Daily Answers

9-across – It’s fairly hot, yet sometimes chilly, they say : REDPEPPER

10-across – Take out part-timer, a secretary bird : ERASE

11-across – The thinner first-class accent : ACETONE

12-across – Come to know the foreign set-up in 10’s development : REALISE

13-across – Mr Park? : HYDE

14-across – Adopt an attitude about powder overdose? It helps to get the message home : POSTALCODE

15-across – Macho character cried for Arthur, the poet : RIMBAUD

17-across – Put the case set in place : POSITED

19-across – Is Helen bound over to be free of obligation? : UNBEHOLDEN

22-across – Swift Nellie? : DEAN

23-across – The new free love bar in the Big Apple? : NOVELTY

24-across – Take advantage of a bold stroke : EXPLOIT

26-across – Char, they say, is the Playboy writer : SYNGE

27-across – Lewd clues, set to entrap 3 : LECHEROUS

1-down – Perfidious state when skin problem absorbs 3 : TREACHEROUSNESS

2-down – Swell finish to middle jump for rider : ADDENDUM

3-down – The Ideal woman’s circle : HERO

4-down – 3, cased by recidivist pickpockets, has gone pear-shaped : SPHEROID

5-down – Ironic nonsense may bring the house down : DRYROT

6-down – Charles, ‘e went crazy for a classical 3 : HERACLES

7-down – About a serious offence round a hazardous place : CASINO

8-down – For Sisyphus, it’s just the job : NEVERENDINGTASK

16-down – This 3 got cold in a surging sea : ACHILLES

17-down – Bearing gifts carelessly addressed? : PRESENCE

18-down – Maybe Rex and 3 at school found a dinosaur : THEROPOD

20-down – Sort of setter embracing 6? Stupid! : BOVINE

21-down – See a ‘oly confused Jesuit : LOYOLA

25-down – Look at hold up : PEEK

1-across – Revising for examination : GOINGOVER

6-across – Positioned using tack, say : BASED

9-across – Drier and shower : AIRER

10-across – Cricketers sporting flannels and caps : LONGSTOPS

11-across – Having scaled it up, turns out copies : DUPLICATES

12-across – Land in the Minch, perhaps : INCH

14-across – Soldier’s babble on receiving one stripe : PRIVATE

15-across – Horse taken for a grassland run : STEPPER

17-across – Court cases to start in northern town : CONSETT

19-across – Troops do as back up : RESERVE

20-across – Roof of the family semi blown off : DOME

22-across – Dated wearing hair in fringes, they say : TRESPASSES

25-across – A child of necessity is given to falsehood : INVENTION

26-across – Key-hole to peep through, say : ISLET

27-across – A woman’s daily round : LYDIA

28-across – After a turnaround, one’s trade boomed : RESONATED

1-down – £1,000 fine : GRAND

2-down – Mobilised unit prior to invasion : IRRUPTION

3-down – In disarray as regiment starts shooting : GERMINATES

4-down – Thorpe deserted by Goldsmith : VILLAGE

5-down – Athletic shoots? : RUNNERS

6-down – A crushing blow for the party : BASH

7-down – Canoodle in the wood : SPOON

8-down – The Duke? His Grace may be free : DISCHARGE

13-down – Book the party : PERSUASION

14-down – Exercises below deck given in punishment : PACKDRILL

16-down – Kiss briefly after Wine & Cheese : PORTSALUT

18-down – Hanger-on arrives – rank outsider : TARRIER

19-down – Objects to topless shows : RESENTS

21-down – Translated as touched : MOVED

23-down – Having spoken with vision, is accorded a position : SITED

24-down – A newborn and at last a girl : ANNA

1-across – Following star for astronomy, the unknown one in the group : GAZING

4-across – Shining with intellect : BRIGHT

9-across – Bird’s nest, perhaps, and hence its location? : SOUP

10-across – See 26 : WALLBANGER

11-across – Expert collects century at start of play : ACTONE

12-across – Ball hit someone : CHINAMAN

13-across – Where some will labour, buxom girl seizes king in his ball : WORKBENCH

15-across – : KARL

16-across – He co-wrote with 27: Early bird must switch extremes to sully the vote : MARX

17-across – As predicted, lunatic hit copper : PROPHETIC

21-across – Macerate bananas, scones and jam etc : CREAMTEA

22-across – See 24 : SHEETS

24-across – Cocktail wrapped in paper : BETWEENTHE

25-across – Birds to be shot must be up for it! : GAME

26-across – Cocktail sausage cooked: why rave about everything before it? : HARVEY

27-across – Political philosopher backed member in all quarters but the west : ENGELS

