Daily Answers

1-across – Group of golfers wearing small jumpers possibly getting temporary replacements : STOPGAPS

5-across – Runs British city : BLEEDS

9-across – In Hollywood, John Barry, having had some music cut for soap? : TOILETRY

10-across – Right for salesman to be on the counter : PROPER

12-across – Promises royalty has regularly ignored : OATHS

13-across – Ban writer appearing after half 10 : PROSCRIBE

14-across – ABBA checking on volume before I adjusted it on SOS, for example : ABBREVIATION

18-across – Perhaps Tommy Cooper’s opening in club working with top name : CONCEPTALBUM

21-across – Rash promises to pay after Gold Card’s returned right away : AUDACIOUS

23-across – Tremble as the woman almost stripped naked : SHAKE

24-across – Elaborate party : LABOUR

25-across – Brown enraged when losing two internationals, reveals Independent : SEPARATE

26-across – Cycle occasionally went in reverse – seriously : DEEPLY

27-across – Lords powerless after this lot ultimately forming government : STEERAGE

1-down – Porridge for one – mushy, moist and cold : SITCOM

2-down – Number one priority is always track events for starters : OPIATE

3-down – Your password shouldn’t be this fancy – iPad potentially skipping every time : GUESSABLE

4-down – Vacuous prince on air – trips up revealing sweat : PERSPIRATION

6-down – Emotional student joining year one class at the beginning : LYRIC

7-down – Blue cross set in plastic tie clip : EXPLICIT

8-down – Officer material getting a green beret, finally : SERGEANT

11-down – Recovering beers and Charlie confiscated by home for those with a habit : CONVALESCENT

15-down – Originally Alan Partridge maybe pulling faces in foolish endeavour : AMUGSGAME

16-down – Hastily wrote long passage, making a drug into something that might be boring : SCRAWLED

17-down – In retrospect feel Biden is somewhat unpalatable : INEDIBLE

19-down – Articles restricted by airline – one maybe in hand : BANANA

20-down – 25 centigrade’s close and hard to endure : SEVERE

22-down – One’s surly husband’s breaking wind : CHURL

1-across – 151 + 10 confused customer? : CLIENT

4-across – Exhibits left on board : SPORTS

9-across – Terms of trade included tender : SOFT

10-across – How to make a round table in the cheapest manner? : CUTCORNERS

11-across – Very short dresses and short crimson pants : MICROS

12-across – Nervously making a bet : AFLUTTER

13-across – Way of rising to beat a lost race : ESCALATOR

15-across – Where to practise cricket catches : NETS

16-across – Maybe Vietnam finally came to mind : WARE

17-across – Details if I see in glasses : SPECIFICS

21-across – Show cocaine smuggled into country by 3 on vacation? : INDICATE

22-across – Very old literary festival turned away louts : YAHOOS

24-across – Debtor stuffing pennies into faulty socket : POWERPOINT

25-across – Perhaps Morse caught over 500 people in the end : CODE

26-across – Method of study? Drop core technical subjects : SYSTEM

27-across – Does swimming on college lake get stopped? : CLOSED

1-down – For example, William Hill’s losing billions following cold food : COOKIES

2-down – Playwright not parking in Bury : INTER

3-down – Covering initial investment using coin as capital : NICOSIA

5-down – Sick men admitted into educational institution : POORLY

6-down – Send back coat over silent treatment to manage alone : RUNITSELF

7-down – Waiters and prophets carry bible : SERVERS

8-down – Orchestra pits played extremely high : STRATOSPHERIC

14-down – Craft songs about sides in English : AIRLINERS

16-down – Party after triumph with ultimate in chess openings : WINDOWS

18-down – Shed tears with last shot glass : CRYSTAL

19-down – Could criminal man be hidden?` : CLOUDED

20-down – Top of dried fruit marked with spots : DAPPLE

23-down – Journalists want tip-off to break hot leading story : HACKS

1-across – Person managing port in other bars with a rum shot : HARBOURMASTER

10-across – Jobseeker right behind tech company, receiving its trademark letter? : APPLIER

11-across – Casually treat husband after i.e. pinching guy’s bottom : TOYWITH

12-across – English books absorbing love poet : ELIOT

13-across – Delete account over a new delivery method : CAESAREAN

14-across – Scraps of paper I’m obliged to include in sort of map : IOTAS

16-across – Show jazz inspired by heavy metal – it’s what good consumers prefer : FAIRTRADE

18-across – Refrain from TV? Seem agitated in skimpy undies : THEMESONG

19-across – Teacher from the east greeting wise person there : RISHI

20-across – Threats of attacks from Salah et al defending poorly later : REDALERTS

23-across – Kid close to Ayers Rock : SPROG

24-across – When uncovered, unearthly changes are captivating : ENTHRAL

25-across – European city with Scot going on the tube : LATVIAN

26-across – If not upset, BBC presenter loses face in dodgy poll here : ROTTENBOROUGH

