Daily Answers

1-across – Translate Korea’s anthem? I’m not sure of that one : ASKMEANOTHER

10-across – Rosalind’s lover is somewhere in Florida : ORLANDO

11-across – File with misrepresented dates disguising a tryst at first : DATASET

12-across – Women’s Institute introducing politicians as ‘namby-pambys’ : WIMPS

13-across – Starter missing final touch, brunch with half missing: dig in! : ENTRENCH

15-across – Not qualified, installing kitchen unit, eternally buoyant : UNSINKABLE

16-across – Head toppled, it’s a Russian leader? : TSAR

18-across – Enjoys accommodation : DIGS

20-across – According to Welsh woman, jazz fan is hairy beast : PERSIANCAT

22-across – Monarch reserving no time : KNOTTING

24-across – Term of endearment that sounds the same as ‘dear’ when uttered : HEART

26-across – GM-free cargo in dingy : ORGANIC

27-across – I might get boring here: do this to your bicycle chain : OILWELL

28-across – Worst thing a crossword setter could say? Beats me : IHAVENTACLUE

2-down – Age-old battle for spicy sausages : SALAMIS

3-down – Work out, in sum, a number : MINUSONE

4-down – It’s auctioned often : ALOT

5-down – Kind of sheepdog’s tongue : OLDENGLISH

6-down – One with spite and broken heart : HATER

7-down – Begrudges accommodation costs outside Home Counties : RESENTS

8-down – In dialogue, ex-chancellor and nationalist leader? Yes? No? Dunno : HOWWOULDIKNOW

9-down – That ill-sorted muddle suggests things are tricky to anticipate : ITSHARDTOTELL

14-down – A celebrant converted in temple : TABERNACLE

17-down – Broad baby’s complaint about knitted hat : CATHOLIC

19-down – Scrambled egg containing coddled roe I will serve king : GEORGEI

21-down – French cat finds French drink where French drink is produced : CHATEAU

23-down – Silver not returning to far-off island state : TONGA

25-down – Primarily, dope or lazy thinker? : DOLT

1-across – Tiddly oaf never shakes? I don’t believe it : FORHEAVENSSAKE

10-across – Brief gives bum steer : TERSE

11-across – Spice Girl given cautions about counterfeit goods : FORGERIES

12-across – Traditional intro in Raiders remake : DEARSIR

13-across – Web implicated, diet abandoned where people eat : DINETTE

14-across – ‘Uh’ sound elicited by kitsch wardrobe : SCHWA

16-across – Arbitration with no time for deep thought : MEDIATION

19-across – Suffering when a conservative follows heartless, reactionary group : PURGATORY

20-across – Act immorally with American in snotty enclosure : SINUS

22-across – On ‘scone’, rendering given by reactionaries : NEOCONS

25-across – Batman’s seen in this hoax in American resort : CAPECOD

27-across – Bisected protozoan – 50% missing very soon : INHALFAMO

28-across – Nannies essentially depicted in musical movie : ANNIE

29-across – Bashed fifth toe? Holler just because you can : FORTHEHELLOFIT

2-down – Early bit of devotion: rousing her at four : OURFATHER

3-down – Cobbler does this for despicable people : HEELS

4-down – Amoral foe tampered with sports car : ALFAROMEO

5-down – Wild deer on both sides of river went astray : ERRED

6-down – Big mugs muffled passage on fancy keyboard instruments : STEINWAYS

7-down – Fatalist will lose weight to become famous : ALIST

8-down – Oriental festival supported by nationalist : EASTERN

9-down – Quarrelling dads to wrestle : ATODDS

15-down – Religious leader with a ‘tally-ho!’: a maverick : AYATOLLAH

17-down – Seat of learning choosy lad declined : DAYSCHOOL

18-down – 19, simple-minded one : INNOCENTI

19-down – Religious leader quiet concerning difference of opinion : PONTIFF

21-down – Primarily, somewhere you don’t necessarily expect Yukonese? : SYDNEY

23-down – As an alternative, including the alternative : OTHER

24-down – Small potatoes!? A tremendous success! : SMASH

26-down – Scotsman in post office, one of 6 : PIANO

1-across – Partner of Orville declaring ‘I Wish I Could Fly’? : WILBURWRIGHT

10-across – Pakistan’s opener caught in cricket maybe leading to review : INSPECT

