Daily Answers

9-across – Is fool with gut wobbling a Foo Fighters fan? : UFOLOGIST

10-across – 62.5% of sitcom in Scottish town : ALLOA

11-across – Attack food Picaroon had knocked back with booze : DIGIN

12-across – Concern to instal right figure in French supermarket : CARREFOUR

13-across – Profited from sunshine? Notice what comes in spring time : MADEHAY

14-across – Nobleman’s dressing a prince in bits of headgear : EARLAPS

17-across – Pike initially served with fruit : SPEAR

19-across – Tips from The Angler? Now catch some rays : TAN

20-across – Ultimately flounder in drink – and then do this? : DROWN

21-across – Like some fish and a couple of drugs from the east : DEEPSEA

22-across – I receive a promise Pole’s outside fixing shelf : PLEDGEE

24-across – Two fishes for chap on a fat-free diet : JACKSPRAT

26-across – English cricketer catching small perch : ROOST

28-across – Drinks heavily when cycling, getting the sauce : PESTO

29-across – Learner finishes cracking Paul cryptic completely : ALLENDSUP

1-down – Former PM is bloody short : RUDD

2-down – Smelt seen in north, say, turning among whales : PONGED

3-down – Drunk has no boring escapades – they generate great interest : LOANSHARKS

4-down – Like minnows close to coast, causing irritation : TITCHY

5-down – Drive into thoroughfare, working for ex-party leader : STURGEON

6-down – Cod following white fish in East London : FAKE

7-down – Loaded or rolling? You would be here! : ELDORADO

8-down – President cutting cold mullet, say : HAIR

13-down – Thought Head of SIS took drugs : MUSED

15-down – You won’t get the answer from a clue such as this? : REDHERRING

16-down – Char or e.g. bass, tailed : SINGE

18-down – Maybe running tax shelters uncovered here : EXERCISE

19-down – Rest from moving bare wood frames : TEABREAK

22-down – Palest pants – they may cover reproductive organs : PETALS

23-down – Carp in two rivers south of Germany’s capital : GROUSE

24-down – After 1st of July, emulate deed on 1st of April : JAPE

25-down – Skins of swordfish, orfe and skate, perhaps : SHOE

27-down – Spinners for brill : TOPS

7-across – Pastry chef initially getting 10/1 about fantastic mare : CREAMPUFF

8-across – What winds up Hilary Mantel at first is absurd : SILLY

9-across – Government in action is awfully combative : AGONISTIC

10-across – Joe is wearing coat of secret power : MAGIC

12-across – Painter contributing to building restoration : INGRES

13-across – Martyr gets upset with 11 : STGEORGE

16-across – Extremely stupid study tips from Sesame Street : DENSEST

19-across – Prickly animal ultimately crossed the road : BEARDED

22-across – Insect almost turned on dog : HORNTAIL

25-across – Island’s relaxed mood embodied by strong punch? : KOMODO

27-across – Portion of splendid risotto in Elba? : IDRIS

28-across – Resisting nuclear threat after evacuation fails : RELUCTANT

29-across – Pleased with yourself about answer for 1 down? : SMAUG

30-across – Ineffective Chopper Harris finally getting in amongst the French : TOOTHLESS

1-down – Pull leg of monster : DRAGON

2-down – Year ends badly for mother of 1? : DAENERYS

3-down – Pieces of sausage finally eaten by old cat : OPUSES

4-down – Single fellow on short holiday is most dodgy : IFFIEST

5-down – Stars bored with acting for Amazon : VIRAGO

6-down – Year in relationship is going very quickly : FLYING

11-down – Giant conger eel regularly escaping : OGRE

14-down – Way to swallow English wine : RED

15-down – Crouch with header missing target : END

16-down – Female called out for interjection from Homer : DOH

17-down – Neither way to leave country : NOR

18-down – Take shot in game : SNAP

20-down – Lonely lady on vacation for a bit : REMOTELY

21-down – Retiring golfer leading Open prepared to thoughtfully postpone : SLEEPON

23-down – Swelling sea turns up in opera oddly : OEDEMA

24-down – Paul in cryptic post? : NAILUP

25-down – A king turning up without smart shirt : KHURTA

26-down – Language course covering indefinite article : DANISH

1-across – Spooner’s accused principal dancer of being a promiscuous type : BEDHOPPER

6-across – Important religious text is sectarian : BIGOT

9-across – Melting ice sheet’s a brute – why climb it? : BECAUSEITSTHERE

10-across – My good man – regularly forceful he is : YODA

11-across – Appropriate entrance for central Harrow? : ARROGATE

14-across – Normal lady at home opposes such a loner : ODDMANOUT

15-across – Plain part of Cornwall an oasis : LLANO

16-across – Your drained, after having modelled for this randy fellow : SATYR

18-across – No ironing when drunk! Get some food : ONIONRING

20-across – Let me through for this dance : EXCUSEME

21-across – Asian money needed when adding height to club … : BAHT

25-across – … our central location for revealing secrets : BETWEENYOUANDME

26-across – Drug measures would be heartless for some females : DOSES

27-across – Faded plant lacks depth on the nose : OLFACTORY

1-down – Constable is a bit soft, having released Liberal : BOBBY

2-down – Made call to get cops involved in action : DECIDED

3-down – It was used to make Roman omelette : OVUM

4-down – Look briefly at reports of maximum irritation : PEEK

5-down – Experience of getting high yield before – it’s coming back : RETURNTRIP

6-down – Pay-off at end of poem : BOTTOMLINE

7-down – Island got really enraged initially over nothing : GRENADA

8-down – Seem awkward wearing underwear for introduction to programme : THEMESONG

