Daily Answers

1-across – Floor reflecting groundwork by law : PERPLEX

5-across – Pain cutting ear, then doctor back : LUMBAGO

10-across – See 23 and 6 : BARS

11-across – Servile pair of lackeys starting to open vessel, accessing the ship’s drink : GROVELLING

12-across – A pommel horse on terra firma : ASHORE

13-across – Masses drifting away, slice of cake ultimately getting wasted : ICEFLOES

14-across – In store, get beyond Italy to explore by boat : ISLANDHOP

16-across – See 17 : RINGS

17-across – Discipline suffering in part of the orchestra : STILL

19-across – Wave going over as two loose packs in the hold : STOWSAWAY

23-across – Discipline shown by the whole island cutting fish : PARALLEL

24-across – Wheels about 45 inches once, in vault : CELLAR

26-across – Box for an emperor, Giza by the sound of it — more than one of those? : SARCOPHAGI

27-across – See 29 : BEAM

28-across – Winding up, caught behind : CLOSING

29-across – Discipline required to put scales on ray : BALANCE

2-down – Touring circuits, clock up passes : ELAPSES

3-down – Sauce of patriot finally investing in foreign currency : PESTO

4-down – Boffin Bill after something composed of yellow and white, gas : EGGHEAD

6-down – Say, 1, 3 or 5 score units, as a discipline : UNEVEN

7-down – Music maker beginning to bark in the style of a dog who was out of this world : BALALAIKA

8-down – Nag about nines when one over the eight, stimulating stuff : GINSENG

9-down – Discipline, with ban on lying? : HORIZONTALBAR

15-down – Capital distanced from affairs in unions : ALLIANCES

18-down – Labour Party clipped in the end : TRAVAIL

20-down – Close to Moscow I note, a US city : WICHITA

21-down – Germany and Thailand have abandoned a theatrical old language : ARAMAIC

22-down – Margin required to fit in male shoe : SLIPON

25-down – Destination getting into Tripoli by air? : LIBYA

9-across – Golfing ace left a German disk in Polish : HOLEINONE

10-across – Welsh or Saxon captured English invader : HORSA

11-across – Keep head office euros stuffed inside sack : HEAVEHO

12-across – A politician avoids mushroom in Paris bun : CHIGNON

13-across – Egyptian god dispat­ched very big Greek goddess : IRIS

14-across – Cold squaddies been fed in mess with this? : CORNEDBEEF

16-across – Lagoon spread over wicket, hence embarrassing score : OWNGOAL

17-across – Translated poem in page 2 that was buried in Italy : POMPEII

19-across – Three works about short cut in study of locks : TRICHOLOGY

22-across – Fly’s weight in grams : WING

24-across – Spell out where 2s might come from? : EXPOUND

25-across – Half an hour in local, hammered on this : ALCOHOL

26-across – Old poet eats duck egg or suchlike : OVOID

27-across – If mantles are replaced, these may replace them : FILAMENTS

1-down – Forehead to thigh, throbbing? More 25 needed : THEHAIROFTHEDOG

2-down – German shepherd, a large one wearing fine fabric : ALSATIAN

3-down – Nearly new 14 turned up, one chased by 15 : VIXEN

4-down – Procedure to agitate film-maker? : MOTOROIL

5-down – Signal rise in English meat sandwiches : BEACON

6-down – Some kids need refreshment touring hot spots in Gulf : SHEIKDOMS

7-down – Bang handle right near the top : FRINGE

8-down – Nagging family infuriated Sunday school examiner? : MAGNIFYINGGLASS

15-down – Fine bulldogs and hunters : FOXHOUNDS

17-down – One girl’s top in twisting plaits, making these? : PIGTAILS

18-down – Taking tube north, start to have some insight : EPIPHANY

20-down – Finish off better stage technique : IMPROV

21-down – Began occupying newfangled office : LEDOFF

23-down – Monkey’s beginning to pick apples up : SCAMP

1-across – Self-interested type takes hours to penetrate group of stars : CHANCER

5-across – Employment in a bar makes one excited : AROUSED

9-across – Is priest or monk not entirely necessary for religion? : ISLAM

10-across – Little good in head worker — bad : MALIGNANT

11-across – Private viewing is flop, somehow never entertaining : VERNISSAGE

12-across – Place of iniquity after hint of ecstasy? : EDEN

14-across – Lunatic put away — having admitted mistake, I succeeded : MADEAGOOFIT

18-across – Plant mat without colour : COTONEASTER

21-across – A symbol for unknown is accompanying it? : AXIS

22-across – Legion ever on the move in something like khaki? : OLIVEGREEN

25-across – Vocalist with bell conveying love with extra note : POPSINGER

26-across – Rodents eating last bit of rotten food : MINCE

27-across – Brilliant mathematician’s angle, central feature of lecture : RADIANT

