Daily Answers

8-across – Offering to trick folk : DONATION

9-across – See 14 down : BERTHA

10-across – Cloth cap in a city is retro : ALPACA

12-across – Bed for us at rear of office, conserving holidays : ECOTOURS

13-across – Complain over nothing left for workers’ share : CAR

14-across – See 21 : BAILEY

16-across – Having answer, engage in attempt to win, losing in this programme? : GAMESHOW

17-across – Ahead of strike, navy issue coarse stuff : GROGRAM

20-across – Led soak to reform in office lunch? : ALDESKO

23-across – See 26 : INSTANCE

24-across – Handled shirt, covered in regular pattern all round : TITLED

26-across – Brief time made even briefer in power, say : FOR

27-across – Saturate with pressure before eating food : PERMEATE

28-across – Back in Derbyshire on Snake Pass? : ELAPSE

31-across – Only let out to act as senior servant : BUTTLE

32-across – For Armstrong, it’s Aldrin that takes the strain : COLANDER

1-down – See 13 : POOL

2-down – Joke with a lady? : GAGA

3-down – Theft, once taxmen go in fast : PIRACY

4-down – Urged on wild bear : UNDERGO

5-down – Major in a law degree, not the usual : ABNORMAL

6-down – Starry trio after gold is on mad race : ORIONSBELT

7-down – As solver, sound hesitant to get into second-rate stuff : SHERLOCK

11-down – Sound stimulus for prince : PHI

14-down – For such artillery, protection at the front involves good earthwork : BIG

15-down – OK to run off with current partner : LEGITIMATE

18-down – Wield axe round repetitively rhymed lines : RONDEAUX

19-down – Toughened Queen of the French up : ANNEALED

21-down – Here many condemned medieval sort of bridge : OLD

22-down – About to leave submission for which counsel may argue : DEFENCE

24-down – Show fear, losing heart: stiff drink needed : TREBLE

25-down – See 11 : LIP

29-down – Face problems, any number intruding on one : ACNE

30-down – Check incomplete caste mark : STEM

1-across – Right outfit’s pretentious on barman in theatre : REPUBLICANPARTY

9-across – It’s stifling in Post Office, newspaperman snapped : PHOTOED

10-across – What wine smuggler did to get rifle : RANSACK

11-across – Object in orbit letter’s spoken of : EYE

12-across – Time to stop women chatting up London’s mayor : WHITTINGTON

13-across – Day younger goddess admits a rampant desire : SATYRIASIS

15-across – Like poems close to Leonardo DiCaprio’s heart : ODIC

18-across – Over 501 : DONE

20-across – Digit’s good, dividing number reportedly better : FOREFINGER

23-across – Bishop and pope occupying hotel rooms? One has a trek to town centre : SUBURBANITE

25-across – Lazy individual shedding pounds and blubber : SOB

26-across – Divine female has milkshakes : LAKSHMI

27-across – Pirouetting in the raw, a nudist in the dark : UNAWARE

28-across – Poor Sky TV reception — right shambles! : POVERTYSTRICKEN

1-down – Hacks through grass that’s kept down : REPRESSED

2-down – Person who’s paid before international rally? : PROTEST

3-down – Man who’s learned caution: leader of mob holding bank up : BOOKWORM

4-down – Primate of country in Asia nearly crossing river : INDRI

5-down – Offensive broadcast to stop working : AIRSTRIKE

6-down – What cook uses, one eating popular Italian food : PANINI

7-down – Getting stick about high teas, having dressed down : ROASTED

8-down – It’s foul running water in North America : YUKON

14-down – Lack of principles said to obstruct friendship : AMORALITY

16-down – Cold cut of meat containing a seed from Cuba, say : CARIBBEAN

17-down – Top select group, one defending art, perhaps : LITERATI

19-down – Russian writer knocked back very fine port : NABOKOV

21-down – Good question about old lady’s wartime protection : GASMASK

22-down – Person parading topless, who might take a bow : ARCHER

23-down – County’s low quality food packaging area : SALOP

24-down – Northerner’s brief stay at a hotel in Paris? : INUIT

1-across – All in Schengen angry about Hungary’s barrier to migrants? : ENGLISH

5-across – See 1 : CHANNEL

9-across – Pressure put on old college showing little growth : POLYP

10-across – Wrongly tell teacher losing tail-ender’s playing well : MISINFORM

11-across – Tories out — now! : RIGHTAWAY

12-across – Article finally put in this month? : INSET

13-across – Track birds : RAILS

15-across – Ran through tall grass catching catches : REHEARSED

18-across – Continue drinking tea, heading off before serious play starts : PRESEASON

