Daily Answers

1-across – Shed providing disreputable shelter beside the street : DIVEST

4-across – It connects similar pressure points : ISOBAR

9-across – List of food : ROLL

10-across – A travelling case? : OUTPATIENT

11-across – Girl in the bar getting drunk : BERTHA

12-across – Just the same, it means you had the right money : NOCHANGE

13-across – It may be adjusted for the rest of the holiday : DECKCHAIR

15-across – Responsibility we can’t avoid? : ONUS

16-across – Offers to take the lot? : BIDS

17-across – Someone foolish or amusing, perhaps : IGNORAMUS

21-across – One naturally separated from the rest of humanity : ISLANDER

22-across – Necessitate a note before Latin revision : ENTAIL

24-across – Uncle Sam’s braces : SUSPENDERS

25-across – One is angry having lost it : WOOL

26-across – Presumably he likes painstaking people : SADIST

27-across – Daisy’s song cycle? : TANDEM

1-down – See the bishop’s concern : DIOCESE

2-down – Inconclusive steps taken to get servant : VALET

3-down – New mascot hard to put up with : STOMACH

5-down – What many, in panic, make themselves : SCARCE

6-down – She backed the replacement of the ten-shilling note : BRITANNIA

7-down – Pulls out Greene’s novel : RENEGES

8-down – Fixed rule deciding priority in a queue? : STANDINGORDER

14-down – Young goat tipped as a winner by Stevenson : KIDNAPPED

16-down – They’re found in north-west Spain, worn by women : BASQUES

18-down – Supervise, we hear, away from this country : OVERSEA

19-down – All the same, it suits some people : UNIFORM

20-down – A Spaniard is taken for a Greek : ADONIS

23-down – Dragged to the altar? : TOWED

7-across – Returned payment sent in without 15 for electricity supply : MEGAWATT

9-across – Become involved in another roadside row : DOUBLE

10-across – Just back, he changes into light clothing : BUSH

11-across – Taking advantage of feat – one day of victory : EXPLOITIVE

12-across – Agent holds belly in, being short and a bit thick! : STUMPY

14-across – Be wilier than most at Rugby Union in a scrum? : OUTSMART

15-across – Hearing someone randy’s taken a shine! : LUSTRE

17-across – Maybe irritable person starts to denigrate Great Expectations : ONEDGE

20-across – Confess, gripping court with new evidence of fits : SWOONING

22-across – Such hard nuts as one may find in an American state : BRAZIL

23-across – Become boring and grope around for a follow-up – one’s in deep water : DRAGONFISH

24-across – See 9 : PARK

25-across – See 10 : JACKET

26-across – Doggedly continuing commentary on Coventry v. Leicester after a red card each? : TENACITY

1-down – Left cutting in authentic action for The Avengers? : REQUITAL

2-down – Give Charles’s lad a thorough wash – and a biscuit! : BATH

3-down – Avoiding risks, for example, storing most of cheese : SAFETY

4-down – Mooned about, clutching religious books in Canadian capital : EDMONTON

5-down – Appearing on different channels when performing in concert : MULTIMEDIA

6-down – See 2 : OLIVER

8-down – Do people get as high as they can on it? : TIPTOE

13-down – Composer with Musicians’ Union raised total takings on TV channel : MUSSORGSKY

16-down – Begin a new contribution to a burning issue : REIGNITE

18-down – Go abroad, having European warplane to assess : EMIGRATE

19-down – Grandpa finally gets upset about one! : AGEIST

21-down – Conflict noticed, then quiet deed dissolved alliance : WARSAW

22-down – Late offering support : BEHIND

24-down – See 21 : PACT

1-across – 10 wives : WISHES

4-across – Countrywomen’s group with seed for 10 star followers : WISEMEN

9-across – 10 patch it, taking us back to make clothing : PIECESUIT

10-across – Children bet me I exploded – see how they run! : THREE

11-across – 10 in retreating caught Greek style : IONIC

12-across – See 10 : BLINDMICE

13-across – 10 speculative chances in case Parliament prorogues session : GUESSES

15-across – 13 takeaway uses transport held back for the 10 sisters : GRACES

17-across – See 24 : DEGREE

19-across – 10 times is Roman kind of number in Italy : TRIESTE

22-across – Crank first turned stack after 10 to find the lady : CARDTRICK

24-across – Burns’ murder interrogation? : THIRD

26-across – Defaulters ruled out the 10 of destiny : FATES

27-across – Man providing water, short of gin but with tonic, becomes a pest : IRRITATOR

