Daily Answers

7-across – School reunion you can’t get out of your mind? : OBSESSION

8-across – Being so captivated by Schumann : HUMAN

9-across – They lend two overlapping signs : LIBRARIES

10-across – Factor in a chap : AGENT

12-across – Park official who won’t give up? : KEEPER

13-across – Half caught in large-scale outbreak : EPIDEMIC

14-across – Incidental benefit of bringing fast bowlers back? : SPINOFF

17-across – Run into wrong castle,looking embarrassed : SCARLET

20-across – Accurate,which this isn’t for Marianne : FAITHFUL

22-across – Foreign letter from boy a doctor accepted : LAMBDA

24-across – House is plain,article not seen in it : VILLA

25-across – Staff briefly enrage Norwegian city : STAVANGER

26-across – Have no money,displaying spite : VENOM

27-across – Showy flower in enclosure Monet’s reproduced : PENSTEMON

1-down – Compel to be helpful : OBLIGE

2-down – Partner and I ordered turtle : TERRAPIN

3-down – A person of great interest : USURER

4-down – Was still off the ground? : HOVERED

5-down – Reluctantly move across island for pet : BUDGIE

6-down – Yellow fever? : JAUNDICE

11-down – CID’s erroneous record : DISC

15-down – For hypocrite,hard to get up to join in exercise : PHARISEE

16-down – Unbelievably noisy about a fiddly task : FAFF

18-down – Catholic church’s love stories : ROMANCES

19-down – Conspirator’s device for making chart : PLOTTER

21-down – Incredible – old wife is fat : TALLOW

22-down – Like loos to be abundant? : LAVISH

23-down – Approached in trembling wonder : DREWON

9-across – At age close to retirement,Ivy fit to have sex toys : SIXTYFIVE

10-across – Queen’s retired getting something to go : SENNA

11-across – One tooth at the back extracted in Italian city : IMOLA

12-across – Exchange of opinions in bad-tempered attack : CROSSFIRE

13-across – Relations relaxed in shelter that river surrounds : DETENTE

14-across – Recipe to make rum loaf? : FORMULA

17-across – Traps with ensnared amphibians : NEWTS

19-across – Port from Uruguay region : AYR

20-across – Ant right to get cosmetic preparation : TONER

21-across – Sexy Malcolm’s crew collecting limousine with ladies initially inside : MCLAREN

22-across – Doctor’s companion left stopping impatient motorist : BLEEPER

24-across – Scrap – can it still be recycled with reduced temperature? : SCINTILLA

26-across – March on,principally occupying 19 maybe in revolution : TROOP

28-across – More than one light punches : LAMPS

29-across – Bacon perhaps has insects cooked with it : SCIENTIST

1-down – Drink – plastic bottles? : ASTI

2-down – Send out old lover half-heartedly,unfortunate start of tiff : EXPORT

3-down – Train sentry to work,sacking one-time bully : TYRANNISER

4-down – Group entertainment where the French replaces us : CIRCLE

5-down – Hand over – criminal pocketed present once more : RECONFER

6-down – Coaches without starting exercises : USES

7-down – Islander is against bird-droppings being cleared at last : ANTIGUAN

8-down – Bachelor place unfinished and vile : BASE

13-down – Fabric searched after turning over : DENIM

15-down – Departing minister – again one no good following : RETREATING

16-down – Maiden more disinterested,beginning to leave : AIRER

18-down – Tennis player’s wish with high aims : WILLIAMS

19-down – Record keeper,an important boxer of note : ANNALIST

22-down – Cabaret actress upset after brother’s a nut : BRAZIL

23-down – Cheers for plonk! : PROSIT

24-down – Trading insults finally before beer : SALE

25-down – Check website regularly after start of tennis : TEST

27-down – Way to knock up hard : PATH

8-across – Old boy back on the Bordeaux with nothing for a hot meal : VINDALOO

9-across – Press home one’s advantage,or scatter to the winds : WINNOW

10-across – A rarely pretentious bunch? : POSY

11-across – Extra material in university course,and taking that is killing for an American : APPENDICES

12-across – Caution packing a fine flask : CARAFE

14-across – Upon which rabbit departs,his innings involving no runs? : ALLFOURS

15-across – Being repeatedly exercised made a bore : DRILLED

17-across – A weakness for a woman’s name in Shakespeare? : FRAILTY

20-across – Cream she churned,product of a goat : CASHMERE

22-across – Knight,seized from behind by murderer,that hangs from a tree : CATKIN

23-across – Working in black,draw companion : STABLEMATE

24-across – Creepy obsessive for one writing avoiding unfamiliar alphabet : GEEK

25-across – Jazz trombonist has a year off for time in rural area : DORSET

26-across – Assume command to get into shelter doesn’t include Charlie : TAKEOVER

