Daily Answers

9-across – Author’s odd email covering sign about last letter : EMILEZOLA

10-across – Instructions for shooting 17, 12, 13 across : READY

11-across – Lout’s gleeful cry : YAHOO

12-across – You might be in this case, not I : OBJECTIVE

13-across – Refuse to accept part of record is missing : DISMISS

14-across – Runs I later scrambled in test, following failure in first : RETRIAL

17-across – Money from party that’s awful! : DOUGH

19-across – See 10 : AIM

20-across – Chapter by unknown writer, or part of one : CANON

21-across – Insectivore finally found in East Asian country : ECHIDNA

22-across – It protects the trunk as US car is wrecked : CUIRASS

24-across – Purely structural approach supporting African country’s millions : FORMALISM

26-across – From part of Greece, where final flight goes? : ATTIC

28-across – Big game at home is taken in by foreign character : RHINO

29-across – Tunes represented in a scroll : CARILLONS

1-down – Cathedral site south of river bank : RELY

2-down – Instructions for shooting 16, 20, 27 : LIGHTS

3-down – Totally refuted line I dropped after protest : DEMOLISHED

4-down – Liable to leak, like a patriotic American hiding nothing : POROUS

5-down – Leading article male’s written about right herb for cooking : MARJORAM

6-down – Pot, we hear, animal with valuable skin : CROC

7-down – French citizen taking part in sin — and endlessly : PARISIAN

8-down – Guilty person, at heart, is kind : TYPE

13-down – Duke protected by magistrate in escape : DODGE

15-down – Score includes century after start of play, in line with plan : TACTICALLY

16-down – Carries around new pair found in chest : LUNGS

18-down – Our niche redone in yellow : UNHEROIC

19-down – If absolutely necessary, holding a non-violent strike in check : ATAPINCH

22-down – See 2 : CAMERA

23-down – See 2 : ACTION

24-down – See 10 : FIRE

25-down – It’s a very old wicket, so declare : AVOW

27-down – Clansmen being oddly selective, for instance : CASE

8-across – Actor grabs at model : TEMPLATE

9-across – A fair land : ALIGHT

10-across – Actor on rich food regimen : DIET

11-across – Execrable starter in kebabs and processed food from cans : BAKEDBEANS

12-across – Actor Bardot’s odd characters? : BRANDO

14-across – Like a simple tune? Wrong actor : SINGABLE

15-across – How solid is refuse around squat? : DENSITY

17-across – Actor not vacuous, sweet : FONDANT

20-across – Actor punched by a clergyman : CHAPLAIN

22-across – Actor after small slipper for Father Christmas? : SLEIGH

23-across – Wonderful outstanding actor beginning in theatre, Italian : FLORENTINE

24-across – See 2 : CURL

25-across – Put down setter, entertained by actor : DEMEAN

26-across – Lincolnshire town actor, overactor? : GRANTHAM

1-down – Crack big, but not black, with deeper descent : PEDIGREE

2-down – Culprits thrown out, lock flat? : SPIT

3-down – In leaving child, love hollow stuff : BAMBOO

4-down – Hungry like an actor? : PECKISH

5-down – Dance cool and bursting with energy : FANDANGO

6-down – Teams go off riding in unorthodox manner : SIDESADDLE

7-down – Heart of course absent in Scent of a Woman : CHANEL

13-down – Snoop or pry and sneak off : NOSYPARKER

16-down – Instruction leaflet ultimately wet : TRAINING

18-down – One inspired by high earning African : NIGERIAN

19-down – Knock top prize money : INNINGS

21-down – Antique possessed by female actor : HOLDEN

22-down – Deep wound reported as plank sat upon : SEESAW

24-down – Musical — characters associated, primarily, with Eliot : CATS

1-across – Silly me, sure a fiddle featured in opera : DIEFLEDERMAUS

10-across – Cross capital, say, to give evidence : TESTIMONY

11-across – Court summons gangster caught having sex earlier : CITAL

12-across – Strategy No 11 for an idiot : PLANK

13-across – Found one soldier in elaborately decorated housing : ORIGINATE

14-across – Doctor pays out to this examining body? : AUTOPSY

16-across – Nuts about you, said film star : MAEWEST

18-across – Heavenly choir’s first seen after DIY mishap leads to bad back : IDYLLIC

20-across – Provision for baby agreed during brief correspondence : LAYETTE

21-across – Absorbing content from singer-songwriter : INGESTING

23-across – Tips off cruel schoolmaster? That’s odd : QUEER

24-across – Love rat often providing inspiration for poet : ERATO

25-across – A choreographer’s entertaining friend that’s French statesman : ALABAMIAN

26-across – Führer’s edict ruined unknown opera : DERFREISCHUTZ

2-down – Tiny Tim’s first single, oddly playing around America right now : INSTANTLY

