Daily Answers

9-across – Odd procedure to make babies : REPRODUCE

10-across – Gull to stop moving on water : LIETO

11-across – See 28 : CLASS

12-across – Sacrilege for kinsfolk to replace male, 50, by new model : PROFANITY

13-across – Calls offspring round the bend! : RINGSUP

14-across – One relaxes bonds with familiar relatives : AUNTIES

17-across – See 6 : TEASE

19-across – It goes out like a lamb, coming back a sheep : MAR

20-across – Some gamin: orphaned child : MINOR

21-across – Going round by word of mouth, part gets assimilated : ORBITAL

22-across – Love takes many forms — they’re central to making babies : OVARIES

24-across – Once quick humour, hot and cold — the French put out? : WITHCHILD

26-across – Boatman’s infant is not bright! : FAINT

28-across – Eldest daughter initially conceived internally with AI : FIRST

29-across – Nurse, a beauty, stern inside : LOOKAFTER

1-down – Born not quite wealthy, they’re developing fast : BRIC

2-down – Painfully rips an ankle liable to this injury : SPRAIN

3-down – Happy to keep small family member in stable : CONSISTENT

4-down – Add pressure to big cats, as being wiped out with their young : PUMPUP

5-down – Dashing young socialite supported by eldest sibling, say : DEBONAIR

6-down – That Latin kid is awkward : ILLA

7-down – Mockery or send-up? No, I became a father : DERISION

8-down – See 25 : GORY

13-down – Treasure trove yields antique : RETRO

15-down – A big effort? No: Boatman, an unconventional father, lacking human resources : NOMEANFEAT

16-down – Orders scrap on board : SORTS

18-down – Brits are confused about who should settle disputes : ARBITERS

19-down – Get product to make babies : MULTIPLY

22-down – Likely to be a funny child : ODDSON

23-down – Discontinuing treatment: cunning letters sent out to people acting stupidly : IDIOTS

24-down – Mother, perhaps first of women in family environment : WIFE

25-down – Family of 100 dined with grisly … : CATE

27-down – … Boatman on, say, tea and a pastry : TART

4-across – Friend who cleans out the stables? : MUCKER

6-across – Reacts badly after Foreign Office prediction : FORECAST

9-across – Precise pointer to north : NARROW

10-across – Mended and put back in stock room? : RESTORED

11-across – I lead the singers; I’m working with orchestra : CHOIRMASTER

15-across – Boy returning to study gets let in again : READMIT

17-across – Beryl is sometimes less than completely supple : LISSOME

18-across – Computer program giving an instruction to bedmaker? : SPREADSHEET

22-across – Still revolutionary, having a role in American political movement : TEAPARTY

23-across – This writer’s left to provide meaning : IMPORT

24-across – Follower showing hot wrath against cricket side : HANGERON

25-across – Move rapidly in chosen profession? : CAREER

1-down – Brief note on Irish autobiography : MEMOIR

2-down – Mighty harmful, a plant : POTENTILLA

3-down – The acres translated into alternative units : HECTARES

4-down – Fellow with one remedy giving cosmetic treatment : MANICURE

5-down – Soldier describes one form of punishment : CORPORAL

7-down – River song being heard : AIRE

8-down – Fuss not yet dealt with : TODO

12-down – Helping after silly late change : ALTERATION

13-down – Dawn return to one’s dwelling : COMEHOME

14-down – Try to get list set up as one with a succession policy? : TESTATOR

16-down – Manual actions in service taking a long time : MASSAGES

19-down – Islander putting a dead bird in tin : SAMOAN

20-down – Children’s game with children a bit of a pain : ITCH

21-down – Chief and the old woman at home : MAIN

1-across – Geriatric’s party I’m a bit annoyed about : DOTARD

4-across – Landowner introducing married daughter was embarrassed : SQUIRMED

9-across – Finish job in WC and look embarrassed : FLUSH

10-across – Travelling kings were sticking together, one might say : SKEWERING

11-across – Forged bill in M&S or Aldi, say, a source of irritation : CHILBLAIN

12-across – Slight setback hampering European policies : RULES

13-across – Fashion etc, the Tudors extended : OUTSTRETCHED

17-across – After study, no women find time for revision : READJUSTMENT

20-across – Run through museum unclothed, ending in shop : USEUP

21-across – Abandoned rebel leader probed by secret police : CASTASIDE

23-across – Order to confine gangster for last two members of panel : COMMITTAL

24-across – Single global enterprise returned early deposit : UNWED

25-across – Without us, Oedipus Rex collapsed — shock treatment applied : PEROXIDE

