Daily Answers

1-across – Notorious guy was a novelist : BURGESS

5-across – Our army collapsed when it closed? : ARMOURY

10-across – Care about piece of land : ACRE

11-across – Fly down with courage : BLUEBOTTLE

12-across – A scene made for session with the media : SEANCE

13-across – Well-made jockeys ride a lot : TAILORED

14-across – Stores can provide the roots of trees : ANCESTORS

16-across – The reason for some bird noises : CAUSE

17-across – Daughter associated with greedy king : DAVID

19-across – Applying polish — that’s what Lancing does! : FINISHING

23-across – Boys kept in during awful beating : DRUBBING

24-across – Quick change of poster : PRESTO

26-across – They supply data from the Telegraph : SCORECARDS

27-across – Clothing to boast about : GARB

28-across – Craftsmen from Chester : ETCHERS

29-across – In the doorway they show leavers out : REVEALS

2-down – Nasty daughter forsakes Uncle Dan : UNCLEAN

3-down – Raw colour : GREEN

4-down – The one who does French, say, at school : SUBJECT

6-down – Teacher has little time for talk : RABBIT

7-down – Practitioner gets back work : OSTEOPATH

8-down – Waves to the birds! : ROLLERS

9-down – One can’t catch a fat, old safe-breaker on the box : BUTTERFINGERS

15-down – Dine out at length and see the city : EDINBURGH

18-down – This fruit could be almost tropical : APRICOT

20-down – There’s no way ahead: I’m finished : IMPASSE

21-down – A certain success is not affected … : NATURAL

22-down – … but this kitchen appliance could be! : MINCER

25-down – Standard design on some church lecterns : EAGLE

5-across – Made to smile by a thought? : AMUSED

6-across – They are linked with land measures : CHAINS

9-across – Star to cut back lighting unit : POLLUX

10-across – Takes a liberty? : ENSLAVES

11-across – Not quick or not quick enough : LATE

12-across – Details put as specified in the agreement : STIPULATED

13-across – Coordinates new colour schemes : DECORATIONS

18-across – I’m in prison without money, that’s the snag : IMPEDIMENT

21-across – First-class spinners : TOPS

22-across – You may read these at your convenience : GRAFFITI

23-across – Turned to dole when sacked : LOOTED

24-across – Tiny turned inlay that may have to be made up : LEEWAY

25-across – Not just ugly : UNFAIR

1-down – A light sweet : BULLSEYE

2-down – Persian king upset over sex change : XERXES

3-down – Hear suit about writers’ need for an alternative : THESAURI

4-down – Country put in a word of thanks for foreign capital : TIRANA

5-down – I heard a statement : AVOWAL

7-down – Journalist upset amid bad news for the country : SWEDEN

8-down – Precipitate action for itinerant : PERIPATETIC

14-down – The prototype of an oil rig installation : ORIGINAL

15-down – Fair verdict on an improved performance : NOTSOBAD

16-down – A dictum devoid of principles : AMORAL

17-down – Look for a feature about double parking : APPEAR

19-down – Feel free, if inside tower : EIFFEL

20-down – A relation, not being heartless, makes a gift : TALENT

8-across – Old king putting drink back in lists of options : MENELAUS

9-across – Make king take rook, perhaps, then knight : CROWN

10-across – Hide from vicious king : SKIN

11-across – King of kings, many said foolishly, put on a little weight : OZYMANDIAS

