Daily Answers

5-across – Favourable pub cooking — tuck in! : UPBEAT

6-across – Quickly remove label showing exorbitant price : RIPOFF

9-across – Counterfeit coin as used by gamblers : CASINO

10-across – Being awkward in an ugly development : UNGAINLY

11-across – Ground needed for play : PLOT

12-across – Switch on ignition in service vehicle : FIREENGINE

13-across – The favourite that’s in form : TEACHERSPET

18-across – Unable to work after leaving the fraternity : OUTOFORDER

21-across – The point to make next : THEN

22-across – Forces in conflict, prepared for court action : FORENSIC

23-across – Slips in evidence of humanity : ERRORS

24-across – Quake in the centre — more or less : TREMOR

25-across – Science that puts healthy colour in a lad : BOTANY

1-down – Sailors in the drink : ABSINTHE

2-down – Wages stopped as the final part of a joke : PAYOFF

3-down – Call to get permits? They depend on the head : RINGLETS

4-down – Contending successfully with a course of masonry : COPING

5-down – American expert may be employable : USABLE

7-down – Clerical work done by a metal worker : FILING

8-down – Clubs, possibly, where naval officers may be found : QUARTERDECK

14-down – Travel through East End district with offensive weapon : CROSSBOW

15-down – Always includes ten at the outside : EXTERNAL

16-down – Annoyed at being inconvenienced : PUTOUT

17-down – Girl with fish to sell down the river : BETRAY

19-down – Perversely love to take the Spanish exam that’s out-of-date : OLEVEL

20-down – Fume about individual odour of antelope : REEBOK

1-across – Shocking word repeated in error : BOOBOO

5-across – Painter’s last to board plane and he’s first to touch up picture : AIRBRUSH

9-across – Animal lacking tail that’s taken home by old star : ALPACINO

10-across – What’s left, say, in fluid clay : LEGACY

11-across – Scented oil bad in ship, not good : BRILLIANTINE

13-across – Make heavy demands on island transport : TAXI

14-across – Fine tool for gardener turning over a plant : FLEAWORT

17-across – Shot with silent movie star in slow motion : SLUGGISH

18-across – Strong language in set-to at home : OATH

20-across – Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm? : PITCHFORKING

23-across – First person taken in by isolated Labour leader — Blair : LIONEL

24-across – One-time setting for Greek god? Possibly : IDARESAY

25-across – Having abandoned Saigon, Midwest is very worried : AGONISES

26-across – Cope with composer in recital : HANDLE

2-down – Just over line in big city : ONLY

3-down – Britain’s first non-resident bird : BRAMBLING

4-down – God lost heart to goddess : OSIRIS

5-down – Rocking chairs before low life? : ABOWLOFCHERRIES

6-down – Let out from fields, having cut grass : RELEASED

7-down – Dexter’s prerogative : RIGHT

8-down – Poor actor needs play : SECONDRATE

12-down – Bad habit causing tension : NAILBITING

15-down – Somewhere in London pants go down without ever going up : WOODGREEN

16-down – Penny drops — it concealed hidden dangers : PITFALLS

19-down – Capital investment originally in Hardy novel : RIYADH

21-down – Pachelbel’s work as a clergyman? : CANON

22-down – Black and white lamb starts to cry : BAWL

1-across – Bit of an exercise, instruction to lift operator? : PRESSUP

5-across – Hard, Proust, funny old comic : HOTSPUR

9-across – Further Essex traffic jams : EXTRA

10-across – Arch, perhaps, to correct — getting better : ONTHEMEND

11-across – One-on-one combat taken outside that is, character this pumped in the tank? : DIESELFUEL

12-across – 24 a 24 — on the contrary : ARIA

14-across – Posh tea : COMPUTERISED

18-across – Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas : SUGARCOATING

21-across – Hitler had a little one — thanks mum! : TASH

22-across – Former ANC president, wee thing shaken : TAMBOURINE

25-across – Flying reptile, frightening thing with lots of teeth, as 13? : PTEROSAUR

26-across – Archer prize idiot, discard one and many books : CUPID

27-across – Scent block in the shape of roadworks? : COLOGNE

28-across – Christian hoarding treasure primarily after gold, as money expert : AUDITOR

