Daily Answers

1-across – Fixed fee to cover account after potential turnaround : VOLTEFACE

6-across – Old and heartless, OK! : AGED

10-across – Lived in Germany with the world of the Germans : DWELT

11-across – Slack peignoir : NEGLIGENT

12-across – Difficulty with Mao parable, but not as translated : PROBLEM

13-across – Provokes auditory perceptions in certain places : INCITES

14-across – Fogey briefly holding these people under detention to begin with : STICKINTHEMUD

17-across – Perhaps she meant to eat at dawn, or similar : NEARLYTHESAME

21-across – Shifty of you French to pinch Naomi’s bottom : DEVIOUS

22-across – Slippery one in band is staggering : REELING

24-across – Met inquiry into a serious tax evasion fraud Detective Sergeant leads astray : SATISFIED

25-across – Pound in banknotes and coins producing conflict : CLASH

26-across – Advantage of a copper kettle : PERK

27-across – Being uncooperative, is asleep outside : RESISTING

1-down – See later deposit slips after five : VIDEPOST

2-down – Blair kept box in which even letters deceive : LIETO

3-down – So there is a leak, perhaps from gorges : EATSLIKEAHORSE

4-down – Little old man of legend in an appellation : AGNOMEN

5-down – What about slingshot for breakfast? : ENGLISH

7-down – Brainwave said in response to what goes with a grey suit, darling? : GREATIDEA

8-down – Dislike taking part in aptitude testing : DETEST

9-down – The sexes in science recur, after setting boundaries : CIRCUMFERENCES

15-down – Popular star to right of pioneer : INNOVATOR

16-down – Insurance on Harley-Davidson — a vanishing breed : HEDGEHOG

18-down – Irish leader visiting troubled Ulster gets more passionate : LUSTIER

19-down – Diatribes with no final school qualification turn out the same : TIRADES

