Daily Answers

9-across – The spirit of double-entry bookkeeping? : RECORDING

10-across – Part of book on 17 university official hasn’t finished : RECTO

11-across – Crime committed against property — minister init­ially powerless : ARSON

12-across – Least orderly student I repeatedly reorganised : UNTIDIEST

13-across – Ingenue moving in is 17 : GENUINE

14-across – Cricket match with nobody out? That’s extremely hard to believe : TALLEST

17-across – Examples of 19 down, 22 across, also 8 : RIGHT

19-across – See 17 : AND

20-across – See 17 : WRONG

21-across – Foot and mouth, ultimately, or different problem for cattle : HOOFROT

22-across – Referee’s first in Centre Court to check faults : CORRECT

24-across – Holder needs to study with coach, missing first run : CONTAINER

26-across – See 9 : ANGEL

28-across – Moral failure repeatedly reported in parts of race, some Europeans : LAPSE

29-across – Having drunk bevies, ham — ie act badly : MISBEHAVE

1-down – Killer in major case : ORCA

2-down – Behaves in accordance with follower of gospels occupying stage : ACTSON

3-down – Broadcast artists on radio, initially, of an old-fashioned type : TRANSISTOR

4-down – Reflect about one’s application that’s 20 : MISUSE

5-down – Upset a belligerent American, art patron and Democrat : AGITATED

6-down – Nail 20 about 17 : BRAD

7-down – To go along with CEO, acted corruptly : ACCEDETO

8-down – Legal term used in court or tribunal : TORT

13-down – 17 revised as measurement of thickness : GIRTH

15-down – One responsible for crime wave left a wife, to begin with : LAWBREAKER

16-down – Close one good hospital, time after time : TIGHT

18-down – Older people revised 20, you heard, with added message : GROWNUPS

19-down – 5 and 24 down, for example, in general writing : ANTONYMS

22-down – Police framing ringleader with drug, as evidence of major crime : CORPSE

23-down – German recollected something in memory : ENGRAM

24-down – Learner put in academic stream unruffled : CALM

25-down – Primate with cross in position of eminence : APEX

27-down – Try to deceive with new 17 for creditor : LIEN

1-across – Musicians providing accompaniment to muck? : BRASS

4-across – See 10 : FEATHERS

8-across – Artist adopting mongrel pup or green bird : EMPERORPENGUIN

10-across – Furious or thirsty as a result of 24? : SPITTING

11-across – On your bike with a tungsten stiletto, maybe? : AWHEEL

12-across – Trace second woman smuggling one part of Bible : SCINTILLA

15-across – Hat put on head of Canadian subject : TOPIC

17-across – Called on electronic spectrum : RANGE

18-across – Season to compete with leader coming last in Q&A session : INTERVIEW

19-across – Light reading facilitator : KINDLE

21-across – Game keeping female paragon neither up nor down : HALFMAST

24-across – Glum economist : DOWNINTHEMOUTH

25-across – Happened to be killed in battle : BEFALLEN

26-across – Dull but costly recipe included : DREAR

1-down – Event proves Spooner’s anxious and penniless? : BREASTSTROKE

2-down – Topless African securing watering hole for newt, perhaps : AMPHIBIAN

3-down – Seaman’s afterthought about mackerel-catcher? : SPRAT

4-down – Remote 2 introducing female to male singer? Not exactly : FARINELLI

5-down – Help to get a flutter? : ABET

6-down – Outweigh hot art’s turning point : HIGHWATER

7-down – Erect or flatten, reportedly : RAISE

9-down – Unenthusiastic worker, one nabbing philosopher reversing direction : CLOCKWATCHER

13-down – Writer’s material impounded by consort returning to camp : TREBLINKA

14-down – Air Force’s target — Eastern ruler’s lambskin? : ASTRAKHAN

16-down – Peculiarly peculiar time for origami, say : PLICATURE

20-down – Lachrymose character getting gong first in return : NIOBE

22-down – Celebrated like Beethoven upholding Mozart’s first : FAMED

23-down – Kind of blue, having got a very low score : ANIL

4-across – Besotted with acting, claims a bit of talent : DOTING

6-across – Inwardly unfeeling, succumbs to those that won’t be moved : DIEHARDS

9-across – For such short-sightedness I pay more outrageously — not again! : MYOPIA

10-across – Pretty big: when carrying drug can be taken by force : SEIZABLE

11-across – Distinguished detective being sweet : SPOTTEDDICK

15-across – Welsh go dancing the cancan? : LEGSHOW

17-across – Myself with mate following wordy book concerning loving mother : OEDIPAL

18-across – View racket one way in part of northern Europe : SCANDINAVIA

22-across – Constable imbibing 21 down: what did you say about being a mixture? : PASTICHE

