Daily Answers

1-across – Guilelessness and love seen in a dog : CANDOUR

5-across – Jewish father puts fresh bar on some pork : ABRAHAM

10-across – Block and tackle : STOP

11-across – Creatures ruining the marrows : EARTHWORMS

12-across – Newspaperman to be found in dire trouble : EDITOR

13-across – Too late for an American cropper to come a cropper? : FALLOVER

14-across – Colour scheme that’s out of date : APARTHEID

16-across – Climbing gear? : FIRST

17-across – Checks over container ship outside : SCANS

19-across – It’s not material for a religious song : SPIRITUAL

23-across – Drunk male cuts drink : MUSCATEL

24-across – Intently study for every purpose : PERUSE

26-across – Adjustments for expenses? : ALLOWANCES

27-across – American tug? : YANK

28-across – It’s customary for injured escort to leave assault course exercise : ASUSUAL

29-across – Rings again and cancels : REPEALS

2-down – Caused trouble, getting Bill and Edward out of bed : ACTEDUP

3-down – Largely drank up a store of supplies : DEPOT

4-down – Turn up in a foreign land : UNEARTH

6-down – Perform in panto horse perhaps? That creates interest : BEHALF

7-down – Advocate appearing for a Venetian explorer gains essential point : APOLOGIST

8-down – Having no object in bothering Melissa : AIMLESS

9-down – Driving force : TRAFFICPOLICE

15-down – Rush over to meet : RUNACROSS

18-down – Partners who dance up in close formation : COUPLES

20-down – A quick reply by one who is foiled? : RIPOSTE

21-down – Footballers’ magazine : ARSENAL

22-down – Capital power unit setting up in middle of road : OTTAWA

25-down – Reach the same sound conclusion : RHYME

8-across – Surrealist painter, boxing king, reptile : TERRAPIN

9-across – See 11 : OUTOF

10-across – What’s funny about stuff : STOW

11-across – Really good and mad : OUTOFSIGHT

12-across – See 19 : FONDER

14-across – Staging of Dynasty, including unstarted election process : MOUNTING

15-across – Sportingly go down the Blue Shady Club : SKYDIVE

17-across – Room cut into ready-assembled large fighting machine : REDARMY

20-across – Step into block for an out-of-this-world facility : SPACELAB

22-across – Leader of hike lost in quiet surroundings : SHEIKH

23-across – Copper outfit knocked back in mine blown up with TNT charge : INDICTMENT

24-across – Model racing driver : MOSS

25-across – See 19 : HEART

26-across – Native Americans appear to surround stock farm, cutting off river : COMANCHE

1-down – Remaining with a certain Captain Slug : LEFTHOOK

2-down – See 19 : GROW

3-down – Stink produced by rampant lion? : UPROAR

4-down – Make-up : ANATOMY

5-down – Hairdo, if of curls dipped in restorer : COIFFURE

6-down – Discarding performer’s act : STRIPTEASE

7-down – Three consecutive letters carried in two articles by northern national : AFGHAN

13-down – Instructive addict’s outburst: One state! : DIDACTICAL

16-down – Fly to see remake of Tati in Love — dire! : VOLITATE

18-down – See 19 : MAKESTHE

19-down – Saw the missing explanation for heightened feelings of love : ABSENCE

21-down – Effective as a striking puppet? : PUNCHY

22-down – Shut out male duo to keep this shut up : SHTUMM

24-down – See 11 : MIND

1-across – Obstructed editors going after troublemaker : IMPEDED

5-across – House records for believers in complex systems : HOLISTS

9-across – Attempts to capture queen and rooks, perhaps : BIRDS

10-across – Record supporter during play, having run wildly into disorderly battle : TURNTABLE

11-across – Spotting part of problem is hinge : BLEMISHING

12-across – Thing of little value — copy many answers here without a break : DOIT

14-across – Comic annual is hit for some Europeans : LITHUANIANS

18-across – Practical, as one is prone to be, facing garden? : DOWNTOEARTH

21-across – General name for group of plants as fuel, we hear : COLE

22-across – What young man may do in spring or autumn with current novel’s revision : FALLINLOVE

25-across – Sign pointing towards hotel not on? Absolutely : TOTHEHILT

26-across – Soundly beats it as a source of irritation : FLEAS

27-across – Stops some who believe in creator taking son in : DESISTS

28-across – Foreigner occupying street, striking : SALIENT

1-down – Consume minute fish that is put outside : IMBIBE

2-down – Queen holding up one drink or another : PORTER

3-down – Whisky, for instance, I even now put in fruit : DISTILLATE

4-down – Partner speaking slangily in European language : DUTCH

5-down – A lot of grim vexation about university lecturer who’s aggressive? : HARANGUER

