Daily Answers

4-across – States circumvented by hasty retreat of gay character : HUSSAR

6-across – Mutant 2 transmuted metal : TITANIUM

9-across – Inquisitor wrecked Manx army jeep : JEREMY

10-across – Ecstatic about coiffure for prom : SEAFRONT

11-across – Monarch caught by his opponent on air : CROWNEDHEAD

15-across – Discriminatory fifth-rankers catching seventh note : ELITIST

17-across – Eg fungus-scavenger initially multiplied by 20 : CULTURE

18-across – Dance mistress and dissolute priest on the job : TERPSICHORE

22-across – What Syrinx did in 8? Yielded! : RETURNED

23-across – Yob getting hold of New Order’s 22 garment : KIMONO

24-across – Unfashionable subject’s popular favourites : CLASSICS

25-across – Polish writers wanting head of Polish painter : RUBENS

1-down – See 9 : PAXMAN

2-down – Receivers receiving setter’s payment, initially, in coins : FIVEPENCES

3-down – Bulb in lift lifted in house : DAFFODIL

4-down – Terrorist : HIJACKER

5-down – Pasquale, perhaps, cross-culturally cross-dressing, cold and dry : SARDONIC

7-down – One-trick artist’s creation : ICON

8-down – Yen to interrupt thousandth tall tale? : MYTH

12-down – Discouragement of French dramatist adopting recipe : DETERRENCE

13-down – Feel bad about turning on gas in beleaguered economic area : EUROZONE

14-down – Kind of ancient Roman people keeping half of 13 confused : GENEROUS

16-down – Hobby generating unearned income : INTEREST

19-down – 15 circle needing brains to crack this? : CLIQUE

20-down – Idle, maybe, being possessed of infinite riches : ERIC

21-down – Weasel docked in colonnade : STOA

1-across – Material I’ll recite in hollow performance : PAISLEY

5-across – Big chef: Crumble regularly found in freezer : ICECUBE

10-across – Finished 1 down before? : DONE

11-across – Putting fear in these endlessly leads to extreme depression : THEHORRORS

12-across – Lose my sail at sea : MISLAY

13-across – Judgement of TV presenter, one heartless Cowell : DECISION

14-across – Subject bruised ego to plot the end of vanity : GEOGRAPHY

16-across – Planet’s hot and wet area : MARSH

17-across – Try to avoid flippin’ strike lines! : PARRY

19-across – City to be right by water : LIVERPOOL

23-across – Ebony man draws in loose belt : JETBLACK

24-across – Bad atmosphere pervades Mamma Mia’s mansion : MIASMA

26-across – This solar eruption over my head leads to violent weather : HAILSTORMS

27-across – 16 plant’s shoot : RUSH

28-across – Meat cooked in ovens : VENISON

29-across – Former leader Dalglish saves the Reds’ soul : KENNEDY

2-down – Suffer for ages in torment without oxygen : AGONISE

3-down – Allow leading serf to rise up over English or Scottish baron : STEEL

4-down – The YMCA treated skin disease : ECTHYMA

6-down – Position beginning to cramp side and that hurts! : CROUCH

7-down – Programme with poor graphics and no animated CGI? What a con! : CARDSHARP

8-down – Digs holes : BURROWS

9-down – Psychiatrists? They’re all savages : HEADSHRINKERS

15-down – Cooper cried out loud over one biscuit : GARIBALDI

18-down – In time Lynn becomes mean : AVERAGE

20-down – As a group foolish men fool with ecstasy : ENMASSE

21-down – Mixing some sodium half caused diffusion : OSMOSED

22-down – Drumbeat that’s not hard to love : TATTOO

25-down – Father’s upset and right on the edge : APRON

1-across – Inlet without outlet in Yorkshire : BATLEY

4-across – Old playwright reduced to tell when told : TERENCE

9-across – Show with little reduced first part for setter : LILACTIME

10-across – Homeless creature’s holy light? : STRAY

11-across – Artist — did he use golden ink too? : ORPEN

12-across – Hail in strait means working hard : BEAVERING

13-across – Home counties successfully treated and guaranteed : SECURED

15-across – Crazy fellow embracing underworld without cover? : NUDIST

17-across – Reptile, American, not technically 1 down object : CROCUS

19-across – No failures possible if I depart : REFUSAL

22-across – It will take ages going by the side of the mansion as stated : ALONGHAUL