3-down – Where Puck gets a lot of stick, stalking female sculptor : FRINK

4-down – Saving money excited holding company : ECONOMY

5-down – Muesli, a little yogurt, nuts — heaven! : ELYSIUM

6-down – Plant herb, not rose, around ravine : MACHINERY

7-down – 17 stuck halfway through Paul, Tramp, Vlad, even Rufus? Yes, initially : ULTRA

8-down – More work required on song that’s included with German opera : UTOPIALIMITED

9-down – Bass has warning about fish in opera : ALBERTHERRING

15-down – Murder, with bad language beforehand : POLISHOFF

17-down – Setter, I’m cross about 7 : EXTREMIST

19-down – A newly invented word, eg acoge? : COINAGE

20-down – Book by author with no energy blockages : LOGJAMS

22-down – Brilliance of one of Elgar’s Variations : GLARE

23-down – Having no starter, drink Scotch : QUASH

1-across – Spitfire’s first fliers circling old planes : SMOOTHS

5-across – Illegal recording of John, mostly bent over in toilet : BOOTLEG

9-across – Flipping once more given food delay : DEFER

10-across – Drunk a lot in Love Me Tender : EMOTIONAL

11-across – Insists on giving vital supplies in church — payment invested in crosses : FORCEFEEDS

12-across – Headed over to indep­endent store : DELI

14-across – Scheduling in Graceland tours : CALENDARING

18-across – Broke vow: recorded and jammed : OVERCROWDED

21-across – Bass: turn way down : BUST

22-across – Concerned with soldier, intellectual, from a group of soldiers : REGIMENTAL

25-across – Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina : LUMINANCE

26-across – Go off, that’s all right : SOUND

27-across – Those screaming as Presley gyrates : YELPERS

28-across – One thinks about lives one harms : MISUSER

1-down – Provided lift? No chance! : SODOFF

2-down – Kind of blue shoe : OXFORD

3-down – One struts around in terrible film? Rubbish : TURKEYCOCK

4-down – Material did rock for the audience : SUEDE

5-down – Carving top of dry bread, one getting spread out : BROADENED

6-down – After passing, notice cycle right away : OBIT

7-down – Hang on! That is pants : LINGERIE

8-down – Row over golf: good golfer admits they don’t have balls : GELDINGS

13-down – Jailhouse workers struggle with habit : WARDRESSES

15-down – Unfinished business in toilet — how Elvis begins to die in smalls : LOOSEENDS

16-down – Drug ring — Yankee showing sign of over­indulgence : POTBELLY

17-down – Worst hit: is second record turned over? : PESSIMAL

19-down – Plays with bodyguards protecting president : STRUMS

20-down – One moving smoothly back to Vegas appearing on top show : SLIDER

23-down – One left European Union — member which might help form motion? : ILEUM

24-down – King originally called for a bit of leg : KNEE

1-across – Female faking sex now, organ not to be trusted? : FOXNEWS

5-across – Chops primarily one’s splitting, as tool : CLEAVER

9-across – Broadly similar, gold cups : LARGO

10-across – Stubborn stain needs to be shifted : OBSTINATE

11-across – Completely fashionable, sewn? : INEVERYWAY

12-across – Top guy, Ali departs African capital having shut up Foreman, finally : KING

14-across – Liberal Democrats initially anger PM, a sin taking more than one seat? : MANSPREADING

18-across – Hard or firm, call commercial breaks shrewd business : HORSETRADING

21-across – Trick unionists’ alliance, ultimately : DUPE

22-across – Moss perhaps old, presume going to seed? : SUPERMODEL

25-across – Gold medal alongside pens for prolific writer : WORDSMITH

26-across – See 7 : PUTIN

27-across – Always pound squeezed by foreign currency for a short period : DAYLONG

28-across – Book store : RESERVE

1-down – Lift prince by the ears? : FILLIP

2-down – Relations with 12 looking up for old 12 : XERXES

3-down – Previous individual assessed, found not guilty : EXONERATED

4-down – Originally starring George Osborne, say, one employed to change film script : STORY

5-down – Round middle of tree, apple was also highly featured : COSTARRED

6-down – Lake near river, oddly drained : ERIE

7-down – World leader — negotiating with Trump and I invalid : VLADIMIR

8-down – Funny parts author, scratching head, gets to attach again : REENGAGE

13-down – Sorcerer’s inspired upon newly embracing Mahler’s first great work : MAGNUMOPUS

15-down – In season, blossoming? : SPROUTING

16-down – Dogged attitude defining leaders in broadcast : SHADOWED

17-down – Nose picking beginning to obsess cheeky character : PROPERTY

19-down – See 4 : EDITOR

20-down – Look good with weapon : GLANCE

23-down – The heavens opening in earnest, the rainstorm’s beginning : ETHER

24-down – Order to be civil, it having restricted youth? : ASBO