Daily Answers

1-across – Hotly falling out about a sinister call that’s illegal? : TALLYHO

5-across – He endeavours to sit astride horse and set off : TRIGGER

10-across – Blairite’s lie kept secret : LAIR

11-across – Plum wine, we hear, which flies off the shelves : BESTSELLER

12-across – May is guarded by detective during transfer : DECANT

13-across – County’s top leaders dismissed for making Barnet prettier : COIFFING

14-across – Quietly monitor old, violent campaign : PROMOTION

16-across – Not supposed to take on male domain : REALM

17-across – Cocaine is, in a manner of speaking, invigorating : CRISP

19-across – TV show not unknown in part of Ulster : COUNTDOWN

23-across – Spurge purging bishop, producing feeling of bliss : EUPHORIA

24-across – Separates singular and plural of it : SPLITS

26-across – Short song set in G minor : CHANGELING

27-across – Not many uttered expression of relief : PHEW

28-across – Glib talker replies shiftily : SPIELER

29-across – You may see her kip on bars or tumble : GYMNAST

2-down – Gold-plated china by Rie that is dismissed as inept : AMATEUR

3-down – Muscular vagabond embracing nymph? : LARVA

4-down – Tabitha Twitchit to find home : HABITAT

6-down – Rough dog covering its back : RUSTIC

7-down – Source of metal or pitch : GOLDFIELD

8-down – Regularly using set theory, nearly discover constant : ETERNAL

9-down – Copy masochist, suffering in mind and body : PSYCHOSOMATIC

15-down – Fluid mechanics causing unfortunate event : MISCHANCE

18-down – Attack boy? : ROUGHUP

20-down – Posy says no, according to Spooner : NOSEGAY

21-down – With it — and not so stupid : WITLESS

22-down – Country’s endless rapacity leads to currency emergency : GREECE

25-down – Clearing borders of blue, spiny plant : LUPIN

1-across – Female player, sort of variant rival to a man : MARTINA

5-across – Ray has a problem scoffing vegetable end first : SUNBEAM

9-across – Wild West action with old, old actor : CLINT

10-across – Dash back to rescue head of government in China, say — it’s painless : ANALGESIA

11-across – Each of us gets on with feast, heading off with the runs : ONEANOTHER

12-across – A philanderer detailed as missing : AWOL

14-across – See 1 : NAVRATILOVA

18-across – Dizzy harlot is in public, primarily a socialite : PARISHILTON

21-across – Politician torn after negotiating with Libya : TONY

22-across – Band with the time to focus on beat : WATCHSTRAP

25-across – Some of the Guardian’s tackling European veto : ONEINFOUR

26-across – See 21 : BLAIR

27-across – Developing nation’s first uprising : NASCENT

28-across – Fabric is old hat after a little time : TEXTILE

1-down – Over peak of Nepal artist carries head of Caravaggio a very short distance : MICRON

2-down – Cavalryman pinning a marauder : RAIDER

3-down – Under canvas, head showing resolve : INTENTNESS

4-down – A big stop! : AVAST

5-down – Duplicate record, music, perhaps, under box : SPAREPART

6-down – Hard liquor up close : NIGH

7-down – See 9 : EASTWOOD

8-down – Tasty singer finding fame with alto, rocking : MEATLOAF

13-down – Stand before the judge with 6 + 2 bones, nothing less, broken : WITNESSBOX

15-down – That’s all the fuel in the barrel gone : VOILATOUT

16-down – Old bucket before long captivating PM : SPITTOON

17-down – Tenth in line with flipping nice spanners : PRINCESS

19-down – Particular man inspiring clothes — him? : ARMANI

20-down – Seconds taken to clear away plant : SPURGE

23-down – Vehicle bearing a unit of weight : CARAT

24-down – See 17 : ANNE

1-across – Put in amount that’s to be coughed up : SPUTUM

5-across – Vegetable in general is sticky stuff : LEGUME

8-across – Being cross in polite fashion is an achievement : EXPLOIT

9-across – In police department a lot are backward, if forceful … : DYNAMIC

11-across – … with full authority half of police are deployed in jail : PLENIPOTENTIARY

12-across – Crossover door : ROOD

13-across – Choice of boats — but for the spelling! : WITCHCRAFT

17-across – Piglet, so it might appear, stops food going the wrong way : EPIGLOTTIS

18-across – Get in a twist about fuel? : COIL

20-across – Part of meal is mere cold sweet, something liable to perversion : COURSEOFJUSTICE

