Daily Answers

1-across – The very thing I do? : ONEANDTHESAME

10-across – What links husband with awfully pretty ex : HYPERTEXT

11-across – Reach deprived area with no hospital : GETTO

12-across – What about political correctness around old age? : EPOCH

13-across – A regular swimmer’s taken by to see the old king : ALEXANDER

14-across – Least exciting airport to start from : DULLEST

16-across – Commander and navigator retired for shag? : TOBACCO

18-across – Complains noisily, if sweet potato gets immersed after two peelings : YAMMERS

20-across – How’s your father to beat time as part of a circle? : SEXTANT

21-across – 9 ate out after 6 in Asian capital : VIENTIANE

23-across – Exclude being served by rude baristas : DEBAR

24-across – Darn it! Whipping time — poor bottom! : NADIR

25-across – Source of peace symbol appearing as repeated note by tenor in musical : OLIVETREE

26-across – Those keeping note of regnal number? : TWOLITTLEBOYS

2-down – Don’t worry, if some reported missing? : NOPROBLEM

3-down – Oh no, that’s horrible as Hagar : AARGH

4-down – Made in the mould of a Conservative rising at beginning of speech in parliament : DIECAST

5-down – Tricky place to put sexy bottom : HOTSEAT

6-down – … includes a short new blog about red light area? : SIGNALBOX

7-down – Quiet time, briefly, before playing duet : MUTED

8-down – Badminton, say, for the long weekend? : THREEDAYEVENT

9-down – Boundary sign on border out here, perhaps : FOURPOSTERBED

15-down – Exam initially chosen for a type of college in the US : ELECTORAL

17-down – Lament about surprisingly barren bush : CRANBERRY

19-down – It’s key to adult having fun around Hull or Grimsby, say : SEAPORT

20-down – Battered plaice’s a dish not on the menu : SPECIAL

22-down – Leave from 19 down : ENDOW

23-down – Dead small and born a fool : DWEEB

9-across – Romantic activity in vessel — after love, in short : COURTSHIP

10-across – Toughen up concerning cut by university : INURE

11-across – Setter’s devouring cold chop : MINCE

12-across – Person in chair varying poses for painter, ultimately : PROFESSOR

13-across – Advocate adding page in front of article : PLEADER

14-across – Third withdrawn from funds for men committed to partnerships : FIANCES

17-across – Release princess initially trapped in loveless marriage : UNPIN

19-across – Start from birds in general, one in particular : OWL

20-across – Right for which Muhammad Ali often fought : TITLE

21-across – Requiring maximum amount of cash, honey : DEAREST

22-across – Did brain operation, albeit with limited time : THOUGHT

24-across – Indicator of change, sign mostly displayed in centre of trade : BAROMETER

26-across – Bulb lit repeatedly, consuming current : ONION

28-across – Master in one section of school, briefly : ADEPT

29-across – Crude line agent gets changed : INELEGANT

1-down – Swindle as rascal, extracting last penny : SCAM

2-down – 20% of large delivery to church is fruit : QUINCE

3-down – Number present hours before midnight take steps : ATTENDANCE

4-down – Person who forms original phrase : SHAPER

5-down – Dose of liquid medicine quickly containing onset of pretty bad flu : SPOONFUL

6-down – Fellow and I have hit, fame and some money : FIVE

7-down – Power cuts, say, agitated queen, for example : PUSSYCAT

8-down – King Edward : LEAR

13-down – See 6 : POUND

15-down – Monroe’s art excited one looking up to stars : ASTRONOMER

16-down – Dish eaten with spoon, darling : SWEET

18-down – Like vegetable or fruit, not quite raw : PEAGREEN

19-down – Excel as runner, not in football gear : OUTSTRIP

22-down – Land in Asia, mainly, as occasional flier : TURKEY

23-down – What’s instrumental in 9? Half of this publication’s about it : GUITAR

24-down – In which you may find gravy or salt : BOAT

25-down – Carry out final check for officer : MATE

27-down – See 6 : NOTE

1-across – Sally turned to married big shot : BONMOT

5-across – Largely tolerate flash woman : BEATRICE

9-across – Lie about side causing bad feeling : FRICTION

10-across – Poor fellow you dumped — what’s his name? : THINGY

11-across – Forced Horse and Hound to act as host : DOTHEHONOURS

13-across – Believe no one’s keeping calm : EVEN

14-across – Patsy’s stolen surveyor’s van — these should help with identification : MUGSHOTS

17-across – Making an erotic compilation : CREATION

18-across – Look equal : PEER

20-across – Plan to go at sixty — regret abandoning first career : EXITSTRATEGY

23-across – Government’s wrong about working — you’re not, if you have to do this : SIGNON

