Daily Answers

1-across – Approves current demands : ACCLAIMS

5-across – Bargain with Yorkshire Ripper,ultimately a killer : SNIPER

9-across – Half of headphones are broken with silence heard : EARPIECE

10-across – Silver wind instrument is OK : AGREED

12-across – Play to suit solvers : ASYOULIKEIT

15-across – Medic in the morning facing a crisis : DRAMA

17-across – Big guns vessel internally in poor condition : ARTILLERY

18-across – Isn’t it commonly love that keeps gear hidden? : INCOGNITO

19-across – Swell port? : BLOAT

20-across – Muck about,you said,with reality in the making : MANUFACTURE

24-across – Twisting truth,stand by copper in adversarial action : CUTAND

25-across – Mischievous silence after seafood : SCAMPISH

26-across – See 24 : THRUST

27-across – District court in pursuit of wayward prince : PRECINCT

1-down – Port and beer by Adrian Turner : ALEXANDRIA

2-down – What goes with fish and chips in Epsom for Spooner? : CURRYSAUCE

3-down – Gold-plated end is so long : ADIEU

4-down – Countries following high speed intrigue : MACHINATIONS

6-down – Cabaret near the centre of Luton found by driver? : NIGHTCLUB

7-down – If,say,Englishman kept his head … : POEM

8-down – … and in speech,regretted offensive … : RUDE

11-down – … one in the Royal Navy might find nice workplace after right promotion : PETTYOFFICER

13-down – At first,Darwin and his theory got independent treatment : DEVOLUTION

14-down – Hero myth at variance with Philistine’s alternative role : MYOTHERHAT

16-down – Squabbles are not about sticker beginning to stick : ARGUMENTS

21-down – Funny magazine : COMIC

22-down – Discothèque welcomes Billy Connolly? : SCOT

23-down – Prison disturbance : STIR

5-across – Keep changing position as witness,and did so previously : SEESAW

6-across – Not totally anxious,having absorbed reasonable signs : TOKENS

9-across – Stationed at border,feeling nervous : ONEDGE

10-across – You reportedly get irritated about son,or get worried : UNSETTLE

11-across – Stressed being educated soundly : TAUT

12-across – Engage in an emotional farewell? It’s cliffhanging : TOUCHANDGO

13-across – Statement of unrealistic nostalgia that makes one tense : PASTPERFECT

18-across – Incomparable time spent there,agitated : THEPRESENT

21-across – Some quick coverage that is hammered home : NAIL

22-across – Religious text supporting parts of speech : PROVERBS

23-across – Cruel grown-up hiding food container : BITING

24-across – Became uneasy in end and set off : TENSED

25-across – Chinese food has to be divided and returned in future,perhaps : NOTNOW

1-down – Check about object,present for turning over in ongoing dispute : VENDETTA

2-down – Revelations,etc. not apparent in present,perhaps in future : LATENT

3-down – Cook focuses,eclipsing husband who’s inferior in kitchen? : SOUSCHEF

4-down – Scientific genius of past or present century : NEWTON

5-down – Polish a large kind of shoe : SANDAL

7-down – Food for winter is laid up with a lot of beer : SILAGE

8-down – Will indicates this,in contrast to 13 : FUTURETENSE

14-down – Speculations in article on products of mine one’s invested in : THEORIES

15-down – Uses a name time after time – in past,present,and future : CONSTANT

16-down – Need for drink after second shift in t-shirt : THIRST

17-down – Beat rivals,then beat rivals up – that’s separate : WINNOW

19-down – Arrange flags around an old-fashioned dance : PAVANE

20-down – Bans that are initially followed by audible disapproval : TABOOS

5-across – British award for democratic process : BALLOT

6-across – Fellow clothed in colour put back in custody : REMAND

9-across – Nameless tribe to employ a few words : CLAUSE

10-across – Traveller and female relation hiding in shed : EMIGRANT

11-across – Language,one set right to left : TUPI

12-across – Wandering as a pilgrim,using someone else’s words : PLAGIARISM

13-across – Branch of Christianity sending out manic signal when in trouble : ANGLICANISM

18-across – Construed as ‘ancient’,a biblical people : CANAANITES

21-across – First item under the hammer making money in Africa : LOTI

22-across – City somehow in good taste,not OTT : SANDIEGO

23-across – Romantic present : TENDER

24-across – I angered a lot,being revolutionary : DANIEL

25-across – See 24 : ORTEGA

1-down – A fancy thing leader demolished in passing reference : ALLUSION

2-down – Country girl in dance drinking water : BOPEEP

3-down – Cleric is one getting on – change needed : REVISION

4-down – More reasonable fliers heading up,suppressing anger : FAIRER

5-down – Advice to travellers in car? Say nothing! : BELTUP

7-down – Period lacking a horrible inadequate ruler : DYNAST

8-down – Female in business arrangement with what’s charged amounting to a financial crime : DEFALCATION

