Daily Answers

1-across – One’s treated — one who was patient in surgery : NOSEJOB

5-across – Groupie up the creek in a canoe : PIROGUE

9-across – Set boundaries of food shop and university : DELIMIT

10-across – Transport required for burials at sea : RAILBUS

11-across – Size of girl stuffed with green bananas : LARGENESS

12-across – Magazine article for oil company? : SHELL

13-across – Female leads for archers firing a lot of arrows : SHEAF

15-across – One inside conceals a Trojan horse’s cover : CAPARISON

17-across – General rule, so to speak, for one fighting duel : PRINCIPAL

19-across – Go down well as one with a drink problem : DIPSO

22-across – Write about a large Asian country : NEPAL

23-across – Gaps found by a forward certain to delay header : APERTURES

25-across – Composer keeping English scores : TALLIES

26-across – Working properly as a Jesuit, say : INORDER

27-across – Stone in French museum that has to be viewed : MUSTSEE

28-across – What people leave in cars : ESTATES

1-down – Lumps potentially boundless? Boundless! : NODULES

2-down – Fifty in plant lash out : SPLURGE

3-down – Foodstuff that is for Oliver : JAMIE

4-down – Flower about to be eaten by goat on a mountain? : BUTTERCUP

5-down – Paddy raised sockets : PORTS

6-down – Nude riser, embarrassed, is covered again : REINSURED

7-down – Put up hefty stakes where felons used to hang out : GIBBETS

8-down – Record store never opening letter : EPSILON

14-down – Sift a clue when playing marbles? : FACULTIES

16-down – Wipe the floor with repulsive fluid : PULVERISE

17-down – Conifer plantation upsetting mum and pop : PINETUM

18-down – A naughty child drinks and spits : IMPALES

20-down – Miles away from imported rolling stone : PERIDOT

21-down – Old defences protecting second front? In a way : OFSORTS

23-down – Section of church used by Paisley : AISLE

24-down – Fish finger’s last to be consumed by solicitor : TROUT

1-across – European city welcoming police with a copper, perhaps : BASEMETAL

6-across – Fag’s rear struck in public school, becoming red : RUBY

8-across – Euro best abandoned, without a doubt : TOBESURE

9-across – See 19 : FINGER

10-across – See 1 down : GASKET

11-across – Baby in decline takes a bit of Sofia’s money : STOTINKA

12-across – Giving affection in an intimate relationship : HANDIN

15-across – Man in control, steeplechaser at the front leaving another behind : SVENGALI

16-across – Pilot there wingless, possibly? : HELIPORT

19-across – Sweet thing with bum to touch : SPONGE

21-across – See 3 : RUSHMORE

22-across – Dog coming back to bite organ, so be prepared! : GEARUP

24-across – Regularly seen, callous men, big old boys : ALUMNI

25-across – Current squeezes right hot and steamy! : TROPICAL

26-across – Hear bass or tenor, perhaps, in song? : HYMN

27-across – Erstwhile sweetheart crushed, it’s said : EXPRESSED

1-down – Keep cheap silver in container — or lose it! : BLOWA

2-down – A king among dense rubbish was creeping : SNEAKED

3-down – Jockey uses whip to make this? Stony faces here : MOUNT

4-down – Hair needing highlights with a bit off the top : TRESSES

5-down – Antony and Cleopatra, say, accepting end of romance, something pink remains : LEFTOVERS

6-down – See 23 : RUNNING

7-down – Be lucky, then get gale? : BREAKALEG

13-down – Vote dividing European Union in a journey that’s without intimacy in partnership : ASEXUALLY

14-down – Coin born to obtain old record initialled by Igor Stravinsky : NEOLOGISE

17-down – Brutal individual, relative shackling drone : INHUMAN

18-down – Part of canopy left holding supporter up : TREETOP

20-down – Organs — all staying the same then? : OVARIES

22-down – See 12 : GLOVE

23-down – Working as an early morning jogger? : UPAND

9-across – Untie tangles ringing small bird and set in motion : INSTITUTE

10-across – River swallowed up by major river set-up : ORDER

11-across – Set allowances round off speeches : RATIONS

12-across – Europe’s premier unknown poet set forth : EXPOUND

13-across – Cast set up : FOUND

14-across – Visitor set out to interrupt audibly exasperated type? : SIGHTSEER

16-across – Set off accelerant — bound to get in trouble : COUNTERBALANCED

19-across – Set aside the result of clumsy cosmetic piercing? : EARMARKED

21-across – Set out to be first personalised cook : STEAM

22-across – As a limo possibly set about reversing right : STRETCH

23-across – Language of one set to wear back-to-front collar : LATVIAN

24-across – Status of small container set out : CASTE

25-across – Where you’ll find St Paul set in Oman ground : MINNESOTA

1-down – Choice firm set out to produce a filmic record : MICROFICHE

2-down – End of set: perhaps US must start to use a Japanese art : TSUTSUMU

3-down – Address possibly used by chauffeur of limo cruising on empty road : MILORD

