Daily Answers

1-across – Crook who operates in Australian shed? : FLEECER

5-across – Bopping manual restriction : CUFFING

9-across – Hero Elsie had declared : ELCID

10-across – Wallpaper line spoilt curtains : LINCRUSTA

11-across – What might follow mock electric outlet spur : TURTLESOUP

12-across – Skirt backing, say, removed from sign : MINI

14-across – Relief rupture unit : SUBDIVISION

18-across – Wheels out awful modern artworks after one : AUTOMOBILES

21-across – Flower people not hippies, originally : IRIS

22-across – Swinging a putter in waste water? Keep going! : PERPETUATE

25-across – Tree associated with common colour : LIMEGREEN

26-across – Know instinctively time’s gone for the people : INUIT

27-across – Form of grape that’s bolted in short : CURRANT

28-across – Seaweed-draped motor home holiday area : ALGARVE

1-down – Contemptuous cries raised at carnival : FIESTA

2-down – Retailer disposing of capital — right time for company : ESCORT

3-down – Cold model used to be otherwise — nicely plump : CUDDLESOME

4-down – Levels subs etc : ROLLS

5-down – Bun in oven initially jarred when entering state of matrimony : CONNUBIAL

6-down – Doctor of climbing is cross : FORD

7-down – Where there’s proof to be determined, though not actually there : INSPIRIT

8-down – Bank to let, including sink : GRADIENT

13-down – Possibly the Big Bang fright isn’t over : FIRSTTHING

15-down – Stronghold of those believing fervently in the USA : BIBLEBELT

16-down – Swine sickly at a cold Gironde commune : CADILLAC

17-down – Temperature resistance in stew might be an aid for the gardener : STRIMMER

19-down – Animal keeper has no way to enter vessel : JAGUAR

20-down – Insect, source of sugar, having large enzyme openings : BEETLE

23-down – What makes English pop an endangered species? : PANDA

24-down – Granada’s offbeat and retiring as a city : AGRA

1-across – Poker and frying pan limiting 100-year piece of nonsense : JABBERWOCKY

9-across – Primrose’s bovine insolence : COWSLIP

10-across – Compel attention about empty urinal producing stream : RIVULET

11-across – A tendency to admit Hungary’s leader, or Romania’s, is revolting : ABHORRENT

12-across – Bunch of birds in ruler’s domain? : ROOST

13-across – Land secured by heiress : EIRE

14-across – Instructive tale about academic not beyond forgiveness : PARDONABLE

16-across – Pool ideas of weather-beaten undergarment? : BRAINSTORM

19-across – Stable concern : FIRM

21-across – Last bit of fish? One left : FINAL

22-across – Supplies crew garlanding sea dog with noxious plants : MANDRAKES

24-across – Intoxicant making wound not heal? : ETHANOL

25-across – Expression of amusement about one of disgust on electronic channel of communication : LUGHOLE

26-across – Showing restraint when temporal record missing, though formerly included : UNDERSTATED

1-down – Statesman to talk at length to one acceptable to 20, admitting redtop elevated women-only sport : JAWAHARLALNEHRU

2-down – Agricultural equipment’s loose ends in pub : BALER

3-down – Site of infection getting payee 2,000 off? : EMPYEMA

4-down – Material set out in program : WORSTED

5-down – Old boy band recording someone else’s music : COVERING

6-down – One dollar 1 across wanting inoculation to show the way to fantastic city : YELLOWBRICKROAD

7-down – Tight corner to fight with energy : SCRAPE

8-down – 3-D representation of girl consuming tawdry goods : STATUE

15-down – Popular disc including verse from In the Mood? : INCLINED

16-down – Polisher of protective device : BUFFER

17-down – One falling for acrobat : TUMBLER

18-down – Girl, 10, changed lock : RINGLET

20-down – Camel sometimes upholds such a believer : MOSLEM

23-down – Wordsmith, say, raised amid rubbish : ROGET

1-across – Loud radio broadcasting that demands respect : FAIRPLAY

5-across – An item left in car : COUPLE

9-across – Street covered in rotten food, aside from the majority going downhill : OFFPISTE

10-across – See 13 : GEORGE

12-across – Lab MP taking month off, I claimed — a member there in spirit? : PHANTOMLIMB

15-across – Princess not popular as head of state? : DIANA

17-across – It’s pinned to hold in fabric : GRENADINE

18-across – The main quality that may be stainless : SALTINESS

19-across – Accessing honey, bee say is shut out : DEBAR

20-across – On tour, gang is going round America — seemingly no end to it? : MOBIUSSTRIP

24-across – Difficult temperature, hot : THORNY

25-across – Bouncers raining down around hapless team, vicious deliveries : HATEMAIL

