Daily Answers

1-across – Essay about object that’s fashionable : TRENDY

4-across – Capital containing a hospital for outcasts : PARIAHS

9-across – Very clever fish ain’t at sea : BRILLIANT

10-across – Island’s turning black : SABLE

11-across – Follow headless queens around : ENSUE

12-across – Show disapproval by taking carriage as a sort of practical joke : BOOBYTRAP

13-across – So deep in thought one’s absorbed – nobody will play with one : SOLOIST

15-across – A drink with a head : NOGGIN

17-across – Appalled – but helping to make Branagh a star : AGHAST

19-across – Present course : CURRENT

22-across – Two chaps like some medieval legends : ARTHURIAN

24-across – Philanthropist retiring for the good of France : NOBEL

26-across – Letter from Greek graduate – it has four sides : RHOMB

27-across – King accompanied by aerial artist : KANDINSKY

28-across – Bird discovered by dramatist outside Los Angeles : ORTOLAN

29-across – Nothing on listed building? : LEANTO

1-down – Bill allows some medicine : TABLETS

2-down – England’s first team takes both ends outdoors : EXITS

3-down – Self-indulgent life of fool upset by musical : DOLCEVITA

4-down – Crushing remark that’s recorded : PUTDOWN

5-down – After religious instruction heaven appears unsafe : RISKY

6-down – Purple and gold mixture of beer and gin : AUBERGINE

7-down – Look round shelter, being ready for bed : SLEEPY

8-down – Religious teacher with time for timid person : RABBIT

14-down – Prescribed bedtime in lands abroad : LIGHTSOUT

16-down – Latin verbal adjective given rude translation : GERUNDIVE

18-down – Kitchen order: stir in flour, possibly : THICKEN

19-down – Clergymen preserve son, perhaps : CANONS

20-down – Cry in the field though little colleague is content : TALLYHO

21-down – Spanish-speaking area of city – except for a Portuguese-speaking city : BARRIO

23-down – Sort of blume? Sort of bloom? : UMBEL

25-down – Container containing a small container : BASIN

9-across – The final demand in dispute : ULTIMATUM

10-across – Run away to marry East European on the rebound : ELOPE

11-across – English queen, one Lear got confused with : ELEANOR

12-across – A recent reform put through again : REENACT

13-across – A small number sail out in vessels : VIALS

14-across – Polite inclination to support royalty : CIVILLIST

16-across – Seen as a regular fool, he continues on the same course : STEADYASSHEGOES