24-across – Frozen 24 days before Christmas? : ICEDOVER

25-across – Things better after this run — terribly green beforehand : RECOVERY

26-across – Little boy’s in the toilet : THRONE

2-down – Blades trio Arsenal bound : OARS

3-down – Madness holding church function in the country : MACEDONIA

4-down – Heartless but correct about age : THIRTY

5-down – Defensive way of thinking rubbish — entitle army to go on manoeuvres : BUNKERMENTALITY

6-down – While Henry’s involved with singer, I don’t like it : ALTHOUGH

7-down – Letter home contained money : RHINO

8-down – Tabs kept by spooks conclusively spying on revolutionary individual like me : CIGARETTES

12-down – Get too aroused by kiss with boob out, reportedly : OVEREXCITE

15-down – Chance of us saving a bit of money — why hotel this time is cheaper : HAPPYHOUR

16-down – Prime Minister can upset European? Not very much! : PITTANCE

19-down – Going down south, wanting to be respectable : DECENT

21-down – Capturing no-good criminal to a T : TANGO

22-down – Picked up torch in Swiss city : BERN

1-across – Look inside: great ape : COLONOSCOPY

9-across – Home truth — a bit attracted to host : HABITAT

10-across – Inflamed areas aloe vera treated, very lacking : AREOLAE

11-across – Screw’s foot has twisted way towards face : MINESHAFT

12-across – One sumo wrestling in Finland, as locals would say : SUOMI

13-across – Info’s slightly retrospective : DATA

14-across – Follow beat, spoken in different pattern : KEEPTABSON

16-across – Every other air raid with drop is dazzling : IRIDESCENT

19-across – Honest chap ultimately skewered Kipper’s situation : ABED

21-across – Belting main inhabitant : BRILL

22-across – In France, the slicing weapon’s reason for 999 call? : FIREALARM

24-across – Her supply, with a lot in seedy place : RATHOLE

25-across – Picturing Prince Harry’s admission, without the Queen : IMAGING

26-across – Space that may be let for dining option : ROOMSERVICE

1-down – May has been one time I can be away : CABINETMINISTER

2-down – GP team starts to treat unlikely symptoms by the book, briefly : LOTUS

3-down – Compound tax for dummies? : NITRATE

4-down – Fledgling business in sheep, the main attraction! : STARTUP

5-down – On mobile, manages abroad : OVERSEAS

6-down – New Labour’s Lie : YELLOWSUBMARINE

7-down – Where Sicilians are provided with one motive : THEMED

8-down – Support in boxing ring for army : LEGION

15-down – Rolling performance after mine : WELLTODO

16-down – Native to steal from raised local houses : INBORN

17-down – Reported those hacking into bank : COFFERS

18-down – More on edge, close to canyon — mistake to film struggle : NERVIER

20-down – How long mother’s been alive to harm : DAMAGE

23-down – Counters one clique’s cut with recession : ABACI

1-across – Feeble, like an old reaper, might you say? : SICKLY

4-across – Means of severing wrestler’s hold : SCISSORS

9-across – Wild flower round by border : OXLIP

10-across – Bid to be taken on before play-actor : PRETENDER

11-across – At least four edible fruit unfit for family : TWOSEATER

12-across – Slang term for ladies bearing large families : CLANS

13-across – Shorthander’s notes unusually explicit : STENOGRAPHIC

17-across – Symbolic end as lunatic in RAF crashes : FINALCURTAIN

20-across – Warning: city cutting supply : ALARM

21-across – Healthy food from Hibernian counterpart of Stirling? : IRISHMOSS

23-across – Rally concluding : GATHERING

24-across – Criminal gang run from the East, crossing island : TRIAD

25-across – Break, when case leader goes for idiot judge again : REASSESS

26-across – Screen cast getting to grips with Latin : SHIELD

1-down – Habitually tight, pinching clubs from St Andrews? : SCOTTISH

2-down – Select the best poem before knight’s engagement : CULLODEN

3-down – Sound of ripples in sink : LAPSE

5-down – Selecting the best red, before 23 : CHERRYPICKING

6-down – Less elaborated sportsman’s clothing cut : SKETCHIER

7-down – Traffic added to servicemen’s anguish : ORDEAL

8-down – Most aggrieved sailor put up with others : SOREST

10-down – Safe, impartial, composed old man : PATERFAMILIAS

14-down – Haunts of the addicted, heartless men Oedipus ruined : OPIUMDENS

15-down – Patriarch dispatching last champ, 10 across’s man at 2 : JACOBITE

16-down – Partial United team finally completed : ONESIDED

18-down – Dirk’s looking worn out after exchange of ends : DAGGER

19-down – Staff rejected cunning slogan, oft repeated : MANTRA

22-down – TV cop: The buck stops here : HUTCH