Daily Answers

1-across – Outer layer that’s old, spurning new modern fashion : EXODERM

5-across – Trade union strike, no adult left out to meddle : INTRUDE

9-across – Relative receives top grade — very well done! : BRAVO

10-across – West Indian batsman steals silver? I’d go for plum : GREENGAGE

11-across – Cry with pain, as scoundrel receives royal warning : YELLOWCARD

12-across – Liberal and Unionist revoke prime minister’s block : LUMP

14-across – Shift hell’s location? : DISPLACEMENT

18-across – Drunk in order to get a measure of annihilation : OBLITERATION

21-across – Tried cycling without energy? It’s rubbish : DIRT

22-across – Ride in a devious way : ROUNDABOUT

25-across – Most remote website regularly finishes 50, 1, 50, 1 : LONELIEST

26-across – Tease American over sweetheart : SUGAR

27-across – Sign of gas returning? Have to go! : NOENTRY

28-across – Bothered to be equipped for winter travel? : HASSLED

1-down – Beginning of boy? Erm … possibly : EMBRYO

2-down – Nothing clear about prophet : ORACLE

3-down – They work with numbers, sin and cos — to me, it’s gibberish : ECONOMISTS

4-down – Trick with ace : MAGIC

5-down – Intoxicating Iberian brew, extremely neat : INEBRIANT

6-down – Opponents tucking into dry wine : TENT

7-down – Stubbs considered not being entertained : UNAMUSED

8-down – Butterfly markings look square close up : EYESPOTS

13-down – Soldiers use soap, all lathered up, for changes : MENOPAUSES

15-down – Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin? : PURPOSELY

16-down – Influence and lobby Nobel prize winner : BOBDYLAN

17-down – Nightingale found in Italy : FLORENCE

19-down – Party girl hugs posh boy : DOUGAL

20-down – Kept touring Dorset : STORED

23-down – Score heavily at first, after not getting caught : NOTCH

24-down – Sluggish car going from 1 to 50? : FLAT

9-across – Cryptically, how she runs home : HOUSEWIFE

10-across – Bare land here : STRIP

11-across – Free to go through again, retaining key : RELIEVE

12-across – Girl joining society left in first-class mess : DEBACLE

13-across – Tip: fill the gaps between 7 : POINT

14-across – Drool goes everywhere — he takes it on the chin : GOODLOSER

16-across – Users get authors to change one of their sources : ROGETSTHESAURUS

19-across – Yen increased, provided one invested and got smarter? : YUPPIFIED

21-across – He dresses Mother and Child : MASON

22-across – Turner cherished small silver dish : LASAGNA

23-across – Did nurse prepare Mark for weariness? : BOREDOM

24-across – Fine chimney in Glasgow backs onto court : MULCT

25-across – Pass priest eating Northern Irish food : COLCANNON

1-down – Insurance for Lib Dems? : THIRDPARTY

2-down – Mike secretly tackling the Italian racket in construction : BUILDING

3-down – Bond writer comes into a little money : CEMENT

4-down – Lost boring game? That’s old hat : TILE

5-down – Contest what bad pupils are told to do? : HEADTOHEAD

6-down – Is Lincoln entirely standing up queen? : ISABELLA

7-down – Reliable types initially keen to crack emerging economies : BRICKS

8-down – Part of church, perhaps eastern section : APSE

14-down – Sack actor, high with cocaine, opening at the Abbey? : GOTHICARCH

15-down – Bitterness to do with feeling one’s ignored : RESENTMENT

17-down – What pushy drivers do to gain entrance to estate : TAILGATE

18-down – Local chairman’s heading off : RESIDENT

20-down – It crushes steel forged under pressure : PESTLE

21-down – Hawk carries this weapon : MORTAR

22-down – Story about male constituent of 21 : LIME

23-down – Run off some cloth from old mill town on leaving : BOLT

1-across – Make submissive burglars do this : BREAKIN

5-across – Treated mercifully, padre’s converted : SPARED

9-across – Eccentrics with empty tins for scraps : ODDMENTS

10-across – Fail to catch American wife : MISSUS

12-across – Tool for hard labour damaged hedge in prison : SLEDGEHAMMER

15-across – Too far away from the mountains? : OUTOFRANGE

17-across – Whopper claimed when odds are ignored : LIE

19-across – Yank backing good German : TUG

20-across – Unseen cats desperate for nourishment : SUSTENANCE

22-across – Seeing French dicky birds : GREENFINCHES

26-across – Artist’s materials are not commonly found in the outskirts of Paris : PAINTS