6-down – Provides accommodation and reasons for reserving? : LETS

7-down – Part of a reckoning, but a lot’s going wrong : SUBTOTAL

8-down – Most pleasant minute in second trial : SWEETEST

13-down – Not appreciating multinational group taking a lot of fuel around hospital : UNTHANKFUL

15-down – Ways of treating broken heart with culinary treats : THERAPIES

16-down – Learned gold coin in river turned up : EDUCATED

17-down – Centuries for MCC, for example : TWELFTHS

19-down – Stick together with male in centre : COHERE

20-down – County with indefinable quality in which one may live : BEDSIT

23-down – Neighbours of 14 or 6, say : LETTS

24-down – Busy people in great musical trio, so-called : BEES

1-across – Charged item almost consuming deficit, so thrive : BLOSSOM

5-across – Film star’s last drink almost producing wind : MISTRAL

9-across – Place rings close to golden ring : ARENA

10-across – Vehicle wound round a bird : SALOONCAR

11-across – Was there nothing Ginger Spice accomplished that’s musical? : DIDGERIDOO

12-across – Knife initially piercing Chinese red shark : MAKO

14-across – L for Lansbury, long ago? : LABOURLEADER

18-across – Frank feeling nothing, man tucking into dessert : HEARTTOHEART

21-across – Early expression from baby’s movement : DADA

22-across – Lack of detail yet in Elgar’s variations : GENERALITY

25-across – Wind in vet, behind producing air : VENTILATE

26-across – Stone deep in earth kids played with : KEITH

27-across – See 6 : LEOPARD

28-across – Canonisations without pickled onions, devilish : SATANIC

1-down – Kind granny’s ultimate drink : BRANDY

2-down – Exaggerate content of book about composer, no end : OVERDO

3-down – Order papers on music, dance, etc, extra bits : SPAREPARTS

4-down – Christ with Noah booted genius : MESSI

5-down – Spice Girl on tour topless, one topless in Australia : MELBOURNE

6-down – Ounce — or oodles with prawn crackers : SNOW

7-down – See 26 : RICHARDS

8-down – Pig in fat gets left of old : LARBOARD

13-down – Risk holding onto reserve when stock prices are falling : BEARMARKET

15-down – Where you can count up to five, for example : ONONEHAND

16-down – Dispense with nefarious vixen : SHEDEVIL

17-down – Dance where canine bites joiner on middle of groin : FANDANGO

19-down – Individual giant houses for Renaissance man : TITIAN

20-down – Paul’s fat bottom wiped — fabulous! : MYTHIC

23-down – Chance in rugby game to get head ripped off : EVENS

24-down – Capital invested in sugar, I gathered : RIGA

1-across – Pirate can’t do this with mermaid, as some may ’ave said : COUNTERFEIT

9-across – Wind up having sex in a way-out place? : AGITATE

10-across – China possesses revolutionary weapon : MACHETE

11-across – Proper pair treated a first-time mother : PRIMIPARA

12-across – Active constituent of vodka or : VOTER

13-across – Drinks kid hasn’t finished : TEAS

14-across – Wife leaves grant aid outside of that detailed for lung disease : ASBESTOSIS

16-across – See 3 : OFRICHMOND

19-across – See 3 : HILL

21-across – Endless failure not for everyone — the rest developed talent : FLAIR

22-across – Use of weapons in second part of clue? : SWORDPLAY

24-across – Fruit from Madeira is insect-ridden : RAISINS

25-across – I tucked into God-awful starter, something pungent : AMMONIA

26-across – Outstanding peer in Brussels? : MANNEKENPIS

1-down – Philosophical approach, getting really ill before right email’s gone off : CRITICALREALISM

2-down – Puma might have a savoury taste : UMAMI

3-down – Song with : THELASS

4-down – Weird sorcerer’s ferret : RUMMAGE

5-down – Dig up 12’s mark given to wine in summer abroad : EXCAVATE

6-down – Sum of money making lonely content once : TWENTYSHILLINGS

7-down – Hindu magistrate at university in desert : RAJPUT

8-down – Refuse rebid, changing to spades : DEBRIS

15-down – Whip yellow topping for pudding to be eaten by young family member : SCORPION

16-down – Dark blue shoe? : OXFORD

17-down – Setter eating his first suet pudding is essential viewing : MUSTSEE

18-down – What may be produced from ten plus one: a product of 11? : NEONATE

20-down – Amateur given place on staff : LAYMAN

23-down – Block cross, as a result : DAMUP