Daily Answers

1-across – 13 apostle, nut at scene of vice : COBDEN

4-across – Base player playing lover of 16 down 11 in dream : BOTTOM

9-across – A little while after morning rounds : AMMO

10-across – Pages about Jessica : PENNYSTAMP

11-across – See 16 down : MENDER

12-across – Digital covers with responsibility shared between nose and tail : TOENAILS

13-across – Geordie endorsement of raid announced in Far East’s first economic community : FREETRADE

15-across – See 13 : AREA

16-across – CID purchase spring onion with diamonds inside? : BUSY

17-across – Study lunatic among solvers off the peg : READYMADE

21-across – Run away from exam with maximum speed : FLEETEST

22-across – Preserve eggs for graceful sculptor : CANOVA

24-across – Tipped off about Farrow and Eden? : FOREWARNED

25-across – See 16 : BODY

26-across – Time put into underhand in a sensible way : SAGELY

27-across – One on your side at the end of the day : FRIEND

1-down – Olympian hiding what he was, the Queen being his equal? : COMPEER

2-down – Wide girl? : BROAD

3-down – Possible 1 down with Roman instead of Catholic ruler : EMPEROR

5-down – O for publicity? : OXYGEN

6-down – Four-letter word used by Margaret raised with final twist by model : TETRAGRAM

7-down – Mother not keeping well may need succour, so to speak : MAMILLA

8-down – Edward West after higher education and before 19 20 : UNITEDWESTAND

14-down – Seasonal food, say, including flower, say : EASTEREGG

16-down – Flute makes a loud noise and people return blushing : BELLOWS

18-down – Notes on drink for settler : DECIDER

19-down – Rest of saying about hanging separately, with gap between backward minority and the whole : DIVIDED

