Daily Answers

1-across – Bunk where youth has solitary confinement : BOLONEY

5-across – Sense of dread in oligarch’s heart, as a hoodlum : GANGSTA

9-across – Eat half of plate, then drink : DIGIN

10-across – Sauce, if horse growls? Then ___, did you say? : BEARNAISE

11-across – Those exchanged in an argument for these : CROSSWORDS

12-across – Trojan prince is lacking a jumper : PARA

14-across – Tom has followed instructions, when about to get involved : COMPLICATED

18-across – Mental aberrations, opposite points written in biro, smart perhaps? : BRAINSTORMS

21-across – All leaders in organisation invariably like you, overly suave : OILY

22-across – Knuckle-dragger in German war machine almost infiltrating ring : CHIMPANZEE

25-across – Bringing over old stuff from the East, game for Venetian traveller : MARCOPOLO

26-across – Entrance blocked to vast throne room in northern residence : IGLOO

27-across – Scholarly head of languages brought in : LEARNED

28-across – Indications show surprising gains, for example, after recovery : SIGNAGE

1-down – Part of a dress cut into pieces — that’s beyond a stinker! : BODICE

2-down – Continue trailing around duck in pool? : LAGOON

3-down – Flash Gordon’s last feature overcoming criminal, poster claims : NANOSECOND

4-down – Having removed hat, policeman climbs over top of outbuilding to get hooligan : YOBBO

5-down – Gradual line oddly askew, coming from the thyroid, perhaps : GLANDULAR

6-down – Less than ten, I need? : NINE

7-down – Satirical pieces about god in tight clothing : SKIPANTS

8-down – Singer gathering support for Australian city : ADELAIDE

13-down – Sport takes off, given topping coverage : ICESKATING

15-down – Union with club’s splintered fragments : MATCHWOOD

16-down – Expert not entirely comprehending opera that’s weird : ABNORMAL

17-down – Island retail giant? : MALLORCA

19-down – A zebra dropping guts, munching bitter plant : AZALEA

20-down – Shrivelled old man secreting foundation in exquisite set of personal make-up? : GENOME

23-down – Unfortunate bosom? : MOOBS

24-down – A choice of extremes in perversion? : PORN

1-across – Possibly red hero? : HERRING

5-across – Men like Pasquale and Quixote? : FELLOWS

9-across – Inside the Guardian, 75% of this puzzle is clean : WHITE

10-across – Old rice crackers with special vitamin — recipe used to keep healthy? : EXERCISER

11-across – 90⁰ in the glaring heat : RIGHTANGLE

12-across – River following sea, say : DEE

14-across – Football account rejected, with everyone mega corrupt : ETONWALLGAME

18-across – Before writing fine, rub out unknown condition : PREREQUISITE

21-across – Paper read in Prague : RAG

22-across – US comedian has US car to drive away : CHEVYCHASE

25-across – Getting a larcenous Conservative for leader … : ACHIEVING

26-across – … in return for a profit : AGAIN

27-across – See 20 : SKINNER

28-across – Stress fractures? Taking iodine? They’re related : SISTERS

1-down – Past Tory MP’s question: difficult to depose leader? : HOWARD

2-down – Regrets decisions to abandon pound : RUINGS

3-down – 1,500 over 10? One draws characters : IDENTITIES

4-down – Jealous of new party member? : GREEN

5-down – Bums for deals without energy : FREELOADS

6-down – Bar brawl’s conclusion — punch strikes head : LOCK

7-down – Raised in Britain, aid is boosted by rock : OBSIDIAN

8-down – An ogre is squashing me!, the little prince yelled : SHRIEKED

13-down – Liberal, posh, wearing platinum — with fancy cars to give rich people : PLUTOCRATS

15-down – He played with guitar after note, more blue : NAUGHTIER

16-down – Ancient warriors fight mutant ants! : SPARTANS

17-down – No good in house that lacks order, if untidy — might this help? : FENGSHUI

19-down – Uncivilised football pundit? : SAVAGE

20-down – Labour MP was wrong about offender pocketing a grand : DENNIS

23-down – 4s like US city, commonly : VEGAS

24-down – Boxer, a former heavyweight on the left? : BENN

1-across – Saw spin deliveries bowled : PROVERB

5-across – Arsonist to axe tap : FIREBUG

9-across – Feature of soap, Neighbours, primarily, about Australian nation : SUDAN

10-across – For the purpose of editor, right, no changes : INORDERTO

11-across – Sadly, clean-cut Roy Hodgson attacked — win impossible to change the mindset : YOUCANTTEACHAN

13-across – Endless love is perfect : HONE

14-across – Late shift initially boxes style of pizza — delivers without emotion : DEADPANS

17-across – Order costumes for cases : LAWSUITS

18-across – Junk food : SPAM

21-across – Lay to rest, he interrupts ex-PM briefly. Time to stop the war” : BURYTHEHATCHET

23-across – One getting rent, housing cold with one tart : RECIPIENT

24-across – Overturn winning goal : UPEND

25-across – Ordinary end to Mrs T — Nazi to describe woman running party : HOSTESS

