Daily Answers

1-across – Stick out to win battle : JUTLAND

5-across – Sweets unavailable in the heart of Brittany, reportedly : TOFFEES

9-across – Laughs loudly from film’s start to finish : HOOTS

10-across – Awfully bitter about one old man’s two-piece : BIPARTITE

11-across – Italian shuffling into a plane : NEAPOLITAN

12-across – See 6 : HEAD

14-across – Bossy Conservative volunteers to run one during setback : DICTATORIAL

18-across – Poor fish eaten by roughly 4.10 : UNFORTUNATE

21-across – Money not left in jar : CASH

22-across – Clear girl’s one to fancy a nosh-up : DIAPHANOUS

25-across – Fell very low in price : KNOCKDOWN

26-across – Run in next race : EXTRA

27-across – Bone in back? I’m not sure about that : STERNUM

28-across – First pair of knickers said to be hot stuff : CAYENNE

1-down – Rubber duck hidden by new cellmate? Yes, the upstart! : JOHNNY

2-down – What a pity Grahame’s character died inside : TOOBAD

3-down – Muscles badly scorned by bad runners? : ABSCONDERS

4-down – Knight on road for port : DUBAI

5-down – Supreme fool takes in airline boss : TOPBANANA

6-down – Warning in advance of gas bill feature : FORE

7-down – Record — the same one clubs widely distributed : EPIDEMIC

8-down – Knowing about a diet applied in resolute fashion : STEADILY

13-down – See 1 : COMELATELY

15-down – Like 50% of crosswords former cops provided to editor finally, in short measure : CRUCIFORM

16-down – Small, round things in case puck’s lost : CUPCAKES

17-down – Placing for one sailing past bay horse? : OFFSHORE

19-down – Off to rent afresh : ROTTEN

20-down – Get away from the drug scene? : ESCAPE

23-down – Funk band stripped in movie : PANIC

24-down – Drum almost broke : SKIN

9-across – Crooked dealer’s rough hard scrap : CARDSHARP

10-across – Female who’s particular about English : NIECE

11-across – Place to grow fruit or vegetable : ORCHARD

12-across – Gone to heaven instead, perhaps : SAINTED

13-across – Oversight! Right out of cultured pearls : LAPSE

14-across – A meeting of yes-men : AGREEMENT

16-across – They’re put on for a dry run : ANTIPERSPIRANTS

19-across – One in prison, for example, shows feeling : SENTIENCE

21-across – Supply shelter : PUTUP

22-across – Catholic leader of men : GENERAL

23-across – This cooking instruction could be bipolar : PARBOIL

24-across – Spot the first piece of music : MOTET

25-across – On course here for game : NEWMARKET

1-down – Adults have finished with these train times : SCHOOLDAYS

2-down – Two drugs make one silly : CRACKPOT

3-down – A car from East Germany, perhaps … : ESTATE

4-down – … made to sound domestic : MAID

5-down – Guardian’s printers use this, perhaps too loosely : APOSTROPHE

6-down – Operator means to connect with the Queen : ENGINEER

7-down – Clear land : SETTLE

8-down – A danger to traffic could be sinister : BEND

14-down – Hormone causing Diane renal upset : ADRENALINE

15-down – Each trial is a turn-up for them : TESTPILOTS

17-down – Something superior; it’s found in convent : PRIORITY

18-down – Computer systems show Labour in the toils : NETWORKS

20-down – Amount cunningly concealed in Exche­quer : NINETY

21-down – Left a line entry to the Web : PORTAL

22-down – An umbrella of character : GAMP

23-down – Piece to hand over to uncle : PAWN

1-across – One who’s out as a result of smoking? : KIPPER

4-across – American going to jail in Midwestern state is to hang : SUSPEND

9-across – Potty or ancient receptacle : CONTAINER

10-across – Stoker holding tail of coarse fish : BREAM

11-across – Singer in musical with car not starting : OUSEL

12-across – In a difficult situation there : ONTHESPOT

13-across – Agitation that’s oddly restful : FLUSTER

15-across – Taking on husband, one needs token of commitment, perhaps : HIRING

17-across – Head’s not empty — is that clear? : PATENT

19-across – What’s proper instrument to entertain Italian novelist? : DECORUM

22-across – Reports of intercourse : RELATIONS

24-across – A girl somewhat well-endowed : ELLEN

26-across – Conductor reportedly being sent up : GUYED

27-across – With entire correspondence in dialect, translation is required : IDENTICAL

