Daily Answers

1-across – Writer from United Nations penning Spanish article : BELLOC

5-across – Appear stern in retrospect : LOOKBACK

9-across – Measure introduced in Burma somehow gives protection : UMBRELLA

10-across – Dope needs time for classes : GENERA

11-across – Critical business discussion in house of ill repute : KNOCKINGSHOP

13-across – Poet wanting old penny for stake : ANTE

14-across – Funny bones with bit of bridle : NOSEBAND

17-across – Smack dog that’s left a bit of hair : KISSCURL

18-across – My groundhogs! : GOSH

20-across – Fussy car rental : HARDTOPLEASE

23-across – Woman going to Indian city for potent drug : VIAGRA

24-across – Heartless jade, say, longing for wine : GRENACHE

25-across – Foot rot for a peasant? : ANAPAEST

26-across – Chicken or … ? : YELLOW

2-down – Patron saint of squirrel monkeys : ELMO

3-down – Birds, we hear, transport poet : LORIKEETS

4-down – Small room, very large instruments : CELLOS

5-down – Heavy metal, please, not heavy hymn : LEADKINDLYLIGHT

6-down – Musician having time off with head of enclosed order : ORGANISE

7-down – In church they are pronounced as outlaws : BANNS

8-down – Producer of pictures getting actors into cast : CARTOONIST

12-down – In a manner of speaking, carrying a sign : INDICATION

15-down – Legal club turning lights out, say : BUGLECALL

16-down – Car and truck manufacturer with end of candle burning : AUTODAFE

19-down – Just how streaker runs : BARELY

21-down – Find Guardian leaders in sink : DIGUP

22-down – Drive off in second and use horn unceasingly : SHOO

1-across – It takes months to boil off : DECOCT

4-across – Shuffle, say, round well to find creeper : ISOPOD

9-across – Spotted old Whig close to Tory : FOXY

10-across – Doctor saw one overhead, circling : ONCOLOGIST

11-across – Muddles ahead in M6 shambles : MIXUPS

12-across – Firm recalled watchmaker at noon for special event : OCCASION

13-across – What bailiffs do with bias? Scratch head : REPOSSESS

15-across – Dazzling display in Port Talbot at the front : RIOT

16-across – Smell ship’s captain : BOSS

17-across – Native Americans caught lion — hunt’s over : CHEROKEES

21-across – I fill small beer with more punch : SPORTIER

22-across – Ring teams to corral a large sorrel : OXALIS

24-across – In today’s game make a big hash to start : NOUGHTSAND

25-across – Steers by intercepting one mobile : OXEN

26-across – Yankee gets on with the German over there : YONDER

27-across – Extremely easy-going officer accepts cuts : LAXEST

1-down – Some say stain leather in compound : DIOXIDE

2-down – Reserved costlier mounts for fur supplier : COYPU

3-down – See 24 : CROSSES

5-down – Bloodhound, I think, ignored trash : SHLOCK

6-down – Old shabby togs the best clothes for bouncer : POGOSTICK

7-down – Runs I’d built up in scramble : DISTORT

8-down – The house opposite has decorators busy : ACROSSTHEROAD

14-down – Uneasy with this hormone, rep produces progesterone : OESTROGEN

16-down – Using agent before enlisting expert in axes : BYPROXY

18-down – Royal duke visits car maker in part of Wales : RHONDDA

19-down – Demanding dope during leave : EXIGENT

20-down – This pot some occasionally steal : TIPTOE

23-down – Sailor abandons mollusc for sole : ALONE

1-across – The last word in communication? : FAREWELLADDRESS

9-across – Player losing head prepared with care for contest : RELAYRACE

10-across – Cook made sovereign seedy : GRILL

11-across – Gradient of endless old Peruvian railway : INCLINE

12-across – Hostilities at talk of government extortion? : ATTACKS

13-across – Find fault with horse? : NAG

14-across – Swellings said to outlaw engagements of honour? : NODULES

17-across – Shape otherwise without cheek : ELLIPSE

19-across – Design of Pugin or some fashionable clique : INGROUP

22-across – Composer turned sick at heart : CORELLI

24-across – Female gametes found in cardiovascular irregularity : OVA

25-across – Does one need a Latin translation for a modern language? : ITALIAN

26-across – With current between plates, it gets illuminated : LAMPLIT

28-across – Threefold test of a French tenor : TRIAL

29-across – Gamble very little in local — but not a vast amount either : INBETWEEN

30-across – Exact fees or otherwise hang in system for fleecing travellers? : RATESOFEXCHANGE

