Daily Answers

1-across – Carpeting material not staying put : REPROVING

6-across – Lover of Bess in musical heading off for wild party : ORGY

8-across – Cricketer yearns to face spinner : LONGSTOP

9-across – Catch in Antwerp on the loose without wife : ENTRAP

10-across – Plant a bomb that explodes overhead : BAMBOO

11-across – Pot or tin basin broken : CANNABIS

12-across – Kept going — or didn’t : STAYED

15-across – Minimum investment for patrons of the pools : SWIMSUIT

16-across – I was told off for youthful indiscretions : WILDOATS

19-across – Perhaps Hudson Bay may have come from one of these : HOUNDS

21-across – Party drink is an un­usual hit : RUMPUNCH

22-across – A disposition of arms : AKIMBO

24-across – Fills cracks in the decks with stoppers, say : CAULKS

25-across – Improperly press one for an answer : RESPONSE

26-across – US polar explorer — and aviator, by the way : BYRD

27-across – Wheelwright’s representative? : SPOKESMAN

1-down – Wine jar I put out when empty : RIOJA

2-down – Bob is a hotel employee : PAGEBOY

3-down – Inaccurate serve results in defeat : OUTDO

4-down – One member takes part in strikes : IMPACTS

5-down – Time and place : GREENWICH

6-down – Offenders dismissed on orders : OUTLAWS

7-down – Planning finally approved — delighted! : GRATIFIED

13-down – Supplementary course? : TRIBUTARY

14-down – Doctor agonised over second opinions : DIAGNOSES

17-down – Spotted divine fruit inside : DAPPLED

18-down – Half the school get zero, unusually, for music : SCHERZO

20-down – All the same a soldier has to assume it : UNIFORM

22-down – A bridal path? : AISLE

23-down – Sailor took up crime, seen in the dock : BASIN

1-across – With these go online and browse fashion by M&S? : MODEMS

4-across – Online menace with hydrogen could make warhead? : ADWARE

9-across – Identification means Conservative discerning veil, controversially : DRIVINGLICENCES

10-across – State school coup : PUTSCH

11-across – Festival’s leading lady, guitarist and band : MAYQUEEN

12-across – Beauty spot by borders of city : EYECANDY

14-across – Posts online and on the radio Jonathan Ross’s pleasures? : TWEETS

15-across – Dennis Potter? : TAYLOR

18-across – Song in centre of storm — HMV almost joining hype — radio bans Relax : BOHEMIAN

21-across – See 18 : RHAPSODY

22-across – Almost late, rogue churchman : DEACON

24-across – Careless Whisper hoping or loving Star People? : HEROWORSHIPPING

25-across – Removes waste material, say — Steven Spielberg’s opening sequence dovetails with film? : EGESTS

26-across – Spies where George Michael cruised? : AGENTS

1-down – Heavy metal singer : MERCURY

2-down – Spoken up to protect five superstar girl singers? : DIVAS

3-down – Fiddler putting short clue under board : MENUHIN

5-down – What solvers must do to this — express disapproval at Tramp’s latest effort, ultimately : DECRYPT

6-down – West and Australia flipped over the Guardian, tiresomely : ADNAUSEAM

7-down – Top of the World — the day before break : EVEREST

8-down – Expression of surprise in Britain with Brit abroad : BLIMEY

13-down – Mobile part of battery and its approximate acidity? : CELLPHONE

16-down – Tim Henman, primarily following a call from line judge? English sportsman : ATHLETE

17-down – Completely remove Australian bouncer and illegal seller : ROOTOUT

18-down – Like a pre-adolescent male smell lives in youth hostel : BOYISH

19-down – Backing both sides, sheepdog signage is oddly missing : HEDGING

20-down – In Belfast picks up an ounce and performs part of baptism? : ANOINTS

23-down – Variety of Breakfast in America album — fourth from Supertramp — close to perfection? : ALPEN

1-across – Spooner’s departed newspaper — Standard for The Socialist? : REDFLAG

5-across – Thief caught by tackle is wounded — stretcher produced? : KNICKER

10-across – See 25 : TART

11-across – Principled strength in which Blair, for me, questionable : MORALFIBRE

12-across – Good old penny in change — isn’t that funny? : GEDDIT

13-across – Game of which day old parrot spoke : MONOPOLY

14-across – Outdoor cafeteria guaranteed less posh cooking : TEAGARDEN

16-across – Tall girl’s back covered in yellow and white? : LEGGY

17-across – View viewed, say : SCENE

19-across – Letters are dealt with : ADDRESSED

23-across – Iberian drink and Indian potato for the ladies on the move, perhaps : PORTALOO

24-across – Prisoner secreted by friend from the dominant uprising : PLAGAL

26-across – Madoff, for example, consumed by endless capital, as controversial multi-millionaire : BERLUSCONI

