Daily Answers

1-across – Attack where Cockney might grow meat? : AMBUSH

4-across – Result of lob? : UPSHOT

9-across – March bringing a little pandemonium : DEMO

10-across – Model driven, one after party rule — was she? : CARLABRUNI

11-across – As being no good, nothing for administrative body : QUANGO

12-across – Wild, hairy monster lacking leadership entering as Sarkozy, short : FRENETIC

13-across – Reduced to cut pressure, stopping service : SLOWTRAIN

15-across – See 5 : WHEEL

16-across – See 2 : BREAD

18-across – Ultimate in pretentiousness, crossword setter’s art, the finesse of a swashbuckler : SWORDPLAY

22-across – The other question … : HOWSYOUR

23-across – See 22 : FATHER

25-across – … alternatively, this side of Scotland? : MOTHERWELL

26-across – Crack cryptic clues for links, say : GOLF

27-across – Paperback in row which comes to a head? : TITFER

28-across – He may be a loan shark ___ but is it me who’s less certain? : USURER

1-down – Old lover, informal clothes, topless, far from erotic : ASEXUAL

2-down – Dead good source of fibre : BROWN

3-down – Relief from dope, say : SUCCOUR

5-down – Concern with image over weary, reckless scoundrel getting revolver in Tibet : PRAYER

6-down – Possession of rider, whose charger finally beaten with it : HORSEWHIP

7-down – Survivor’s inheritance, it’s raised in metric weight : TONTINE

8-down – Figure pocketing fines through car I wrongly park up? : TRAFFICWARDEN

14-down – Useful stuff wife saw, article disappearing between 27s : WHATSWHAT

17-down – Eradicate Aussie bouncer, one dealing with aggression? : ROOTOUT

19-down – Tousles hair swept back, then nature uplifted : RUFFLES

20-down – Arm cut or a leg cut, perhaps, relating to a sensitive area : AREOLAR

21-down – See 26 : COURSE

24-down – Formidable opponent on the 26 21? : TIGER

9-across – Met fan in old gym — amateur working out with Roger : OPERAGOER

10-across – Two 14 back to lead group of players : SQUAD

11-across – Maria’s debut in Slovakia capital : MINSK

12-across – See 29 : BESERIOUS

13-across – Lose cool in good old fight against Edberg at the start : GOSPARE

14-across – See 17 : DOUBLES

17-across – Used lob in this event? : MIXED

19-across – See 23 : FOR

20-across – Ivan Lendl ultimately got a hammering here : ANVIL

21-across – Nadal’s furious about cocaine affair : SCANDAL

22-across – Was Laver a gentleman? Yes, but with a mean streak : AVERAGE

24-across – No laughs disrupted Evert’s closing attack : ONSLAUGHT

26-across – Rally dimly recalled somewhat blissful time : IDYLL

28-across – Smith has dubious hit disallowed — this one? : SMASH

29-across – Fractious McEnroe’s last noisy abuse on court : YOUCANNOT

1-down – Second Australian retired, creating buzz : ZOOM

2-down – See 23 : TENNIS

3-down – Ball primarily hacked and cut thus? : BACKHANDED

4-down – Common resident put millions into joint set-up : WOMBLE

5-down – Old warrior caused upset with Roger losing heart : CRUSADER

6-down – Top Russian’s rackets are mostly confiscated : TSAR

7-down – Eg Ivanisevich or Seles in jail with huge loo? : JUGOSLAV

8-down – The chances of first finding big cups for ladies : ODDS

13-down – In which, at the outset, gritty Andy Murray expects success : GAMES

15-down – Regular lawn manicure ordered, contrary to US conventions : UNAMERICAN

16-down – Something for Laver : SALVE

18-down – Look into top player’s huge pulsating body : XRAYSTAR

19-down – Connors’ victims, say, drop pretence on air : FALLGUYS

22-down – Former champion has heart trouble covering centre of courts : ARTHUR

23-down – Invitation to sporty afternoons in middle of Kenya? : ANYONE

24-down – Remove judge from early contest : OUST

25-down – See 22 : ASHE

27-down – Replayed points at end of final scrappy set : LETS

9-across – Caspian, say, gets Annie’s lad off : INLANDSEA

10-across – Deck trouble with sailors : ADORN

11-across – Kings entertaining painter turn left to get fur from sheep : KARAKUL

12-across – Scottish king, an American subject, retaining award : MACBETH

13-across – We come to it, getting up for a row : DUST

14-across – See 21 : RICHARDSON

16-across – Man has a heavy defeat — listen to all he says : HEAROUT

17-across – Worry about woman in stream : FRESHET

19-across – Box in wearing fewer clothes and drawers, a work of 8 : BARCHESTER

22-across – Take back part of the sound of silence : UNDO

24-across – Talk food at naval base once : CHATHAM

25-across – Generous remarks that are defamatory about artist : LIBERAL

26-across – Unrestrainedly express feelings for quarter bit of 13 : EMOTE

27-across – Listen to water falling from roof : EAVESDROP

1-down – Turned up toes maybe spilling water : KICKEDTHEBUCKET

2-down – Pupils embracing religious instruction, a work of 21 14 : CLARISSA

3-down – Glider scotched, not killed, by 12 : SNAKE

4-down – Not quite when I am for love, on second thoughts, for David : PSALMIST

5-down – Affection for anger? : WARMTH

6-down – Moviemaker needs accountant and compère to get things straight : CAMCORDER

