Daily Answers

1-across – Recollection of news about old soldier : TROOPER

5-across – Something burning, opening blast rents asunder : GASLAMP

9-across – See 16 : MALLS

10-across – Getting into part, I’m embracing challenge most profoundly — and so I should! : FILMACTOR

11-across – See 28 : THEMERRIER

12-across – Asian couple is talked about : THAI

14-across – Energy invested in design of a logo, shape of a tube : OESOPHAGEAL

18-across – Time required to tour Med, say, relax restriction on leaving home : HOUSEARREST

21-across – Pudding appearing very enticing initially, put on a stone or two? : PAVE

22-across – Ruin arch, crushing above : IMPOVERISH

25-across – Aggressive, any fierce criminal : INYERFACE

26-across – Seen from behind in portrait, some Roman port : OSTIA

27-across – French department eroding and ignored, unfortunately : GIRONDE

28-across – Dog kennels re-home strays, those all welcome : THEMORE

1-down – Red male, little bit lacking in tail : TOMATO

2-down – Having bandaged bad cut, sign people operating well? : OILMEN

3-down – Ignored port that’s old-fashioned? : PASSEDOVER

4-down – Look up, one way or the other : REFER

5-down – Bit of fish seen without tail, might a cat have followed him? : GILLESPIE

6-down – Sweetener coating a cake or bar? : SOAP

7-down – Picnicker, by the sound of it? : ARTTHIEF

8-down – Phosphorus, maybe a bit : PARTICLE

13-down – Old sport, through which one might join the action, did you say? : BATTLEDORE

15-down – Forward movement not entirely substandard, guru admits : SCRUMMAGE

16-down – One leg in the air, donning knickers in public places : SHOPPING

17-down – Inspector of property : SURVEYOR

19-down – Devil eggs in audition for restaurant? : BISTRO

20-down – Literary group gets stressed reading aloud? : PHRASE

23-down – Check in books for runner : OVETT

24-down – Experienced woman taking £800? : GRAN

1-across – Base person’s cloth hat : REPTILE

5-across – Shelter, formerly in a state : CONCEAL

10-across – Business is settled : FIRM

11-across – Means of transport, showing first-class pedigree : GOODSTRAIN

12-across – Doctor is curt and unrefined : RUSTIC

13-across – Autocratic cops tied suspect : DESPOTIC

14-across – The Parisian wears suit when cold : HEARTLESS

16-across – Jam in a piece of cake : WEDGE

17-across – Almost finished writing for share certificates : SCRIP

19-across – Ally improbably felled in front of ship : BEDFELLOW

23-across – Expert discovered to have great insight : PROFOUND

24-across – Corrosion wore away pivot : ROTATE

26-across – Folly of Romeo interrupting disrespectful behaviour : IMPRUDENCE

27-across – Marks time with silver pole : TAGS

28-across – Pupil’s in time to get support for school subject : ALGEBRA

29-across – Working out, Nat aims for staying power : STAMINA

2-down – Ambitious banker has great taste : EPICURE

3-down – Seduce casual worker over time : TEMPT

4-down – Soldier in pub is reasoned : LOGICAL

6-down – Bungling bosses continuously fill the mind : OBSESS

7-down – Soldier without energy is not spiritual : CORPOREAL

8-down – A riot is developing : ARISING

9-down – Supercilious prisoner’s going down : CONDESCENDING

15-down – Strengthen and control troops : REINFORCE

18-down – Animal carries artist? That’s sweet! : CARAMEL

20-down – Iron workers in right tizzy : FERMENT

21-down – Figure it’s a month since opening of nightclub : OCTAGON

22-down – Split up left-wing union : SUNDER

25-down – Transport grand icon : TOTEM

8-across – Bully almost used, oddly, to be the perfect friend? : SOULMATE

9-across – Man in fleece I pass for a retriever? : PIECE

10-across – Pat possibly good on horse : DUNG

11-across – Describe nets that, if crossing, unravel initially, as netted : RETICULATE

12-across – Dog in front, I’m impressed! : BOWWOW

14-across – Pravda’s leader: revolutionary newspaper in surprisingly moral stand : PLATFORM

15-across – Talk about an obsequious devotee! : SPANIEL

17-across – Boob squeezed by rank dog : TERRIER

20-across – Facial mark: poodle has to live without it : BLACKEYE

22-across – Husky gets to bark around tree : CROAKY

23-across – Say whippet dogs all in traps right, that’s on the money! : DOLLARSIGN