1-down – 13 bread-maker on reservation, quite possibly? That’s false! : PSEUDO

2-down – It doesn’t matter which here, it turns out : EITHER

3-down – Fish and snake on the road, one sliding down the street? : SKATEBOARD

4-down – 13 two girls, one required by the Grauniad? : PROOF

5-down – Southern African’s sexy figure, baby! : HOTTENTOT

6-down – 13 drop down the face, piece of cake? : TIER

7-down – 13 fish, orangey-red for some pastry : PIECRUST

8-down – 13, studied and criticised a Chinese mammal : REDPANDA

13-down – It’s said to be obvious : PRONOUNCED

15-down – Promote correct manner of ambulation, as 13 : PROPAGATE

16-down – Iodine thus something to discuss regarding similar elementary forms : ISOTOPIC

17-down – Potential layer in this painting finish? : EGGSHELL

19-down – Weak character from outer space, a Klingon, as 13? : LIMPET

20-down – See 4 : READER

23-down – Something cheeky about capital of Rhodesia, a nation now renamed : BURMA

24-down – Number of prison gates : SONG

9-across – Traveller from 19 across returned, unexcited about P&O : MARCOPOLO

10-across – Make-up requiring slight adjustment of Palin’s going self-description : ROUGE

11-across – Sod bringing poet round on time : DIVOT

12-across – Kick ass that’s not very well put together : MAKESHIFT

13-across – Satisfied with what’s included : CONTENT

14-across – Alphabetical step forward at end of ugly lair : HIDEOUT

17-across – Analyse quiet bum : PARSE

19-across – Male’s setback : TUP

20-across – Distressed by cheerful performance : UPSET

21-across – Got back to headless monster about anticipated showtime? : RETAKEN

22-across – European wanting one to embrace black movement : TALIBAN

24-across – It moves passengers to get a real cost analysis : ESCALATOR

26-across – Lump or layabout holding university back : BOLUS

28-across – One in university accommodation legitimately slaughtered : HALAL

29-across – Source of parsnip liquor, perhaps : ROOTSTOCK

1-down – Flanked by support many received : AMID

2-down – Starting to colour black bird yellow : CRAVEN

3-down – Bravery and effrontery causing traffic problem : BOTTLENECK

4-down – Stronghold protecting parent’s arrangement : FORMAT

5-down – Training session for classical opera and dance : WORKSHOP

6-down – Celestial 19 across gutted by war god : ARES

7-down – Insubordinate unit sumo wrestling : MUTINOUS

8-down – Airplane conceals source of sick joke : JEST

13-down – Holidaymaker wanting male bud : CAPER

15-down – Musician suffering blues so bad : DOUBLEBASS

16-down – Bird with an impressive figure : TITAN

18-down – Regulation about lifting quote from handbag : RETICULE

19-down – Stain from transmutation of Turin etc : TINCTURE

22-down – Motor’s given its heart to fish : TURBOT

23-down – Poll tax initially following two things round : BALLOT

24-down – Reproduction of speech overheard : ECHO

25-down – Appear laid-back, though money’s short : LOLL

27-down – Reportedly look for subscriber to faith : SIKH

8-across – Bugs for which Stalin’s henchman introduced law : BACTERIA

9-across – Bird finds oil spread in seaweed : ORIOLE

10-across – Point to one politician as being ineffectual : WIMP

11-across – Australia has a single chicken and it’s fast disappearing : OZONELAYER

12-across – Stage equipment that’s not so clever? : DIMMER

14-across – There’s a warning in what’s left to replace trees : REFOREST

15-across – Account in fault that turns out to be correct : FACTUAL

17-across – Fair in which is a tightrope walker : BLONDIN

20-across – High storey heard as not necessarily 15 : TALLTALE

22-across – Embryonic challenger to chess champion : FOETAL

23-across – False clues crop up to sideline belief : SECULARISE

24-across – It’s found in couples each at endless enmity : HATE

25-across – Big times for some in Oklahoma : OSAGES

26-across – Station that’s passed on the way to its destination : WATERLOO

1-down – Degree to which quartz is used in classical building : BASILICA

2-down – One has to mind it with dogs and cats about : STEP

3-down – How a Londoner is said to work with this? : ARDOUR

4-down – Virgin and child in stone : MASONRY

5-down – Strong pure wolf stock : POWERFUL

6-down – Poor dear gran is upset : DISARRANGE

7-down – Tradesmen get to grips with them : PLIERS

13-down – Science said to convey antipathy to Old Bill? : METALLURGY

16-down – Articles on a 2 twisted foot : ANAPAEST

18-down – Where soldiers appear to display idleness? : INACTION

19-down – Criticism about wives, perhaps : REVIEWS

21-down – Reluctant to read a little poetry? : AVERSE

22-down – Special day, if eats are served up : FIESTA

24-down – One denied having been told about cattle? : HERD