Daily Answers

1-across – Controversial candidate wanting power … and nearly becoming president? : TRUMAN

4-across – Call on setter to retire — it makes you sick! : EMETIC

9-across – Draw fellow in back as means of identification : EFIT

10-across – Glamorous people I follow around : GLITTERATI

11-across – Language needing clarification — plain English! : NEPALI

12-across – Doctor not male — one patient at it : ONTHEJOB

13-across – Taking part in tiebreaker hasn’t lost — it’s working : PAYINGOFF

15-across – Boss’s room not quite finished : STUD

16-across – Cash from court gets Henry on track : PATH

17-across – Sign to west, proper elections : PRIMARIES

21-across – Claptrap from Conservative members occasionally worth recalling : TOMMYROT

22-across – Instructions to massage deep, not hard : RUBRIC

24-across – Rose sportingly let out after retraction at the last minute : JUSTINTIME

25-across – Eight organisations rejected features writer : ROTH

26-across – Refrain from taking action over training centre? : EUSTON

27-across – Holder and others sounded greatly impressed : SLAYED

1-down – Material upset big cheese : TAFFETA

2-down – Extreme skill? Partly luck, on reflection : ULTRA

3-down – Group heading off to fish for sport : ANGLING

5-down – China’s quite regularly embraced change : MUTATE

6-down – Wrong people arrested for eliminating female bully : TORMENTOR

7-down – Brought round to prepare, regularly, a cold meal for queen : CATFOOD

8-down – Our own dear land : RIPOFFBRITAIN

14-down – Suggests it’s raised among prisoners : INTIMATES

16-down – Liberal academic finds employment : PROFUSE

18-down – Poet : MARVELL

19-down – Was son left outside? : EXISTED

20-down – Quickly aware of pair on top : PRONTO

23-down – Horse nibbling Mr Turner’s nuts : BARMY

1-across – Working class under this perhaps even better? : FLATCAP

5-across – Bad egg, Albert partially retired and scrounged : BLAGGED

9-across – I’m going to pass on gold frames : ADIEU

10-across – One takes off with paper — good things for sale : TESTPILOT

11-across – Harry H Corbett: a cross windbag : CHATTERBOX

12-across – Rag and Bone : RIB

14-across – Moving girl, Steptoe and Son: they might move furniture? : POLTERGEISTS

18-across – Maybe watch here — dodgy back? Steptoe runs inside : BREASTPOCKET

21-across – Lug stuff that’s no good : EAR

22-across – Wearing sweatshirt that’s most black : SWARTHIEST

25-across – Hercules struggling to carry old Steptoe: like his attitude? : LECHEROUS

26-across – Row over current smell : NOISE

27-across – Arrange rubbish at front of carriage : DISPOSE

28-across – Economical yard after the short argument : THRIFTY

1-down – Endlessly lie when taking care of failure : FIASCO

2-down – Part of hoof upset horse? : ANIMAL

3-down – See, audience judges work here? : COURTHOUSE

4-down – Head, essentially dirty old man : PATER

5-down – See man, mostly well off : BISHOPRIC

6-down – While touring album peaks : ALPS

7-down – Lots of prospects after this good antique career? : GOLDRUSH

8-down – Files a bit around foot : DATABASE

13-down – One calling out help on programme after turning over film : TELEPHONER

15-down – Sort rubbish? We must go outside — put down characters without script? : TYPEWROTE

16-down – Rests back in a bed and let oneself down : ABSEILED

17-down – Balconies tense? Royal Ascot meeting? : TERRACES

19-down – Concerning story, fellow gets help : RELIEF

20-down – Determined, picking up bargain at end of day : STEELY

23-down – Place again on TV : RESET

24-down – Woman’s over leading actor : HERO

1-across – Precious 11 : DARLING

5-across – Hypocrisy to embrace as a game : CANASTA

10-across – Reversible lids to identify : SPOT

11-across – Record returns by coincidence for the one at this number? : CHANCELLOR

12-across – Pound value, everyone can see a loss for 11 : LAMONT

13-across – 11 tearful guy, primarily : MAUDLING

14-across – Common scruff in poet, son moving away! : TENAPENNY

16-across – Stitch up something with a thread : SCREW

17-across – Capital left, nothing : QUITO

19-across – Punching the puncher, soldier as Walter Mitty? : FANTASIST

23-across – Old Tory contention, where migrants may be entering Britain : HEATHROW