23-across – Attitude of one on benefit? : DOLEFUL

24-across – Aussie town detailed in its leaning uprights : ITALICS

25-across – It’s old — oddly unemotional : STOLID

26-across – German dramatist — rings a bell? : TOLLER

2-down – Sausage Evita got in burst pipe : PEPPERONI

3-down – Global hotline? : TROPIC

4-down – The domestic, non-CE, might be this : METHODIST

5-down – Deposit English gold pieces : LODGE

6-down – Scientific study gets nice muddle : GENETICS

7-down – To a degree mother can be deadly : MAMBA

8-down – Ineligible for joining the green party? : EXPERIENCED

10-down – Cut glass collections that once ruled the waves? : CRYSTALSETS

14-down – Where trim ankle maybe sets one back a lot? : CLIPJOINT

15-down – Boeing aircraft once based down under? : ABORIGINE

16-down – Awful fuss with bill ends up happy : BLISSFUL

19-down – It’s very large to attack : ASSAIL

21-down – Single leading lady kept in the dark : UNLIT

22-down – Rejected overture, if not drunk : OILED

7-across – Attack thus with a long preparation : ONSLAUGHT

8-across – Dismantle ruin collapsing with gravity : UNRIG

9-across – He keeps records of matches : REGISTRAR

10-across – Squadron loses fifty in battle : FIGHT

12-across – Walk a little way — then go by bus? : STRIDE

13-across – Marriage or adoption : ESPOUSAL

14-across – A huge pain for David’s wife : ABIGAIL

17-across – The only luggage one needs? : HOLDALL

20-across – Bet a long leaping stride is natural to it : ANTELOPE

22-across – Is among those left to fight : RESIST

24-across – Fast getting chilly : NIPPY

25-across – Kind of sale sought by potter : CLEARANCE

26-across – Worker following church leaders in plainsong : CHANT

27-across – Sitting in garden in street by a railway : SEDENTARY

1-down – Turn up to find a number still outside : INVERT

2-down – Hitting a number in error : FLAILING

3-down – Victorian rear extension sublet for redevelopment : BUSTLE

4-down – Like sheep are in a shed : SHEARED

5-down – Unit is possibly Roman, naturally placed : INSITU

6-down – One that’s drunk is off to dance : HIGHBALL

11-down – Capable of scheming : UPTO

15-down – Chelsea versus Bath? : BUNFIGHT

16-down – Might be in or even out : IRON

18-down – Dislike test said to be complicated : DISTASTE

19-down – Salesman is untruthful in his answers : REPLIES

21-down – Become more relaxed when no longer criticised, we hear : EXPAND

22-down – Are in debt, but managed to bring up the children : REARED

23-down – It’s safe to view, when dog is kept inside : SECURE

8-across – Essentially need to have installed Windows version change to make quicker : EXPEDITE

9-across – Breadheads spaced out? : LOAVES

10-across – Nearest shop : NEXT

11-across – Drug supplier: Ring private investigator : OPIUMPOPPY

12-across – Sport might get 23 : DIVING

14-across – Sport might get 23 : HANDBALL

15-across – Coffee bean ground by Nestlé is ascertainable : ARABICA

17-across – Lines cut care of British actor : COCAINE

20-across – Complete picture — orphans have neither a _____ : PANORAMA

22-across – Outline of heads in shower’s killing — film characters in bathroom : SKETCH

23-across – Booking weak comedian : YELLOWCARD

24-across – Le Tissier’s finish? : MATT

25-across – Fourth’s oddly written down thus: mattresses? : FUTONS

26-across – One grips boring bit in good casting : CHUCKING

1-down – Morse writer and designer topless outside : EXTERIOR

2-down – In phone box he changes part of broken telephone : KENT

3-down – BBC programme’s award for meditation technique : QIGONG

4-down – Joy at knight’s line of advance in black queen’s opening position : DELIGHT

5-down – Dance company following foxtrot with short, sad number : FLAMENCO

6-down – It’s sharp to read about taking Greek over Latin : RAZORBLADE

7-down – One corresponds on punishment — clamping sign on road : PENPAL

13-down – Spread round mob — girl is to provide sandwich and pickles : IMBROGLIOS

16-down – Occasionally cars at BMW did skew sideways : CRABWISE

18-down – Skating on thin ice having taken heroin — it’s addictive : NICOTINE

19-down – Opening sequence of Jaws — a maiden’s attacker is circling Amity Island : JAMAICA

21-down – Long way in 9 : AVENUE

22-down – Start to turn off dim-outs — switch element : SODIUM

24-down – Shark attack’s case interrupts doctor : MAKO