20-down – Makes sense for tots : ADDSUP

23-down – Middle Eastern fuel qualifier when refined : IRAQI

1-across – Current champion tried to break first : TIDERACE

5-across – Worker about to fight — watch out! : BEWARE

9-across – Taken by those who are sick and tired of work? : RESTCURE

10-across – Educational measure? : DEGREE

11-across – Idleness indeed : INACTION

12-across – Sit out with a girl in gauzy fabric : TISSUE

14-across – An alcoholic daze? : SCOTCHMIST

18-across – A working reserve : LABOURPOOL

22-across – First form : CREATE

23-across – In a religious sense, he believes in coasting freely : AGNOSTIC

24-across – Craft of one in the tailoring trade : CUTTER

25-across – Paper thrown at the match : CONFETTI

26-across – Fine for a non-drinker found in the quarry : PRETTY

27-across – A literary supplement? : ADDENDUM

1-down – It’s very hot when it’s clear on the hill : TORRID

2-down – Gloomy little sergeant major with face put out : DISMAL

3-down – Deliver publicly : RECITE

4-down – Duplicate of the same type : CARBONCOPY

6-down – Pupil power? : EYESIGHT

7-down – A sign of wrong and right, we hear, in a puzzle : ACROSTIC

8-down – Weathermen caught in a flurry of sleet : ELEMENTS

13-down – Keep a firm grip : STRONGHOLD

15-down – Bird of ill omen to an old criminal? : BLACKCAP

16-down – Sailor sent to quarters for being a defaulter : ABSENTEE

17-down – Not quite free to give the result of the division : QUOTIENT

19-down – Start talking of payment for suckers : TOFFEE

20-down – Said to be like America? : STATED

21-down – A division of the Church : SCHISM

1-across – Patron of the arts, catching cold, left beef : MUSCLE

4-across – Happy, if Steve gets changed : FESTIVE

9-across – On the run, wilfully holding club or cudgel : TRUNCHEON

10-across – Competed for best in street : RACED

11-across – Return to relieve an all-time low : NADIR

12-across – Ermine age terribly in a zoo : MENAGERIE

13-across – Competitive rider always covers slit in jacket : EVENTER

15-across – Prophet in jail? He’s upset! : ELIJAH

17-across – Swims back to emergency room for a rest : SPIDER

19-across – Indiscriminately sprays vegetables : PEPPERS

22-across – Bill or Bob keeps batting : ORDINANCE

24-across – 13’s condition? : RIDER

26-across – New route is fantastic : OUTRE

27-across – Unknown Tory in baffling exposé : EXCLUSIVE

28-across – Penny is in the Army & Navy getting surgical equipment : FORCEPS

29-across – Exercise wearing fewer clothes : LESSON

1-down – Show couple consuming popular drug : MATINEE

2-down – Old Bob to pound sea creature : SQUID

3-down – Ripped fabric gets assessed : LACERATED

4-down – Fit to take charge of political party’s money management : FINANCE

5-down – Branch displaying special equipment : SPRIG

6-down – It’s essential to apprehend road user in the flesh : INCARNATE

7-down – Senior journalist perishes in whirlpools : EDDIES

8-down – One joining fabric of a bowler : SEAMER

14-down – One dispatches journalist supporting one-time president : EXPEDITOR

16-down – Ship in a French badger : IMPORTUNE

18-down – Referee initially upsets Scottish team : RANGERS

19-down – Coppers get hold of address : PREACH

20-down – Swimmer lacks time for theatre worker : SURGEON

21-down – Father’s gone to die : POPOFF

23-down – She’s agreeable, when taking drug : NIECE

25-down – Delinquent leader slashes wimps : DRIPS

8-across – Boatman’s officer behind reported alternative to reduce manpower : AUTOMATE

9-across – Rock fissure : CRACK

10-across – Tiring party, breaking rocks perhaps : HARD

11-across – Clue for g-giant piece of rock : GOBSTOPPER

12-across – See 10 : LABOUR

14-across – First Lord? That’s one way : EARLIEST

15-across – Fragments of rock in broken English : SHINGLE

17-across – Fragments of rock etc falling for long, long time, identity sinister at first : LEONIDS

20-across – Even empty fragments of rock change direction for print worker : ENGRAVER

22-across – Wooden feature seen in wharf or estuary : FOREST

23-across – One’s used to temper as Hammers play? : PIANOTUNER

24-across – Fragments of rock found in Ireland : CORK

25-across – Gloomy rapper with role in record company : DREAR

26-across – They conclude jokes about genitals must be cut : TAGLINES

1-down – Look smart! 20 might, if depicting Morse : CUTADASH

2-down – Charge boy that hides heart of stone : LOAD

3-down – Peril in rock garden : DANGER

4-down – Key change to fragments of rock found in Scotland : PEEBLES

5-down – Restore defectors removed without penalty! : SCOTFREE

6-down – Eccentric part for outspoken drag queen crusader : CAMPAIGNER

7-down – They take terrible risks, taking on ultimate incline : SKIERS

13-down – Sold with shop’s label, drab first two sent back and despoiled : OWNBRANDED

16-down – Party flowing? Rock on, John : LAVATORY

18-down – Tactful signal in Morse about loose rock : DISCREET

19-down – Rock tearing asunder : GRANITE

21-down – Regularly sneak in and ask for nymphs : NAIADS

22-down – Look around for first signs of fragments of rock and stone, perhaps : FORAGE

24-down – Contribute less in fragment of rock? : CHIP

1-across – Label in new seed bed : DESCRIBE

5-across – One taking steps in time : DANCER

9-across – Brief support : ADVOCATE

10-across – Evil article on place of conflict : CRIMEA

12-across – Dismantle collapsing ruin at midnight : UNRIG

13-across – Big cats make less noise : LIONESSES

14-across – Big drop in US/Canadian liquidity : NIAGARAFALLS

18-across – An end of greed perhaps? Paradise! : GARDENOFEDEN

21-across – Whistler earned potential votes : REFERENDA

23-across – Frozen, like eels, say : GELID

24-across – A sick benefit prescription? : EMETIC

25-across – Return help before the race — and get a stream of abuse! : DIATRIBE

26-across – Junior officer found on the staff : ENSIGN

27-across – Actor’s arrival on stage produces delight : ENTRANCE

1-down – Stop to prepare a plan? : DRAWUP

2-down – Strict clergyman is elevated in diocese : SEVERE

3-down – Identify and approve : RECOGNISE

4-down – Action station? : BATTLEGROUND

6-down – Be of one mind about being in time : AGREE

7-down – Scot came up with one single undergarment : CAMISOLE

8-down – Think twice about seas breaking over ship : REASSESS

11-down – The family’s failure makes a wretched story : POORRELATION

15-down – Soldiers embark in aircraft, one carrying cargo : FREIGHTER

16-down – Silver rig-out on girl is wrong : AGGRIEVE

17-down – Fishing boats that go with the tide? : DRIFTERS

19-down – Footballers out on bail? : ALBION

20-down – Stick a number in this place : ADHERE

22-down – Deploring sort of turn in a circus? : RUING