27-across – Head for the starter : PATE

28-across – Plant with aromatic seeds, as garage empty? : CARAWAY

29-across – Temperature found in simian, one dead : ATPEACE

2-down – English label put on before for furniture item : ETAGERE

3-down – Tailless dog buries long-necked creature that’s smelling bad : FETID

4-down – Current tester came across fracture, finally, in broken arm : AMMETER

6-down – Hose only used between poles : NYLONS

7-down – Clear quality is overcoming limits of production in plant : CRISPNESS

8-down – Old US lawman has to carry silencer : EARPLUG

9-down – Processed food, or the meat, going all the way down : FROMHEADTOTOE

15-down – Information on foreign country’s intimate parts : GENITALIA

18-down – Gap in line standing for disease : CHOLERA

20-down – Agent isn’t getting to touch something up? : REPAINT

21-down – See 5 : ELASTIC

22-down – Priest requiring silence before a prophet : ELISHA

25-down – Left to feed dog, perhaps, breaking in pieces for pudding : APPLE

1-across – Superb conductor, he manages to restrain piano : COPPER

4-across – Several lights here ruin other non-British football broadcast live : THEROOT

9-across – Outlaw with forged tokens promises to pay : BANKNOTES

10-across – Restaurant’s short of water, most of it 1 across : BRASS

11-across – Place in Belgium’s not the same after bum goes east : LIEGE

12-across – Scotch reuse plug or stick : SUPERGLUE

13-across – Sets up a classic day — it’s about to start : READIES

15-across – Two plus eleven minus one, amazingly : TWELVE

17-across – Sweet FA rejected short cut : AFTERS

19-across – Lay clues out at care centre : SECULAR

22-across – Thump 23, say, for one of our old 9 : POUNDNOTE

24-across – Formal greeting in Spanglish joint? : ELBOW

26-across – He’s a believer in India’s contribution to growth industries : HINDU

27-across – Insist I put frying pan outside : STIPULATE

28-across – Cuts little bits of enamel article into flower : TEETHES

29-across – Regular features of start-up sites in banks : TRUSTS

1-down – He hammers last Aussie mate left in : COBBLER

2-down – Tracy’s not taking sides in change : PENCE

3-down – Meanie comic is weenier comic : ERNIEWISE

4-down – A drunk forward is better than a drunk back : TOSSPOT

5-down – Not much warmth there after MP struck leader : EMBER

6-down – See 4 across : OFALLEVIL

7-down – He may dip his 24 in to find old coin : TESTER

8-down – No movement without altering street first : STASIS

14-down – Distributing this wealth with it may be ineffectual : AFFLUENCE

16-down – Former PM’s retreat reduced Osborne’s remit : EXCHEQUER

18-down – Married couple employs small potty in front : SPOUSES

19-down – Spades bent piece, not 9 : SPECIE

20-down – Bad news in Cape shows inexperience : RAWNESS

21-down – Outcome of paparazzo’s rude pic? : UPSHOT

23-down – Maggie T’s ultimate foreign secretary’s emolument? : DOUGH

25-down – Banks lose thousands investing euros in oil source : BEANS

1-across – Riddler endlessly chattering, loathing lost muscle : SPHINCTER

6-across – See 3 : TIME

8-across – Moved in anger to expose newspaper boss : OUTRAGED

9-across – Inadequate theme: a Great Bear appears : MEAGRE

10-across – Wacky Tom and Taz are crackers : MATZOT

11-across – Players as Madrid’s, named as stars : SIDEREAL

12-across – Investigator misses nothing in a crook : CORNER

15-across – Boatman’s type taken in on method of formation of stars : MILKYWAY

16-across – Decaying star in dock after recorded statement : REDDWARF

19-across – Criminal bribed with earth-moving kit : DIBBER

21-across – An awful thing: see a formation of stars die : DISASTER

22-across – Leader to come back, able to move the spirit : COGNAC

24-across – Unable to arrange formation of stars : NEBULA

25-across – Boatman unmoved after article regarding military invasion : ANABASIS

26-across – The East is held back by America’s extremes? : ASIA

27-across – Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption : BOMBSIGHT

1-down – Dry sweat with Italian lady in a hot place? : SAUNA

2-down – Where the sky begins, the earth ends at last in formation of stars : HORIZON

3-down – An awful thing, the moment when stars appear : NIGHT

4-down – A lot to arrange, not all reported : TIDYSUM

5-down – American rearranged thatching stuff to include pattern : REMODELED

6-down – Support for afternoon service : TEATRAY

7-down – Preserve holy one appointed by Spooner : MARMALADE

13-down – Cracks in new order or else in new start : ONELINERS

14-down – Sunday lunch of wild boar, holding whisky glass — bottoms up! : ROASTLAMB

17-down – Batman and Joker turning up for kids in Hollywood? : DRACULA

18-down – Piece of branch with shoot on it : FIREARM

20-down – Aging, decaying, taking two seconds for the formation of stars : BIGBANG

22-down – Origin of creation heralds appearance of stars : CHAOS

23-down – An arrangement of stars wrongly set as &Lit : ALIST