Daily Answers

1-across – Hospital gets distinction and with time gets reverence : HOMAGE

4-across – Programs for waste regeneration : SOFTWARE

9-across – Show sense : SIGHT

10-across – Clergyman promises to be acting for another : VICARIOUS

11-across – Spoil menu stupidly and thoughtlessly : ONIMPULSE

12-across – Burn running through housing estate : SINGE

13-across – I had been taken in by hint of browbeating : INTIMIDATION

17-across – Choose to enter beach’s basin — it’s well kept : SPICKANDSPAN

20-across – Woman shelters a dead duck : EVADE

21-across – Begin to speak about independent spirit : ORIGINATE

23-across – Collecting corps’ soldiers during battle : ACCRETION

24-across – Teacher losing maiden’s flower : ASTER

25-across – Making impervious tiles after initial postponement : PROOFING

26-across – Sibyl and Edward become angry : SEERED

1-down – Goulash so rich it is celebrated : HISTORIC

2-down – Artist’s friend retains determination : MAGRITTE

3-down – Clothes stand : GETUP

5-down – Arrangement for that crooner is dreadful : ORCHESTRATION

6-down – Writhe on crumbling doorstep : THRESHOLD

7-down – Full value of a horse : AMOUNT

8-down – Followed girl, within reason : ENSUED

10-down – Star US student, prudish when gulping beer down : VALEDICTORIAN

14-down – Plan by the French page for a national emblem : MAPLELEAF

15-down – Shower drops on small dish : SPLATTER

16-down – Finished receiving attention and charmed : ENDEARED

18-down – Edward caught tucking into dripping in desert : DECAMP

19-down – Oscar supports largely tactless cowboy : GAUCHO

22-down – Raider losing copper is angry : IRATE

1-across – Disneyland also lost rides — in a way that’s supercilious : SNIDELY

5-across – No credit for tennis player having time out for injury, ultimately : PAYCASH

10-across – Box, possibly turned over right before Beeb, essentially … : TREE

11-across – … are in a storm covering Fish on screen — weather office gets wind gauge : ANEMOMETER

12-across – American parent left cat? : MAMMAL

13-across – Those attracted to ones who breed for pleasure : FANCIERS

14-across – Day’s impression sees pack down : DATESTAMP

16-across – Deliverer of baby in section — textbook at either end : STORK

17-across – An it girl losing her head — posh criminal? : PARIS

19-across – Small talk includes Yo Blair, initially Dubya round, going over wearing this? : COWBOYHAT

23-across – Most short-lived footballer around official drinking single : BRIEFEST

24-across – See 17 : HILTON

26-across – Britney Spears? Publicity stunt with international megastar : PRIMADONNA

27-across – Where and how superhero might label his faucet? : BATH

28-across – Study of reactions here? Strictly Come Dancing : ELECTRO

29-across – Threads run through stomachs : STRANDS

2-down – Peace group : NIRVANA

3-down – A death on Dallas was one shot taking Ewing’s head? : DREAM

4-down – Handout from kinky fella on film : LEAFLET

6-down – A company to turn off functions for old computers : ACORNS

7-down – See 28 : CHEMISTRY

8-down – One seen with clips on Aussie station : SHEARER

9-down – Harry Potter film initially not as pompous : SELFIMPORTANT

15-down – Outbreak blocked by resistance of the outer skin : EPIDERMIC

18-down – Relating to Dawn French with vicar’s last word that’s spoken : AURORAL

20-down – Times to menopausal treatment, committing each in the memory : BYHEART

21-down – Heading to Angelina, Brad finally settled on description for some of their children : ADOPTED

22-down – One coming last after good sex : GENDER

25-down – American bisexual in city to get external body parts : LABIA

1-across – Shift operative time of sportsman’s appointment : BACKDATE

5-across – Husband in novelist’s latest yarn recoils in horror : AGHAST

9-across – Charmer? More vexed hosts cheer when he’s gone : SORCERER

10-across – Ten with hip complaint, all coming together : INFLUX

12-across – In Rome I love old Latin sparkling wine : AMONTILLADO

15-across – Harry keeps home functioning : DOING

17-across – Put small stone inside to make a crackling sound : CREPITATE

18-across – Aunts et al badly treated in Muslim autocracy : SULTANATE

19-across – Respond to order about turn : REACT

20-across – Line of French reservists invading lyceum : DECOLLETAGE

24-across – Tablet’s coating causing harm in mouth : PLAQUE

25-across – Sole diversion at island welcomed by coppers : PATIENCE

26-across – Present set back left-winger after payment of tax : TENDER

27-across – Arch over seat accommodating two leaders in trial : STRADDLE

1-down – Corrupt doctor’s transport parked in depot : BASTARDISE

2-down – Pocketing raised offer, my character’s liable to deteriorate : CORRODIBLE

