Daily Answers

5-across – Work hard to get a new motto : SLOGAN

6-across – Garment is to hang loosely round boy : SARONG

9-across – Cry of pain stifled by eccentric dramatist : COWARD

10-across – Benefit provided except in Crosby : BLESSING

11-across – Deer takes one for a ride : DOES

12-across – Writes for politician producing dark tale : GHOSTSTORY

13-across – One way to make underwear stretch : SINGLETRACK

18-across – Politician, soldier and landlord : REPUBLICAN

21-across – On reflection condemn low spirits : MOOD

22-across – Athlete gets evangelist ornamental mineral : BLUEJOHN

23-across – Wild and free in the capital : MADRID

24-across – Bacchante’s crazy about another woman : MAENAD

25-across – Raise the matter of British fish : BROACH

1-down – Film director cut up an item of sports equipment : POLANSKI

2-down – Divine companion upset coddled creature : LAPDOG

3-down – Better form of gas meter : GAMESTER

4-down – Spoil lettuce that’s planted : COSSET

5-down – Issue about drug that’s exactly right : SPOTON

7-down – Upper classes make good with admission : GENTRY

8-down – Former pupil’s only trace is out of date : OBSOLESCENT

14-down – Happy accepting permit in Scotland : GALLOWAY

15-down – A demonic form of entertainer : COMEDIAN

16-down – Ambled unsteadily into pandemonium : BEDLAM

17-down – European’s elegance : POLISH

19-down – In June Venetian weather is erratic : UNEVEN

20-down – Dicky Monroe is dead! : NOMORE

1-across – Plan ups extra revenue : SUPERTAX

5-across – Work the Queen leaves for one providing horse, say : OPIATE

9-across – They may be sarcastic, when press is across the street : IRONISTS

10-across – Junkie kept quiet for old archbishop : USSHER

12-across – Try on Google, say, for study of the elderly : GERONTOLOGY

15-across – Course for Angus, say? : ASCOT

17-across – Sport has sign defect, but it keeps order : RULEOFLAW

18-across – How I told pope I was leaving? : TOODLEPIP

19-across – The thanks given in a letter from Athens : THETA

20-across – Roger is paid for training North American marmots : PRAIRIEDOGS

24-across – Tea set broken without blemish : CHASTE

25-across – Dance with lover, a sergeant? : FLAMENCO

26-across – The outcome of intimacy may be more by accident : EMBRYO

27-across – City sits uneasily with trouble in waterworks : CYSTITIS

1-down – Superficial treatments for ruler with large amount on board : SKINGRAFTS

2-down – Does one measure degrees of support for mechanised farming? : PROTRACTOR

3-down – Rule where to abdicate is pointless : REIGN

4-down – Court case over drama, following dispute with referee : ACTIONREPLAY

6-down – Face of toy designed to be indecisive : PUSSYFOOT

7-down – Teacher’s heart complaint? : ACHE

8-down – Deserve a pot, as they say : EARN

11-down – Loss of player — perhaps from something that disagreed with him? : FOOLSPARSLEY