28-across – The French drink in bars to keep going : LASTOUT

1-down – Harry and Henry nabbed by someone not in uniform : CHIVVY

2-down – Charm everyone with a flower : ALLURE

3-down – Remark about American university’s dedication : COMMITMENT

4-down – Rock band followed by American uncle telling folk stories : REMUS

5-down – Orchestra losing leader, a man very great and loyal : ALLEGIANT

6-down – Binge in which Bess’s partner loses head : ORGY

7-down – Employees restricting production ultimately create deadlock : STANDOFF

8-down – Set off from school in the course of a particular day : DETONATE

13-down – Go with others abroad — gems found travelling : BOARDGAMES

15-down – Joy gets hold of Bill, maybe for protective cover : DEADLIGHT

16-down – Fighter discarded document apart from a page : SCRAPPER

17-down – Son experienced hallucinations in the nude : STRIPPED

19-down – Shelter quietly demolished in naval battle : LEANTO

20-down – Design fashionable accommodation for holiday-makers? : INTENT

23-down – As some disease gives you runs, you get medicinal bottle round : VIRAL

24-down – Star gets less than complete admiration : MIRA

1-across – Report finding small bed in river : DESCRIBE

5-across – A Democrat picks and chooses : ADOPTS

9-across – Coroner ordered date to be publicly known : ONRECORD

10-across – Time to accept touching award : HONOUR

12-across – Having second thoughts about one making strides : PACES

13-across – Men let oil re-form as a cream : EMOLLIENT

14-across – Cripple protects refuge that can be found : DISCOVERABLE

18-across – Tell one all we arranged and, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it : LETWELLALONE

21-across – Criticises committee’s forthright society : COMPLAINS

23-across – Food includes cold stuffing : FARCE

24-across – Spies like keeping man : AGENTS

25-across – Man catching a perch is tall and thin : BEANPOLE

26-across – Troop leader to burgle believer : THEIST

27-across – Anxious, as sweet dishes are sent back : STRESSED

1-down – It’s boring ’olding ’oop slack : DROOPY

2-down – Hit by second vehicle : STRUCK

3-down – Going back to experience capturing Nazi forces : RECESSIVE

4-down – Boy to instruct officer over deceit? The dog! : BORDERCOLLIE

6-down – Daughter on cycle is funny : DROLL

7-down – Book where dog wears lead on Sunday : PROVERBS

8-down – Swaggered along road with potholes : STRUTTED

11-down – Learn Glen’s smell is getting better : CONVALESCENT

15-down – Assign funds solely for telephone receiver : RINGFENCE

16-down – Sorcery leads to shortage in pub on Tuesday : BLACKART

17-down – Headlong rush crammed into corner : STAMPEDE

19-down – Rustlers shepherds lay hold of : CROOKS

20-down – Guard fed up with dissolution : DEFEND

22-down – Ration American plant : LOTUS

7-across – Volatile liquid essential to Elizabethan alehouses : ETHANAL

8-across – Comet’s gas cloud? Not quite, to go by this instrument : COMPASS

9-across – See 15 : FREE

10-across – City approached game without energy : CAMBRIDGE

12-across – Ships from France and Spain caught by obstruction : FLEET

13-across – Hard in ways that hurt mobile campaign : ROADSHOW

15-across – Whisky chain ignored Frank, incurring no penalty : SCOT

16-across – See 21 down : PAINT

17-across – Top design just lies awkwardly : FAIR

18-across – Sweet — half a ton’s worth? : BULLSEYE

20-across – Ornamental topping one leaves for last : FINAL

21-across – Rash of ulcers gets end of nose to light up : FLUORESCE

22-across – Distinguishing feature of beauty contest winner: ostentatious walk, one yard short : SASH

24-across – Grow a cold on holiday island : ACCRETE

25-across – Cobalt in stream is cause of affliction : SCOURGE

1-down – One of 12 celebs swilling gin : STAR

2-down – Seem to waver in middle of hypocritical speech for the Irish nationalist? : CASEMENT

3-down – Permit restricting polit­ical party’s means of opening : LANCET

4-down – Drug joint’s menu item? : POTROAST

5-down – Pack member moves earth : SPADES

6-down – See 17 across : ISLE

11-down – Unforgiving, cut down on appreciative remarks abroad : MERCILESS

12-down – Cover for female in Pacific hurricane : FICHU

14-down – Island, rock all around, needs large projecting light : ORIEL

16-down – They’re white-faced when supporting pillar crumbles : PIERROTS

17-down – Oversubtle entertainment includes hot psychic talent : FINESPUN

19-down – Learning about a sort of light art here : LOUVRE

20-down – Father half charms people : FRENCH

21-down – Self-respect and power is not something that could improve a mug : FACE

23-down – See 1 : SIGN