1-down – Overseas missionary? : FOREIGNMINISTER

2-down – Catholic priest held a holy item : RELIC

3-down – List of items distributed by a will? : WAYBILL

4-down – Raises poles after getting permission : LEAVENS

5-down – Hail with fury is mean : AVERAGE

6-down – Modern type of communication — a student needs first to understand it : DIGITAL

7-down – See nature? : EPISCOPAL

8-down – Sisters can lease — maybe it stops them from buying? : SALESRESISTANCE

15-down – Pet in fog at dyed-in-the-wool type : DOGMATIST

16-down – Bird to copy, but not dead : EMU

18-down – Convenience for peer caught short? : LOO

20-down – Birds love one in parts : ORIOLES

21-down – Church leader goes from soft to loud, if not disturbed in between : PONTIFF

22-down – Summon to fight from Tardis, say : CALLBOX

23-down – Vomit about mother getting a second fixture? : REMATCH

27-down – Don’t rise to falsehood being fashionable : LIEIN

1-across – Friend backs golfer, then folds : LAPELS

4-across – Grounds for a divorce? At first it’s a mix-up : STADIA

9-across – Test for a learner? : ORAL

10-across – Artist turned and entered: I can’t act romantically; the atmosphere’s frosty here : ANTARCTICA

11-across – Drink squash : SCOTCH

12-across – Maybe Cameron and Osborne conceal explosive ideas : THEORIES

13-across – Actress Jessica sorts out Big Bird : ALBATROSS

15-across – The perfect sweet? : MINT

16-across – Jonathan Ross, say, talking of space where people start : WOMB

17-across – Spooner’s cheese looks like fishes : SEABREAMS

21-across – Coaches condemned divers after acting by Suarez, primarily : ADVISERS

22-across – Meltdown result for Sheen … : LUSTRE

24-across – … wild man is paid and gets in round, which leads to alcoholism : DIPSOMANIA

25-across – Line from pointless joke : RANK

26-across – Lodgers get us rent on Sunday : GUESTS

27-across – Unkempt Boris muffles answer — it shows constant pressure : ISOBAR

1-down – I cry, all upset and emotional : LYRICAL

2-down – Captain is first into bed : PILOT

3-down – Panic over Spain’s strike : LEATHER

5-down – Rising Republican cuts wings off essential Big Bird : TURKEY

6-down – Fix note to end of Coleridge’s rime: … then wander without horse : DETERMINE

7-down – Old and new Conservative regularly likes wearing fake tan : ANCIENT

8-down – Individuals following US politicians? : STATESPERSONS

14-down – Clothing for a soldier’s baby? : ARMYISSUE

16-down – Early water raised commotion with golf union : WEDDING

18-down – British concert artist covers sad rock songs : BALLADS

19-down – Sailor’s rime — a Royal Navy jingle? : MARINER

20-down – Mrs Romney’s man? They say he’s retired from public life : HERMIT

23-down – Quiet caress in the garden? : SHRUB

1-across – Regime seeing annihilation of middle class as key again : RETYPE

4-across – Prohibition of smacking’s good and right : SLAPBANG

9-across – Show electronic cable? : EVINCE

10-across – Father Jack, perhaps, embraced by Anglicans, causing split : CREVASSE

11-across – Joe Bloggs entertains them in variety : MANINTHESTREET

13-across – I’d a way to help poorer countries : FOREIGNAID

14-across – List some prime numbers : MENU

16-across – He helps virgin to shed clothes : AIDE

18-across – It’s very hard to bear Spooner’s married lady friend : DEADWEIGHT

21-across – Waste ground next to railway? It’s increasingly profitable : GROWTHINDUSTRY

23-across – News broadcast shot at home : BULLETIN

24-across – Mature bulb regularly coming into flower : NUBILE

25-across – Alienate Argentines, dropping in unexpectedly : ESTRANGE

26-across – Heartlessly asking boy about potential source of misunderstanding : AGEGAP

1-down – Regretted vulgar sounds : RUED

2-down – Might an East End trichologist treat this for nothing? : THINAIR

3-down – Stop that manic panic about stuff! : PACKITIN

5-down – Generous — and inclined to be magnanimous : LARGEMINDED

6-down – Turns from small to big noise during escalation : PIVOTS

7-down – Unemotional principals in Faust were sacked : AUSTERE

8-down – Garbo doesn’t have time to tease relative : GREATAUNT

12-down – Pounding ingredients : TENDERISING

13-down – French-Belgian compromise, easily broken : FRANGIBLE

15-down – Engorged lower half of wildebeest upset another wildebeest : BEESTUNG

17-down – Tiny amount of petrol mistakenly offered at under a dollar : DROPLET

19-down – Getting dressed, kid goes over to Crosby : GARBING

20-down – Goddess later giving up booze? : ATHENA

22-down – Ocean’s water departed on a rising tide? : DEEP