Daily Answers

1-across – Sermon where one regularly sleeps? : ADDRESS

5-across – It’s this or nothing at breakfast, say : OATMEAL

10-across – Time that’s endless, never over : EVEN

11-across – Meal — tea or one possibly better … : AMELIORATE

12-across – … state meal with posh cake : GATEAU

13-across – Lest surrounded, soldiers proliferate : INCREASE

14-across – Nice 1 for some locals : MESSIEURS

16-across – Close acquaintance not right with the devil : FIEND

17-across – Day’s march for a Roman soldier? : MILES

19-across – It’s pitiful, for instance, in new oboe compos­ition : WOEBEGONE

23-across – Primate retains little desire for nourishment : APPETITE

24-across – What’s left in remains of a gender issue : FAGEND

26-across – Part is said to develop from an old house plant : ASPIDISTRA

27-across – Wearer of trousers, sort about to be dropped? : USER

28-across – Should tax system turn out for good, result could be sweet : REVENGE

29-across – Betoken the last of the wine : PORTEND

2-down – Sedative may wander and lose the point … lose the point … : DEVIATE

3-down – River in Kent occurs in the Wash? : RINSE

4-down – Tawdry stuff in certain eminence : STATURE

6-down – For each one baked item is included : APIECE

7-down – Sales require boy to get in difficulty : MARKETING

8-down – Mechanic has no end of sanitary work : ARTISAN

9-down – Olden times where memories are fading? : SENIORMOMENTS

15-down – Superiority is in 4, declares sex expert : SHEREHITE

18-down – Step of 14 into wrecked semi, from which there’s no way out : IMPASSE

20-down – It’s some way off a bull — almost : BUFFALO

21-down – Fabric from Granny Sharp? : NANKEEN

22-down – Very hot, like the boy in title’s opening letter? : PIPING

25-down – Sound of sporty car getting run in? : GRUNT

1-across – Whale — something inclined to break wind when tail cut off : GRAMPUS

5-across – Racket’s centre starts to buckle under bombardment : HUBBUB

9-across – See 18 : ICECREAM

10-across – Having to live with hump, a whale : BELUGA

12-across – Melange of Entrails is OK as meat dish : SIRLOINSTEAK

15-across – Bathroom items showing bum a lot : SPONGEBAGS

17-across – Dreadful situation for mechanics? : THE

19-across – See 18 : EGG

20-across – Hostile sun a planet goes round : UNPLEASANT

22-across – Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance : PERPETUATION

26-across – Until now there’s little rotating through something nailed on one’s foot : TODATE

27-across – Feminist hiding as one gets more slimy : GREASIER

28-across – Mind chap’s lesson read out? : SHRINK

29-across – Reserve accommodation for animals, by the way : MODESTY

1-down – Sand in guts : GRIT

2-down – See 25 : AREA

3-down – See 4 : PORRIDGE

4-down – 21 7’s creation, time which goes slowly? : SNAIL

6-down – Hard then to appear nervous? : UNEASY

7-down – See 21 : BLUMENTHAL

8-down – Medieval killer ordered city to restrain miss, due to be disembowelled : BLACKDEATH

11-down – Roman writer’s watch going round end of finger : VIRGIL

13-down – Those such as 11 up in swear words, manipulating people : OSTEOPATHS

14-down – US horseman hurried off to grab first of guns after uprising in Oregon : ROUGHRIDER

16-down – Peak time, touring university, for 21’s work : BENHUR

18-down – 21 7’s creation concerned with magic, a nonsense to eat say : BACONAND

21-down – Menus on the table virtually absurd, into hysterical extremes — is he? : HESTON

23-down – Rhythmic sound heard initially in jazz performer, pet scarpering : THRUM

24-down – See 17 : PITS

25-down – Part of hippo, perhaps, revealing woolly patch? : GREY

8-across – Mother and son in novel by Lawrence : KANGAROO

9-across – Destroyed a relic that’s long in shape but short in duration, as 13 : ECLAIR

10-across – Fare for Scots and English stable, according to self-proclaimed 16 3 : OATS

11-across – Altered road in city such as 4 21, 17, or 22 down : DICTIONARY

12-across – Do some work for 11, putting some fish in river : DEFINE

14-across – For what’s defined as lots of percolated liquids refer to other places : SEEPAGES

15-across – Italian dish it’s no good returning, with badly limited choice : GNOCCHI

17-across – Novelist making change, inserting lines : COLLINS

20-across – Work of art covering acceptable area, like a Van Gogh self-portrait? : MONAURAL

22-across – Better than what’s done by being silly : BEYOND

23-across – Unsteady old king pierced by British weapon : OFFBALANCE

24-across – Reproduced book with colour added : BRED

25-across – Huge numbers in India holding rupees in central parts : CRORES

26-across – Supposedly lucky types, fair people who never speak well of one another : THEIRISH

