Daily Answers

1-across – Lightweight service of no note? : LOWMASS

5-across – It was honourable, for Japanese double-decker was open-top? : BUSHIDO

9-across – Small time Scots golfer packs in US round — the price he pays for his driving? : MOTOR

10-across – See 9 : INSURANCE

11-across – Here’s the latest deplorably bad ratatouille! : READALLABOUTIT

13-across – High sea swirling round Sardinia manor houses : MAIN

14-across – Knowing about false icon, failed to impress : CUTNOICE

17-across – Say That was funny!, then tour model village : LEGOLAND

18-across – Mausoleum site’s £1K value reduced by 33% : AGRA

21-across – Strong second eleven players each get forward quickly : FULLSTEAMAHEAD

23-across – Where chests are looked after, is writhing outside of emergency room in awful pain : CONTAINER

24-across – See 23 : PORTS

25-across – Passion exhibited in novel case : SHEATHE

26-across – Make a better offer : LAYODDS

1-down – Beastly young spy boss trespassing on Q Division? : LAMB

2-down – Cycle across carpet with weapon, giving a look of disdain : WITHERINGGLANCE

3-down – Nameless type in A&E scrape : ABRADE

4-down – To repress lecturer going through first of epileptic seizures, stood up : STIFLE

5-down – Try very hard to pull replacement player over, collecting cheers! : BUSTAGUT

6-down – Where to get taught in present-day European capital and afflicted round former one : SORBONNE

7-down – Christian song corrupted by editor might elicit such a question : ISNOTHINGSACRED

8-down – Open cut? Yes, across road : OVERTHEWAY

12-down – Walk into sci-fi expert’s group : SMALLFACES

15-down – Outstanding performer on court contracted canine fever : CLASSACT

16-down – Prisoner’s nice warm coat, perhaps sleeveless : INTERNEE

19-down – Smell put up by Liberal, having no principles : AMORAL

20-down – Takeaway Catholic, well-equipped for child-bearing? : CHIPPY

22-down – Noel, Liam & Co are unloved, like Status Quo : ASIS

1-across – Do good with second language : SHINDIG

5-across – Sauce, when cold, goes in sort of boat : TABASCO

9-across – Guys possibly helping to make Europe secure : ROPES

10-across – A Greek city seen by Orlando that’s very sweet : ASPARTAME

11-across – Animal twisted and turned without justification : UNGROUNDED

12-across – Visit Bath and Wells? : SEE

14-across – Withdraw clobber with tears flowing : BEATARETREAT

18-across – Song written by Lennon for group : COMETOGETHER

21-across – It’s all right hugging a tree : OAK

22-across – Writer of Swedish series about doctor — originally British medical drama series : STRINDBERG

25-across – Strange approach with yearbooks : APOCRYPHA

26-across – Tongue put right into bouquet : NORSE

27-across – Additional empty chest in passage : EXTRACT

28-across – Anne’s place keeps last of banana splits : CLEAVES

1-down – Grow up with short story collection : SPROUT

2-down – Jumping Jack ignored fresh challenge : IMPUGN

3-down – Frost, say, excelled with pen, revealing deceit : DISHONESTY

4-down – Show amusement about a tiny amount : GRAIN

5-down – With respect to novel, it’s not to be published : TOPSECRET

6-down – Heading for Bristol on one vessel or another : BARK

7-down – Got cracking with poles not right for airport : STANSTED

8-down – Show cuckoo a treetop : OPERETTA

13-down – Showing up two hours before Cinderella’s ragtime ball : ATTENDANCE

15-down – Jam jar under clothing : TIGHTSPOT

16-down – Cheerleader and old boy in wicked tribute : ACCOLADE

17-down – Discover small donkey abroad : SMOKEOUT

19-down – Female rugby sides? See play : HENRYV

20-down – Go on without PR for scary female : OGRESS

23-down – Patriarch — one with article in pouch : ISAAC

24-down – Song about Republican in Alaska, primarily : ARIA

9-across – Sailor visiting poor region around Irrawaddy’s source finds indigenous inhabitant : ABORIGINE

10-across – Speak of lead-free dairy product : UTTER

11-across – Play containing one old 3-D scene : DIORAMA

12-across – Setter playing the part of man with disease : MEASLES

13-across – Potty in toilet nearly emptied : LOONY

14-across – Blue prepared to retain record : DEPRESSED

16-across – Sincere gent gets bras undone for women’s medical examination : BREASTSCREENING

19-across – Bow tie refashioned by court designer : ARCHITECT

21-across – Vanquished, beheaded and consumed : EATEN

22-across – Why punishment? : WHATFOR

23-across – Dog adopted by fortune-teller is less likely to suffer harm : SECURER

24-across – Post a newspaper to the Queen : AFTER

25-across – Wise to sulk about Enid dancing with former partner? : EXPEDIENT

1-down – Has the ability to deal somehow with supporting structure for bust lighting : CANDELABRA

