Daily Answers

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

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