Daily Answers

5-across – Jazz effect bringing laughter back : WAHWAH

6-across – Piece of cake, perhaps, to restrict food container : PICNIC

9-across – Live to eat fish, about to stuff what’s used on green and brown food : PEANUT

10-across – University applauded, so lifted : UPRAISED

11-across – Kill the present transport mechanism, soundly : SLAY

12-across – Negotiations on which vegetables stemmed, we hear? : PEACETALKS

13-across – Dude — the ride ends here : BUSTERMINUS

18-across – See 24 : WALLBANGER

21-across – Hand out a large quantity, port and wood : DEAL

22-across – Idiot concealing brains but not heart, almost touching : CLOSESET

23-across – Old vehicle cut into bird … : JALOPY

24-across – … which follows a very inebriated wife into vestibule for a drink : HARVEY

25-across – See 9 : BUTTER

1-down – Short trip round square pocketed as grateful recognition : THANKYOU

2-down – A turn-on for scientists finding a way to plug­hole? : GASTAP

3-down – Begin as he was under leadership of Danish PM : DISRAELI

4-down – An indication of ruin for mother, a disease : ANGINA

5-down – Say how one might surrender regularly : WEEKLY

7-down – Pert as a buttock? : CHEEKY

8-down – Thus harming when abused? : HUMANRIGHTS

14-down – Change poles during mounting of Whistler painting : TRANSFER

15-down – Ripple caused by fraudulent mismanagement, French having scarpered : UNDULATE

16-down – Responsible Hindu beginning to worship God : WALLAH

17-down – See 6 : HAMPER

19-down – Passing through desert, sultan brought up distinction : LUSTRE

20-down – Hindu fighting to get a Justice of the Peace into routine : RAJPUT

1-across – Gum with which Alice got involved : MUCILAGE

5-across – Sailor to take no action on fire : ABLAZE

9-across – Ghana — 0 result of finger problem : HANGNAIL

10-across – Marine beast mostly taking note in trench : DUGOUT

12-across – Complete with gap : WHOLE

13-across – Tapering forwards and downwards, and blunt at the back, which is neat : SHIPSHAPE

14-across – Here splits and twists reoccur, splitting piece of turf : DIVORCECOURT

18-across – Many votes cast, very weird ploy during therapy : HEAVYPOLLING

21-across – Snake with backing of sugar, a delicacy : ASPARAGUS

23-across – A little bit of horse? : TRACE

24-across – Setter backing his word Begin! : EMBARK

25-across – Princess to assist : DIABETIC

26-across – Top people with the 6 : ROYALS

27-across – Apply wax to support student that’s brainy : CEREBRAL

1-down – American doctor, bellicose type : MOHAWK

2-down – Church partners or Roman official : CENSOR

3-down – Continuing gravity amid the lack of it is characteristic of the turtle : LONGEVITY

4-down – Wins urban seat in 11 : GAINSBOROUGH

6-down – Music for 4’s boy and 2’s 20 : BLUES

7-down – Nearly a lot of money, a 12 to stomach : ABOMASUM

8-down – Serious request for directions by agreement : ENTREATY

11-down – Hundreds into riding here and briefly golf, say : LINCOLNSHIRE

15-down – Force painter to study horses? : CONSTABLE

16-down – Moorland dweller’s temperature during erosion : WHEATEAR

17-down – Friend to Picasso with no love for your leader, as you can see : PALPABLY