2-down – Satellite absorbing negative energy is all one colour : MONOTONE

3-down – Large woman’s crime? : BIGAMY

4-down – Keen to upset drama queen : DIVA

5-down – Willingness to cooperate with new mates before rescheduled trip around island : TEAMSPIRIT

6-down – African woman captivating Scandinavians : SUDANESE

7-down – Hunts under cover for pieces of plants : STALKS

8-down – God of love turning up in pain : EROS

14-down – Dash for a curry, say, getting scoffed outside front of restaurant : DISHEARTEN

15-down – Immoral character entered age falsely : DEGENERATE

17-down – Worried, if priest’s in aeroplane! : SPITFIRE

18-down – Buried together with revolutionary : INTERRED

20-down – Shed tears about a female at last — sneaky! : CRAFTY

21-down – Small company used recycled Portuguese money once : ESCUDO

22-down – Listened to music in cloak : WRAP

23-down – Little sister, clutching Pimms, initially drinks delicately : SIPS

1-across – Enter horse in pet competition and stop dallying! : CATCHUP

5-across – Driver about to pocket one million, back in taxi not keeping fare down : BULIMIC

9-across – Perhaps Indian’s ornate canoe : OCEAN

10-across – See 2 : KNOWLEDGE

11-across – Folk gathering mostly jeered Mary Poppins? : HOOTENANNY

12-across – Tips from expert for floral screens, as accompaniment to blinds? : EFFS

14-across – Tasteless fellows donning this scruffy bit of flannel : BLANDISHMENT

18-across – Rock singer’s lost stone, adopting good recipe for veg : SPRINGGREENS

21-across – Drunken fling is stupidity : TOSH

22-across – Oh for a tale of adventure on the high seas! : WESTWARDHO

25-across – Elder statesman in US : PRESBYTER

26-across – Soak putting away litre in confession from one down? : IMBUE

27-across – King stopped guards in need of evening out : CREASED

28-across – Analyse Rome’s Hell worshippers? : DISSECT

1-down – Antique Fate unwilling to interrupt business : CLOTHO

2-down – New ref took latitude, playing advantage for Eden Hazard : TREEOF

3-down – Dash with antelope across river in remote region : HINTERLAND

4-down – Proper way to prepare for a snog, we’re told : PUKKA

5-down – Staple sticking right in head — charming! : BROWNRICE

6-down – How amusing walls line lounge : LOLL

7-down – Adverb I repeatedly formed incorrectly : MODIFIER

8-down – Protector of wood that’s vast and old in part of Greece : CREOSOTE

13-down – Shatter a thespian’s illusions : PHANTASIES

15-down – We’re told any government chosen leaves English without proper care : NEGLECTED

16-down – Sort of spin one thus put on an issue : ISOTOPIC

17-down – XI said to give trouble for the spectator : CROSSEYE

19-down – Like food from Spain the Spanish offer up : EDIBLE

20-down – Part of Channel is indeed fast : SOLENT

23-down – Sick, knocking back vermouth and wine : TIRED

24-down – Wader again following current : IBIS

5-across – French star having party in pub before closing time : BARDOT

6-across – Learners that you finally supplied with driving aids : TUTEES

9-across – Coward’s end is elsewhere in conflict at sea : CODWAR

10-across – Minimal intelligence? : MICRODOT

11-across – Youngster’s finishes counting towards score : TEEN

12-across – Folder with task organised for dealers : TRADESFOLK

13-across – Complete parts of it repeatedly, as in some places here : DOTTHEISAND

18-across – See 13 : CROSSTHETS

21-across – Unsettled, with low temperature : MOOT

22-across – Sit exam — holding it back is extremely silly : DOTTIEST

23-across – A lot of people in the wrong — setter and solver backed out : THRONG

24-across – In this way, editor is influenced : SWAYED

25-across – Uncertainly move infant in discomfort? Not hot, however : TEETER

1-down – Have a fit, finally, as part of blazing row in town : GROWINTO

2-down – Over and over again, interrupting journey north for detective : POIROT

3-down – Look for some 12 who deal with cuts : BUTCHERS

4-down – Good sort including East European in drive : TEEOFF

5-down – Worker, perhaps, holding up excessively small footwear : BOOTEE

7-down – Mishandled pistol went off : SPOILT

8-down – Tools gripping inside of ear for piercing operations : IMPALEMENTS

14-down – Bound to find them, oddly, on the left : TETHERED

15-down – Able to figure out true mean, somehow : NUMERATE

16-down – Skill is found around old part of France : ARTOIS

17-down – Tree in which rook sits before moving : CORNER

19-down – First section’s set up for governor once : SATRAP

20-down – Piece of furniture in which to put a kind of shirt : SETTEE