19-across – Jersey enthusiast possibly rejected jacket : TUNIC

21-across – Itinerant lecturer returning to collect degree : NOMAD

23-across – Audible warning, if switching authentic weapon : FIREALARM

25-across – Deceitful kind of bowling? : UNDERHAND

26-across – Franco-German agreement needed to contact the other side? : OUIJA

27-across – Unaffected sequence of events in Darwin’s study : NATURAL

28-across – See 27 : HISTORY

1-down – Expert swimmer, male, adapted proper, genuine clothing : EMPEROR

2-down – Turn on light and get cracking with this? : GELIGNITE

3-down – Trendy place to feed : INPUT

4-down – Forster’s End keeping the author away from work? : HOMEWARDS

5-down – Soft copper cast : CUSHY

6-down – An Alsatian night worker, who’s paid after work? : ANNUITANT

7-down – Sanction stops child turning corners : NOOKS

8-down – Business such as typecast actors might create? : LIMITED

14-down – Thinner line in poster engineers put up? : SLENDERER

16-down – Red-hot Hindu nuts, withdrawing 10% : HUNDREDTH

17-down – Romans in a newly settled land : SANMARINO

18-down – See 1 : PENGUIN

20-down – See 8 : COMPANY

22-down – Poet’s surrounded by daughters in film : MIDST

23-down – Infirm female to complain loud and long : FRAIL

24-down – Declares river’s showing change of direction : AVOWS

1-across – Varnish explosive account : SHELLAC

5-across – Three times donning winter gear in part of Caribbean : STKITTS

9-across – Leo and Rupert nobbled dealer in game : POULTERER

10-across – Corrupt US corporation contracts left in register : ENROL

11-across – See fruit become outmoded : DATE

12-across – Hound minorities? : PUPPYHOODS

14-across – Dares holy man to shed clothes and nipple ring : AREOLA

15-across – Just as stormy after wind has backed : EQUALLY

16-across – Preserve key old photo : TINTYPE

18-across – Ruffle Shylock, collecting this sort of payment? : FLESHY

20-across – Brahms and Liszt arranged opus as entirely sung piece : GRANDOPERA

21-across – Crop of unrefined cocaine going west : CRAW

24-across – Find out Heath harboured this royal knight : LEARN

25-across – Job of textile workers, in part : PLACEMENT

26-across – Butter spread round school : GRAMMAR

27-across – Listen to number and cheer up : HEARTEN

1-down – Previously mentioned eating pea, reportedly tasty : SAPID

2-down – Poles are nowhere near this European cod quota, right? : EQUATOR

3-down – Reluctant bunch beginning to hesitate : LOTH

4-down – Wrapping up a carp order, get dizzy : CORRUGATEDPAPER

5-down – Short dominatrix may have done this : STRAPPEDFORCASH

6-down – Reprimanded Kelvin and editor over fish catch : KEELHAULED

7-down – Chaos in Timor university upset student : TURMOIL

8-down – Outre punishment accepted by Bond? : SPLASHY

13-down – Hit dumbly on me and Mo : MOLYBDENUM

16-down – Name a record in Filipino language! : TAGALOG

17-down – Falls once more, back on uppers in real adversity : NIAGARA

19-down – The rich claiming right to endless produce : HARVEST

22-down – Ring supremo of security group with backing : WOTAN

23-down – Absolutely nothing about French and Greek cheese : FETA

1-across – Bitter criticism — I’d bear it somehow : DIATRIBE

5-across – Shopkeeper pronouncedly less refined : GROCER

9-across – A quick drop for one waiting for opening time : FREEFALL

10-across – Gunsmiths will add it to their stocks : BARREL

12-across – It has branches in Lebanon : CEDAR

13-across – There’s nothing risky with her new type of pudding : YORKSHIRE

14-across – Worriedly anticipate bill coming in will scupper one : INCAPACITATE

18-across – Lobby Transport House : ENTRANCEHALL

21-across – The only waiting here is at the counter : CAFETERIA

23-across – Something in the air makes one put on weight? On the contrary : OZONE

24-across – Set one’s sights higher and improve : LOOKUP

25-across – Suit for a girl’s best friend : DIAMONDS

26-across – Painstaking people enjoy this activity : SADISM

27-across – Worried about San Diego : AGONISED

1-down – Fault or default : DEFECT

2-down – Programme information in commercial article : AGENDA

3-down – Votes to consult new dean : REFERENDA

4-down – The middle section is convulsed during their performance : BELLYDANCERS

6-down – Gathers in spare parts : REAPS

7-down – Laird can stand for chief : CARDINAL

8-down – Not so anxious since replacement’s arrived? : RELIEVED

11-down – Stunning, but also inspiring? : BREATHTAKING

15-down – No end of cats here! : ISLEOFMAN

16-down – Hard taskmaster — he’s accepted money that must be turned over : HERCULES

17-down – Employees take ring road here in the West Midlands : STAFFORD

19-down – Cuts, perhaps, may get us down : WOUNDS

20-down – A number relaxed and stopped : CEASED

22-down – Trips on the River Loire : TOURS