Daily Answers

1-across – Sent a goody-goody inside – so wise! : SAPIENT

5-across – Favour changing over to trees : ROSETTE

9-across – A single Greek character in drink required a ventilator : AIRHOLE

10-across – Overweight girl’s parents : FATHERS

11-across – Has to step out quite quickly : POSTHASTE

12-across – A large stretch of water where birds can raise their young : AERIE

13-across – Means of measuring a sovereign : RULER

15-across – By backing those flying, they’ll get some improvements made : REPAIRMEN

17-across – What prompts one to go without a rest : REMAINDER

19-across – Called for some caution in a medical procedure : NAMED

22-across – Indifferent article written by retired clown : ALOOF

23-across – Accident due to mechanic’s carelessness : MISCHANCE

25-across – Really disagreeable when unwell – right to stay in bed : ILLBRED

26-across – Try at one point with a will : TESTATE

27-across – Moving unpredictably like the salvage collectors? : TOTTERY

28-across – Most jaded relations cut a virtuous individual : STALEST

1-down – Camera operator in a foul mood? : SNAPPER

2-down – South American woman studying : PERUSAL

3-down – Optimism returns around a hundred – it’s a great age! : EPOCH

4-down – Walkabout certain to be much appreciated : TREASURED

5-down – Strip firing mechanism : RIFLE

6-down – Place where no one tense is put up : SITUATION

7-down – The more obscure proposition : THEOREM

8-down – Oriental egghead getting behind : EASTERN

14-down – Check press support : REINFORCE

16-down – Parties arranged housing for hangers-on : PARASITES

17-down – He faces facts concerning a heel : REALIST

18-down – Illuminated at night – naturally : MOONLIT

20-down – The authority to give a fellow time : MANDATE

21-down – Most extreme letter written with some irritation : DEEPEST

23-down – Making five hundred pounds in a month in an offbeat way : MADLY

24-down – Old prophet – a shoemaker : HOSEA

1-across – Hipster staggered after a capital clergyman : PARISH

4-across – See 1 : PRIEST

9-across – Hides tube behind leaves : GOESUNDERGROUND

10-across – After half five turning back without the boat? : VESSEL

11-across – Took advantage of you, saying I let Sid off : UTILISED

12-across – Furtive drink with lieutenant in modest surroundings : STEALTHY

14-across – Get Brown’s retirement accepted by governing body : SENATE

15-across – Corsair made very good speed : PIRATE

18-across – Where cost is about to come down : SCOTLAND

21-across – Vie with Carla, awfully offhand : CAVALIER

22-across – Small tiff – it’s with sweetheart : PETITE

24-across – Imagined job having car in view of resort? : PICTUREPOSTCARD

25-across – Quiet and oddly prim little child : SHRIMP

26-across – Cruel routine in Bali I overlooked : BRUTAL

1-down – Having proof of missing trial, raise objections : PROTEST

2-down – Lies about the streets : RESTS

3-down – Not married on time, needing something to wear : SINGLET

5-down – Recovers in the showers, say : REGAINS

6-down – Moving back, book an oil change : EMOTIONAL

7-down – In one trial externally the smallest : TINIEST

8-down – Buy tea blended for excellence in looks : BEAUTY

13-down – Steal Arab’s unusual stone : ALABASTER

16-down – The type inclined to emphasise something? : ITALICS

17-down – Witty saying about very good butter substitute turning up : EPIGRAM

18-down – Writing lines : SCRIPT

19-down – One against work with a model : OPPOSER

20-down – Instruction to cancel flat? : NATURAL

23-down – Implied spiteful woman is upset by sex appeal : TACIT

4-across – Nasty skin complaint through sprawling outside : BITCHY

6-across – US barman serves awkward customer – a Yank : SODAJERK

9-across – Horse to take you for a ride? : RINGER

10-across – Barrister has a day to digest case in brief : ADVOCATE

11-across – Family group, mean and furtive : CLANDESTINE

15-across – Catching Hague out, Lib Dem tee-heed : LAUGHED

17-across – Waste time after game swings back : GARBAGE

18-across – Enter finally into agreement in spite of underhand dealings : MALPRACTICE

22-across – Cat with another injury : WHIPLASH

23-across – One may smoke over a packet : FUNNEL

24-across – Mutilated carcases, with initial number up 900, reveal the slaughter : MASSACRE

