Daily Answers

9-across – It’s a lever that may be turned to many uses : VERSATILE

10-across – Concerning a fight : ABOUT

11-across – Kind of people who follow the herd : NOMADIC

12-across – Of course, it’s sweet : PUDDING

13-across – Board and fare : GETON

14-across – Study a French instrument : CONUNDRUM

16-across – Further reflection about thinking of others : RECONSIDERATION

19-across – Picnicking? : EATINGOUT

21-across – Looking, for example, to adopt a principle of Chinese philosophy : EYING

22-across – Remains within easy reach of Naples : POMPEII

23-across – Weapon company gets receiver in : FIREARM

24-across – With a degree, I leave this subject : MATHS

25-across – Always on the go, remaining fresh and vital : EVERGREEN

1-down – Original advantage involved in capturing king : AVANTGARDE

2-down – People are keen take part in such a society : DRAMATIC

3-down – Plot involved danger : GARDEN

4-down – Record appearance of full moon : DISC

5-down – Tyrant captures northern retreat — it’s hopeless : DESPONDENT

6-down – Girl following music group may be spotted : BANDANNA

7-down – He is, or could be, a shopkeeper : HOSIER

8-down – Guns raised, when animal being hunted appears : STAG

14-down – They make women’s dresses stand out : CRINOLINES

15-down – Male representative takes me in to see the bosses : MANAGEMENT

17-down – Fool’s speech in production of Lear : NONSENSE

18-down – Took off : IMITATED

20-down – Entices casual worker with way to get a rise : TEMPTS

21-down – Cause anger by damaging a green : ENRAGE

22-down – Turn up with mother cat : PUMA

23-down – A circus performer? : FLEA

1-across – Sleep around with desire and brio : PANACHE

5-across – Way to stop issue of May’s leadership dogging Tory Party : CONDOM

9-across – Numbers following inverse of a binary number : LAUDANUM

10-across – Never touched alcohol after six, right? : VIRGIN

12-across – Herbert’s post about marital relations : STEPBROTHERS

15-across – Help fool individual with attitude : ASSISTANCE

17-across – Neither of half-cut dons nursed regrets at first : NOR

19-across – Viscous liquid from tea urn regularly discarded : TAR

20-across – Fake concession over Trump pledge is nonsense : CODSWALLOP

22-across – Dazzling South American pedigree : INCANDESCENT

26-across – Harry Hotspur runs away in sequel : UPSHOT

27-across – Fly home over lake the colour of coal : JETBLACK

28-across – Putting a stop to what dog and pig do? : ENDING

29-across – Cunning in emptying small cube : SLEIGHT

1-down – Chums from make-up counter : PALS

2-down – Students possessing zero common sense : NOUS

3-down – Carpet is covered in 10 : CHASTISE

4-down – Fit of pique when teased : EQUIP

6-down – It makes dull dystopia temporarily entertaining : OPIATE

7-down – Accommodation for best friends of daughter with freakishly long knees : DOGKENNELS

8-down – Handwritten letter in old lady’s vault read out loud : MANUSCRIPT

11-down – [Barney initially astonished to be constricted by revolting boa?] : FRACAS

