Daily Answers

1-across – Lodging for friend in disgrace? : DOGHOUSE

5-across – Accommodation for journalist among musicians to get quick divorce : BEDAND

9-across – See 5 : BREAKFAST

11-across – Accommodation in summer on railway? : HOTEL

12-across – Accommodation for a vicar, near as possible : CARAVANSERAI

15-across – Accommodation for fool : GITE

16-across – Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building : ADRENALINE

18-across – Dot’s sequel to bible story, like : COMPARABLE

19-across – A pass at bridge? : ACOL

21-across – Fairy with pet kept by finch has good accommodation : SELFCATERING

24-across – A student veto on being martyred : ALBAN

25-across – Answer of sweetheart among most of the sledge-pullers : REJOINDER

26-across – Relegate from entry to river Test : DEMOTE

27-across – Mountain dweller spends a penny drinking supertonic : PYRENEAN

1-down – Emergent model in red? : DEBT

2-down – Happiness with parts : GLEE

3-down – Old rope’s sound gives little county town : OAKHAM

4-down – Honours for pub with coin : STARANDGARTER

6-down – Men held by ape in form of ancient Greek : EPHESIAN

7-down – Change and rest for audience from artwork in church : ALTARPIECE

8-down – Rhyme causing some inconvenience? : DELHIBELLY

10-down – Jostler jostled at end of day round composer with old man’s beard : TRAVELLERSJOY

13-down – Say copper on street in drag turned up for food? : EGGCUSTARD

14-down – Clumsy clot, second to fall behind : STUMBLEBUM

17-down – Old jewelled collar with a lot of body and no extras : CARCANET

20-down – No trading place for batting team? : INSIDE

22-down – Borderline advantage? : EDGE

23-down – No 26 club? : IRON

1-across – See 7 : MICHAEL

5-across – Paparazzo’s supporter on back page in a temper : MONOPOD

9-across – Unanswerable question about religious leader in holy book : KORAN

10-across – Subordinate serving dinner with glue, almost coming unstuck : UNDERLING

11-across – Insect finds sugar plant in girl’s skirts buried in the sand : DUNGBEETLE

12-across – Crust sliced carefully, accompanying butter for starters : SCAB

14-across – Then just escape and one is in the sea : LEGITIMISED

18-across – Newlywed found something sticky behind shower? : HONEYMOONER

21-across – Hum, while doing the backstroke in Lake Erie? : REEK

22-across – Broad characters in Spartacus, fine picture to broadcast : UNSPECIFIC

25-across – Tops down, then, bringing cheers : BOTTOMSUP

26-across – Foreign letter in the midst of detail : THETA

27-across – Author right in tune with literature, primarily : CARROLL

28-across – Waste rejected by car inspector : AUDITOR

1-down – King in the end turned over, work for emperor : MIKADO

2-down – Nothing between the ears, given a crown : CORONA

3-down – You look Labour’s Tony up, bound by an old queen : ANNEBOLEYN

4-down – Insect ineffective after head transplant : LOUSE

5-down – See 23 : MIDDLETON

6-down – The usual: warm lager, no question — 25! : NORM

7-down – Royal gaining publicity with menfolk: each is mixed up in relatively unpleasant crime : PRINCESS

8-down – Essence of a setter, perhaps, to be menial : DOGSBODY

13-down – Cursed devil, prowler in the grass : IMPRECATED

15-down – Plant turns into stick : GROUNDSEL

16-down – Sweet singer with posh name of writer : CHERUBIC

17-down – Animal near to doctor, squeezing nipple : ANTEATER

19-down – See 7 : OFKENT

20-down – Even bits of pencil show something long and thin : ECLAIR

23-down – Character expecting father to overcome average fashion socialite : PIPPA

