Daily Answers

1-across – I replaced usual cover in vehicle for the environment : AMBIANCE

5-across – Plant agents to chase back pay, essentially : ACACIA

9-across – Audibly drop stone when liable to faint : SYNCOPAL

10-across – Fight for barista’s original frothy latte : BATTLE

12-across – Safe places where mighty stable hands overlap : STRONGROOMS

15-across – Bone of contention as global giant Ford switches leaders hosting dance : APPLE

17-across – See 15 : OFDISCORD

18-across – City Council cleared pedestrians and traffic at first in what produces this? : CYCLEPATH

19-across – Nerd’s machismo, aimless and misguided : SCHMO

20-across – Nice to see truce’s arranged in exasperation : PICTURESQUE

24-across – Create trendy outlet : INVENT

25-across – The guy’s in a hole that’s sticky : ADHESIVE

26-across – Sore about concealing posh car’s faults : ERRORS

27-across – Something for the media in après-ski treats : PRESSKIT

1-down – Relative in a position to provide help : ASSISTANCE

2-down – Turn pack around in times of serious financial difficulty : BANKRUPTCY

3-down – To start auction: chairs of really nice oak, potentially : ACORN

4-down – Seeing ahead a very conical structure : CLAIRVOYANCE

6-down – Last but one in university course displaced by street bigots : CLASSISTS

7-down – Copper melting test: hot, fast and can really hurt : CUTS

8-down – Some voiced a sigh of relief : AFEW

11-down – Slight effect of halter top in winter? : COLDSHOULDER

13-down – See 7 : TOTHEQUICK

14-down – Regularly have anecdote prepared for unplanned occasion : ADHOCEVENT

16-down – Look at start of revelation : EYEOPENER

21-down – Odds are off on heavier ones, but they’re not : EVENS

22-down – Help getting through edit? : TIDE

23-down – See 22 : OVER

9-across – In need of a trim suit, hero wants nothing fancy : HIRSUTE

10-across – Tucking into a round, a lot of miserable sherry : AMOROSO

11-across – Fan of country group getting into light rap : PATRIOT

12-across – Good 2 is better : GAMBLER

13-across – Sites devoted to cultivation and love? Wagner and Strauss won’t have one : ORCHARDS

14-across – Saw 14 Down’s agreement with one of the Kennedys : DATED

17-across – Wrong and twisted heart of America : CRIME

19-across – Piece of fiction with classical air that’s out of date : LIE

20-across – How Miles ends Kind of Blue is appropriate : STEAL

21-across – Silly opening of 4 addressing dictator from the east : IDIOT

22-across – Latin neologism goes around two continents : NEWWORLD

26-across – Loaded investor hasn’t finished acquiring dodgy firm : BRIMFUL

28-across – Fur coats are very possibly delivered : SAVABLE

29-across – Fixed water dispenser aboard vehicle : STAPLED

30-across – Briefly cook something hot or something sweet : BAKLAVA

1-down – Guy Burgess finally cracks : CHAPS

2-down – More ironic, entertaining Time correspondent, say : WRITER

3-down – E.g. sentence with funny remark, to some extent, on cover of Melville books : PUNISHMENT

4-down – What 2 might produce – The 19 Down? : LETTER

5-down – Glee as gutted Starmer gets hammered for extravagant gifts : LARGESSE

6-down – 2 marks his work, perhaps : POEM

7-down – European stopping dissolute man’s activity in The 12 : ROULETTE

8-down – Broke doughnut for Spanish nurses : POOR

14-down – 2 and broadcaster supporting party over free votes : DOSTOEVSKY

15-down – Point about end of novel – The 21 : DOLT

16-down – Saccharin occasionally cut as energy drink ingredient : ACAI

18-down – Deposing leader, note one state is hostile : INIMICAL

19-down – Bar boss with a pair of kids around New Year : LANDLADY

23-down – Fancied both men and women eating a condiment : WASABI

24-down – This person dons large undies – they’re delivered in autumn : LIBRAS

25-down – 2 with article on line dealing with 17 and 3 : PENAL

26-down – Like 8 27 in book fair, initially ignored : BUST

27-down – People left overwhelmed by two different fines : FOLK

8-across – Arguably an excess of emotion when cataloguing bug? : LISTERIA

9-across – Stop and stand : STALL

10-across – Beautiful message by 22 down – for her character : JANE

11-across – Roman copper coin, a rare fake featuring head of Balbinus : CARABINERO

12-across – 22 down character remains attached to English lord in senselessly joining club : ELINOR

14-across – Game pie calls for dried fruit : ALLSPICE

15-across – Comedic theatre where amusing hosts made merry : DRAMEDY

17-across – Foot carrying cut, very anxious : PANICKY

20-across – On the rack – in italics? : STRESSED

22-across – One that’s correct, though not entirely sharp : ACETIC

23-across – LS’s extra dining room? : HOLLOWLEGS

24-across – Drunkard, sweating, dropping time and time again in London area : SOHO

