Daily Answers

9-across – Without hesitation, wicked and overbearing : IMPERIOUS

10-across – After 60 minutes, see one beautiful maiden : HOURI

11-across – Put on clothes-line, maybe, in den : HANGOUT

12-across – Case of vintage deposited in foyer : HOLDALL

13-across – Eagerly making an attempt – and ultimately winning : AGOG

14-across – What may be in store in French region : DEPARTMENT

16-across – Sound of cat getting back into bed – wicked! : CORRUPT

17-across – Officer’s unit left behind mountain pass : COLONEL

19-across – Where hay in transit may be keeping dry : ONTHEWAGON

22-across – Thrill created by half-visible predatory birds : BUZZ

24-across – Criticise a revolutionary for flamboyance : PANACHE

25-across – Dandy – foremost of comics with nothing wrong to rake through : COXCOMB

26-across – One of those known to be a vegetable : ONION

27-across – Flavour due to second fruit – minimum on front of tongue : SPEARMINT

1-down – Prim clot on march, unorthodox author : RICHMALCROMPTON

2-down – Free admission from old writer having got cross, upset : OPENDOOR

3-down – Black bird to stand in stream : BROOK

4-down – Support at lowest level : FOOTREST

5-down – Tricky maths, introduction to algebra, bringing complaint : ASTHMA

6-down – Greek character recently finding a hobby : PHILATELY

7-down – Compassionate tone when fellow is imprisoned : HUMANE

8-down – Be vile zealot and hit out – it’s in one’s character : VIOLETELIZABETH

15-down – Still agreeing initial bill should be ignored : QUIESCENT

17-down – Note needlework round front edge of tablecloth : CROTCHET

18-down – I recount suffering, becoming excessively depressive : NEUROTIC

20-down – Cartoon character is fool repeatedly shown up : TINTIN

21-down – Tending to discriminate against another generation as I get doddery : AGEIST

23-down – Skilful but lacking poise in exercise : EXERT

1-across – Befuddled by measure of strong drink, almost spotted the trumpeter : DIZZYGILLESPIE

8-across – River god adopting extreme position : POLAR

9-across – Supply inhabitants with two drugs, digesting the Letters of Paul … : POPULATE

11-across – … where one was sent to the lost sheep of America : EPHESUS

12-across – Break down and put it to death, beheaded : ITEMISE

13-across – Twins dropping note to one or more spirits : GENII

15-across – Yellow aromatic plant received by former monarch’s co-ordinator : ORGANISER

17-across – Ladies one interrupted hurry back to the childminder : NURSEMAID

20-across – He prophesied the Cockney Creator : MICAH

21-across – Chained runaway insectivore : ECHIDNA

23-across – Shed isn’t as bright as Vlad : IMPALER

25-across – Desert, boundless desert, devoured by devouring goddess : KALAHARI

26-across – Ructions as head gilder separates silver from gold backing : AGGRO

27-across – The average porter is a model of excellence : STANDARDBEARER

1-down – Solved Plodge, suppressing quiet rage, but only half of Gemini? : DOPPELGANGER

2-down – Nul points in the Brazil-Chile match : ZILCH

3-down – County Kerry is getting Home Office worried : YORKSHIRE

4-down – Child regarding what makes a painting stand out : IMPASTO

5-down – Bird has triumph on stage with Top Gun : LAPWING

6-down – Swimmer concealing verse in crack : SOLVE

7-down – Native in charge after being canned without resistance : INTRINSIC

10-down – Surprise attack on aristocrat in pub : PEARLHARBOUR

14-down – Girl hides the way to 3’s location : NORTHEAST

16-down – Forged metal pane or plaque with handle : NAMEPLATE

18-down – State taking wing by degrees : ALABAMA

19-down – Challenged about compiler being greatly elevated : DEIFIED

22-down – Opened and closed without a winner : DRAWN

24-down – It shoots down toboggan runs : LUGER

1-across – Paul, lecturer to criminals? : CONDON

4-across – Paul, royally attired? : ROBESON

9-across – An element of ruin, ‘coz I’m reckless : ZIRCONIUM

10-across – Catcall of Woody Allen’s ex losing distant right : MIAOW

11-across – Pleasant accommodating Oriental relative : NIECE

12-across – All 9 I refined after many, many years : MILLENNIA

13-across – Karaoke’s ultimate My Way bound to show emo-tional understanding : EMPATHY

