Daily Answers

7-across – No one in particular risking being run over? : MANINTHE

9-across – See 7 : STREET

10-across – Be editor of Independent, admitting wife is no friend of cyclists : HEAD

11-across – Small car to tour one’s island, or islands : MICRONESIA

12-across – Be hard to swallow, as snack in pub: conviction follows : BEGGAR

14-across – They’re the world’s biggest: word does get round : REDWOODS

15-across – Remarkable Edith Evans in the lead gets awarded part that can’t be changed : THEDIE

17-across – See 15 : ISCAST

20-across – Russian notes endless desire to take litre in hard liquor : SWANLAKE

22-across – See 12 : BELIEF

23-across – Discredit popular girl I go out with : INVALIDATE

24-across – See 24 down : MAID

25-across – The situation: what a lot of whoppers our country tells! : HOWTHE

26-across – See 25 : LANDLIES

1-down – Setter accepts a second opportunity: it opens out : CASEMENT

2-down – See 10 : WIND

3-down – Wicketkeeper quietly dropped for silly mistake : STUMER

4-down – Virtually — gold? : ASGOODAS

5-down – Fight to keep the NHS so? : FREEFORALL

6-down – Old-fashioned bum paper : BEHIND

8-down – I want more from officer before coming round : ENCORE

13-down – Saviours of the planet like Kermit to have fun : GREENPARTY

16-down – Thought: I don’t run the paper on whisky! : IMAGINED

18-down – See 6 : THETIMES

19-down – Heartily destroy every memory : RECALL

21-down – See 1 : WINDOW

22-down – Sound of bouncing around tail of the plane : BOEING

24-down – Exploit soundly-built farm girl : MILK

1-across – Licence form falsified and filled out with unsourced requirement : FREEDOM

5-across – Put off and rescheduled hosting day in Paris : ADJOURN

9-across – Out of capital, journalist immediately starts getting on with life : BEING

10-across – State position : SITUATION

11-across – Want unpredictable result? How dull! : LACKLUSTRE

12-across – Combine temperature scale on exhaust : FUSE

14-across – Working round obsession to wear cape leads to oblivion : NOTHINGNESS

18-across – Alien, else Spanish, hourglass property? : SHAPELINESS

21-across – President: I appreciate that newspaper : TAFT

22-across – African city tot is given a yeast cake : ADDISABABA

25-across – Soldier about to turn back warship : PRIVATEER

26-across – Right away, here’s to you getting advance : POSIT

27-across – Student of the sun absorbing extremes of temperature : SCHOLAR

28-across – Reversing, say, a spacecraft’s docking procedure : MOORAGE

1-down – A bone brooch : FIBULA

2-down – Previn certainly not all show! : EVINCE

3-down – Work at and learn to comprehend something needing to be filled in — a comfort to a setter? : DOGBLANKET

4-down – Folk artist who made use of tablets : MOSES

5-down – An experience one’s late in coming to : AFTERLIFE

6-down – He thought a lot of 9, our setter in casual wear creation, coming to end of clue : JEAN

7-down – Not hardened, lacking cover, sunless : UNINURED

8-down – The very person to snoop around new swimmer : NONEELSE

13-down – Top cleaner: for instance, good synthetic waste product : EGGSHAMPOO

15-down – Type of junior student’s note attached to end of sensory organ : THIRDYEAR

16-down – They have the same atomic number : ISOTOPES

17-down – It’s deceitful — hat, if clued cryptically? : BADFAITH

19-down – Disgust by dumping gold in natural gas location : NAUSEA

20-down – See 6 : SARTRE

23-down – After short time, one gets into one’s pilgrim garment : IHRAM

24-down – See 6 : PAUL

1-across – Scorer defining route for lexicographer : WEBSTER

5-across – Catchy thing, 16th incantation? : MANTRAP

9-across – Joker somewhat caustic, I’m occasionally contrary : COMIC

10-across – Rats dropping in, tenor distraught, one in a state? : VERMONTER

11-across – Film director requires great intellect to capture scene after evacuation : EISENSTEIN

12-across – President is cross : FORD

14-across – As swine in decay, they can’t fly : CASSOWARIES

18-across – See 21 : UPONATIMEIN

21-across – Point to the new 19 and use new one of 5 down’s : ONCE

22-across – One of 5 down’s is Jerusalem, with those people at the front : THEMISSION

