Daily Answers

1-across – Freak has the occasional party : ODDBALL

5-across – See 14 : NATIONS

10-across – Service block : MASS

11-across – Lean outlines a number of points, personal, in film location : TINSELTOWN

12-across – Characters representative of the 17 on trial, legs akimbo, as attendants off piste? : CHALET

13-across – Elgin having lost marbles, horse half gone, revealing habit : NEGLIGEE

14-across – Building is sensational pad, this 17 edifice : PALAISDES

16-across – See 12 : GIRLS

17-across – Second dark man, fool, laid back in embrace of the missus, as multitasker : SWISS

19-across – See 17 : ARMYKNIFE

23-across – Long-distance traveller *** cool! : STARSHIP

24-across – Barmy notice that may be 17? : CUCKOO

26-across – Reused manuscript most bleached, devils inscribed : PALIMPSEST

27-across – Noise primarily in boor — or boar? : OINK

28-across – 17 location in 17 centre for Italian sculptor : BERNINI

29-across – Difficulty with infusion of one’s own blood going this way and that : SNAKING

2-down – Flip over king, say, and queen, perhaps on a now obsolete coin : DRACHMA

3-down – 17 place bottom on top of lap : BASEL

4-down – Contents of a pack including drink — that’s ironic, to say the least! : LITOTES

6-down – In time sell short — or pay back : AVENGE

7-down – Gut feeling it’s how teachers make money? : INTUITION

8-down – Roosevelt’s initiatives exposed something slippery, by the sound of it : NEWDEAL

9-down – Constant return generated a little money to feed one side of Manchester : UNINTERRUPTED

15-down – No one with hair on end underwrites a claim : ASSERTION

18-down – Power demonstrated by a hollow tyrant cutting pay : WATTAGE

20-down – Mexican state currency protecting the queen, say : YUCATAN

21-down – Disapprove of loud argument over French veto : FROWNON

22-down – Feature about work, one of his taking a minute? : CHOPIN

25-down – See 24 : CLOCK

1-across – Like the pure in heart, more up and about? : BLESSED

5-across – Henry the first has only fish : HALIBUT

9-across – Ben bends over for freedom : UHURU

10-across – Royal couple make love? : PHILANDER

11-across – Speech by officer about arrangement of shades : COLORATION

12-across – State where one may advance in board 21? : TOGO

14-across – Roadhouses? : MOBILEHOMES

18-across – This month shows skill with lack of firmness : INSTABILITY

21-across – Recreation one gets from crossing America? : GAME

22-across – Manual arrest by copper? : BLUECOLLAR

25-across – What waves do with anger about wireless curtailment : IRRADIATE

26-across – Is to prosecute a matter for decision? : ISSUE

27-across – Spell letter by church worker : ENCHANT

28-across – One had red tendency? Far from it! : DIEHARD

1-down – Bishop starts to preside over church with a meal … : BRUNCH

2-down – … which is the same as … : EQUALS

3-down – … are many involved in cooking of 2 : SQUAREMEAL

4-down – Headquarters of French vessel : DEPOT

5-down – Greek citizens’ interjections to take notice over voting? : HOIPOLLOI

6-down – Don’t work for your bread! : LOAF

7-down – Sweepers catching journalist in compromising places? : BEDROOMS

8-down – It’s wrong to go on French river as a slow mover : TORTOISE

13-down – Stone makes loser itchy : CHRYSOLITE

15-down – Screen lifer, ill at heart, with time becomes striking : BRILLIANT

16-down – Desiring excitement, come here for a fight : RINGSIDE

17-down – One county set off with 99, identical but different : ISOMERIC

19-down – Sad comment on car’s state : ALASKA

20-down – The devil’s about right for a companion : FRIEND

23-down – What editor does for setter in the finish? : EMEND

24-down – Dame could be Dane with English genes : EDNA

5-across – Low-down attempt to define middle-class people : GENTRY

6-across – Neat soft drink dispensers : UDDERS

9-across – Manage to assemble a party : MAKEDO

10-across – No task for a failure : OMISSION

11-across – Top brass turn to a black marketeer : SPIV

12-across – Working out final count : FUNCTIONAL

13-across – Comprehensive horoscope for well-known performers in the show? : ALLSTARCAST

18-across – Policeman — in the Flying Squad? : BLUEBOTTLE

21-across – It’s used to catch small river fish : REEL

22-across – A Ford not involved in making repeated journeys between places : TOANDFRO

