Daily Answers

1-across – Fag chewed by German hounds : AFGHANS

5-across – Using more TNT could cause trouble : TORMENT

9-across – Involved with swindle, right to get out hurriedly : SCRAM

10-across – Performer who can tread about quietly? Not this one! : TAPDANCER

11-across – Money for the landlord after an earthquake? : GROUNDRENT

12-across – Desert one’s post, though left in charge? : FLEE

14-across – It reduces the noise on some flights : STAIRCARPET

18-across – Tenderising chopped-up cooking components : INGREDIENTS

21-across – Refuse to eat quickly : FAST

22-across – Strained, as Indian tea is? : FARFETCHED

25-across – Architect’s plan for advancement : ELEVATION

26-across – Record some inadvertent errors : ENTER

27-across – Phil bumped into fellow swimmer : DOLPHIN

28-across – Dug out old coloured cover for madam : EXHUMED

1-down – Fix a direction indicator : ASSIGN

2-down – She turned to stone : GORGON

3-down – Notice a government official’s conduct : ADMINISTER

4-down – Wood spirit : SATYR

5-down – I’d trap nun out in cricket game : TIPANDRUN

6-down – Harvest a variety of rape : REAP

7-down – Get out and look inside meat dish : ESCALOPE

8-down – Hill splits and falls, perhaps : TORRENTS

13-down – They may be in for supper but then out all night : FALSETEETH

15-down – I’m in a state of exhil-aration : ANIMATION

16-down – Boring place but it makes lots of money! : OILFIELD

17-down – Food container origin­ally produced in layers : EGGSHELL

19-down – Beat in run to hospital, exploding myth : RHYTHM

20-down – Loved to see the dreadnought wrecked : ADORED

23-down – This criminal may be cleared : FENCE

24-down – He wrote music for half the band and part of the orchestra : BACH

1-across – Circular spot on square : ADJUST

4-across – Provokes party leader to stop plots : SPITES

9-across – Bay with a sailing ship : BARK

10-across – A relatively complex document : FAMILYTREE

11-across – Examiner reported to be a smoker : CENSER

12-across – Rocket, key one, behind time : ESCALATE

13-across – Assistant admits guilt, returns make up : REPLENISH

15-across – Fret about soldier’s surprised expression : HAAR

16-across – Lie back, following strike : BIFF

17-across – Daughter in week-long struggle to get information : KNOWLEDGE

21-across – The Don is too much of a libertine : HEDONIST

22-across – Makes clean clothes for the theatre : SCRUBS

24-across – Mercenary’s arrival more certain, lacking capital : ADVENTURER

25-across – Librarian stifles vocal outburst : ARIA

26-across – First Lady hates cooking meat loaf : HASLET

27-across – Scales initially costing an arm and a leg? : CLIMBS

1-down – Scientists here made flexible card envelopes : ACADEME

2-down – Boy’s toilet : JAKES

3-down – Second slight reduction in expensive flavouring : SAFFRON

5-down – Approach bar, wanting last bitter : POLICY

6-down – Shake it a little to create excitement : TITILLATE

7-down – Put up security : SHELTER

8-down – They take others off ropes in a storm at sea : IMPERSONATORS

14-down – Balls follows Labour Party : LEFTOVERS

16-down – French stick the majority on range : BREADTH

18-down – Left water spraying across sunlounger : WASTREL

19-down – Catch spy hanging up a device : GUBBINS

20-down – Advice given to middlemen — move quietly : TIPTOE

23-down – Raise millions to provide new tanks, say : REARM

7-across – Very small vehicle reversing by a cat, I see : SUBATOMIC

8-across – One getting some orders around the summit of Sinai? : MOSES

9-across – They don’t fit plywood, done outside or inside : ODDONEOUT

10-across – Show contempt for loud hooligan : FLOUT

12-across – England’s in trouble, wanting Norway and Germany as financial backers : ANGELS

13-across – Close to dive 50, T Daley dances with joy : ELATEDLY

14-across – Might this show you’re married to Chuck? : ABANDON

17-across – Incriminate every individual backing Independence politician : IMPEACH

20-across – Drink with little chance of being found in Hell? : SNOWBALL

22-across – Common umlaut design : MUTUAL

24-across – A great prime minister? : MAJOR

25-across – Exercise too much? It’s evident — need shower : OVERTRAIN

26-across – Lover of the ’60s, Carpenter gives up crown : HIPPY

27-across – Gold — good and fashionable when worn by adult, 1984-style­ : ORWELLIAN