28-across – Bears stop by river to get a bit of salmon : ENDURES

29-across – Quaker in China : FRIEND

1-down – Start to give up, feeling unwell : KICKOFF

2-down – Garb in garbage? : PANTS

3-down – Indicator of rank for European woman : EPAULETTE

4-down – The devil improvised : SCRATCH

5-down – Small island turning black : SABLE

6-down – Regard leading batsman as a revelation : EYEOPENER

7-down – Material apt to shrink, going north on back of lorry : DIMITY

8-down – Lines without limits appearing in various places : ONTOUR

14-down – Pure girl — sweetheart embraced by boy : UNALLOYED

16-down – Man with a mad wife somewhere in Kent : ROCHESTER

18-down – American ready to start with passing references : TWOBITS

19-down – Vagrant with collection of documents losing one : DOSSER

20-down – Socialised, as Lib Dems were before Clegg? : MINGLED

21-down – Capital that had spring fever after first signs of political reforms : PRAGUE

23-down – Staff extremely upset about royal house : TUDOR

25-down – Philosopher from Yale, perhaps, foremost in empiricism : LOCKE

9-across – Unpleasant quality of new wine going to head : NASTINESS

10-across – See 13 : OFTHE

11-across – A little bit European, or totally so? : WHITE

12-across – Awfully enraged queen’s doomed 2, 5 and 7 trying to make 11 16 19 across : GARDENERS

13-across – Arguments about backing untried and gentle warrior in conflict : THEWARS

14-across – More muscular fellow that is getting stuck into drink : BEEFIER

17-across – Is passionate — his darling resembles a 19 21 re­arranged : BURNS

19-across – Like diamonds or rubies : RED

20-across – 11 and parts of 21 one spotted in all directions : WINES

21-across – Like 28, sister of 1 11 : ROSERED

22-across – Variety of red rose that’s put at back of altar : REREDOS

24-across – Demolish a flat as dreadfully archaic, like 28 : HALFASOLD

26-across – Shot in air near political campaigners : LOBBY

28-across – Latin name for girl from ancient city : PETRA

29-across – Demolished ancestral house, as opposed to 27 : LANCASTER

1-down – Small present for author : SNOW

2-down – See 24 across : ASTIME

3-down – Person with burning desire to get rid of parent? : FIRERAISER

4-down – Causes of division in western borders : WEDGES

5-down – Put down like overlapping sleeping places : ASCRIBED

6-down – Pressing a variety of rose : SORE

7-down – Foreign citizen contributing all our articles about part of UK : ATHENIAN

8-down – Place for eating dog’s dinner : MESS

13-down – River bank split by front of barge : TIBER

15-down – Put together royalty in two parts for humorous author : EDWARDLEAR

16-down – See 13 across : ROSES

18-down – Determined to produce notes on stringed instrument : RESOLUTE

19-down – Cardinal, say, with parrots or other birds : REDPOLLS

22-down – Grey squirrel, for example — not red, oddly : RODENT

23-down – Argument about area being in the red, note : DEBATE

24-down – Parts of body that’ll grow into 16 : HIPS

25-down – Letters regularly lost by railways, unfortunately : ALAS

27-down – Get out under willow in cathedral city : YORK

1-across – Bettering the baker by almost 50%, being a livestock auctioneer, say? : TALKING

5-across – Stressed, Red backed out, yet to show signs of ageing : UNLINED

9-across – See 1 : DOZEN

10-across – As a violinist might perform improvised signals at party : GLISSANDO

11-across – Not looking embarrassed about what you hope to do to this up in the air : UNRESOLVED

12-across – See 24 : STOP

14-across – Crushing shame — not lead — poisons us : HOMOSAPIENS

18-across – A place for singers, when displaced, to crash — Lil’s : CHOIRSTALLS

21-across – Many blades needed in the making of this mat­erial : LAWN

22-across – Declamatory Charlie about to snare a party follower : RHETORICAL

25-across – Unstable blue rocks in wind start to totter : TURBULENT

26-across – Spike’s bluff : POINT

27-across – Breaks : RESULTS

28-across – Team tennis star performing : EVERTON

1-down – Spiritualist Miles knocked out by tense routine : TEDIUM

2-down – Fat protecting a grizzly’s heart monitor? : LIZARD

3-down – Sky region broadcast poison at this point : IONOSPHERE

4-down – Author’s description of erotic dancer, live : GOGOL

5-down – Five earth-filled urinals, recycling all-inclusive : UNIVERSAL

6-down – Dumb, so no good at Scrabble? : LOST

7-down – See 1 across : NINETEEN

8-down – Act : DOORPOST

13-down – Sign of letter dropped in the post, or a dodgy p for t : APOSTROPHE

15-down – Having no rival, so unable to strike : MATCHLESS

16-down – Old record kept by courts about Moore, say : SCULPTOR

17-down – See 6 : FORWORDS

19-down – Crisp, gruesome plot ending as basis for a film? : SCRIPT

20-down – Skilfully dumping a heavyweight writer : BLYTON

23-down – See 1 across : TOTHE

24-down – Dot’s loaded — flipping piles of money : FULL