13-down – Abusing stimulant drug just before deadline : LASTMINUTE

14-down – Nearly all bigotry, regardless of masses, edited or cut : OSTRACISED

16-down – Stirred pan in tavern every so often : AWOKEN

18-down – Aspirant wife Annabel Lee cutting cloth : WANNABEE

21-down – Letters from Bruno sorted before noon and awaiting delivery : UNBORN

23-down – The Mating Game in black and white : CHESS

24-down – Pungent smell from flyover : TANG

25-down – Start to stow gear for take-off : SKIT

1-across – The setter’s old-fashioned situation offering no way out : IMPASSE

5-across – Settled in advance for help with homework : PREPAID

9-across – Rumpus in La Paz’s public square : PLAZA

10-across – Thanks to natural evolution, it has a serious bite : TARANTULA

11-across – Was one of a team of surgeons? : COOPERATED

12-across – He comes from Constantinople — or Istanbul, if you prefer : STAN

14-across – Financial experts making reports about worker : ACCOUNTANTS

18-across – Tidy up legal issue and accept blame in court : PLEADGUILTY

21-across – Catch or fastener : NAIL

22-across – Punishment as part of learning : DISCIPLINE

25-across – Plenty having a ball, eating cake : ABUNDANCE

26-across – Advantage of adjustable seats : ASSET

27-across – Given medical care at another’s expense? : TREATED

28-across – Pray the change will do you good : THERAPY

1-down – Effect of a single legis­lator on law : IMPACT

2-down – Instruments for Ian’s op set out : PIANOS

3-down – Get to grips in a friendly fashion? : SHAKEHANDS

4-down – More or less important player : EXTRA

5-down – It means endless trouble for Peter and Paul : PERPETUAL

6-down – A bird in danger — nesting : ERNE

7-down – Etching or watercolour? : AQUATINT

8-down – A doctor might mix a gin in the medicine : DIAGNOSE

13-down – Put off retirement : STAYUPLATE

15-down – Admonished as a result of bad education : CAUTIONED

16-down – Clear, the actors are, from the pit : OPENCAST

17-down – Treatment available on foot : PEDICURE

19-down – Light sleep : SIESTA

20-down – Dispatched by railway guard : SENTRY

23-down – Rift between Conservative and Labour? : CLEFT

24-down – Rise in current is correct : EDIT

1-across – Go back? That’s the right way out! : REGRESS

5-across – He throws an earthenware vessel : PITCHER

9-across – Tonic’s taken in the right quantity : PORTION

10-across – Thomas, in retreat during action, gets lowered status : DEMOTED

11-across – Happen to exhale : TRANSPIRE

12-across – Take in a bank somewhere in Germany : TRIER

13-across – Daughter hit hard and lived : DWELT

15-across – Quick to adopt retreat with conviction : EARNESTLY

17-across – Treated fairly and informed about energy price : TOLERATED

19-across – Delightful meal without papa : SUPER

22-across – Crooner has energy for a lot of drinking : BINGE

23-across – Trustworthy girl gets many promises of money : VERACIOUS

25-across – Classical matricide finds drug in fashion stores : ORESTES

26-across – Romeo earned beaten backside : REAREND

27-across – Enlightened philosopher managed European corruption : DIDEROT

28-across – Coppers brought about an act of self-punishment : PENANCE

1-down – Said to be set down in the grass : REPUTED

2-down – Refuse clothing over time : GARBAGE

3-down – Charged over small transgressions : EVILS

4-down – Living without Mike? There’s a thought! : SENTIMENT

5-down – Father seen before getting out of puff : PADRE

6-down – Stand-in gets lock for siren : TEMPTRESS

7-down – Run into student, first of intended victims : HITLIST

8-down – Man in dreary assembly of old foreign forces : REDARMY

14-down – Bully fell upon teacher : TORMENTOR

16-down – Soldiers bound to knock road safety device : RADARTRAP

17-down – Newspaper bill? See identification! : TABLOID

18-down – Type of oil processed in Leeds : LINSEED

20-down – Sharpen tack outside radio programme : PHONEIN

21-down – Odd desire to store uranium waste : RESIDUE

23-down – Six settle for excursion : VISIT

24-down – Length of string : CHAIN

1-across – Terror group erroneously claim to be this : ISLAMIC

5-across – Welcoming home girl getting pardon : AMNESTY

10-across – A sound measure of the third man : ABEL

11-across – What pilot does when seeing problematic rubbish bins filled : FLIESBLIND

12-across – See art or 27 as represented in overseas territory celebration : EASTER

13-across – Man like Esau in Spooner’s prayer : HAILMARY

14-across – Convertible car in this quarter : CHRISTIAN

16-across – Mentally prepare note to the far right of Germany and Switzerland : PSYCH

17-across – Seize chateau at last by surprise? Not half! : USURP

19-across – City in France, I trust, unwrapped fancy meal : JERUSALEM

23-across – Blokes in song by northern quarter : ARMENIAN

24-across – Quarter aspiration after jet engine starts : JEWISH

26-across – Top player pocketing Arab cash is in parts : SERIALISED

27-across – Pine, perhaps, when one leaves Scottish island : TREE

28-across – Lack of faith in so many leaders chasing articles : ATHEISM

29-across – Very fond of a party group : ADORING

2-down – Time off creating soap and bubbles, primarily here? : SABBATH

3-down – Dish out a great deal, we hear : ALLOT

4-down – Dead heart, say, is actually about right : INFARCT

6-down – Selfie regularly appears in mother’s quarter : MUSLIM

7-down – Expecting trouble with seafood pie, as cooked outside : ECLAMPSIA

8-down – Of 21 philosophy carried by a distant rickshaw : TANTRIC

9-down – Shape designed to represent obstinacy : PIGHEADEDNESS

15-down – Harsh realities for a citizen of ancient kingdom : ISRAELITE

18-down – One tempted mother of ten and paid out without hesitation : SERPENT

20-down – Fresh in Frankfurt and green on the inside : UNJADED

21-down – 12 noon and it’s heading to 90° : EASTERN

22-down – With some aplomb, I bless King James and co : BIBLES

25-down – Chestnut or biscuit? : WATER