Daily Answers

1-across – Longing suppressed by a baseball player : PITCHER

5-across – Pet making small mark in The Guardian? : PAMPER

9-across – As character making repeated appearance, female artist blocks entrance : GEMINATE

10-across – Ask to engage member of parliament – support is not straight : BOWLEG

12-across – Writer to act as bodysnatcher? Little hesitation, time to intervene! : ROBERTGRAVES

15-across – EU nice and calm after disruption, helping to tolerate different beliefs? : ECUMENICAL

17-across – Regret impolite daughter being banished : RUE

19-across – Feature of the ideal religious festival : EID

20-across – Power to discern the future in a time of no experimentation? : PRESCIENCE

22-across – Inability to go against outpost holding minimal cash? : CONSTIPATION

26-across – One geometrical section as a defining image? : ICONIC

27-across – Six taking time to collect vehicle from house near church? : VICARAGE

28-across – Sound irritates Oxford school : GREATS

29-across – What could make pest move decisively : STEPOUT

1-down – Servant making contribution to a … : PAGE

2-down – … ___, as far as I’m concerned : TOME

3-down – Transfer completed finally in German city : HANDOVER

4-down – The artist coming first is blooming early : RATHE

6-down – Sailor gets ‘eap up on ship : ABOARD

7-down – See nag prevail, somehow talking gibberish? : PALAVERING

8-down – Listed heart, previously in appropriate colour : REGISTERED

11-down – Reportedly makes hard bargains : STEALS

13-down – Begging rail-destroyer to stay outside home counties : BESEECHING

14-down – Irritating bounders upset your setter : BURDENSOME

16-down – One time to limit sound of contentment that will rise and suddenly grow : IRRUPT

18-down – Holy group over time offering guidance : PILOTAGE

21-down – Severe princess once banished from region : STRICT

23-down – Take off clothes, first to last, making short journeys : TRIPS

24-down – Decisive blow upsetting old animal : KAYO

25-down – Church officer, member of a tribe : CELT

1-across – Giddy, similar having struck head : ELATED

5-across – Serious film about a double Dutch lover? : BIGAMIST

9-across – One Direction’s corrosive agent on the radio? : OCCIDENT

10-across – Girl, cross with deadline, finally gets extension : ANNEXE

11-across – Garbage in tum, husband – one of those? : HUMANDUSTBIN

13-across – Somewhere for swimming cap, one’s head! : LIDO

14-across – Virtue in large settlement, hurrying to bank when last one divorced! : CHASTITY

17-across – Stumble across wrong wire in security device : FIREWALL

18-across – Bloomer in cunning manner initially erased : LILY

20-across – Is that concealed by instrumental entertainer? : HIDDENTALENT

23-across – Not appreciated – as a number made redundant? : UNSUNG

24-across – Turkey probed by animal doctor, alas, some leave : DUVETDAY

25-across – Reassembly of gun, doable after unloading a weapon : BLUDGEON

26-across – Before year, second went fast : SPEEDY

2-down – Best lap : LICK

3-down – Body part raised, black in colour : THIGHBONE

4-down – Romantic novel read well! : DREAMY

5-down – Where plants studied in old forest on which log cabin built, housing much appreciated : BOTANICALGARDEN

6-down – Powdery on the moon, scrap’s gathered up : GRANULAR

7-down – He painted Earthling and Venutian, say : MANET

8-down – The other pieces for old band : SEXPISTOLS

12-down – Local call outlining prophecy : DIVISIONAL

15-down – I don’t want to listen – but a labourer might? : TALKTOTHE

16-down – A generic kind of philanthropist or self-help guru : CARNEGIE

19-down – Legend written below canopy of pine, part of trunk : PELVIS

21-down – Doctor you and I had, healer : DRUID

22-down – See 15 : HAND

8-across – Encourages viewers to leave when reporting Oxford’s dimensions : SHOESIZE

9-across – Arrival still not settled : INFLUX

10-across – Charge made impression with European : STAMPEDE

11-across – Continue swallowing occasional rage with someone who is petrifying : GORGON

12-across – Is that Schrödinger’s luggage? It’s quickly resolved : OPENANDSHUTCASE

15-across – It relieves blockage caused by number occupying street : STENT

16-across – Feel gutted abandoning bat, say : UTTER

20-across – It’s time for physicists to explain general relativity : FOURTHDIMENSION

21-across – A huge number leave retro brand : GOOGOL

23-across – Broad description of good book’s contents : ALLROUND

25-across – Deny one’s in depressed state : DISOWN

26-across – Young fish found in drier – has it been cooked there? : AIRFRYER

1-down – AI facilitates talk with doctor over temperature : CHATGPT

2-down – Met ran riot, mistreated returning killer? : TERMINATOR

3-down – Award for play : GIVE

4-down – Iron included in heavy American shielding : DEFENSE

5-down – Idle and strung out, becoming upset : DISGRUNTLE

6-down – Endless quest to see wild life from a distance : AFAR

7-down – Crucial clause vetoed biopsies lawyers used to investigate death : AUTOPSY