24-across – Dog’s dinner? : CHOW

25-across – A great stop! : AVAST

26-across – Has sanction a new form? : CONTAINS

1-down – Medic, American, on senior programme : DOCUSOAP

2-down – Bung dog round back of kennel : PLUG

3-down – Male pointer finds tasty bit of bone : MARROW

4-down – Extreme force set to work, filling hole on roof of office : GESTAPO

5-down – Modern life’s ending in Belgian prison? : SPACEAGE

6-down – Finance company with plentiful supplies and many miles to travel : WELLSFARGO

7-down – Peach lieutenant put in drink : BELTER

13-down – With half-scrubbed cleaner recycling bottles left for bottle bank? : WINECELLAR

16-down – Loathe how much some directors get paid? : EXECRATE

18-down – Dog beginning to kick hen with loud barking : ELKHOUND

19-down – Entrance, dog kennels each way : BEWITCH

21-down – John, with devout belief, renouncing it for a rough scrubber : LOOFAH

22-down – Chihuahua, for example, a little Mexican in effect : CANINE

24-down – Bird, yak or rabbit? : CHAT

1-across – Normal procedure at home, interrupting course : ROUTINE

5-across – Horses from stud mostly fed with corn mash : BRONCOS

9-across – Friend beginning to play the fool : CHUMP

10-across – Taking supporters back with cast : SNAFFLING

11-across – At sea, eat no slugs as seafood : LANGOUSTES

12-across – Boat’s destination in song that sounds blue : SKYE

14-across – Head examiner is rating cool form : CRANIOLOGIST

18-across – Fully booked in mid-June and second half of July : UNRESERVEDLY

21-across – Month not the first that may be triumphal : ARCH

22-across – Unnecessary words? Not about bear : PADDINGTON

25-across – Team, say, leading in America : STATESIDE

26-across – Grand filling for soldier’s jacket : PARKA

27-across – Pottery broken by remote conflict : WARFARE

28-across – A king involved in The French Connection : LINKAGE

1-down – Remember to pay another visit : RECALL

2-down – Abrupt changes of direction upset empty vessels : UTURNS

3-down – Going on to make entrance without expert : INPROGRESS

4-down – Moderates get revolutionary to swallow arsenic : EASES

5-down – Cook is aware of audible college : BRASENOSE

6-down – Fish getting away from posh speaker? : ORFE

7-down – Female writing line in smart gear : CHICKLIT

8-down – FBI agents entertained by Tess playing parts : SEGMENTS

13-down – Baker’s aid is secure after turning on grill : ROLLINGPIN

15-down – Musical director finally hurried up? That’s the story : NARRATIVE

16-down – Bird dog? A small pig! : CURASSOW

17-down – Restful location in which time-wasting matriarch unwound? : ARMCHAIR

19-down – Bones in back start to ache : STERNA

20-down – Promise to participate : ENGAGE

23-down – Live comfortably after intro­duction to duchess : DWELL

24-down – Cheese for entrées that’s also for starters : FETA

9-across – All of us sniff a new career : HUMANRACE

10-across – I love tackling journal’s final stage of development : IMAGO

11-across – Agent of retribution, English, lying in state : AVENGER

12-across – Former duck trap that is snaring mallard’s head : ONETIME

13-across – Educated girl eating a yogurt dish : RAITA

14-across – American ready to separate opposing sides in port : ARCHANGEL

16-across – Smiley’s group jams here in central London? : CAMBRIDGECIRCUS

19-across – Carpeted stable dam wrecked : LAMBASTED

21-across – Tin and aluminium locks here : CANAL

22-across – Note silence among ladies in bygone times : LONGAGO

23-across – Journos, gathering in loose ends, raise them in anger : HACKLES

24-across – Centre Point’s fine old state : FOCAL

25-across – Song by East End barman is going places fast : AIRTRAVEL

1-down – Articles about wearing suit in camp : THEATRICAL

2-down – Rule for each individual framed by one parent : IMPERIUM

3-down – Puzzle’s meaning can be decoded without a name : ENIGMA

4-down – Landowner doesn’t finish hideout : LAIR

5-down – Decide moves after Woman’s Own’s first brave feat : HEROICDEED

6-down – Latin repetition not working for bookworms : LITERATI

7-down – Saw one in Glasgow filling sink : SAYING

8-down – Innocent, maybe: a thousand and eleven fled Pompeii : POPE

14-down – Extra maths problem starts to annoy lazybones : ADDITIONAL

15-down – Not how Ko-Ko operates, lacking spirit : LISTLESSLY

17-down – Clear fingerprint impressed into actual tablet : READABLE

18-down – College on lookout to host large assembly : CONCLAVE

20-down – State capital needs a good deal to secure province : MUNICH

21-down – Clubs and diamonds run out for consul : CICERO

22-down – Port given permission to entertain foreign leader : LEFT

23-down – Ambassador and bishop’s address in 20 : HERR