3-down – Lived with carnal thoughts upping temperature : DWELT

4-down – Choir’s situation shortly after chorister finds better option : TREBLECHANCE

6-down – Canal worker, one doomed to carry fallen idol? : GONDOLIER

7-down – Well absolutely empty : ABLY

8-down – Old mate featured in Times passage : TEXT

11-down – Tablet walker crunched for afters : BAKEWELLTART

13-down – Exotic dancer in possession of a vehicle took touring holiday : CARAVANNED

14-down – Observer’s outlook sees very little about the year changing : WEATHEREYE

16-down – Noble old lady died, owing about a thousand : GRANDDUKE

21-down – US graduate overlooked climbing plant : ERICA

22-down – Strikes up a bit of an argument : SPAT

23-down – Large bird with down cut : SAWN

1-across – Treatment of an entire individual measure of alcohol is medicinal : HOLISM

4-across – Mobile medical spout : DECLAIM

9-across – Rocky lays into Patten, flier of the future? : CHRYSALIS

10-across – Secure backing to break left hand somewhere in Scotland : LEITH

11-across – Grass spades advantage : SEDGE

12-across – See 27 : MAINBRACE

13-across – Week remains Doris’s cleaning time? : WASHDAY

15-across – Game sacrifice of good compass : GAMBIT

17-across – A sum for recording Believe? : CREDIT

19-across – Cry off limiting gene modification in a certain style : REGENCY

22-across – Who dislikes foreign types of plastic phone boxes no end : XENOPHOBE

24-across – Brunette, possibly with daily application for Jack’s sore top? : BROWN

26-across – Crossword setter’s craft : TRAMP

27-across – Unite ocean couple and have a drink : SPLICETHE

28-across – As is evident, its heart is quite a different organ : CLEARLY

29-across – Very backward name of female god : OSIRIS

1-down – Top removed from hut made an observation tool : HACKSAW

2-down – Tempted to have iodine for energy — sensational! : LURID

3-down – Put off by The Simpsons and the like, which is not much of an existence : SUSPENDED

4-down – Tearing hip : DASHING

5-down – In France, Le Blanc is a tabloid target : CELEB

6-down – See 3 : ANIMATION

7-down – He scored Harlem Winds : MAHLER

8-down – Sounding most upper-class and Victoria-like? : PLUMMY

14-down – Reduction of hard bowls area set in green : SHRINKAGE

16-down – Upturned stone with top marking young man’s pile of money? : MEGABUCKS

18-down – Run against the blue opponent of Stalinism : TROTSKY

19-down – Regulation about Spanish article for space between bed and wall : RUELLE

20-down – A team, or those who have been pulled out? : YANKEES

21-down – Outlandish, ultimately futile kiss on the ear : EXOTIC

23-down – See 24 : PAPER

25-down – American western type of hat bishop discarded : OATER

8-across – Communiqué roughly pasted to front of church : DESPATCH

9-across – Instinct for money in the market : FLAIR

10-across – Drawn and knotted : TIED

11-across – An example of extreme wear : FRAYEDEDGE

12-across – Blunder, giving bribe with a pound note : BUNGLE

14-across – Rose made arrangements to name date : EMANATED

15-across – Take pleasure in note going to Irish writer, say : REJOICE

17-across – Leading frigate almost wrecked, debris seen : FLOTSAM

20-across – Tenacious advocate : ADHERENT

22-across – A truce arranged for vicar’s assistant : CURATE

23-across – A representative body : DEPUTATION

24-across – Look out for a Stone Age dwelling : CAVE

25-across – Man without work strides along : LOPES

26-across – Get even : EQUALISE

1-down – Line of sight? : RETICULE

2-down – Took off commercial about keep-fit exercises : APED

3-down – Choke is left out : STIFLE

4-down – They are bound to be shocks : SHEAVES

5-down – Last, despite expectations : AFTERALL

6-down – Sex gene producing a criminal : MALEFACTOR

7-down – You put your foot in it, in a manner of speaking : BROGUE

13-down – They may rise up in a frightening situation : GOOSEBUMPS

16-down – Rent at a high level? : CREVASSE

18-down – Militant to take steps on arranged visit : ACTIVIST

19-down – He refuses to work for more pay, perhaps : STRIKER

21-down – Yelped when beaten — with a resonant voice? : DEEPLY

22-down – It checks population growth : CENSUS

24-down – Common complaint caught by the elderly : COLD