Daily Answers

4-across – Too dry to wear something up top : ATTHAT

6-across – One man’s name and number being ill-directed? : MISTAKEN

9-across – I’ll take badgers a drink : ICETEA

10-across – See 6 : IDENTITY

11-across – Fish with it: rivers matter : HIPPOCAMPUS

15-across – A near-Earth asteroid with the coordinates of comms facility : AEROSAT

17-across – Code bearer carries refined poet’s words along parts of canal : DUODENA

18-across – Birth to 2-year-old & 9+-year-old groups look to be excluded from these : AGEBRACKETS

22-across – Briefly horrible,honking smell at source? : HYDROGEN

23-across – Repair 75% of car light bulbs : GARLIC

24-across – See 22 : SULPHIDE

25-across – Understood terms have not been taken in : ATHOME

1-down – Brand new university appointee’s mislaid cope : MAKEDO

2-down – Predator plunges medic upside down into Löwenbräu? : BIRDSPIDER

3-down – Prepares for engagement feast and stocks reserves : STANDSTO

4-down – <i>Carmen</i><span> playing in top theatre is inspired? Mercury seen to rise in it?</span> : ANIGHTAT

5-down – See 4 : THEOPERA

7-down – One leading Kurds from the south can unite : KNIT

8-down – We’re not for feeding easy answers from the floor : NAYS

12-down – Forgetting conflict,rather wary about part of army set : ATTHEREADY

13-down – Weaver locked in cell since not entirely religious event of 1819 : PETERLOO

14-down – See 13 : MASSACRE

16-down – Coke woman’s snorting up features in Scottish tour : SEALOCHS

19-down – Virgin hunted down in reception : CHASTE

20-down – What’s at #20 – with missing humour – is ___ : THIS

21-down – Left downtrodden,20 writer does object to worship : IDOL

1-across – Military department’s butterfly test not right : ADMIRALTY

6-across – Old Northerner caught in coalmine : PICT

8-across – One requiring payment from managing director : CREDITOR

9-across – Universal acts amounting to policy reversals : UTURNS

10-across – What I’m presenting is the ultimate in petty unorthodox belief : HERESY

11-across – Old university teacher’s form of address hosting a gala opening : MAGISTER

12-across – Body image display of soldiers : TATTOO

15-across – Frank’s antithesis not long ago – it’s about being on the inside : RETICENT

16-across – Knife loosened tiles – flipped over the top : STILETTO

19-across – Onset of panic attacks is around where white water occurs? : RAPIDS

21-across – One’s following intended course at last – for now : MEANTIME

22-across – Block request for material : DAMASK

24-across – Sound honest over the radio : STRAIT

25-across – Ring Ben to remove top theatre seating : ENCIRCLE

26-across – See 6 Down : ACID

27-across – He had thoughts,so he was a philosopher : DESCARTES

1-down – Grant’s one vice: dropping date : AGREE

2-down – US region where ‘e’s located : MIDWEST

3-down – Judas-like cross : RATTY

4-down – Blimey,Brummie’s about to turn harness-worker! : LORIMER

5-down – After play’s end,tongues wagging – ‘Rep’s top juvenile!’ : YOUNGSTER

6-down – Cupid’s arc is possibly a deadly threat : PRUSSIC

7-down – Heartless men,caught by Fraud Act,declared unfit : CONDEMNED

13-down – Real gold,so automatic response : AUTHENTIC

14-down – Got the better of a demand to depose Edward – not hard : OUTWITTED

17-down – Whistle at the end of this Dylan composition describing Arkansas? : LANYARD

18-down – Unity’s only cape : ONENESS

20-down – Sweet wrestled from pet : POMFRET

22-down – In demand: a charming country house : DACHA

23-down – Poor souls,alone on the stage : SOLUS

1-across – Change Labour party: use consultants for new style : BEAUTYPARLOURS

8-across – Security organisation cut short fight that’s excessive : UNDUE

9-across – Uses old charts to get around India : EXPLOITS

11-across – My son has sixth sense around group of mummies? : CORPSES

12-across – Drug to port smuggled by suspect that’s dangerous : SERIOUS

13-across – One quotes King,penning short article : CITER

15-across – Daughter eats ice cream,initially is prepared to dry up : DESICCATE

17-across – Drug to have sex? It might slow you down : SPEEDHUMP

20-across – One case of beer switched for bitter : ACERB

21-across – Briefs of wife found in sheets : LAWYERS

23-across – Piece together back of diplodocus,say – our bones kept here : OSSUARY

