Daily Answers

1-across – Drop is put into drink : DISOWN

4-across – Oxygen-fuelled lifting device found after little time – not long? : TWOINCH

9-across – Gentleman sent back in exchange for lawyer : BARRISTER

10-across – Excitable, somewhat touchy perhaps : HYPER

11-across – See 28 : TABLE

12-across – Cook tries open sandwich : INTERPOSE

13-across – It becomes more peaceful for wild animals : DINGOES

15-across – Hands down back of settee, a number of items not quite retrieved, unknown quantity : EASILY

17-across – Leader in Russian preserved by a paper, still : ATREST

19-across – A cruciverbalist residing in Split given new identity : RENAMED

22-across – Travelling in car, thunderous – if so, what’s up? : RAINCLOUD

24-across – Bump on the rear sounded – little accident : PRANG

26-across – Hunter with shaved head, one might be bald : EAGLE

27-across – Shame miserable clothing is being worn by husband : DISHONOUR

28-across – Corner insert fit for pocketed item? : SNOOKER

29-across – Balance at the limits having sex on your bike! : BEATIT

1-down – Section in contract withdrawn : DEBITED

2-down – Remove untidy vegetation : SCRUB

3-down – See 14 : WRITEHOME

4-down – Insolence shown after performance: Congress let it go : TURNTHE

5-down – See 4 : OTHER

6-down – Short investigation into fruit served up for a piece of cake : NOPROBLEM

7-down – String runs through pipes : HORSES

8-down – *one* flight : STAIRS

14-down – Average postcard unnecessary then? : NOTHINGTO

16-down – Cock-up over character without children : SINEPROLE

18-down – As requested, 19 down pulled up? : TOORDER

19-down – Edible plant, a food under review, originally : RADISH

20-down – Follow communist, gentle pace : DOGTROT

21-down – Pants, where fire breaks out in lying? : BRIEFS

23-down – See 4 : CHEEK

25-down – See 14 : ABOUT

1-across – Range of tea now stocked : CHAIN

4-across – Ballet is out of place in old prison : BASTILLE

8-across – Everyone help empty the cabins : ALLHANDSONDECK

10-across – Insulted slim newspaper person : SLIGHTED

11-across – Complete discretion after heart of business exposed : INTACT

12-across – Say you must interrupt caressing abandoned child : FOUNDLING

15-across – Invisible, such violet light : ULTRA

17-across – Yet time for something to happen : EVENT

18-across – Crowd finally attending a music drama : GATHERING

19-across – Busy couple in lifeboat : ATWORK

21-across – Expecting such a significant pause? : PREGNANT

24-across – Relatively profitable organisation? : FAMILYBUSINESS

25-across – As rector, always aim to be called this : REVEREND

26-across – Scatterbrained, as Dorothy may be called : DOTTY

1-down – Ordered notice to be marked secret at the present time : CLASSIFIEDAD

2-down – See ritual reproduced on holiday : ATLEISURE

3-down – Irish girl picking up most important husband : NIAMH

4-down – American friend becoming heartless, organising finances : BUDGETING

5-down – Hazardous weather in south today : SNOW

6-down – Contract for one new set of teeth : INDENTURE

7-down – In which cyclist may be a little painfully crashing : LYCRA

9-down – Tasty oranges are rotten, believe it or not : STRANGETOSAY

13-down – Resolve, may we infer, to encourage yours? : DETERMINE

14-down – Go visiting and buy some drinks : GETAROUND

16-down – Competitor in camp combining with three : TRIVALENT

20-down – Leaving hospital, we have to follow winding route : WEAVE

22-down – Getting name into network is drudgery : GRIND

23-down – Rely on changing instrument : LYRE

1-across – Make known Imogen is to leave : IMPART

4-across – Force moving mass to part of gut : MOMENTUM

9-across – A depression around 5 December, mostly : ADVENT

10-across – Prepare me a blunt sedative : NEMBUTAL

11-across – Little pests come silently: by end of day, crop is flattened : CREEPYCRAWLIES

13-across – My view is available on request : IFYOUASKME

14-across – Love what fallen hero becomes, they say : ZERO

16-across – Gently persuade to announce drinks : COAX

18-across – Green annual meeting not disrupted? : MIGNONETTE

21-across – Dad’s right, each year’s a very long time – after the first, go : PATERNITYLEAVE

23-across – Left impression, puncturing smart politician : BLAIRITE

24-across – Book Suzi? Time to move on : QUARTO

25-across – They pick the last of the readers : ELECTORS

26-across – Second sight of the French uniform on volcanic island a bit off : DEJAVU

1-down – One is a Muslim leader : IMAM

2-down – Feebleness of verse amid superior work, rhymes initially out of place : POVERTY