13-down – Halt cannon being moved in a careless manner : NONCHALANT

14-down – Where queens are always men : CHESSBOARD

17-down – Composer with personal problem supported by sculptor : BORODIN

18-down – Bugs army boss when getting a low rise : CICADAS

19-down – He might stop you entering empty bar carrying weight : BOUNCER

22-down – Finally getting power to reject shoddy goods : GROT

24-down – Entice Charlie to abandon dodgy money : LURE

1-across – Awkward sod, Tim Henman, getting a reprimand : ADMONISHMENT

9-across – Oddly, mean to host activity for summer? : MATHS

10-across – High cost with monarch’s hosiery : STOCKINGS

11-across – Court judges politician with fury in America : UMPIRES

12-across – Distance, say, a horse-drawn cart goes to the west : YARDAGE

13-across – Like a pleasure-seeker in the disco, dancing : HEDONISTIC

15-across – Girl left behind, as Americans say : LASS

18-across – Disorder in dining room : MESS

19-across – Complimentary strong drink for a non-conformist : FREESPIRIT

22-across – Return to clergyman, crossword setter and model : REVISIT

24-across – Captain Scott’s starter – smoked fish : SKIPPER

25-across – Flowery shrub from Hyde Park employee, as some say : HYDRANGEA

26-across – What lazy person does, spreading lies about Democrat : IDLES

27-across – Trips in Tulsa Chilean organised : HALLUCINATES

1-down – Some want iPod, especially in the UK and New Zealand? : ANTIPODES

2-down – An incorrect character in London-to-Leeds road race : MISPRINT

3-down – Homes for Robin and Jay, perhaps? : NESTS

4-down – Synopsis of plot beginning to shift Conservative policy : STORYLINE

5-down – Manufacturers of extreme bits of magenta kitchenware – ridiculous! : MAKERS

6-down – Indian regularly ignored assent from German warrior : NINJA

7-down – Attack American president no. 41 or 43 : AMBUSH

8-down – Drug dealers losing head, or theatre workers : USHERS

14-down – Trained tiger cats, using a cunning plan : STRATEGIC

16-down – Bizarrely cool Paris citadel many tourists visit : ACROPOLIS

17-down – In shop, Tim is this person with a half-full glass? : OPTIMIST

18-down – Planet, hardly empty, with soggy ground : MARSHY

20-down – Batter is extremely tough and impetuous : THRASH

21-down – Attack flipping idiot, in trouble : ASSAIL

23-down – Party very upset – Kamala drained alcoholic drink : VODKA

24-down – Son with French bread where tapas may be served : SPAIN

1-across – 8’s more likely to break – some might say bust – a US server : TAYLOR

4-across – Companion to Donner und Blitzen can upset in the German : DANCER

8-across – Oxford don who likes a post-coital cuddle : SPOONER

9-across – 8’s eggs and fibre in batter : JOEROOT

11-across – Thousands and thousands initially inside place where 1/21, 9, 10, 12/20 and 24/26 might be seen : GRANDSTAND

12-across – Scorer seen in 8’s crystal ball : BETH

13-across – Note reverberated within? : BREVE

14-across – Conquered lands and advanced with old leaders of resistance losing dogfight : NEWWORLD

16-across – Condensed e.g. copyright’s length first, and reduced credit : ELLIPTIC

18-across – ‘Principle’ is anyway alien to X : TENET

20-across – See 12 : MEAD

21-across – Smoked, having first of rations cut, made ready for winter : FURTRIMMED

23-across – Announce withdrawal of lawsuit? : DECLAIM

24-across – Skipper below her best, according to 8 : HEATHER

25-across – Conduct unbecoming when Carlisle gets together with a zealot : SLEAZE

26-across – See 24 : KNIGHT

1-down – Post-operative bottles one drinks? : TOPER

2-down – You end a riot? Capital! : YAOUNDE

3-down – Missed alarm as a result of those faced by 9 and 24/26 – permit to include its first : OVERSLEPT

5-down – Have nothing to do with nothing in returning prima donna : AVOID

6-down – Buffalo Bill back before a boar shot : CARABAO

7-down – Crowd’s customary welcome for 9 includes seedy motel vacancy : ROOMTOLET

10-down – 8’s judicious bet on England 9 : DANNYCARE

13-down – The faithful repudiate abridged Bible extract : BELIEVERS

15-down – Plant’s advice on how to make Britton grow? : WATERFERN

17-down – Baby eluding changing : INDULGE

19-down – Worry about Facebook owner’s identity tracker : NAMETAG

21-down – See 1 Across : FRITZ

22-down – A special occasion for an online rant? : EVENT