26-across – A howler banking gold in large amounts : GALORE

27-across – She grooms partners for the Western Isles : HEBRIDES

1-down – Kids suggested an old retainer for information : FLOPPYDISK

2-down – Something to hide under after final bombs can be blown up : INFLATABLE

3-down – Direct to a specific location : POINT

4-down – Penned by a pen, some big shot penning end of nice old song : ASTIMEGOESBY

6-down – Finished with directors having made a splash? : OVERBOARD

7-down – Tip into newspaper, kippers : PERK

8-down – River Clyde’s first business leader : EXEC

11-down – Agile unruly gathering against consuming a meat product : LIVERSAUSAGE

13-down – Collaborative duo’s stuff about art, bleeding ridiculous! : GILBERTAND

14-down – Farm store left ’em upset in the city : METROPOLIS

16-down – A country once in open revolt, initially in Anatolia : ASIAMINOR

21-down – Female monarch unqualified : SHEER

22-down – Second name for male : STAG

23-down – Take in dessert : FOOL

9-across – Brutally affect as menial I maltreated : ANIMALISE

10-across – Vice ring back in the shade : OLIVE

11-across – Bit of litter in pool : KITTY

12-across – Keep stating price after backing European bank : REITERATE

13-across – She bravely fights one drug after another : HEROINE

14-across – Start off showing more malice, becoming more irritating : ITCHIER

17-across – Identifies guilty people as men corrupted repeatedly : NAMES

19-across – Skate, perhaps, that’s a little light : RAY

20-across – See 17 : NAMES

21-across – Doesn’t want vacations, is kept inside : RESISTS

22-across – Conservative soon eclipsing left, without doubt : CLEARLY

24-across – She decides on suit, one of a dozen in box : JURYWOMAN

26-across – Move back between rook and queen — got it! : ROGER

28-across – Perform seasonally in clubs, a job for actor being cut : CAROL

29-across – They combine in angry speeches about energy legislation : REACTANTS

1-down – Note in outdated currency : MARK

2-down – Champion that’s found with whiskey in VW : VICTOR

3-down – Uncontrollable desire as I stray dreadfully in current state : SATYRIASIS

4-down – President called Franklin bore : PIERCE

5-down – Happiness permitted in eccentric : FELICITY

6-down – Have some expectation of success in Scottish Open : HOPE

7-down – Tin contracted, then expanded as metal : TITANIUM

8-down – Conclusions from hearing — the children receive what parents pass on : GENE

13-down – Accolade for American taking part in marathon, originally : HONOR

15-down – Steers European jalopy set aside for religious purposes : CONSECRATE

16-down – Problem with eye after game, initially out of practice : RUSTY

18-down – Piece of religious music from mass is before scripture class : MISERERE

19-down – Shrub grew on river in a month : ROSEMARY

22-down – Author appearing in public, on radio : CONRAD

23-down – North American city’s leading lady? : REGINA

24-down – Honour weightlifter : JACK

25-down – It comprises primarily what is left, legally : WILL

27-down – What’s got out of bed? : ROSE

1-across – Boatman might be on quarterdeck keeping watch by one : AFLOAT

5-across – Bullies exploit what we give to our children : COWSMILK

9-across – Make money by the hour in gambling den with bridge player : CASHINON

10-across – Stick together to make money? Self-centred : CEMENT

11-across – Role of selfishness in this puzzle maybe initially lost for old solver : THEE

12-across – Act selfishly to make fortune, outrageously less sensitive : LOOKOUTFOR

13-across – Could it be Mohammed said to make a killing? : PROFIT

14-across – Redeemed, made amends or converted : RANSOMED

16-across – Bigoted, snide, perverse in dictionary : ONESIDED

19-across – Mistakes note on unknown vessels, missing cable’s header : MIXUPS

20-across – Mast’s up with difficulty? Boatman’s apt to take it for granted : ASSUMPTIVE

22-across – As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding : RICH

23-across – Self-absorbed, into prophet, an abstemious one : SETTER

24-across – Try to take too much and exploit selfless act? : GOODDEED

25-across – Was that Elvis’s pelvis? It’s seen moving across the galaxy : STARSHIP

26-across – Me, me, selfish me, first and foremost? : EGOISM

2-down – 12 15 achievement — bird seen to fly on soft wings : FEATHERONESNEST

3-down – Heart moved to take top job and get gold : OCHRE

4-down – Rust-proofed with poor quality paint and let down : TINPLATED

5-down – Outline of your body, comme le dit Spooner? : CONTOUR

6-down – Permitted to crow about being eccentric : WACKO

7-down – Grommet fails in old car : MGMETRO

8-down – Policy a psychologist set out to 12 15 : LINEONESPOCKETS

15-down – See 12 : NUMBERONE

17-down – Conspicuously selfish, utterly blind : SHUTTER

18-down – Kill doctor, stabbed with uniform’s fastening : DOINGUP

21-down – Sit and solve selfless cipher : PERCH

22-down – Stick at nothing to take ultimate prize in western show : RODEO