Daily Answers

9-across – Terry’s upset about desire for infidelity : TREACHERY

10-across – Calls sailor back, one’s docked : NAMES

11-across – In our condition joining America is catastrophic : RUINOUS

12-across – Trotter’s first fiddle over 25 nets £1,000 for his friend? : TRIGGER

13-across – Approve of B-? : BLESS

14-across – Mwah! Mwah! song by rock band leads to exciting sounds : AIRKISSES

16-across – Car crash claim letter, it pays out money : AUTOMATICTELLER

19-across – Having many sides can go wrong in agreement : DECAGONAL

21-across – Cut dried fruit : PRUNE

22-across – Wolf gives heart away to small animals : PIGGIES

23-across – Can filled with very hot fuel : GASOHOL

24-across – This fashions pigtail with one good twist? : PLAIT

25-across – Drivers’ manoeuvres : ENGINEERS

1-down – Lie on table to make an outline : STORYBOARD

2-down – 17’s piece paints up scene that’s fake? : CECINEST

3-down – 12’s bearing makes one angry : ACROSS

4-down – Unknown girl raised god : ZEUS

5-down – Very amusing — unruly hairstyle covers Conservative : HYSTERICAL

6-down – Trendy and elegant clothes Italian for ever : INFINITE

7-down – Icons and wizards from Apple? : IMAGES

8-down – Tears flow, missing English ruler : TSAR

14-down – He is not sad, perplexed or surprised : ASTONISHED

15-down – Is art’s rule re-written by such a person? : SURREALIST

17-down – Artist from China takes courage : MAGRITTE

18-down – A rough thug, starting to escape, splits sides with glee : LAUGHTER

20-down – Drink up in the Vatican? Go carefully : COGNAC

21-down – See 2 : PASUNE

22-down – See 2 : PIPE

23-down – Crazy artist’s other half? : GAGA

9-across – Main toy is destroyed — ill feeling results : ANIMOSITY

10-across – English detective attends court ruling : EDICT

11-across – Pitt discharged from Outpatients wearing robe : SOUTANE

12-across – Retire around 50, then party! : BLOWOUT

13-across – She returns in an instant : NINA

14-across – Turn up repeatedly before noon? That’s ridiculous : COCKAMAMIE

16-across – Boy played with headless dog : SAMOYED

17-across – Drives over to workforce of women : DISTAFF

19-across – Posturing wildly, gripping pole below the belt : UNSPORTING

22-across – Case held in perpetuity : ETUI

24-across – Try to catch the girl : HEATHER

25-across – Queen embraces new quiz game : BEZIQUE

26-across – City given half the capital for material : NYLON

27-across – Reticent judge about to butt in : INTERJECT

1-down – Oriental leaves circuit, having chanted verses about painful outburst : LAPSANGSOUCHONG