1-down – Ancient relic restaurant patron spotted,some say : DINOSAUR

2-down – Nervous away from the centre : EDGY

3-down – Chopstick? : CLEAVE

4-down – Dressing up to do a sort of calypso : COSPLAY

5-down – Little star,one doing a turn round Malaysian capital : TWINKLER

6-down – Opposing the regime,native is to suffer : ANTISOVIET

7-down – One far off? Absolutely not : NOFEAR

13-down – No ordinary people get good luck : ALLTHEBEST

16-down – Basic principles of the weather : ELEMENTS

18-down – Line of verse neat and safe but lacking power : TRIMETER

19-down – Perhaps fine writer always includes regular characters in plot : PENALTY

21-down – Keep performing,securing a single engagement : ACTION

22-down – Like the side of the face to be forward? : CHEEKY

24-down – Sellers for example don’t stop : GOON

1-across – Olden : DENIER

5-across – King doing a U-turn on primary headwear : KERCHIEF

9-across – Major city’s society put up hospital with computer technology : SHANGHAI

10-across – It’s routinely filled by a minor agent with relief,perversely! : DIAPER

11-across – Cold outbreak between flights here prompts emergency action : CRASHLANDING

13-across – Reinforced housing data : INFO

14-across – Who’s bothered about mite when performance starts? : SHOWTIME

17-across – Artist’s mountain resort : WHISTLER

18-across – Look,one’s in pieces : MIEN

20-across – Stiff tongue that reveals your true feelings? : BODYLANGUAGE

23-across – Optical feature’s nucleus almost within reach – almost : CORNEA

24-across – Weight of detailed,misshapen rocks : EMPHASIS

25-across – Epic character extracted dues – so,yes,heartless : ODYSSEUS

26-across – Lionel’s cracking surface decoration : NIELLO

2-down – Newspaper essential to free choice? : ECHO

3-down – <span>If one has name and number taken by copper,ring </span><i>Guardian</i><span> – ‘Blameless!’</span> : INNOCUOUS

4-down – One in three casually put back on the burner? : REHEAT

5-down – Thousand things to be settled,going forward – that covers the whole board : KNIGHTSPROGRESS

6-down – Car part needs right sort of aid : RADIATOR

7-down – Firm confiscates ball collection : HOARD

8-down – One isn’t this emphatically less sensitive : EVENNUMBER

12-down – Human tornado with hip replacement! : ANTHROPOID

15-down – To toughen up,partook of mild : TEMPERATE

16-down – Division,about to go over Georgia,turned back : CLEAVAGE

19-down – Snake – shot it with a tracking movement : TAIPAN

21-down – ‘Theatre in the blue’ over a long time : YONKS

22-down – Fellow Brummie is going to charge : FILL

1-across – Stripped of crown, old King put back in King’s birthplace : TUPELO

4-across – Women covering courts to show sports logos : SWOOSHES

9-across – Horny beast seen in much of Auld Sod : ELAND

10-across – Proposes factions come before Yank’s holiday in report : SETSFORTH

11-across – Positive on location of closing parenthesis? : ABOVEZERO

12-across – It arrives after November and it’s 13½ inches tall : OSCAR

13-across – Worry former partner with messy separation : EXASPERATION

17-across – Interest expressed by two sailors at sea, shelled fare : STEAKTARTARE

20-across – Coolidge escapes catastrophe for peace : AMITY

21-across – Penny, a migrant, healed bird : PTARMIGAN

23-across – Seek treasure perhaps in small island, shady place : SCUBADIVE

24-across – Section of Villanova, home to vaqueros : LLANO

25-across – Chewing on something hard: golf ball? : TEETHING

26-across – Game canine evacuated, cutting cheese : BRIDGE

1-down – Green tea brewed for Joan of Arc when executed? : TEENAGER

2-down – Where Rick played softly, bit of solid gold : PIANOBAR

3-down – Removing cap, splash in mud where Oddfellows gather : LODGE

5-down – Forgoing competition, saving time, leaving no evidence : WITHOUTATRACE

6-down – Blue, rotten apricot or salmon? : OFFCOLOUR

7-down – Odist’s dance at church : HORACE

8-down – Cleo’s killer beheaded on this spot in field : SPHERE

10-down – Fixing craps game, I’m an employer of dirty tricks : SMEARCAMPAIGN

14-down – Not much money for pair of singers : PETTYCASH

15-down – Underworld hack rejected secretive body part : GANGLAND

16-down – Figuratively, Olive Oyl, head Bialystok resident? : BEANPOLE

18-down – Operatic villain, maybe little green man, one with big ears : BASSET

19-down – Doctor issued cause of atrophy : DISUSE

22-down – Athlete coming from rear in preliminaries : MILER