Daily Answers

1-across – Ill-will from being masculine, not tense : ENMITY

4-across – Theatre classic that’s an irritation : HAYFEVER

9-across – Old man with retro one-piece hat : PANAMA

10-across – After a short time, misses sweet stuff : MOLASSES

11-across – Novel justification for hotel’s higher rate? : AROOMWITHAVIEW

13-across – Dairy product cheat takes absolute millions : BUTTERMILK

14-across – See 16 : BELT

16-across – Born wild in Scot’s part of the USA : CORN

18-across – Fun novel about airmail novel : UNFAMILIAR

21-across – Weepy case meeting : BRIEFENCOUNTER

23-across – Activist, a good one, thanks to queen : AGITATOR

24-across – Book shows round about zero tax return : OCTAVO

25-across – Naked with Red Rum — delighted! : DARKENED

26-across – It — the heroin-dropping, techno top band : SEXTET

1-down – Show past name for chamber pot : EXPO

2-down – Lives in brand new tower : MINARET

3-down – Book a pop singer : TOMJONES

5-down – Drink gets a youth in hazy moonlit setting : AMONTILLADO

6-down – French mediator’s argy-bargy : FRACAS

7-down – Underwear, I say, raised suspicion : VESTIGE

8-down – Ace setters turned up in list that’s fragrant : ROSEWATER

12-down – The volume of females who’ve fallen : WOMENINLOVE

13-down – Simple carriage entails small amount of money management : BUCKBOARD

15-down – Rogue clan hiding in tree top : PINNACLE

17-down – Prince’s downfall more obvious : RAINIER

19-down – Trendy, topless means of reproducing? Not nice! : INEXACT

20-down – Burning a celebrity takes loathing at first : AFLAME

22-down – Play pawn the wrong way : LOOT

1-across – Chasing a double century, I hit out and get this : ACCLAIM

5-across – Redoing treatment for cut : IGNORED

9-across – Surrounded, like European capital in defeat : BESET

10-across – Recovers from River Tees flooding : RETRIEVES

11-across – Though possibly original, it is less than novel : SHORTSTORY

12-across – About the church in former times : ONCE

14-across – Not a single mistake by a serviceman : DOUBLEFAULT

18-across – Show how Devil and Saint rank in esteem : DEMONSTRATE

21-across – Bloomer in which a pupil is involved : IRIS

22-across – Put away for safety? : IMPRISONED

25-across – Event idly arranged — obviously : EVIDENTLY

26-across – Instrument played in Twelfth Night : VIOLA

27-across – Private study : SANCTUM

28-across – Foreign sailors find girl without transport : LASCARS

1-down – Sailor girl with unmarried sisters in her care : ABBESS

2-down – Oil wheel : CASTOR

3-down – One drawing on his teacher’s advice : ARTSTUDENT

4-down – Worth millions, weary — needing uplift : MERIT

5-down – Where Albania introduced prohibition — among other things : INTERALIA

6-down – File often found after this arrest : NAIL

7-down – Very hungry creature that flies round the States : RAVENOUS

8-down – Under pressure to turn up with sweets : DESSERTS

13-down – Actions against the defence : OFFENSIVES

15-down – The very last word in negotiations? : ULTIMATUM

16-down – Errs amid wayward lovers : ADMIRERS

17-down – End of drive? : AMBITION

19-down – Staggering along to a country in Africa : ANGOLA

20-down – Ladies in fashion or models : IDEALS

23-down – Sail with two little boys : ROYAL

24-down – An old joke? : JEST

9-across – Rule again broken, resulting in complaint : NEURALGIA

10-across – Old prince’s moveable feast, so-called : PARIS

11-across – Hardened about son being protected against loss : INSURED

12-across – Encountered artist and Cuban American writer also, we hear : RANINTO

13-across – Author that can hold a lot of beer : STEIN

14-across – About to drop off original Monets, number left inside : SOMNOLENT

16-across – Ready for early retirement : GOLDENHANDSHAKE

19-across – A resolution’s not apparent — hence sigh? : THEREISNO

21-across – Girl having nibble from cake in a story : ALICE

22-across – Callas ruined a great operatic scene : LASCALA

23-across – Earnestly ask what’s inside nest in tree : BESEECH

24-across – Conclusion of 13’s taut­ology came up : AROSE

25-across – Officer and cop involved with 13, right? : INSPECTOR

1-down – See 19 : ENDINSIGHT

2-down – It briefly holds story in crazy ordeal : NUTSHELL

