Daily Answers

1-across – Emergency call from cruise entertainers : ABANDONSHIP

9-across – Monsoon crushing one’s fruit : RAISINS

10-across – Thanks to the French,an Anglo-Saxon settled in the Midlands : MERCIAN

11-across – Many learners use this vehicle,but not to drive : SCHOOLBUS

12-across – Legendary bowler out for a duck? : DRAKE

13-across – Intelligence forbidden to Americans : NOUS

14-across – Dressed for celebration,one made for a return : INVESTMENT

16-across – Head for motorway on right : PROMONTORY

19-across – The holders of the Ashes? : URNS

21-across – A London attraction with pulling power? : TOWER

22-across – Spooner’s insect,unable to rise,had a little sleep : CATNAPPED

24-across – Hack out a path,and picture exposing the interior : CUTAWAY

25-across – A character would have to get changed,to make immense plunge : IMMERSE

26-across – Unnecessarily tend laundry that’s to be spun : REDUNDANTLY

1-down – Active,drag to the bank one uncomfortably placed : AFISHOUTOFWATER

2-down – Are you letting me start,mate? : AMIGO

3-down – Receptacle bust into pieces in row : DUSTBIN

4-down – In Vietnam,a stealthy gesture of greeting : NAMASTE

5-down – Extraordinary third eye that is passed down the generations : HEREDITY

6-down – Notice perhaps to keep away from a soldier’s effects : PRIVATEPROPERTY

7-down – Cooler pair with one boy : PRISON

8-down – Discontent of one group of nations with the others : UNREST

15-down – Took a while? : BORROWED

16-down – A coup,getting place at school : PUTSCH

17-down – No yacht moves as fast as this imagined thing : TACHYON

18-down – Wine is nastier when drunk : RETSINA

20-down – Turf laid over earth is saturated : SODDEN

23-down – Reveal daughter has got into a university : ADMIT

1-across – Ambassador snatches back dossier,second in existence? : HOMELIFE

5-across – Something to inspire sexy guy between foxtrot and tango : OXYGEN

9-across – Flower deity adopting mediaeval king? : GOLDENROD

11-across – Recognising no limits in a talk about buttocks : NATAL

12-across – Source of moving air? A foul,stormy March ahead : RACHMANINOFF

15-across – Love idol eagerly taken from behind : EROS

16-across – Somewhat distracted,put Option A : UPTOAPOINT

18-across – Neighbourhood meeting sculptor held for bishop in centre of hall : LOCALDERBY

19-across – Hats off to synod,appointing radical figure of authority : TSAR

21-across – Several drinks do take out reserves : SECONDELEVEN

24-across – One or more of Damon Gough’s tapes : AMONG

25-across – What breakfast waiter brings forward when beat? : TOASTRACK

26-across – In the course of a number of years,singer slips : ERRATA

27-across – Passionate old soldier subdues macho types : VEHEMENT

1-down – Boss,maybe,whom you ring personally at progressive locations : HUGO

2-down – Curious Olivier cameo impresses child performers : MALE

3-down – A little latitude given over term of treaty? : LEEWAY

4-down – Why buy wrapping paper now? : FORTHEPRESENT

6-down – Means to cover boobs – a new cycling trimmer : XANTIPPE

7-down – Possibly make best start round if e.g. batting? : GETTOFIRST

8-down – Sign criminal’s rolled off liquor pot : NOLEFTTURN

10-down – <span>On set of </span><i>Twins</i><span> cameraman might look back in surprise</span> : DOADOUBLETAKE

13-down – US-owned property addressing the matter of draught beer,say : REALESTATE

14-down – See 2 : VOICECHOIR

17-down – Lasting until dawn in ships lightermen unloaded : ALLNIGHT

20-down – Prepare to drive towards green Chesterfield? : SETTEE

22-down – See 7 : BASE

23-down – <span>Parody of </span><i>Hell’s Kitchen</i> : SKIT

7-across – Spot feature of Guinness? : WHITEHEAD

8-across – Speciality of mini league football – grandstand finishes : FIELD

9-across – Supporter at home greeting stroke of genius : BRAINWAVE

10-across – Flock of birds initially encountered in hide : SKEIN

12-across – Red Adair essentially leaving comfort food : CHEESE

13-across – Homeless individual got confused with tip from Scotland Yard : STRAYDOG

16-across – Nervous minute ringing wife : TWITCHY

19-across – Farm animals chasing European gnome : EPIGRAM

22-across – Digital safeguards badly hit non-digital phones? : THIMBLES

25-across – Post covering education in parliament : SENEDD

27-across – See 5 Down : MOUSE

28-across – Old style piece by Frank perhaps : QUEENANNE

29-across – Socks worn by United and Villa? : HOUSE

30-across – eBay upset about stain by journalist’s description of 27? : BEADYEYED