2-down – Take off last of cellophane, packaging item one’s put in post : APPOINTEE

3-down – 12 with 1 pound raised for certain celebs : BLIST

4-down – Occasionally vulgar, essentially tricky languages : UGRIC

5-down – Taking care of how one works on operas : MOTHERING

6-down – Yes, Tramp’s cryptic is for one with much intelligence : SPYMASTER

7-down – Half of 11 divided by 11 for one far from home : EXILE

8-down – That man’s entertained by sleeve on the blues records : CASEHISTORIES

9-down – Caught northern Spice Girl draped in curtain, making church music : CHANGERINGING

15-down – Fish without batter? Sense it’s fishy : SMELLARAT

16-down – Architect may make this bad pastry dish for Spooner : FLOORPLAN

17-down – Swearing hair’s put up with voguish silver rings : ASSERTING

21-down – Going too far, I had to retreat? You can say that again : DITTO

22-down – Surrey’s opener, supported by Oval, bats a barrage of shots : SALVO

23-down – Fight is tense, having fixed boxing ring : SETTO

1-across – Suit forever? : DIAMONDS

5-across – Masterful play on Radio Three to start with : ADROIT

9-across – It’s raw food if it’s cured badly : CRUDITES

10-across – Pay attention and join the army in the wrong order : LISTEN

12-across – Agreements of EU board : OUIJA

13-across – Change into home gear first to get disguised : INCOGNITO

14-across – Cause of delay, if rejected, gets the Guardian in terrible mess : FILIBUSTERER

18-across – Not better informed on either news broadcast : NONETHEWISER

21-across – Legal to chase police officer capturing mafia chief involved in wrongdoing : COMPLICIT

23-across – Finger pointer : INDEX

24-across – Talk about Northern fancy : ORNATE

25-across – Basic being into each other : INCHOATE

26-across – Repeat once more, only half botched : ENCORE

27-across – Think again about idiots in press getting rid of extremists : REASSESS

1-down – Professional indoor court : DOCTOR

2-down – Not going for Greek character in song : ANURIA

3-down – Check-up before noon, first folder : ORIGAMIST

4-down – Gathering information for coach that should be here anytime now : DUEDILIGENCE

6-down – Preparing food and clearing up afterwards : DOING

7-down – Quirks expose report of deceptive people : OUTLIERS

8-down – No 5 prepared and cooked in the oven : TANDOORI

11-down – Half cancelling old-fashioned entry after a person one knows : ACQUAINTANCE

15-down – See 6 : THEDISHES

16-down – Wild ‘dance to the end of love’ story : ANECDOTE

17-down – Reminder for musician on vacation on irregular income : MNEMONIC

19-down – Think I would dine on eggs to start with : IDEATE

20-down – Sounds like size zero is too much : EXCESS

22-down – Some chocolate ripple? Not now! : LATER

1-across – Delivered book draft on time : BROUGHT

5-across – It could kill you to let go when on limb! : FIREARM

9-across – A fashionable area might – just : MAYFAIR

10-across – Mock light with ring attached : LAMPOON

11-across – One’s exercise with ball shows restraint : IMPEDANCE

12-across – Pass on after last of bone extracted from joint : REFER

13-across – Rather large vehicle award : OSCAR

15-across – People may wrongly believe this Burnham ground hosts Sunday cricket finals : URBANMYTH

17-across – English impertinence: every individual pinches Frenchman’s bottom! : SASSENACH

19-across – Sequence of Trump’s initial downfall : TRAIN

22-across – See 3 Down : PIANO

23-across – It’s a big thing, Latin – have to get translated : LEVIATHAN

25-across – Month before an attempt to acquire new figure : OCTAGON

26-across – Enjoying continuing success playing a character on the radio : ONAROLL

27-across – Holding note with Sinatra? : TENANCY

28-across – Minor habit condensed from personality : ROMPERS

1-down – Disney character: on reflection, hardly adult : BAMBINO

2-down – Male-centred sporting policy associated with certain games : OLYMPIC

3-down – Haughty, awful pain, old Joanna : GRAND

4-down – Thanks on capturing weirdly natural, scary creature : TARANTULA

5-down – Member goes after sham, failed presidential candidate – no need to panic : FALSE

6-down – Artist’s Sleep Activity/Mark Twain’s Head : REMBRANDT

7-down – Ladies, say, in a rush, not in a friendly way : ALOOFLY

8-down – Gold pieces first stuck on – how cute! – candelabrum : MENORAH

14-down – Study sound with eg mouth instrument : REEDORGAN

16-down – Above Uriah’s deviance: not a way to conduct oneself : BEHAVIOUR

17-down – Second drink, Bordeaux? : SUPPORT

18-down – Austere box belt : SPARTAN

20-down – The endless invasion of a solitary Irish location : ATHLONE

21-down – Puzzle involving puns, only shortened : NONPLUS

23-down – As a beanpole is set to absorb two fertiliser elements : LANKY

24-down – See 5 : ALARM