Daily Answers

1-across – The person who triumphs with this clue gets an award : VICTORIACROSS

10-across – Sat behind revolving Post Office counter : OPPOSED

11-across – What’s in a magazine and in a novel is pungent stuff : AMMONIA

12-across – Polish or German people : GRACE

13-across – Excessive gushing from paramours wanting large contraceptive : OVERSPILL

14-across – Girl to see the light after stripping : ETHEL

16-across – Fairly sharp metal bar is breaking chain : CLEVERISH

18-across – Places for hanging and bloodshed, with medics maintaining order : WARDROBES

19-across – Dancers cutting hems from skirt before very gripping ball : KIROV

20-across – Classification of plum with bushy tangles : SUBPHYLUM

23-across – Kid cradles rook in bower : DUPRE

24-across – A Paul composition: well set, with no odd parts, and very good way in! : EPISTLE

25-across – Party time! Couple runs for more nuts : DOTTIER

26-across – Play and skip around with skinny birds only : TIMONOFATHENS

2-down – Rogue royal astride every charger? : IMPEACHER

3-down – Sense country must bring its leader down : TASTE

4-down – Notice where you’ll find carnival dresses for tranny : RADIO

5-down – Descartes is shortly to plug a tool for raising understanding : AWARENESS

6-down – Fellow leaves dowdy women with woodcut : RUMPSTEAK

7-down – Area of Egypt’s capital dominated by crime : SINAI

8-down – Performing this could lead to stuttering woe : TONGUETWISTER

9-down – Sports must keep everyone trim — it’s a warning to the unwary : WALLSHAVEEARS

15-down – King enters city slum quite deliberately : LARGHETTO

16-down – Foreign gentleman with vehicle for Parisians to go round : CABALLERO

17-down – Invasion from unit prior to struggle : IRRUPTION

21-down – In Russia the fare is one pound, heading north over the province : BLINI

22-down – Torpedo aimed for 4 etc : MEDIA

23-down – Axe tip from Douglas pine : DITCH

9-across – Stand by, I’m near plastic vessel : SUBMARINE

10-across – Puzzle introduction needs no PR : ELUDE

11-across – University principal’s first article is ideal : UTOPIAN

12-across – Subject’s gradable problem? D minus : ALGEBRA

13-across – Church and evangelical youth leaders welcome bishops : ABBEY

14-across – I heard dancing about the finale of Fred and Ginger : REDHAIRED

16-across – Her rebukes in bed regarding the drapes? : CURTAINLECTURES

19-across – Clergy with their heads in the clouds? : SKYPILOTS

21-across – With little money, save Scrabble tiles : PAVES

22-across – Lots? No, one wave : SOLITON

23-across – Back up to enter river, otherwise drive back : REPULSE

24-across – Noodles sound fishy : UDONS

25-across – Report from small gallery: Oh no! Monet’s been vandalised : STATEMENT

1-down – Can Russia’s assembly revoke independence to protect energy guarantees? : ASSURANCES

2-down – Sponge recipe accepted by sailor, not drunk : ABSORBER

3-down – Reason isn’t a substitute to ask why? : SANITY

4-down – Priestess consumed by large, northern animal : LION

5-down – Without consideration, no matter what : REGARDLESS

6-down – He gets near battle : SERGEANT

7-down – Ball keeping low loses golf games : RUBBER

8-down – Eat crackers after strong cheese : FETA

14-down – Actor’s fury? Parts with bad unpredictability : RANDOMNESS

15-down – Covers performances about good man and woman : DUSTSHEETS

17-down – Process dictates rigorous appraisal : ACIDTEST

18-down – Minister’s mistress raises gun: … : REVOLVER

20-down – … It’s cowardly to cry over wife : YELLOW

21-down – Look over pressure with power shower : PEPPER

22-down – Immortal music? : SOUL

23-down – Children’s author’s first to abandon Latin course : ROAD

1-across – Pageant held for knight : GALAHAD

5-across – Church ointment is carried in plate, briefly : CHRISOM

9-across – Time wasted by appalled one hiding under cover : DISGUISED

10-across – Regenerated fellows listened to guiding spirit : NUMEN

11-across – Spinner of web in wood approaches a forgotten shelter : TIMBERNERSLEE

13-across – What gets to stick when one’s terribly hot in it? : CLOTHING

15-across – Centre Right is showing excess of ambition, maybe : HUBRIS

17-across – Sweet, sweet stuff unwrapped? Not eating that! : NOUGAT

19-across – Wife with repeated hesitation, an unsettled type : WANDERER

22-across – Procedure for making arch is evident in these pieces of furniture? : ROCKINGCHAIRS