24-across – 1 down object of 12 twisted round the next : ONION

26-across – 1 down objects heard in betrayal of secrets : LEAKS

27-across – Weariness — it’s not quite due to being led by a girl : LASSITUDE

28-across – Sailing vessel attaching pet snake to bottom of mast : CATBOAT

29-across – Massive space for badgers in Yorkshire : OSSETT

1-down – Swollen with a plaguey swelling keeping pupil with us : BULBOUS

2-down – 1 down object of French familiarity and impertinence : TULIP

3-down – Entire 300 converted, which is weird : ECCENTRIC

4-down – Novelist has time to stick … : TREMAIN

5-down – … around one that drank cider : ROSIE

6-down – Hurried up with report of cutter for 1 down object : NARCISSUS

7-down – English drummer’s sound produces sea holly : ERYNGO

8-down – Sailor’s evil tautology? : SINBAD

14-down – Origin of 17 or insect or bird : CORMORANT

16-down – 1 down objects to remove when rising in assemblies : DAFFODILS

18-down – 1 down object put everyone in picture — with lady, say? : SHALLOT

19-down – Enjoyment of quarrel is horrible : RELISH

20-down – Pole that’s put in fast — that’s not too hard : LENIENT

21-down – 1 down object, French, with one change of side : GARLIC

23-down – Sharp blow round 19 : GUSTO

25-down – Employed from -8? : INUSE

1-across – Bend in backbone with belly up? : SUPINE

4-across – Soaks with sheer drops? : STEEPS

9-across – Nazi first out of the game? : HESS

10-across – Jester sees the point in modern type of phone : TOUCHSTONE

11-across – Jolson’s link with Hindu goddess is something basic : ALKALI

12-across – … make her submit? So far… : HITHERTO

13-across – Foreshadow publicity for Eastern number : PREFIGURE

15-across – Safe company? : FIRM

16-across – Platitudes uttered by a philosopher? : CANT

17-across – What makes Denys tick could be disastrous : STICKYEND

21-across – Gas meter with point out of place could be better : GAMESTER

22-across – Avian raptor, perhaps? : PARROT

24-across – Fashionable folk with affected gait carrying offspring : GLITTERATI

25-across – Ruin in being found out : UNDO

26-across – In the Times I spy product of a key worker : TYPIST

27-across – Speed — it’s lost for a vegetable : CELERY

1-down – One knows how to choose from which witch, for example : SPELLER

2-down – Infatuation with a former eastern official : PASHA

3-down – Love is all — or just the opposite? : NOTHING

5-down – That ones playing in South Pacific : TAHITI

6-down – In the next remit you’re given it’s the end : EXTREMITY

7-down – A private room can’t unfortunately come within the total : SANCTUM

8-down – Despotic writer, Italian, changing sides : AUTHORITARIAN

14-down – Digital 6 : FINGERTIP

16-down – Guy allowed a string of beads : CHAPLET

18-down – Upset, depending on one’s bigheadedness? : CAPSIZE

19-down – Hands up! — Danny loves trouble : NOONDAY

20-down – Concubine starts off with mental pressure : STRESS

23-down – Way to utter defeat by Spain : ROUTE

1-across – Bringing up a storybook character round about ancient city, getting into trouble : REGURGITATION

10-across – Back door user to handle arrow, holding spearhead back : TRADESMAN

11-across – Pathetic character wanting women to heave : RETCH

12-across – Such figures end in such a figure : ROUND

13-across – Recorder thrust right into bum : REGISTRAR

14-across – Drinking place where bard reflected about tree : TEASHOP

16-across – Roundhead boarding weary compiler’s boat : TRIREME

18-across – Undistinguished home secured by blade : ONESTAR

20-across – Heroin embargo almost ruined part of Africa : MAGHREB

21-across – Fat European straddling Germany, having lost crown : POLLARDED

23-across – Max maintains love is a recurring theme : TOPOS

24-across – Welsh valley spoken of in Spanish city : RONDA

25-across – So 10 almost bypasses most of county town : THEREFORE

26-across – ENO FAQs peed us off at one of their productions? : QUEENOFSPADES

2-down – Utter cry of delight about lots of Cajun cooking : EJACULATE

3-down – Bend, hang and invert : UPEND

4-down – It’s sweet of Republicans to keep banging drum : GUMDROP

5-down – Drunk carrying on with Bernstein number : TONIGHT

6-down – Dynamic corrosion infecting object : THRUSTING

7-down – Piscivore and outrageous queen : OTTER

8-down – Raised squadron leader, concerned with Children In Need, to adopt Mr Nazi’s bully-boys? : STORMTROOPERS

9-down – One singer left in county; another on drug amid unknowns : SHIRLEYBASSEY

15-down – Favourite 20 once involving a death? RIP : HITPARADE

17-down – Screwed-up hero getting award from Little Englander? : EUROPHOBE

19-down – Old party spot on time in former capital : RIDOTTO

20-down – Documents about crazy Dane — or his problem? : MADNESS

22-down – Name written in the water — French or Austrian poet? : LENAU

23-down – Article on origins of troubled adolescent character : THETA