Daily Answers

1-across – See 15 : KITTEN

4-across – Setter starts to badmouth refuge in road : ISLAND

9-across – George was goalie for Midland club — goalie at both ends — in award-winning settlement : BESTKEPTVILLAGE

10-across – Flower with name behind : ASTERN

11-across – Speculated on girl aloud getting help : MADEABET

12-across – Firework display of odds on horse at start of race : SPARKLER

14-across – Queen’s houseboy? : ERNEST

15-across – A cat first with cat’s first baby? : ATOMIC

18-across – I’m taken aback by Carter’s legal follower’s redundancy : RUCKSACK

21-across – See 24 : SUPREMES

22-across – Number 50 with solution : NOLANS

24-across – Girl band playing and 1 across caught out with motifs including purse with change : DIANAROSSANDTHE

25-across – Changing year abroad, fool about : MUTANT

26-across – Fruit followed by artist with one of 7 : BANANA

1-down – Look into type of music arising in dance : KNEESUP

2-down – Portion of object found in article : TITHE

3-down – Endless 10 and 50 are merged : ETERNAL

5-down – Those girls having dropped church, coming to bad end, left for centre of revolution : SPINDLE

6-down – What links Northampton RUC, Southampton FC and St Helen’s RLFC? : ALLSAINTS

7-down – Three academically but 90 is right : DEGREES

8-down – Company abandons dress and king makes stupid mistake : STUMER

13-down – Term used about style of product by artist : REMBRANDT

16-down – Travel business suggests Abraham has a mile to go : TOURISM

17-down – Premier setter embraced by Leslie : CAMERON

18-down – Don’t give in to ugly sister : RESIST

19-down – Music for one leaving prison? : CANTATA

20-down – Name for start of 24 with an itchy flipper : CYNTHIA

23-down – Country girl with lovely diamond piece : LYDIA

1-across – Garment for drunks? : TIGHTS

4-across – Conservative setter’s in business arrangement of 10 : DECIMAL

9-across – Good enough to supply beer to all : TOLERABLE

10-across – A rebellion occurs before time to check : AUDIT

11-across – See 6 : NIGHT

12-across – Get back ecstasy, keeping notes : RECAPTURE

13-across – Fictitious prison where king has a veto on extremes : AZKABAN

15-across – Bits of thread on guitar? : THRUMS

17-across – French city makes blood boil : ANGERS

19-across – Epitaph on bankrupt that had outing on public transport : BUSTRIP

22-across – Beckett’s revising suits Bard : ABSURDIST

24-across – Boy from Madrid stopped rot : PEDRO

26-across – Belgian port deprived of article by pipsqueak : TWERP

27-across – Decorum connected with ownership? : PROPRIETY

28-across – Lumpy with nearly all round effect : NODULAR

29-across – Danish invaders decapitate people of letters : OSTMEN

1-down – Leaderless council crushed by aunt to the Spanish queen in the 25 : TITANIA

2-down – Part of Soviet penal system, partly red and silver : GULAG

3-down – Pitched battle over container holding record : TURNTABLE

4-down – Far-reaching reductions in army base : DEEPCUT

5-down – Immobilisation of one that won’t talk quietly : CLAMP

6-down – 24/6’s 25 time : MIDSUMMER

7-down – See 21 : LUTHER

8-down – Honour small boy king in the 25 : OBERON

14-down – Pub removed by Cromwell? : KINGSHEAD

16-down – Fool in cry of 14 whose 19 across helped forward 21 7’s 25 : ROSAPARKS

18-down – Person in charge is the one with the rope : SKIPPER

19-down – Bed that had a 25 : BOTTOM

20-down – NCO half back that is a star : PROCYON

21-down – King with a 25 suffers terminal hurt : MARTIN

23-down – Being quiet during dance will be off-putting : REPEL

25-down – Something very pleasant caused endless trauma to 21 7 : DREAM

1-across – River given to another, backing onto a third? : POTOMAC

5-across – Flying tooth? : CHOPPER

9-across – Turn out as tennis player, once : EVERT

10-across – Here, all singing, all dancing champagne club : BOLLYWOOD

11-across – Standard Shakespearean character : TOUCHSTONE

12-across – See 27 : BATH

14-across – Idea for reconstruction ruins everything in never-never land, almost entirely : MARSHALLPLAN

18-across – Site coordinates parental choice? : MAPREFERENCE

21-across – Poet writing about primo donno? : OVID

22-across – Vulgar VIP’s veiny victuals : BLUECHEESE

25-across – So relaxation now — or something more? : EXTENSION

26-across – Possible beach bums lying so? : UNDER

27-across – Kit? It’s not required: Ah! Bits hurt when massaged — here? : TURKISH

