Daily Answers

1-across – Big star to preserve work : CANOPUS

5-across – With it, answer and leave show : CHICAGO

9-across – Social class? Sign of Labour ignoring southeast backing : ORDER

10-across – Ed cut party talk that’s complex : ELABORATE

11-across – A fault, ace — I go off for drink : CAFEAULAIT

12-across – Mansion? Fortune down : PILE

14-across – Silly Myleene Klass thrived — financial red herring? How it stinks : AVERYANCIENT

18-across – One squeezed by awful mansion tax: Myleene ultimately probes : EXAMINATIONS

21-across – See 14 : LIKE

22-across – Behind bank’s financial summary : BOTTOMLINE

25-across – Sexy one to go on about me : EROGENOUS

26-across – Mostly tight musician : STING

27-across – English politician: tax houses uproar : TEMPEST

28-across – See 14 : ANDFISH

1-down – Election’s about house: formality : CHOICE

2-down – Northern, overdrawn, not working: sleep : NODOFF

3-down – Left a large English home? Against cuts? A blood vessel pops out : PORTALVEIN

4-down – See 14 : SMELL

5-down – Union clashes? Channel 5 twice air broadcast : CHARIVARI

6-down – Current Tory image : ICON

7-down – Desires for wealth: a Conservative blocks changes : AVARICES

8-down – What greedy person does worries Left, at the top? : OVEREATS

13-down – Cut costs so income moves : ECONOMISED

15-down – Models earn, so exposed figure : REASONOUT

16-down – Determined man with lines twisted : HELLBENT

17-down – Film seen here as ship runs into catastrophe? : DARKROOM

19-down – British eyes reportedly all over Klass — girl’s out wearing this? : BIKINI

20-down – Left England, taxes without cuts — hard period : LENGTH

23-down – Shell out! Estate’s included : TESTA

24-down – Myleene’s gutted about Pure and Simple : MERE

8-across – I don’t get upset with all language that’s well out of date : OLDLATIN

9-across – God, who’s flipping cut grass that’s already been cut and dried? : YAHWEH

10-across – One section of a symbolic representation : ICONIC

11-across – Oily liquid makes engine start in faulty scooter : CREOSOTE

12-across – Drink first of clarets stolen from a wine store : ARAK

13-across – A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on : PERSEVERED

15-across – Frozen state I tick off : ICECOLD

16-across – Nurse at party, very loud gathering before one leaves : SENDOFF

18-across – Providing John’s partner with gin supply : FURNISHING

19-across – Type of beef or mutton : FORM

20-across – Note body part getting extremely erect : CROTCHET

22-across – Broadcaster, about 45, servile type : SKIVVY

23-across – Fruit not soft as pine­apple : ANANAS

24-across – Jittery win on the black? : NONWHITE

1-down – I choose cereal after chopping dried fruit, say : ELECTRICCURRENT

2-down – Middle of the piece of timber’s reportedly unbroken : PLANCKSCONSTANT

3-down – Standard complaint involving pain in the ass large stores : STOCKPILES

4-down – Scotland as part of UK, arms-wise, or ruin? No, Conservative vacillated : UNICORN

5-down – Trendy new housing unit : DYNE

6-down – Article by swimwear company on steps taken to make costume, init­ially : THESPEEDOFLIGHT

7-down – Through which weight falls very little? : CENTREOFGRAVITY

14-down – Exciting if Frenchman turned up in wrong carriage? On the contrary : ENERGISING

17-down – Managed to hide gun bulge : DISTEND

21-down – Pot made from hard wood : HASH

1-across – Black, it fills void in minds : BABYSITS

5-across – Functional black uniform goes on top : USABLE

9-across – Bump into noisy old birds making pub grub : MEATPIES

10-across – Make the rounds every year to lake, crossing river : PATROL

12-across – Top man in Dubai backing agreement banks rejected : EMEER

13-across – Inspirational university place provided passion Henry’s wanting : UPLIFTING

14-across – Site manager in city’s protecting wild flower king planted : CLERKOFWORKS

