Daily Answers

1-across – Result of www, perhaps? Bird in the third ‘w’ backed by the first : BRAVENEWWORLD

10-across – Warning: take care of card : CAUTION

11-across – Dancing years shown in tree : LINEAGE

12-across – Too much not owed? : UNDUE

13-across – Second shower from worker on chimney? : SWEEPHAND

14-across – Fungal pattern : MOULD

16-across – Backing pieces : SPIRITOSO

18-across – It is in heart when little flow is uttered by cockney : VENTRICLE

19-across – Timeless things that happen by chance : EVENS

20-across – I would be hurt if nuts accepted left-wing greeting : MASOCHIST

23-across – Roisin’s reported radiance : SHEEN

24-across – A bank where blows wild thyme etc and Titania some night, initially : NATWEST

25-across – Extreme 20 wildly flung net in Ports­mouth : GLUTTON

26-across – See 25 : FORPUNISHMENT

2-down – Inverse of reverse in knots : ROUNDTURN

3-down – What’s gripping about love is the sound : VOICE

4-down – Sunni reformer with tomb in dream : NINUS

5-down – 25 lover drunk in drink : WOLVERINE

6-down – Lover of drink from fifty-one, I hope : OENOPHILE

7-down – Beast putting up a place to shop? : LLAMA

8-down – Reject motion that’s more than 100 years old : SCOUTMOVEMENT

9-down – Do without peas in predilection for plumbism : LEADPOISONING

15-down – Not much filthy lucre needed — carpet hid result : DIRTCHEAP

16-down – Church officer is missing — emergency: devil about! : SACRISTAN

17-down – What 25 has done before a time in cooker : OVEREATEN

21-down – Fight between words and music? : SETTO

22-down – European river labelled American? : TAGUS

23-down – Quiet inside with sergeant major outside : STUMM

1-across – Dog’s bottom seen in twisting to catch jay, we hear : BASENJI

5-across – Deception where I’m invisible in slim figure : SLEIGHT

10-across – What’s tagged on hoodlums, like a bad smell : ASBO

11-across – How might one summon the devil, dammit? : HELLSBELLS

12-across – See 16 : ENDING

13-across – Shame about Olympic venue — right as the prime concern : PRIORITY

14-across – Those let down by tatty odd bits in trousers : FLATTYRES

16-across – Death of a dwarf, as last page of fairy tale? : HAPPY

17-across – Time to identify all the characters : SPELL

19-across – Some sites needing re­development, as it would appear : SOITSEEMS

23-across – Eastern European river in oil disaster, far side obscured : SLAVONIC

24-across – See something that’s melted, then? : NOTICE

26-across – Spooner sees a little jumping as sycophancy : BUMSUCKING

27-across – Kiss while holding mistletoe, only the first time it happens? : XMAS

28-across – Again take on study — choose to pursue it : READOPT

29-across – Helping of chipolatas topmost, not going anywhere : ATASTOP

2-down – Weapons attacking team in North London : ARSENAL

3-down – Bacterium in silo certain to come up : ECOLI

4-down – Dramatist once 16 under the throne : JOHNGAY

6-down – Scottish girl, fool in romance : LASSIE

7-down – English couple Britain treated as drunk : INEBRIATE

8-down – Bound to accept peaky tor’s peak — is a peak! : HILLTOP

9-down – Mistake over order, chip wrong — a bloomer : SLIPPERORCHID

15-down – Peg gripping trousers, first of dungarees shown : TELEVISED

18-down – Soil cut up with old instrument : POLLUTE

20-down – Hot drink raised in a bit of whisky this evening : TONIGHT

21-down – Muslim’s inconceivable renouncement, with which a child’s constructive : MECCANO

22-down – Fungus in parcel turned up : INKCAP

25-down – Job cut to protect former state : TEXAS

9-across – Fashionable prevaricator gets fitter : INSTALLER

10-across – See 3 : STONE

11-across – Bet I’d be forced back to sea on this : EBBTIDE

12-across – Peculiar second muscle on Brummie with alum­inium finish : SPECIAL

13-across – Prison camp round 22 down : OFLAG

14-across – Having ensnared male, sexy cuddles on the agenda : SCHEDULED

16-across – Small seaman on beach goes naked outside eastern 22 down : STARSANDSTRIPES

19-across – Holiday resort’s girl about town : LASPALMAS

21-across – Cross swords with criminal : FENCE

22-across – Drown establishment figure : FOUNDER

23-across – Grubs having no settled home almost : ROOTLES

24-across – Boring thing said by bore: Forecast good : AUGUR

25-across – Landlord’s target sector including butcher’s return : INNKEEPER

1-down – Deceptively conclusive state official : VICECONSUL

2-down – A sponsor of Columbus’s sail, able to be swayed : ISABELLA

3-down – Father, not 51, a famous missionary for 22 down : PAVING

4-down – Down with 22 down, a European cleanliness award : BLUE

5-down – Expert’s dissertation in support of Long John Silver, say? : PROSTHESIS

6-down – Character’s upright like carbon stopper : ASCENDER

7-down – Merry little woman with medicine bottle : JOVIAL

8-down – See 24 : WELL

14-down – Sexual activity on train out for one with nest egg in bank? : SANDMARTIN

