Daily Answers

7-across – O.J. once trained with small Spanish balls : COJONES

8-across – Ultimately extract revenge, executed cruelly? : GETEVEN

9-across – File name lacking appeal for poetry : ODES

10-across – Seed new grape — 80% Pinot : ORANGEPIP

12-across – Book mostly 14 ab ovo : ALBUM

13-across – Birds’ standard recipe — pig out with seconds : SPARROWS

15-across – Play a 24 clip back where lots are online? : EBAY

16-across – Butler maybe ordering her Times : RHETT

17-across – Note start of chart success : CHIT

18-across – Where flowers are put next to wine for Max? : BYGRAVES

20-across – Bohemian poet O’Reilly knew but regularly ignored : RILKE

21-across – Soldiers entertained by Spice Girl? Ring doctor — one may go into shock : METALCOMB

22-across – Music primarily suggesting one setter’s no old man : SOUL

24-across – Attend LSE, masquerading as producers of featured works : BEATLES

25-across – Clashing belt and tie? Don’t change a thing : LETITBE

1-down – See 12 : ROAD

2-down – Brother or sister left some flowers outside, perhaps : POSSIBLY

3-down – Mend one’s ways, as the 24 never did : REFORM

4-down – Serviceman agrees about not losing heart : SERGEANT

5-down – Art of jazz? It could be green, red or yellow : PEPPER

6-down – Take supporting role in film : HELP

11-down – Dreadful waster son has as name : ANSWERSTO

12-down – London landmark in 15 board game : ABBEY

14-down – Ball the West Indies’ opener hit for six : WHITE

16-down – Eg Top Gun : REVOLVER

17-down – A little bit of fine silk can set off leather : CALFSKIN

19-down – Turn from pet? A tortoise doing somersault! : ROTATE

20-down – A sport informally allowing change of centre pairing for series of games : RUBBER

21-down – Come Together? That’s fitting : MEET

23-down – I’m not sure what the pong might be, boss! : UMBO

9-across – A crew carrying cross for 24 down? : ALEXANDER

10-across – Service offering visa to cover island capital : PAPAL

11-across – Spinner’s maiden restricting single shows fibre : SISAL

12-across – Being English, two figures face to face with church : EXISTENCE

13-across – Something funny, perhaps, about wood — so put it on here? : BONFIRE

14-across – Lane hogged by drunk: he’s all on his own : SOLOIST

17-across – Some coppers : SOLDI

19-across – Arrange group : SET

20-across – Valid claim : RIGHT

21-across – Drop into open dish : LASAGNA

22-across – Loud speaker essential to 18 2 : STENTOR

24-across – One proving superior bringing about reprieval : PREVAILER

26-across – Hearts 18 2 : CORES

28-across – See 8 : PETER

29-across – Painting showing stock passing backwards through entrance to field : STILLLIFE