13-down – Scots peasant goes on ahead, if spaced : BLUEBONNET

14-down – Days in which we have dances where people are exploited : SWEATSHOPS

16-down – Plate they designed for wireless communication : TELEPATHY

21-down – Worker visiting Cornwall? : EMMET

22-down – Skin trouble said to be found in London : ACNE

23-down – Dress to boast about : GARB

1-across – Game of chance? Pay odds outside : PLUCKY

4-across – Yielding nothing crooked to cross pass : OBEDIENT

9-across – Call for attention with a display, when drunk : OILED

10-across – First group playing an instrument : BANDONEON

11-across – They came before playing 10 across : ANCESTORS

12-across – Return note with grass blade : KNIFE

13-across – A musical drama? : SONGANDDANCE

17-across – Peer wearing band on cape for valour : FEARLESSNESS

20-across – Change at noon? : AMEND

21-across – Mean drunk provides watery food : SHELLFISH

23-across – Make fleeces with short back and tailored front : CONSTRUCT

24-across – Pulled a King from the river : TWEED

25-across – Gave emphasis to pushing leaves back across square : STRESSED

26-across – Ladies at Glastonbury, say, give up rings at gate : PORTAL

1-down – A fall inside, but worker is bearing up well : PROLAPSE

2-down – Removing tie and uniform, navy psychiatrist catches cold : UNLACING

3-down – Praise for solving unfinished sudoku : KUDOS

5-down – A display of balance by Kent batsmen at crease : BANKSTATEMENT

6-down – Flying moves provide a little excitement : DROPKICKS

7-down – Bringing up medicine to a couple raised in the city : EMETIC

8-down – Punk rock tried to embrace nihilism, initially : TINDER

10-down – Superb old rose hybrid shows sign of life : BLOODPRESSURE

14-down – They may be told to dance off with opponents : ANECDOTES

15-down – Deposit crew in rising waters? : SEDIMENT

16-down – Plant key behind reptile house : ASPHODEL

18-down – Waste energy breaking mugs : FAECES

19-down – Bill given apple turnover : TENNER

22-down – Free bricks — around a tonne : LETGO

5-across – Run in to stop batsman reaching it : CREASE

6-across – Feeling of grief in this way starts never-ending quarrel : SORROW

9-across – It’s old, decrepit and not easily moved : STOLID

10-across – They lead the way in the present transport system : REINDEER

11-across – The barrel end of a gun : BUTT

12-across – Still a place to board a railway : STATIONARY

13-across – Lets her cool off — it may cause problems of the heart : CHOLESTEROL

18-across – Organ movement : TRANSPLANT

21-across – I must leave firm, betrayed : SOLD

22-across – Complaint of untidiness : DISORDER

23-across – Lizard again becoming animated around mid-January : IGUANA

24-across – Suffocatingly sexy? : SULTRY

25-across – Pat is anxious, starting school : CARESS

1-down – How to pedal to coast : DECLUTCH

2-down – Remarks not intended for the other players : ASIDES

3-down – Is caught hacking into a phone — take action! : MOBILISE

4-down – Poet makes uninteresting study : DRYDEN

5-down – Eminently suitable to be excluded : CUTOUT

7-down – The reason to go off course in a boat : WHERRY

8-down – Kent resort offers wide-ranging flights : BROADSTAIRS

14-down – A rapidly replaced stone worker : LAPIDARY

15-down – Old students better out of sight : OBSCURED

16-down – Coaches coaches : TRAINS

17-down – They’re fired and spaces need to be filled : BLANKS

19-down – Mug one may put one’s teeth into? : NOODLE

20-down – Await trouble on North Pacific island : TAIWAN

9-across – Area of the Underground bounded by the Circle Line that could be blown up? : INNERTUBE

10-across – See 26 : BELLS

11-across – Hope abandoned rounding Cape for a time : EPOCH

12-across – Therefore Tim dances outside university in which waltzes are played : THREEFOUR

13-across – Congress having protection of axes forged with iron sulphur content : SAFESEX

14-across – Bustard’s heart stuffed into Hirst’s spinning tops : TSHIRTS

17-across – Suffragette’s intended role when toe prodded into the old queen : VOTER

19-across – See 1 : AND

20-across – Out of step — a dual European city : PADUA

21-across – A dish so done is cooked without fuel, ultimately : NOODLES

22-across – Beer cans proudly displayed beneath chest? : SIXPACK

24-across – Twirling medals can result in deliberate collisions on the floor : SLAMDANCE

26-across – A watch’s final indicator? : EIGHT

28-across – A ray side-on to the ship : ABEAM

29-across – Isometric cycling’s sexy nature : EROTICISM

1-down – Very English to enter damnified foreign US store : FIVE

2-down – -1 : ONEOFF

3-down – Right part of torso needs to be held in spoken form of music performance : ORCHESTRAL

4-down – Grinding ruts with cutting tool in US is a higher duty : SURTAX

5-down – Rolls-Royce could accommodate passengers on the outside with teeth : SERRATED

6-down – Bum has opening removed with electronic instrument : OBOE

7-down – Drool licentiously in the sack, looking crimson : BLOODRED

8-down – One needing a manual, being involved in house removal? : USER

13-down – The main bodies on earth still restricted by stupid asses : SEVEN

15-down – Chronic hexamyopia leading to a deficiency in blood : HYPOXAEMIA

16-down – The author’s flash of brilliance? : SPARK

18-down – False as a Picasso portrait might appear to be? : TWOFACED

19-down – One who’s missing a get-together for a spell, possibly outside broadcast? : ABSENTEE

22-down – Heads of Cambridge University said au revoir : SEEYOU

23-down – Seaweed-like element of hidalgo, ideally : ALGOID

24-down – See 13 : SEAS

25-down – See 1 : DIME

27-down – See 12 : TIME