Daily Answers

1-across – Do well, taking fee back from 35 : THRIVE

4-across – … interrupting calls from Spain providing source of oil : OLIVES

9-across – Calm resulting from savage having leader overthrown : MILD

10-across – Dancers on stage refrain, in part : CHORUSLINE

11-across – … between two states, a state that borders Texas : MEXICO

12-across – ie a floor redesigned for wing, say : AEROFOIL

13-across – Unintentionally revealing carrier, in essence : BETRAYING

15-across – Plant 9, first reduced by 50%, finally by 90% : DILL

16-across – Sign of don intermittently showing intelligence : INFO

17-across – Ace faces wild animals, not a good idea : AMUGSGAME

21-across – Midpoint of Romeo and Juliet on radio : NOVEMBER

22-across – High-class crew returned, having lost little time : DELUXE

24-across – Musical system that can be revised for solo, in fact : TONICSOLFA

25-across – One over eight, in front of a joint : COXA

26-across – Tips about the writer making changes for the better : EMENDS

27-across – Points, one repeated, about sex and sins, in a way : ENVIES

1-down – Exhaust my energy crossing river in rowing boat : TRIREME

2-down – … under way, disposing of old bones : RADII

3-down – Win against one Conservative after another : VICTORY

5-down – … dividing 50 euro mislaid in museum : LOUVRE

6-down – … being dishonest about condition — that’s insulting : VILIFYING

7-down – For daytime viewers, alternative to watch : SUNDIAL

8-down – Starting with 16 down, they’re found in 9 and on 7 : ROMANNUMERALS

14-down – … gripped by broken feeler, turned back on itself : REFLEXIVE

16-down – Brendan at least provided more money, apart from tips : IFORONE

18-down – Accursed Englishman’s midday companion going up North : GODDAMN

19-down – … in line for joining up, Brazilian dances : MAXIXES

20-down – Humbled since caught in a plot : ABASED

23-down – Left duo holding check for fare from China : LICHI

7-across – A period of denial at home in the midst of a famous victory : VALENTINE

8-across – Food for tea needed by two adjacent sitters at table : JAMES

9-across – From where hospital’s left to get short cut : WENCESLAS

10-across – US criminal and what he fought against : ALBAN

12-across – This old mum is taking the place of one : THOMAS

13-across – HE establishment no more? Grumble : POLYCARP

14-across – Turned up to collar doctor : AMBROSE

17-across – Game that maybe Derby lost : BRIDGET

20-across – Backward-looking VIP I confront : BONIFACE

22-across – A tree through which sun can be seen : ANSELM

24-across – Article about G&S character : AIDAN

25-across – Jazz fan, the fellow crossing Ireland : CATHERINE

26-across – Man’s group of seven including knight? : AGNES

27-across – Beans munched, fizzy drink swallowed : SEBASTIAN

1-down – Knight with good heart in battle : GARETH

2-down – Novice offering nothing — crewmen worried about that : NEWCOMER

3-down – Lack of action from saint the way things are : STASIS

4-down – Puny chap burying head, awfully miserable : UNHAPPY

5-down – French annoyance over islands to the north : GALLIC

6-down – Mistresses are had for meal, turning up to be hugged by ambassador : HETAERAE

11-down – Obscure band beginning to blow old trumpet : BLUR

15-down – Desolate area is no good for shelter — fix up here for the night? : MOORINGS

16-down – Cumbrian village square, say, sealed off at one end : SHAP

18-down – Individual tactful in speech : DISCRETE

19-down – In less than ten years you went to rack and ruin : DECAYED

21-down – Impressions created by silver found in house turned upside down : IMAGES

22-down – Retreat from a male beast, keeping quiet : ASHRAM

23-down – Light gold carriage : LANDAU

9-across – Tourist, one tangling with traffic initially : TRAVELLER

10-across – I’m leaving, stop breaking my heart? : ADIEU

11-across – At home, unknown character occupying new home in Jersey etc : CHEZMOI

12-across – Fool, as in cards : JACKASS

13-across – Stall, as Spanish car : SEAT

14-across – Good old girl in a revolutionary, hardly heard? : PIANISSIMO

15-across – Sell nonsense in head, there’s nothing in it : NULLSET

17-across – Vicious in a swarm, moreover : BESIDES

19-across – Bearer of gifts controlling racket is an old revolutionary : SANDINISTA

22-across – Punched by right hand of Dempsey, strong thing felled — end of fight! : KAYO

23-across – Love in man making beastly noises : OINKING

24-across – Tangle in mobile transmitter finally sorted out : EMBROIL

26-across – In the end, vote was carried — break down! : ERODE

27-across – In eating droppings, function as dinosaur : IGUANODON

1-down – Those hurtful things taken on board, bully can’t set on kids : STICKSANDSTONES

