Daily Answers

9-across – Small fellow eaten by diabolical sea creature : SHELLFISH

10-across – Heard quiet section : PIECE

11-across – Keen to study trilogy, finally … : READY

12-across – … and Pan’s Dream, perhaps : AMPERSAND

13-across – Article on more complicated proposition : THEOREM

14-across – Excited cast to include reserve member of their group? : ACTRESS

17-across – Spray for special dress : SPRIG

19-across – Kindle enthusiast : FAN

20-across – Rodent with the Spanish honey badger : RATEL

21-across – Slope leading to new secure hospital : RAMPTON

22-across – Produced doctrine about Advent’s limits : CREATED

24-across – Mixed collection up prior to reshuffle : POTPOURRI

26-across – Heath Robinson’s pulse? : THROB

28-across – Setter taking shelter in noisy conflict : MELEE

29-across – Spy trapping king in a foreign country : ARGENTINA

1-down – Starts to teach students about ruthless ruler : TSAR

2-down – See 25 : SESAME

3-down – Promise to welcome terribly wary dramatist : PLAYWRIGHT

4-down – Remove weapon from girl’s reach : DISARM

5-down – Church gets a flat for clergyman : CHAPLAIN

6-down – Knocks up a pole to support the rigging : SPAR

7-down – Ten years with books is self-indulgent : DECADENT

8-down – Drink to self-publicity? : MEAD

13-down – Turned up remains containing a shocking weapon : TASER

15-down – Stoned intern put drug in solvent : TURPENTINE

16-down – Strong oils mixed by daughter : SOLID

18-down – From afar, about to get accommodation close to Derby : REMOTELY

19-down – Amusing queen brewed ale that’s dark : FUNEREAL

22-down – Cold enclosure for doe’s last fawn : CRINGE

23-down – Lift furrow to pinch vegetable : TURNIP

24-down – Cheap display of afternoon work used up : POMP

25-down – Public seems upset about a magic formula : OPEN

27-down – Spill secrets of British research facility : BLAB

1-across – Splashing the cash, ties reports in paper columns : HATCHES

5-across – Dual-purpose vehicle needed after boat returns : POSTBUS

9-across – Cause further damage to a line of stone : MARMOREAL

10-across – Bum died in prison : CADGE

11-across – Raffle that has no winner : DRAW

12-across – See 18 : FORTHEBOOK

14-across – Doctor can back old GP site : MONACO

15-across – English novelist, who doesn’t use a pen? : EMAILER

16-across – Officer’s gone mad for alcoholic mixture : COLOGNE

18-across – Attend literary launch? What a surprise! : TURNUP

20-across – See 1 : DISPATCHES

21-across – Animal’s period of development cut short : STAG

24-across – 1-0 for United : INONE

25-across – Love having settled in American island, a gem : RHODOLITE

26-across – See 1 : MATCHES

27-across – Peak tennis champion overcomes opponents in another game : EVEREST

1-down – Smell one dog’s head that’s damp : HUMID

2-down – In two minds over a party is a disaster, naturally : TORNADO

3-down – Housework, something to jump through : HOOP

4-down – Disdains shutting up bad poet — nobody’s upset feelings : STEPONONESCORNS