24-across – Rules working for 11 : LAWSON

26-across – Where a test may be sound as a bell in 11 : HEADINGLEY

27-across – Bird to catch, tail first : RHEA

28-across – 11 from Canberra, might you say? : OSBORNE

29-across – I’m going to depart, body failing, end of life : GOODBYE

2-down – Replace tape with superb content : ATPEACE

3-down – Draw wasted, having blown lead : LOTTO

4-down – Hanger-on collared, having kissed the first person to speak? : NECKTIE

6-down – Gather together a team for conference : ACCRUE

7-down – Rugby team, seven of whom tackling fifty : ALLBLACKS

8-down – Beat gutless tiger, wild cat : TROUNCE

9-down – Elusive fast animal now, the thylacine : TASMANIANWOLF

15-down – Sound gathering way below walls in retrospect in creative space : ARTSTUDIO

18-down – Former tennis champion in America, inept : USELESS

20-down – Cry on seeing a fox, but trapping friend : TALLYHO

21-down – Oddly sorry about 11, as wet : SHOWERY

22-down – Endless fury, over and over, for application under pressure : IRONON

25-down – Pledge to bag Lancashire’s opener, as a great spinner : WORLD

1-across – Sailor is married to Elizabeth, a superior lady : ABBESS

4-across – Venerate a midnight rider : REVERE

9-across – Seen in church when spring returns before Easter starts : APSE

10-across – Rose and made a speech without a single drink : ORIGINATED

11-across – It’s an offence to go to a part of Putin’s Russia : CRIMEA

12-across – Conversation piece? : DIALOGUE

13-across – Spot gloomy principal : BLACKHEAD

15-across – Right in line : TRUE

16-across – Too wrapped up in financial solvency : ALSO

17-across – Lout knocked nurse cold : SCOUNDREL

21-across – Philosopher offers wine and gold, when entertaining us : ROUSSEAU

22-across – Don’t make a message plain : ENCODE

24-across – Frozen waterfalls? : HAILSTORMS

25-across – None of it is good, it’s said : NEWS

26-across – Acquiescent types originally serving in a Gulf country : YESMEN

27-across – Took off and levelled out : PLANED

1-down – Clothes appear new on student : APPAREL

2-down – Fish seems to be right in the light : BREAM

3-down – Tolerate a most unusual church : STOMACH

5-down – A miracle-man, he’s involved in jailbreak : ELIJAH

6-down – So in love, with demeanour transformed : ENAMOURED

7-down – Put to death — and do it with a will : EXECUTE

8-down – Disturb canary hatching here, possibly : BIRDSANCTUARY

14-down – One wouldn’t credit such transactions : CASHSALES

16-down – Loan may be arranged, though it’s irregular : ANOMALY

18-down – We hear you possibly enlist in domestic service, perhaps : UTENSIL

19-down – Given an income, but at the finish was in debt : ENDOWED

20-down – Pay for a seat : SETTLE

23-down – Is able to hold on, as a rule : CANON

1-across – Almost barking, dog’s first to break cover : BANDANA

5-across – Bra came undone, which is ghastly : MACABRE

9-across – Capital letters written in ink — a bulletin : KABUL

10-across – Defence given by ol’ prince, closet racist? : POLITICAL

11-across – Marine animal rejected horse with one limb : NUDIBRANCH

12-across – Fuel flushed the wrong way by van, initially : DERV

14-across – Where one’s going with halves of tuna exchanged — that’s poverty : DESTITUTION

18-across – See 10 : CORRECTNESS

21-across – Pool superstar’s cycled backwards : LIDO

22-across – Bar duo plays during set of gigs : TROUBADOUR

25-across – Squeeze, briefly bottling wine that’s found at mine? : EXCAVATOR

26-across – Peter out to follow popular musical genre : INDIE

27-across – Outspoken Dutch little ’uns covering for privates : YFRONTS

28-across – See 10 : GONEMAD

1-down – The greatest lover of all in Le Tour? : BIKING

2-down – Sommelier’s slur being ignored : NOBODY

3-down – Do I dabble with ecstasy after clubbing … it’s powerful : ABLEBODIED

4-down – Final phase, in which top mark is obtained : ALPHA

5-down – Target of mine’s naughty email chat? : MALACHITE

6-down – Sweet way to turn one on! : CUTE

7-down – Returned, sobbing more — sounds like you have germs! : BACTERIA

8-down – Is exciting new large one 50/50 to get around? : ENLIVENS

13-down – It’s part of the grid, but is not as cryptic : SUBSTATION

15-down – Soaks stare at us, when in a state : SATURATES

16-down – One rowing with lady ultimately washing up here? : SCULLERY

17-down – Poke sore bottom of girl leaving : PRODUCER

19-down – Johnny swaps top for new one, with residency overseas : NONDOM

20-down – Sat following this in China : FRIEND

23-down – Take down stuff on ship, ruing errors : UNRIG

24-down – Terrible Russian vehicle out of 60s! : IVAN