27-across – One coming out on top — one with a carriage : VICTORIA

28-across – Extremely entertaining gentleman offering drink : EGGNOG

29-across – Advice ignored by the risk-averse woman of property? : DOWAGER

1-down – Drug left in London area : BLOW

2-down – Tips? Tips from eastern diners : ENDS

3-down – Don’t part with remaining traffic sign : KEEPLEFT

4-down – Famous saw : NOTED

6-down – First mate crossing border : PRIMAL

7-down – Like men, gerbils stray : RESEMBLING

8-down – Confused police officer’s given command : DISORDERED

11-down – Hornblower’s first crew measure up? : HEIGHT

13-down – Dish providing home with constant energy : COTTAGEPIE

14-down – Incredible male with ginger snap : STAGGERING

16-down – Nubia’s false god : ANUBIS

18-down – Movement of water round wet rocks : UNDERTOW

21-down – Couple of punches beginning to count : ONETWO

23-down – Minor country almost heading for disaster : CHILD

24-down – Sailor’s last in large ship : BRIG

25-down – Musical chairs without wings : HAIR

8-across – Composer accepting billion pounds for percussion instrument : HANDBELL

9-across – Olive eaten by male astrophysicist : HOYLE

10-across – Ecstasy and anger in Ireland : EIRE

11-across – Eccentric horologer with a wind problem : LOGORRHOEA

12-across – After change of leader, several become exhausted : RUNDRY

14-across – Old ducks spell trouble for gastropod : SEASNAIL

15-across – Our sort of environmentalists retired, overwhelmed by burden : ONEOFUS

17-across – Cover skin of backside with trousers, back to front : BESTREW

20-across – Creep round ridiculously cool green hotel : ECOLODGE

22-across – Married prince leaving old Spanish capital for plateau : MESETA

23-across – Imposed order on society, yet missed vagrant : SYSTEMISED

24-across – Coarse group of women, rowdily discontented : WIRY

25-across – Prayer of thanks from good people : GRACE

26-across – Remains for ever in mind, we’ll swear : INDWELLS

1-down – Quiet historian losing footing on edges of ruin : TACITURN

2-down – Slothful extremes of island life : IDLE

3-down – Maidens periodically need bluesy tunes : MEDLEY

4-down – Scientist loves squeezing large marrow : OLOGIST

5-down – Seniors righted a wrong : THIRDAGE

6-down – Turns section of poultry farm into co-op? : HYPHENATES

7-down – Arab in Italy supporting the old folk : YEMENI

13-down – Roman emperor, regularly ignoring advisor, called time on Scotsman : DIOCLETIAN

16-down – Mum dined merrily, as luminous as ever : UNDIMMED

18-down – All children tire, lying about : ENTIRELY

19-down – Dramatic deep breaths heard over microphone : SEISMIC

21-down – Iroquois dude turned up in California area : CAYUGA

22-down – Girl said medic mostly managed : MADEDO

24-down – Roots of sow thistle are dedicated gardener’s enemy : WEED

1-across – Dirty Harry initially lies: Clint Eastwood to verge on dishonesty : SAILCLOSETO

9-across – Damage concerning tailless bird : MARABOU

10-across – People, in general, back to see film : WESTERN

11-across – One sees dialogue of Pale Rider cast : LIPREADER

12-across – Galloped round in this? : RODEO

13-across – Busy chewing old pen : COOP

14-across – Soft teacher flipping against group punishment here : PRISONCAMP

16-across – Sliced thin bread — a demise for loaf? : BRAINDEATH

19-across – On screen, fellow is handsome : FAIR

20-across – Spanish river turns and merges with the French one : LOIRE

21-across – One might treat this model, picking up Penny on important date : THERAPIST

23-across – Extremist born in leaderless 24 : TALIBAN

24-across – Language from computing: the first adopted by Turing? : ITALIAN

25-across – Clearing out desk when sacked, then going off : SKEDADDLING

1-down – Germ in toilet, pal scrubs away : STREPTOBACILLUS

2-down – Fill Tramp’s puzzle in the end: incomplete Tramp’s for filling : IMBUE

3-down – Sick in Australia : CHUNDER

4-down – Ahead in county division after playing side at the top : ONWARDS

5-down – Protect nurse: mum concerned with nursing home : ENSHRINE

6-down – Performing too much? Is it end for super Dave Gorman broadcast? : OVERDRAMATISING

7-down – Remorselessness from rogue — account hiding large gift : IMPLACABILITY

8-down – Fantastic Gran Torino pic is absorbing : INCORPORATING

15-down – Group of three players sign contracts : ENSEMBLE

17-down – Country star in Hollywood, not hot single American : ESTONIA

18-down – See 1 across : THEWIND

22-down – Violin piece from 6 : AMATI