Daily Answers

1-across – Tragic, winning my game? : UPSETTING

6-across – Thaw out, eh? : WHAT

8-across – Country with possible 21: slee __ snow? : THAILAND

9-across – Honeysuckle primarily in yellowish drink : SHANDY

10-across – 12 B 21? : BRAINY

11-across – Black line’s radius, different rings in the news? : NORTHERN

12-across – Cheerful 21? : BRIGHT

15-across – Huge winger, fat, tackling half-cut criminal : SUPERJET

16-across – Old newspapers for old daily, perhaps? : OFTTIMES

19-across – I’m going past organ carrying book : BYEBYE

21-across – See much natural growth sustaining account in recession : FORECAST

22-across – 21 wanted? : WETAND

24-across – A noted 21? : STORMY

25-across – Every so often lunch again spoiled, seeing piece of loose skin : HANGNAIL

26-across – In red: a mild cheese : EDAM

27-across – Rarely failing, expert passing competition : RELAYRACE

1-down – Hard to plug druggie as guide : USHER

2-down – S-sick sport : SAILING

3-down – Online drink, low : TEARY

4-down – Loose end isn’t for notches : INDENTS

5-down – Modern eatery’s good Mars bar? : GASTROPUB

6-down – See 24 : WEATHER

7-down – See 12 : ANDBREEZY

13-down – Brought up again, sort of related : REFLOATED

14-down – Someone playing to pen male whose teeth cut as adventurer : TOMSAWYER

17-down – Article more unlikely, it being unproven? : THEOREM

18-down – Placed bottom, football team lacking the water carrier : SATCHEL

20-down – Country with an East End Charlton, Iraq, oddly? : ESTONIA

22-down – See 22 across : WINDY

23-down – Green water rising : NAIVE

1-across – Part of the UK restricted by offensive discipline : PUNISH

4-across – Farm animal in support bandage looking bad-tempered : SCOWLING

9-across – Some Californian wine? It’s seen over time as rubbish : LITTER

10-across – Plant that’s alien to be sure : TUBEROSE

11-across – Pre-eminent Heather, the woman featured in tribute after game : RULINGTHEROAST

13-across – Horses shock ducks — aggressive group going in? : APPALOOSAS

14-across – Instrument not a provider of accurate information, we hear : LYRE

16-across – Struggle with material in short supply : TOIL

18-across – Breaker of promise, thrice ultimately : SIMONPETER

21-across – Pasquale, inside working, using long obscure words : SESQUIPEDALIAN

23-across – Farmers managed half-hearted thanks : RANCHERS

24-across – One running up to man in helmet or hat? : BOWLER

25-across – Painter has knocked back drink, belonging to a celebrated group : MURALIST

26-across – Harmony’s last thing on the shop floor : STOREY

1-down – Register one of those in the aviary? : POLL

2-down – Call at table, suggesting preference for sirloin or T-bone? : NOTRUMP

3-down – Treats mostly set up in glasses : SPECIALS

5-down – Made a loss and had to take one’s medicine? : CAUGHTACOLD

6-down – The man on river in dry boat : WHERRY

7-down – Is little woman full of love good for sexual union? : ISOGAMY

8-down – Spooner’s Sunday clothes? Not what would normally be seen in the pub : GUESTBEER

12-down – Pastor doing wrong is far from completely OK : GOODINPARTS

13-down – Something to treat disease? It’s carried up by a nurse, frenzied maiden : ANTISERUM

15-down – Talk about bad flood! : SPILLOUT

17-down – A sinner being troubled, more unstable : INSANER

19-down – Only clips a vehicle : TRAILER

20-down – Exhausted, only 10% there at the end in capacity : BUSHEL

22-down – Victim of attack to ask for divine help, audibly : PREY

1-across – Crackling in exaltation, having left the City : STATIC

5-across – On a ship overseas subject to right promotion : ABOARD

8-across – One might 18 12, amazing feat involving beer : TEALEAF

9-across – Slight one who’d be profligate with a penny for a pound : SLENDER

11-across – Out of sight tonight, no possibility of wild goose chase : HIDINGTONOTHING

12-across – See 18 : INCH

13-across – Trivial about one role in three : TRIPARTITE

17-across – Keeping page almost at start of chapter in honour : OBSERVANCE

18-across – Appropriate short distance : HALF

20-across – The very one, she’d accepted climax frequently sinful : SPEAKOFTHEDEVIL

23-across – Desired study reversed after a long time : YEARNED

24-across – The ultimate in domestic energy distribution for 18 11 to 20 : REGENCY

