Daily Answers

7-across – Carp and turkey with cream : NITPICK

8-across – Collects fish food from wild roof gardens : GARNERS

9-across – Fish quiver with head cut off : HAKE

10-across – A shocking thing: having an even keel, rescuer stepped in : ELECTRODE

12-across – Wanting some monkfish or turbot : SHORT

13-across – Boatman is at once overturned : CANOEIST

15-across – See 17 : LIFT

16-across – In the US, a sinker in leading edges of drag or net under trawler : DONUT

17-across – Naughty fish plot to steal things : SHOP

18-across – Boatman accepted into crew: no problem for a beginner : NEWCOMER

20-across – What you need to make out with this fish! : TROUT

21-across – On foot, they’re bound to steal from depots for Spooner : BOOTLACES

22-across – Polish off fish food right away? : KILL

24-across – Is caught in wood? That’s fishy : PISCINE

25-across – It’s not fair!, shouted fish out loud : RAWDEAL

1-down – Capital of Libya, leaving by motorway instead : LIMA

2-down – Took back control of nothing: expression of disdain, bearing much tedium : OPTEDOUT

3-down – Perhaps grave speech: get rid of euro, in part : ACCENT

4-down – Stickler for skill in middle of aiming trap for fish : MARTINET

5-down – Source of comfort for heel contained by fish : INSOLE

6-down – Encourage caviar maker: just take heart : URGE

11-down – Odd fish set to one side : ECCENTRIC

12-down – Spear sunfish : SPIKE

14-down – Salmon got by special method on line at top of tide : SMOLT

16-down – Dispose of fish food : DUMPLING

17-down – Defence of cod, skate, flounder : STOCKADE

19-down – Brill, catfish gutted with gusto, finally chilled : CHOICE

20-down – Cold tuna’s prepared for one in Italy : TUSCAN

21-down – It’s a bit fishy, but anglers buy it : BAIT

23-down – Principal material for sinker : LEAD

9-across – Masses of hot oil sprinkled twice over river : HOIPOLLOI

10-across – Literary Dick, one in a black suit : SPADE

11-across – Music paper accompanying magazine : RAGTIME

12-across – Greek region once booted out rival every so often : BOEOTIA

13-across – Wide open space in hospital department : AGAPE

14-across – Land in the saddle? That’s Turpin’s job : HOLDINGUP

16-across – It galls terribly to smell book that I can’t grasp : ITSALLGREEKTOME

19-across – With which to see stars become smaller : TELESCOPE

21-across – Authority keeps quiet : SAYSO

22-across – Expert writer’s record collection : ARCHIVE

23-across – Gap in head painlessly fixed, I’ll set out : SYNAPSE

24-across – Wear black uniform during early hours : MOURN

25-across – Father abandons French car carrying one dish : ENCHILADA

1-down – Drug dealer and pacifist? Not if nursing wound : PHARMACIST

2-down – Plans day writing about one Asian city : DIAGRAMS

3-down – What’s applied during period in ER : IODINE

4-down – Plant on its own, name missing : ALOE

5-down – What infidels do beside evil rebels : DISBELIEVE

6-down – Ringmaster is keen to employ star : ASTERISK

7-down – Scruffy artillerymen joke about origin of tanks : RAGTAG

8-down – It’s on board primarily for everyone to appreciate : FETA

14-down – He got merry playing instrument in greenhouse, maybe : HYGROMETER

15-down – Amazing chap with Roman name visits friend : PHENOMENAL

17-down – Paisley goes in to bless worried Aegean islanders : LESBIANS

18-down – Godlike, round, soft-spoken Scotsman : OLYMPIAN

20-down – Where Lucy did the twist with me? : LYCEUM

21-down – Indy’s edited by Conservative business agent : SYNDIC

22-down – Expert goes over minutes for summit : ACME

23-down – Cryptic concerning Shed faction : SECT

1-across – Check those printing religious tracts? : REPRESS

5-across – Beaten revolutionary featured in flyer : BIRCHED

9-across – How sugar can be used, if at all? : FORTOFFEE

10-across – Chest protected by father’s waterproof : PARKA

11-across – Brought books back on approval : TOOK

12-across – Perseveres and catches a little bird : STICKSATIT

14-across – Gulf national sounding full of cold : QATARI

15-across – Brexiteers asking for this defeat on polling day : OUTVOTE

16-across – Bear from America digging into soil : SUSTAIN

18-across – Most utter support after turning up : PUREST

20-across – Bloke gets the way things are done in small part of Cornwall : BODMINMOOR

21-across – See 3 : CROP

24-across – Each individually at an advantage : AHEAD

25-across – Sum up chapter cut from historic volume one’s penned : EPITOMISE

26-across – Speeds up in speech, as ten strikes : HASTENS

27-across – Oriental crane ultimately like seabird : EASTERN

1-down – Update troops before attack : REFIT

2-down – An account traveller set, up providing support for climbers : PERGOLA

3-down – Liberal prone to adopting Conservative hairstyle : ETON

4-down – Crowd security? : SAFETYINNUMBERS

5-down – Case based on word of chap, or chaps, before I’m involved : BREACHOFPROMISE

