Daily Answers

5-across – Wall to speak directly to 10 5 down 21 : BARRIE

6-across – Little fellow and little fool keeping time : SHRIMP

9-across – Exploiting queen when unconscious, point to close relation : COUSIN

10-across – Air display : NORTHERN

11-across – Cutter also produces sound : ADZE

12-across – Able to grasp things concerning birds in big building : PREHENSILE

13-across – Work with mouse to contribute largely to 66 at bingo? : DOUBLECLICK

18-across – Big building where ringers see and hear about bows put back right : SKYSCRAPER

21-across – Date in Rome for fishes : IDES

22-across – Sweet William, say, bringing incense to goddess shortly : DIANTHUS

23-across – Religious building goes ahead : TEMPLE

24-across – See 9 : GERMAN

25-across – Singularly little money for butter? : PEANUT

1-down – People in support through love of magician : PROSPERO

2-down – Snatch leather with soft coating : KIDNAP

3-down – Caught taking her water supply from river : CHERWELL

4-down – See 10 : LIGHTS

5-down – Ladies of the Lakes? : BROADS

7-down – Dad’s part has promise : PAROLE

8-down – Skimp on publicity for nude show with king to be model : UNDEREXPOSE

14-down – Special occasion, maybe third in recess : BIRTHDAY

15-down – Rodent getting a large portion about lunchtime : CHIPMUNK

16-down – Sport of kings? I wonder : SKIING

17-down – Half 11 plenty for enthusiast : ZEALOT

19-down – Divers don’t use towel? : SUNDRY

20-down – See 5 across : RUTTER

7-across – Drama circle for pre-school kids : PLAYGROUP

8-across – A return game between two sides in the country : RURAL

9-across – He couldn’t go out in the nude : UNCLOTHED

10-across – When at home an Oriental looks foolish : INANE

12-across – Induced firm to cut down : COAXED

13-across – Reluctant to have a port with philanderer : LOTHARIO

14-across – Painting and suffering, having quit university earlier : GOUACHE

17-across – Gets over life’s burdens : CROSSES

20-across – Control shown as others fall : RESTRAIN

22-across – A Pole in vessel from another country : DANISH

24-across – Analysis of horses’ first year : STUDY

25-across – Step out without conscious effort : SLEEPWALK

26-across – Distress and gravity remarkably rife : GRIEF

27-across – Produce a brief act in play : FABRICATE

1-down – Saloon ordered for racing driver : ALONSO

2-down – Six delay treating word blindness : DYSLEXIA

3-down – Grilled cheese, may be : GRATED

4-down – Polish girl with German complaint : RUBELLA

5-down – Young female accompanist : DUENNA

6-down – Principal occupation of a railway? : MAINLINE

11-down – Revolutionary action brings excitement : STIR

15-down – Tax produces public anger : OVERTIRE

16-down – Father is uplifted, after he makes a pile : HEAP

18-down – This man advertises food and old port : SANDWICH

19-down – One of the family assumes a right, which is questionable : UNCLEAR

21-down – I had to stand in line — it’s neater : TIDIER

22-down – Gloomy doctor takes year off : DREARY

23-down – Leaves dancer’s difficult move : SPLITS

1-across – Place and time can be very destructive : LOCUST

4-across – Bathe between Old English and American dramatised by … : OEDIPUS

9-across – … exponent of 11 28, cooking chop and fish outside : SOPHOCLES

10-across – Solver starts to think of Salad Days : YOUTH

11-across – Stink in government terminally spread like wildfire, with your first result of Euro-crisis … : GREEK

12-across – … some of which I spied, disguised as exponent of 11 28 : EURIPIDES

13-across – Insult that should not take one aback? : AFFRONT

15-across – Urge former partner to start gardening : EXHORT

17-across – Kidnap leader of society, of course : SNATCH

19-across – Buyer to pursue tenacious creature : BULLDOG

22-across – First among men making work of 27 : AGAMEMNON

24-across – North wind on north Scots town : NAIRN

26-across – Persian associate with a work of 12 : MEDEA

27-across – Cushy sale arranged by exponent of 11 28 : AESCHYLUS

28-across – See 11 : TRAGEDY

29-across – Nothing can replace extended play for making 4 across horrid : ODIOUS

