Daily Answers

7-across – Drug that makes one live longer, reportedly : DILATOR

8-across – A soak’s ending? What, in summer month? Do this then! : MAKEHAY

9-across – Place reached by sea passage, we hear : ISLE

10-across – Old chap eating lunch maybe, one to perk up : COMEALIVE

12-across – Little house with people not half dull : HOHUM

13-across – Fish gone off course, one no good for catching : STINGRAY

15-across – No rebel, hard-working student said to be on the ball : KNOW

16-across – See 15 : WHATS

17-across – See 15 : WHAT

18-across – Sixth sense employed to secure ring to be married : ESPOUSED

20-across – Lousiest material editor’s chucked out : WORST

21-across – Splits from son, always being held in scorn : DISSEVERS

22-across – Characters enthralled by the beautiful goddess : HEBE

24-across – African managed to seize rod of authority : RWANDAN

25-across – Be boisterous, turning bad in swaying motion : ROLLICK

1-down – Achieves easy success, when not yielding to highwayman’s request? : WINS

2-down – Good old England wicketkeeper who worked for TV programme? : GAMESHOW

3-down – Sort of business catastrophe to get caught up in : DOTCOM

4-down – Stars joining jail birds : CANARIES

5-down – Top gymnast in Eastern city once : PEKING

6-down – Got lucre quickly with fancy backed — a fat sum : MADE

11-down – Go wrong dealing with pub drink — being taken short within walking distance? : MISHANDLE

12-down – See 1 : HANDS

14-down – See 6 : AFAST

16-down – Like an old chapel in Wales Nye restored : WESLEYAN

17-down – Underground passage undamaged with class heading off into it : WORMHOLE

19-down – Duke or count — he falls off gee-gee in middle of bog : ORSINO

20-down – Jammy ladies going to wicked city with a loss of love and common sense : WISDOM

21-down – See 1 : DOWN

23-down – See 6 : BUCK

1-across – Former husband, first person with part in show : EXHIBIT

5-across – Hint about leading lady’s patio : TERRACE

9-across – Timid person taking time off to see teacher : RABBI

10-across – More than one shot in shoulder after commencement of battle : BROADSIDE

11-across – Revolutionary providing enough for everybody : GOINGROUND

12-across – Put away by book club : BEAT

14-across – 21 people without one getting close : TERMINATION

18-across – Original sweet-talkin’ actress : KATEWINSLET

21-across – Handle sodium, more or less : NAME

22-across – A story about president not breaking the bank : AFFORDABLE

25-across – Trumpeters appearing in county after Brazilian player’s brought back : ELEPHANTS

26-across – We’ll hear revolver : WHEEL

27-across – Pastoral leader, say : PRELATE

28-across – Hornblower holds back in convoy to attempt something audacious : TRYITON

1-down – Infuriate a Green after recycling : ENRAGE

2-down – Focus on state’s excessive pride : HUBRIS

3-down – Capital sort of roll with nowt taken out : BRIDGETOWN

4-down – Not allowed cheers? I don’t like that! : TABOO

5-down – God with North British dicky bird : THORNBILL

6-down – Fish that’s red apart from the tail : RUDD

7-down – Irish fool heartlessly following a family member? That’s my opinion : ASISEEIT

8-down – Close of day without time for sport : EVENTING

13-down – Hoarded as peanuts may be on holiday? : SALTEDAWAY

15-down – Secure telephone receiver : RINGFENCE

16-down – Superficial variety in Bath and Wells, say, and first of all in Portishead : SKINDEEP

17-down – Sudden flight impressed European : STAMPEDE

19-down – Missing suspect’s first to stop a grass : ABSENT

20-down – Songwriter once divided city : BERLIN

23-down – Beginning film here? : ONSET

24-down – Bird not taking off in summer heat : RHEA

1-across – Sultan’s weekend with writer in semi : KHALIF

4-across – Ring very loudly before holiday delivery : OFFBREAK

9-across – See 24 : NARROW

10-across – Where to start digging gold in a lode that’s rocky? : ELDORADO

11-across – What sheikh feels stirring and hence may demonstrate? : THEFLESHISWEAK

13-across – See 1 down : JAMESBIBLE

14-across – Cross about her lacking aspiration in love : ZERO

16-across – 21 bite it : DUST

18-across – I arrived back at No 10 first in 9 condition : EMACIATION

21-across – High-ups get vote adjusted and stop working : GIVEUPTHEGHOST

23-across – Disgraced science with essentially huge implication for century? : EUGENICS

24-across – 9 features back to front : STRAIT

25-across – Bush hero liked commuting without one in railway in New York : NEDKELLY

