Daily Answers

1-across – Sweat blood! A new rallying cry : SLOGAN

5-across – In which Dashing White Sergeants may follow Gay Gordons? : CEILIDHS

9-across – Writing in Afghan province curtailed by the one in charge : HELMSMAN

10-across – See 11 : STABLE

11-across – Seek election fast? Not with error included in May’s 1 : STRONGAND

13-across – See 21 Down : ISNT

14-across – Oxbridge set, lacking suitable leader, take Ten by storm with Johnson’s 1 : GETBREXIT

16-across – See 14 : DONE

18-across – Tag line : TACK

19-across – Preferred to welcome soggy dew: he’ll wake up damp : BEDWETTER

22-across – Hostility when vying for the part : ENVY

24-across – Times includes set classifications by birth : AGEGROUPS

26-across – Mafia’s come to conceal calamity : FIASCO

27-across – Cool clue for face : LAIDBACK

28-across – Mortice plugged by centre of key turns fast : METEORIC

29-across – Cheap and fishy? : GARISH

2-down – City’s residue includes primary deposits : LEEDS

3-down – Fool capsized horse in charge – what a sap! : GUMARABIC

4-down – The chosen one – me! – in one arrangement : NOMINEE

5-down – See 23 : CAN

6-down – Playing while banged up : INSIDE

7-down – National initially is ready and quits idling : IRAQI

8-down – The daughter of my brother by another mother, say – quite lovely about end of life : HALFNIECE

12-down – Alkene libation recanted in part of Texas city : ABILENE

15-down – Long for former lover? It evens out : EXTENSIVE

17-down – Overwhelm with clue to ‘burn me’? : OUTNUMBER

20-down – See 21 : WORKING

21-down – Balfour, no effin’ joke, ain’t Geordie royalty, according to Thatcher’s 1 : LABOUR

23-down – Obama’s 1 – quite so! Learn to live without Conservative : YESWE

25-down – Beats hose : SOCKS

27-down – Be without, we hear, water : LAC

1-across – Buys tea in bags : PURCHASES

6-across – Suffer backing old police force and its patch : INCUR

9-across – Mathematical ability required when holding Chippendales auditions? : AHEADFORFIGURES

10-across – A truly incomplete state : AVER

11-across – Chips in, holding a dairy cow : FRIESIAN

14-across – Officers giving material to the workers : SERGEANTS

15-across – Pub containing four regularly having a joke : INFUN

16-across – Peaceful girl, alluring one, topless, at end of promenade : IRENE

18-across – Align oneself round gallery, admitting it’s nothing in Nancy : ORIENTATE

20-across – Bridge opponents from the media love coffee : ESPRESSO

21-across – Down-at-heel old solver given hiding! : THEE

25-across – Anthem offering trade-offs with hymnal, possibly : LANDOFMYFATHERS

26-across – Conferences on limiting food? : DIETS

27-across – Comes across record deliveries : DISCOVERS

1-down – Up mountain, two sharp bends and a square : PLAZA

2-down – Animal came ‘ither by boat, we hear : ROEDEER

3-down – Twitcher’s refuge is somewhat ghastly : HIDE

4-down – Top Surrey cricketers out with boat : SCOW

5-down – Light clothing from Asia. Fruits served : SAFARISUIT

6-down – Part of engine congested with dirt : INGREDIENT

7-down – Amusing character, one with a couple of females. That’s capital! : CARDIFF

8-down – Sympathetic sound conveyed on a screen : RESONANCE

12-down – Crimson first lady prunes blossoms again : REDEVELOPS

13-down – Nuneaton’s alter ago, we hear! : UNCONSUMED

14-down – Turned round, getting different views seeing valley going north : SWIVELLED

17-down – Money paid out to former US vice-president, we’re told : EXPENSE

19-down – Minerva regularly gripped by desire to win : ACHIEVE

22-down – Stops blowing top and relaxes : EASES

23-down – Buffoons regularly, little green men seen here? : UFOS

24-down – Emperor ran away from Italian city : OTTO

1-across – Cryptic setter one could describe as ‘easy’ : STREET

4-across – Rich young man buying ordinary education : LOADED

9-across – Innocent spy boss infiltrates party : LAMB

10-across – Author’s duty about the examination of youth : CHILDSTUDY

11-across – During the weekend princess does rollerblading : SKATES

12-across – Bug about to be eaten behind closed doors : INSECRET

13-across – Declares being in favour of strong characters at the centre of Brussels : PROFESSES

15-across – Mark Twain finds eating spaghetti ends messily : SIGN

16-across – Very happy to start with this? : SOUP

17-across – Alien creates artificial additional things : ETCETERAS

21-across – When reversing, some forgot Tesla frequently makes high pitch : FALSETTO