6-down – Treasury theatre put on old romance with current investment : REPOSITORY

7-down – His friend has Hamlet’s first speech abridged : HORATIO

8-down – Doctor gets a payment covering time he has to serve in US : DRAFTEE

13-down – Tense liar added ridiculous nonsense : TARADIDDLE

16-down – Rebellious graduates wash thoroughly one day a week : SABBATH

17-down – Injured Danes coming aboard in gloom : SADNESS

19-down – Abject drunk lives without ever losing heart : SERVILE

22-down – What diver may do with bill, on cutting pound : PREEN

23-down – Employment from IT entrepreneur? : JOBS

1-across – Fast food’s leader producing Whopper? : FLYING

5-across – Fish fingers used to make this sound? : CASTANET

9-across – Runner one proposes just to read quickly : SKIMOVER

10-across – Immediately in agreement about parts : ATONCE

11-across – Figure involved in terrorist attack : STAT

12-across – Chat with player when ground’s ideal : ARCHETYPAL

13-across – Fires bricks, keeping this empty : LETSGO

14-across – Son gutted about beds mother makes for northerner : SCOTSMAN

16-across – It’ll fade out … that’s unfortunate : ILLFATED

19-across – Cryptic clue I finally solved : EUCLID

21-across – I get spoilt after massage, revealing part of body : EPIGLOTTIS

23-across – This swine might do tattoo with nothing upfront : OINK

24-across – Finest lettuce sandwiches curl up : NESTLE

25-across – Key place for out-of-this-world drinks? : SPACEBAR

26-across – They’re touched on necks behind showers : GSTRINGS

27-across – Electrician put down edging of safety nets : SPARKY

2-down – Take to appreciative fans in a hurry : LIKETHECLAPPERS

3-down – After cooking, it means they’re serving : INMATES

4-down – Care what impatient driver might do : GIVEAHOOT

5-down – They’re shaken, swapping tips on communism for city : CARACAS

6-down – Touch saint with own following : SHAVE

7-down – Paul and Screw, perhaps, annoy mad woman : ANONYMS

8-down – A link, with extra comma’s silly! : EXCLAMATIONMARK

15-down – Takes advantage of hospitality on ship protecting river : OVERSTAYS

17-down – Hide in Asia from Spooner’s soldier : FIGHTER

18-down – Can’t stand having abandoned defensive measures : DETESTS

20-down – Orally, one catches disease : CHOLERA

22-down – The big blue cone put out to cordon area off : OCEAN

1-across – Ravel, last of wet fish : TANGLE

4-across – Fiddle not half inspiring difficult child — that’s the effect of music! : VIBRATO

9-across – New Testament suggested the coolest of times? : MIDWINTER

10-across – Ultimately flat, instrument that’s sharp : THORN

11-across – Grand work of Elgar, an exercise in music : LARGE

12-across – Sit alongside robin with huge bats : NEIGHBOUR

13-across – In flaming, fire disturbed : ROUSTED

15-across – Composer is beyond preposterous : TALLIS

17-across – Late actor has shifted tree to the left : SHARIF

19-across – Those who polish railway apparatus : BUFFERS

22-across – Scarcely any absent in curfew, unlike degenerate less fortunate : UNLUCKIER

24-across – See 11 : SCALE

26-across – Brahms and Liszt in the spotlight : LITUP

27-across – Tuesday 7th of September off — 8th of September past it then? : USEBYDATE

28-across – Much bloodshed as one composer almost crushed by another : CARNAGE

29-across – Composer’s name for composer : WEBERN

1-down – Glass one may be dropping? : TUMBLER

2-down – She abandons playwright after a write-up, an all-time low : NADIR

3-down – Lice high on combination of acid and alcohol in cheese : LEICESTER

4-down – Composer on the case of correct decision : VERDICT

5-down – Group has little time to invest in composer : BATCH

6-down – Show remorse having put mint in sage I chopped up : APOLOGISE

7-down – They’ve got something worse to broadcast about capital in Nairobi : OWNERS

8-down – Out of it, put to death : STONED

14-down – For example, prepare an Ottoman composer to invade revolutionary Peru : UPHOLSTER

16-down – Way of acting silly with feet in a pickle : LIFESTYLE

18-down – After scratching of head, nothing penned by composer is a disappointment : FAILURE

19-down – One offering a cut, as composer : BARBER

20-down – Has that lady visited an illicit bar? : SHEBEEN

21-down – Known leaders in baseball league, one entering competition after an upset : PUBLIC

23-down – Old man after a drop of cream with high tea : CUPPA

25-down – Instead, a general saying : ADAGE