23-across – Some poetry most Anzacs could deliver : STANZA

24-across – Complaint of individuals getting out of hospital : SHINGLES

25-across – Believe in tick? : CREDIT

1-down – Oil-producing nation : ANOINT

2-down – Safe bet, said plausible gangster : LIKELIHOOD

3-down – Wife greeting snoring youngster, a remarkable person : WHIZZKID

4-down – Maybe some lads like old-fashioned girls : DAMOSELS

5-down – Taking pains done with circulating job centre : THOROUGH

7-down – First boys to enter when teacher’s around could be spare : RIBS

8-down – Cast of beginners to study hard, exercising daily : SHED

12-down – Shabby dog’s two orders? : DOWNATHEEL

13-down – PS And I’ve managed to be afflicted with a swelling in a leg joint : SPAVINED

14-down – Poor man admits late starter’s affable : PLEASANT

16-down – Historic town, lice infection over, guarded by witches : HASTINGS

19-down – Quality of a busy tea urn : NATURE

20-down – You get ninny turning up with tree from Java : UPAS

21-down – Good man’s into first-class wine : ASTI

5-across – Embarrassing moments in play : SCENES

6-across – Note deserter is not charged : GRATIS

9-across – Presumably he had a good reason for being late : MARTYR

10-across – Cat Enid and I groomed for show : INDICATE

11-across – Aim when near : MEAN

12-across – Coastal defence that is soon liquidated : SANDCASTLE

13-across – Special band for the match : WEDDINGRING

18-across – A belief in life and love accepted by boy and girl : PHILOSOPHY

21-across – Flier, who used to serve in the navy : WREN

22-across – Batsmen who are out : STRIKERS

23-across – Gets tight in clubs : WEDGES

24-across – Delight in exercise round the fields : PLEASE

25-across – Stevenson’s better half : JEKYLL

1-down – Penalty clause? : SENTENCE

2-down – Wishes for time with game partners : YEARNS

3-down – Radio executive sets up record : PRODUCER

4-down – Investments frame-up exposing people to ridicule : STOCKS

5-down – Climbed and peeled off coat : SCALED

7-down – The bench is alight : SETTLE

8-down – Acquiring a job at the end of the course : WINNINGPOST

14-down – Do without work at the pharmacy : DISPENSE

15-down – No methods are without publicity in these times : NOWADAYS

16-down – Talk flirtatiously to Tom in Paris at university : CHATUP

17-down – A grain of genuine support for the church : CEREAL

19-down – In a new role it may make no attempt to hurry : LOITER

20-down – Acted sleepily as the new day breaks : YAWNED

1-across – Prize for beauty contest proposed, if clad improperly : APPLEOFDISCORD

8-across – What finally achieved breakthrough for investment — offshore? : HORSE

9-across – Everything you said with token of love is like 20 : ALLURING

11-across – Drop, in a way, an Italian course : LASAGNE

12-across – European in work unit turned over explosive device : GRENADE

13-across – Looter of antiquities rejected half-hearted mild complaint : ELGIN

15-across – Royals are distraught in period of world revolution : SOLARYEAR

17-across – Greek scholar using Latin in the lines translated : HELLENIST

20-across – Female capturing heart of Menelaus — and that of 2 : HELEN

21-across – Bestow artistic distinction on Greek heroine : ELECTRA

23-across – Stirring conclusion from a conflict with Priam, for example : AWAKING

25-across – Verse removed from page covering warrior’s faithful wife : PENELOPE

26-across – Identity of someone Homer initially included, on which you’ll find a lot of books? : SHELF

27-across – Warning about largesse from financially challenged people? City disastrously ignored it : BEWAREOFGREEKS

1-down – War hero’s sole weakness? Yes and no … : ACHILLESHEEL

2-down – … as this enemy proved in city : PARIS

3-down – Coming from Greece, men at sea : EMERGENCE

4-down – American embraced by distinguished scientist — their work is peripheral to art : FRAMERS

5-down – Harm English lass as criminal : ILLEGAL

6-down – Charming woman Odysseus resisted, left out of social group : CIRCE

7-down – Recall taking part in capturing a belligerent : RINGABELL

10-down – See 27 : BEARINGGIFTS

14-down – Bird like 1 across, I heard : GOLDENEYE

16-down – Player, in practice, tries again to take queen : REHEARSER

18-down – Experiencing awkward situation — it’s a lion he disturbed : INAHOLE

19-down – A little bit of gunpowder, say, for robber : TEALEAF

22-down – Articles about Trojan leader and Thersites, initially : THETA

24-down – In dire necessity find personification of peace for Greeks? : IRENE