1-down – Pasta as possible anag of Los Angeles? : LASAGNA

2-down – Plantation of police, say : COPSE

3-down – Keep wine near Manchester : STOCKPORT

4-down – Terribly verbose remark : OBSERVE

5-down – Have no more to say? Use the tea towel : DRYUP

6-down – Grabbed stuff from page with Labour led by himself : PLUNDERED

7-down – Split church and miss opportunity outside : SCHISM

8-down – First in the field : ELDEST

14-down – Sibelius’s forte, rendering of the year in Asian country : FINLANDIA

16-down – Chronicler taking time off in outbuilding : HOLINSHED

18-down – Country first in needing food : HUNGARY

19-down – Send away for backing in invading party : BANISH

20-down – Beginning and seeing off second : GENESIS

21-down – Burrower to supply weapon in test : MARMOT

23-down – Remove covering as before : ERASE

25-down – See where I go round house in cold climate : IGLOO

9-across – Person in training behind net, ultimately? : TENNISPRO

10-across – PM: I stay, as opposed to this friend : AMIGO

11-across – Register in solid German city : COLOGNE

12-across – Had accomplished director initially directed? : DIDDLED

13-across – Minister, one runs from US president : CATER

14-across – See 17 : SOULMATES

16-across – Dumb rock causing upset, supposedly soothing entertainment : BACKGROUNDMUSIC

19-across – Meat about right, that’s right — more like bacon? : STREAKIER

21-across – Resort in the country : SPAIN

22-across – Stand by the flames, one flaming in the mist : FIREDOG

23-across – Insect activity that’s tested … : CRICKET

24-across – … more of which old, almost entirely conventional : EXTRA

25-across – Alien’s six-inch ruler? : FOREIGNER

1-down – Have 1 and 8, say, as cooking items : STOCKCUBES

2-down – Metropolis Turner brought about, subject to interpretation : ANALYTIC

3-down – See 8 : FINGER

4-down – Weapon with some ease, we hear, catching perpetrator’s head : EPEE

5-down – Speedy bird travelled, say, over river? : ROADRUNNER

6-down – Cold curry nearly served up with order for spice : CARDAMOM

7-down – Chicken feed poorly invested in police : MILLET

8-down – Picture card’s last, cutting the queen of clubs? : GOLD

14-down – Beginning to swoon, some bird held by some stallion, female strutting around : SHOWINGOFF

15-down – Reagan got one back, not hard for the marines : SECONDTERM

17-down – Here, potential lovers take various girls out ad nauseam : GUARDIAN

18-down – Stimulating postcard? : SPARKING

20-down – Some hope to keep laughing, not an uncommon thing : RARITY

21-down – See 22 : SPIRIT

22-down – Bohemian Welshman, tear arising in suit : FREE

23-down – Stop in Bordeaux, European city : CORK

1-across – Another way to speak of camp Liberal fleeing through back road : SECONDLANGUAGE

8-across – Dismay of the Pope with head of Anglicans advancing : APPAL

9-across – Caught cheat swapping sides : RECEIVED

11-across – 27 fruit farms : GRANGES

12-across – Eastern churchman, one making a cross : ELECTOR

13-across – German runner, man clutching hip after run : RHINE

15-across – Society making waves in prioritising economy : SCRIMPING

17-across – Collar film actor from the east taking lead in movie that’s dubbed : NICKNAMED

20-across – Take legal action about journalist’s material : SUEDE

21-across – What’s to drag and heave heading for Europe? : LUGGAGE

23-across – Transport has vents with it : AIRSHIP

25-across – Plug for Harry Potter — billions in turnover for book : LIBRETTO

26-across – Perhaps Clegg gets in great excuse : ALIBI

27-across – Feckless Democrat pursues sentimentality of the very cheapest kind : GOODFORNOTHING

1-down – Ryan Giggs let loose in striking fashion : STAGGERINGLY

2-down – It gets drunk secretary to hold up bit of lingerie : CUPPA

3-down – English innocent has nothing on in the shade in Africa : NILEGREEN

4-down – Lion oddly rears primates : LORISES

5-down – Character in the Iliad with light sort of weapons : NUCLEAR

6-down – Fifth group of soldiers to join up : UNITE

7-down – It’s Goethe’s novel, so be very discriminating! : GHETTOISE

10-down – Player on the wings fit and well when the Reds struggled in Europe : PRAGUESPRING

14-down – Like compilers noticing anagrams with cry of surprise : INCOGNITO

16-down – Rogue’s pile spanning rolling acres : MISCREANT

18-down – He produces some art when playing : MAESTRO

19-down – What’s on TV? Nothing showing is to prove very compelling : DRAGOON

22-down – Did express almost derail unexpectedly? : AIRED

24-down – Country’s bowler perhaps taking single before India : HAITI