25-across – Found fake Titian that is for framing : INITIATE

26-across – Cold month mostly for island : CAPRI

27-across – Equalise in match,getting behind marker : COUNTERBALANCE

1-down – Jump on this bus,not a cycle,after crash : BOUNCYCASTLE

2-down – One put on scales going over this : ADDER

3-down – Did value fine stamp for collection : TREASURED

4-down – Delighted prince getting let out : PLEASED

5-down – Sits around first and rests : REPOSES

6-down – Perfume from men about to cheat on you : ODOUR

7-down – Reason to restrict booze : RATIONALE

10-down – Row following meeting in part of factory : ASSEMBLYLINE

14-down – Take out women paid for by party; one might kick back in this : TAEKWONDO

16-down – Callas in production keeping so elegant : CLASSICAL

18-down – Dwarf raised leg : UPSTAGE

19-down – Saw deliveries bowled with spin : PROVERB

22-down – Each container to corrode : EATIN

24-down – Like fence and tree : ASPEN

1-across – Deity and prince direct : MARSHAL

5-across – Sticker insect attached to mammal : SEALANT

9-across – A chevron in a figure behind curved shape,really? : DOMEA

10-across – Permitted furniture in retirement home? : GRANTABLE

11-across – Tedious,anything but in the wisdom of cattle? : MONOTONOUS

12-across – Bone first of all in upper legs? No,arms : ULNA

14-across – Cuts of beef taken from this,say what oughta go with knife? : FOREQUARTER

18-across – In this,leader flies solo round outskirts of Chile? : AIRFORCEONE

21-across – Question posed by Buddhist,right out of holy book : KOAN

22-across – One gets squeezed in front of carriage as soon as train moves : CONCERTINA

25-across – Designer range of beers with one exported? : LAGERFELD

26-across – Smack heel in disco dance : TANGO

27-across – Stripper managed to break a joint,bending backwards : PIRANHA

28-across – Criminal taking the lower street,one going straight on the outside? : RUSTLER

1-down – Title earned,a first in medicine secured : MADAME

2-down – Incarcerate bishop for example in robes of cardinal? : REMAND

3-down – The fool had nuts,fruit and veg etc : HEALTHFOOD

4-down – Personal details with which leader in government accesses sensitive area? : LOGIN

5-down – Energy repeatedly drained from dignified old band : STATUSQUO

6-down – Wheels in a sofa bed sheared off : AUTO

7-down – A charger dropping tail in familiar walk : AMBULATE

8-down – Books everyone can see wrapped in the Indian cloth : THESAURI

13-down – Sweat produced collecting land tax once : WATERRATES

15-down – A theatre fine,well set up for musical performance : ROCKOPERA

16-down – Acrobatic flick in roll? : BACKFLIP

17-down – Florist,say,arrives and rose finally pulled from wreath? : ARRANGER

19-down – Indication in slang I screwed up : SIGNAL

20-down – See 9 Across : FAVOUR

23-down – Person encrypting information ending on the radio? : CODER

24-down – Label cut for breakfast food : BRAN

7-across – Staying at school and getting on : BOARDING

9-across – Sound from horse in pound : NICKER

10-across – See 2 Down : VOTE

11-across – I’m drunk,ruining winter coat : TONICWATER

12-across – Item left in car : COUPLE

14-across – Vain,going round in socks? : BOOTLESS

15-across – Lethal agent ruins nice day : CYANIDE

17-across – Offer support,but fail to intervene : STANDBY

20-across – Hang on – that is what my wife wears : LINGERIE

22-across – This is why I say your views are unacceptable : HERESY

23-across – Vegetable cooking,no wine : CHARDONNAY

24-across – Lifting this aboard requires muscle from the start and amazing stamina : MAIN

25-across – US state 75% the size of another : KANSAS

26-across – These people welcome girl back in region of Greece : THESSALY

1-down – Game is my sole possession : MONOPOLY

2-down – Veto suggested for one avoiding whipping : FREE

3-down – Smallest digit? I beg to differ : BIGTOE

4-down – Quickly produce stunning victory in cup match : KNOCKOUT

5-down – Deceptive reliance on the second Queen Mary,say : OCEANLINER

6-down – Society regularises rugby code : SEVENS

8-down – Accepted as authority and passed : GONEBY

13-down – One extravagantly praising various grain types : PANEGYRIST

16-down – Clean room no benefit for one out all winter : DORMOUSE

18-down – Receptacle for cash in low-class prison : BASTILLE

19-down – Vulcan a fool? Be serious! : MEANIT

21-down – Receptive when it’s scorching : INHEAT

22-down – Boisterous youngster’s Orkney retreat? : HOYDEN

24-down – See 24 Across : MAST