12-across – King’s names for religious reformer : MARTIN

14-across – King at Hereford, in part to collect harvest : INGATHER

15-across – Some of our kings and English duke died in conflicts : EDWARDS

17-across – Court champion dined with king repeatedly : FEDERER

20-across – King, for example, and brave jester : FACECARD

22-across – See 12 : LUTHER

23-across – King who used rackets to secure a score of titles : BILLIEJEAN

24-across – Friend that puts king in hopeless position : MATE

25-across – Rabble without love for cruel king : HEROD

26-across – Celebrate about rise in king’s payment to serving man : SHILLING

1-down – Crewman holding all the cards? Just one person’s : DECKHAND

2-down – Cut when rewritten : HEWN

3-down – Primate includes a bishop in blessing : BABOON

4-down – As I say, somehow crossing river in ancient kingdom : ASSYRIA

5-down – Figure in plane caught in old muddle : OCTANGLE

6-down – Spy setter wandering in shopping area : BONDSTREET

7-down – Cover using precaut­ionary phrase, in a word : INCASE

13-down – Representatives who should become less narrow-minded : TRAVELLERS

16-down – Awful deeds and situations offering no way out : DEADENDS

18-down – Sport needing extra time in later part of day : EVENTING

19-down – Inauspicious jingle? : ADVERSE

21-down – Land being consumed by fire : ALIGHT

22-down – Pulse is fast — over one-fifty : LENTIL

24-down – Part of Somalia or other country in Africa : MALI

1-across – Ran wild in captivity, causing dreadful loss of life : CARNAGE

5-across – Naval ship requiring quarantine? : CARRIER

9-across – A short spell of hostile behaviour : AGGRO

10-across – Games pitch out in the garden : SHRUBBERY

11-across – Drink cures heart trouble : CHARTREUSE

12-across – Excessive discipline for male elephant : BULL

14-across – Spoils actions meant to rectify : CONTAMINATES

18-across – First-day cover? : BIRTHDAYSUIT

21-across – Leisure facility : EASE

22-across – Fan of sickness benefit? : VENTILATOR

25-across – Poor relatives prepared to do a variety of jobs : VERSATILE

26-across – Former French island Napoleon went into : EXILE

27-across – Boards another’s child : STEPSON

28-across – After exam, tucked into a meal with a will : TESTATE

1-down – Risk not completing part of a church : CHANCE

2-down – Scruffy dog follows student’s charity procession : RAGTAG

3-down – To a shopper, oddly enough, it may indicate possession : APOSTROPHE

4-down – Follow directions and prosecute : ENSUE

5-down – Stocking up time? : CHRISTMAS

6-down – Type of wine : RUBY

7-down – Unfairness in the value of shares : INEQUITY

8-down – Solitary eccentric, supporter of the monarchy : ROYALIST

13-down – Silly men : INFIELDERS

15-down – Crash of train carrying elderly actor : TRAGEDIAN

16-down – Watches and obeys : OBSERVES

17-down – Don’t lose that quiet shyness : PRESERVE

19-down – He attacked the Romans but turned tail at first : ATTILA

20-down – Mourn for George, King-Emperor, the night before : GRIEVE

23-down – Doctor to buy one a drink : TREAT

24-down – Musical for jazz enthusiasts? : CATS

1-across – Triangle functions on point of intimacy : COSINESS

5-across – Enlarge Fawkes’s purpose? : BLOWUP

9-across – As seductive woman returned, so did her ring : NERISSA

10-across – He keeps a dog and a Manx cat on river : CURATOR

11-across – Honours drug to make one fat : OBESE

12-across – Bagged journalist after time with alarm clock? : TROUSERED

13-across – * Church with a set of bells to go over : CHARINGCROSS

17-across – Umbrian master in crafts as in order : SAINTFRANCIS

20-across – Queen gets in — in as in 14’s game — with ram : BATTERING

22-across – They sing in church or outside one : CHOIR

23-across – Generosity sees glass re-turned : LARGESS

24-across – Exaggerated love before composer died : OVERDID

25-across – Can nearly work this land? : ARABLE

26-across – Legendary Welsh king has no right to join the Church of England, as it happens : BYCHANCE

1-down – *Party for cathedral functionaries, say : CANNON

2-down – See 1 : STREET

3-down – Temporary structure in the Sun’s building : NISSENHUT

4-down – Poor attenders fell on Jeremy or Simon coming up to the monsoon : SCATTERBRAINS

6-down – House hosting game in 14 : LORDS

7-down – *Crapper’s invention : WATERLOO

8-down – Heaven is in the display : PARADISE

10-down – Most of 9 goods bet­ween birds — that’s the best thing of all : CROWNINGGLORY

14-down – Game heard, maybe hard, in north Wales : CRICCIETH

15-down – Is one of those in 13 a queen, … : ISABELLA

16-down – *… another 7 ac wandering round hill? : VICTORIA

18-down – *Left like Aberdeen with game : LONDON

19-down – See 18 : BRIDGE

21-down – English Guardian’s going to Surrey town : EWELL