Daily Answers

1-across – No more rest — chief’s coming in : STOPIT

5-across – Nights travelling round country — politicians campaigning : HUSTINGS

9-across – Affected person right to want out : MANNERED

10-across – Rodney mistakenly put it back in case : DATIVE

11-across – Misleading element could be key : ISLE

12-across – Maybe he’s grasping for a name : PROPERNOUN

13-across – Siren increasingly passionate — once taking time out for love : HOOTER

14-across – Annoyed about party finishing early — complete farce! : TRAVESTY

16-across – Feeding donkey occasionally eats grass : BETRAYER

19-across – Saving a little money — one father’s aim : ASPIRE

21-across – No resistance — frisky grandpa ain’t a reluctant lover : GIANTPANDA

23-across – Spots One Direction’s involvement : ACNE

24-across – The French solicitor is free : LETOUT

25-across – Relaxing what escort did — I agreed to be entertained : LEISURED

26-across – Man heading off on road to town : STAFFORD

27-across – Question boy over earlier absence : NOSHOW

2-down – Better the stroke limit — a breeze : THATSMORELIKEIT

3-down – Sharp fellow gets joke first : PUNGENT

4-down – May, with many others, try to pray for improvement : TORYPARTY

5-down – Important suspect picked up in refuge : HIDEOUT

6-down – Edge of field isn’t raised : SIDLE

7-down – Strong finish in female tennis battle : INTENSE

8-down – Cue to invite topless model with great voice : GIVEUTTERANCETO

15-down – Like to end up in bar : ALABAMIAN

17-down – End engagement talking online — a sign that you’ve done it? : RINGOFF

18-down – Was irritating doctor about to describe body part? : RANKLED

20-down – Strip for very little money : PEANUTS

22-down – Too much work rearing this creature : POTTO

1-across – Finished railway after getting dough : PASTRY

4-across – Fool meets local love poetry writer : SAPPHO

9-across – Investigate old block : VETO

10-across – Diplomacy in, say, a ship : STATECRAFT

11-across – Novice appears in the Seraglio in New York : HARLEM

12-across – Turning point for country evangelist : LANDMARK

13-across – Near to getting depressed? Gets wind up! : CLOSEDOWN

15-across – Boss’s endless research : STUD

16-across – Model is bashful grabbing a pee : COPY

17-across – Garnish whipped up by the French in earthly paradise : SHANGRILA

21-across – Partiality gets me in post improperly : NEPOTISM

22-across – Power supply has one in distress : WIRING

24-across – Deception begs future involvement : SUBTERFUGE

25-across – Complaint of German leader? Impossible! : GOUT

26-across – Guard noticed protecting crown : SCREEN

27-across – Passionate earl in dance of death : HEATED

1-down – Overwhelm clergyman aboard vessel : PREVAIL

2-down – Lower small hood : SCOWL

3-down – CV deputy head gets to work on again : RESUMED

5-down – German company meeting a German government is getting on : AGEING

6-down – Limit of frost accepted by apostle : PERIMETER

7-down – Turned European left-wing? That’s proposed! : OFFERED

8-down – German leader grants time, without hesitation, for dry wit : GALLOWSHUMOUR

14-down – Consume drink in a second : SUPPORTER

16-down – Means of payment for said American bills : CHEQUES

18-down – Instantly introduce queen to man out of the running : NOWHERE

19-down – Laid gun carelessly when relaxed : LANGUID

20-down – Support civil engineer cut to the quick : PIERCE

23-down – Terror when losing head is appropriate : RIGHT

9-across – Part of the score Bilbao got wrong : OBBLIGATO

10-across – Match ends of star and catarrh, say? Hum and come? : RHYME

11-across – Country road bizarrely appended to old coin : ECUADOR

12-across – Shortcoming involving student getting put on new course : DEFLECT

13-across – Cut corners and speed-read page : SKIMP

14-across – UK reel, triple forte, causing commotion : KERFUFFLE

16-across – Wait to catch volunteers, returning, breaking balls : DANCEATTENDANCE

19-across – Small waterway or roadway concealing a mussel shell : STREAMLET

21-across – Jones’s partner goes to middle of 21 down to seek water : DOWSE

22-across – Threaten to be left to finish : PORTEND

23-across – Animal shelter overturned, engulfed by unpleasant smell of animal : MUSKRAT

24-across – Dispenser of Dutch courage : OPTIC

25-across – Pants, perhaps, at bottom of river : UNDERWEAR

1-down – Puritan’s urgent call about birdseed mostly getting scattered : SOBERSIDES

