Daily Answers

1-across – Neglect to finish touring Dixie? : DISUSE

4-across – See 18 : UPTIME

9-across – Here, Paul pens some rude ones, like damn? : FOURLETTERWORDS

10-across – Surprised, out and out? : CAUGHT

11-across – Redundant, not given any work : UNNEEDED

12-across – Mixed bag in anomaly, a few minutes of deep inspiration? : FAGBREAK

14-across – Soft pickle sandwiches, mate! : SPOUSE

15-across – Circling river, arrived at cave : GROTTO

18-across – For a motorist, the early evening 12? : LIGHTING

21-across – Biting flower, character partied : CAROUSED

22-across – Prune, I gathered, not ready to eat : UNRIPE

24-across – Novel, go away, might you say? : APASSAGETOINDIA

25-across – Agent getting money back for small puppy? : YAPPER

26-across – Silver, perhaps, Maggie has set in recess : PEGLEG

1-down – Ten in play for a little scene : DIORAMA

2-down – Kid drinking Cinzano, peer group says 13! : SPROG

3-down – Enclose one magazine inside another : SHEATHE

5-down – Some in relationship aren’t suitable — to become these? : PARENTS

6-down – Retaining act, routine reforms resolved : IRONEDOUT

7-down – Constant going straight — but not to the top? : ENDLESS

8-down – Small vehicle was in a collision : STRUCK

13-down – Your health is of least importance? Drink! : BOTTOMSUP

16-down – Again ask for employment to gain work : REAPPLY

17-down – Two legs — where to break one? : ONSTAGE

18-down – Don’t open bag — run! : LADDER

19-down – Stick around island that’s sweet : GLUCOSE

20-down – See 10 : NAPPING

23-down – Describing organs way up under base of liver : RENAL

1-across – Signs agreement enclosing minute area for itinerants : NOMADS

4-across – Terribly mistreated, without one right or freedom : LIBERTY

9-across – Film star getting short romantic missive with love : VALENTINO

10-across – Royalty for author : JAMES

11-across – Female caught between happiness and ecstasy : JOYCE

12-across – Without question, one clue needs revising — key is good use of language : ELOQUENCE

13-across – See 19 : SIMPSON

15-across – Zero return after call for capital : DUBLIN

17-across – Heartless war and the like, hard for unfortunate person : WRETCH

19-across – President initially not differing from United States government : ULYSSES

22-across – Flag that man’s writing for ethnic idioms : IRISHISMS

24-across – Perspective provided by early European immigrant : ANGLE

26-across – Flower’s sudden growth around lake : BLOOM

27-across – Concerning resistance to a head, try to be too clever : OVERREACH

28-across – Ruin of the French city of Paris : DESTROY

29-across – Part of press immersed in scoop — late news : PLATEN

1-down – In that way, Asian islander upset Indians : NAVAJOS

2-down – After short time, lines put over end of dinghy producing fish : MOLLY

3-down – Innovative resident introducing new service for consumers : DINNERSET

4-down – Liberal American writer upset former European monarch : LEOPOLD

5-down – Finishes off big job you pronounced a gem : BIJOU

6-down – Narcotism, in altered state, for such as Coleridge : ROMANTICS

7-down – Votes for unknown characters from central Russia : YESSES

8-down – Hog a lot of time as 23 : PIGEON

14-down – Run into my position in field with small force Achilles led : MYRMIDONS