1-down – See 10 : MASS

2-down – See 18 : REASON

3-down – Very exciting, filthy habit : NAILBITING

4-down – Pickled head on stick : ADHERE

5-down – Solution of nitrates present for a boy? : TRAINSET

6-down – Show contempt for doppelganger : SPIT

7-down – Punishment making you smart? : SPANKING

8-down – Flag when down, then fade : BLUE

13-down – Bottom rock needing bottom wiped : BASAL

15-down – Sweeping clears gale away : LARGESCALE

16-down – Leaving seconds, sample vegetable : TATER

18-down – Improper, or not essential, to take heed : LISTENTO

19-down – Pretty little individual wearing underwear, hot : SMALLISH

22-down – Snack, small, slightly stale beefcake? : SARNIE

23-down – Pompous bore with dull routine sent up : TURGID

24-down – Poet finds novelist burying his head : POPE

25-down – Open road superior to rail : AIRY

27-down – Crossword setter dropped : SHED

1-across – A learner joins class that’s strict : FORMAL

5-across – Mortality figures are a total write-off : DEADLOSS

9-across – Everyone is absorbed in the trial case : TEACHEST

10-across – Refuse a stretcher : LITTER

11-across – Becoming less friendly, drag warpaint out : DRAWINGAPART

13-across – Sappers in control of cavalry? : REIN

14-across – Setting for clips or decorations on a nobleman : EARLOBES

17-across – One may feel wrongly persecuted because of it : PARANOIA

18-across – Double act no longer seen : DODO

20-across – A challenging demand : SATISFACTION

23-across – A port, half an hour later, shows potency : VIGOUR

24-across – Courtesy of the townsman : URBANITY

25-across – Extinguishes a candle flame and passes on : SNUFFSIT

26-across – Port required to finish university course : DIEPPE

2-down – Unfasten the duck cage : OPEN

3-down – Country professor on staff gets first-class write-up : MACEDONIA

4-down – General means to establish latitude : LEEWAY

5-down – An exact report of the Three Blind Mice? : DETAILEDACCOUNT

6-down – Go really wild with Pilgrim’s Progress, for example : ALLEGORY

7-down – A bulb may be a variety of tulip : LITUP

8-down – The points of savage attacks : SPEARHEADS

12-down – One is apart, possibly result of marital trouble? : SEPARATION

15-down – As ordered, one goes in the artillery : ORDINANCE

16-down – Swindle companies and acknowledges it : CONFIRMS

19-down – One may be prone to use this, following inflation : AIRBED

21-down – Scoring shot in billiards or from batting cricket side : INOFF

22-down – Tread the stage : STEP

1-across – Small volume about Scottish girl : CLASSIC

5-across – Spasmodic? Well, not totally occupied : FITFUL

9-across – Punter, we hear, at this card game : BACCARAT

10-across – A sharp bend, of course : DOGLEG

12-across – Trashed combo upset, wounded : HORSDECOMBAT

15-across – Make call in a French railway, not making a mistake : UNERRINGLY

17-across – Look where to find a cathedral : SEE

19-across – Associated pair in the clouds making a comeback : DUO

20-across – Something mislaid? Look here! : EVERYWHERE

22-across – For news of a pillar of the establishment? : GOSSIPCOLUMN

26-across – This plant is hard, brittle : RADISH

27-across – Most of the piece about new island is to develop slowly : INCUBATE

28-across – Unknown quantity as missile plant : YARROW

29-across – Unenviable position of those with a time in conflict? : HOTSEAT

1-down – It’s six-sided, or eight : CUBE

2-down – Demo loses leader and chief : ARCH

3-down – Shore base, possibly with winding road : SEABOARD

4-down – Thick ground cover, good going for cricket, initially? : CRASS

6-down – One stupid person at party turned up as a crustacean : ISOPOD

7-down – Young horse, say, with horse-breaker to produce delaying action : FILIBUSTER

8-down – Portable recording device used by a photographer : LIGHTMETER

11-down – Tentative proposal of charge on line about to arise : FEELER

13-down – Musical instrument whose parts only differ at the top : HURDYGURDY

14-down – I : RECONSIDER

16-down – A perfect beginner? : NOVICE

18-down – I could have been in rough water but I’m still all in one piece : SWIMSUIT

21-down – Provided uplifts at the time of company’s collapse : FIASCO

23-down – Start off without a meal : LUNCH

24-down – Opening that could be barred : GATE

25-down – Officer supports exercises at a rapid pace : PELT

4-across – Get weapon back first with gold piece : NUGGET

6-across – Barbarian with hairpiece chasing girl : HUNTRESS

9-across – So : WHATOF

10-across – Heartless church article on church in suspension : ABEYANCE

11-across – Junction in Crete dismantled without an oath : INTERCHANGE

15-across – Loud protest over soldiers, each with gifts, new or otherwise, posing the unanswerable question : HOWLONG

17-across – Painter, being poorly, put in months in Paris : MILLAIS

18-across – Tough about Circle Line appearing in films that back learning : SCHOLARSHIP

22-across – Borough’s best man should : HAVERING

23-across – See 21 : OFFICE

24-across – Time taken by a fast pressman with great ability : TALENTED

25-across – Born scoundrel to talk of footwear : BROGUE

1-down – Curtailment of overdue preparation to eat : DEVOUR

2-down – Veto on setter’s entry into parliament left ass, maybe, but not Balaam’s : DUMBANIMAL

3-down – Wish on departure for movement of sea to swamp Scots river : STAYWELL

4-down – Glen with fragments often shed by discovery : NEWLIGHT

5-down – Admit and confess on 8 : GRANTOWN

7-down – Bird of wilderness and loughs : ERNE

8-down – River round which to dance when consent’s arising : SPEY

12-down – Arbitrary and inconsiderate way to celebrate scoring a goal? : HIGHHANDED

13-down – You start with a warning, if I were you, to be a sport : YACHTING

14-down – See 15 : ISAPIECE

16-down – See 15 : OFSTRING

19-down – Make new arrangements about class : REFORM

20-down – See 9 : THAT

21-down – Where to play cricket when not skating in the White House : OVAL