28-across – I don’t hurry squeezing sweetheart in a perfect world : IDEALLY

1-down – Reasonably fair : PRETTY

2-down – See 26 : THESUN

3-down – Test God as Cupid? : MATCHMAKER

4-down – Young animal, it’s the measure of the Ark? : CUBIT

5-down – Once an old sort of architectural feature : COLONNADE

6-down – Beefy type crosses state to find gem : ONYX

7-down – Worker nursing infant, cut, it’s presumed : PROBABLE

8-down – Bird bringing itinerant Shed into line : REDSHANK

13-down – Choose bulk to reconstruct reinforced building : BLOCKHOUSE

15-down – Strong leader brutal, in possession of strong muscles, say : SHELLFISH

16-down – Bold fashion seen through swirling mist : IMMODEST

17-down – Variable indefinite number triples, which proves an irritation : SPLINTER

19-down – Pulse tester has to fix Penelope’s heart : MENDEL

20-down – Imagine fish shop : BETRAY

23-down – Two names among union of nations, one showing tiredness : ENNUI

24-down – Opponent wanting to play a part : ANTI

9-across – High-spirited farm animal that is caught in net, perhaps : EBULLIENT

10-across – Time not on our side? : ENEMY

11-across – Possibly ensured one is the ultimate recipient : ENDUSER

12-across – Hostile incursions where the fleet lies at anchor? : INROADS

13-across – Ascot as represented in opera : TOSCA

14-across – Down the line from Lancaster : ANCESTRAL

16-across – Network Rail’s plum post in London? : VICTORIASTATION

19-across – Takes the place of what bees do? : SUPPLANTS

21-across – Are these servants always polite? : CIVIL

22-across – Cunning action made with the French in view : SLEIGHT

23-across – Gin cocktail swallowed by English river or French city : AVIGNON

24-across – It makes the bike move like lightning : CHAIN

25-across – First light? : ONEACROSS

1-down – They find criminals working for the police : DETECTIVES

2-down – Learner driver accused, getting lost in blind alley : CULDESAC

3-down – Cold state of something oven-baked : ALASKA

4-down – Beast of burden? : BEAR

5-down – Domestic flights : STAIRCASES

6-down – A banker’s order in America : NEBRASKA

7-down – Material on display requires renovation : REPAIR

8-down – One may get one’s hooks into them : EYES

14-down – An attempt to deceive people will produce estrangement : ALIENATION

15-down – One illness to suffer in isolation : LONELINESS

17-down – Compellingly kind : OBLIGING

18-down – First man to devise an outlet in wrought iron : INVENTOR

20-down – Simon met him on the fairway : PIEMAN

21-down – Embrace large number left in church : CLINCH

22-down – Sounds just so ill : SICK

23-down – Abraham Lincoln, to start with, was murdered : ABEL

8-across – Make a friend through the proper channels : FORMALLY

9-across – Happen in the Guardian’s cricket club : OCCUR

10-across – Brown’s ferned rubbish? : GROT

11-across – Warning to speculators on gravy train ? : MINDTHEGAP

12-across – Reciprocal expression of wonder in flower : TWOWAY

14-across – Spreading archaeological search over classic culture : DILATING

15-across – German worker, not English judge : ARBITER

17-across – Scale of clean break by fliers … : BALANCE

20-across – … particular mince pie scale : ESPECIAL

22-across – How a ship moves with players on board : STEAMS

23-across – Free trade — comic like popular rule : DEMOCRATIC

24-across – Description of fashion model — just a bit of nothing : THIN

25-across – Claim no right to advantage : ASSET

26-across – Gunned in anarchy with no conclusion : UNENDING

1-down – Steal up to boatman, who’s in debt : BORROWER

2-down – Forget to order half of an item? : OMIT

3-down – Calm? Not exactly my condition, which is sticky : CLAMMY

4-down – It’s dangerous — to start with, you can die from it … : CYANIDE

5-down – … but it’s wrong to get sick over a pancake : TORTILLA

6-down – Emphasise smart goddess with brogue : ACCENTUATE

7-down – Arrange programme with Norway radio : ORDAIN

13-down – Who’s there? I possibly, at the pub : WHITEHORSE

16-down – Go abroad to live — it’s good in an Arab country : EMIGRATE

18-down – Bloomers made leading side lose heart : CAMPIONS

19-down – Erase fate in fight : BLOTOUT

21-down – Spot spotted in playground : SEESAW

22-down – So Livingstone might be disgusted : SICKEN

24-down – Festival is bound to be reported : TIDE