Daily Answers

1-across – Free admission is not included for cycling event : MADISON

5-across – It stores information about retail costs, primarily in black lines : BARCODE

9-across – Less likely to bite fiddle with no piano : TAMER

10-across – Actor always open to comeback : TREVOREVE

11-across – Unlawfully accessed spreadsheets he left unlocked : TRESPASSED

12-across – Co-ordinate accommodation in timeshare : MESH

14-across – Sophisticated means of transport minister, say : METROPOLITAN

18-across – Omit to join search for exercise equipment : SKIPPINGROPE

21-across – State misfortune thus : ALAS

22-across – Prejudice domain name contract : COMPROMISE

25-across – Childish behaviour practised by footballers? : DRIBBLING

26-across – Vessel returned with cargo of gold to a country in the Pacific : NAURU

27-across – Upright type caught sweetheart in love affair : ROMANCE

28-across – Obey monarch with special powers, shocking treatment ensues : RESPECT

1-down – Doctor turned up Let It Be choral pieces : MOTETS

2-down – Smother beastly parents : DAMPEN

3-down – Tips sherpa’s cap off : SCRAPHEAPS

4-down – Upstanding Irishman pinches Tory leader’s bottom : NATES

5-down – 23 accepts alarm call from one working in the colonies : BEEKEEPER

6-down – Children lose head, being cross : ROOD

7-down – Averse to broadcasting Pigs out! : OVEREATS

8-down – Footballer’s revolutionary workers’ song offends trumpeter : ELEPHANT

13-down – Where customers ripped off fasteners around ankle : CLIPJOINTS

15-down – Mix up explosive? Marines do : RANDOMISE

16-down – First person to vilify one from 26 : ISLANDER

17-down – It symbolises a metal when spinning : TITANIUM

19-down – Drives in reverse over instrument, lacking concentration : DILUTE

20-down – Fruit spider on table around mid-July : RESULT

23-down – Signalling device for train attendant at railhead : PAGER

24-down – Scottish town where anything goes? : OBAN

1-across – Songster cut the grass : THRUSH

4-across – Injured scholar in arrears goes west : STABBED

9-across – An unpleasant duty impounding silver in Alaska : ANCHORAGE

10-across – Love making fuss over queen : ADORE

11-across – Husky is said to be a large creature : HORSE

12-across – Regions where cliches start off : LATITUDES

13-across – Call for worker in show : PAGEANT

15-across – Robust and hearty eccentric : EARTHY

17-across – Run from large snake : LADDER

19-across – Mark’s leading at pause in racing : PITSTOP

22-across – Note carried by plane or ship : FREIGHTER

24-across – Ring Cliff to get trophy : OSCAR

26-across – See about, say, a poem : ELEGY

27-across – Stucco is a puzzle to science : ACOUSTICS

28-across – Philosopher’s daughter stupidly rioted : DIDEROT

29-across – Give away soldier’s meat : REVEAL

1-down – Endlessly torment climber in cafe : TEASHOP

2-down – Competitor brilliant in a car : RACER

3-down – Nick, the eccentric, produces course record : SCORECARD

4-down – Abnormal respect for symbol of authority : SCEPTRE

5-down – Bill gets fitting from tailor : ADAPT

6-down – Dashing young men, lustful and inflamed : BLOODSHOT

7-down – Stylish, clean youth leader : DRESSY

8-down – Play in a small village : HAMLET

14-down – Pip is longing to capture primates : GRAPESEED

16-down – Turned up in badly made trousers, Earl? : RETROUSSE

18-down – Withdraw touching monograph : RETRACT

19-down – Fellow salesman’s up for a drink : PERNOD

20-down – Reading through America’s literature, initially : PERUSAL

21-down – Do wrong, having bad intention : OFFEND

23-down – German philosopher’s more cheerful : GAYER

25-down – Lecture about skin : CHIDE

7-across – No beer left? That’s the limit! : BITTEREND

8-across – A huge development in the city : HAGUE

9-across – Worn at funerals and clubs, for example : BLACKSUIT

10-across – Southern stretch of water to satisfy one’s desire : SLAKE

12-across – Solicitor to go to work — or decide not to? : OPTOUT

13-across – A gin before opening may let an actor down : TRAPDOOR

14-across – It may be charged or one may be charged with it : BATTERY

17-across – Trust company wrongly fined : CONFIDE

20-across – Look at coin with lens : EYEPIECE

22-across – Get the game moving and thrash : BEATUP

24-across – Skirt hem raised above the knee : THIGH