12-down – They’ll see you in court for covering street with obstacles : BARRISTERS

13-down – Omit cover for privates providing order in sticky situation : GOCOMMANDO

14-down – Seafood store where ragged boy rested : OYSTERBED

17-down – He recorded his times without telling us : TACITUS

19-down – Authoritative reason given to child querying parental order : ISAIDSO

22-down – Stand over major city – just a bit : TEENY

23-down – Make mistake and scarper without finishing : GOOF

24-down – Spirit shown by master catholic : MARC

1-across – TV team’s working with painter whose oeuvre isn’t in a gallery : PAVEMENT

5-across – See 1 : ARTIST

9-across – Two gins and it mixed for setting off : IGNITING

10-across – Make short tent : MARQUE

12-across – Start of Macron’s ethnocentrism : ONSET

13-across – Draw in height, first to last, for 1.25% : EIGHTIETH

14-across – Geeky type teaches at Hogwarts? : TRAINSPOTTER

18-across – Neophiliac’s line may be winning there : RINGINTHENEW

21-across – Absolute pittance left by ex-PM’s declaration : UTTERANCE

23-across – Yours in slime? : THINE

24-across – They leave next generation outside the European Union : EXEUNT

25-across – Drunk and unfussy lover you picked up wearing cropped top : BIBULOUS

26-across – Christian vibrator : SHAKER

27-across – Quit rejecting cat and dog and budgie cover : STEPDOWN

1-down – Frequently, agitator restrained by braces as they are : PAIROF

2-down – Be seen no more as a vehicle? : VANISH

3-down – Is traitor up to tech firm’s five pieces afoot? : METATARSI

4-down – Yielding sinners not at fault : NONRESISTANT

6-down – Right oven for this? : ROAST

7-down – Many an investigation isn’t planned to cover queues abandoned by the centre : INQUESTS

8-down – He or she print data, not as planned for him or her : THETHIRD

11-down – Encourages Sherlock of late to get breakfast : EGGSBENEDICT

15-down – Exposed bottom to secure trick : OVERTRUMP

16-down – See 1 : TROUSERS

17-down – Four articles about totalitarianism’s ultimate bête noire : ANATHEMA

19-down – Escort for concert top solo : GIGOLO

20-down – See 8 : PERSON

22-down – Fruit farm starts out in mountains : RANGE

1-across – Perhaps Freud regularly haggled for a reduction : SHRINKAGE

6-across – Tweet of little value, we hear : CHEEP

9-across – Having debts, now criminal receives one grand : OWING

10-across – Mess up in skirmish and leave : MISHANDLE

11-across – Make conversation as Mrs Sprat did : CHEWTHEFAT

12-across – Complimentary about iron covers : FREE

14-across – It’s a bright colour, little bit of skin damage? : SCARLET

15-across – Wished company finally made money : YEARNED

17-across – Excellent beer emptied and knocked back – one cold bitter : ACERBIC

19-across – Charm heartless girl with love for the French : GLAMOUR

20-across – Commanding officer with case for detective Morse? : CODE

22-across – Groups of soldiers cricketer cheers with pride? : BATTALIONS

25-across – City coach, one carrying Evita’s spicy food : PEPPERONI

26-across – Sound made by hooter drawing one in : NOISE

27-across – Fib from Sunak originally, and one from his party : STORY

28-across – Worker who’s on track maligns rewritten article : SIGNALMAN

1-down – Philosopher somewhat impervious to iconoclasm : STOIC

2-down – Repeat of complex rite before the queen dined : REITERATE

3-down – Wild Thing and hits in discos : NIGHTCLUBS

4-down – Part of a chair Starmer’s broken : ARMREST

5-down – Illegal drug simple to swallow around street : ECSTASY

6-down – Tea time discussion : CHAT

7-down – Duck of a crimson colour that is from the south : EIDER

8-down – E.g. Bonnie Prince Charlie in power, concerned with money : PRETENDER

13-down – Ignoring endings, cast able and can film : CASABLANCA

14-down – Ocean views, for instance within south-eastern headlands : SEASCAPES

16-down – Designed logos? Mine shows new word : NEOLOGISM

18-down – Colouring materials beginning to colour synthetic fabrics : CRAYONS

19-down – Skimpy underwear item is a bit of a fiddle : GSTRING

21-down – E.g. hummus and salsa on bagel for toper : DIPSO

23-down – Actor Charlie, son of Martin, spotted astride horse : SHEEN

24-down – Bank really giving away a pound : RELY