Daily Answers

1-across – Where they wash French articles without water : LAUNDRY

5-across – The cup-holders? : SAUCERS

10-across – Light joinery? : LINK

11-across – A fight, but nobody is charged : FREEFORALL

12-across – When speaking, gathers crowds : HORDES

13-across – Avengers may explode deadly weapon : NERVEGAS

14-across – Sleeping partner? : BEDFELLOW

16-across – Flourish in US state prison : RIPEN

17-across – Hit number : SCORE

19-across – Freeloader surgeon prepared to accept credit : SCROUNGER

23-across – A metaphor is mixed but its content is pithy : APHORISM

24-across – One of two — or one in three, perhaps : EITHER

26-across – A habit that will keep one dry : ABSTINENCE

27-across – Summon attendant : PAGE

28-across – It’s beastly being a long time in one occupation : LEONINE

29-across – Position of jockey produces a certain pace : ASTRIDE

2-down – Fat and foolish, said Poe : ADIPOSE

3-down – Barely visible : NAKED

4-down – Denial of fault in the show ring : REFUSAL

6-down – Maintain a strong company : AFFIRM

7-down – Ascertain unusual view of a philosopher : CARTESIAN

8-down – New pop CD — free! : RELEASE

9-down – Check for mortar to be used in fortification : REINFORCEMENT

15-down – Out of one’s mind : FORGOTTEN

18-down – Prevail over island uprising, being effic­ient : CAPABLE

20-down – Cover removers in action at start of cricket match : OPENERS

21-down – A thousand accepted by university award, set up and developed : EMERGED

22-down – Nominally commit oneself to work? : SIGNON

25-down – Fall off in a spill : TAPER

9-across – Copper pot endlessly cooked nice meal, lacking energy : POLICEMAN

10-across – Mercury’s group on board? : QUEEN

11-across – Chanel’s biggest fan might be shy : COCONUT

12-across – ’80s band dates ’80s musician : ERASURE

13-across – Bronze knight, fighting machine : TANK

14-across – Carbon copies are plastic, due to manufacture : DUPLICATES

15-across – Argonaut thrown into faraway land : ACASTUS

17-across – Platinum blonde plays any minor role after film’s finale : MARILYN

19-across – Buff over me in sparkle test : EXPERIMENT

22-across – Lead man of our time : HEAD

23-across – Fool swallows ’ard piece of bacon : LARDOON

24-across – Take back miracle cure : RECLAIM

26-across – Services and repairs audio : RITES

27-across – Journeyed beyond, round Uranus first, then Earth — spinning and hollow : OUTRIDDEN

1-down – They might circle several core planets, after one take-off : SPACETRAVELLERS

2-down – Location of new tiny arrivals, initially : PLACENTA

3-down – Tin found following small survey : SCAN

4-down – Mature as pickled hams : AMATEURS

5-down – Old 10’s above short man’s temper : ANNEAL

6-down – Mark nicks one in four with one on patrol : SQUADCAR

7-down – Solution bottled in litres, ultimately : RESULT

8-down – Brown’s work for England made sons rebel : ANGELSANDDEMONS

16-down – Love to run around island with energy? Not me! : TORTOISE

17-down – Iron, it was forged in my childhood : MINORITY

18-down – A nautical way to pull fish up by pole : LEEWARDS

20-down – Silver — perhaps small change’s rising cost? : PIRATE

21-down – See 17 across : MONROE

25-down – Nickel possibly two thirds of Alnico compound : COIN

1-across – Flower from Colorado, white one in field : COWSLIP

5-across – Insect crosses screen over swallow : BELIEVE

9-across – Old king finds duck among some swans : HEROD

10-across – Shorten it — otherwise it’s most unpleasant : THORNIEST

11-across – Large bird covers one with masonry : STONEWORK

12-across – Catch criminal flicking a tree creeper : LIANA

13-across – Seal is backing a short breather : SIGIL

15-across – They turn hummingbirds jaws without resistance : OFFBREAKS

18-across – Reptiles moving around end of Pompey’s colonnade : PERISTYLE

19-across – Locates it among uneven steps : SITES

21-across – Uniform with medal and large cluster of flowers : UMBEL

23-across – Undressed by coffee counter, being shameless : BAREFACED

25-across – Grouse about main part with legend : PTARMIGAN

26-across – It’s self-evident — Douglas here wants a kiss first : AXIOM

27-across – After a little rotation, sharpen the file : DATASET

28-across – Oriental seabird follows stormy sea : EASTERN

1-down – Charlie shoots wildly at a pair of anchors : COHOSTS

2-down – Hawk is close to finding headless fish : WARMONGER

3-down – Dipper left in Scottish stream : LADLE

4-down – Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science : PETROLOGY

5-down – Bear with blackbird : BROOK

6-down – Local bosses catch doctor propped up in Rising Sun : LANDLORDS

7-down – René Magritte’s behind purge : ENEMA

8-down – Catches footloose spouse climbing pole : ENTRAPS

14-down – Battle to plug deficit at American research facility : LOSALAMOS

16-down – Turkey might be let out of oven : FREERANGE

17-down – Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock : ANTICLINE

18-down – Chose to be decorated with feathers, parrot’s head included : PLUMPED

20-down – Backing musician attaches wing on rook, say : SIDEMAN

22-down – Crow shot inside court : BOAST

23-down – It follows a heron out of river to breed : BEGET

24-down – Bunting runs out of energy : FLAGS

1-across – Slightly more detailed clothes for one in a sequined costume : MATADOR