25-across – Back in bed, sick and wan : PALLID

1-down – Fateful lifeline? : THREAD

2-down – Vamp to make good dilapidated JCB : GOLDDIGGER

3-down – Wreck bears out type of destroyer : SABOTEUR

4-down – Prison term for quack, say : BIRDCALL

5-down – Treat as skin and bone old king denied sustenance : TANTALUS

7-down – Test for PM? : EXAM

8-down – Look up an’ doon : KEEK

12-down – Rode southern dales – badly chafed : SADDLESORE

13-down – Paper-chase? : NATIONAL

14-down – Beauty wearing red rose : REBELLED

16-down – House accommodation? : HOMELOAN

19-down – Leg’s game – in car crash with learner : CRURAL

20-down – Reeled from second stomach upset : SWAM

21-down – Likes making nasty remarks : DIGS

1-across – A river skirts Crosby, a town in England : ABINGDON

5-across – Son strode out when out of his skull : SPACED

9-across – Sovereign introduced to metalworker! That’s a fluke! : FLOUNDER

10-across – Spooks beset people returning from place of entertainment : CINEMA

11-across – Drink tisane brewed by Lawrence : ANISETTE

12-across – Native of seaside resort with no good hotel : BRITON

14-across – City in America canonised in Russia : PETERSBURG

18-across – Companion embraces sweetheart with desire – not as it’s reported : CLOVEHITCH

22-across – It is quite clear the monkey is wearing a hat : LIMPID

23-across – Bob’s making fun of needlework : SMOCKING

24-across – Reptilian soldier turned to university articles : IGUANA

25-across – Writer of note from Fair Isle : CLEMENTI

26-across – The Parisian follows requirement for a sewer : NEEDLE

27-across – The railway in an army camp on an island : BALINESE

1-down – A couple of fellows skate and row : AFFRAY

2-down – It’s incongruous that one club supports another : IRONIC

3-down – A shufti round site of air traffic control centre : GANDER

4-down – Public beneficiary receives a broadcast : OVERTHEAIR

6-down – Plain language written about border flower : PRIMROSE

7-down – Danish king receives ancient request for wood : CHESTNUT

8-down – Water soaking away from bedraggled gardenia : DRAINAGE

13-down – Statesman embraces one and all on the island. That’s sweet : PEACHMELBA

15-down – Kitchen staff gather in Israel : SCULLION

16-down – Rodent roomed with us unfortunately : DORMOUSE

17-down – Iron Age re-settlement looking initially to be from a certain area : REGIONAL

19-down – Tinker takes one kind of food : SCAMPI

20-down – Apron for local tucking into tart : PINNIE

21-down – Brown coal left off fire : IGNITE

1-across – Reportedly 20 13, or one fifth of 14! : SIXQUID

5-across – Turn into tree, as opposed to 25 : POPULAR

9-across – Annoys 1 downs : NARKS

10-across – Afterthought about stockpile of pickles : PRESERVES

11-across – Mutual sighting of sacred image spoken of with discretion : EYECONTACT

12-across – Sun King enters to cheers : SKOL

14-across – Turning ever, dropping verse 10, accepted by God’s 5across 25 1downs : THREETENORS

18-across – Manipulation of thread manacles midget : CHAINSTITCH

21-across – Relative not beginning to brag : AUNT

22-across – Dish for archer on hill in Italy : TORTELLINI

25-across – Girl in charge in state, as opposed to 5 across : CLASSICAL

26-across – Maker of dish for the advancement of culture? : PETRI

27-across – Northerners who’ve been pulled? : YANKEES

28-across – Having got into tabloid, fled – exchanging the Standard for the People : REDFLAG

1-down – A scorcher of a musician! : SINGER

2-down – Persian ruler upset Congress and King : XERXES

3-down – Untidy Gloucestershire opener’s tip: No runs?. That’s not cricket! : UNSPORTING

4-down – Drank up in the store : DEPOT

5-down – 101 in here showing foresight : PRESCIENT

6-down – Quiet hack’s sound of relief : PHEW

7-down – Look to 5 for intricate token – of commitment? : LUVEKNOT

8-down – Grapples topless with skinhead and becomes uneasy : RESTLESS

13-down – Mushroom ring, seedcase and seafood, potentially : CEPHALOPOD

15-down – Denies original story, admitting nothing, and is subsequently influential : RETROACTS

16-down – Second and Third of Borodin in memorable old recording, perhaps : SCRATCHY

17-down – Keep mum, thanks to one in the pub : MAINTAIN

19-down – Part of the architecture of artificial intelligence : LINTEL

20-down – Sloth and fish not doing too well : AILING

23-down – High-level worker left in middle of row : TILER

24-down – Man, say, whatever Donne said : ISLE