Daily Answers

9-across – I am man gone to struggle : AGAMEMNON

10-across – One driven off to break senior pilot : STEER

11-across – In style, velcro’s singular reason for delay : LEVEL

12-across – Fiddle with air in tyre en route : ITINERARY

13-across – Charge to have a good time — it makes you cry! : TEARGAS

14-across – Tragedy turning to good day : OTHELLO

17-across – Cape Town’s last bendy tree : PECAN

19-across – For one second and forever : SAY

20-across – From delicatessen, a chocolate chip : NACHO

21-across – E is embarrassingly accurate : CLOSETO

22-across – Put stamp on US officer’s restraining order : FRANKED

24-across – Measurement akin to leaking? : INSIDELEG

26-across – [Loves entering dry hotel, seeing a bit of champers] : TOOTH

28-across – With joy, pig returns unopened truffles, perhaps : FUNGI

29-across – Seize the day pass camper’s out to snaffle : CARPEDIEM

1-down – Queen in cast eagerly leaves : EARL

2-down – [At Roland Garros, the box is assumed for heads of country] : LATVIA

3-down – No charge for entertainment by something in the bedroom is a failure : NEGLIGENCE

4-down – Rock can be kind on the ear : GNEISS

5-down – Abandoning East, not a fan of the rich element : ANTIMONY

6-down – [Man, maybe, intended to walk down this topless] : ISLE

7-down – Mark : METALLIC

8-down – See 1 : GREY

13-down – Hitherto, picture frames matter : TOPIC

15-down – Woman’s knickers : HENPARTIES

16-down – Like an egg from duck, empty : OVOID

18-down – See 11 : CROSSING

19-down – One’s tied up in Oxford : SHOELACE

22-down – Maybe it’s a square number : FIGURE

23-down – Nothing in a kiln after throwing clay : KAOLIN

24-down – Dodgy mo, with shaved head : IFFY

25-down – Dead — their message is to weep : DRIP

27-down – See 21 : HOME

1-across – So this occasional error in fact indicts hacks? : CORRECTIONSAND

9-across – One’s ready, but not with paper alight, please : ALLCHANGE

10-across – The laymen are Nick and Mark : NOTCH

11-across – I’ll get cut treated, the source of some stress : ICTUS

12-across – Des leaves car parked behind Green Mile traffic — on line! : ECOMMERCE

13-across – Pelicans distributed irregularly? : INPLACES

14-across – Milligan read him the first half of a good book somewhere in Lancashire : ECCLES

17-across – A poor end to perform­ance after classy Here Comes the Sun? : AUBADE

19-across – With craft I can steer 225^º through opening : COXSWAIN

22-across – Great Asian captain’s claim to being eighth in line and not third : IMRANKHAN

24-across – King George admitted to past problems : AGGRO

25-across – Aware of new leading dress material : NINON

26-across – Eccentric vicar receiving hair transplant makes a hell of a noise : CHARIVARI

27-across – Very long word and polite address to man : SESQUIPEDALIAN

1-down – See 1 across : CLARIFICATIONS

2-down – Desk register taken no further than Ozzie? : ROLLTOP

3-down – Cross head cooks with buns for first mate : EXHUSBAND

4-down – Core of hard task set before a meddlesome type : TINKERER

5-down – State surrendered, not being ironclad : OREGON

6-down – Dune dweller missing craft in painful practices : SANDM

7-down – A left turn with a rambling virgin : NATURAL

8-down – Adroitly moisten with oil at the time massaging gets under way! : WHEELSINMOTION

15-down – Country area acrostic’s constructed about : COSTARICA

16-down – Body weight up and ego shattered! : POUNDAGE

18-down – A noblewoman’s unexceptional, if new, descendant : BARONNE

20-down – Freak ringing Mercury up in capital : AFGHANI

21-down – Pretentious indications of Platonic love? : CHICHI

23-down – Abridged journal’s urge is suppressed in squandering 9! : NANDQ

8-across – Italian broadcast in stereo : TORINESE

9-across – Sharp needle — no need for it, day surgery’s ending : LEMONY

10-across – Player is inspired by Milton : OBOIST

11-across – Beauty in unelected British leaders? : MAYQUEEN

12-across – House backing newspaper, though not leader : SEMI

13-across – Fancy dealings with church look anything but straightforward? : SIDEGLANCE

15-across – Agonising facts cut into me : PAINFUL

16-across – Difficult taking wrench into work : PRICKLY

18-across – Why Saturday never comes alone? : FRIENDLESS

19-across – Team gloated : CREW

20-across – Pretty me in female bowler, say? : SOMEWHAT

22-across – See 17 : ONABIT

23-across – Bird entrails, but not of rook : FALCON

24-across – Piece of meat stuffing baguettes, I once recalled : NOISETTE

1-down – Hand in middle of puppet, possibly? Show two little boys : DOUBLEPAIRROYAL

