Daily Answers

1-across – Hit triads dumping eastern heroin : THRESH

4-across – One large display of snowdrops without roots? : ADRIFT

9-across – See 25 : POST

10-across – Worker wants small animal with temper as a variety act prop : HANDPUPPET

11-across – Performer sounded low note : TENNER

12-across – Defaulter, I organised housing beyond a certain point : ULTERIOR

13-across – Pseudo-technical jargon: Drone verbal contention : BUZZWORDS

15-across – Which calls for show of hands from boss, Rod : STUD

16-across – See 7 : BOOK

17-across – In respectful dread of one-way furrow : AWESTRUCK

21-across – Ground delays besetting team — Reading awkward with this : DYSLEXIA

22-across – Down with family consumer protection! : NAPKIN

24-across – Junk’s fish concession round barrier : CODSWALLOP

25-across – Part of truss delivered by Royal Mail : KING

26-across – Pop’s spiked with most of whiskey spirits : DRYADS

27-across – Reverse the unravelling and settle? : DEFRAY

1-down – Embracing Aristotle’s conclusion, author turned philosopher : THOREAU

2-down – Betray in no way a king ascendant : RATON

3-down – Southern pop singer needs backing of Australian movement : SCHERZO

5-down – Delegate gets stuck into British comic : DEPUTE

6-down – Monkey transformed to rear commander : IMPERATOR

7-down – Shamelessly go to bed with Hook — a basis for many an oath : THEGOOD

8-down – Not at all susceptible to gibes like 16 across, if absorbing : UNPUTDOWNABLE

14-down – Tissue transplant operation — developed lazy stoop : ZOOPLASTY

16-down – Lout pulled up headgear for time of his life : BOYHOOD

18-down – Cy sleeps soundly, which allows a nervy connection : SYNAPSE

19-down – Present distributor’s access point? : CHIMNEY

20-down – Not what it once was, iconic bear without a spread : EXPAND

23-down – See 15 : POKER

1-across – Steals fitting in error : MISAPPROPRIATES

9-across – Be taunted about a young socialite : DEBUTANTE

10-across – Some find a bikini bizarre in Spanish resort : IBIZA

11-across – It’s hard work imbibing rum cocktail in storm : TURMOIL

12-across – A summons? Nothing to us, being hardened : CALLOUS

13-across – Part of the Weekend supplement? : EKE

14-across – Multiply without going forth : INBREED

17-across – A parliamentary term? : SESSION

19-across – Collects the rags for recycling : GATHERS

22-across – Poet that people come across : BRIDGES

24-across – Welcome return for a girl : EVA

25-across – Vocal stallholder : CHORIST

26-across – Thief starts right but gets wrong result : RUSTLER

28-across – Result of unseen incomplete — result to follow : ENSUE

29-across – Blues, perhaps, at university, who never get a first : RUNNERSUP

30-across – Formal protests about gifts : REPRESENTATIONS

1-down – Explained what spectacles did : MADETHINGSCLEAR

2-down – Like a judge with robes in disarray : SOBER

3-down – Depression felt by motorists? : POTHOLE

4-down – Annoyed when rating took the helm? : RANKLED

5-down – Goes into new recipes : PIERCES

6-down – They hang about in the cold : ICICLES

7-down – They have to make cuts in this business : TAILORING

8-down – Spartan dress, it’s becoming standard : STARSANDSTRIPES

15-down – Last drink cheers : BOTTOMSUP

16-down – Slip of a girl losing head on river : ERR

18-down – One hasn’t been taught to play by it : EAR

20-down – One taking a bad view of everything? : EVILEYE

21-down – Loose dentures for nothing! : SETFREE

22-down – Scholar raised voice — Sir! : BARONET

23-down – Study in group including, leading politician : INSPECT

27-down – See someone stupid caught up in a rope : LASSO

1-across – Remove a coat — or more! : STRIPOFF

5-across – He takes lead in play : DANIEL

9-across – In pre-Rome’s constitution they were the rulers : EMPERORS

10-across – My work in charge of those limited in their outlook : MYOPIC

12-across – Point to go into in affluent German state : REICH

13-across – Revolver may be used when approaching big game : TURNSTILE

14-across – No, when one’s thought about it : ONREFLECTION

18-across – Where unmarried person’s records go, one after another? : INSINGLEFILE