15-down – Medicinal preparation here consisting of log stuffed with sulphur compounds : DISPENSARY

17-down – 22 down’s short way plus one other short way : STANDARD

18-down – Faithful wife has to write to escape : PENELOPE

20-down – Spot date wearing self-satisfied smile finally : SMUDGE

21-down – 22 down’s upset about womaniser : FLOWER

22-down – Jack wants female to keep from getting too cold : FLAG

23-down – To yell after 22 down is outrageous : RANT

1-across – Broken zip not that unknown — fasten with another fastener : SAFETYPIN

6-across – Relaxed about a bit of bad language : COBOL

9-across – Topless look that is weird : EERIE

10-across – It left USA and nearing Ireland all starts going wrong : LUSITANIA

11-across – Hull builders on Tyneside, one searching for a pen? : SWANHUNTER

12-across – 11’s first and 17’s last 24 now : COBH

14-across – Excellent measure included in newspaper : STELLAR

15-across – Wreck lower-class party after 24 drunk : TORPEDO

17-across – Very big, otherwise can double it : TITANIC

19-across – The good bilingual soldier’s back in base : IGNOBLE

20-across – In seas unkind, as were the 10 and 17 — by 15 and 19 down : SUNK

22-across – Former name for 12’s gay community? : QUEENSTOWN

25-across – Swear word alien to sailor, as mine is : EXPLOSIVE

26-across – How one may get taken in black cab, after having a turn : ABACK

27-across – King cobra’s no horse — it’s a snake : KRAIT

28-across – Lack of bend in river? Design is faulty : RIGIDNESS

1-down – What builders get from designer glasses : SPECS

2-down – Sky decided on the last word at end of broadcast : FIRMAMENT

3-down – Female setter in mood to conform : TOETHELINE

4-down – Heading for 24, liner’s lost in the drink : PILSNER

5-down – Most inquisitive regarding lack of short nap? : NOSIEST

6-down – Censor part of Tosca, repeatedly : CATO

7-down – Game where you have to discard key ring : BINGO

8-down – Detestable motel has ordered nothing in : LOATHSOME

13-down – Magnificent support for long-running TV show : GRANDSTAND

14-down – Note time bone reaches highest point, as it were : SOTOSPEAK

16-down – Apply lotion to injured toe with care, after ringing doctor : EMBROCATE

18-down – One taking messages for newspaper : COURIER

19-down – Diver caught one coming up for something to eat : ICEBERG

21-down – Leather from goatskin, apparently : NAPPA

23-down – 20 at sea, split in two by English bombs : NUKES

24-down – What’s left as alternatives for Parliament’s most extreme character : PORT

1-across – Endlessly sick after soup which hurts one’s mouth : GUMBOIL

5-across – What to put on to come first in difficult test? : TWINSET

9-across – Waste of water in Cornwall? : OFFAL

10-across – We rectors contrive to get a bishopric : WORCESTER

11-across – Having broken limit, stand up and get ready to fight : MILITARISE

12-across – A little money for backward English? : DIME

14-across – With a clear road it may still hold you up : TRAFFICLIGHT

18-across – One reckons with a note, it’s said, he can sing : COUNTERTENOR

21-across – Voucher with firm going on : UPON

22-across – Chappy shot at random — he had a behavioural disorder : PSYCHOPATH

25-across – All marble could be fire protective : ALARMBELL

26-across – One riled by working? : IDLER

27-across – An isle — Greenland, perhaps : EMERALD

28-across – Threat of this makes sin seem dodgy : NEMESIS

1-down – Good accommodation to be found in Newmarket? : GROOMS

2-down – Beast without being very loud has to soften : MUFFLE

3-down – Having died, learned to strike out : OBLITERATE

4-down – Telephone bell starting off, but not so loud : LOWER

5-down – Act with elegance, say; it helps to get you in : TURNSTILE

6-down – Article on computer science needs space … : ITEM

7-down – … and what computers need Gordius does up to a point : SETTINGS

8-down – Wrongs keep people in agonies : TORMENTS

13-down – Sorting school mail may cause the jimjams : ALCOHOLISM

15-down – Dream fast shattered at cultural centre : FARMSTEAD

16-down – Reliable account by a priest : ACCURATE

17-down – Co-driver has to try self-control? : AUTOMATE

19-down – Let the Guardian know about thickening skin? : CALLUS

20-down – Cattle on board smashed crockery : SHERDS

23-down – Mark has value in Costa Rica : COLON

24-down – She started a college in Cambridge : EMMA