Daily Answers

1-across – Ultimately deficient stock gets one worker begging : SUPPLIANT

6-across – Huge online artwork? : EPIC

10-across – Lightweight directors from company set it back : COXES

11-across – Move family’s boundary marker : TOUCHLINE

12-across – Bad soldier stops officer in charge retiring — it doesn’t make sense : ILLOGIC

13-across – Axe short tree trunk, one overshadowed by tree : ABOLISH

14-across – Commonly a chain letter — I define it differently : THEINDEFINITE

17-across – Opportunists, possibly, those grasping Persians : CARPETBAGGERS

21-across – Matched question put in to worry journalist : EQUATED

22-across – Immovable barrier straddled by a six-footer : ADAMANT

24-across – Broadcast appears over and over again : SOAPOPERA

25-across – Villain in white van keeps coming round : KNAVE

26-across – Welsh representation in Midlands town : LEEK

27-across – A gem of a game? : SOLITAIRE

1-down – Hearts lost to Jesus in, for example, part of church : SACRISTY

2-down – Climbing record broken by English team — small picture feature : PIXEL

3-down – Victims of WW1 the result of power station closure? : LOSTGENERATION

4-down – See 14 : ARTICLE

5-down – Destructive force moving mountains? No, no! : TSUNAMI

7-down – Holy Joe restricting foul crone’s base benefit : PRIVILEGE

8-down – Declared source of funding for EU members : CZECHS

9-down – Recording to cover item put on by gents after game : SHOOTINGJACKET

15-down – Support train loses time taking 100 aboard : ENCOURAGE

16-down – Weariest jockeys, in a way : ASITWERE

18-down – Constant truncated, presumably : ENDLESS

19-down – This may bore lawman caught up in affray : BRADAWL

20-down – Such words are equivocal, as wife takes stand : WEASEL

23-down – Wartime show mounted to conceal a fiddle : AMATI

1-across – Birds skipping over the water : DUCKSANDDRAKES

8-across – Captivate a church member : CHARM

9-across – Picadors are involved here and there : SPORADIC

11-across – Plant name one needs to change : ANEMONE

12-across – Quietly it goes behind a tree for the quarry : LIMEPIT

13-across – Man in Spain loses hard game : OMBRE

15-across – Red shirt for one getting into clothes laid out : GARIBALDI

17-across – Injured, withdrew from competition : SCRATCHED

20-across – American in charge of the match : FUSEE

21-across – Situation of a bad sailor — or his boat : INIRONS

23-across – Unusually, Len gave four good books : EVANGEL

25-across – They may be happy playing cards : FAMILIES

26-across – To be paid nothing to fly : OWING

27-across – Esteem shown for those that are fit : HEALTHYRESPECT

1-down – It’s not popular, as a rule : DICTATORSHIP

2-down – Stop giving cold comfort : CEASE

3-down – Dreamy but not solemn composition : SOMNOLENT

4-down – Gets inside information coming up for savings : NESTEGG

5-down – Odd role rewritten by an idle scribbler : DOODLER

6-down – This may cause a number to take up weapons : ALARM

7-down – Ways of forecasting election results that are on the way out : EXITPOLLS

10-down – Refuse to work and get off? Blimey! : STRIKEALIGHT

14-down – A revolutionary fortification : BARRICADE

16-down – Wild animals have to rub on trees : BUFFALOES

18-down – Drug used when man’s between hospitals : HASHISH

19-down – She puts on other people’s clothes : DRESSER

22-down – Gold that is left to an Oxford college : ORIEL

24-down – Handbook for girl in uniform : GUIDE

9-across – Share everything the writer found in Bible : ALLOTMENT

10-across – Director of event’s initial announcement : EMCEE

11-across – Dispatch drug : SPEED

12-across – Servant that’s mixed a new cocktail : MANHATTAN

13-across – Humiliating remark was repressive : PUTDOWN

14-across – Agreed to include engineer in group : SQUARED

17-across – Supporter of War and Peace : NOBEL

19-across – Pronouncement of 10 14 covered by 1 in 4 : EIN

20-across – American author that can hold a lot of beer : STEIN

21-across – Fastest traveller ahead of monarch in boat : LIGHTER

22-across – Estimate for maximum possible speed in plane : PROJECT

24-across – Power his city’s arranged for scientific type : PHYSICIST

26-across – Laboriously extract something captured in war : PRIZE

28-across – Put in crossword, it can produce expression of annoyance : SPACE

29-across – Parody about religious female and odd puzzle : CONUNDRUM

1-down – Collect for service : MASS

2-down – Warning about start of Brexit — keep watch on it : ALBERT

3-down – Boss and I recently cut accommodation : STUDIOFLAT

4-down – Beginning article in English or other language : GERMAN

5-down – One who’s good and evil becomes deputy : STANDSIN

6-down – Part of alphabet Athenians used : BETA

7-down – Secret of getting drunk with no negative consequences : SCOTFREE

8-down – Line one’s taken from one European capital to another : BERN

13-down – Bound to screen name coming up for jury : PANEL

15-down – Removing what obstructs multinational organisation’s capital : UNSTOPPING