25-across – Oldest ancestor’s position : STANCE

26-across – Bananas ordered right away and eaten : ERODED

2-down – Trade cuts out sad flowers : TEARDUCTS

3-down – Finished clue for E : THEEND

4-down – Restaurant music finale: celebration in song : CAFETERIA

5-down – Crime of boy on a rooftop : ARSON

6-down – Clear river akin to 18 12 : OVERTURE

7-down – One for love in wireless spokes : RADII

8-down – 18 12 6 writer starting to compose short poem broadcaster heard of first : TCHAIKOVSKY

10-down – Really gutted, having eaten bird, no longer hungry, alas : REGRETFULLY

14-down – Cards shuffled or he’s one with a load : PACKHORSE

15-down – At home having a ball around five — that’s early : INADVANCE

16-down – Not wild or forced entry : BROKENIN

19-down – Cockney tried to let one in at a leisurely pace : ADAGIO

21-down – Spot on skirt’s first to go in intercourse : EXACT

22-down – Sweet cheat : FUDGE

7-across – They make cold scalp hot in a blizzard : CLOTHCAPS

8-across – Banana split by Monsieur Escoffier, le premier pour préparer une bombe? : PLANT

9-across – As it has no limit, no end of folly : ASININITY

10-across – Pudding cooked ? I’ll check with wife, say : BAKED

12-across – Egg — perhaps pheasant — found by Lawrence : GAMETE

13-across – Teaser: eg oddities and whatnots : ETAGERES

16-across – Part of the story of English pastry is about the land : EPISODE

19-across – Here nomads eat sheep’s head for pudding : DESSERT

22-across – One has faith in the UK’s endless fishing? It contains the seeds of complete annihilation : ANGLICAN

25-across – Pudding for tea, say? Where’s that? : AFTERS

27-across – See 8 : AMINE

28-across – Police duo outlook? : COUPDOEIL

29-across – Pudding could be said to anticipate shortage : BLACK

30-across – Barge recklessly overloaded with pudding ingredient, a root : SUGARBEET

1-down – See 10 : ALASKA

2-down – Clue to tone of pudding : ETONMESS

3-down – Basis of sweet course in times past: a lot of ale : SCONCE

4-down – To make pudding, boil diced ingredients in empty tank : SPOTTED

5-down – Indulge in pudding : PLEASE

6-down – Spooner’s starting to say joints are a problem with cold : SNEEZE

11-down – See 17 : RATE

14-down – See 16 : RTE

15-down – Boatman’s in the way — it’s deliberate : SIT

16-down – Follow up point in game : ECA

17-down – Ingredient of pudding: rat? Evidently, one says: No thank you : ING

18-down – See 4 : DICK

20-down – Strange custom, to live in Devon : SUTCOMBE

21-down – Sharp, concise facts: key on the Guardian : INFOCUS

23-down – Viz features Spooner’s problem joint : NAMELY

24-down – Folly of starting to let unhealthy nutrition affect chubby youths : LUNACY

25-down – Entice with an apple crumble : APPEAL

26-down – Agitated and drunk after end of dinner : ROILED

1-across – Grub knocked back, American fool : DOOFUS

5-across – Keen perception in place of old stories? : SAGACITY

9-across – Grain was short in promotion, creating competition among retailers : PRICEWAR

10-across – Pronounced as venson? I haven’t a clue! : NOIDEA

11-across – Jolly good to punch Hitler, hated terribly : LIGHTHEARTED

13-across – Sport to sell, as a rugby ball’s passed? : GOLF

14-across – Recklessly determined man, fast pocketing pound : HELLBENT

17-across – Ten was poorly invested in money for boater : COXSWAIN

18-across – Some news, a bit of excitement : ITEM

20-across – Reproduce artist, say, for the royal issue : PRINCESSANNE

23-across – Determined to get female eating horse, then surprised ultimately : DOGGED

24-across – Wear thin pants, exposing one’s private parts : INTHERAW

25-across – Face ship holding an inferno back : SANSERIF

26-across – Intent to try returning dairy product : YOGURT

2-down – Vegetable fine with radish, wanting plate : OKRA

3-down – Information including dossier written up for surgical operations : FACELIFTS

4-down – Amount of money earned in the City? That stinks! : SEWAGE

5-down – Namely lab animal caught, having paws to smell as scent tested : SCRATCHANDSNIFF

6-down – Taking great care, trap left for man in the country : GINGERLY

7-down – Person yelling Score! in ear, off and on : CRIER

8-down – The display involving uranium is beneath that : THEREUNDER

12-down – Clap hands initially on ogre, or a deviant : GONORRHOEA

15-down – Breakfast item that can’t be beaten? : BOILEDEGG

16-down – One’s days are numbered : CALENDAR

19-down – Conceited, not living with pigs? : SNOTTY

21-down – Spiced drink, say, drunk by setter, not going down : NEGUS

22-down – Fish surviving wife? : PARR