Daily Answers

1-across – Heads out of place with Eraserhead’s type of entry : SETSOFF

5-across – This land is in our heart and it’s in the head : BRITAIN

9-across – Mid-afternoon: lay back, stretch and relax : REMIT

10-across – Persecutor of desperate poor owns the media : OPPRESSOR

11-across – Five-part harmonised note in most of the chorus: Boatman drops out before loud ending : NINTHCHORD

12-across – Discovery of orchestral torch song performer : ALTO

14-across – Tired out in the head? That’s hurtful : DETRIMENTAL

18-across – Railhead activity leads to accident — rain mention­ed in covering letters : ENTRAINMENT

21-across – Headline? : RULE

22-across – Clue to U-boat command? : ORDERABOUT

25-across – It damages the leaves of roses, leading to wounded pride : REDSPIDER

26-across – Last of its last in first: first of last? : FINAL

27-across – Outstanding leap by a player : PAYABLE

28-across – After head start, wind up on winners’ tail: put your shirt on them? : HANGERS

1-down – Appear memorably as clue for head-to-head : SPRING

2-down – See 1 : TOMIND

3-down – Head out in car: to turn left, faced eight ways : OCTAHEDRAL

4-down – Head’s expression of anger after very poor grade : FROTH

5-down – Get dad drunk, say, involving a couple of parties : BIPARTITE

6-down – When he was fated to die horribly: Julius’ finale : IDES

7-down – No limits to usable accommodation : ABSOLUTE

8-down – Ran back to railhead, headless chicken? Yes, precisely : NARROWLY

13-down – Cook flan and invert: fish course is ordered with it : VENTRALFIN

15-down – Head up onto river crossing in Kent : TUNBRIDGE

16-down – Sign of distress in Spooner’s dull head : TEARDROP

17-down – Showing no interest in getting much back, making no effort : STOLIDLY

19-down – Head takes in upper-class boisterousness : BOUNCE

20-down – High stakes: Sophie’s head over heels : STILTS

23-down – Land of heartbreak? : EARTH

24-down – It protects our heritage from worsening odds. Boatman supports it : SPAB

1-across – Old Bob’s inclined to be pompous : STILTED

5-across – A coach I have becomes scathing : ABUSIVE

10-across – Second comedian is hot stuff : SWAG

11-across – Frenchman keeps fruit in home from home : PIEDATERRE

12-across – Everyone in Slough surrendered : FALLEN

13-across – It’s popular to perform, fast or slow : INDOLENT

14-across – Her eldest becomes withdrawn : SHELTERED

16-across – Step in tango requiring study : TREAD

17-across – Bird with grand display : SWANK

19-across – Presume oriental settled back to be unproductive : INFERTILE

23-across – Rubbish put out? It rusted! : DETRITUS

24-across – Body of king found in thicket : CORPSE

26-across – Official’s opportunity to get census back : CHANCELLOR

27-across – Show disapproval of king’s reserve : BOOK

28-across – Pardon girl admitting retreat : AMNESTY

29-across – Runner allowed in heat wrongly : ATHLETE

2-down – That POW strayed by the canal : TOWPATH

3-down – This is allowed on a lake : LEGAL

4-down – Range of vessels in river : EXPANSE

6-down – Mark has yen for strong drink : BRANDY

7-down – Suspect lets alarm off : SMELLARAT

8-down – Girl embraces joiner in porch : VERANDA

9-down – Distraught? Act nat­urally without pretension : BESIDEONESELF

15-down – Student on the farm is going far : LONGRANGE

18-down – Crash keeps king somewhere in Wales : WREXHAM

20-down – Passage leads right into bar : EXCERPT

21-down – Attack strongly, the French cry : LASHOUT

22-down – Still in the theatre stalls : ATREST

25-down – Bomber trapped in dance is a guerrilla : REBEL

1-across – Scheme for sixth concerto’s overture in D : DEVICE

4-across – It was meant be sung by Cyril et al in a different order : LYRICAL

9-across – Binding second Wagner masterpiece in canvas : STRINGENT

10-across – English duet interpreted as virtuoso solo piece : ETUDE

11-across – Silly idea: Schubert’s Fourth the last word? : ADIEU

12-across – Leo, 15, played dance piece : POLONAISE

13-across – This hat could produce theatrical performance : RECITAL

15-across – Curiously, Spain hoards old instruments : PIANOS

17-across – Sargent re-engagement’s helping course : ENTREE

19-across – Birthplace of 21, born in Austria-Hungary originally, crammed in poor home : BOHEMIA

22-across – Harry Lauder ousting Queen at No 1? Flip, that’s praise indeed : ADULATION