25-across – Reckless person’s crazy road speed : DESPERADO

26-across – Caught fish — put right in this : CREEL

27-across – Agreeing to study issue with worker : CONSONANT

1-down – Tablet providing uplift and stimulus : FILLIP

2-down – Continue to be stubborn, so cane produced? : STICKOUT

3-down – Good health shown by professional model : PROSIT

4-down – Concern of an eleven yet to be organised : ANXIETY

5-down – Annoyed about article, became abusive : RAILED

6-down – Poor diet on Asian vessel? : JUNKFOOD

11-down – A light headband : HALO

15-down – New Year, when there’s a situation of uncertainty : ANYWHERE

16-down – Rush animal from below : REED

18-down – Below standard tirade is outrageous : FLAGRANT

19-down – Elaborate blossom : DEVELOP

21-down – Girl on cricket side is not a true member : PEGLEG

22-down – Circumvent with the aid of permit : BYPASS

23-down – Ruined but not executed : UNDONE

1-across – Call boy’s takeover : HIJACK

4-across – I finish the paper and don’t say a word, getting more embarrassed : SHREDDER

9-across – Tax on part of capital suggested by one of the Greens? : LOVAT

10-across – Guardian people personally bear being translated with spirits : OURSELVES

11-across – Jethro’s accepted name for game with partners in place of the disgusted : TUNBRIDGE

12-across – See 11 : WELLS

13-across – Sensational development of a lord and master in police force : MELODRAMATIC

17-across – See 20 : ASAPIKESTAFF

20-across – It’s quite obvious you should give level ground urgently to Eisenhower and Co : PLAIN

21-across – One location in which British king turns to Middle Easterner : ISRAELITE

23-across – Knowledge obtained during golden break in friend’s house : DOGKENNEL

24-across – Formerly called early supper, as they say? : HIGHT

25-across – Revolutionary movement with wings? : REDSTART

26-across – Engineer in 5 is frit : SCARED

1-down – Interval of third or seventh note? : HALFTIME

2-down – Young ’un, dance with a swing, if I were you, flower! : JUVENILE

3-down – Provide for pet corgi owner : CATER

5-down – Rome’s in trouble, besieged by cyber criminal on line with fish : HORSEMACKEREL

6-down – The Guardian is in Leeds, resolved to find white flower : EDELWEISS

7-down – Are they responsible for many bad things? : DEVILS

8-down – Among other things is Don’t comply : RESIST

10-down – Veteran coped with alarming effect : OLDCAMPAIGNER

14-down – Sell shares small boy put up, not wearing a shirt? : DISINVEST

15-down – Claim to have illness caused by a gremlin : MALINGER

16-down – Moved to be insincere : AFFECTED

18-down – Has another bath up from which he cannot climb? : SPIDER

19-down – Witch doctor initially taking in mythical voyager to Mars : WARGOD

22-down – Code for the thick-headed : ETHIC

7-across – On being put in command where the abbot provides orders : MONASTERY

8-across – Smoke when in prison : SNOUT

9-across – Sufficient for a joint operation in space? : ELBOWROOM

10-across – Hotpot makers : KILNS

12-across – A sound method to describe an anchor being lifted : AWEIGH

13-across – Someone must have been willing to appoint him : EXECUTOR

14-across – La Costa resort by the sea : COASTAL

17-across – Withdrawing support? : BACKING

20-across – Jo prayed to be free of danger : JEOPARDY

22-across – After a drive, he walks : GOLFER

24-across – This person’s work is another’s play : ACTOR

25-across – Pottery has novel article in stock : STONEWARE

26-across – Excited atmosphere around the street : ASTIR

27-across – Signal to bring in social worker : IMPORTANT

1-down – Don’t take the lead, but succeed : FOLLOW

2-down – Coal rise affected heating units : CALORIES

3-down – Carbohydrate consumed makes clothes hard to wear : STARCH

4-down – A number swindled — that’s dishonest : CROOKED

5-down – It’s naturally placed among Latin phrases : INSITU

6-down – Decline to fold over the sheet : TURNDOWN

11-down – Nominally, she gets five years : VERA

15-down – Accomplished players, but not very bright : OVERCAST

16-down – Foreign port area : ACRE

18-down – Talk to WI about a powerful measure : KILOWATT

19-down – Methods intended to avoid betting slips : SYSTEMS

21-down – Not against healthy yield : PROFIT

22-down – Fetching follower of the game : GUNDOG

23-down – Make a mistake and run one : ERRAND