24-down – Game of the Royal Mint? : POLO

1-across – Trees making longbows : LARCHES

5-across – Cup of tea left to go cold : CHALICE

10-across – Cutting reminder? : SCAR

11-across – The services may prove decisive in this struggle : TIEBREAKER

12-across – Resentment one can bear : GRUDGE

13-across – Catalogue to the French pictures : TABLEAUX

14-across – One helping satanists out : ASSISTANT

16-across – Increase in shouts of disapproval at end of act : BOOST

17-across – A number well-suited to fashion : ADAPT

19-across – Notice job is to be relocated — protest! : OBJECTION

23-across – State of California, if left in chaos : CAROLINA

24-across – A motto rewritten for the vegetarian : TOMATO

26-across – A travelling case? : OUTPATIENT

27-across – Become wedged, we hear, in the doorway : JAMB

28-across – The smoke after battle? : CALUMET

29-across – Trial makes sense : HEARING

2-down – Gives a hundred lines? : ACCORDS

3-down – An apple may be firm and brightly coloured : CORED

4-down – Appeal in French to doctor : ENTREAT

6-down – By means of joining present and past : HEREBY

7-down – Doesn’t include signs of spring : LEAVESOUT

8-down – High-spirited children? : CHERUBS

9-down – Double indemnity to secure cover for members : BELTANDBRACES

15-down – I’m bang on time with socially acceptable ad-lib : IMPROMPTU

18-down – Stoker’s batman : DRACULA

20-down – Give claim to name : ENTITLE

21-down – Old Empire sofa : OTTOMAN

22-down – Very much the opposite : LITTLE

25-down – Key man in the army : MAJOR

1-across – Singer’s second note in series of 1 down 5? : STINGRAY

5-across – Close to Gordon Brown in recession — No 10 dividing country : NATION

9-across – Secures in advance unfinished press boxes, mostly vacant : PREEMPTS

10-across – Rings of gold chunks : ORBITS

12-across – Once more supplied grass without John’s partner : REFURNISHED

15-across – Copper imprisons idiot : ASCUS

17-across – Drink and drink, cocktail of lager and last bit of wine : GINGERALE

18-across – Rate current police coppers: no pressure : INCIDENCE

19-across – Characters in 11 make footballer : SCOTT

20-across – Clubs excite Beatle — Ringo’s not old and is at party … : CELEBRATING

24-across – … Beatle, on Radio 6 — go live outside : WEEVIL

25-across – Plant one in 11 in leaves, so given Alan’s tip : BRASSICA

26-across – See 19 : PARKER

27-across – He doesn’t appear in tabloid writer’s main dangers : TSUNAMIS

1-down – 3 might move him — with name, he could fly to next Olympics? : SUPERMARIO

2-down – Caffeine reduced in treatment during cold — lack of capacity to work : INEFFICACY

3-down – Golf in the morning, let me see one playing : GAMER

4-down – American series on hospital department initially leaving you in a severe way : ASTRINGENTLY

6-down – They shorten game in topless bars : ABRIDGERS

7-down – Fish catcher? Source of the runs around India : IBIS

8-down – Kitchen, Rope, Miss Scarlet — finally a set that fits together : NEST

11-down – Burnt dish — red after cooking show that used 1 down 5? : THUNDERBIRDS

13-down – This puts it bluntly, one left Mac to play with Sonic : LACONICISM

14-down – Writer to stuff in names of magical figures : PENTAGRAMS

16-down – Charming Spanish golfer interrupted by Channel 1 : SEDUCTIVE

21-down – Fireball cast? Unusual end from creator of 1 down 5? : ARSON

22-down – Hands over in trade : SWAP

23-down – Poet Virgil’s last letter to head : LEAR

1-across – A number work very hard : STRAIN

5-across – Big brains, say, Shed, Arachne and Gordius, each only beginning to appear addled : EGGHEADS

9-across – Uncle Sam’s duck and young dog biting Miliband, held by teeth : ZIPPEDUP

10-across – Sport that’s practised by cheating footballers : DIVING

11-across – Montezuma’s revenge, as three times we cope, desperate to contain unknown quantity : AZTECTWOSTEP

13-across – Ancient vessel avoiding the banks : INCA

14-across – An addiction to lager, might one say, not entirely capital? : ABUDHABI

17-across – Demonstrated as cadet suggested? : ACTEDOUT

18-across – Reserve suggesting no need for deodorant? : BOOK

20-across – Kaleidoscopic expression coming up now certainly — ouch, that’s horrible! : TECHNICOLOUR

23-across – Plan with fury to go after poisoner : ASPIRE

24-across – Will lover melt heart of snake in the grass? : HATHAWAY

25-across – Don having loose skin, temperature picked up by doctor? : LECTURER

26-across – River boat not launching, they all leave the stage : EXEUNT

2-down – See 19 : TWIG

3-down – Mountain meat and drink for man on top? : ALPHAMALE

4-down – Natural condition in horse that’s mounted, shame non-starter : NUDITY

5-down – Old, doddering man? Protect the woman with child : EXPECTANTMOTHER

6-down – Monstrous party on the up through Gulf War not all bad : GODAWFUL

7-down – The King, last of the Georges, detailed other guards : ELVIS

8-down – Office with something to do overly upset to discover wheel clamp : DENVERBOOT

12-down – With marathon over, cruciate damage ends in the knife : SNICKERSEE

15-down – Swiss city seen during break, abandoning American and English winter : HIBERNATE

16-down – Bully runs from hunter, travelling north always : DOMINEER

19-down – Die in ghetto with whip-round : HOPTHE

21-down – Lifting mechanism that’s stolen, is nicked : HOIST

22-down – See 20 : YAWN