22-across – Doctor Who actors in outbreak, onset of salmonella : BAKERS

24-across – : ELEMENTARY

25-across – Does medical practitioner look inside after removing heart? : DEER

26-across – State banquet is wasting content : TISWAS

27-across – A hundred put in Surrey prison gain height : ASCEND

1-down – Sun story about King’s brother – in conclusion, a criminal : STALKER

2-down – English batsman bowled down the middle by machine : ROBOT

3-down – Reasons old girlfriend swears Romeo’s dumped : EXCUSES

5-down – Over 500,500 set off? Most peculiar : ODDEST

6-down – Policeman not working, giving up foxtrot for tango : DETECTIVE

7-down – Worthless information describing love produces resentment : DUDGEON

8-down – Boil rice and it’s jiggling back and forth : BIDIRECTIONAL

14-down – Golfers making mess of our rough : FOURSOMES

16-down – Red Ferrari maybe left in place : SCARLET

18-down – 50% of them: brothers containing male chromosome? : EMBRYOS

19-down – Clue for a simpleton? : AIRHEAD

20-down – Lines of workers rise up to capture extremists separately : STANZA

23-down – Royal man for example, lifting anchor : KEDGE

9-across – Abuse about a vacuous orchestrator, one unable to conduct : INSULATOR

10-across – Wipe middle of vase before edges : ERASE

11-across – I perhaps love info on malfunctioning piece of AI : HALOGEN

12-across – Was a vocalist on the radio covered? : WRAPPED

13-across – Intimidate country club servant : UNMAN

14-across – Ring girl eating sandwiches : DINGALING

16-across – Place for putting the shot? : PHOTOGRAPHALBUM

19-across – English Conservative in inept or bungling party : RECEPTION

21-across – Puzzle that’s worth cracking : THROW

22-across – He leaves the money that’s extorted in bar : TRANSOM

23-across – One may bowl over penny-pinching reprobate : SPINNER

24-across – Polite refusal by king returning in shop : RATON

25-across – Wannabe holy person, certainly not corrupt! : NOVITIATE

1-down – Drunk given clothing, one trying not to disturb the bar? : HIGHJUMPER

2-down – Loves holding unaccompanied note in romantic song : OSOLEMIO

3-down – Try stuffing pastry in container for liquid : FLAGON

4-down – Where to see privileged learners melt down every so often : ETON

5-down – Artwork upset tot – is it a tacky item? : DRAWINGPIN

6-down – Drained Viennese and North American sparkling wine in vessel for claret : VENACAVA

7-down – Asian income picked up in Asian capital : TAIPEI

8-down – Take charge of field day : LEAD

14-down – Article in Bild getting complaint, going off-line? : DERAILMENT

15-down – Maybe this worker’s in grassy area, protecting a bird? : GAMEWARDEN

17-down – Cockney aspiring to fix Post Office’s counter : OPPOSING

18-down – Undressed Tony Blair partying around a noble : BARONIAL

20-down – Cruel around horse, but tending to rabbit : CHATTY

21-down – Character asking for more special, unexpected events : TWISTS

22-down – Piece of rubber – it was seized by Alexander : TYRE

23-down – Person forced to work hasn’t left husband : SAVE

1-across – Be ready to do nothing : STANDBY

5-across – Get rid of unwanted drug that’s been released : WEEDOUT

10-across – Groom initially coy on meeting bride : COMB

11-across – Alternative for meek lady lacking a traditional cure : FOLKREMEDY

12-across – Special language giving information on freezing : POLARI

13-across – Exemption allows compiler to admit being weak about it : IMPUNITY

14-across – I can see GP bothered by gesture seeking no conflict : PEACESIGN

16-across – Clues given to Yard, wasted : TIPSY

17-across – Mad liberal conceals stuff that’s not prepared : ADLIB

19-across – Rough up Nigel for example : MANHANDLE

23-across – Great story about earth I told in instalments : EPISODIC

24-across – River group gets rejected, having eaten meat : THAMES

26-across – Dylan moved around in river boat mostly : BYANDLARGE

27-across – Little appreciation for one who is late : OBIT

28-across – Work space sketched out, eliminating carbon : THEDESK

29-across – Put on in accordance with procedure : PERFORM

2-down – Broadcast raised in volume when showing traditional sexual arrangement : TWOSOME

3-down – Parvenu biased somewhat against part of Africa : NUBIA

4-down – Experts unavailable during scraps : BOFFINS

6-down – Money annually applied to create satellite : EUROPA

7-down – Extent of US currency getting acknowledgement in reports : DIMENSION

8-down – Meets potential lover following happy news : UPDATES

9-down – Buffoons regularly see them : FLYINGSAUCERS

15-down – Organised crime don’s looking embarrassed : CRIMSONED

18-down – Drop extremely tacky church artwork : DIPTYCH

20-down – Welcome success in this place? : HITHERE

21-down – More wary about strange linkage between both sides : LEERIER

22-down – Shambles when wife’s abandoned puzzles : ADDLES

25-down – Sale room offer is essentially disdainful : ALOOF