2-down – Cleaning number one instrument holding laptop up : ABLUTION

3-down – What fearful people have to finish? : WINDUP

4-down – Fishwife : PARR

5-down – Custom keeps the German people marvelling : WONDERMENT

6-down – Without supporting rising, poet’s deep : PROFOUND

7-down – Personally intervening, stifle symbolist’s ascent : MYSELF

8-down – Match lacking a bit of 25 : VEST

14-down – Exercised crowd control with peculiar instrument : KETTLEDRUM

15-down – Simple city housing oriental soldiers and sailor : ELEMENTARY

17-down – Blades slicing bits of peaches regularly disappear : EVANESCE

18-down – Grins salaciously about following novel footage : NEWSREEL

20-down – Right cultivated, collecting one collector’s piece : RARITY

21-down – Rat, of course, gutted : DESERT

22-down – Story in bed : PLOT

23-down – Fashion, or endless exhibitor thereof : MODE

1-across – Model to get bigger with fine inspiring recipe : WAXWORK

5-across – Charles pockets one pound, backing 3 : CHABLIS

10-across – Prepare to take off tons, one by one : TAXI

11-across – Classic gift firm packed in a clothes supply : CHOCOLATES

12-across – Woods’ warnings approaching first at Troon : FOREST

13-across – Exaggerate story about sort of minor setback : OVERDRAW

14-across – Turn over English chart with a variable layout : GEOGRAPHY

16-across – It takes two years to reproduce secretary’s actual letters : PANDA

17-across – Joe’s impressed by Scot’s spelling : MAGIC

19-across – 16 damaged polar icecap, apparently lost : POLICECAR

23-across – Revolutionary broadcasts about long thin country : SRILANKA

24-across – Poles bag a shilling? They made a lot more in India : NABOBS

26-across – Crude mural stretches across current plants : ARUMLILIES

27-across – A male doctor’s rounds : AMMO

28-across – Indifferent pilot learnt to control 180⁰ turn : NEUTRAL

29-across – Carry over approved agency work : BROKING

2-down – Stylish venue for Bowie’s last gig before Delaware : ALAMODE

3-down – Guardian staff drink wallop with milk : WHITE

4-down – It’s served on board, ringed by apricot tarts : RICOTTA

6-down – Hotel rings awfully short cleaner : HOOVER

7-down – Go maybe and find quarries around Germany : BOARDGAME

8-down – Chain large article edged with diamonds : ICELAND

9-down – Plain idle and amorous, lifting top of nightie : MONOCHROMATIC

15-down – Craft circles loch to test diver : GUILLEMOT

18-down – Aerial displays as Spain quits euro area in a mess : AURORAE

20-down – It’s meant to clear the air but fan doesn’t start : IONISER

21-down – Swirling nebula obscures M3 : ALBUMEN

22-down – A hidden feature in puzzle about golf produces complaint : ANGINA

25-down – Boycott left sponsor on the boundary : BLACK

1-across – Let it remain the issue — on your head be it! : STETSON

5-across – Great player joining line running backwards before pace cut : MAESTRO

9-across – OBE for tree! : OLIVE

10-across – Cause of reaction in time has transformed : HISTAMINE

11-across – Old player putting salt on fruit, say? : JACKLEMMON

12-across – 11’s male priest, boy in the black stuff : SOME

14-across – 11’s bit of skirt to keep aside in temporary accommodation : THEAPARTMENT

18-across – See 20 : WINEANDROSES

21-across – 12’s leg gone? : NOON

22-across – Hype for US lawyer defending one with unorthodox religious views? : PROPAGANDA

25-across – See 12 : LIKEITHOT

26-across – Some time for us to talk? : HOURS

27-across – River first in turquoise, fresh colour returning : DERWENT

28-across – Religious leader in power — looking back, no difference : PONTIFF

1-down – Choose between blue and black all detailed in capital city : SKOPJE

2-down – Show weakness carrying pole under lowest part of bridge : EVINCE

3-down – Underhand robbing of the electorate at last with the rigged vote : STEALTHTAX

4-down – Bustle following an upstanding Hebrew prophet : NAHUM

5-down – Short kind of duck, a d-duck that’s sweet : MUSCOVADO

6-down – Highest point lifted as a test : EXAM

7-down – Elasticated leotard, one fitted perfectly : TAILORED

8-down – European capital lacking leadership over European directive ultim­ately, one’s panned : OMELETTE

13-down – Run into gents, bursting, after which brace : STRENGTHEN

15-down – Place in Hampshire, wood-fired? : ALDERSHOT

16-down – Worm found in slipper taken to the cleaners : SWINDLED

17-down – Observer seated in private accommodation with royal couple : ONLOOKER

19-down – Evil spirits, two capturing new baby : INCUBI

20-down – 11’s drunk finds woe with a dry season : DAYSOF

23-down – Build from either the floor or the ceiling? : PUTUP

24-down – Outstanding payment for an offence : FINE