Daily Answers

9-across – Revived with oxygen after backing first horse in wet conditions : BORNAGAIN

10-across – Marketplace for anyone gambling on races and using tips : AGORA

11-across – Tried syncopated beat : TIRED

12-across – Shaw’s flower girl told Eliot to change : DOOLITTLE

13-across – North Americans’ casual California hideaways reported : CANUCKS

14-across – Having no fun from creativity in one’s lifetime : SPARTAN

17-across – Each-way stake : PUTUP

19-across – Wins clearly initially, if at length criticises umpire’s call : KOS

20-across – Makes smooth pieces for pianist drawn from plain inspirations : IRONS

21-across – Backed favourite vainly, lacking enthusiasm : TEPIDLY

22-across – Old King Boatman seen in pseudomorphs : OEDIPUS

24-across – See 15 : INTHEBUSH

26-across – Time being the end of season formerly : NONCE

28-across – Allow time to take on outsiders in race : AGREE

29-across – Pinions perhaps by firm force with parts of feet : COGWHEELS

1-down – Condone taking a gamble : ABET

2-down – Fix odds in Derby fraud — no trial? : DRYRUN

3-down – Improved view, adapting plane details : LANDSCAPED

4-down – See 15 : HANDIS

5-down – Backs the last runners, not the first : ENDORSES

6-down – Takes a risk, being seen in a dress : SARI

7-down – See 15 : WORTHTWO

8-down – How a dark horse doesn’t appear to be at stake : PALE

13-down – Initial cutting replacing tip, to dead-head : CAPUT

15-down – Clue: the pastern’s broken, but this horse won with certainty; it’s better than gambling : ABIRDINTHE

16-down – Features in rows, not a single one : NOSES

18-down – They help gamblers and prostitutes missing out having a flutter : TIPSTERS

19-down – Old IT device in BASIC wordplay to check : KEYPUNCH

22-down – Model here reveals a bit of leg — heavenly! : ONHIGH

23-down – Boatman could be one better? : PUNTER

24-down – Gosh! = ok : ISAY

25-down – Vessel’s crew : EWER

27-down – Report on drugs used for relief : EASE

1-across – Hanky-panky king breaking bank, say? : MONKEYBUSINESS

8-across – Might one secure horse, or look to inhale dope? : LASSO

9-across – Good Lord is merciful : GRACIOUS

11-across – City where bird’s docked after brief tack : NAIROBI

12-across – Cleaner artist succeeding, having wiped rear : KLEENEX

13-across – Dressing I love, head in lint, best bandages : AIOLI

15-across – More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say? : SPRINGIER

17-across – Starter despatched, desserts fresh out of the oven in range of slugs : RIFLESHOT

20-across – Marvellous computer screens generating interest, initially : MAGIC

21-across – Tremendous battle, lost cause, never ends : MONSTER

23-across – Architectural feature I see in European city : PORTICO

25-across – Swimming in state, contents of bath swallowed : NATATION

26-across – Refuse drink, very strong : CHAFF

27-across – Capital turned over by Hollywood actor, hero getting cheers : THANKSAMILLION

1-down – Other half of worryingly immature plan? : MELANIATRUMP

2-down – Welcomed back by enemies, industrious Japanese American : NISEI

3-down – Save someone nice, shelled in error : ECONOMISE

4-down – Villain escaping justice punched by Women’s Institute, important people : BIGWIGS

5-down – Kiss money : SMACKER

6-down – Knowing little, one impressed by church body : NAIVE

7-down – Involved in fraud, one in five not looking straight? : SQUINTING

10-down – Sucker, one no longer in love with farm worker? : EXTRACTORFAN

14-down – Romantic composer in many cases sounded ahead of baroque composer : OFFENBACH

