Daily Answers

1-across – Back up in secure desktop, right with malic­ious 17 : LIVERPUDLIAN

8-across – Hair contributes to curing lethargy : RINGLET

9-across – Go forth and inspire puzzles : BEMUSES

11-across – One named compiler’s in age regression : NOMINEE

12-across – Selfish person endlessly pulling back : NIGGARD

13-across – Criminal fight : FENCE

14-across – Heard to condemn a part of a film’s 17 : DAMASCENE

16-across – Leaves island scored by John : ROCKETMAN

19-across – It’s over when mate of the French deserts a noblewoman : CHESS

21-across – Nurse in kinky sex stretches out … : EXTENDS

23-across – … as one’s rudely nude, should compiler be barging in? : UNIFIED

24-across – Large blaze is put out : SIZABLE

25-across – Mistakenly wins perk from art, having discarded the frames : INERROR

26-across – Perhaps needs fixing with tip of laser pointers : INDEXFINGERS

1-down – Photographer with no deal broken to get Nelson Mandela : LENSMAN

2-down – Museum weapon that covers curtain mech­anism : VALANCE

3-down – City where cad meets dyke : ROTTERDAM

4-down – Pope is not in the country : URBAN

5-down – Learner with egoism shattered in France : LIMOGES

6-down – Calm since employment with second promotion : ASSUAGE

7-down – 17s sausages : FRANKFURTERS

10-down – As my old man, the story goes, finally rides out 17s : SYDNEYSIDERS

15-down – 17 from a manic nun : MANCUNIAN

17-down – National exciting central doctrine : CITIZEN

18-down – Make a lady turn up in a travel bonnet : ENNOBLE

19-down – 17 with indignation? Stick around : CAIRENE

20-down – When regime’s corrupt they seek a better life elsewhere : EMIGRES

22-down – Here you may find books of quiet figure of legend : SHELF

1-across – Old advertiser’s royal links, a lot cut short : SANDWICH

6-across – School place found earlier, quite a coup : PUTSCH

9-across – Part of a county custom it may suit Imogen to hack : RIDING

10-across – Square fruit, second one guy replaces : BANDANNA

11-across – One way to get restaurant tip? I’m about to tell you : WAITFORIT

13-across – See 9 : HABIT

15-across – Back in a moment : SECOND

17-across – Idle part of field difficult to turn over : FIDDLE

18-across – Frustrate check on tax : SCOTCH

19-across – 10 head back for costume drama feature : BONNET

21-across – See 29 : DROPS

22-across – College oddly calm with undergraduate finally in cell : CORPUSCLE

25-across – Advantage is seized by partners on the side : EDGEWISE

26-across – Street guide not needed in new magazine puzzle : ENIGMA

28-across – Spirited, if small, yet insecure : FEISTY

29-across – I now understand effect of minor currency devaluation : THEPENNY

2-down – Would you count me as a friend? : AMI

3-down – See 8 : DRIFT

4-down – Healthy policeman lucky to be working here? : INGOODNICK

5-down – Insolence I brush aside : HUBRIS

6-down – Metallic sound as thin piece of steel lands on surface of ground : PING

7-down – Pull back, having eaten badly out here? : TEAGARDEN

8-down – Abstemious man meaning to construct scientific theory : CONTINENTAL

12-down – Not quite rate game a tricky proposition : ASSESBRIDGE

14-down – Bishop cooked food in small church : MINORPIECE

16-down – Our prices are shocking: we rake it in : CROUPIERS

20-down – Get mad alternative to using something? : LOSEIT

23-down – Steal and use card : SWIPE

24-down – Flexibly strong, one’s twisted round : WIRY

27-down – See 1 : MAN

1-across – Slow to drop unscrupulous regular string pulling and chicanery : SHARPPRACTICE

10-across – Sign lost from pound sterling — nasty trick! : UNDERPLOT

11-across – Asian couple at back of romantic place messing around : PARSI

12-across – Ultimate in conmen starts to inveigle her into lowering zip : NIHIL

13-across – Judge’s sentence of East Londoner will, sparking appeal? : ENDEARING

14-across – Outside hotel, is able to adjust this beacon : BELISHA

16-across – Vixen’s crony, one engaged in capers : PRANCER

18-across – Comparatively audacious sermon about fool on the first, taking day off : SASSIER

20-across – Potter’s game? Winning event that’s staged : FRAMEUP

21-across – Fools students over mass reductions in population, we hear : NUMSKULLS

23-across – A little mischief on parking space for cabbies : PRANK

24-across – So good around pervert : SICKO

25-across – I collected rent for Peter Rachman? : PROFITEER

26-across – Perfidy of busty woman, old source of comedy : DOUBLEDEALING

2-down – Man’s inspiring review of holiday area’s lost retreats : HIDYHOLES

3-down – Registered web address to describe a country : RURAL

4-down – Did what Nicole Scherzinger did on the circuit more than once? : PULLEDA

