Daily Answers

1-across – Expect super puzzle by Qaos! : PRESUME

5-across – Perhaps miracle ball reversing direction with side spin? : OPUSDEI

10-across – Capital offences should loosen offending heads : OSLO

11-across – Red Sea storms follow fresh onset of rain, he announces : NEWSREADER

12-across – Mashed potatoes not so much used for brewing : TEAPOT

13-across – Start getting excited about revolutionary mechanical devices : RATCHETS

14-across – Rough school expelled Oscar, taking back paper first and rulers : OLIGARCHS

16-across – Hit for 6? Time to stop : STUNT

17-across – Poet, one you reportedly study : AUDEN

19-across – Like the prime number eluding da Vinci, extremely hidden : INVISIBLE

23-across – Actor likes improvising to mask no good play’s finale : KINGSLEY

24-across – Huge, funny man disguises the end of punchlines : COSMIC

26-across – Husband does movie reels and family films : HOMEVIDEOS

27-across – Colour page with stationery : PINK

28-across – Short on game experience : UNDERGO

29-across – South Africa follows newspaper material : ORGANZA

2-down – Brand market drops 25% after collapse of USSR : RUSSELL

3-down – Vessel gathers liquids up : SLOOP

4-down – Scary figure in gym on steroids : MONSTER

6-down – I tape record criminally? : PIRATE

7-down – Western food? : SPAGHETTI

8-down – 11 over, 10 over? : EVERTON

9-down – When body shakes with fear, sitting on European insect : DWARFHONEYBEE

15-down – Birds from Spooner’s happy country? : GREYGEESE

18-down – Motherless, unromantic savage lifts hem of skirt, the horny beast : UNICORN

20-down – Cold is muffled by fashion, otherwise it can bite : INCISOR

21-down – German mathematician raises variable in book that’s the origin of logic : LEIBNIZ

22-down – Catapult over its frame to get airborne : FLYING

25-down – Brown’s record? Invading Afghanistan, initially : SEPIA

1-across – Attend tailor, me? Unlikely : TATTERDEMALION

9-across – In high spirits once over German worker : EXUBERANT

10-across – Prime cuts of beef — rare and, very occasionally, well done : BRAVO

11-across – To whom the mouse and the lion pose a problem : AESOP

12-across – In wrong gear? That’s right, officer : BRIGADIER

13-across – A case of home position : INSTANCE

14-across – Brief ascent with short cut to reach the top : CLIMAX

17-across – Tawdry trim with no end of ostentation : GARISH

19-across – Spread : BAGUETTE

22-across – Rank by comparison of writer’s novel : FROWSTIER

24-across – Aim when holy and delicate for a key change : GRAIL

25-across – No lover has a broken heart : HATER

26-across – Covering party in spilt red wine : EIDERDOWN

27-across – Business that’s promising to lose weight with sturdy exercise : GROWTHINDUSTRY