5-down – Procure a person to secure sex? I don’t think so : PULLTHEOTHERONE

6-down – Confidence not quite voiced in cabinet : SECRETAIRE

7-down – Speak wittily, as may be needed for the camp : BEDROLL

8-down – One stealing a shoe : SNEAKER

13-down – Bill wears Sikh wedding rings, hard in a Muslim land : BANGLADESH

16-down – In copper money almost allow a sort of yellow : CADMIUM

17-down – In city, call to spend extravagantly : LASHOUT

19-down – Disentangle new unit snarled up : UNTWINE

22-down – Layer within great city : GHENT

23-down – Poor housing contributes to cholera : HOLE

1-across – Man of strength holds information for painter : TITIAN

4-across – Singer given concession dashed round : SOPRANO

9-across – About to enter aircraft carrier : FREIGHTER

10-across – Old Bob kindly provides balloon : SWELL

11-across – Change a place in West London : ACTON

12-across – Performing a poor role unfavourably : INBADPART

13-across – Hugo! Try exotic food : YOGHURT

15-across – Chuck set about old clergyman? That’s badly done! : SHODDY

17-across – Encourages catcalls around the street : BOOSTS

19-across – Dicky fainted when challenging : DEFIANT

22-across – In Spanish bar the French demonstrate vocal style : CANTILENA

24-across – One getting up in the middle of a flight : RISER

26-across – Part of Boito’s cast in opera : TOSCA

27-across – Pushing for progress : PROMOTION

28-across – Composer’s given the Queen the case for carrying a weapon : HOLSTER

29-across – Looking for a woody plant to train? Try elm : MYRTLE

1-down – Argument with one US jeweller : TIFFANY

2-down – English flower Romeo found in temporary accommodation : TRENT

3-down – Sailors demolished angostura : ARGONAUTS

4-down – Nazi bodyguard about to plagiarise eastern writers : SCRIBES

5-down – Sat and asked : POSED

6-down – I left Egyptian city for a girl : ALEXANDRA

7-down – Recently Oscar got deflated by egghead : OFLATE

8-down – Hard to control soldier leaving : STRICT

14-down – Plant the Spanish gardens first : GROUNDSEL

16-down – Tender right-winger makes charitable donations : OFFERTORY

18-down – Society keener to get cleaner : SWEEPER

19-down – Clergyman receiving company of clergyman : DEACON

20-down – Dramatist has entree cooked with a tiny slice of chervil : TERENCE

21-down – Church supports tax for drink : SCOTCH

23-down – It’s not appropriate to sleep in it : INAPT

25-down – Broke the surface with triathlon leader : SKINT

1-across – Tweeted, like a wagtail quietly absorbed : PIPED

4-across – Whole global organisation not working : UNBROKEN

8-across – Surgery on butt when shots may go astray? : TARGETPRACTICE

10-across – Flipping hard exercises: Nutmeg’s in time and they don’t last long : EPHEMERA

11-across – Sign of new life had excited man of faith : BUDDHA

12-across – Roughly clean son, to accompaniment of cursing : SANDBLAST

15-across – Nice tasting bit of pork’s spoken about : SAPID

17-across – Bird nipping tail of margay : HYENA

18-across – Saved, having sworn to limit sex : DEPOSITED

19-across – Prophet seen in chapel is harmless : ELISHA

21-across – Misdirected letters from a schemer I don’t know : SEARCHME

24-across – Rogue star people ruin Mars, for one : SUPERIORPLANET

25-across – Ram caught in rain most thoroughly whacked : WEARIEST

26-across – Unproductive end to talks Blair pursues : STONY

1-down – Harry’s turn to find base for craftsman : POTTERSWHEEL

2-down – Fish with spots caught nearer the bottom, maybe : PERCHANCE

3-down – Fancy doctor on trial blowing kiss : DREAM

4-down – Capital case worker gets control : UPPERHAND

5-down – Beastly sound from noted vicar’s abode : BRAY

6-down – Tirades from Brutus, lost without Latin for translation : OUTBURSTS

7-down – Hazard hampering Leander’s first return to see Hero : ELCID

9-down – Eg lairds arrived gradually, going from left to right : LANDEDGENTRY

13-down – Every woman’s put up with clothing habits at the seaside : BEACHWEAR

14-down – Note penned by leading faction for minimal circulation : TOPSECRET

16-down – Make a start on horse, astride it with child behind : PITCHINTO

20-down – Operating without losing initial energy : INUSE

22-down – Bread, a status symbol for the rich? : ROLLS

23-down – Cardinal has predecessor cast in iron : FIVE

7-across – With a heave, that’s covered pig’s head and into the stove it goes : GASPIPE

8-across – Part of pig : IGNORED

9-across – Boatman backs a worker resisting : ANTI

10-across – Without exception, ivy intertwines with tree tops, in my experience : EVERYTIME

12-across – Chew pig’s tail with crackling : GRIND

13-across – Praise for Europe set down by one : EULOGISE

15-across – Pig’s heart with good bit of chicken : WING

16-across – They’ll sell you a porky scratching — it’s first on bar back : LIARS

17-across – Might be in pigs’ club : IRON

18-across – Invite trouble, if a stork flies : ASKFORIT

20-across – First among characters hailed in each fiefdom : CHIEF

21-across – Called for peace: change of heart by Katharine Viner : CLAMOURED

22-across – Gracious sigh in pig Latin : ISAY

24-across – Naughty hog intent on getting food! : YOGHURT

25-across – Swine on time for part of pig : TROTTER

1-down – Hock in pot with top tucked in : PAWN

2-down – After a fight, lion pigs out : SPOILING

3-down – Sow spared being butchered : SPREAD

4-down – Part of custard, say, has extremely greedy people losing face : EGGYOLKS

5-down – Pigs’ group said to lack interest : BORING

6-down – Apart from the top, where the solution goes … : HERE

11-down – What to add to number for when pigs fly till the cows come home : EVERAFTER

12-down – Prepares one to step down where lights are seen : GRIDS

14-down – Poke fun at pig : SCOFF

16-down – Boatman’s left no longer stuffing fat pig : LARBOARD

17-down – Bogus dietitian without a degree is no expert : INITIATE

19-down – Not to be deceived: eating cinders is showing off : FLASHY

20-down – Pig’s ear made of sacred woods : CEDARS

21-down – Part of pig — one, some say, that keeps hot : CHOP

23-down – Palm fern, regularly used after prayer : AMEN