1-down – Be critical about an expert able to solve everything : PANACEAN

2-down – Carries on without leader a long time, however short : AGES

3-down – Menial servant of duke, character in Dickens : DRUDGE

4-down – Brief one’s put in front of court previously : CONCISE

5-down – Get to know about awfully obese wit : BEWISETO

6-down – Lie blandly when wrong — it’ll get one nowhere : BLINDALLEY

7-down – Heartlessly bitter clue for author of diabolical 11 : BIERCE

13-down – Move cautiously with warning signals, where some cases are heard : INCHAMBERS

16-down – Husband with weapon not so benign : HARMLESS

18-down – Lots of points about nothing in the objections that are urged against this excellent 11 : NONSENSE

19-down – Policy covering aliens and some of their homes : PLANETS

21-down – Old president holding vote in Mississippi city : OXFORD

22-down – Supplier of porters we’re changing in old transport system : BREWER

24-down – Put up with a person who talks when you wish him to listen, according to 7 : BORE

1-across – Call bills problematic? : DUBIOUS

5-across – God of love after an election : APOLLO

9-across – Structure for hanging that thanked us very much : SCAFFOLD

10-across – Namby-pamby Scots lad or lassie : JESSIE

12-across – Fashionable painting: one copper departed hardly saying anything : INARTICULATE

15-across – American film director losing right to part of oil producer : OLIVESTONE

17-across – Bird — ’s bird, say : SEA

19-across – See 17 : MEW

20-across – Nothing for girl that’s as sweet a supporter as Mandy could be : FANNYADAMS

22-across – Till second hour : CASHREGISTER

26-across – A lot of writing first to last on beliefs : CREEDS

27-across – French city not heard to win : TOULOUSE

28-across – Don Quixote’s horse, say? : DONKEY

29-across – Allow tenancy to lapse — it may be suspended : DROPLET

1-down – Hurry to get on board : DASH

2-down – Space patrolled and exhausted? : BEAT

3-down – One breaking the law of protection : OFFENDER

4-down – Type of power also keeping former nerves inside : SOLAR

6-down – See 4 : PLEXUS

7-down – Holland gives money to a graduate with less cover : LESPAYSBAS

8-down – Compound, maybe nitrous, you say: I say different, it’s a flower : OXEYEDAISY

11-down – Smoked fish in pub — it’s cooler outside : FINNAN

13-down – Table top sleuths bring dangerous stuff : FORMICACID

14-down – Turning faint, we get back to such as Illinois : MIDWESTERN

16-down – Two angry characters missing or making plucky sounds : TWANGY

18-down – Final defeat with game crossing the Thames : WATERLOO

21-down – See 18 : BRIDGE

23-down – Reverse of shot other than first rate : SCOLD

24-down – State of body after large meal at high speed : FULL

25-down – See 24 : PELT

1-across – Drink pop — quite a large can : TEQUILA

5-across – See 1 : SLAMMER

9-across – Call drink’s ready before driving : TEEUP

10-across – Raise glasses for final drink : BOTTOMSUP

11-across – New product served by pub — cheers! : INNOVATION

12-across – Watch Frenchman leaving bank : TIER

14-across – Think logically about broadcast — air it at once! : RATIOCINATE

18-across – Mules are leading boys into prickly tall grass : CROSSBREEDS

21-across – Bitter or mild? No place for it here : ACID

22-across – Attacks husband and wife in Coach & Horses : BUSHWHACKS

25-across – Plagiarists? Setter has to catch everyone about to be sacked from the cast : IMITATORS

26-across – Stir drink when full to the brim : ROUSE

27-across – Denies beaten army leaves East Germany in disguise : NEGATES

28-across – Tax muscles before painful swelling ensues : ABSCESS

1-down – King Edward’s voice worn out? : TATTIE

2-down – Technique ensuring clutches for egg layers : QUEENS

3-down – Mischievous maiden hiding in drain : IMPOVERISH

4-down – Confines doctor, key placed outside : AMBIT

5-down – Quietly tell drunk to say when I depart : SOTTOVOCE

6-down – Running madly to King’s Head a short while earlier : AMOK

7-down – City slam United — that’s inexplicable! : MYSTICAL

8-down – She might write about beer : REPORTER

13-down – Is posh beer brewed in living quarters? : BIOSPHERES

15-down – Twisting round base of finger causes great pain : TORTUROUS

16-down – Cocoa is drunk near opening time : OCCASION

17-down – Discerning mixture of gin and tonic : NOTICING

19-down – Get drunk, eat cold stew : SCOUSE

20-down – Becomes expert at removing top from plants : ASTERS

23-down – Landlord given American plant : HOSTA

24-down – Time to knock back whisky : MALT