1-down – See 5 : SUGDEN

2-down – European working under North American general : NAPOLEON

3-down – They conceal privates and fighters : BOXERS

4-down – Understood 1d? : FIGURED

5-down – Was she busy modelling Sue in Are You Being Served? : MOLLIE

6-down – Local resident in antique country : REPUBLIC

11-down – Building weapon unleashes anger : FARM

15-down – Mountain in Germany, yes? I’m climbing with new boy : BENJAMIN

16-down – Could be expensive round — drink up … : OPAL

18-down – … only ten pound, I count : ENTIRELY

19-down – Wild plants caught by Romeo and Juliet? : CLOVERS

21-down – Doctor works and cries at mistake : WHOOPS

22-down – Spoon bender hugged by little girl, then another : MURIEL

23-down – A game, a lake, a creature : ANIMAL

1-across – Seafood that’s dead? Then transport to main ship! : EXCLAMATIONMARK

9-across – See 5 : BLOWING

10-across – Maker of an instrument gripping end of cricket bat : FLUTTER

11-across – One is cracking : ACE

12-across – Clash with Conservative entering amendment : ALTERCATION

13-across – Marvellous monkey revises, having failed : IMPRESSIVE

15-across – Money invested in raffle, paid back : PELF

18-across – Cut hydrogen by itself? : GASH

20-across – Pour liquid in to promote growth in bed : FOURPOSTER

23-across – Might one say, fat boy’s first to tuck in to green vegetable? Out of the question! : UNTHINKABLE

25-across – Force impacted : MET

26-across – Revolving part of a gun that’s about to get two revolvers in one? : TWINTUB

27-across – See 5 : BUBBLES

28-across – Worker often seen wearing blue, red, green and russet, I suspect : REGISTEREDNURSE

1-down – As one heads for Mount Everest when climbing, cold as Skegness? : EMBRACING

2-down – Shot has to drop into golf hole : CLOSEUP

3-down – A male in jail turned up, given life : ANIMATED

4-down – Anything explained, head getting scratched : AUGHT

5-down – Song with new love brewing, I form pop group? : IMFOREVER

6-down – On rising I appreciate that weapon’s loaded with nothing sweet : NOUGAT

7-down – Sitting on a seat that’s empty to go : ASTRIDE

8-down – Puzzling question about right for sacred text : KORAN

14-down – Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma : SHOCKABLE

16-down – Stuff coming up in strong suggestion of the future : FORETASTE

17-down – Baby boy, he plays with nun : HONEYBUN

19-down – My work is going down at the end of the day : SETTING

21-down – Gymnast, one filled with spirit : TUMBLER

22-down – Break hearts in this way, splitting trousers : HIATUS

23-down – Unqualified, say : UTTER

24-down – Tucker’s best mate put on the covers of large sacred text : BIBLE

1-across – Research leader in survey is resolute : STURDY

4-across – Potter has a rest in game : BRIDGE

9-across – Where the winner can be found from the beginning : INTHEFIRSTPLACE

10-across – Eastern time in bronze capital : TEHRAN

11-across – Arranged recital, including new instrument : CLARINET

12-across – Unable to manage, he spells badly : HELPLESS

14-across – Can the German produce touchwood? : TINDER

15-across – The Parisian contests taxes : LEVIES

18-across – A Greek character’s always a success story : ACHIEVER

21-across – Fondness for swan song : PENCHANT

22-across – Belt worn by a Persian governor : SATRAP

24-across – Harden attitudes init­ially in the mind, like a prima donna : TEMPERAMENTALLY

25-across – Contract put away during evaluation : TREATY

26-across – Hung around and served : WAITED

1-down – Seeing that’s about true : SINCERE

2-down – Guide woman in old city : USHER

3-down – Vindication of French barrier : DEFENCE

5-down – Repudiate religious education booklet : RETRACT

6-down – Flirting gets Penny a relationship : DALLIANCE

7-down – Pass former partner on Greek island : EXCRETE

8-down – Almost exact summary : PRECIS

13-down – One place keeps royal member out, as a rule : PRINCIPLE

16-down – Trace oriental allowed to keep chess pieces : ELEMENT

17-down – See raft badly in mist : SEAFRET

18-down – One sort of maths leaves one gasping : ASTHMA

19-down – Cry of joy when husband meets great girl! : HOSANNA

20-down – Amazing deal Ben facilitated : ENABLED

23-down – Child eats a bit of sausage in grill : TOAST