Daily Answers

8-across – Productive hint for many of today’s answers? : FRUITFUL

9-across – Put in order, after last of corn consumed : NEATEN

10-across – Forcefully expel from Southern part of church : SPEW

11-across – Scheme pair organised as opponents of Clinton, say : IMPEACHERS

12-across – In a monotonous way, and at length, interrupting pilot : FLATLY

14-across – Visual aid as I listened to minimalist composer : EYEGLASS

15-across – Note on old English poet hard to decipher : CRABBED

17-across – Like a rogue making dish of fried dough, about average? : KNAVISH

20-across – Female with principle bringing in piano for small ball : SPHERULE

22-across – Small organism European found in a dress : AEROBE

23-across – People without feelings keeping old lady in car a lot : AUTOMATONS

24-across – About to strike impudent young woman, note : CHIT

25-across – Calm person bidding before two others : SERENE

26-across – Argued in court about university publication with a soft cover : PLUMAGED

1-down – One who struggles with pages in larger novel : GRAPPLER

2-down – Belief that is enshrined in reliable car : VIEW

3-down – Guy making, eg, iffy arrangement : EFFIGY

4-down – Theatregoer showing appreciation for striking part : CLAPPER

5-down – Be involved with a lot of time put into unfinished machine : ENGAGEIN

6-down – Book Voltaire composed while eating hot biscuit : BATHOLIVER

7-down – Under pressure, noble types can become paragons : PEARLS

13-down – Allowance for entertainment — still including no opera singer turning up : TABLEMONEY

16-down – Lots of stuff coming out, socially acceptable in former girlfriends : EXUDATES

18-down – More awe-inspiring warship British sailor docked on river : SUBLIMER

19-down – Makes up score, originally composed : RECOUPS

21-down – Quietly work on limited edition being trimmed : PRUNED

22-down – Some great students giving stable new generation : ATSTUD

24-down – Spies connected with ring for so long : CIAO

1-across – See 15 : BEHIND

4-across – Fiddle with good seafood : SCAMPI

9-across – See 15 : FROM

10-across – Commentary on work, as fine England football manager goes in front : BOOKREVIEW

11-across – Endless limitation for Scottish author : BARRIE

12-across – Switch that is live feeding idea that’s vulgar : PLEBEIAN

13-across – Barking, a headless dog turns with a bark : ANGOSTURA

15-across – Difficult for me entering valley with deer to finish eventually in front : COME

16-across – See 5 : BEEF

17-across – Supreme singer remains captivating in a novel, Austen’s first : DIANAROSS

21-across – Perhaps eight to nine American hospitals, where abroad, cutting rights : RUSHHOUR

22-across – Chairman smothering me in fish, change for adulteress : MADAME

24-across – Cunning in people chasing long animal like a weasel : PINEMARTEN

25-across – Cut hydrogen by itself? : GASH

26-across – Eastern s-states in the papers : ESSAYS

27-across – Continue to write about northern flag : PENNON

1-down – Pub requiring profit, say goodbye? : BARGAIN

2-down – Devil of a poet’s on for the yellow fellow : HOMER

3-down – Most distinguished head’s taken over in case : NOBLEST

5-down – Food in a tin has been forced out : CORNED

6-down – Give ground feeding cow? Popcorn aficionado! : MOVIEGOER

7-down – Repeat a passage of writer, a teacher : ITERATE

8-down – The price for police security while you sleep, might you say, in compound? : COPPERNITRATE

14-down – See 23 : ONESHEELS

16-down – Gold variable in taste — here’s aluminium ore : BAUXITE

18-down – Unable to find coal then? English candidate : NOMINEE

19-down – See 2 : SIMPSON

20-down – See 22 : BOVARY

23-down – Be stubborn while competing at tug-of-war? : DIGIN

1-across – Sort of party backed by great fictional character : GATSBY

4-across – Have no truck with tender? Endlessly one moves wagons : SHUNTER

9-across – Criminal doesn’t aim for prison : MAIDSTONE

10-across – Shop closing early before mass attack : STORM

11-across – Catcher in novel also first for Salinger : LASSO

12-across – Oldest measure for horse — from its mouth? : FIRSTHAND

13-across – Smarter rabbit comprehending one : NATTIER

15-across – Spread bad news about Turkey : STREWN

17-across – Light fitment in the old days : SCONCE

19-across – Nuts deserve to be cut off : SEVERED

22-across – Treaty or pact oddly ignored by state capital : CONCORDAT

24-across – True capital of Mayan kingdom : REALM

26-across – Delicacies half-cooked for Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar : ELCID

27-across – Stand for show again? : REPRESENT

28-across – Woman from the loony left? Not so! : MILDRED

29-across – Patient’s beginning 7 — not finishing drugs before operation : PREMED