15-across – This should be comfortable for the solver? : SETTEE

17-across – Toothy comedian? : WISDOM

19-across – Worthy of reverence, as no longer so lazy? : BLESSED

22-across – Lords are poetical, longing over Paul : MCCARTNEY

24-across – The Spanish and French end could be spritely? : ELFIN

26-across – Shock one of me out loud : APPAL

27-across – Paul needs case – going abroad : GASCOIGNE

28-across – Implies everyone used gets abused : ALLUDES

29-across – First service and where not to put it when returned suggests this game : TENNIS

1-down – Paul verbally quotes a Bronte : CEZANNE

2-down – Bottle which transmits message : NERVE

3-down – None stood around and no one stood around : ONONESTOD

4-down – Discovers deep resonant sounds : RUMBLES

5-down – Sweet sweaty smell given honour : BOMBE

6-down – Lest a sin’s done without it? : STAINLESS

7-down – Paul, domestically enlightened? : NEWMAN

8-down – Consternation at sweet potatoes I’d brought up : DISMAY

14-down – The first moral we’re told : PRINCIPAL

16-down – Expression of sympathy yelled on course, thus : THEREFORE

18-down – Copes with the reason for our mortality? : MANAGES

19-down – Lout upset with his problems as a youth : BOYISH

20-down – Paul leads in trickery? : DANIELS

21-down – Paul’s friend, a horny beast? : IMPALA

23-down – Governed as sporting union governed : RULED

25-down – Dickens character portrayed as Andy Capp? : FAGIN

7-across – One who smashes cars – on the circuit? : BREAKER

8-across – One is supposed to look better for eating them : CARROTS

10-across – An infant rock-and-roller : CRADLE

11-across – One’s fiancée proposed : INTENDED

12-across – Great honour conferred on an Arab sultanate : OMAN

13-across – Generally helpful, he has the odd idea to abscond : AIDEDECAMP

14-across – Documents required when handing over vehicles : CONVEYANCES

19-across – A cut above the other ranks? : COMMISSION

22-across – They are driven from the river : TEES

23-across – Sort of story that may be touching? : HARDLUCK

24-across – Used in a sewing machine, it goes round a screw : THREAD

25-across – Discipline gained since conversion to church : SCIENCE

26-across – Touching sympathy : FEELING

1-down – Are there three bank holidays for the rest of its crew? : TRIREME

2-down – Cool chap with energy for the dance : FANDANGO

3-down – Information a girl found in Switzerland : GENEVA

4-down – A mammoth beast disposed to stand and moo : MASTODON

5-down – Sarcastic driver, maybe, in charge : IRONIC

6-down – Masses of people moving about in the morning in the streets : STREAMS

9-down – Game for some drunken flirting? : TIDDLYWINKS

15-down – Explorer whose name lives on in America : VESPUCCI

16-down – Rent hall in order to mesmerise people : ENTHRALL

17-down – Not a subject put on in advance : MONARCH

18-down – Mother checks out but doesn’t leave : REMAINS

20-down – New demand put out of one’s mind : MADDEN

21-down – Subordinate gives name and number : NETHER

1-across – Knife-point jerks in ring : SCALPEL

5-across – Popular provisions contained by vessel : INBOARD

9-across – Flag day gets scanty return : DROOP

10-across – Crowfoot’s caught in flannel : BUTTERCUP

11-across – Primary constellation with Aldebaran producing light source : CANDELABRA

12-across – Animals rush around : DEER

14-across – Rich person to crush island wrath : MILLIONAIRE

18-across – Metal casing on timer? No, I’m timer : CHRONOMETER

21-across – Dead of night? : LATE

22-across – Sort of flora – and quite decorative? : QUATREFOIL

25-across – In small boat travelling into unknown : INCOGNITO

26-across – Beast’s plea for silence? : DINGO

27-across – Fish or seer : GOLDEYE

28-across – Work at court on dead boarding : PLYWOOD

1-down – Win over deuces wild : SEDUCE

2-down – Swarm in a vault : ABOUND

3-down – Go for a brand new plant : PEPPERMINT

4-down – Sign for books without lines : LIBRA

5-down – Ban short term in charge : INTERDICT

6-down – Asked pound for vegetable : BEET

7-down – Attribute of alternating current and direct conversion : ACCREDIT

8-down – What’s done about bit left : DEPARTED

13-down – Grim looking under fly in soup : UNFRIENDLY

15-down – Row about Finnish wheeled vehicle : LIMOUSINE

16-down – Very hot and going up over day : SCALDING

17-down – Proper formality for Tory leader turned crazy : PROTOCOL

19-down – Carried round island : BORNEO

20-down – Salmon diet includes other foodstuff : ALMOND

23-down – Group left upholding nothing : TROOP

24-down – Fever should be OK in time : AGUE