2-down – Plant flying bomb behind packing container : VIBURNUM

3-down – Today? Forever? Never! : NOWAY

4-down – Kindling passion prior to deal : FIREWOOD

5-down – Other ’alf goes back into Denmark for spirit : DYBBUK

6-down – One changing others with first-class intervention? : REFORMIST

7-down – Wind-up children’s characters, new out : SIMOOM

8-down – One holding torch trips — batteries fly out : STATUEOFLIBERTY

15-down – Instrument to chop — sharpen axes first : XYLOPHONE

17-down – After sound of bell try looking up symbolic text : DINGBATS

18-down – Hostile towards endless pursuit of relics : ANTIQUES

20-down – Principal way to core fruit : STAPLE

21-down – Preserver of the Ancients — salt and heart of plum? : TARPIT

23-down – Ezra Pound’s heart­broken shade : AZURE

1-across – Seeking peace between China and the US : PACIFIC

5-across – Involving practical experience to pass to offspring : HANDSON

10-across – Look round to leg in play : OGLE

11-across – He won’t pass false notes : PIANOTUNER

12-across – It’s in our blood : PLASMA

13-across – Property mistress? : LANDLADY

14-across – After Jerusalem maybe choir take break : ARTICHOKE

16-across – A good man always in control : STEER

17-across – Feel like something a bit extravagant? : FANCY

19-across – Weightlifter takes fish, being fussy about meat : JACKSPRAT

23-across – Battle station : WATERLOO

24-across – Boris takes a strangely pressurised line : ISOBAR

26-across – Clear and determined to get early radio programmes : CRYSTALSET

27-across – A hard thing to catch : NAIL

28-across – Mother’s in the outhouse, drunk! : SMASHED

29-across – Accident-prone dancer? : TRIPPER

2-down – Bony ran Gaul erratically : ANGULAR

3-down – Plans to move aside : IDEAS

4-down – Accuse every naughty child, at first : IMPEACH

6-down – Money for a horse : AMOUNT

7-down – Score twice with one dart? : DOUBLETOP

8-down – Completed fitting but not yet paid : OVERDUE

9-down – Champ to consume gargantuan meals : EATLIKEAHORSE

15-down – Grows wrinkled : INCREASES

18-down – Sue is of use : ANAGRAM

20-down – One joining in needlework : KNITTER

21-down – It makes a man keen on money and a woman on food : AVARICE

22-down – Oral entreaties find favour : PLEASE

25-down – Admit having won somehow, ending in a superior position : OWNUP

1-across – This a difficult problem finally erased, where rubber’s employed : SHIATSU

5-across – Because investing billions inspiring you and I, certain things gathering dust : COBWEBS

10-across – Hulking beast squeezed into motor caravan : ORCA

11-across – Back horse with one limb, Sea Slug : NUDIBRANCH

12-across – Intended return of innocent child effectively starts : FIANCE

13-across – Standards appear sad, more sad when reported? : CRITERIA

14-across – Manager should be cut short in truth for logorrhoea : VERBOSITY

16-across – Bound to join women’s club : WEDGE

17-across – Hide behind first of shredded wheat : SPELT

19-across – Local boat enters before part of cycle : INNERTUBE

23-across – Description of some missiles having bearing on dispersal of a riot : AIRTOAIR

24-across – I’m flipping plugging the blessed lecture! : HOMILY

26-across – Well oiled builder’s bum, something furry in it : LUBRICATED

27-across – Introductions only typical of your Sheridan plays : TOYS

28-across – Experience suffering in fight for financial rescue package : BAILOUT

29-across – Dork opening gift that’s not for suckers! : BASSOON

2-down – Protagonist taking drugs : HEROINE

3-down – Range popular — range popular? : AGAIN

4-down – See 8 : SINGERS

6-down – Nothing secure about buckle originally, as one may be released? : ONBAIL

7-down – Food from a giant, then 3 for old song, might you say? : WHALEMEAT

8-down – Ronet and Otla? : BACKING

9-down – Film — creation of graduate in it consuming academic in the end : EDUCATINGRITA

15-down – Like the coalition, Labour standing to bury one in the future : BILATERAL

18-down – Circling the border, there’s me dropping a plant : PRIMULA

20-down – Anteater buried nose in­itially inside one climbing : ECHIDNA

21-down – Name boy, still abandoned — is he? : BILLYNO

22-down – Chap and friend detailed old language : MANCHU

25-down – See 21 : MATES

1-across – Signal employees to uphold the standard : FLAGSTAFF

6-across – They look round for bears without fear : ORBS

8-across – Out of money? Barter! : EXCHANGE

9-across – It sounds bad — not so, he’s in the pink : NUDIST

10-across – Very large game bird : OSPREY

11-across – Car going round with my own control : AUTONOMY

12-across – Capital resort to give Susan a break : NASSAU

15-across – Let a case get out of hand and snowball : ESCALATE

16-across – Conflict in which countercharges may be decisive? : PRICEWAR

19-across – There’s a cello playing in this place : LOCALE

21-across – Elated, having been promoted : UPLIFTED

22-across – An animal — it has one foot drawn back : WAPITI

24-across – He went round filling potholes : TINKER

25-across – Done to death? : EXECUTED

26-across – Port some dread entering : ADEN

27-across – Amend paper said to go by the board : DISAPPEAR

1-down – Gets one’s bearings in difficulties : FIXES

2-down – Sticks public notices around this place : ADHERES

3-down – A gritty Scot? : SANDY

4-down – Mean to declare before very long : AVERAGE

5-down – Extremist is crushed in a final act : FANATICAL

6-down – A number making loud noise during examin­ation : ORDINAL

7-down – Teams able to move into the lead, say? : BASEMETAL

13-down – Aphrodite’s emaciated form : ATROPHIED

14-down – Neat and dry : UNWATERED

17-down – Yellow bird : CHICKEN

18-down – Remedy may be to change gear : REDRESS

20-down – Take suitable remedy externally : CAPTURE

22-down – Give birth with assistance : WHELP

23-down – Her and it: conjunction or pronoun? : THEIR