26-across – Commitment follows second tiny baby : SWEETIE

1-down – Classy footballer’s wife : POSH

2-down – See 11 : OLDDOGNEWTRICKS

3-down – Virtually untouched: cut to balls for ineffective man : EUNUCH

4-down – British and Poles need state to feed kids in north : BAIRNS

5-down – Possible McDonalds order: wraps, large tea : FROSTIES

6-down – Animal raped and murdered : REDPANDA

7-down – Party? Bender? Turned up with this box? : BIRTHDAYPRESENT

8-down – Fit daughter in one with two sons, us and boy : GOODNESSME

12-down – Fooling Brit: leaders of Lib Dems/Conservatives have hastily identified end of Labour? : CHILDBIRTH

15-down – Many left empty, swallowed by drug runner : MULTIPLE

16-down – Is more inclined to watch pounds around model : STEEPENS

19-down – Hand over empty tube for gums : PASTES

20-down – South Colombia to take drugs from Liverpool : SCOUSE

22-down – Balls up, say for side : EDGE

9-across – Prince Charles, perhaps, starts to lecture architects — numbingly dispiriting experience : LANDOWNER

10-across – Watch last in series : OMEGA

11-across – Workers occupying barricade, showing modicum of intelligence : DATUM

12-across – Get into debt, asking no questions : INCURIOUS

13-across – Arachne’s misconduct upset force : IMPETUS

14-across – Boris sheds clothes on foolish date, as we may deduce : APRIORI

17-across – Waller walls up 100 11s : FACTS

19-across – Tip: every second counts during stroke : TOE

20-across – Indicates position of red giant using sound waves : MARKS

21-across – One seaman treated for memory loss : AMNESIA

22-across – Fellow afloat almost two thirds of mile inside Italian city : MILKMAN

24-across – The Budweiser Corporation? : BEERBELLY

26-across – Taxi Driver — wooden-headed eccentric in New York : NODDY

28-across – Ban organisation after petition started : BEGUN

29-across – I’m grateful after a traveller returned love : INAMORATA

1-down – Good boy feeling pleasure : GLAD

2-down – Arch-villains disposing of property and laying up treasure : INSTEP

3-down – Certain people crash Tim’s stag do : DOGMATISTS

4-down – Nun, scratching head, pegs out smalls : UNDIES

5-down – Debris of party in riotous rag week : WRECKAGE

6-down – Report unfortunate discharge : POUR

7-down – Oh! It’s time to go! : ZEROHOUR

8-down – Meet one’s maker, while wearing pyjamas inside out : PASS

13-down – About to receive a broadcast : INFRA

15-down – Spaniard eats expensive and tasteless stuff in Wittering : RAMBLINGON

16-down – Sibs enjoy pinching play­fellow : IBSEN

18-down – Meet criminal grass at side of road : CONVERGE

19-down – Food for tramp in Spooner’s mantraps : TRAILMIX

22-down – Home Secretary has support of Sun? We’re in trouble : MAYDAY

23-down – I amend rough average : MEDIAN

24-down – When you skip over, bust bounces up and down : BOBS

25-down – Crosby Beach imported numerous Gormleys : BING

27-down – Wanting new long period of global revolution : YEAR

9-across – An English record broadcast a lot, as the story goes : ANECDOTAL

10-across – Astronomical point perhaps isn’t grasped : APSIS

11-across – Dream Queen Titian represented close to Padua : TITANIA

12-across – Early growth developed in Lima, Peru — not Spain : PRIMULA

13-across – Iris — first one replaced by yellow variety of it : ORRIS

14-across – Main dish of fish, as doctors ordered : OSTRACODS

16-across – I can’t fathom this Athenian attitude to Cyprus : ITSALLGREEKTOME

19-across – Three worked on my back — it’s bowed, for example : HETERONYM

21-across – Olivier et al keep working with English players : NONET

22-across – A medic’s way over somewhere near the kidneys : ADRENAL

23-across – Heroic, possibly involving origin of myths : HOMERIC

24-across – Early column carried by wireless telegraphy : STELE

25-across – Doc’s western pal? He’s recruited about two auditors : EARPHONES

1-down – That girl’s managed to swallow nothing in food grinder : GASTROLITH

2-down – Large area runs round European court : HECTARES

3-down – Endlessly rebuke male put away for striking boy : ADONIS

4-down – Old entrance to Salvation Army houses : STOA

5-down – Wash undergarment beside river : SLIPSTREAM

6-down – Charge one standing where fares are collected : TAXIRANK

7-down – Quack doctor used Post Office boxes : PSEUDO

8-down – When extremely upset, some toss away the bones : OSSA

14-down – Dubious legal reason area’s lacking cell units : ORGANELLES

15-down – Doubt lovelorn patient eating porcino is married : SCEPTICISM

17-down – Where cords strangely vibrate, not tense : LARYNGES

18-down – Private Russell’s cheaper product : OWNBRAND

20-down – Artist in a lather? : TURNER

21-down – Stirring hymns about debut of pretty young women : NYMPHS

22-down – Where primate holds beginning of service? : APSE

23-down – Someone who’s admired lady’s ring : HERO