1-down – 16 wants beef and duck : GROUCHO

2-down – 16 would mean nothing if pages were replaced by right : ZEPPO

3-down – Two presents cannot be found : NOWHERE

5-down – Multiple breeder has to go on incessantly : RABBIT

6-down – Pretentious drinking here? Panic! Lager not quite rum : GINPALACE

7-down – One mad dog outside that may need clipping? : TOENAIL

8-down – Fruit shortage crab turns nasty about : BLACKCURRANTS

14-down – Conclusion of fight to do with Sadat in 50s’ conflict : KOREANWAR

16-down – Concert upset the nuts in Northumberland : MORPETH

18-down – Work taken up to the rear gate : POSTERN

19-down – Resolve this problem over a narrow strip of land : ISTHMUS

20-down – Goddess in Sardinia, then East Grinstead : ATHENE

23-down – Bird which once landed on the moon? : EAGLE

1-across – Wise man conceals women’s article in Dorset : SWANAGE

5-across – Tries round about 0.001 in this sort of graph : SEMILOG

9-across – Properly arranged so as not to … : INORDER

10-across – … disconcert goalie with universal encomia : EULOGIA

11-across – Delicate, small and up-to-date navigational warning : LIGHTSHIP

12-across – Dull house has bad smell : HOHUM

13-across – Colossus represented by half-hearted artist : TITAN

15-across – People of the highest stand-ing execute artist : TOPDRAWER

17-across – People coming to Silver Lake for a show of animals : MENAGERIE

19-across – Park in former elevated railway and drive out : EXPEL

22-across – Land punt after it’s come back : TIBET

23-across – Frenchman injured Estonian in America : MINNESOTA

25-across – Everybody returned to interrupt noble heretic : LOLLARD

26-across – Redhead in store gets popular cut of meat : SIRLOIN

27-across – Jailer and knight tucking into Christmas fare : TURNKEY

28-across – Horse rider always covers slit in jacket : EVENTER

1-down – Cooking utensil for butcher in film scene : SKILLET

2-down – Doctor gripped by dread in the middle of … : AMONGST

3-down – … inspection of car : AUDIT

4-down – A couple of space travellers discover fungus : EARTHSTAR

5-down – Expensive marinade : STEEP

6-down – Man sheltering god’s draught animal : MALTHORSE

7-down – On a low hill, stages entertainment : LEGSHOW

8-down – Lightweight’s hurt in this sort of school : GAAMMAR

14-down – What H. King designed for flier : NIGHTHAWK

16-down – Mineral disturbed antelopes : PLEONASTE

17-down – Sailor gives lashings in support of ship’s officer : MATELOT

18-down – Lauren Bacall’s initial broadcast concerning a group of stars : NEBULAR

20-down – F1 champion entertained very old college head : PROVOST

21-down – Many a breadwinner is an apprentice : LEARNER

23-down – Starts to make all disciples look yonder with ardour : MADLY

24-down – Type of nest that’s unknown in lake : EYRIE

1-across – Work out how to effect seizure of donjon? : KEEPFIT

5-across – Plain cake saw? : NOTICED

9-across – A month without choral work, he’d like the mob to rule : OCHLOCRAT

10-across – Snowman, as it were, in the French fashion, to work the other way : LEWIS

11-across – Pieces of second-hand quartz? : SAND

12-across – Novelist wrote bad things before residence in Tyneside : NEVILSHUTE

14-across – Bible translator, the first person in French and Latin city : JEROME

15-across – 19 or 11 and 24 : GEORGES

16-across – I get a drink when back to fighting Japanese : SAMURAI

18-across – Frail insect eating a single document : FLIMSY

20-across – She was Hectored, with memory suffering : ANDROMACHE

21-across – In the bathroom I try to skip : OMIT

24-across – See 10 : ELIOT

25-across – Seminarians from Breton town dividing gold and diamonds : ORDINANDS

26-across – Approval of archbishop being in hell? : PLAUDIT

27-across – What could possibly go with West London sky? I’ve no idea! : GODONLY

1-down – See 27 : KNOWS

2-down – Improve and ruin English Channel, nearly : ENHANCE

3-down – Sweet and silly? : FOOL

4-down – 14, one of the 15, and 10’s other half were a menace, with me a bonnie mess inside … : THREEMENINABOAT

5-down – … see 22 : NOTHINGOFTHEDOG

6-down – In a supermarket the French film is invisible to the naked eye : TELESCOPIC

7-down – Pat’s constituent reportedly intimidated and suspended? : COWDUNG

8-down – They sleep rough, so dress is a problem : DOSSERS

13-down – Quadruped’s need of food: true? False : FOURFOOTED

16-down – Have a meal, eating fish, causing a disturbance : SHAKEUP

17-down – Island produced a change of air : MADEIRA

19-down – Writer of detective stories puts people in heaven : SIMENON

22-down – … not to mention their friend, awful fogy in hat, honest to God! : TOSAY

23-down – Eat up, girl! : ENID