Daily Answers

7-across – Embargoes involving dodgy money? Certainly not! : BYNOMEANS

8-across – Sound location for seeing things : SIGHT

9-across – In retirement, a wonderful person resists huge amounts of cash : MEGABUCKS

10-across – Singular right-wing newspaper article : STORY

12-across – Rookie’s lack of depravity? : NOVICE

13-across – Drink almost beginning to taste better : NIGHTCAP

14-across – Messenger job accepted by mailmen periodically : APOSTLE

17-across – Crown dependency is tops! : JERSEYS

20-across – Sort of sweatier pants : ASITWERE

22-across – Careless agent takes on large operation : SLOPPY

24-across – Dignified government party : GRAVE

25-across – Architectural design partner ultimately implicated in terrible tax abuse : BEAUXARTS

26-across – Computer-controlled electric vehicles put in reverse : SMART

27-across – Most regular tastes die out : STEADIEST

1-down – Extremely zany type of art and dance music : ZYDECO

2-down – Legal workers born outside the period 21 March to 19 April? : NOTARIES

3-down – Turn down official employment : REFUSE

4-down – Meandering answer upset the top guy : SNAKING

5-down – Suggest that, cryptically? : HINTAT

6-down – Chemist quick to hide damage : PHARMACY

11-down – Nothing good about scary character : OGRE

15-down – Smoked meat to stuff inside fresh pitas : PASTRAMI

16-down – Was dishonest and continued being heartless : LIED

18-down – Scattered crop said to need regenerating : SPORADIC

19-down – Leads from computer equipment in case with a keyboard : CELESTA

21-down – Tennessee introduces state bar : TAVERN

22-down – Somewhat grotesque, alarming scream : SQUEAL

23-down – Fertiliser remains underneath garden container : POTASH

1-across – One not paying attention follows investor’s vehicle : BULLDOZER

6-across – Heath Robinson’s beat : THROB

9-across – This operation could make you groan : ORGANTRANSPLANT

10-across – Kind of gorgeous exit? : DROP

11-across – Grandfather initially isn’t at all moved : PALATIAL

14-across – Chatter yet to be arranged between oxen : YAKETYYAK

15-across – Like state analysis : ASSAY

16-across – Hesitation having underwear in this shade : UMBRA

18-across – City’s ancestral manoeuvres : LANCASTER

20-across – Novel and one drink allowed in exam : ORIGINAL

21-across – See 10 : DEAD

25-across – Church ban for telegram? : EXCOMMUNICATION

26-across – Pitchers were out first on stadium : EWERS

27-across – Most of all, queries must be directed to reach the goal : EQUALISER

1-down – Strange ladies swaddle in newborn, this could be a lifesaver : BLOOD

2-down – Look around this country and love the record : LOGBOOK

3-down – Study why said alibi mostly inconsistent and keep in custody : DENY

4-down – He or she regularly groom for nothing : ZERO

5-down – Moved at speed, firing and looting : RANSACKING

6-down – Bosses get the best hands : TOPBANANAS

7-down – They help players or back a side when playing : ROADIES

8-down – Hurt actor : BITPLAYER

12-down – Culture retrospective on wobbly bums is a problem for viewers : STRABISMUS