16-down – Party with loaf and cake, especially for Americans : DONUT

18-down – Crew led by colonel into something scary : BOGEYMAN

19-down – Call comes through here: note a revised recipe : EARPIECE

22-down – Clear case, not egocentric? : PATENT

23-down – Awful regime displaced person : EMIGRE

24-down – Proposer of scientific theories, initially in job : POST

25-down – Individual unit, or a couple : ITEM

27-down – Novel piece of theorem mathematician produced : EMMA

1-across – Unable to settle at home, put back bedtime : INDEBT

4-across – Retired bachelor used to be my doctor : SAWBONES

9-across – Perhaps more tea and toast made by dog breeders? : TOPUPS

10-across – Feeling duller at end of term? : EPIDURAL

11-across – They shock and bestir frail old rebels : DEFIBRILLATORS

13-across – Mother most attentive, keeping temperature steadier : THERMOSTAT

14-across – Ducks surround small lake in city : OSLO

16-across – Railways regularly neglected, I’m sorry to say : ALAS

18-across – Supporter of an economic system that is disastrous : CAPITALIST

21-across – Sent certain kingly leaders away, causing amusement : ENTERTAININGLY

23-across – Men talk, twitching, of sexual pleasure : ORGASTIC

24-across – Predicament is easy to bear after heading to pub : PLIGHT

25-across – Writing first version of paper, not out wearing women’s clothes : DRAFTING

26-across – Whiteness of china egg held in both hands : PALLOR

1-down – Ten cheers for tiny thing! : IOTA

2-down – Key rings quietly diminish in number : DEPLETE

3-down – Font functions beautifully at first with suitable individual text : BAPTISMS

5-down – Name state of North American mountain region : APPELLATION

6-down – Patient dropping in here unrobed, panicking nurse : BEDPAN

7-down – Shy queen with very piercing intelligence : NERVOUS

8-down – Where you might ski round and round and spend a lot : SPLASHOUT

12-down – Ravel fantasia, arr. Bob Marley? : RASTAFARIAN

13-down – Hiding bottom in swingers’ bar, Arachne cuts odd, discontented figure : TRAPEZOID

15-down – During very fine morning yearn to climb tree : MAGNOLIA

17-down – Father Christmas shedding clothes over one summer month upset part of the WI : ANTIGUA

19-down – Wrongly say Capone is breaking law : ILLEGAL

20-down – Sex carries advantages for your health : PROSIT

22-down – Excite gentleman, grabbing top of thigh : STIR

7-across – Boss promises to be hard-working : STUDIOUS

9-across – Bird returns like this to quarry : OSPREY

10-across – Show amusement as Romeo is caught in a trap : GRIN

11-across – Alcohol in science fiction always gives beastly sickness : SWINEFEVER

12-across – Bob has to fasten item of clothing : BOWTIE

14-across – Change of rota has municipality in outrage : ATROCITY

15-across – Knight invested in gleaming decorations : FINERY

17-across – Take exception to Egyptian leader retiring : DEMURE

20-across – The Spanish girl has a party in the Land of Promise : ELDORADO

22-across – Measures spasms appearing after operation : OPTICS

23-across – Plunder left for killjoy : SPOILSPORT

24-across – Gloria’s heartless greeting : HALO

25-across – Top man to kill in the US : BODICE

26-across – Tiny tree ruined forever : ETERNITY

1-down – Go for prominent aristocrat : STARTOFF

2-down – Ulster party rejected god : ODIN

3-down – Rodent eating Sunday’s dessert : MOUSSE

4-down – Happen space traveller has regret : COMETRUE

5-down – Stimulant initially could blight the aristocracy : UPPERCRUST

6-down – Ruler, for example, fills the breach : REGENT

8-down – April’s novel corkscrew : SPIRAL

13-down – It isn’t done to fabricate a complaint : TENDONITIS

16-down – A copper involved in roll in sports car : ROADSTER

18-down – Intensify destruction of a celesta : ESCALATE

19-down – Gloomy king beset by wild animal : MOROSE

21-down – Student gets suitable work for computer : LAPTOP

22-down – Shop’s exit : OUTLET

24-down – Deer’s posterior : HIND