Daily Answers

1-across – Party yawning loudly, part of the furniture : SIDEBOARD

6-across – Run away, seeing wolf : BOLT

8-across – Gorilla heading for zoo held by girl from behind — appearing calmer? : DIAZEPAM

9-across – Mundane as Wimbledon, perhaps? : COMMON

10-across – Frozen, grabbing last of heat, as cold : STOLID

11-across – Privilege claimed by Americans with their sleeves rolled up, they say? : THERIGHT

12-across – Paul forbidding fish : MEGRIM

15-across – Indian dress in chestnut and white — perhaps one cultivating flowers : ROSARIAN

16-across – Characters 1, 3 and 5 in an over? : ODDBALLS

19-across – Talk with creature of the night in river : DEBATE

21-across – With an Irish accent and, initially, slurring it’s dreadfully loud? : HAWAIIAN

22-across – Company of writers last to inscribe a final note, showing muscle : BICEPS

24-across – See 11 : TOBEAR

25-across – Party with fury rejected an African : LIBERIAN

26-across – See 11 : ARMS

27-across – Sacrifice armies and try to renegotiate : MARTYRISE

1-down – See 21 : SHIRT

2-down – See 22 : DAZZLER

3-down – Attempt to outline exercise for a man, perhaps? : BIPED

4-down – Current measurer a short distance above tree, adjusted : AMMETER

5-down – Dropped dead? That’s about right : DECREASED

6-down – Rear jetty going less smoothly : BUMPIER

7-down – Richard I — or IO? : LIONHEART

13-down – Try getting goal, English support lacking at first : ENDEAVOUR

14-down – Sully spirit measure I’m to serve up, small amount : MILLIGRAM

17-down – Idiotic dropping in without support : BRALESS

18-down – Defamation’s left in a lower position for actor Adam : SANDLER

20-down – Large short, drinking last of Havana Club, perhaps — this it? : BACARDI

22-down – Excellent thing, a light shone in a policeman’s face? : BOBBY

23-down – See 9 : PLACE

1-across – Two animals bound for cover : BUCKRAM

5-across – Game in which Diana and Jack have nothing on — look! : DIABOLO

10-across – Sailor goes to and fro to see pop group : ABBA

11-across – Possibly end a better woman — even a saint! : BERNADETTE

12-across – Note to change flag : FALTER

13-across – Not a very bright lot, but sturdy : THICKSET

14-across – Warder organising a fete gets in something to drink : BEEFEATER

16-across – Coming from Lake Nyasa to land further north : KENYA

17-across – Black market trader’s location : PITCH

19-across – Close to a hypotenuse? : ALONGSIDE

23-across – Drive from A to B with mini, erratically : AMBITION

24-across – Key to passage leading to kitchen : GALLEY

26-across – Composer in far off New Zealand heard record : FRANZLISZT

27-across – Game reserves : POOL

28-across – State what customs require travellers to do : DECLARE

29-across – It reminds me repeatedly not to change : MEMENTO

2-down – R. Mugabe gives offence : UMBRAGE

3-down – Soldier in full gear that creeps around at night : KRAIT

4-down – Here in Canada it’s a pound over the fixed rate : ALBERTA

6-down – Literary type with a leaning to the right : ITALIC

7-down – Worker’s joints are wonderful : BEESKNEES

8-down – Gamble a great deal on a patched-up tyre : LOTTERY

9-down – State of the fraternity — rows among the monks : BROTHERLINESS

15-down – It’s not true that oil, in fact, needs changing : FICTIONAL

18-down – Put into liquidation : IMMERSE

20-down – The late shift : NIGHTIE

21-down – Poor side away from home fails to survive : DIESOUT

22-down – He finishes off game with the queen : KILLER

25-down – Error made by student before recess : LAPSE

1-across – Dancing fan not in time for jazzed up programmes : INFOTAINMENT

8-across – Eat nuts after wasted meal : HIGHTEA

9-across – Warning about fish shaking a lot : FORTUNE

11-across – Author dashed off a part : RANSOME

12-across – Two swimmers, the first perceived in sound barrier : RAILING

13-across – Mark requiring second kiss : SPECK

14-across – Current slump needs correcting: Number 10 is fronting push : IMPULSION

16-across – With spin, one’s taken in by Cameron? I see what you mean : LIPREADER

19-across – It’s hot filling tea cups etc : CHINA

21-across – Emphatic confession of one telling stories about sun worship : IDOLISE

23-across – Conveyance from one endlessly gracious in The Faerie Queene : MINICAB

