Daily Answers

1-across – Uncompromising way religious teaching gets to court : STRICT

4-across – Avoids breaks when touring island : RESISTS

9-across – Plot in world beef organisation : FLOWERBED

10-across – Follow a suggestion … : TRACE

11-across – … follow the railway line : TRACK

12-across – Performing together : INCONCERT

13-across – Tommy’s secret : PRIVATE

15-across – Plant tree in shelter : LEGUME

17-across – Way in which a good man catches a plane, for example : STREET

19-across – Ban this fermented drink : ABSINTH

22-across – Passes on with ease : HANDSDOWN

24-across – Stand for carnivore being beheaded : EASEL

26-across – American team is out of the way : ASIDE

27-across – Winger receives tackle, initially producing a shock : STARTLING

28-across – Girl to cry about poet : SHELLEY

29-across – Pull leg of battleaxe : DRAGON

1-down – Car frequently arriving in station : SOFTTOP

2-down – Wine : RIOJA

3-down – Stop partner signalling end of engagement on board : CHECKMATE

4-down – Revolutionary caught slashing tyre : RADICAL

5-down – Attended a meeting of the cloth : SATIN

6-down – American chap, a respected politician : STATESMAN

7-down – Seat is adjusted for sleep : SIESTA

8-down – Do a favour and repair big ’ole : OBLIGE

14-down – Popular numbers I have detailed : INTENSIVE

16-down – Girl remains with diner — that’ll warm things up : GASHEATER

18-down – Communist gets to run? Heavens! : TROTSKY

19-down – British queen with a Latin temper : ANNEAL

20-down – Gloria has information on a non-metallic element : HALOGEN

21-down – Son picks up tool : SHEARS

23-down – Penny goes into market for a while : SPELL

25-down – Influence head of subversive faction : SWING

1-across – Herb, hint of scent in bouquet recalled by husband : HYSSOP

5-across – Main, where hearty rounds Horn in the end : CARDINAL

9-across – 5 across pinching a 5 across from behind — that’s tame! : HUMANISE

10-across – 5 across absolutely despicable, looking back : WOLSEY

11-across – Shade quite a little bit : TEAL

12-across – Settlement is after US event income : COMPROMISE

13-across – Doubly 5 across news­paper : REDTOP

14-across – Ferret cut turnips, perhaps? : ROOTCROP

16-across – A top university lecturer coming over, heads for Mexican city : ACAPULCO

19-across – Focus attention on fortune, stealing one kiss : FIXATE

21-across – Where member held vacant seat, nun and padre distraught : UNDERPANTS

23-across – Timid male, I’m frightened! : MEEK

24-across – 5 across, caring and sensitive chap? : NEWMAN

25-across – Every six months, a bun with nail is hammered : BIANNUAL

26-across – Flat-tailed animal also embodies a tailless sort : PLATYPUS

27-across – Studies English student’s opening remarks : ESSAYS

2-down – It’s impossible to know, so safeguard that information always! : YOUNEVERCANTELL

3-down – Immoral shade like 5 across? : SCARLET

4-down – 5 across moral, say? : PRINCIPAL

5-down – Still producer endlessly carrying about powdered substitute : CREAMER

6-down – Holder of a bladed item, one in dispute? : ROWER

7-down – Embracing pietism at last, is secular religious? : ISLAMIC

8-down – Jerusalem gets the blame in a really shocking treatment : AVERSIONTHERAPY

15-down – Confuse most of our facts — be confused : OBFUSCATE

17-down – Homework holding me up, little time to get in before the rest : PREEMPT

18-down – Book writer to break up wrestling : OMNIBUS

20-down – 5 across imprisoning opponent, not entirely upstanding as 5 across : XIMENES

22-down – Flag raised for pretty girl : PINUP

4-across – Heavenly sign holy saints placed outside church : PISCES

6-across – Son wept going round gym — it’s written down as a drama? : SCRIPTED

9-across – Do this to get no person appearing alluring : TURNON

10-across – Company head goes by public transport, a north-south line : BUSINESS

11-across – Reason you finally departed — no longer having job leading : EXPOSTULATE

15-across – One attempting to keep male and maiden looking fitter? : TRIMMER

17-across – One set of books introduces character in the other set, actually : INTRUTH