28-across – Sounds like Orson’s kind of city : SADLERS

29-across – Notes sung by the 10? : TENORS

1-down – Rupert’s works sound huge : WAPPING

2-down – Hide! Hide drug for Hank! : SKEIN

3-down – A fit person orders the Essex Crier, not the Sun : EXERCISER

4-down – The street – what d’you call it? – leading to the centre of Bellingham : WATLING

5-down – Full of chopped dates? : SATED

6-down – For disciplinarians, SM ain’t half better organised : MARTINETS

7-down – State raised the dough required : NEEDED

8-down – Trunk transporters : JUMBOS

14-down – Manager deserved to be denounced : EXECRATED

16-down – A knight rising to let out Alexander’s mentor : ARISTOTLE

18-down – Priest and 10 US taxmen’s nostrums : ELIXIRS

19-down – They make fun of Mickey over these : TAKERS

20-down – Tolerates unending rudeness? Not right! : ENDURES

21-down – Stuffs ribs … : SCOFFS

23-down – … with smattering of savour : TASTE

25-down – During a bit of trouble, start the music : INTRO

8-across – Flier in liquor to pour the tea : BEMOTHER

9-across – Colour known as point-blank? : ORANGE

10-across – What happens when you aim for the stars? : UPSHOT

11-across – Iberian transsexual in Jane’s? : MANOFWAR

12-across – Weapons returned, as is very well fitting : SNUG

13-across – G-girl clergy, there for the washing up : GLASSCLOTH

15-across – Least divided of France’s ports? : LORIENT

16-across – Being illiterate, I’m on my bike with hangers-on in the cold : ICICLES

18-across – Female a month ago reached Pole, making an unusual figure : HENDECAGON

19-across – Peculiar character of gold removed from the Lights : AURA

20-across – A number entered during a spell of work needing no thought : INSTINCT

22-across – Whatever I fancy doing, I use one hand, within reason : WHIMSY

23-across – Time allowed for payment: what an _____ , says the creditor : USANCE

24-across – Occupied by nurse before breaking in : TENENTED

1-down – Seek person : KEEPINGONESNOSE

2-down – : TOTHEGRINDSTONE

3-down – To get curtailed during vocal – such a one should be shot! : PHOTOGENIC

4-down – Verbal rules, with string attached, on sheep locking horns? : GRAMMAR

5-down – This is the way to cover chicks : DOWN

6-down – Having left the terrible Times, here’s what we’re going on about : LAWFULOCCASIONS

7-down – Big breakfast eater getting his … : AGIANTREFRESHED

14-down – … small-time twist, allowing further effort : SECONDWIND

17-down – Stir it when there’s an entry to the outside : AGITATE

21-down – Work with your hands saying what you should have : NEED

1-across – Drink from tap and ultimately get to feel rough : COCKTAIL

5-across – Sounds like ‘unger for something to offer stability : ANCHOR

9-across – Energetic folk from Dublin? Not one glum : LIVERISH

10-across – Beat old-fashioned side in Home Counties : SWINGE

12-across – Finding peace without depression is a lucky gift : SERENDIPITY

15-across – Wall hanging unknown from displays : ARRAS

17-across – Look around one church by street in city : LEICESTER

18-across – Brings up what’s been cooked with vile taste : LEVITATES

19-across – Book gets pound fine – library wants it back on this? : SHELF

20-across – Music teacher has organised riot marches : CHOIRMASTER

24-across – Time to see legs? : ELEVEN

25-across – Victory sign by adult in performance making the big break : VACATION

26-across – Die-hard gentleman is back in place : PURIST

27-across – What may have made step frantic : STAMPEDE

1-down – Company associate admitting failure on a huge scale : COLOSSALLY

2-down – Do a tarmac job outside the house? It could be a hit : COVERDRIVE

3-down – Modern city or much older one in the money : TURIN

4-down – Home depot contains harmful fitting : INSTILLATION

6-down – They must have tied in their recent match : NEWLYWEDS

7-down – Search for mountaineer on Everest : HUNT

8-down – Smell from bay about to go : REEK

11-down – Official replaced Vatican silver, except for one article : CIVILSERVANT

13-down – Knowing the way of life? : STREETWISE

14-down – Liking a brief page indication : PREFERENCE

16-down – Bits of machine put on ship with sailors aboard : SETSCREWS

21-down – A clout around the end of ear may give a warning : ALARM

22-down – Early ape evolving in an extended period : LEAP

23-down – : YEAR