Daily Answers

5-across – In which female’s ready to fertilise main offspring : SEASON

6-across – Spring course disrupted : SOURCE

9-across – Modest presenter of 8 in part exchange : HUMBLE

10-across – False diagnoses nonetheless given out : ASSIGNED

11-across – What subs do about sea change : TIDE

12-across – Bath physicist screamed ecstatically about his intuition at first : ARCHIMEDES

13-across – Estimates property housing ship and crew : ASSESSMENTS

18-across – College lecturers take worried artist to one side : UNILATERAL

21-across – Patrol leader passes round bread : ROLL

22-across – Cook, equivocating, having binned messy gite food : COQAUVIN

23-across – Staircase with rails winding around post : SPIRAL

24-across – Detect, say, aromas : SCENTS

25-across – Directors and cast appear on them : BOARDS

1-down – Spring visitors in unseemly brawl at Queens : WARBLERS

2-down – B. Oddie oddly gave half away in wine shop : BODEGA

3-down – Biannual turning point in star’s career : SOLSTICE

4-down – Publicity fever here in spring 1968 : PRAGUE

5-down – TV centre cut outside broadcast : STUDIO

7-down – Central Mexico’s team : ELEVEN

8-down – Before jump, guard : WATCHSPRING

14-down – 4 in Vermont, say, spend summer there : ESTIVATE

15-down – Rock group’s third : TERTIARY

16-down – Know them to grow them? : ONIONS

17-down – Washes surface of contact lens one’s split : CLEANS

19-down – El Dorado’s gold gone? What’s left could still make you rich : LOADED

20-down – Not as much activity in class? : LESSON

1-across – 23’s nesting cups? : BRAINTREE

6-across – Part that’s just my sort of thing! : SOME

8-across – Waste, I trusted, that’s what it is! : DETRITUS

9-across – 23’s Dagenham employer once behind girls, oddly dismissed : ILFORD

10-across – Blend containing oxygen, last of dry air : MELODY

11-across – In-flight security device takes energy from asteroid drifting around back of Jupiter : STAIRROD

12-across – 23’s good child, back shortly : EPPING

15-across – Antelope, best one unfortunately ending in wok : STEENBOK

16-across – 23’s favourite of 5 importing baccy, finally : RAYLEIGH

19-across – 23’s blonde bombshell : HARLOW

21-across – 23’s marriage of two boys : BASILDON

22-across – See 6 down : WALDEN

24-across – Urge one to divide parties : LIBIDO

25-across – Most filthy is it, with germ spreading? : GRIMIEST

26-across – Queen of Iran, never : ANNE

27-across – Figure I make, certainly disheartened, nothing to write about : NINETYSIX

1-down – Note, always a note that comes up : BREVE

2-down – It was deduced by taking port during short month : APRIORI

3-down – Sharp like a fly, might you say? : NATTY

4-down – Places hosting one’s fights : RESISTS

5-down – English king out of the country, promoted over the new queen : ELIZABETH

6-down – 23’s Kelly perhaps taking grass or spliff ultimately, strong, while standing on head : SAFFRON

7-down – Old Venetian, bow in hair, old look : MARCOPOLO

13-down – Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love : PLACATION

14-down – Slowly eat away at some bacon daughter’s dressed formally? : GRINDDOWN

17-down – A lie is conceived about Catholic leader to strip one of clerical status : LAICISE

18-down – Killer with first of goons, punching destroyer : HANDGUN

20-down – Mass meetings run with friends : RALLIES

22-down – A little bit needed to secure second game : WHIST

23-down – Favourite of 5’s opponents, having jolly good fun : ESSEX

7-across – I myself hold Proust novel to be a sham : IMPOSTURE

8-across – Murderer hides brother’s head in a shack : CABIN

9-across – The lady writer short on ideas may inhibit growth : HERBICIDE

10-across – Second XI shows traditional power : STEAM

12-across – Public address makes travel start to get irritating : TANNOY

13-across – Marching endlessly with a mad company officer : CHAIRMAN

16-across – Track about — how d’you say? — a row of dwellings : TERRACE

19-across – Tower possibly with 12 for believers : MINARET

22-across – Having the knowledge to tell? : NUMERATE

25-across – Item: what to do about blind mice? : DETAIL

27-across – Love grim savour : ODOUR

28-across – Latest: what police do to protesters on the street : STOPPRESS

29-across – Uncertain date for introduction to heaven : DEATH

30-across – Aerial direction lost cutting short conversation before expected arrival : ANTENATAL