18-across – Cutting books on the subject of getting into flying : ABBREVIATION

21-across – Clubs find out about a church blessing : CLEARANCE

23-across – What secures runner’s autograph? : UBOLT

24-across – Films script involving old battle : MOVIES

25-across – Guitarist set aside hour for troops : GARRISON

26-across – Former railwaymen’s assets regularly omitted tenders : NURSES

27-across – Key Latin dictionary ready to be loaded in camera : CLOSETED

1-down – Unusually big seat at theatre tipped up : BUMPER

2-down – What Hollywood does to preserve the King’s discs, perhaps : BRAKES

3-down – Use plug, crudely inserting ruler and gum : SUPERGLUE

4-down – See 15 : THEGUARDIANS

6-down – Rod’s beginning to suspect river personnel : STAFF

7-down – Advocates avoiding street obstacles : BARRIERS

8-down – Solver said record is English hymn : EULOGISE

11-down – Unnoticed 17 may be wasted by a magazine : FLYONTHEWALL

15-down – Classic question concerning our security arrangements : WHOGUARDS

16-down – Harrison and Cartier’s answer to last question? : WATCHMEN

17-down – Network hub underpins heart of global paper : OBSERVER

19-down – Nanny state dumps rubbish, cutting loss : COSSET

20-down – It’s paid for in agreement with daughter : ATONED

22-down – Magistrate constantly rose to defend earl : REEVE

1-across – John passed away and was sweetly preserved : CANDIED

5-across – Unfinished boat in the Seychelles : SKETCHY

9-across – See vessel in shade : LOVAT

10-across – Cooked eel with crackers is basic : ELEMENTAL

11-across – Money allowed in wages is short : INCOMPLETE

12-across – Go for a drive : SHOT

14-across – Sulky girl sent dud contrivance : DISGRUNTLED

18-across – Reticent prisoners studied : CONSTRAINED

21-across – Working with the Guardian is a burden : ONUS

22-across – Music popular when having tea in factory : PLAINCHANT

25-across – Fluid I turn into food : NUTRITION

26-across – Note about epitaph is nonsense : TRIPE

27-across – Colour for barrel acceptable in Scottish island : SKYBLUE

28-across – Help on with clothing : REDRESS

1-down – Dog having depression? Make up a story! : COLLIE

2-down – Virtuous student? : NOVICE

3-down – One disease initially harboured by friendly cow : INTIMIDATE

4-down – Glen keeps wife in lodge : DWELL

5-down – Beginner breaks Polish fabricating material : SHEETIRON

6-down – Vessel found in a brewery : EWER

7-down – Burglar on college building covers everything : CATCHALL

8-down – Season of good will, yet I duel anyway : YULETIDE

13-down – Ignorant of a French coin? Ted’s empty-headed! : UNEDUCATED

15-down – Give out 50 pounds in recession? That’s unimportant! : SMALLTIME

16-down – The books of a peer in the Civil Service : ACCOUNTS

17-down – Effort getting river sample : INDUSTRY

19-down – Married woman shows animosity : MALICE

20-down – Capital has ten comp­onents : ATHENS

23-down – Wrongdoer decapit­ated? That’s concealed! : INNER

24-down – Small vessel going through lake : VIAL

1-across – Minor injury is no handicap : SCRATCH

5-across – Well-known batsman gets 500 and is honoured : GRACED

9-across – He settles abroad with English road permit : EMIGRANT

10-across – Give up and go to bed : TURNIN

12-across – Idle? Definitely not! : NOTHINGDOING

15-across – Cut in decimal rates : PERCENTAGE

17-across – One seen in France with a girl : UNA

19-across – Stop a goal : END

20-across – Short measure I encountered in the middle of town : CENTIMETRE

22-across – Repeated mistakes by servicemen : DOUBLEFAULTS

26-across – Patron with a legal right in court : CLIENT

27-across – Note a hundred still in rapture : ECSTATIC

28-across – One has no reason to want it : SANITY

29-across – New rise to be paid now? Remains to be seen : RESIDUE

1-down – Appear to make a sound joint : SEEM

2-down – Track a bird : RAIL

3-down – Amount of business produced by a pie : TURNOVER

4-down – Richard III had this premonition : HUNCH

6-down – Golfing or boxing circles? : ROUNDS

7-down – Sequence that needs to be checked when shooting film : CONTINUITY

8-down – Libelled, but need it drag out like this? : DENIGRATED

11-down – Titled person on the board : KNIGHT

13-down – Writer’s additions that may be cut out in the theatre : APPENDICES

14-down – Working association involves routine and order : TRADEUNION

16-down – Start driving, of course : TEEOFF

18-down – Takes off meat — it is cooked : IMITATES

21-down – Way in exercise to produce a heavenly body! : PLANET

23-down – Cruel doctor causes pain : ULCER

24-down – Boss’s education cut short : STUD

25-down – Name expert seen about skin problem : ACNE