16-down – Digital manicure shaped tip of fingernail : NUMERICAL

18-down – Leading woman, Queen Sturgeon’s back in Scottish team : HERNIBS

19-down – Name of a place where Cruise, say, is about £25 : TOPONYM

22-down – Ultimate in American wit, a funny author : TWAIN

24-down – Porcelain from Hiroshima, right? : IMARI

9-across – Tired horse hired by our leader? : HACKNEYED

10-across – Wants to sound negligent : LACKS

11-across – Coming to no conclusion : ENDLESS

12-across – Notice one model getting fat : ADIPOSE

13-across – A poisonous creeper : MAMBA

14-across – Team result is not the main topic of conver­sation : SIDEISSUE

16-across – Coach given guidelines for players to follow : STAGEDIRECTIONS

19-across – Necessitated being collected : CALLEDFOR

21-across – Spritely — that’s the Spanish and French conclusion : ELFIN

22-across – First-former? : CREATOR

23-across – An oppressive blow for the Italians : SIROCCO

24-across – One may happily walk here during broadcast : ONAIR

25-across – Dream of Black Bess? : NIGHTMARE

1-down – Notepaper not bound to sell? : SHEETMUSIC

2-down – A chartered accountant meant to take up scholastic life : ACADEMIA

3-down – Girl writing Guardian article : ANGELA

4-down – They see and give audible approval : EYES

5-down – Humorist in the red, upset about raw deal, perhaps : EDWARDLEAR

6-down – It’s plain stupid for a mountaineer : ALPINIST

7-down – Cast or cast out : ACTORS

8-down – Small marine detachment : ISLE

14-down – Yet it might help you relax : STIFFDRINK

15-down – Where one is involved as an ex-president : EISENHOWER

17-down – Having a choice makes them cross : ELECTORS

18-down – One in post bearing stamp of credibility : OFFICIAL

20-down – Some freedom allowed for fish picked up on route : LEEWAY

21-down – In time, deserter will make mistakes : ERRATA

22-down – CO2 left to freeze : COOL

23-down – Fail to keep up a legend : SAGA

9-across – Southerner rustling in a docked baa-lamb : ALABAMIAN

10-across – Outsider left not one sort of key : ALLEN

11-across – Generous drink moves right to the heart : LARGE

12-across – Actor Tree’s half-cut old Scotsman? : TRAGEDIAN

13-across – Refuse to be kept by lover, initially in wild surroundings : SALVAGE

14-across – Half-soaked people in this switched on tourist city? : HIPBATH

17-across – Tree line to the west of one : ROWAN

19-across – Reverse-engineered molecule that might bind some solutions here : AND

20-across – Check temperature inside animal : DETER

21-across – Punctuation mark 1-50-100 goes in front : PILCROW

22-across – Smear cold sulphate on new yellow tops : CALUMNY

24-across – Pretentious greeting — fault corrected and accepted : HIFALUTIN

26-across – Poet’s streams : BURNS

28-across – Who’s responsible for Alice Island? : LEWIS

29-across – Try to lance anaemic wound, being totally self-obsessed : EGOMANIAC

1-down – Party nut : BALL

2-down – Bay City East entered in web address : LAUREL

3-down – Risk getting in migrant Near East paid worker : WAGEEARNER

4-down – Bear after it sees stars : LITTLE

5-down – Single-coated tree could do with scrubbing? : UNWASHED

6-down – Speed pressure card : PACE

7-down – One hoping for beneficial response, say, lacks the power to secure mail operative : CLAIMANT

8-down – What we came to expect from de Gaulle after a while : ANON

13-down – Drinks to lift a bad mood : STROP

15-down – Bald-pated, short, old cuckoo’s a crafty thing : PADDLEBOAT

16-down – Writer Grass takes drive up : HARDY

18-down – Wit Offensive on radio makes you grouse? : WILDFOWL

19-down – Nervously excited wife breaks into a laugh : ATWITTER

22-down – Gun swindle implicating Frank? : CANNON

23-down – Bird strike repelled can : MARTIN

24-down – Well, say Hello vociferously! : HALE

25-down – See 27 : LIST

27-down – Well, you shouldn’t be on it : SICK

1-across – Swimmers used to be trained in West : MEDUSAE

5-across – Bush, a murderer, right at the top : ARBUTUS

9-across – Chunk of congenitally revolting tongue : LATIN

10-across – European races pig round hairpin — famous last words : ETTUBRUTE

11-across – Played hymn to 12 that’s on top of stack : CHIMNEYPOT

12-across – Nice grocer’s offloading water on a huge scale : EPIC

14-across – Old satirist begins shedding stone in judo etc : MARTIALARTS

18-across – Doctor must get up, if time’s at a premium : TEMPUSFUGIT

21-across – Hacks ignore firm making disapproving noises : UGHS

22-across – Bubbly soup needs work, significant work : MAGNUMOPUS

25-across – Fish go in mid-December, so strike now! : CARPEDIEM

26-across – Old soldiers hiding blunder land in 9 : TERRA

27-across – Short of bakery job, say : NEEDING

28-across – Stylish novices rebuffing leading lady’s demands : INSISTS

1-down – Married girl’s animus : MALICE

2-down – List the best finally entering parliament : DETAIL

3-down – You and my sons oddly retain name that’s closely associated : SYNONYMOUS

4-down – Look briefly across stage for exit lines : ELEGY

5-down – Doing seller’s job out of uniform : ACTIONING

6-down – Attractive girl in black Lincoln : BABE

7-down – Rubbish politician stuffs more balanced adversary, finally : TRUMPERY

8-down – Watch patient eating date capsule : SEEDCASE

13-down – Oversupply a couple’s food additives : GLUTAMATES

15-down – Improving picture: judge and artist reach China : REFRAMING

16-down – Forerunner of 9 puzzled centaurs : ETRUSCAN

17-down – Article on speed or rate occasionally jars : AMPHORAE

19-down – Old queen chopping vegetables works in Covent Garden : OPERAS

20-down – Studies eastern and southern states : ESSAYS

23-down – Water sources current doctor found in province : NIMBI

24-down – House section of cruise missile : SEMI