25-across – Greenfly for example with love for green stuff : PESTO

26-across – Mesmerising guru, one accompanying Scandinavian lass : SVENGALI

1-down – Part of fish, large on threshing shark : FINAGLER

2-down – Mark eyed in first year : STYE

3-down – Seller of food that’s less appetising, we hear? : GROCER

4-down – See 10 Across : FAIRFAX

5-down – 22 down character personifies a despicable pleb loather : ISABELLA

6-down – For example, Fitzgerald’s behind sacrifice, 22 down character : FANNYPRICE

7-down – 22 down’s Mr. Collins, say, cut from poem and caught : CLERIC

13-down – Book contains three-fifths of tales untold : NUMBERLESS

16-down – See 12 Across : DASHWOOD

18-down – In speech, 22 down character’s noble : KNIGHTLY

19-down – Bad day punctuating a creative work : ADVERSE

21-down – See 5 : THORPE

22-down – Author, ‘X’ from Oz? : AUSTEN

24-down – Long narrative, a talk written up : SAGA

1-across – Getting denounced, recollecting satanism? I got it : STIGMATISATION

9-across – Remove remains of meal lucky fugitive might get : CLEARAWAY

10-across – Stockholder has girl round : LASSO

11-across – New song alto gets ready in west Africa : NAIRA

12-across – Toughest part of job, getting gardens concreted over? : HARDYARDS

13-across – Affectionate gesture, given smartphone for example : HANDHELD

14-across – At short notice, book expensively for one : ADVERB

17-across – Keeping it in the family, getting home back is best : NICEST

19-across – Judge park calm : RECORDER

22-across – Host isn’t one to convert believer : SHINTOIST

24-across – Sweep’s friend covered in coal dust : SOOTY

25-across – One’s counterparts work to withdraw concession : OPPOS

26-across – In Missouri car pool went west, he went east : MARCOPOLO

27-across – Describing a number of teeth after a time on scanner falling out : TRANSCENDENTAL

1-down – Charity perhaps offering spare part for old clock? : SECONDHANDSHOP

2-down – European home welcomes police chief : IBERIAN

3-down – Mexican ensembles have charisma, I fancy : MARIACHIS

4-down – Private hospital in multi-storey municipal building : TOWNHALL

5-down – Detective writer speaks without hesitation : SAYERS

6-down – Order back in penalty box : TELLY

7-down – Notice paper is short : OBSERVE

8-down – Intruder an idiot, but sweet : GOOSEBERRYFOOL

15-down – Fumbles ice-cream and cake : DROPSCONE

16-down – What’s missing from book? O my, a tiny bit : DEUTERON

18-down – Fast ship a cutter? Yes and no : CLIPPER

20-down – Tiny drink not allowed unsuccessful ex-student : DROPOUT

21-down – Snack needed by someone overweight in the rain? : BIGMAC

23-down – Great boxer’s extremely tiny child : TYSON

1-across – Top stated means of getting mobile after a fall : SLEIGH

5-across – Advance to be doubled – you don’t mean that, surely? : COMECOME

9-across – Dash on hearing ‘rehearsal’ : TRIALRUN

10-across – That is awfully mean to put one out : NAMELY

11-across – Bright-red tool on reversing crane : CHERRYPICKER

13-across – It indicates action of lover boy’s heart : VERB

14-across – One joining Plato in discursive medium : OILPAINT

17-across – Cancelled electronic dial for the present : OFFERING

18-across – Disclosure taken by peer : LEAK

20-across – Astounding, inspiring : BREATHTAKING

23-across – Modern means of hooking up – it should catch well : TINDER

24-across – Juvenile leads in iconic musical needing to grow up : IMMATURE

25-across – Technological aspects of farming sparking angry mood almost : AGRONOMY

26-across – Force of habit, eating last of tiramisu : DURESS

2-down – House lacks south wing? What a surprise! : LORD

3-down – Cross Siberia travelling with Communist League vans : IRASCIBLE

4-down – A way to interrupt female only set : HARDEN

5-down – Point at which weight is concentrated = v : CENTREOFGRAVITY

6-down – Moon shot? College is game! : MONOPOLY

7-down – Sulphur extracted from beyond earth is rich : COMIC

8-down – Factory in lane, possibly one of a modern generation : MILLENNIAL

12-down – Ballet etc fragments prior to change : PERFORMING

15-down – Gorilla at play, that has an enormous bite : ALLIGATOR

16-down – Success with female, initially triumphing only so far : HITHERTO

19-down – Caught on camera covered in PVC? : FILMED

21-down – Sound made by car : AUDIO

22-down – See 12 : ARTS