5-down – Fool close to van carrying performers caused trouble : ACTEDUP

6-down – Bigwig to lead on an anecdote collection : TOPBANANA

7-down – Toy dog : CORGI

8-down – Deception of crack city job : FUNNYBUSINESS

9-down – Hanky-panky? Like one jerking or like one thrusting? : JIGGERYPOKERY

15-down – Rotating ties aren’t popular joke shop purchase : STINKBOMB

17-down – Set Australian into popping crease, anticipating an incutting delivery : CAESAREAN

19-down – Run and go by sink : RELAPSE

20-down – See 4 : FASTONE

22-down – Swaggering male set up Soho scams without clothes : MACHO

23-down – Set of three April fools : PRIAL

1-across – Road surface touched a river from behind : MACADAM

5-across – False claim about electoral fraud starts to get nasty : MALEFIC

9-across – See 20 : SPOON

10-across – Horny stars in movies, or economists looking back? : MONOCEROS

11-across – A mouse of a pussy? : SCAREDYCAT

12-across – Freezing temperature thus encapsulating capital, ultimately, in European city : OSLO

14-across – Greek character with enemies to take on in Tuscany : CHIANTISHIRE

18-across – Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release : PROBATIONARY

21-across – Mistake not getting up for early bird? : COCK

22-across – Fern — girl getting shock : MAIDENHAIR

25-across – European’s taken to US citizen : BOSTONIAN

26-across – A car endlessly following leader of monstrous criminal organisation : MAFIA

27-across – Escape cheese in Cheshire town : RUNCORN

28-across – Happy to describe copper as metal : MERCURY

1-down – Wrong application is filed by brood : MISUSE

2-down – In the pink, Beethoven’s Fifth his ultimate symphony? : CHORAL

3-down – Unconscious chap in parent, wally : DUNDERHEAD

4-down – Preserved body, something to keep well! : MUMMY

5-down – Hand on lid on brown cocktail : MANHATTAN

6-down – Places I pass going north : LOCI

7-down – Jungle tribe having no time for this delicate matter? : FORESKIN

8-down – Patron wants snooker player to pocket most balls : CUSTOMER

13-down – One looking up name inspired by art, or some fake : ASTRONOMER

15-down – I’m in a state, a state of exuberance : ANIMATION

16-down – Box containing one key, a long key : SPACEBAR

17-down – Reptile, one going on foot? : MOCCASIN

19-down – Almost certainly a cold month, August normally feels less unsettled initially : MANFLU

20-down – Gorilla biting bottom of Britney Spears going ape in cafe : GREASY

23-down – Material processed underground that’s brought to the surface : DENIM

24-down – Symbol to write down on top of orders : LOGO

9-across – Chair’s position in need of rescuing? : OVERBOARD

10-across – Field football team, missing second half : REALM

11-across – Prince Harry agrees to forecast : PRESAGE

12-across – Heath suppressed a quiet whip’s job : LASHING

13-across – Poles admit appreciation is getting closer : NEARS

14-across – Bolt pursued thus? Emphatically so! : BYTHUNDER

16-across – Future conditions overcome on behalf of English actors : WEATHERFORECAST

19-across – Chap declines to carry old maiden — they go off eventually : TIMEBOMBS

21-across – Daisy and what’s fixed thereon? : OXEYE

22-across – It precedes golf dance : FOXTROT

23-across – Foresee bull chasing priest : PREDICT

24-across – State where open society’s in revolt : SYRIA

25-across – Old herbivore’s droppings suffice in bags : IGUANODON

1-down – Spooner’s East London clique drenched : SOPPINGWET

2-down – A rare medic all but rejected sweetener : DEMERARA

3-down – Threats once to a sub at sea : UBOATS

4-down – Old physician contracted a lot of wind : GALE

5-down – As an adoring fan, I perform with our last cast : IDOLATROUS

6-down – See 14 : PRESSURE

7-down – Divers struggled to ford a river : VARIED

8-down – Some regularly flee rising pollution : SMOG

14-down – It’s measured by the glass : BAROMETRIC

15-down – Conceding defeat, sailor goes over to be in Paris : RETREATING

17-down – It’s wintry in Ireland, except for one lough : HIBERNAL

18-down – Crow, say, makes changes circling Rhode Island : AMERINDS

20-down – French 21 down embrace 9 sociable types : MIXERS

21-down – Where canoes founder? : OCEANS

22-down – His forecast originally was wrong : FISH

23-down – Listened to Hole in bucket? : POUR