14-down – European article in medical journal shows marine animal : LANCELET

15-down – Malicious gossip when nothing’s found in that special box : SOLANDER

16-down – Tailless bird had,in short,to be a hoax : CANARD

17-down – Goddess at one time protected by road team : ATHENA

19-down – Piece of land not good over time – too hot,maybe : ARDENT

20-down – Enlightenment men found in fiery ritual once : SATORI

9-across – Sign of top hat scratching head : CAPRICORN

10-across – Job swap : TRADE

11-across – Happening as drums extremely deficient before Ringo’s discovered : ONGOING

12-across – Skin on show in retreat : HIDEOUT

13-across – Nomad found in area between two large US cities : NYALA

14-across – Rivers maybe on flood alert – Red Cross initially delivering heroic sort : JOANOFARC

16-across – Nice flat here has strange way to tell temperature : FAHRENHEITSCALE

19-across – Recall cars park outside,close to garage : REMINISCE

21-across – Secretary for a broadsheet? : PAPER

22-across – Back muscle stiff right away – using fingers : DIGITAL

23-across – Comic actor working in animation : CARTOON

24-across – In just seconds,conscientious objector declines class with daggers : OBELI

25-across – Explain worry about work European Union abandoned : ELABORATE

1-down – Represent Foreign Office visiting a cold region briefly : ACCOUNTFOR

2-down – New pie chart’s inscription : EPIGRAPH

3-down – Glass maker is rejected by student arts venue : SILICA

4-down – Pirate’s mistress,after removing old underwear,said ‘aye’ to get things going : LONG

5-down – Oddly the Arctic Circle in particular provides fuel : ANTHRACITE

6-down – Film companies – including Universal – eager to learn : STUDIOUS

7-down – Turnover seen when Konsa goes up against Mo Salah : SAMOSA

8-down – Side swapping ends makes game? : MEAT

14-down – See 4 : JOHNSILVER

15-down – School governors organised clubs in church – with small sanctions : CLEARANCES

17-down – Perhaps Albert Finney’s content with set I redesigned : EINSTEIN

18-down – Okay looking up somewhere to go or following Google Maps,say : APPROVAL

20-down – Metal drawer : MAGNET

21-down – Forgive you what? : PARDON

22-down – Nameless benefactor gets access : DOOR

23-down – See 5 : COAL

1-across – Boatman’s head abroad to retire : BOWOUT

4-across – Where to write in crossword grid after answer is set down : ALIGHTS

9-across – The herd passes its days by the sound of the clock : LIVESTOCK

10-across – Raised supports for lids of pans on display in armoire : PODIA

11-across – Not breathing,leap,neatly catching this : APNEA

12-across – Foolish to keep every other one of my scraps,no matter what : INANYCASE

13-across – Set of modifications to kitchen : THICKEN

15-across – Contrarily,say ‘a potty break’ : DAMAGE

17-across – Reports of can opener,extra small : COVERS

19-across – Alongside breakfast bar: cocktail function to be rescheduled : ABREAST

22-across – American Right are rebuked,including number one web users : ARACHNIDA

24-across – One endless tease with section misplaced. Boatman can be thus : ATSEA

26-across – Primate : CHIMP

27-across – Canvasses of Islay and Jura,for example,and Forth : SOUNDSOUT

28-across – Tap made of metal put back in rear-facing part of house : MONITOR

29-across – Mobilise,or Reform gain,re-enabled to move forward : INGEAR

1-down – Type of sink of which fables might be spun on completion of refit : BELFAST

2-down – Put together with kitchen appliance : WOVEN

3-down – Stripped out one slum dwelling,rented unfinished for free : UNSHACKLE

4-down – Decoration around worksurfaces: it’s fiddly! : AWKWARD

5-down – Suggest island unit of length to satisfy catering needs : IMPLY

6-down – Camouflage guide,say as a shrub : HYDRANGEA

7-down – Balance plates … : SCALES

8-down – … perhaps spinning on supports a short time before it tips up : MOTION

14-down – Loneliness is over: passionate about love : ISOLATION

16-down – Something of a charmer,Ma identified as a nymph : MERMAIDEN

18-down – Cross is vandalised and cut : SCISSOR

19-down – Counter with one incomplete support half-used : ABACUS

20-down – Kitchen appliance rotates while cooking : TOASTER

21-down – Before music begins,stop man from talking. See you listened to soft rock : TALCUM

23-down – Composer discovered tempo initially to be off : HOPIT

25-down – Cooker broke : STOVE