21-across – Victor or William? : CONQUEROR

23-across – One way to apply a finish to education : EXPEL

24-across – The presidio cynically admits stupidity : IDIOCY

25-across – First phase of Stone Age building : STAGEONE

26-across – Index needed for a digital computer? : FINGER

27-across – Bless me! A strange get-together : ASSEMBLE

1-down – Cattle drives : STEERS

2-down – Given help, salesman got out of debt : REPAID

3-down – Ruined temple right in the way, nobody turns up : PARTHENON

4-down – He’s responsible for the navy’s ships — also drifters drifting : FIRSTSEALORD

6-down – Beast of burden goes round by deep gorge : ABYSS

7-down – Bad spirit permissible — it goes without saying : IMPLICIT

8-down – Upholders of the Christian word : LECTERNS

11-down – Increases in cooked tripe for sale : PROLIFERATES

15-down – Officer has association with us at work : COLLEAGUE

16-down – Monkey business involving the head of military intelligence : MISCHIEF

17-down – A northern cousin seen out in South American capital : ASUNCION

19-down – Assurance that dad is about to see doctor : APLOMB

20-down – Charge exorbitantly for a warm woollen coat : FLEECE

22-down – Cryptic clue about northern relative : UNCLE

1-across – Only a couple of bookies gamble — may this have restricted the figure? : BODICE

4-across – Dirty look from cow at end of milking? : GLOWER

9-across – Relaxing interval, but not for the cast? : PLAY

10-across – Operational legacy: a connection problem : SCARTISSUE

11-across – Pancake with cordial shunned by sailor : WAFFLE

12-across – A winter resort, first centre for ski jumpers? : KNITWEAR

13-across – See 2 : RECKONING

15-across – See 9 : TIME

16-across – Kept together, getting on after rugby players : PACK

17-across – Board/boards that Bill needs for passage : COMMITTEE

21-across – Makes stricter rule — is poultry farmer coming round? : HARSHENS

22-across – Girl’s stay cut by a couple of seconds : LASSIE

24-across – Void in which valiant die horribly : INVALIDATE

25-across – See 16 : AGED

26-across – Upset wild plant : RATTLE

27-across – Sweep interior of next outdoor shelter : EXTENT

1-down – Verse form everyone’s instructed about : BALLADE

2-down – Agony for Dickens, almost broke when ultimate account’s due : DAYOF

3-down – Whence water’s drawn back, south of Sark etc : CISTERN

5-down – Elevated trail taken regularly through country : LATVIA

6-down – Privileged American talking rubbish in exaggerated style : WASPWAIST

7-down – Posh youngster tucking into eggs and roll : ROULADE

8-down – Devious work plans, as in this person’s observations : PARKINSONSLAW

14-down – Comes off acid to achieve renewal : KICKSTART

16-down – Designer transport blocked by new resistance : PLANNER

18-down – Place cross beside first motorway locations : MILIEUX

19-down – Plain setter’s got up to make an impression : EVIDENT

20-down – Easy-going daughter abandons prohibition for good : GENIAL

23-down – See 17 : STAGE

1-across – Declared a number was incorrect : AVERRED

5-across – Person with fancy lace cuff : MANACLE

9-across – Levels the score and quits : EVENS

10-across – Appearing every second : ALTERNATE

11-across – Not a direct criminal slander : DETRACTION

12-across – Further chaos in Laos : ALSO

14-across – Overrates it as a medicine : RESTORATIVE

18-across – Evocative of not long ago, when short skirts were in : REMINISCENT

21-across – Draw blood in prison : NICK

22-across – Grave positions one may end up in : CEMETERIES

25-across – Transport for gang going out in new boots : TOBOGGANS

26-across – Appear to act? : ENTER

27-across – England’s first two trees? Nonsense! : EYEWASH

28-across – The French cry Attack! : LASHOUT

1-down – Corrects the final part in a script : AMENDS

2-down – Passes out at college : EXEATS

3-down – Place to eat with others — atmosphere and half pint provided : RESTAURANT

4-down – Plan to have a drink, say : DRAFT

5-down – Underground goblin heard marking time? : METRONOME

6-down – Annoy an informer : NARK

7-down – Comedian once holding a clerical appointment : CHAPLAIN

8-down – Inspect damaged roses for blemishes : EYESORES

13-down – Stockholders? : CATTLEPENS

15-down – An Englishman in Scotland : SASSENACH

16-down – A dark girl’s true bent, perhaps : BRUNETTE

17-down – Cordial or strong mineral accepted : AMICABLE

19-down – A bar across the channel? : BISTRO

20-down – Wit of a turbulent priest : ESPRIT

23-down – One means of support for an artist : EASEL

24-down – Drag race around site of Shah Jahan’s mausoleum : AGRA