23-across – Fool is to get bad abuse : ASSAIL

24-across – Rescue needs organising fast : SECURE

25-across – Maintain a lock so it turns : ASSERT

1-down – Space travel in novel form : INTERVAL

2-down – Withdraw in tears? : CRYOFF

3-down – Triad involvement with CIA between Italy and Albania : ADRIATIC

4-down – Dismisses a proposal to start moving : LETSGO

5-down – Clutches twigs : GRASPS

7-down – Work hard on an advertising jingle : SLOGAN

8-down – All together now: Knees bend! : JOINTACTION

14-down – They jeer at consumers : SCOFFERS

15-down – Under pressure to give up sweets : STRESSED

16-down – Flourishes and prospers without money : BLOOMS

17-down – One’s getting in support to carry on the fight : RESIST

19-down – She finds English university pleasant : EUNICE

20-down – England’s first slip gets run out : ELAPSE

1-across – Old dictator gives a fig, when nudged, about count : GADDAFI

5-across – Indian sage that’s been topped and crushed by child’s mother : MAHATMA

9-across – Cathedral city lacks large, double height, freestyle rap instrument : WELSH

10-across – Protection of two names separately included in a cruise at sea : INSURANCE

11-across – Small folded paper sheets cover landed gentlemen, generally : SQUIREHOOD

12-across – Old composer’s chat, say, on the radio : BYRD

14-across – Race got up — a classic beauty : ENGLISHROSE

18-across – Certain people have fun with Shakespearean drama, discreetly : THESCOTTISH

21-across – See 18 : PLAY

22-across – Deprived community’s song of work comes to nowt, sadly : SHANTYTOWN

25-across – Make something of prisoners transported by lorry, it’s said : CONSTRUCT

26-across – Foul’s legal, if starting line’s cut : AWFUL

27-across – Top grade butter in lounge, somewhere in Wyoming : LARAMIE

28-across – Theatre director wants Rye converted for a location in The Sound of Music : NUNNERY

1-down – Advice to ambitious young man — get lost! : GOWEST

2-down – He assembled scores of shops round Nassau’s east end : DELIUS

3-down – Here carbon emission produces disgust : ABHORRENCE

4-down – Part of eye hospital instant? Here’s a drink : IRISH

5-down – Dictator forcing poor souls into a small car : MUSSOLINI

6-down – See 9 : HARP

7-down – Poet figure associated with New York’s performing : TENNYSON

8-down – City of Lincoln? Right — need to change : ABERDEEN

13-down – Those people crossing High Andes peaks triumph, taking a picture : THEHAYWAIN

15-down – Lodge’s The Usage, novel about love : GATEHOUSE

16-down – Unusual element of floaty pi calculation : ATYPICAL

17-down – Old servant’s not a giving type : RETAINER

19-down – See 4 : COFFEE

20-down – Acting on the stage, so no need to call fault : INPLAY

23-down – Unacceptable, going up or down : NOTON

24-down – It’s been split, the first half of dictionary? : ATOM

1-across – Figure for bike subsequently in Iranian money : QUADRILATERAL

10-across – Brook coming in turned out painter : UTRILLO

11-across – Dog causing parent’s quarrel : MASTIFF

12-across – Black circle backed by hunting stars : ORION

13-across – Butterfly : SACREBLEU

14-across – Rule stated in the dictionary : EDICT

16-across – Changing 13 no use on a city in Spain : BARCELONA

18-across – Being just ordinary people, they voted against holding on to the lady : NONHEROES

19-across – Make good progress going with Wells the other way : GOFAR

20-across – Blocking of applause with both second and first entries : OBVIATION

23-across – Chucked old English manner of speaking : SLANG

24-across – 26 for doctor during varied hours : RHOMBUS

25-across – Shirt, say, for fellow member included : GARMENT

26-across – 1 and all in live record put in with baby? : PARALLELOGRAM

2-down – This country’s wet weather hits the Scot: I’m from further east : UKRAINIAN

3-down – Bob for Thomas from Shady Lane : DYLAN

4-down – Chains in which one makes no progress : IRONS

5-down – Carry mops to refurbish military unit : ARMYCORPS

6-down – Tea’s brewed before horse takes part in the rites of spring : EASTEREGG

7-down – Marie Lloyd’s enslaved fairy : ARIEL

8-down – Roughs harm unfortunate: I cope, providing protective authority : EUROPEANCOURT

9-down – See 8 : OFHUMANRIGHTS

15-down – Tip of Africa might be a wild country or river : THEGAMBIA

16-down – Boiled egg initially is cooked by green : BIODIESEL

17-down – Projection in present article not being filmed : OFFCAMERA

21-down – Band member dressed as a boy : VIOLA

22-down – Boy from black African country with opposite ending : NIGEL

23-down – Don’t talk? Getting warmer: What does it matter?, I say : SHRUG