Daily Answers

1-across – A figure gone berserk in indignation : DUDGEON

5-across – Building worker going around double-parking – and he drinks! : TIPPLER

9-across – An island in mid-Atlantic, a primates’ paradise : CAPRI

10-across – The ebbing tide? : WATERFALL

11-across – In time ill-assorted pairs will get contrary : DISPARATE

12-across – Over-large order given by heartless woman : OBESE

13-across – An individual very keen on taking note in staff turnover : DOTER

15-across – Royalty with a touching way of getting rich : KINGMIDAS

18-across – A lawyer railing about a highly-regarded person : BARRISTER

19-across – Continue to strike a man : RAMON

21-across – Goes off without the right when ugly customers appear : OGRES

23-across – Jack’s molars – in a bad state : SAILORMAN

25-across – Great painting? Far from it! : MINIATURE

26-across – Opinion that is not irreversible : TENET

27-across – To tackle the problem yet again called for fortitude : RESOLVE

28-across – Faithful as serving men : SINCERE

1-down – Caught in the act, police being determined : DECIDED

2-down – Poor diet’s corrected, yet he’s saving money : DEPOSITOR

3-down – She’s caused a large number to leave the US : ERICA

4-down – Game to build modern shopping centre : NEWMARKET

5-down – Little bird with the French name : TITLE

6-down – The Player by one-time joiner : PERFORMER

7-down – Don’t take a vacation : LEAVE

8-down – Waves may be put in the hair : ROLLERS

14-down – Control the way everything is put back : REINSTALL

16-down – Never sins – could be due to angst : NERVINESS

17-down – A shady hemisphere? : DEMIMONDE

18-down – Loaf, which is a mistake : BLOOMER

20-down – Mark admits X returned for the music : NONETTE

22-down – The revolutionary head limits breaks : RENDS

23-down – Relish disrespectful talk : SAUCE

24-down – One gets mad about short measure time after time : OFTEN

1-across – Fame of new owner never ever diminished : RENOWN

4-across – Are after black cat to be taken round show : CABARET

9-across – Timber supplier in blue can seek to marry : SATINWOOD

10-across – Current rubbish rejected by an entertainer : ACTOR

11-across – Firm backs her working with earth : OCHRE

12-across – Pasting in a variety of works of art : PAINTINGS

13-across – Strip of wide privet some joker removed : DEPRIVE

15-across – Something allowed to spoil grand home : MARGIN

17-across – Girl to try holding one slowly : ADAGIO

19-across – Further loan : ADVANCE

22-across – Food store takes long time making spectacular display : PAGEANTRY

24-across – Caught volunteers taking it back to room : ATTIC

26-across – Something that is climbed always takes US soldier back : EIGER

27-across – Atrium I rebuilt on American island : MAURITIUS

28-across – Having lost article, dares to study china! : DRESDEN

29-across – Silver pipe is fixed : AGREED

1-down – Answer: twisted ropes need no core : RESPOND

2-down – Cut up a large amount with companion : NOTCH

3-down – Failing to take snooker ball back is erratic : WANDERING

4-down – Scoundrel takes mother one in white metal : CADMIUM

5-down – Swagger round first sailing vessel : BOAST

6-down – Enter into arrangements for custody : RETENTION

7-down – Push that, but not at Brown : THRUST

8-down – Pair cutting cabbage up : COUPLE

14-down – Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue! : PEDAGOGUE

16-down – Vicar goes to film studios for showing : REVEALING

18-down – Not to stand, master sits in seat : OTTOMAN

19-down – Mauls poor youth leader in shelter : ASYLUM

20-down – Dispensed with us once caught taking journalist around : EXCUSED

21-down – Compass point confused padre : SPREAD

23-down – Bill gets free, which is irritating : ACRID

25-down – It was yours at one time : THINE

1-across – Horse seller, perhaps : CHARGER

5-across – Article in court newspaper : COURANT

9-across – Old currency provided by financial backer : ANGEL

10-across – One feeling qualified to play Lawrence? : CANDIDATE

11-across – Lights on the Headland – a painting by Constable? : LANDSCAPE

12-across – Result of putting uniform on model : EVENT

13-across – Bound, it is said, to have confidence : TRUST

15-across – Though unwilling, took sustenance during examination : INTESTATE

18-across – Trial meant to upset will : TESTAMENT

19-across – Object to a novice going over poem : LAMIA

21-across – Outcome of point in dispute : ISSUE

23-across – The German double weapon : DERRINGER