26-across – Dam with added function, not the conventional sort : WEIRDO

1-down – One’ll break faith with failing soldiers : DEFECTOR

2-down – Those visiting solicitors holding teacher up : TOURISTS

3-down – Airline lady’s mounted remedial course : REHAB

5-down – Barman, in short, quite contrary to start with : QUEENSCOUNSEL

6-down – Individual approaching home with zeal : INEARNEST

7-down – Mum wearing extremely leaky overall : MAINLY

8-down – Study comes to an end, keeping good time : DIGEST

10-down – No Etonian detected at USA gathering? : STATEEDUCATED

14-down – Inscrutable type — he’s quiet during lean times : THESPHINX

15-down – He’ll judge about six sheep, first in ring : REVIEWER

16-down – Mobile characters in Tate don’t care for? : ATTENDTO

18-down – Loose car part regularly fixed in hour by champ : HUBCAP

19-down – Nutmeg’s stopping show in German city : WEIMAR

22-down – Beyond a double bend, river’s clear blue : AZURE

1-across – Rock room, turning away leader of criminals : MRBIG

4-across – Together in firm, the lower classes fawned around one : DECREPIT

8-across – One may help police drag men off, keeping peace at first between two women : GERMANSHEPHERD

10-across – Flirts with right-winger, getting one animated : TOYSTORY

11-across – Racists bearing cross round as warning : KLAXON

12-across – What Piaf had indoors at intervals — waders : NOREGRETS

15-across – Take part of sheet : ENACT

17-across – Tucking into acorns? At first you are allowed to : MAYST

18-across – Record holder’s go on board : TURNTABLE

19-across – Two or three prepositions, altogether : INTOTO

21-across – Strong feelings leading to hard argument — over its expansion? : HEATHROW

24-across – Dangerous creature in trap? Rubbish — fright that is for nothing : PITBULLTERRIER

25-across – I say Anna is a cow : HEREFORD

26-across – Gardeners stand nervously around spades? Not very : HOERS

1-down – Timid hangman trembles, needing utmost strength : MIGHTANDMAIN

2-down – Bishop forces sports fans abroad : BARMYARMY

3-down – Hard work is great in service? On the contrary : GRAFT

4-down – Democrat in, Tories out! — that is to confuse : DISORIENT

5-down – Start to cut, shape and grind : CHEW

6-down – Old king’s service perhaps about to save the pound : ETHELBERT

7-down – I fight to seize Republican ground : IBROX

9-down – To be clear, on planets not our own there is no opening for life : INOTHERWORDS

13-down – Being possible to reach, successfully phone restaurant : GETATABLE

14-down – Hear master had a seizure, having overindulged : SURFEITED

16-down – Purple with fresh air and bungee jumping : AUBERGINE

20-down – Tennis’s beginning on grass in a moment : TRICE

22-down – Murdered, throat cut — get the law! : TORAH

23-down – Inspiration taken from heraldic lion : CLIO

1-across – Fuel element in heart of reactor to be eaten away : CORRODE

5-across – Judge a royal nipper : ARBITER

9-across – Turner is delayed about an hour : LATHE

10-across – Theatre company dislike picture : REPRESENT

11-across – Open vessel journalist upset : OVERTURNED

12-across – Greet bad weather : HAIL

14-across – Siren in car sent hens crazy : ENCHANTRESS

18-across – Trendy Italian banker boxes celebrated doctor : HIPPOCRATES

21-across – Look suggestively back in the dance : REEL

22-across – Mrs Mopp has time to recycle liqueur : CHARTREUSE

25-across – Relative gets a halt signal that’s not vindicated : UNCLEARED

26-across – Children’s game gets you and me in river : TAGUS

27-across – Camera socket stolen by son with long-handled instrument : HOTSHOE

28-across – Part of the creche longs for rank : ECHELON

1-down – Immature animal eats everything : CALLOW

2-down – Cad runs over appealing carnivore : ROTTER

3-down – Alien hiding in public dance is lacking restraint : OVERTHETOP

4-down – Blunder has rascal guillotined : ERROR

5-down – Place trap carelessly and this could be upset : APPLECART

6-down – Worker gets king a drink : BEER

7-down – Youth to generate transformation : TEENAGER

8-down – Hard-hearted? Girl not so much! : RUTHLESS

13-down – He attracts constituents but only with difficulty : ATASTRETCH

15-down – God’s in charge of working animal : CARTHORSE

16-down – Utter nothing in between : THOROUGH

17-down – Superior reduced strike : UPPERCUT

19-down – Stick semi-digested food with jelly : CUDGEL

20-down – Model wearing fewer clothes? : LESSON

23-down – Travel across German mountain range : RIDGE

24-down – Jacob’s wife finds the meadow hot : LEAH