a sea voyage? : CROWSNEST

4-down – Sort of seeking stylish clothes : AFTERAFASHION

6-down – Cricket team Juliet follows on radio : INDIA

7-down – It may offer a sandwich course : SNACKBAR

8-down – Quietly sing one tune, losing heart in clammy conditions : HUMIDITY

10-down – In men’s room, set out failings of the elderly : SENIORMOMENTS

14-down – Youth’s great need for excitement : TENDERAGE

15-down – Cutter from the east : SCIMITAR

16-down – In trembling ecstasy, finally receive gems : CATSEYES

18-down – Wonderful game Americans would play with owl : SUPERB

19-down – Absolutely evenly : FLATLY

21-down – Provide unusual trace : CATER