7-down – See 19 : TOWERS

8-down – 18 unknown to slut coming in before novelist : ANTHONYTROLLOPE

15-down – Playing his cello, Highland leader appears on the Road to the Isles : LOCHSHIEL

17-down – Nothing’s for nothing, never mind about marriage : FREELOVE

18-down – Getting nothing for being old and not being entertained : HONORARY

20-down – Concerned with Roman coin on the ground : REASON

21-down – Strong man, hiding awfully cruel one and tough, was novelist : SAMUEL

23-down – Embarrass a party? : ABASH

8-across – Monarch remains on edge in retreat, one coming from a region in Asia : KASHMIRI

9-across – Cat for far less than a pound : OUNCE

10-across – Titanic sense of foreboding? : THAT

11-across – A thousand, number entering strike, suffer the consequences : TAKETHERAP

12-across – Marley primarily in Dickens returning, that is, as dead man walking : ZOMBIE

14-across – Change number on back, 12 : NOONTIDE

15-across – Individual put in better hospital, proving success : TRIUMPH

17-across – Time to release that tension? : STRETCH

20-across – Sozzled rector in possession of Chelsea pensioner, say? : TRICORNE

22-across – Lavishly entertaining film interrupting casually announced item? : FETING

23-across – Quaint poem containing line with water on grass or lake : OLDEWORLDE

24-across – Bullet repelled by pellets? : SLUG

25-across – Moon about eating second course : EPSOM

26-across – Blinks, since revolting scoffing rubbish : NICTATES

1-down – What’s humour to you is disgusting, so please do this! : WASHYOUR

2-down – Bird’s conversation : CHAT

3-down – Tricky small title? : LITTLE

4-down – See 10 : SINKING

5-down – See 1 : MOUTHOUT

6-down – How clergyman’s dressed, as a contribution : INVESTMENT

7-down – See 18 : DEMAND

13-down – Depressed, getting bad luck when hard, which stinks : BLUECHEESE

16-down – Normandy cypher, why not f*** off? : PARDONMY

18-down – Party : CONSUMER

19-down – See 10 : FEELING

21-down – In this works outstanding charity : RELIEF

22-down – See 16 : FRENCH

24-down – See 3 : SLAM

1-across – With extraordinary charm, old capital smothers a censor : LORDCHAMBERLAIN

9-across – Liable to be detected having forty winks : NAPPING

10-across – Lumberjack’s picture? : WOODCUT

11-across – Talk of state? : GAS

12-across – Prevent passing of legislation to reduce police numbers? : KILLTHEBILL

13-across – Reduced borough with David and Richard playing a duet : ATTENUATED

15-across – Kings keeping tips on account may be taken aback : KNAP

18-across – See 15 : SACK

20-across – Actor in the front inside back : EDITHEVANS

23-across – Play throughout the season in question with everyone going down : ALLTHATFALL

25-across – Keyholder having been fired? : ASH

26-across – Artist, one writing plays for adults included : PAINTER

27-across – One in musical — The Prince and the Showgirl? : OLIVIER

28-across – I enter alliance with Lovelace’s new girl, rendering three — which includes 27 : NATIONALTHEATRE

1-down – Crave drug from receiver of kicks? : LONGGRASS

2-down – Sport that is newly put in store : REPOSIT

3-down – Smart lad’s victims of premature count? : CHICKENS

4-down – Backer of good old coin : ANGEL

5-down – Acknowledges old actor’s time with runners : BOWSTREET

6-down – Island ways being broadcast : RHODES

7-down – Event with lots of bridge? : AUCTION

8-down – Related to one’s origin in South Africa : NATAL

14-down – A mutiny to elevate atmosphere at the 28? : AUDITORIA

16-down – God’s in attitude that will give a speedy ride : POSTHORSE

17-down – Poet-parson upset Cleo : VERLAINE

19-down – Incest upsetting sick musician : CELLIST

21-down – In painting, an encore given to such as Lawrence : ARABIST

22-down – Wodehousian greeting to doctor without cover : WHATHO

23-down – Shaker when writer? : ASPEN

24-down – A fight, more or less : ABOUT