19-across – Sappers twice raised the stakes in bridge : REDOUBLED

21-across – Shine as a beginner in a new game : GLEAM

22-across – Mother takes a long time to get compensation : DAMAGES

23-across – Partners who dance up in close formation : COUPLES

24-across – Translation of prose is a problem : POSER

25-across – Very cold spot discovered by Pooh : NORTHPOLE

1-down – Extra face-saving feature for a manager : SUPERVISOR

2-down – See great changes in economy travel : STEERAGE

3-down – Changes which should be made by wrongdoers : AMENDS

4-down – Wake up in prison : STIR

5-down – Is outwardly better when spontaneous : IMPROVISED

6-down – The militant’s first summons : REVEILLE

7-down – I’m also involved with East African : SOMALI

8-down – Paper match : TEST

14-down – Early form of rock music? : CRADLESONG

15-down – Teacher after job for a demanding employer : TASKMASTER

17-down – Barnaby put in uninteresting and tedious work : DRUDGERY

18-down – Fail to notice what 1 down will do : OVERLOOK

20-down – Check demand for material : DAMASK

21-down – It’s awkward being left in France : GAUCHE

22-down – Drug quietly injected into a rabbit : DOPE

23-down – Dog left to play with stones on the ice : CURL

9-across – Vagrant I entertain out East? : ITINERANT

10-across – Part of flag – one among many : HOIST

11-across – Records of air-conditioning in sideshow : DIARIES

12-across – Time to dress in worthless stuff? : GARBAGE

13-across – Note always turning into another note : BREVE

14-across – Fine imposed on fictitious tale is indescribable : INEFFABLE

16-across – To one Pope, it spelt danger : ALITTLELEARNING

19-across – Coped with some awful rot : DECOMPOSE

21-across – Light soldier on animal’s back : KLEIG

22-across – Unusual poem about air in shops : EMPORIA

23-across – Mixture the French found in turning over molten rock : AMALGAM

24-across – Locations where things worth seeing are reported : SITES

25-across – Bookkeeper’s sign for rainstorm : LIBRARIAN

1-down – Workman holding broken bridle for Pope Gregory : HILDEBRAND

2-down – Middle East country filling pies cooked by Italian painter : PIRANESI

3-down – Emblem of French depravity : DEVICE

4-down – Fishes’ fingerprints? : DABS

5-down – Poem composed in even stages, perhaps : STAGNESEVE

6-down – Acolyte badly hurt by firework : THURIFER

7-down – Article taken from Barbican turns out to be antacid : BICARB

8-down – Ugly finish in untidy set is an eyesore : STYE

14-down – Certain line a boxer takes? : INEXORABLE

15-down – Promise of employment : ENGAGEMENT

17-down – Shrub found at river ski resort : TAMARISK

18-down – Lupine character with fixed semi-grin : ISENGRIM

20-down – Writer’s cloak : CAPOTE

21-down – Bears getting final put-down, unfortunately : KOALAS

22-down – Some other Semitic language : ERSE

23-down – Sailor wanted to be an ecclesiastic : ABBE

1-across – Beer is a big hit : WALLOP

5-across – Computer designs Viagra by way of missing chips out : GRAPHICS

9-across – Round number : EIGHTEEN

10-across – Some elephant in call for salad vegetable : CELERY

11-across – True-to-life representation of acts in ritual : NATURALISTIC

13-across – Hairy beast’s stomach : BEAR

14-across – Digs for diamonds with spirit in the wood : LODGINGS

17-across – Cabaret actress – literally, little girl in short dress : MINNELLI

18-across – See 25 : DEAD

20-across – Mum’s the word? : MOTHERTONGUE

23-across – Foxes protected by bats : STUMPS

24-across – That woman keeps single to threaten family values? : HEIRLOOM

25-across – Disease carried by sea and road due to spread, calling for plague victims on the street? : BRINGOUT

26-across – Slips when heading off naughty children : ERRORS

2-down – Dictator in exile, but might he get out after noon? : AMIN

3-down – Wagner’s Ring? No – not all hell let loose : LOHENGRIN

4-down – Quick pasta sauce keeps the runs in : PRESTO

5-down – Atrocious Chilean, go repent! : GENERALPINOCHET

6-down – What makes lemon fizzy receives the cold fizzy drink award : ACCOLADE

7-down – See 9 : HOLES

8-down – Chaotic drama with corgi and ticker tape : CARDIOGRAM

12-down – Corruption of the police right subject for Fergie’s children’s books? : HELICOPTER

15-down – Being kind, we’ll erect a section for the occupier : INDWELLER

16-down – Orc with fleas should be put out, not in the house : ALFRESCO

19-down – Strike a light, council meeting isn’t getting held up : IGNITE

21-down – Being most advanced? : HUMAN

22-down – See 25 : YOUR

1-across – Cocky’s got his own cover, it seems : SELFASSURED

9-across – Brazilian diplomacy may be taken as read when there’s trouble : RIOTACT

10-across – Figure 0 on electronic device held by prisoner : OCTAGON

11-across – Kind to fairy that’s out and fairy will be kind when I’m out! : MILKTOOTH

12-across – See 14 : INTHE

13-across – See 19 : SHED

14-across – Let initiative she’d held slip, as always at the 26 21 : THEDEVILIS

16-across – Operator to gain entry for alternative worker in benefit : DOORHANDLE

19-across – Bowl dropped where Ada Doom saw something nasty : WOOD

21-across – See 26 : TABLE

22-across – Drink dispenser left pub – that’s prison : BARLINNIE

24-across – Slight gradient in cliff-top railway : INCLINE

25-across – Circus artist that can hold his drink? : TUMBLER

26-across – Tyneside acquired one, with a feeling of excitement about the price: is it make of deal? : NEGOTIATING

1-down – Ought Queen Elizabeth to love Francis B.? Cut! : SHOULDEROFBACON

2-down – It’s said to precede the quickest repair : LEAST

3-down – Opposition to the round church is somewhere in the Bible : ANTIOCH

4-down – Take a second to see 13, being tight : SLOSHED

5-down – Recover like a dog from the bulk of the River Tees : RETRIEVE

6-down – Computer reversion: like it to voice articles on 19? : DIGITALTOANALOG

7-down – The first proper American stove : PRIMUS

8-down – A second off being clouded over: adverse condition to follow : UNLESS

15-down – Scottish shepherd’s hut is an improved English one : SHIELING

16-down – See 14 : DETAIL

17-down – Absence of saints among the upper aristocracy? : NOBLEST

18-down – Young actress turning role model before Thanksgiving : LORETTA

20-down – Under Prohibition, without an audience, it’s very boring : DREARY

23-down – William : IAMBI