1-down – In a trice English graduate gets a bug : AMOEBA

2-down – Gaper holding in joiner : COMBINER

3-down – To remain unknown could be difficult : STICKY

4-down – Yield for Mussolini : PRODUCE

5-down – One tries to get possible treats : TASTER

6-down – Insect makes a sound like ailing lass : CICADA

11-down – Country with ill-will apart from the church? : MALI

14-down – Injure by dropping trap from the edge : MAR

15-down – Catch without extras : NET

16-down – Number over 15 : TEN

17-down – Raise 14 to batter … : RAM

18-down – … fish daily : CHAR

20-down – Like motorways affecting rail rate : ARTERIAL

21-down – Little boy leads to appointed end : DESTINY

23-down – Is nude the new knickers? : UNDIES

24-down – Fairness is to leave off turning the old outside : EQUITY

25-down – Neat character with bounce : DAPPER

26-down – Put in office to replace Stalin? : INSTAL

1-across – Italian makes northerner lose his head : UMBRIAN

5-across – Mars or Venus getting excited : NERVOUS

10-across – I’d heard and seen : EYED

11-across – Conventional degree merits an upgrade : MAINSTREAM

12-across – End of term party : LABOUR

13-across – In 10, preserve your foremost dish : EYECANDY

14-across – Like doctor to order beer-and-crisp treatment : PRESCRIBE

16-across – Frivolous missing a greeting from the Antipodes : GIDDY

17-across – Frenetic cinema production lacking energy : MANIC

19-across – Force occupants of central Venice to be displaced by macho types : VEHEMENCE

23-across – Cases of knickers with knot in them : PATIENTS

24-across – Trip while removing from closet : OUTING

26-across – Try soldier and avoid bloomers : GOCOMMANDO

27-across – Returning instrument, which was acquired illegally : LOOT

28-across – Let fire rip to be creat­ive : FERTILE

29-across – Yes, pigs flying as travellers : GYPSIES

2-down – Hawthorn just next to Hyde Park : MAYFAIR

3-down – Wireless plug in port : RADIO

4-down – Naughty married lover : ADMIRER

6-down – Holiday for some came as term ended : EASTER

7-down – Relatives can be flexible : VERSATILE

8-down – One encircled by the shuffling undead, receiving no help : UNAIDED

9-down – Glibness may be good and bad : MIXEDBLESSING

15-down – At a wine tasting you should say what you mean : SPITITOUT

18-down – Seafood for sailor on his tod : ABALONE

20-down – Saving with Money & Co? : ECONOMY

21-down – Forgive swindle, having swindled : CONDONE

22-down – Plate served up for the beast : ANIMAL

25-down – Thus a loving kiss signifies beginnings of negotiation : TALKS

4-across – Playwright turned inside out by elements of former problem with Iceland : COWARD

6-across – Tell the world the leader’s fled, being stricken : TRANSMIT

9-across – Give a makeover to a parson in parliament? : REVAMP

10-across – Much panic with song Growing globes : TERRARIA

11-across – Opera gaining assent in which some blogs produce blue fluid : NORMANBLOOD

15-across – Archbishop with school report of poet quoted here : TENISON

17-across – Don’t have a place for rubbish outside the station : ABSTAIN

18-across – 21 25 etc and ___ 8 11 — from Pisa : SIMPLEFAITH

22-across – Little boy keeps most of 23 confused in 21 25 and 4 down : GUINNESS

23-across – Price of 21 25 and 4 down was wrong returned : DENNIS

24-across – Embarrassed Spooner broke fast and went fast : REDFACED

25-across – See 21 : HEARTS

1-down – First offence on peninsula : CRIMEA

2-down – Brawl featuring vein of gold in season : FREEFORALL

3-down – Notes on train crash from inner face of arch : INTRADOS

4-down – Love among the brasses : CORONETS

5-down – Uncertain farewell to opera? : WAVERING

7-down – 21 25 are ___ 4 down and Hamlet’s uncle … a little ___ most of 21 and less 8 21 : MORE

8-down – See 7 : THAN

12-down – Dams bust during tease by such as Alexander or Macnamara : BANDMASTER

13-down – More evil from libellous person, to fake sickness with little change : MALIGNER

14-down – Father to classical hero, not father to rights granted by companies to retail their products : ANCHISES

16-down – I leave Japanese food, swallowing old coin, to apocryphal girl : SUSANNAH

19-down – Salaried ruler on link road : FEEDER

20-down – Stiffness not right for a prince? : IGOR

21-down – Sort suit : KIND