24-across – Joy unconfined! Theatre’s brought back a typical 2 work : OPERA

26-across – Monarch secured soprano and tenor for celebrated composer : LISZT

27-across – 20, say, distributes I-tunes bird pinched : INSTITUTE

28-across – From where he stood Rattle’s first tours lost money : ROSTRUM

29-across – Fiddle half-heartedly with Yankee tunes : MEDLEY

1-down – Slough’s pride’s dented over finale of Aida … : DESPAIR

2-down – … by him, almost driven to distraction : VERDI

3-down – It takes charge of 21’s job in the Vienna 24 : CONDUCTOR

4-down – Release old record about nameless silent movie? : LETSLIP

5-down – Source of Wagner’s maid­en in her deshabille? : RHEIN

6-down – Like churches, I’m mostly in favour of Mass : CRUCIFORM

7-down – Konzertmeister broadcast songs by Schubert : LIEDER

8-down – Correspondent trained with Oriya to become piano player : PENPAL

14-down – Wins search for certainty in concerts : CONQUESTS

16-down – Love smash hit with 24 down originally : APHRODITE

18-down – In Handel it is meant to inspire a superior feeling : ELITISM

19-down – Do without minims in the middle bar : BANISH

20-down – Music school perhaps made changes in a city with no appeal : ACADEMY

21-down – Celebrated composer initially made Lehar nervous : MAHLER

23-down – Performer’s a credit to opening : ACTOR

25-down – The Spanish kept semiquaver identical : EQUAL

1-across – Influences or distorts the standard : COLOURS

5-across – Makes an entry, a footnote about fruit : APPEARS

10-across – Hairstyle for a make­over : AFRO

11-across – Tender after getting the stick? One may give you treatment : STAFFNURSE

12-across – One making records gets the music right : SCORER

13-across – Probe about language is widening : DILATING

14-across – Emerge neither winner nor loser still after a piece of luck : BREAKEVEN

16-across – Wood works in church : COPSE

17-across – Nearly every one goes by taxi for the party : CABAL

19-across – Political leaders revised means test : STATESMEN

23-across – Growing area, one with a shrub : GARDENIA

24-across – Duke Ellington’s mood? : INDIGO

26-across – Currently the chief form of jazz? : MAINSTREAM

27-across – China tea : MATE

28-across – Open with a play by Shaw : CANDIDA

29-across – Publicity coverage of speech : ADDRESS

2-down – Substandard rice pudding served in the wardroom? : OFFICER

3-down – Smell reportedly comes from river : ODOUR

4-down – Book not one’s first choice : RESERVE

6-down – Rubbish heap contains heads of faded flowers : PIFFLE

7-down – Unusual quotes in a maths book? : EQUATIONS

8-down – Objects to Ernest’s replacement : RESENTS

9-down – Slept and dreamed about a new ship : PADDLESTEAMER

15-down – Deserted, being completely irresponsible : ABANDONED

18-down – Sailor held by a devout Buddhist state : ALABAMA

20-down – Adjusted the sails and docked : TRIMMED

21-down – Fractions of the highest order : EIGHTHS

22-down – Joined the club : UNITED

25-down – To be hesitant is not entirely modest : DEMUR

1-across – Royal sultanate has nothing against royal family : ROMANOV

5-across – Gesture deriding the Queen needs six 19s : SNOOKER

9-across – Some said an eye for an eye after 19 : KNIFE

10-across – Coming from the Pole — that or the railway? : NORTHERLY

11-across – 15 — or should it be Queen? — maybe 19 : BATTLESHIP

12-across – Go away to get in with no contest : SHOO

14-across – Make a noise like the last trump : WAKETHEDEAD

18-across – Be a top copper, more than usually mean? : SUPERINTEND

21-across – Carefully select worker to take from 19 : HAND

22-across – Diseased flour cooked and eaten by Liverpudlian missing drug : SCROFULOUS

25-across – Missing lord keeping some British model smoother : LUBRICANT

26-across – One willing to bet at a 7, in part : TAKER

27-across – General in burlesque resembling a mouse? : SLEEKIT

28-across – Carer finally comes in to nurse novelist : FORSTER

1-down – Skint, having lost capital through painting 4 : ROKEBY

2-down – Half time — you nearly made it! : MOIETY

3-down – Eager to embrace quarrel with some elders all about tattooing, say : NEEDLEWORK

4-down – Body of little beauty after 19 : VENUS

5-down – Setter out about to compete with wiper : SERVIETTE

6-down – Emperor with foothold out of crease : OTHO

7-down – Cover for head, right cheek if needed, or 21 for 19 : KERCHIEF

8-down – Painter only worked in colours : REYNOLDS

13-down – Most of 7 19 watch one after talent : HEADHUNTER

15-down – Machiavelli’s subject, like corruption, includes its leader : KINGCRAFT

16-down – Surfaces roads — so Cleopatra doesn’t get bitten? : ASPHALTS

17-down – Work to give power, having a key : OPENABLE

19-down – See 23 : POCKET

20-down – One taking interest in turn for having extra security : USURER

23-down – Took up English football club to effect losing money : OUTOF

24-down – See 21 : PICK