13-down – Philistine’s request? Of course, you’re welcome : MYPLEASURE

14-down – I’m your child and I find this chat tedious : YOUBOREME

17-down – Surprise from Glasgow in cheese and bread : BRIOCHE

19-down – This pet can be truly awful : THEPITS

22-down – See 1 : DONOR

23-down – Olympic rider’s best run taking only second place : LIEU

24-down – See 3 : BAIL

9-across – The most important thing on our menu is battered : NUMEROUNO

10-across – American in love with the Spanish winger : OUSEL

11-across – Rwandan travel company welcoming Tories on vacation : TUTSI

12-across – Fruit crush making an impression : DATESTAMP

13-across – Amateur character endlessly in first gear? : LAYETTE

14-across – Bread and butter opening for tennis player : PATCASH

17-across – Beef with a bad guy : WAGYU

19-across – Female in the middle of dirty look : COW

20-across – Ruler overturned part of agreement : EMEER

21-across – Oliver Stone ultimately directed work that stands out : RELIEVO

22-across – Vibrations from organ picked up by Bach? : JUDDERS

24-across – Satellite provider finally screens Playboy film : MOONRAKER

26-across – Scottish council leader in Glasgow canal opening locks : ANGUS

28-across – Plain refusal to follow everyone in retreat : LLANO

29-across – Copper in Exeter ground with energy to run again : REEXECUTE

1-down – Contract upset Martin Kemp to some extent : KNIT

2-down – Dirty dog arrested by the head of Scotland Yard : SMUTTY

3-down – Appalling turd with fur coat is 19ac : ERMINTRUDE

4-down – Payment owing for 19ac : SUBDUE

5-down – Tricky to wash up left-handed : SOUTHPAW

6-down – See 22 : BOYS

7-down – Male lacking in spirit worried to move upstairs : ESCALATE

8-down – Knocked over beer making escape : SLIP

13-down – Cut 19ac : LOWER

15-down – Arteta drew after beating to make no progress : TREADWATER

16-down – Drives 27 crazy over recipe : HERDS

18-down – Happy to hold permit for 19ac : GALLOWAY

19-down – Heart of kitchen garden in China : CROCKERY

22-down – Top marks in audition for musical : JERSEY

23-down – Extremely entertaining golf hole is part of 19dn : EGGCUP

24-down – Timeless artist served up drink : MILK

25-down – Space hopper on motorway : ROOM

27-down – Novel date in Slough : SHED

7-across – Compliant power at fault : PLIABLE

8-across – Down a foreign drunk : UNHAPPY

9-across – Stand back – one’s covered in blue : DAIS

10-across – Determine before spilling drop in ear : PREORDAIN

12-across – Turkish address housing a king with prominent nose : BEAKY

13-across – Only approved heads held in high regard, so anger on the way : ROADRAGE

15-across – See 23 Down : PACK

16-across – Fast as a crab? : NIPPY

17-across – See 6 Down : MIND

18-across – Articles on a controversial illusionist that are used by setters : THESAURI

20-across – Periodical reduced by Guardian wise guy : MAGUS

21-across – Jail outside America – my flight goes around it : STAIRWELL

22-across – Cut end of grass and beard of barley : SAWN

24-across – Using mobile to ring politician is challenging : IMPUGNS

25-across – Failure of foreign cable broadcast : DEBACLE

1-down – It could produce an itch to escape, say : FLEA

2-down – Stay relaxed if included in reporter’s ‘fodder pile’ : HAYSTACK

3-down – Sentimental agent accepts cut : SLOPPY

4-down – Centre at York exhibiting suit : ENTREATY

5-down – Rod, circling one African country, stalls here : BAZAAR

6-down – Old writer takes care to show objectivity : OPEN

11-down – Puerile shenanigans with – oh! – a Remainer? : EUROPHILE

12-down – Flashy underwear’s hot! : BRASH

14-down – They’re passed down clothes reportedly : GENES

16-down – Run into trouble trapping energy particle : NEUTRINO

17-down – Swift game played against dwarf? : MEGASTAR

19-down – Rank, inferior stuff imported by South America : STATUS

20-down – Element of one’s deceitful character on the outside : MILIEU

21-down – Northern folk of note perversely like being put first : SAMI

23-down – Beastly group put away stuff : WOLF

1-across – Wolves regularly circling after playing with a small creature : WATERFLEA

6-across – Number near four grasped by cow : MOON

8-across – Hypothetical splashing of urn across pressure cooker : UNPROVEN

9-across – Dog kennels new realm for 12 : BARREL

10-across – See 22 : SHOWER

11-across – ‘Rat’, and translated into ‘donkey’ : BETRAYER

12-across – Potion originally drunk by pigeon for Alice, say? : COOPER

15-across – Western residence, minister recalled, for anybody : WHOMEVER

16-across – Muzzles worn by boy with right outfit : GLADRAGS

19-across – Ultimately, gnats and bats like Bengal cats? : SPOTTY

21-across – Boy in a crib discontented after spilling child’s drink : BABYCINO

22-across – Cat catching 18 out, heavenly sight : METEOR

24-across – Make last dance work: the tango you suspect last of all? : EKEOUT

25-across – Short dash for food delivery? : TAKEAWAY

26-across – Journey of hiker traipsing about? : TREK

27-across – Case where filth ending in slammer, put back in prison : CARTRIDGE

1-down – Lift half a bottle? : WINCH

2-down – Ralph Richardson’s initial put, how funny! : THROWUP

3-down – See 6 Across : RIVER

4-down – Toll reduced for Spooner, 18 at Agincourt? : LONGBOW

5-down – Huge winger’s heavy weight? : ALBATROSS

6-down – Resort where horse pierced by 18 : MARGATE

7-down – Flog patent with deposit of English king : OVEREXERT

13-down – Vessel at end of channel tipped up to feed pig : OILTANKER

14-down – Natural park, a tip I found in it : REALISTIC

17-down – A body for modelling permissible in journal : DAYBOOK

18-down – Owl after small piece : SHOOTER

20-down – Apparent, circulating roll of banknotes should feature head of royal : OUTWARD

22-down – See 9 Across : MAKER

23-down – Letters from author a template for lecture : ORATE