25-across – Being prepared, add last of sauce to sardines in a stew : READINESS

26-across – Chance rugby game won’t start : EVENS

27-across – See 21 : THEWEST

28-across – Shame to shackle American bear : SUSTAIN

1-down – Good and bad : WICKED

2-down – Queen, perhaps, wrapping up problem puzzle : BEMUSE

3-down – Authority in control, he has contract for reneg­otiation : TECHNOCRAT

4-down – Pin I check under top of roof : RIVET

5-down – Right image adopted by greater Italian scorer : MORRICONE

6-down – Only off for 12 : NOON

7-down – Install new parts, strong girder finally put up over it : RETROFIT

8-down – See 19 : PARADISO

13-down – Scorer sent in, as doub­led up in torment : SAINTSAENS

15-down – Most insignificant lang­uages ultimately easiest to pick up : SLIGHTEST

16-down – Pitch business with regret after turning up to see Brussels official : EUROCRAT

17-down – Group meeting bending over to welcome Lutheran leader : CONCLAVE

19-down – One of 5 down’s ideas, a Roman pic for comp­osition : CINEMA

20-down – Agreement is working under alliance of nations : UNISON

23-down – Films to avoid, including Terminator for a start : MISTS

24-down – Foul conclusion in contest, ugly : VILE

1-across – Citizen’s cross leaving prison : BRITON

4-across – Orator condemned coercion on being rejected : CICERO

9-across – Regular sections of toughened moulding : OGEE

10-across – Forsyte heroine puts off cutting out article for Iris : FLEURDELYS

11-across – Scot’s cross, forgetting large work by Martial : SATIRE

12-across – Army’s misled about new German vessel’s flaw : ANEURYSM

13-across – A brave chap gutted about old Greek commander : AGAMEMNON

15-across – Guy, for one, saves time : STAY

16-across – Violinist’s first quartet offers list of options : MENU

17-across – Kinky top, say, and liquid diet for goddess : APHRODITE

21-across – Try collecting flyers suitable for Banksy work? : GRAFFITO

22-across – Poet reverses vehicle into garden : HORACE

24-across – CIA spies trained to guard old American stars : CASSIOPEIA

25-across – Censor and tenacious orator originally : CATO

26-across – Passes out note in special courts : SWOONS

27-across – Lover of 17 lives next door to a lecturer : ADONIS

1-down – Successful fringe the start of our expansion? : BIGBANG

2-down – Twice nightly? That’s more than enough for old people : ICENI

3-down – Heading the wrong way? Kill headlight : OFFBEAM

5-down – One king’s revolting state : ISRAEL

6-down – Former journalist covering case couldn’t stand : EXECRATED

7-down – Poem about Ulysses essentially at end of Troy : ODYSSEY

8-down – Prophet grasping complex metaphor is transformed : METAMORPHOSES

14-down – Obvious hole in mission statement : MANIFESTO

16-down – Bunch of careless dairymaids knocked over lots : MYRIADS

18-down – Man coming in behind Democrat tried again : REHEARD

19-down – Historian of The Quiet American? : TACITUS

20-down – Citizen of Crete and other island bans Catholic : MINOAN

23-down – Banks avoid costing toxic compound : RICIN

7-across – Fizzy gin and it does lead to organic decomposition : DIGESTION

8-across – Storyline involving international aviator : PILOT

9-across – Setter’s into dirty books to get first of six basic principles : RUDIMENTS

10-across – Fastener made by special workers on ship : SCREW

12-across – Series of steps looks hard to an audience : STAIRS

13-across – Piece in newspaper covering Steptoe & Son? : FRAGMENT

16-across – Terrible film about Newgate’s first jailer : TURNKEY

19-across – Snap shut? : CLOSEUP

22-across – Graph in Chapter 1 redrawn : PIECHART

25-across – Doctor taking drug to poor lad in madhouse : BEDLAM

27-across – Endless destitution is plain for all to see : OVERT

28-across – Aircraft got diverted around Zimbabwean leader’s la-la land : PLANETZOG

29-across – Attach an inner layer to navy fabric : LINEN

30-across – Soldier on exercise to reverse changes : PERSEVERE

1-down – Note added to unusual tune for dance : MINUET

2-down – Area embracing state’s belief system : RELIGION

3-down – Unkind people decapitated animals : OTTERS

4-down – Pope and priest working on disagreement : PONTIFF

5-down – Drama series set in computerless IT company! : SITCOM

6-down – Adolescent going to Post Office for illicit liquor : POTEEN

11-down – Boy standing to welcome Hungary’s first writer : DAHL

14-down – Woman in short uniform : EVE

15-down – See 16 : TOP

16-down – List drug written up as class A : TIP

17-down – Sound of dry grass : RYE

18-down – Starts to eat dry and mouldy cheese : EDAM

20-down – Vet with ideas about drug : SEDATIVE

21-down – Lecturer tucked into hot cake : STOLLEN

23-down – Six surrounding American in pub to no avail : INVAIN

24-down – Worry about Tory leader joining large organisation restricting free trade : CARTEL

25-down – Drive away with panini filling during celebration : BANISH

26-down – Publicity about animal on ship : ABOARD