1-down – Building where PM’s exorcised evil : CHURCH

2-down – End of asparagus spear is commanding attention : STRIDENT

3-down – <span>Australian : CHEWIE

4-down – Gather imaginary friend’s almost on the way : HARVEST

5-down – Sick meme you circulated is inconsequential : MICKEY

6-down – England dropping ball and lacking colour : ALBINO

11-down – Mouth organ scales : TRAP

14-down – Beetle announced entrance : DOR

15-down – Stick from tree : GUM

16-down – <span>Setter in </span><i>Times</i><span> makes boob</span> : TIT

17-down – Case lost by legal company once : ICI

18-down – … is the last one of these on course for fix : HOLE

20-down – See 25 : GONZALES

21-down – Medusa’s unfortunately taken for granted : ASSUMED

23-down – Rings foot of rare bird : HOOPOE

24-down – Ill-treatment of uniform admitted by Girl Guide at last : MISUSE

25-down – Zoe Saldana on vacation with spy legend ordered quick Mexican : SPEEDY

26-down – Risk of flooding ultimately in European river : DANGER

1-across – One poem filled empty day after sun set : SOLIDIFY

5-across – West-facing complex of temples briefly visited by old trainspotter : ANORAK

9-across – Rainbow is beginning to shine in reflection of light source – bulb! : NARCISSUS

11-across – Better half’s other half,central? : HUBBY

12-across – Mark,cryptically intense? : DECIMALPOINT

15-across – A bargain when cap removed,great deal : HEAP

16-across – Plant seed covering trail on surface : SNAPDRAGON

18-across – I’ve day without a radio broadcast for onscreen recording of thoughts : VIDEODIARY

19-across – What might reveal a little of thief,I think? : EFIT

21-across – Heart-breaking condition caught,result of a combination of knocks? : CRICKETSCORE

24-across – A pretty oblique mark : ACUTE

25-across – Purchasing system brotherhood discussed? : MAILORDER

26-across – A seaman concerned with reversing mistakes : ERRATA

27-across – Scuffle in breach of contract in settlement of others’ costs : DEFRAYAL

1-down – Number penned by Gilbert &amp; Sullivan,uplifting composition : SONG

2-down – Flier poet drops in : LARK

3-down – Club where loon punched by plonker at the back : DRIVER

4-down – Sucker digging weeds? : FASHIONVICTIM

6-down – Winner primarily missing in person who fails – one of those? : NOHOPERS

7-down – Removing leader in bully,house stops Trump : RUBBINGOFF

8-down – Fictional poison pretty OK in novel : KRYPTONITE

10-down – Tricky device,needle-like drill : SHARPPRACTICE

13-down – Player in pursuit of American vehicles? : CHEVYCHASE

14-down – Rough tongue picked up something alcoholic : HARDLIQUOR

17-down – One Direction welcoming drunk in,OK being most squiffy? : WONKIEST

20-down – Love dressing king in what would suit knight? : ARMOUR

22-down – Tense – as lips? : EDGY

23-down – Said right,introduction not needed : ORAL

7-across – Tatty cardi’s discarded,Morris dancing anyhow in kind of dress : MOURNING

9-across – Paper calls for bible study to be dropped : CHOIRS

10-across – Large individual’s unmatched : LOAN

11-across – One in railway station flipping going nowhere : STATIONERY

12-across – Puts a stop to cakes perhaps containing drop of rum : BREAKS

14-across – Operatic location lacking character in the end – making amends : PENNANTS

15-across – Run into the wife in shed : THROUGH

17-across – Rocker Ozzy rattled our bones : OSBORNE

20-across – Cutting short – at the outset – trial : SHEERING

22-across – Favourite kind of sandwich mostly what fuels you : PETREL

23-across – Priority being dodgy creed coming into money : PRECEDENTS

24-across – Farewell depression : VEIL

25-across – House style announced : MANNER

26-across – Number-cruncher: obsessive,quintessentially – retypes second time : ANNALIST

1-down – Dead see place with ancient school,tailless cat climbing : GOMORRAH

2-down – Head of Beeb managed serial : BRAN

3-down – ‘What goes with booze?’ That man’s hiding issues? Not half : HISSES

4-down – Aussie natives dine with cache: bananas : ECHIDNAS

5-down – Tortuous part of the fare : ROUNDABOUT

6-down – Pair of artists drawn in at arc’s endpoint : ARARAT

8-down – German hiphopper heard boos : GRAPPA

13-down – Young and olden cast off : ADOLESCENT

16-down – Drug I’ll fake for Dutch old money : GUILDERS

18-down – Tricky scene: diet’s most demanding : NEEDIEST

19-down – Litterbug and/or bottles: a state! : UGANDA

21-down – For starters: our extremely ripe brie’s almost lethal. Like some tea? : HERBAL

22-down – <span>Doing model’s work,</span><i>apropos</i><span> in nice clothes</span> : POSING

24-down – Disgusting sick’s all gone at last : VILE