24-across – Like ugly little chap? Snog him excitably : GNOMISH

25-across – Make out sporting contest in Ascot? : NECKTIE

26-across – French correspondent is a Pulitzer Prize winner : NORMANMAILER

1-down – Inexperienced girl’s not faking it in going on top : INGENUE

2-down – Thoroughly disheartened evangelist interrupting churchgoers for a bit of a nag : FETLOCK

3-down – Steady current’s drawn tide away : TRADEWIND

4-down – Conclude there’s no leaving hell : INFER

5-down – Dealing with army officer, vocally : MARTIAL

6-down – Stuffing for tuna utilised for molluscs : NAUTILI

7-down – Sort out getting involved in attacking way traders make money : SHORTSELLING

10-down – Source of grievance in Greece and Spain: crippling German bills : ELGINMARBLES

15-down – Pity? It’s lacking, whence Dracula’s destructive urge : PYROMANIA

17-down – U2 fans are so unrewarded : PROBONO

18-down – Character eating is oppressed by burning fondness for the cream : ELITISM

19-down – It’s coming to a point where a Liberal is propping up right-winger in charge : CONICAL

20-down – Troublemaker, one using trendy quotations? : INCITER

22-down – Fellow in Macbeth, say, ending on high : ETHAN

1-across – Excitement at topless party : AROUSAL

5-across – Killer game … : HANGMAN

9-across – … on the other hand, cut the deck : ORLOP

10-across – One seeking or finding nasty old minger : GOLDMINER

11-across – Not willing to take right road : INTERSTATE

12-across – A gentile backing exercise : YOGA

14-across – Partly dressed, I get treated with insertion of a probe : INVESTIGATE

18-across – Perhaps not 1 across, ending in chest of drawers : CARTOONISTS

21-across – Take regular winnings in pubs : INNS

22-across – Cryptic compiler’s to start in earnest : MYSTERIOUS

25-across – Will manager put old flame before old money and verbal subterfuge? : EXECUTRIX

26-across – Recipient’s old man with evil eye : PAYEE

27-across – Roots of revolution and counter-revolution overlapping : TURNIPS

28-across – Maiden’s crazy for musician : SIDEMAN

1-down – A fellow is a looker : ADONIS

2-down – Recently popped up in metal foundry … : OFLATE

3-down – … a foreman with outstanding face protection : SUPERVISOR

4-down – Just get the hell out of here! : LEGIT

5-down – Not a breath of fresh air for hoist sail to flap : HALITOSIS

6-down – Insensitive and stupid to change leader : NUMB

7-down – Gay or straight : MANTOMAN

8-down – Given account of island uprising by Hughes : NARRATED

13-down – Stripped clue with a pattern : PINSTRIPED

15-down – What they make is drunk and is very silly : VINEYARDS

16-down – O for a chance in the west : OCCIDENT

17-down – Good money to hear Your Majesty : GRANDEUR

19-down – Soup that’s a mile off maternal dedication : TOMYUM

20-down – Across and behind : ASTERN

23-down – Thanks sex deviant, with death a certainty : TAXES

24-down – Somehow justified excluding unhealthy diets at the peak : FUJI

5-across – Stopped wearing corsets : STAYED

6-across – Knock out a large quantity of foreign money : KOPECK

9-across – Policeman not allowed to evade responsibility : COPOUT

10-across – Not in favour of work — puzzling! : OPPOSING

11-across – Only I object to scripture lessons : MERE

12-across – Opportunities to check the lines after casting : REHEARSALS

13-across – Untimely error possibly made by a Cornishman : ANACHRONISM

18-across – Shop Irishman is opening, with Ireland’s backing : PATISSERIE

21-across – Women in retreat : NUNS

22-across – Ceremonial departure : HARAKIRI

23-across – It may go down well, but one dies to kick it : BUCKET

24-across – German, sadly far from fortunate, is in trouble : TEUTON

25-across – Score confused with a gross : COARSE

1-down – Girl straddles a horse belonging to James : JACOBEAN

2-down – Bully for him! : HECTOR

3-down – Express dissatisfaction with a break in service : COMPLAIN

4-down – It checks the growth of population : CENSUS

5-down – Achieved one’s goal? : SCORED

7-down – Light linked to switch : KINDLE

8-down – Sad mourners hit the gin : MOTHERSRUIN

14-down – The actors have to press hard : CASTIRON

15-down – Cushy job at home in safe environment : SINECURE

16-down – Rock one sailor climbed with another : BASALT

17-down – A kiss, say, indicates attachment : ANNEXE

19-down – He suffered from soaring ambition : ICARUS

20-down – Altogether Ben fails to set up pass : ENBLOC