4-down – See 23 : OUTS

5-down – Collection of six American states and glen, clued cryptically? : NEWENGLAND

6-down – Lodging places making parking in Haiti so awful : HOSPITIA

7-down – Charge on oath a Radio 1 presenter, say : ADJURE

8-down – Good riddance — ball’s disappeared in grating : GRID

14-down – Irksome, the bending to achieve the desired effect : STRIKEHOME

15-down – Simple parking in neutral, awfully basic : RUDIMENTAL

17-down – Hot snacks!, those wished good health said? : TOASTIES

18-down – One who believes he’s owed money : CREDITOR

20-down – In power, a restitution is most unusual : RAREST

21-down – Oddly articulated puppet inflamed widow : SUTTEE

22-down – Lay off the dress! : SACK

23-down – They’re used to restart play when dismissive cry interrupts actor’s words : LINE

1-across – Kim chose badly, becoming nostalgic : HOMESICK

5-across – Idle American’s capacity to take nothing in : LOITER

9-across – Associate can report disruption : COPARTNER

11-across – Material dug up is put back : DENIM

12-across – Dear chap in the pink : SWEETWILLIAM

15-across – Novice in Alpine region? Not quite! : TYRO

16-across – A bull never becomes defenceless : VULNERABLE

18-across – Good science provides good food : GASTRONOMY

19-across – Enemy holds sovereign in frozen waste : FLOE

21-across – Lustful jailbird has item from women’s underwear, I discern : CONCUPISCENT

24-across – Ridge seen every second in fair weather : ARETE

25-across – Garland, without doubt, is comfortable : LEISURELY

26-across – A good man interrupts Scots lassie to get a move on : HASTEN

27-across – Housing for canon taking people in : TENEMENT

1-down – Journalist gets chop : HACK

2-down – Mike works and cleans up : MOPS

3-down – Scold daughter for being clever : SHREWD

4-down – Alien conquest turned out to be significant : CONSEQUENTIAL

6-down – Ageing celebrity appears at the top of the pole : OLDGLORY

7-down – Winger going round workrooms turned up sports equipment : TENNISBALL

8-down – Called to mind representative in a rush : REMEMBERED

10-down – Having an argument with West about feature in the gym : ROWINGMACHINE

13-down – Old vehicle for the drama teacher? : STAGECOACH

14-down – Journalists keeping record of TV staff : PRESENTERS

17-down – Overture composed for old poet : TROUVERE

20-down – Guarantee rebuke when scratching head : ENSURE

22-down – Tory leader in charge of function : FETE

23-down – Isolated place where key sport is climbing : EYOT

1-across – Someone of fluid sexuality’s bound to become a clergyman : BISHOP

4-across – Albatrosses both taking turn to incubate brood : OBSESS

9-across – Region made up of boundless warm seas : AREA

10-across – Giant lime’s monstrous pips : TIMESIGNAL

11-across – It’s of assistance to shepherd or miner, but not king : COLLIE

12-across – Mills and Boon-style books in modern Greek : ROMANTIC

13-across – One’s up the duff in Room at the Top : PENTHOUSE

15-across – Lib Dem politician reportedly dealt sharp blows : HEWN

16-across – Lugs first of boats from harbours : EARS

17-across – Answers to clues published when it’s time to go to sleep : LIGHTSOUT

21-across – Small island in river, short and narrow : STRAITEN

22-across – Male returning morning after morning with large-breasted creature : MAMMAL

24-across – Relative’s entry into Britain’s surprisingly supported by Labour and Tories? : BIPARTISAN

25-across – Bounder boxing hard as result of punch : CHAD

26-across – When you’re caned, cane is something that grabs attention : SHTICK

27-across – Arachne’s nothing but crude : IMPURE

1-down – Skin reportedly has lines and stripes in black and white : BARCODE

2-down – Has ordered over fifties to make will : SHALL

3-down – Very busy, one then got off at last : ONTHEGO

5-down – Imbecile finally promises end to continuous boom and bust : BOSOMS

6-down – Cockneys embracing new good causes : ENGENDERS

7-down – Locate good woman, one in a hundred : STATION

8-down – Is porn mimesis, acting, or an artistic movement? : IMPRESSIONISM

14-down – Severely criticised and curtailed American right to lock up men : TOREAPART

16-down – Requires guts? Run away! : ENTAILS

18-down – Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? : HOMONYM

19-down – Juan was, we agree, regularly out in the dark : UNAWARE

20-down – Jacques Tati can’t keep still : STATIC

23-down – Historian losing bet in gambler’s paradise : MACAU