25-across – Arab finishing with camels gets car : SAUDI

26-across – Fresh fruit deli provided for festival : EIDULFITR

27-across – Stupid types fail ultimately — as shown in school records : SCHLEPS

28-across – Gentleman of healthy appearance said to get too much : SURFEIT

1-down – Top place needs stuff bought — nothing to be missing : GODS

2-down – The French emperor for three months in the country : LESOTHO

3-down – Transport a thousand bits and pieces left after harvesting : HAULM

4-down – Sees records being broken by English sailors : DISCERNS

5-down – Rhythmic jazz fan outside sleazy club : CADENT

6-down – Manage a delivery trip in a car : RUNAROUND

7-down – Sister’s eaten enough — picky type wanting a bit of everything? : SAMPLER

8-down – Mentor is so unconventional as educator : MONTESSORI

12-down – Professionals in film industry, who could make actress sin : SCENARISTS

14-down – Festival founder in area of land once getting communications expert : HEAVISIDE

16-down – They get charged, put in cells : CATHODES

18-down – A local Conservative youngster with no yen to be like an oik : UNCOUTH

20-down – Hurt again? Get time out : RESPITE

21-down – Monster to advance ignoring initial publicity : OGRESS

23-down – I would look to expend minimal energy : IDLER

24-down – Incompetent person’s endless chatter : PRAT

1-across – Not a row of collaborators as fifth regular feature : COLUMN

4-across – Trump after starting: Some chicken! Some neck! : SCRUFF

9-across – Six here playing a part with Tudor women : PORTMANTEAUWORD

10-across – Sturdy beachwear removing a kind of shirt instead : STRONG

11-across – Where to learn about cattle crossing : OXBRIDGE

12-across – Hunk of meat followed by pudding? : BEEFCAKE

14-across – Turning out friendless portrayal : ROTARY

15-across – What burnt ally in this country : NAPALM

18-across – Keen on ice cream sundae, initially in cold storage : CRYONICS

21-across – Cunning ultimate in balls? : GOOGLIES

22-across – Idiot from Ulster? : NITWIT

24-across – Fat beer tum wobbles in passionately produced opera : MADAMEBUTTERFLY

25-across – Top jobs, less worry : OBSESS

26-across – At nearly ten to ten, Times setter first to get chilli con carne? : TEXMEX

1-down – Carroll had on record this laugh’s etymological origins : CHORTLE

2-down – Subject of a bid to draw : LOTTO

3-down – Setter’s queen escapes from Algeria — what a pain! : MYALGIA

5-down – Dictionary incompletely defines a place of debate : CHAMBER

6-down – Winter nut is spelt out? No : UNWRITTEN

7-down – Chapter in Steppenwolf, or a German sustenance seeker : FORAGER

8-down – Ten toes spread out with no purpose : OTIOSE

13-down – A girl’s fan, peut-être : FRANGLAIS

16-down – Green making a fuss about vote cast being halved : AVOCADO

17-down – But French study admitted young women : MAIDENS

18-down – Music a squeezebox provides for headgear : CASQUE

19-down – River voyage danger? Ditch dozens in the centre : YANGTZE

20-down – At first camera held poorly? Cut! Cut and calm down! : CHILLAX

23-down – No end to the peculiar beat : THRUM

1-across – Jack’s final intimation of leaving TV show? : BLUEPETER

6-across – Employer rejected CV, giving me the sack : USER

10-across – He can’t stand either parent losing capital on horse : HATER

11-across – Nan led astray by dreadful pun : UNPLANNED

12-across – Drink, or where you might buy trendy one : MARTINI

13-across – Registers failing to show separate A&E charges : INDICTS

14-across – Relationship that might make you somewhat on edge? : ABITONTHESIDE

17-across – Technical game transformed global problem : CLIMATECHANGE

21-across – Prince joins queen in dance — it appears out of order : PREQUEL

22-across – Launch scheme : PROJECT

24-across – Maiden possibly left port with too much luggage : OVERLADEN

25-across – Dress down for Sunday lunch? : ROAST

26-across – Speaker’s trounced a second-rater : BETA

27-across – Rebel is transported East in doctor’s care : DISSENTER

1-down – Abandoning convention, throw him a bone : BOHEMIAN

2-down – Unopened club’s complete : UTTER

3-down – Engaged in crime, I’m going in devoutly, giving little away : PARSIMONIOUSLY

4-down – Visitor to ancient city isn’t short of money, essentially : TOURIST

5-down – Traveller, not quite the best, turning turtle perhaps : REPTILE

7-down – Star considered claiming credit for skin lotion : SUNSCREEN

8-down – Ingredient of salads I’d served up in quick succession : RADISH

9-down – How workers may study an example of sporting links? : SANDWICHCOURSE

15-down – Harsh little measure supported by pope at one time : INCLEMENT

16-down – Willing person put up timetable after trial : TESTATOR

18-down – Boring article in review by editor provided a reference : ALLUDED

19-down – First wife is in the offing, getting forks out : EXPENDS

20-down – Second record secured by graduate raised self-assurance : APLOMB

23-down – Bring back corporal punishment — tyrant’s first decree : ENACT