1-down – Plucky lyrist’s first to join an Asian ensemble : GAMELAN

2-down – Kindling catches on : TWIGS

3-down – European houses to New Englander : BOSTONIAN

4-down – Mountainous areas in the middle of Russia on the radio : SIERRAS

5-down – Trouble in college with group of students : UPSET

6-down – Hard worker going over green in which horse was present : TROJANWAR

7-down – Correct bit of metal piping goes outside : REMEDY

8-down – Box camera originally taken by volunteer : COFFER

14-down – Catch line that’s knotted with a sort of hitch : TECHNICAL

16-down – Boater, possibly, may be seen in Durham : RIVERWEAR

18-down – Bore, extremely unpop­ular, stopping over : ENDURED

19-down – Don’t go to bed — sleepyhead exercises! : SITUPS

20-down – Given inferior status, daughter displayed strong feelings : DEMOTED

21-down – Hoot about being taken in by swindle : SCREAM

23-down – Marshal may be tall? : ORDER

25-down – Top group didn’t fast before noon : ATEAM

1-across – Put out fire : DISCHARGE

6-across – Entrance for spectators : GATE

8-across – First love, with a girl in torment : ORIGINAL

9-across – European may be French : POLISH

10-across – Bunk with a woman! : BERTHA

11-across – Leave out one note in introductory piece : PRECLUDE

12-across – Free-for-all sort of arrangement : FLORAL

15-across – Widespread, half in verse : EPIDEMIC

16-across – Inducts into office when answer is correct : SWEARSIN

19-across – Attacked and bombed at random : MOBBED

21-across – Struggles to maintain faith in the past : CRUSADES

22-across – Agree it’s of small account and acquiesce : ACCEDE

24-across – He’s learned to park a vehicle in the street : SAVANT

25-across – Intent on rendering two notes on an instrument : RESOLUTE

26-across – I object to an average standard : MEAN

27-across – Hoist sail to break loose from personal unpleasantness : HALITOSIS

1-down – The strain of mourning : DIRGE

2-down – Reg is involved with this trial shot : SIGHTER

3-down – Layer on article turned to shade of red : HENNA

4-down – Not a change for the better : RELAPSE

5-down – Left for dead, for example : EUPHEMISM

6-down – It’s an Israeli region I allege, wrongly : GALILEE

7-down – Straight hit in international cricket — going for a run : TESTDRIVE

13-down – Inferior position he’s in, not I : LOWERCASE

14-down – Where to make a final stand in trench warfare? : LASTDITCH

17-down – Refuse to vote, putting Jack on the spot : ABSTAIN

18-down – It joins another for a breather : NOSTRIL

20-down – Secures damages : BUCKLES

22-down – Advantage point in a number of games : ASSET

23-down – Takes a girl out fruit : DATES

1-across – City animal — about half’s half : BELFAST

5-across – Trust devouring energy — don’t go off it : DEEPEND

9-across – Burden for young animal breaking in America : INCUBUS

10-across – Colours used by artist in front : RAINBOW

11-across – Religion of the opposition with strange hoops to go through : THEOSOPHY

12-across – Polish backing for king with a cover that’s almost complete : BURKA

13-across – Intercity waterway they say guides organ game : LEEDS

15-across – See 13 : LIVERPOOL

17-across – City of revolutionary in duty list : ROCHESTER

19-across – Engineer put in boiler with mount : HOREB

22-across – Flourish backfires : SERIF

23-across – Acknowledgement of superior allusion with changed head : DEFERENCE

25-across – Liqueur for castles : BAILEYS

26-across – Aquatic larva, drunk and dishonourable? : CADDISH

27-across – Fund-raiser at the present time : GIFTDAY

28-across – City shot in the theatre : LINCOLN

1-down – City of fashion : BRISTOL

2-down – Rape victim gives money to church : LUCRECE

3-down – Dumbledore is a number on public transport : ALBUS

4-down – Match religious group with flying guinea pig? : TESTPILOT

5-down – City matched with neighbour : DERBY

6-down – Eat last course first and send hot food back to city : EDINBURGH

7-down – Prohibition? I’ve kept my head about it : EMBARGO

8-down – Deposit required from badly flawed student : DEWFALL

14-down – City life with female arranged in outbuilding : SHEFFIELD

16-down – Outspoken about doubtfully fair sort of spectacles : VARIFOCAL

17-down – Garden pest from Bourges : ROSEBUG

18-down – City transport to dis­agree with monarch being dropped : CARDIFF

20-down – Little piece of music has donor in trouble : RONDINO

21-down – Plant raised, when cold inside, in city : BRECHIN

23-down – Miller needs second in what he should do : DUSTY

24-down – Colourful article on fieldwork : REDAN