18-across – Appropriate search before baddie comes into view : SEQUESTRATE

22-across – I met rich crook shunning company : HERMITIC

23-across – Small island trader’s end, squeezed by supermarket : TRESCO

24-across – Reformer of church in church history, say : MODIFIER

25-across – Wander around town in Lancashire : DARWEN

1-down – Any number in protests seen as fiends : DEMONS

2-down – Copper with sort of appeal in dynamic case : ACCUSATIVE

3-down – Cloth in which artist get wrapped up — it relieves the pain : LINIMENT

4-down – Doctor is apt, going round part of hospital, to see them? : PATIENTS

5-down – Transformed harpies about to become like angels : SERAPHIC

7-down – Come down heavily, when gathering of hunters is set up : TEEM

8-down – Ruin in world below that’s hot : DISH

12-down – A foreign revolutionary steals a bit — it’s not returned : UNREQUITED

13-down – Dog in the role of pig or bird : CURASSOW

14-down – Curved instrument or tool that’s cut off outside : SHOEHORN

16-down – Dogs making row in church service : MASTIFFS

19-down – Hard deposit of two salts : TARTAR

20-down – Group of players briefly playing at the Olympic Stadium : WHAM

21-down – Music in endless traffic : TRAD

1-across – Bitter admission to female doctor : HEALER

4-across – Union leader upset again about a creeper : IGUANA

9-across – A bribe for Cork? : BUNG

10-across – Just now — or just Christmas? : PRESENTDAY

11-across – Others acquire their habits from him : TAILOR

12-across – Is able to sign for cage birds : CANARIES

13-across – Salesman, flier and maintenance worker : REPAIRMAN

15-across – Hide away from the French and American tax service : LAIR

16-across – Well-used footwear? : PUMP

17-across – Followers stand here, confused : ADHERENTS

21-across – Doctor is going to ask us about a dish we’ve eaten abroad : MOUSSAKA

22-across – Tempt French duke into a bishop’s domain : SEDUCE

24-across – It’s branches are of relative importance : FAMILYTREE

25-across – Runner has zero energy : NILE

26-across – Rules for clergymen : CANONS

27-across – Cold-blooded calculators? : ADDERS

1-down – Enter US city in a huge new kind of business : HAULAGE

2-down – An ugly leg but a heavenly body! : ANGEL

3-down – In pre-Rome constitution he was the ruler : EMPEROR

5-down – Political party on course : GREENS

6-down – Showing unusual talent, are to take turns : ALTERNATE

7-down – He’s not paid when taking a friend over the old city : AMATEUR

8-down – Realise and convey how to act the part of a servant : FETCHANDCARRY

14-down – Entry to a commercial office : ADMISSION

16-down – Boring publicity men I take into account : PROSAIC

18-down – Upset at dense part of London : EASTEND

19-down – They are made to lift up or to bring down : TACKLES

20-down – Grand study about some in deep depression : CANYON

23-down – Five hundred bet on a poet : DANTE

9-across – Posh drinking place? Stick with round in dive? : LOUNGEBAR

10-across – A bit isolated : APART

11-across – Top character central to Special Branch : CLIMB

12-across – Irony and a flowing form of language : INDOARYAN

13-across – Musical books effective : OPERANT

14-across – Knocking On Heaven’s Door, primarily about an experienced performer : OLDHAND

17-across – Like Bob Dylan in this melody? : THEME

19-across – Record about old fool : COD

20-across – Check sound’s different at back : AUDIT

21-across – Blues man mostly entertaining as well : CHELSEA

22-across – Travelling, Dylan ultimately hired by musician : HENDRIX

24-across – Fan’s short run to player : EXTRACTOR

26-across – Alas, old Bob Dylan cut short touring : SADLY

28-across – Wild one with horn? : RHINO

29-across – Play Milan and Lyon in an insignificant way : NOMINALLY

1-down – Group pass bass around : BLOC

2-down – Ready for it? Tangled Up in Blue : NUBILE

3-down – They may land in America with drummers: one gets laid first : EGGBEATERS

4-down – First set off Bob to list Answer’s Blowin’ In The Wind : OBOIST

5-down – Supporter and daughter crossing city : BRADFORD

6-down – American to talk about legend : SAGA

7-down – See 18 : LADYLAND

8-down – Record reviewed for college : ETON

13-down – Work on movement: it might have spirit : OPTIC

15-down – Identifying backing tune getting help in German : DIAGNOSING

16-down – Half-hearted diet — steer clear of drink? : DETOX

18-down – Non-acoustic guy? Dylan to cut LP by 22 across : ELECTRIC

19-down – Freewheeling coach, final couple dropped off with singer : COASTING

22-down – Has band to penetrate groups of women : HAREMS

23-down – You’ll find a lot of holes in this cryptic puzzle : RIDDLE

24-down – Make listener put on number : EARN

25-down – Upset star and make-up people? : AVON

27-down – Toy boy, not British, going up repeatedly : YOYO