Daily Answers

8-across – Hallo – is energy briefly produced from this? : OILSHALE

9-across – Notice an attempt to restrict one,so scored slowly : ADAGIO

10-across – Boy’s favourite drug : PETE

11-across – Copper and iron for example in mass with the others in depots : BASEMETALS

12-across – Son lazed about and moved furtively : SIDLED

14-across – Austins age,Rolls get replaced : ALLEGROS

15-across – Art without tears? : ORIGAMI

17-across – Scatter finest roses : BESTREW

20-across – Wrap everything before I jog back : TORTILLA

22-across – Go without,to feed my pride? : FOREGO

23-across – Pretty drawing : ATTRACTIVE

24-across – Provision of food cut down a bit for pig : BOAR

25-across – Extra reason cricket was held up? : NOBALL

26-across – Foolishly rides to a distant rock : ASTEROID

1-down – More opportune to stretch out during watch? : TIMELIER

2-down – Result of my eye operation? You’ve explained it : ISEE

3-down – Veto being lifted,rest seized : NABBED

4-down – The oratorio one long expected : MESSIAH

5-down – Rearranged Mary,Luke and Jacob’s headgear : YARMULKE

6-down – Severe critic of players,one fierce creature : CASTIGATOR

7-down – Canal bridge to rail off : RIALTO

13-down – Docker who has lost a lot of weight? : LIGHTERMAN

16-down – Tiny thing,skin blemish? Bad clue : MOLECULE

18-down – Former soldier,American,shielding deserter as a favour : EXGRATIA

19-down – River creature’s back consisting of thin plates : LAMINAR

21-down – Old French tax in force – tire of it regularly : OCTROI

22-down – Holiday by car : FIESTA

24-down – I’m shivering in second class,getting basic education : BRRR

8-across – Painstaking papers back essentially glib man : DILIGENT

9-across – Badenoch reveals strain – of iron? : OCHRE

10-across – Stable houses setter – was one lost? : MEWS

11-across – Regarding those unidentified,technology goes too far : OVERDOESIT

12-across – Savages live,pasts quietly forgotten : BEASTS

14-across – Video game reversed practice: that’s not right : MISUSAGE

16-across – Drugs cost : ESCORTS

18-across – Excuses politician embraced by alien in sex romp : EXEMPTS

21-across – Otherwise show one mercy in service : CEREMONY

23-across – Revelling used to put out : OUSTED

24-across – Football seen around half ten,with commentary for audience : SEVENASIDE

26-across – See 17 Down : BITS

27-across – Pool party after nude hen night not new : EIGHT

28-across – More graceful win; limper member abandoned : GAINLIER

1-down – Refs abused after boy band’s sporting feats : FIVEFERS

2-down – See 15 : TIES

3-down – A couple short of a dozen legs – and joints? : TENONS

4-down – Burns fumes about cigar’s end : STREAMS

5-down – See 22 : FOLD

6-down – <span>Special few a part of </span><i>ménages à trois</i><span>?</span> : THREESOMES

7-down – Scratching surface of dark side in barrel : KEYING

13-down – Here solstice worshipping teens go wild,gobbling bird : STONEHENGE

15-down – Golden age – at end of festivities? : SIX

17-down – These world leaders on Russian river? It’s … it’s worth little in America : TWO

19-down – Settlers erected timber frames : TRESTLES

20-down – Confused? Yes – call in dope dispenser : SYRINGE

22-down – England collapse over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over : ELEVEN

23-down – ‘Aussie’ : ONESIE

25-down – Affected Reform UK,say,with head removed : ARTY

26-down – See 27 Across : BALL

1-across – Friend’s securing check after check – he wins lots,ultimately,in these : CHESSMATCHES

9-across – Some farmer in search for swill : RINSE

10-across – Experimental area: year in this removing one’s perplexity : LABYRINTH

11-across – Trees beside end of street likely gutted at the outset : FIRSTLY

12-across – Island I found surrounded by fish in part of Africa : TUNISIA

13-across – Sadly values-lite,like much broadcasting : TELEVISUAL

15-across – Committed pupil pulls back : SWOT

18-across – This gin gets legions drunk : SLOE

19-across – Ageing somehow seen linked to knowledge I released : SENESCENCE

22-across – Rebuke? Republican hitting ceiling : REPROOF

24-across – Old still beer getting mark with pen : ALEMBIC

25-across – Thumps one with Guardian heartlessly – it’s a mark of the Greens? : POUNDSIGN

26-across – Flower from old times getting attention : OXEYE

27-across – Yes,bad mood may be aggravated by merely adequate historic records : DOMESDAYBOOK