5-across – Is one too tired for the Listener? : BICYCLE

9-across – Cuckoo clocks, chocolates, snow, Alps and Heidi ultimately — this? : SWISS

10-across – Identify large drink — and be affected by it? : SEEDOUBLE

11-across – Napier’s figures almost right, not entirely wrong : LOGARITHMS

12-across – Some light, or heavy, supporting structure : BEAM

14-across – Barely trendy big but not good musician, losing head as superstar : JUSTINBIEBER

18-across – Picture dork eating chicken with badger on the side in New York : WHENHARRYMET

21-across – See 24 : SPAN

22-across – Paul’s wife in cutie snatched by virtually mad African : ZIMBABWEAN

25-across – A boy heading west, a country being taken over, leader in exile : DALAILAMA

26-across – See 18 : SALLY

27-across – Cut round opening in pine to get sap : DEPLETE

28-across – Dog missing old wine a ton : HUNDRED

1-down – Club with a scheme to prepare a strip of beef? : MUSCLE

2-down – Scrawny geezer, less posh — I don’t recall his name : THINGY

3-down – Current housing is heading for trouble, so upset : DISTRAUGHT

4-down – Second paper, one among the others : RESIT

5-down – Bitter dough? : BEERMONEY

6-down – Diminutive reptile buried in volcanic rock : CROC

7-down – Front : COBWEBBY

8-down – Always before involving the state, testament erased : EVERMORE

13-down – Rubbish bin arrives as area emptying the water : RIVERBASIN

15-down – Stop Britartist installing the first bit of rubbish in gallery : TERMINATE

16-down – Dowdiest sort of paper like this : TWOSIDED

17-down – Measure in computer language left smoke, in the words of Keats, to rise : MEGAFLOP

19-down – Chopper in man, pronounced : FELLER

20-down – As hair without bleach revived, might you say? : UNDYED

23-down – See 1 : BEACH

24-down – Years of being in pain, self-destructive : LIFE

9-across – Laundries unusually reliant on breeze, in the main : UNDERSAIL

10-across – Return of English relation put one in good spirits : ELATE

11-across – Austere Midwesterner? : STERN

12-across – Settled around area with good name and didn’t move : STAGNATED

13-across – Food neighbour mostly located in fruit tree : PABULUM

14-across – Dwellings for some animals — donkeys, say : BURROWS

17-across – Stream going west, then east, in general : WOLFE

19-across – The Australian yachts, primarily, that can be seen in Perth : TAY

20-across – Poetic section’s specialised language adding nothing : CANTO

21-across – Person who provides redress, soundly exemplified in other answers : RIGHTER

22-across – Clubs, perhaps, taking bad ref to heart too much : SURFEIT

24-across – Performing in theatre set out in natural shade : EARTHTONE

26-across – Bolts securing new farm buildings : BARNS

28-across – Pressure around referee, initially, to give red card : HEART

29-across – Man on board in total disarray gets reprimand : TALKINGTO

1-down – Finishing touches in sketch you made — needs colours : HUES

2-down – This part of speech invariably is : ADVERB

3-down – Writes poorly about broken link, most in need of press : WRINKLIEST

4-down – Way to get hostage back from Tehran, somehow : RANSOM

5-down – Helper in church has to revise something that warns sailors, we hear : ALTARBOY

6-down – Intense lamentation : KEEN

7-down – Small tree is what damaged cape : HAWTHORN

8-down – Observe what’s indicated on kind of instrument, it’s said : READ

13-down – Man imprisoned, with ruler in control : POWER

15-down – Startle with piece about local turning up African mammal : ROCKRABBIT

16-down – Drive away on time and move fast : SHOOT

18-down – Kind of ball one player wishes for another? : LEGBREAK

19-down – Aggressively solicits around vessel for lots of voters : TURNOUTS

22-down – Not confident about English novel finally left in hard cover? : SHELLY

23-down – Upset, for example, composer put in angry mood : ENRAGE

24-down – Nymph’s character as communicated on radio : ECHO

25-down – Part of whatever is object of loathing : HATE

27-down – Pack to put between opposing card-players : STOW