16-down – Bush, as graduate, really confused about university : BAYLAUREL

18-down – Account of events showing husband is right : HISTORY

19-down – Irish quarter in turmoil as result : ULSTER

20-down – King who has feast after Christmas? : STEPHEN

21-down – Sailor’s laconic moral statement : SINBAD

23-down – Animated 13’s all-round achievement as striker : HOMER

25-down – See 19 across : GRANT

4-across – Delivery man’s hat : BOWLER

6-across – Couple hire out jewellery : BRACELET

9-across – Greek devours the classics : GREATS

10-across – Unfit? Rue running after this! : INFUTURE

11-across – Fighter doctored torn receipt : INTERCEPTOR

15-across – English associate adopts an issue : EMANATE

17-across – Extra rushed round resort : TOSPARE

18-across – Tales about government united in red tape? : REGULATIONS

22-across – Give one international a disadvantage : HANDICAP

23-across – King entering the country gets an injury : SPRAIN

24-across – Confuse utterly, being crazy in drink : BEWILDER

25-across – Superstar went ahead without the facts : LEGEND

1-down – One has an obligation to gather up rubbish and litter : DEBTOR

2-down – Old woman’s daughter getting child a quid? That’s the lot! : GRANDTOTAL

3-down – Buys a hundred sheets of paper : ACQUIRES

4-down – Appropriate churchwardens’ instrument : BAGPIPES

5-down – Don eats roast bird : WHEATEAR

7-down – Yobbo is left unconscious : LOUT

8-down – Rain when event is over : TEEM

12-down – Boy found in eastern borders of US swamp : EVERGLADES

13-down – Deliberately damage shoe given time : SABOTAGE

14-down – Mature offspring harbour an issue : SEASONED

16-down – Tory laid out with skill : ADROITLY

19-down – Page wearing drunkard’s hat : TOPPER

20-down – See nerve centre of swimmer : CHUB

21-down – Recognise man immediately : KNOW

1-across – After more shots, touring international’s pathetic catch : TIDDLIER

5-across – One cold to walk over? : ICECAP

9-across – How arm is holding bags quite close : WARMISH

10-across – Part of ship’s history after 12 boards : TOPMAST

11-across – Public unmoved by direction of study : CIVIC

12-across – More than one spat feathers, initially, taking chaotic night bus to house : BUNFIGHTS

13-across – To put things straight on before my daughter : FORTHERECORD

17-across – Web designer gives one a turn : ARACHNOPHOBE

20-across – A head cold — and a paper it spoilt : PERCAPITA

22-across – About to suffer from alcohol consumption, seeing shrink : WINCE

23-across – Lines of one metre given minor revolution! : COUPLET

24-across – Pocket rocket’s last one to get up : TROUSER

25-across – Model’s only clothing at the scene : ONSITE

26-across – Out there, soldiers empty this for scraps : ODDMENTS

1-down – Slap the bonkers : THWACK

2-down – Gain initiative, when storing energy : DERIVE

3-down – Turned to on, chill gear downstairs : LOINCLOTH

4-down – Flash fan — is it in the box I packed up? : EXHIBITIONIST

6-down – Island’s Casanova to start misleading date : CAPRI

7-down – C-word looks extremely inadequate — one’s for hanging! : COATHOOK

8-down – To save editor, I took notice after raise : PUTASIDE

10-down – Kind of present her date ordered : TENDERHEARTED

14-down – In Barcelona, the head bouncer marks space : ELBOWROOM

15-down – Briefly contemplate a chop reserved for Spaniard’s meal : GAZPACHO

16-down – Stocked by seafront supermarkets, they’re top styles : HAIRCUTS

18-down – Peacekeeping force works in harmony : UNISON

19-down – Looser sediment holds up enticing digs : DESRES

21-down – Share out scores in audition : ALLOT

1-across – Writer’s way to address monarch, hiding expression of distaste : MAUGHAM

5-across – Bottle, or something Dutchman can get from one : COURAGE

9-across – See 25 : BROWN

10-across – Old movie idol opposed to drink and to inn, oddly : VALENTINO

11-across – Prime text I revised for document someone going may need : EXITPERMIT

12-across – Foremost of brews served in miniature beer mug : TOBY

14-across – Work of 1 across mentioned in speech of 12 26 : CAKESANDALE

18-across – Chief’s equal, it’s said, as source of 14 : SHAKESPEARE

21-across – Finishes off eclair, gateau, scones and rock cake : RUSK

22-across – Has recollections about cars, not sweet in retrospect : REMINISCES

25-across – Former PMs, choice of some at party gathering? : NEWCASTLE

26-across – Rude noise as part of rebel chant : BELCH

27-across – Source of Scotch — produced glass, we hear, in light colour : SKYBLUE

28-across – Kind of bun, besides, being dunked? : CHELSEA

1-down – Crowded around doctor going around old base : MOBBED

2-down – Most of drink I consumed in university area, ideal place : UTOPIA

3-down – Passed over tool specially chosen : HANDPICKED

4-down – Person not keeping still after first of moonshine’s finished : MOVER

5-down – Part of Atlantic that’s cold, with ice least dispersed : CELTICSEA

6-down – Makes, as we hear, containers with taps for serving drinks : URNS

7-down – Arid zone endlessly north of an inhabitant of state : ARIZONAN

8-down – Novelist writes, in a way, for well-adapted groups : ECOTYPES

13-down – Drunkenly dine with bun and ale? Sure : UNDENIABLE

15-down – Asian money that is securing saucy neckwear : KIPPERTIE

16-down – Frantically trains, for instance, group of top Russians : TSARINAS

17-down – With reason, soundly consider road that’s raised : CAUSEWAY

19-down – Kind of cake found in old book, cut by 50% : ECCLES

20-down – Inconclusively ask the man what’s problem with expiration? : ASTHMA

23-down – Belonging to part of digestive system some bile activates : ILEAC

24-down – Oatmeal cake, to considerable extent, left : FARL