1-down – Singer’s reduced mastery around key : CONTRALTO

2-down – Optional having European active around English court : ELECTIVE

3-down – Light carriage being put out? : SULKY

4-down – Judge Australia to have right measure of information supply : ARBITRATE

5-down – Expression of surprise regarding one feature of daffodil : CORONA

6-down – Holderness home to these seabirds? : ERNES

7-down – Supportive of appropriate gain : PROFIT

8-down – Prevent hot fighting in midst of battle : THWART

14-down – Wagner opera is upsetting for one supporter withdrawing name : SIEGFRIED

16-down – Beach feature to coil on vacation : WINDBREAK

17-down – Image of Jesus church’s taken in two ways – half holy,half mock : ECCEHOMO

18-down – Informant about your University is unnaturally sweet : SYRUPY

20-down – Repudiate key source of hope we elevated : ESCHEW

21-down – One fond of chow initially fond of cartoon dog … : FOODIE

23-down – … cartoon dog left in position with repeated character in cartoon : PLUTO

24-down – Upset speaker after cutting off opening : ANNOY

1-across – Spoiling old woman wearing jewellery : BLOWING

5-across – Modern cricketer gets final boundary of series : BATTERY

10-across – Novelist in a state penning article : MANN

11-across – Playing tuba in Rome with another instrument : TAMBOURINE

12-across – Cold musician’s unlimited drink : CASSIS

13-across – Live report of where Prince William’s crown might be? : ONTHEAIR

14-across – Subject’s alter ego ‘Gary’ seen outside pub : GEOGRAPHY

16-across – Relatives stealing £1,000 records … : SONGS

17-across – … by backing group holding note : TIMES

19-across – Make president replace politician with court after tricks : CONSTRUCT

23-across – Reforming c-capital punishment : CHANGING

24-across – Sell bicycle part to the audience : PEDDLE

26-across – Low church,perhaps York,returned English food : BLUECHEESE

27-across – Praise God for all to hear : LAUD

28-across – Demonstrate in favour of cricket’s longest format : PROTEST

29-across – Oppose noble queen : COUNTER

2-down – General hides a cigarette in vegetation : LEAFAGE

3-down – Snakes and ladders board in Fiji now ends being flipped : WINDS

4-down – Woman’s brown back has a fracture : NATASHA

6-down – Chooses a pet with no tail,a bit tame in afterthought : ADOPTS

7-down – Elizabeth Reef – our secret signature : THREEFOUR

8-down – Managed royal position : RANKING

9-down – Sand dune got moved – plausible? : SMOOTHTONGUED

15-down – Sing loudly following party in open area outside town : GREENBELT

18-down – During chaotic reign,no good prince becomes smoker? : INHALER

20-down – Boss to drink more rum : SUPREMO

21-down – Growth of bird has head increase by a factor of 20 : CULTURE

22-down – Matches 50 and 88? Pointless at first : LIGHTS

25-down – Welshman taking part in Normandy landings : DYLAN

1-across – Efforts made to have tin glaze initially added to artworks : PAINTINGS

6-across – Love to get two degrees? Yes we can,he said : OBAMA

9-across – Bother first lady after exercise : PEEVE

10-across – Betray apparent leader seen on the street : SHOPFRONT

11-across – Pangram will regularly display this range : AGA

12-across – A man like Trump that devastates the environment : AGENTORANGE

14-across – Managed to rest after tension in crossing : TRANSIT

15-across – Stops son joining uncaring god worshippers : DESISTS

16-across – Small change as regularly spotted on the beat : COPPERS

19-across – Servant retains half of treats for one overseeing service : MAITRED

22-across – Titanic orchestra perhaps,and what they didn’t do : ABANDONSHIP

23-across – Runner should keep improving from the start : SKI

24-across – No hope revolutionary writer is preferring old stuff? : NEOPHOBIC

26-across – Threatening to exclude men passing challenge with ease : ACING

27-across – Moderation of rent increase : LETUP

28-across – Liberal agreed GNP reveals societal disparity : GENDERGAP

1-down – Leading role Spooner might have toasted? : POPTART

2-down – Japanese art has elements of childlike banality : IKEBANA

3-down – He had agents swarming around pub? : THENAGSHEAD

4-down – Scotch producer reports there’s no bouquet developing? : NASCENT

5-down – Arranged to have piano inside played : SPORTED

6-down – Travelling while ill : OFF

7-down – Jump in as there’s plenty that does this : ABOUNDS

8-down – <span>She performs in a style not approved by the </span><i>Guardian</i><span>?</span> : ACTRESS

13-down – Tease prince worried when rip expanded : RESTINPEACE

16-down – Direct passage is sound : CHANNEL

17-down – Gradually develop page design : PLAYOUT

18-down – Knock out part of flood defence : SANDBAG

19-down – Here in Rome,complain about hairstyle : MOHICAN

20-down – Harsh sounding political line carried by newspaper : RASPING

21-down – Kill little dog upset when redecorating : DOINGUP

25-down – Spring finishes off with Tokyo trip : HOP