3-down – Financial supporter recycled no art under pressure : PATRON

4-down – Old French painter coming up short : AGED

5-down – Eg, marriage and love in western capital : SACRAMENTO

6-down – Provides backing for tracks about partners holding hands : SPONSORS

7-down – Pseudonymous author and his state : FRANCE

8-down – How one plays after first-half switch in this European city : OSLO

14-down – Thus covering match is absurdly divisive : SCHISMATIC

15-down – At that point, repeated consoling words : THERETHERE

17-down – Exhilarated and happy about Eliot’s first verse : ELEVATED

18-down – Drink consumed around 13, tipsily? : ANISETTE

20-down – End of line for some, including setter and solver in old school : EUSTON

21-down – Female novelist in same state as 20, we hear : AUSTEN

22-down – Top player thrashed when 19 15 : LEAD

23-down – Objection about what’s repeated in Picasso’s sculptural work : BUST

1-across – It’s boring, but seems not to weary everyone : TIRESOME

5-across – Has the wrong case : SHEATH

9-across – Spot complicated clue — but it only a little matter : MOLECULE

10-across – Cultural centre? : GARDEN

12-across – Boredom shown by the French : ENNUI

13-across – A client I’d make perfectly agreeable : IDENTICAL

14-across – Goat is after vegetable and fruit spread : PEANUTBUTTER

18-across – Acknowledgment of rise in value : APPRECIATION

21-across – Doing one of these on the move risks getting into a rut : CARTWHEEL

23-across – Father is getting through the Guardian : PAPER

24-across – Ventilation for the gallery : LOUVRE

25-across – Many made certain to be rebuked : CENSURED

26-across – Attempt to get round tea-blending agreement : TREATY

27-across – Suited to change, knowing what to expect : USEDTOIT

1-down – Moderate one’s anger : TEMPER

2-down – Give way on a fast time : RELENT

3-down – It’s sinful the silly way Grace lies : SACRILEGE

4-down – Airline limos reserved for the rich : MILLIONAIRES

6-down – It beats a man with skill : HEART

7-down – Abandon royal dignity : ABDICATE

8-down – Dogged policemen? : HANDLERS

11-down – Do they count the scores for all but the nineteenth hole? : TEETOTALLERS

15-down – No one against pound/peso exchange : UNOPPOSED

16-down – Knight requires weapon — and fortune : LANCELOT

17-down – Opening here for a photographer : APERTURE

19-down – Poor to riot in Portuguese city : OPORTO

20-down – Believe one side of the account : CREDIT

22-down – Best, strange as it may sound : WORST

1-across – Trains in King’s Cross, men expecting disorder : MORNING

5-across – Prisoners holding on to chimney stacks : COLUMNS

9-across – Lives with woman and children : ISSUE

10-across – Vital foreign talks to begin in Greece : ENERGETIC

11-across – Duo : EURYTHMICS

12-across – Friend throwing a punch : CHIN

14-across – Running on time, trains making stops : TERMINATIONS

18-across – Decreasing support in front of ground, club directors admit : IRONINGBOARD

21-across – No Conservative to stop slide : EASE

22-across – Subway, perhaps, to let street atmosphere enter : RESTAURANT

25-across – Male entering Iran, flying to a country : ARGENTINA

26-across – Train carriage : COACH

27-across – Space for pins on back to fasten : LEGROOM

28-across – Right good drugs for pushy ’80s people : YUPPIES

1-down – Virgin crew help on board : MAIDEN

2-down – Spa break without men : RESORT

3-down – One following on motorway is nearly late : INEXTREMIS

4-down – Ray Winstone’s back into ’70s style : GLEAM

5-down – Climax from short clip describing key motive : CRESCENDO

6-down – Look fit for image : LOGO

7-down – Where strikers go in game to strike? : MATCHBOX

8-down – See 1 across : SICKNESS

13-down – Leaving drink in can to one side: winning prize : STIRRUPCUP

15-down – Bottle containing tablets : MAGNESIUM

16-down – Stimulate women with complete protection from infection : FIREWALL

17-down – Bird mostly sitting on egg, eating round berry : GOOSEGOG

19-down – Hot area to west — American islands? : HAWAII

20-down – Is sick? Right going for cuts : ETCHES

23-down – Upset with leaves on line : TEARY

24-down – Current following old news : INFO