3-down – One making hasty repair, taking only a second : RUNNERUP

5-down – Dreamy prediction of creamy onion soup : ONEIROMANCY

6-down – Bent pipes fitted in fuel bowser : ELBOWS

7-down – Songsters no end shy, internally tense on edges of copse : TITMICE

8-down – Distance indicator in case somebody takes motorway first : MILESTONE

12-down – Strange mysteries in TV series : YESMINISTER

13-down – Old American, light skinned, holding British to be useless : INCAPABLE

15-down – Non-tenured job that’s a cushy one, getting in at the top : INSECURE

17-down – Champion, uptight inside, has to get going : ACTUATE

19-down – Article on tax turning up in restaurant : TAVERNA

20-down – A rook and a rodent revealed when flood receded : ARARAT

22-down – Naff way Americans treat colour : NONU

9-across – State again backed e-bank charge : REITERATE

10-across – Stout or beer that’s taken right to heart : LARGE

11-across – Keats and this other poet share food after initial disagreement : YEATS

12-across – Leaderless school acquiring principal that points the way : ARROWHEAD

13-across – School subject that is included in the Carolinas, along with English : SCIENCE

14-across – Their arms point forwards for this dance : LANCERS

17-across – What sounds like desirable job description? Exactly : PLUMB

18-across – Fashion shade announced : HEW

19-across – Complaint one enters when maltreated : WHINE

21-across – On part of journey, superficially damage trunks, say : LEGWEAR

23-across – Gossip about crazy guy in Tea Party : CHATTER

24-across – Answer’s found in part of recipe that contains multiple steps : STAIRWELL

26-across – Be unfair, especially towards females, following first cut : EXIST

28-across – Honours presented by European carrying a lot of weight : OBESE

29-across – With another club, possibly, beat uncovered backside : OVERTRUMP

1-down – Thomas the poet located, oddly, in Germany : GRAY

2-down – Asti and rum I mixed for Italian treat : TIRAMISU

3-down – For each boy accomplished looking good : PERSONABLE

4-down – Appreciation of taste that artist finds helpful, we hear : PALATE

5-down – Tolerate Conservative act that’s inviting for consumer : BEARCLAW

6-down – Blasted noblewomen ignoring negative sign, first and last : BLEW

7-down – Eco echoed as novelist : GREENE

8-down – Scanned money, top-sliced 80% of cash : READ

13-down – Lose little time in scattering petals or other part of flower : SEPAL

15-down – They carry papers as a convenience, following directions : NEWSAGENTS

16-down – Produce clippings easy to look through in hearing : SHEAR

18-down – Trainer may use it for transporting gym equipment before fight : HORSEBOX

20-down – Scheme to raise a lot of interest : INTRIGUE

22-down – Improved on try for top award in audition : GOALED

23-down – Person making fatal choices botched clue about left, right? : CULLER

24-down – Hill its city is up on : SION

25-down – Herd animals audibly reacted : ROES

27-down – Frequent bar in light opera : TOPE

1-across – Dope in mess, to an extent : HASHISH

5-across – One running after calories consumed in fat camp : FACTION

9-across – Person knocking frame of durable vehicle : DETRACTOR

10-across – How toccata starts with a lot of piano playing? It’s easy to score : TAPIN

11-across – See 24 : SHAW

12-across – It’s risky to open these tuck boxes left by mogul : FLOODGATES

14-across – Russian who worked in bars walking unsteadily, putting away whiskey : GLINKA

15-across – Person scoffing articles in Gasthof around 1 : DERIDER

16-across – They get reactions from version of litmus paper : STIMULI

18-across – Is it a page from an e-book, really? : EVERSO

20-across – If all else fails, ambassador cuts a dry sausage, as some say, : ATTHEWORST

21-across – Do butterfly’s wings in shadow start to interest Mike? : SWIM

24-across – Jazz bandleader’s skill that is followed by playwright : ARTIE

25-across – Ultimately stubborn sod, ruler loses face in tragedy, almost : NEARTHING

26-across – Incredibly animated lady had meal during jamboree : GALATEA

27-across – Perhaps made pants well worn by old daughter : EXHALED

1-down – Underworld boss pleased a henchman keeps up : HADES

2-down – Second criminal is late to leave dock : SETSAIL

3-down – Holy man in area with border of 0.1 cm : IMAM

4-down – Eagles hit a lithe falcon or cuckoo, circling island : HOTELCALIFORNIA

5-down – Nursing head, why I visited tip-top Japanese bar that’s exasperating : FORGOODNESSSAKE

6-down – Classes about, say, boring politicians : CATEGORIES

7-down – Assigned current Express journalist to take minutes : IMPUTED

8-down – Eschewer of responsibility jailed by loveless tyrant : NONUSER

13-down – Wanting top, perhaps Indian setter used for building motivation : INDUCEMENT

16-down – Primate is upset by e.g. bishop wearing silver : SIAMANG

17-down – All told Greek character pens books on line : INTOTAL

19-down – Understood philosopher’s works : SAWMILL

22-down – Crikey! Covers of Marley track turned up : MYGOD

23-down – You picked up capsized boater, possibly in a state : UTAH