2-down – Within lateral partition, hairlike structures, indefinite number opening : SICILIANDEFENCE

3-down – The sad criminal with muscle in band of assassins : DEATHSQUAD

4-down – Insults thrown after end of four months on a British Overseas Territory : BERMUDA

5-down – Earth healing heart? : CLAY

6-down – A doctor unfortunately can heal and cures lawyer after an accident? : AMBULANCECHASER

7-down – Member welcomed by literati once shifting between Yale and Harvard, say? : INTERCOLLEGIATE

14-down – Cog so pricy to fix, spinning as a ship’s navigational aid, say? : GYROSCOPIC

17-down – Elderly, compatible to some extent : GETTING

21-down – Female animal is back : HIND

1-across – Frightened about ending in jail, like brothers in the hood : COWLED

5-across – Rambling about getting put in charge : INDIRECT

9-across – Time Brussels gets boost from Germany : TEUTONIC

10-across – Nail destroyed post providing backing for spire’s ornament : FINIAL

11-across – Massive yearly payments for old people : GRANDPARENTS

13-across – Doctor pursues hygiene issue, maybe mine : BOMB

14-across – Interpretation of Koran has religious craft : NOAHSARK

17-across – Ebb of a strange sea is something sweet : DEMERARA

18-across – One divided by unknown number’s a problem for schoolkids : ACNE

20-across – Smart thieves bamboozled suckers : HARVESTMITES

23-across – Drive close to Ferrari in journeys westward : SPIRIT

24-across – South American writer’s beginning to evoke tension : SUSPENSE

25-across – Very fast time Coe runs gets beaten : METEORIC

26-across – Join son further over the hill : SOLDER

2-down – Outstanding poetic entreaty to marry : OWED

3-down – It’s possibly a suit likely to dress fool up : LITIGABLE

4-down – Refusal of agreement to keep Irish province : DENIAL

5-down – At home playing Celtic, Man U side almost score : INCIDENTALMUSIC

6-down – Skirmish in wood for payment : DEFRAYAL

7-down – Hastened, say, to climb Alps? : RANGE

8-down – What makes CV an authoritative source : CHAPTERAND

12-down – Like warning Liberal about vote : FOREXAMPLE

15-down – There’s explosive material in this celebrity’s ordeal : STARSHELL

16-down – Muscle spasm’s back? Then help American casualty : MASSETER

19-down – It’s still shrouded in mist, as I said : STASIS

21-down – See 8 : VERSE

22-down – Mass in water dissolves evenly : ISLE

1-across – Business expenses liable to cause a storm? : OVERHEADCHARGES

9-across – Jack upsets aunt with the French spider : TARANTULA

10-across – Island for outcast in Copperbelt : CORFU

11-across – Begged for petrol, initially, containing additive : PLEADED

12-across – Read without spontaneity : STUDIED

13-across – Declaim regularly, being a priest : ELI

14-across – He searches for another gear : FORAGER

17-across – Understand and win popularity : CATCHON

19-across – Frightful house — I’d move : HIDEOUS

22-across – Shorten a river crossing : ABRIDGE

24-across – High-class navy vessel : URN

25-across – Gates secured by catches? : WICKETS

26-across – Stunt of former pilot in a spin : EXPLOIT

28-across – They fly or take a train : RAILS

29-across – Useless advice! : ECONOMISE

30-across – Result of not passing an oral examination? : DENTALTREATMENT

1-down – Feeling extremely happy, having reached the North Pole? : ONTOPOFTHEWORLD

2-down – Strange oriental lake : EERIE

3-down – Ashamed to kill one’s best friend : HANGDOG

4-down – Apart and sure to be different : ASUNDER

5-down – Form shown by Olympic finalists in big race : CLASSIC

6-down – Bill is an aristocrat, we hear : ACCOUNT

7-down – Dressed for dinner, perhaps? : GARNISHED

8-down – Money well spent on hearing aids? : SOUNDINVESTMENT

15-down – Revised version of a Communist battle : REDACTION

16-down – One getting a lot of runs in Australia : EMU

18-down – A pound for a white dress : ALB

20-down – Supervise, we hear, somewhere abroad : OVERSEA

21-down – Dubious character? : SUSPECT

22-down – New name given to a single bloom : ANEMONE

23-down – Relationship hit by drink : RAPPORT

27-down – The girl with nothing to exist for? : OLIVE