20-down – See 19 : WEFALL

23-down – Bilingual elevation of the good and generous : NOBLE

1-across – New mascot hard to put up with : STOMACH

5-across – Injured fliers returned to base : STABBED

10-across – Back ends for roasting over the fire : SPIT

11-across – Migrant workers in transit, moving round the East : ITINERANTS

12-across – Settled one in residence at university : PAIDUP

13-across – Romance over for sweetheart : LOVEDONE

14-across – Rouse fiery Celt, perhaps! : ELECTRIFY

16-across – German agreement to search for gold in the Far East : JAPAN

17-across – Stretch over end of desk and chastise : SPANK

19-across – Car tested, found faulty, broken up : SCATTERED

23-across – A trip’s made about morning to find beef : PASTRAMI

24-across – Where such dealers may end up? : INSIDE

26-across – Sharply worded cable about wartime obstacle : BARBEDWIRE

27-across – Marine feature that could be permanent : WAVE

28-across – Embarrassed about always being held in respect : REVERED

29-across – Directions for delivery of speech : ADDRESS

2-down – Part of the rigging works in the end : TOPSAIL

3-down – Won a hand — and the game : MATED

4-down – Fast sailing ship taking the wool crop : CLIPPER

6-down – Time when the hands come together : TWELVE

7-down – Monopoly, say, obtained by directors, ready and willing : BOARDGAME

8-down – Land on a site needing development : ESTONIA

9-down – Panic experienced in the Middle Ages? : MIDLIFECRISIS

15-down – Painter of some force? : CONSTABLE

18-down – Calm sort of current in South American river : PLACATE

20-down – The last section with trouble in mind : TAILEND

21-down – I’ve cut the tips for the salad : ENDIVES

22-down – Held with an awkward grip : HANDLE

25-down – Needlewoman that eliminates waste : SEWER

8-across – What UN Secretary-General does includes time to consider : MEDITATE

9-across – Defence plea of many a libidinous character? : ALIBI

10-across – Dairy product is shorter than short : BRIE

11-across – It’s much said to involve making a fortune : MIDASTOUCH

12-across – Deal is at hand, if 3 changes hands : WALMER

14-across – Trusty soldier exposed to risk : RELIABLE

15-across – It’s clap, but with treatment it can be altered : PLASTIC

17-across – Correcting sound composition? : WRITING

20-across – Throat condition that’s a bit rough for a casino worker : CROUPIER

22-across – My bass can be very deep : ABYSMS

23-across – Jollity — in a way she earns it : HEARTINESS

24-across – Light soil? : LAND

25-across – Ancient kingdom’s newsagents? : MEDIA

26-across – Unduly claim town lacks leadership : ARROGATE

1-down – Dance around here, perhaps, looking for a drink? : BEERHALL

2-down – To summon is sound sense : CITE

3-down – Hostilities over alien sea with rising heat : WARMER

4-down – Offers for nursing staff? : TENDERS

5-down – Paul’s fitted in vehicle like space craft : CAPSULAR

6-down – Flop, try as I might to make it in the kitchen : FILOPASTRY

7-down – Field wherein bankers’ bluff is called? : FISCAL

13-down – Disguise formed about square dance? : MASQUERADE

16-down – Unfriendly state after one car overturned : INIMICAL

18-down – Name gets a mention : NOMINATE

19-down – Footballers’ magazine? : ARSENAL

21-down – It’s unhealthily damp but not too confined, as they say : RHEUMY

22-down – Take in backward siblings with qualification : ABSORB

24-down – Sort of bricks for support with nothing underneath : LEGO

9-across – Hulk perhaps has delightful woman round : SUPERHERO

10-across – Lawgiver’s essentially changed customs of a people : MORES

11-across – Scorching day ahead beginning to indicate what one might wear in India : DHOTI

12-across – Deputy contracted to act criminally in bank, so they say : REPUTEDLY

13-across – Soldier omitting element in rude story : PARABLE

14-across – Tethering tiny mongrel, rebellious little dog : TYINGUP

17-across – Forward individuals shun ban on sex as appropriate : ANNEX

19-across – Posh female set : GEL

20-across – Record time cut in France? : FILET

21-across – Capital’s articulate observer of squid? : NICOSIA

22-across – Love causes changes to reproductive organs : OVARIES

24-across – Rendered incapable : PLASTERED

26-across – Spiritual symbol at heart of Shinto temples : TOTEM

28-across – River pike’s eaten — it’s filthy stuff : LUCRE

29-across – Give romantic account of maiden confined in seething seraglio : GLAMORISE

1-down – You guess the lad finally took drugs : USED

2-down – Support of a bra regularly dispensed with, causing commotion : UPROAR

3-down – Masterminds using file to break into Scottish banks : BRAINBOXES

4-down – Wolf circling eastern Galloway? : GEORGE

5-down – Careless pathologist got nasty cut in his workplace : HOSPITAL

6-down – Must edit filth! : SMUT

7-down – Wanton Italian politician on top of lass : PRODIGAL

8-down – Originally acquiescent and retiring, like Cinders? : ASHY

13-down – Empty pan to be filled with uncooked seafood : PRAWN

15-down – Breach fashionable quarter? : INFRACTION

16-down – What fathers losing last of hair may show? : PATES

18-down – Can he con jockey? Not a hope! : NOCHANCE

19-down – Top Gear’s car race caught in mirror, briefly : GLADRAGS

22-down – Oscar heard terrible cry of dismay : OHDEAR

23-down – Caretaker lacking energy to get fit : INTRIM

24-down – Report of setter on Guardian cover : PALL

25-down – Message on Twitter is short and sweet : TWEE

27-down – Submissive male’s squeal of fear : MEEK

7-across – Trapping a number cruncher, jailing one : CAPARISON

8-across – Boatman’s swallowed a number of coins : MONEY

9-across – Metal cruet’s unsavoury effects on flavour : TINCTURES

10-across – A number : SIXTY

12-across – It’s still not quite Saturday : STATUE

13-across – One sent off to sea: Sir, my condition is poor : EMISSARY

16-across – Wattles and clay antedate concrete in architecture’s structural origins : ACACIAS

19-across – Euro rebuilt around community twice starts to rise by chance again : REOCCUR

22-across – A number may be vulgar about right wing : FRACTION

25-across – Old German took seat from Spooner, where we’d say Kiss Me Quick : SUNHAT

27-across – Seven odd numbers, not including 7 : EVENS

28-across – Russell Brand’s estranged wife, perhaps † : SEXSYMBOL

29-across – A number of birds often found on restaurant walls? : FLOCK

30-across – Irrational number is a means to go deeper : SUBMARINE

1-down – Irrational number in former times crudely labelled Catholic : PAPIST

2-down – A number of disaffected Roman Catholics don’t use shalom in letters : NARCOTIC

3-down – Think of a number : FIGURE

4-down – Anticipate what anticipates 5D say? : FORESEE

5-down – Numbers of parrots : COPIES

6-down – Perhaps a permit to speak? : LETTER

11-down – 7 in 8 hold the next number? : NINE

14-down – Mysteries revealed in Five Go Off In A Caravan novel : ARC

15-down – Even my dear solver’s somewhat vulgar : YER

16-down – Boy solves 22 minus 2nd of 3rd : ALF

17-down – See 14 : ANA

18-down – A number backing political alliance : AXIS

20-down – Tenderly taking care of a number at asylum, initially a larger number : CONAMORE

21-down – An innocent nun? Strangely that’s : INGENUE

23-down – Rise up, my dear, rise up and take the lead : REVOLT

24-down – They question motives behind arrests following vice report : CYNICS

25-down – Seed, sperm etc: initially there’s no difference : SESAME

26-down – Number 1: multiply : AMOUNT