19-down – Sugar donned as home to the 11 : CASTER

20-down – Line 15 might take with writer : PENCIL

22-down – Right old city with others not citified : RURAL

7-across – Cleaners accepting decoration in judge’s room : CHAMBERS

9-across – Old Briton conceals love for cat : OCELOT

10-across – Supporter’s grand boast : BRAG

11-across – Carol accepts the problem, having superficial knowledge : SMATTERING

12-across – Priest is working for porridge : PRISON

14-across – Skip across the pond : DUMPSTER

15-across – Choose the Parisian in the faction : SELECT

17-across – Dishonour grips royal family : STRAIN

20-across – Merchant needed by three blind mice? : RETAILER

22-across – Vehicle requiring endless dexterity : SLEIGH

23-across – Alert women cooked fruit : WATERMELON

24-across – Daily grind’s hard for girl : RUTH

25-across – Radical to laze about : ZEALOT

26-across – Drop feathers in trash : TEARDOWN

1-down – Soldier enters top twenty in France : CHARTRES

2-down – Bob’s face appears conceited : SMUG

3-down – Flavour is the main issue : SEASON

4-down – Cheat, seduce and disgrace : CONTEMPT

5-down – Flower cultivated in these areas : HEARTSEASE

6-down – Black cat’s resilience : BOUNCE

8-down – Son’s ready for a drink : SHANDY

13-down – Around devotional feature promote love for dance : SALTARELLO

16-down – State accord is a disaster : CALAMITY

18-down – Late sleeper is close to Welsh lake : NIGHTOWL

19-down – Member allowed adornment : ARMLET

21-down – Periods Edward rubbed out : ERASED

22-down – Prepare and use dessert : SUNDAE

24-down – Naughty schoolmarm goes topless : RUDE

1-across – Slight wound is no handicap : SCRATCH

5-across – A singular spectacle : MONOCLE

10-across – Primate seen around Sunday in church : APSE

11-across – Pipe bursts each summer : MEERSCHAUM

12-across – Play, but cheat : FIDDLE

13-across – Savings books : RESERVES

14-across – Home one left when decree nisi brought round : RESIDENCE

16-across – University degree for head : FIRST

17-across – Resort to sergeant major to get fit : SPASM

19-across – Fell in love but became discouraged : LOSTHEART

23-across – They may lead to quick ducks for any batsmen : BOUNCERS

24-across – He brought fresh weight to laws of motion : NEWTON

26-across – Pastries cooked in oven vaults : VOLAUVENTS

27-across – I return to a trivial item : IOTA

28-across – Defeat — or quite the opposite : REVERSE

29-across – Army set out to gain control : MASTERY

2-down – Upset? Depends on how big-headed one is! : CAPSIZE

3-down – More advanced as a teacher? : AHEAD

4-down – Enter favourite in contest : COMPETE

6-down – Torment bosses in difficulty : OBSESS

7-down – White? Rosé provided if not : OTHERWISE

8-down – Bays of victory : LAURELS

9-down – It’s barred for pedestrians : ZEBRACROSSING

15-down – Hint — take out annuities : INSINUATE

18-down – Offer a match : PROPOSE

20-down – A unit is ordered to somewhere in North Africa : TUNISIA

21-down – Roll containing nothing but chicken : ROOSTER

22-down – Holidays that fall in the autumn : LEAVES

25-down – Vital statistical centre : WAIST

1-across – In appearance everyone is lacking in depth : SHALLOW

5-across – Top game for one with a blood disorder : DIABOLO

9-across – One with duty to be beheaded over Ulster : UNITY

10-across – Cruel man, one out for the count : NUMERICAL

11-across – Computer’s complication of a costing spread? : DATAPROCESSING

13-across – Animals said to be put to some purpose : EWES

14-across – Resident dress worker : HABITANT

17-across – High praise for falsified income? I’m not sure : ENCOMIUM

18-across – Mathematical solution seen in addition, or vice versa : ALSO

21-across – Celtic 22 makes one scorn its shape : CORNISHPASTIES

23-across – Advocate support for single books : PROPONENT

24-across – Mother-in-law of 16, no less : NAOMI

25-across – Gives study on evergreens, say — with one missing : CONFERS

26-across – If shy, one would be fair game : COCONUT

1-down – Avoid military command : SHUN

2-down – Film made it an alternative, with nothing in the box : ANIMATEDCARTOON

3-down – Many a line unsuited for one not trained : LAYMAN

4-down – Succeed with effort that’s not so warm : WINTRY

5-down – Liberal follower’s detailed moderate programme involving Conservative leader : DEMOCRAT

6-down – A company registrar ought sometimes to issue cheques initially : ACROSTIC

7-down – One miscreant said to squander a moment on it’s very unusual : ONCEINABLUEMOON

8-down – Sacrifice involved soldier turning up for duty : OBLIGATION

12-down – Celtic pose perhaps able to take a longer view : TELESCOPIC

15-down – More vino drunk with his diet? : OMNIVORE

16-down – Callous when without a lady : RUTHLESS

19-down – Manoeuvre of man on course in changing sides : TACTIC

20-down – Concerning race’s thin distribution in the city : ETHNIC

22-down – Commons that could be short? : DIET