26-across – Extra special day but not for children : XRATED

1-down – Doctor likes jabbing me for origin of some answers here : KING

2-down – A couple of supporters act up in Lincoln : ABRAHAM

3-down – Club foot is wrapped in deceptively soft glove? : IRONFIST

5-down – Police, treated cruelly, left out loot : FILTHYLUCRE

6-down – One works by going over tissue test : BIOPSY

7-down – French to be given time to make a stand : ETAGERE

8-down – Criticise county for a song : KNOCKDOWN

12-down – It’s puzzling, say, about Ulster’s calamity; maybe there’s no happy ending : ENIGMATICAL

13-down – New Jersey picked up a little in the shade : JADEGREEN

15-down – Three-act play: The Tube : CATHETER

17-down – Pilloried artist about drawing in 1 13 across : SAVAGED

19-down – Second saint translated part of 1 13 across : INSTANT

20-down – Carpenter’s one of 5 on top of church : QUINCE

22-down – Boss 16 about : STUD

5-across – Vessel crossing area, following a straight course : LINEAR

6-across – Arrangement wherein you must come in behind, but not last : LAYOUT

9-across – Kept in mind a banking conference in Africa : INDABA

10-across – Messed around with English in ten poems : RONDEAUX

11-across – Thomas, for example, holding clubs in card game : LOCO

12-across – With learner getting punishment at school in my isolated state : LONELINESS

13-across – Gets out of line, as today’s solution does in every other row : BREAKSRANKS

18-across – Take the stuffing out of food devoured without resistance : DISHEARTEN

21-across – Warning evil’s masking good : SIGN

22-across – Eccentric rector in old hat : TRICORNE

23-across – Moderate or strong show of irritation : TEMPER

24-across – Altered image about me, finally, in this puzzle : ENIGMA

25-across – Tips for trombone joining a kind of jazz quartet : TETRAD

1-down – Like supporter at home holding a kind of sign inside boundary : INFAVOUR

2-down – Bachelor with one diamond, say, for movie actress : BACALL

3-down – I am holding pine up over a shrub : MAGNOLIA

4-down – Take part in ruling over nation : GOVERN

5-down – American author who chronicled abysmal conditions in this city : LONDON

7-down – In charge, European is maximally loyal : TRUEST

8-down – Person taking lead runs inside to take care of dog : TRENDSETTER

14-down – Features of many crosswords, for example, reappear in two words : ANAGRAMS

15-down – Asian type somehow making his mark on India : KASHMIRI

16-down – Bishop or knight taking rook or queen to force a way through : PIERCE

17-down – A sin that’s done! : AGREED

19-down – In a frenzy, check it out, with no end of work : HECTIC

20-down – Crazy name, say : NUTTER

1-across – French town’s brochure revised? Good! : CHERBOURG

6-across – Make sense of some bad duplication : ADDUP

9-across – Mountain’s hard — one of the highest grade : ALPHA

10-across – Discharge from English graduate society : EMANATION

11-across – People of fashion subsequently thwart explorer : SHACKLETON

12-across – Starts to seem ludicrous under resounding disparagement : SLUR

14-across – Soprano gets each singer fish : SEABASS

15-across – Snack becomes drier in hamper : TOASTIE

17-across – Consumed by one reclining in the studio : ATELIER

19-across – Beg to keep southeast happy : PLEASED

20-across – Removal of weight from golf club gives advantage : EDGE

22-across – Arachnophobe to avoid blunder with alien : MISSMUFFET

25-across – Ban Alec or Dicky in Spain : BARCELONA

26-across – Government interrupts total extermination : PURGE

27-across – Woman books for occasion : EVENT

28-across – Parade she organised from the van : SPEARHEAD

1-down – Riding gear for men : CHAPS

2-down – Dana peels off by the seaside : ESPLANADE

3-down – Ban old priests with convictions initially for witchcraft : BLACKMAGIC

4-down – Consume a smaller quantity? It’s of no avail! : USELESS

5-down – Tackle in Indian state contest : GOABOUT

6-down – A crazy, upwardly-mobile architect : ADAM

7-down – D stream in school : DRILL

8-down – Bird cooked around noon for correspondent : PENFRIEND

13-down – Extreme sportsperson’s home on Jersey : BASEJUMPER

14-down – Marten eats fish that can be agitated : SHAKEABLE

16-down – Working party in time demand chief engineer : TASKFORCE

18-down – It’s very expensive in old university in Russia : RUINOUS

19-down – Attendant keeps donkey in the hall : PASSAGE

21-down – Shrub wound round pole : GORSE

23-down – Rage makes Tory leader tear apart : TREND

24-down – Ridicule the first person in French street : JEST