25-across – It’s a cable running to the east of Sweden : BALTICSEA

26-across – Poor fool to start diving on a rising tide : FLOOD

27-across – Reveals former attitudes : EXPOSES

28-across – Moral impediment of little weight : SCRUPLE

1-down – Capital adornment for head porter in holiday home : CHAPLET

2-down – Greek sailors finding tuna dish in store : ARGONAUTS

3-down – Safe investment for pigs? : GILTS

4-down – A beer chit destroyed by teetotaller : RECHABITE

5-down – Boat needing a once-over : CANOE

6-down – Useful kind of tool in film classification : UNIVERSAL

7-down – Saw an American lawyer, for example, taken aback : ADAGE

8-down – Letters providing support for board? : TRESTLE

14-down – Essays about old people in some Shakespearean plays : TRAGEDIES

16-down – Learning processes tried out, perhaps, in tests : TUTORIALS

17-down – Octopodes in military formation? : ARMYGROUP

18-down – Belt thrown round border by Irish politician : TRIMBLE

20-down – A game cut short : ABRIDGE

22-down – County girl at work : SALOP

23-down – Records with strong backing support? : DISCS

24-down – Draw conclusion from fashionable referee’s rise : INFER

1-across – See 18 : DEVILLEWELLS

8-across – Spirit appears after Jack’s topped off stage : ROSTRUM

9-across – Her thanks somewhat hard to accept? : TABITHA

11-across – Citadel’s grand opening denied agent of mischief when £1,000 is put forward : KREMLIN

12-across – Inverted arrival is integral to dumb mistake : ERRATUM

13-across – Formal attire covers shirt on this chap’s back : TITUS

14-across – Select retreats in French grounds – such will do for deserters? : RATPOISON

16-across – Ordered chiefs of Taxes, Customs and Excise to dry up! : EXSICCATE

19-across – Black can opener is mislaid : SABLE

21-across – Excitedly taking notes : AGITATO

23-across – Mixed aromas embellish love for full-bodied Spanish female : AMOROSA

24-across – Maybe Edward VI’s knight holds fire : KINGLET

25-across – Cry about a great flier : WAGTAIL

26-across – About to waste credit, get caught short : CLOSECROPPED

1-down – Take aroma off line : DESCENT

2-down – A rock film that’s not especially big on the lens : VERGLAS

3-down – This is On the Beach – long song about dictator : LAMINARIA

4-down – Instructions for Alice helping with : EATME

5-down – Ban doctor boarding ship carrying drug : EMBARGO

6-down – T.S. Eliot’s randomly assigned figure of speech : LITOTES

7-down – See 15 : BROKETHEBANK

10-down – See 15 : ATMONTECARLO

15-down – Break or make: he bet more than that on black and won : THEMANWHO

17-down – Tinned pork’s taken by elevated railroad to mountain plant : SPIGNEL

18-down – 15 7 10 almost cooked thoroughly without a daily to do the rounds : CHARLES

19-down – Round v-vessels containing silver substitute : STOPGAP

20-down – Shakespeare wants fabulous bird in principle! : BROCARD

22-down – Shot in the eye! : OPTIC

5-across – Bird seen on migration in Tresco? : SCOTER

6-across – Birds presented with bill for geranium : CRANES

9-across – Bird with belly-ache : GROUSE

10-across – Giddy dove circling another bird in the air : OVERHEAD

11-across – A bird – or, to put it another way, birds : SKUA

12-across – An eccentric breeds rats for birds : REDBREASTS

13-across – Wrong note in port for seabird : HERRINGGULL

18-across – Bird in town centre going round to cinema providing animal shelter : WOODPIGEON

21-across – Kill two birds with one stone – that includes birds’ birthplace : NEST

22-across – Bird seen on street in pushchair : STROLLER

23-across – A bird has to mount it : TOMTIT

24-across – Wine for a bird : CANARY

25-across – Ruth or Rachel’s first bird : REGRET

1-down – Couple at work have sex : COPULATE

2-down – Space traveller revealed by start of oscillation in measuring instrument : METEOR

3-down – 25 of knitted jumper : TREEFROG

4-down – Girl’s three articles : ANTHEA

5-down – Bird may be hitch for hikers : SHRIKE

7-down – Hare-brained puss in pigpen : SCATTY

8-down – What Elvis sang about – and where, too : WOODENHEART

14-down – Mockingbird with lyre-shaped tail : RAILLERY

15-down – Outstanding feature of scenery – as well as mountain-top circled by bird : LANDMARK

16-down – It’s characteristic of a twitcher to follow the author of The Raven describing The Raven : POETIC

17-down – A beast of burden is the first to help : ASSIST

19-down – River in southern highlands floods : DROWNS

20-down – Spice Girls’ debut, having first met UN Assembly : NUTMEG