1-down – Spooner’s embarrassing honest folk in play : THETAMINGOFTHE

2-down – Examples of stating the bleeding obvious suit Mrs Faulty : TRUISMS

3-down – Models are not liable to have bottom wiped by Swedish bloke : EXEMPLARS

4-down – Ward problem : DRAWBACK

5-down – Framework said to follow April Fools? : MATRIX

6-down – Sign up to take part in bar billiards : LIBRA

7-down – Mansion built for personal pleasure : ONANISM

8-down – Solver’s old half-length cycle round ambassador : YOUREXCELLENCY

15-down – Look up fish at university in France, a mythical creature : LOUPGAROU

16-down – Hard rain’s gonna fall for 23 : HARRIDAN

18-down – Morning caller’s rest, woolly jumper on top : ROOSTER

20-down – What’s warm? : THAWOUT

21-down – Advanced knot securing loose end : HITECH

23-down – See 1 : SHREW

1-across – An advance order : FORWARDMARCH

8-across – Current charges for what a solicitor does : ACCOSTS

9-across – Termini switched for the time being : INTERIM

11-across – Student of the past : ALUMNUS

12-across – Often behind bars when captured, but may be paroled : LEOPARD

13-across – Losses from strikes : TOLLS

14-across – An old man with the twitch won’t join in the fun : APATHETIC

16-across – Somewhat eccentric rest facility? : OFFCENTRE

19-across – Not a bow — not even a smile, apparently : STERN

21-across – Most women have this combination of give and take : HANDBAG

23-across – What this youngster’s mother did? : BEARCUB

24-across – Embarrassment of companion ends with a smile : CHAGRIN

25-across – Form of elation that may be cut short : TOENAIL

26-across – Noted all past blunders in one’s lifetime : ALLOTTEDSPAN

1-down – It’s real, topless or not! : FACTUAL

2-down – Takes offence at gifts not being opened : RESENTS

3-down – Help worker to find a mate? : ASSISTANT

4-down – Not well, goes to doctor — that’s the routine : DRILL

5-down – City that sent missionaries out to China : ANTIOCH

6-down – Fruit ran short outside : CURRANT

7-down – I catch pastor out in dire straits : CATASTROPHIC

10-down – Doctors’ dance held in the gymnasium? : MEDICINEBALL

15-down – Put out account with wrong rebate to daughter : ACERBATED

17-down – Flier in a flat spin : FANTAIL

18-down – An order to stop amber changing to green? : EMBARGO

19-down – Mix a cocktail to revitalise people : SHAKEUP

20-down – Can he, in disturbance, hold fast? : ENCHAIN

22-down – DNA unit takes time to find in a cat-like animal : GENET

1-across – One’s taken to court to crush illegal activity : SQUASH

4-across – One of two circles, one left to turn around : TROPIC

9-across – Totally reliable friend endlessly quaffing drink : CAST

10-across – Aubrey’s work as it happens in underpants : BRIEFLIVES

11-across – Stab with tip of dagger in weapon : PIERCE

12-across – A parting pursuit involving death that’s memorable : HAUNTING

13-across – Wearing cooler hat, not so sophisticated : INFANTILE

15-across – Pot plant planted initially on border : HEMP

16-across – Just OK : FAIR

17-across – Cross waves in secret to defect, ultimately : INTERSECT

21-across – Sailor out of tune, that’s plain : SALTFLAT

22-across – Raise the dead with word of hesitation in old man : EXHUME

24-across – Disease caught by pair, lots scattered in terror : SPOILTBRAT

25-across – See 9 : IRON

26-across – Dissolute king half consumed by evidence of herpes? : RAKISH

27-across – See 1 : RACKET

1-down – See 19 : STATION

2-down – Blurt out rank : UTTER

3-down – Matter caught between modes of transport : SUBJECT

5-down – Red setter, did you say? : RUFOUS

6-down – It’s not worth doing, to be blunt : POINTLESS

7-down – Inclination to enter competition to make a great profit : CLEANUP

8-down – Alchemists in cooking about right — to earn these? : MICHELINSTARS

14-down – Not quite clever enough — or too much? : ABITTHICK

16-down – Party girl, a bird? : FLAPPER

18-down – Avenger waiting to serve God : ELECTRA

19-down – In America, where one goes to monitor facts after a review : COMFORT

20-down – Gas faults in need of repair : FLATUS

23-down – Raise yokel to strangle duck : HOICK

7-across – Outfitter is more flexible when holding interest : SUPPLIER

9-across – Alice formulated recipe for cake : ECLAIR

10-across – Thrilled by pronounced smell : SENT

11-across – The nude ran, tumbling on the bottom : UNDERNEATH

12-across – Books appearing in amusing advert : NOTICE

14-across – Judge returned hand tool to prospector : EXAMINER

15-across – Earnest doctor teased : SEDATE

17-across – Cash conversion : CHANGE

20-across – Protect Penny’s modesty : PRESERVE

22-across – Found ecstasy in container : CREATE

23-across – Uproar during address for investiture : ORDINATION

24-across – Contradict Yankee after study : DENY

25-across – See Charlie wearing revolutionary hat : CLOCHE

26-across – Boss’s unfeeling complaint : HEADCOLD

1-down – Many fancy our menus : NUMEROUS

2-down – Little bit of jam : SPOT

3-down – Speechless about batting a short time : MINUTE

4-down – Censure salesman over fish : REPROACH

5-down – Fidelity, for example, is required in marriage : ALLEGIANCE

6-down – Strive to keep right, united in integrity : VIRTUE

8-down – Soldiers consider rescue : REDEEM

13-down – Obscure urge to embrace little girl : INDISTINCT

16-down – Stands at the game to see Queen in shadows : TERRACES

18-down – Catch ten fresh fish : ENTANGLE

19-down – Queen’s priest’s hard to like : RELISH

21-down – Artists bank hardly ever : RARELY

22-down – Campaign endlessly for painting : CANVAS

24-down – Tie up weed : DOCK