2-down – Broadcast covering party wearing a rigid American outfit? : BASEBALL

3-down – See 2 : TEAM

4-down – A leg bandaged by lean skier, perhaps : ALPINIST

5-down – Roman emperor set empire’s rule in bronze : TRAJAN

6-down – Awfully cross, in a stupor : NARCOSIS

7-down – One rule I had lifted for religious festival : DIWALI

8-down – 20 18, card of countless torments : CURSEOFSCOTLAND

16-down – Lively, seen to keep slowing down : SPIRITED

17-down – Having lost semicircular shape, flower is flatter : BUTTERUP

18-down – See 20 : DIAMONDS

20-down – Tailor so in demand if no member in a suit : NINEOF

21-down – Girl evidently one of my solutions? : INGRID

25-down – Hard thing to get live screening working : BONE

1-across – Outlook favouring English players : FORECAST

5-across – Sheet music goes down well : SCORES

9-across – Take up team oddly lacking support : EMBRACE

10-across – Ritual shave’s baffling to nurse : TONSURE

11-across – Volume in well down by 50% : HALVE

12-across – Friend introducing a baroque choir with limited range : PAROCHIAL

13-across – Knock back drink by bar : COUNTERPUNCH

17-across – Promises have produced too much stress : OVEREMPHASIS

20-across – Port is situated to the west in exotic realm : MARSEILLE

22-across – Very strong, but not in past or present, say : TENSE

23-across – Leaked info set back work during disputes : TIPOFFS

24-across – Slipping off at an angle, with initial change of direction : ELOPING

25-across – Type of pet that needs brushing twice a day? : CANINE

26-across – Second murder results in police surveillance : STAKEOUT

1-down – Stout little person retiring, retiring : FLESHY

2-down – Canon, hampering a couple of bishops, remains : RUBBLE

3-down – With investment of time, this escort could start a book : CHAPERONE

4-down – If you’re on them, you should get off! : SLEEPINGPILLS

6-down – Sceptic close to army blocks top officer’s rise : CYNIC

7-down – Queen Bess rejected marriage — small family do’s the result : REUNIONS

8-down – Covert socialist, extremely rich, in want of a wife : STEALTHY

10-down – Meeting up, they’d never eat nuts : THREEDAYEVENT

14-down – Dad employed to collect Ford’s model car’s treated surfaces : PAINTWORK

15-down – Assertive mother, under 25, reviewed detailed quote : DOGMATIC

16-down – Creature taking to water close to township in country : TERRAPIN

18-down – Blind I got partly to provide shade : INDIGO

19-down – Hard cube’s dimension : HEIGHT

21-down – Delicate fellow swamped by rising river : ELFIN

1-across – Put in picture, mount­ed, then taken out : UPDATED

5-across – Head in control of ITV revised The Prisoner : CAPTIVE

10-across – Guide snubs one, so has he lost it? : PLOT

11-across – Doctor called in to nurse royal prince’s favourite : CINDERELLA

12-across – Classy medic and artist tour Italy, or part of it : UMBRIA

13-across – Verse feature that sounds wrong? Check out Frost, say : EYERHYME

14-across – Burst in about 10 roughly and stop : INTERRUPT

16-across – Language test went up by a penny : PROSE

17-across – Good writer’s opening room for another one : GRIMM

19-across – 17 character’s present holiday in Kent? : SNOWWHITE

23-across – Mac, a cool guy from Zagreb, runs to the front : RAINCOAT

24-across – A barber’s in dispute : ATODDS

26-across – Angela’s one means of communication : HIGHGERMAN

27-across – Princess’s partner for playing golf : FROG

28-across – Delicacy father sacrificed for speed : AGILITY

29-across – Shops retain current accounts : STORIES

2-down – What vamp wants to do for coach : PULLMAN

3-down – Daisy needs a bit taken off behind : ASTER

4-down – Name inscribed in cake in plain language : ENCLAIR

6-down – Old relatives occasionally upset inside? So be it : APEMEN

7-down – First estate’s service provider? : THECHURCH

8-down – Very old smokers tackle European books : VOLUMES

9-down – Start tale thus or continue a poem willy-nilly? : ONCEUPONATIME

15-down – Food on board people in hamlet prepared : EMMENTHAL

18-down – Each department head in group delivers lesson : READING

20-down – Stand with headgear on upside down, tense : WHATNOT

21-down – Swimmer’s story about day beside river : TADPOLE

22-down – Side of Nottingham that supplies mast or masts : FOREST

25-down – Tender chest? Remove top : OFFER