11-across – Dog in pen with tail tucked in : SHARPEI

12-across – Europe to show disapproval of amount of data needed for downloaded literature : EBOOK

13-across – Embarrassed with Thai starter, not hot but quite exorbitant : STEEPISH

15-across – Big fight that no-one needs a subscription to watch : FREEFORALL

16-across – Heartlessly fire children’s entertainer : LEGO

18-across – Pinched by personal assistant, I’m sorry to say : ALAS

20-across – Everyone knows that duck and swans on east end of island disappeared : OPENSECRET

22-across – Clever, introducing a computer to get rid of machinery : SABOTAGE

24-across – Go rummaging with some wood elves : DELVE

26-across – Do you understand my joke about T Rex song? : GETITON

27-across – Leaves Lear’s daughter caught between two loves : OREGANO

28-across – Water drained after scrubbing: what we teach children to do : READANDWRITE

2-down – Those elected ran as expected : INSTORE

3-down – Two noises a donkey’s vet might hear and stop abruptly : BREAKOFF

4-down – Legal papers delivered to luxurious establishment : RITZ

5-down – Linger awkwardly outside home of badger that’s moving : RESETTLING

6-down – Good to arrive at party sober : GRAVE

7-down – Beef is better than fish : TOPSIDE

8-down – Ritual consumption of foie gras pâtés : RITEOFPASSAGE

9-down – Topless resort party restricted by the tense? Just so : RIGHTONTHEDOT

14-down – In report, very cursory examination of fake news : PROPAGANDA

17-down – Nightcap, perhaps, for acid-user anticipating stash of drugs : HEADGEAR

19-down – Judge reviewed trial, oddly ignored dangerous dog : ARBITER

21-down – Dependent given latrine for movement : RELIANT

23-down – Fish that’s engagingly technicolour roaming aquaria primarily : TETRA

25-down – For Sévérine, good to go on date with 007 : BOND

1-across – Around Tyneside, suits will get perks : BENEFITS

5-across – In France, who gets behind cook : QUICHE

10-across – Go-getter policeman given basic spelling test : BUSYBEE

11-across – ‘Dancing On Ice: ‘Australia’ vacuously presenting ‘Polynesia, etc’ : OCEANIA

12-across – Dishonesty concerning time spent with crossword, perhaps : LIEIN

13-across – Slightly inclined to be a little dear : ABITSTEEP

14-across – A German in each hotel — being prepared is hidden strength : ACEINTHEHOLE

16-across – Give up TV? It’s child’s play : JACKINTHEBOX

21-across – ’Spare mo’ with Cameron? It’s lasted centuries : COMMONERA

23-across – Wedding guide more sumptuous with outlay of pounds : USHER

24-across – Primarily, it’s where old Japanese infantry met Americans? : IWOJIMA

25-across – What might be plucked, when it’s dipped in refined sugar : GUITARS

26-across – English seen in Riviera city society with family : NIECES

27-across – Victorian novel Conrad frequently reinvented : CRANFORD

1-down – Beelzebub, bleeding, hiding blister : BUBBLE

2-down – Not a single store had food : NOSHED

3-down – Maths whiz, wonderfully fab, iconic : FIBONACCI

4-down – It might be presented as cheetah in that titfer, for starters! : THECATINTHEHAT

6-down – Employers in trouser suits : USERS

7-down – Swindle very cunningly, snatching old type of belt : CONVEYOR

8-down – Illustrative warnings make Max sleep fitfully : EXAMPLES

9-down – In this arrangement, we might see dingo anger them! : DOGINTHEMANGER

15-down – Sturgeon’s aim: Scotland finally off, a natural process : EVOLUTION

16-down – Ousting when Liberal drops back two places in poll : EJECTION

17-down – Half of mush to percolate and circulate : SCHMOOZE

19-down – Mickey Mouse’s company with a lot invested : CHEAPO

20-down – Incompetently seared, destroyed the lot : ERASED

22-down – No livery includes a yellowish green : OLIVE

1-across – Novelist reviewing The Role of the Superego : SELFCRITICISM

8-across – Pulse half missing, getting terribly cool : CHIC

9-across – Europe cast unfairly as ‘place lacking atmosphere’ : OUTERSPACE

10-across – French city declared bust : BREAST

11-across – What one familiar with Wagner does in audition, offering ornamentation : NOSERING

12-across – Dumbly disrespect, ignoring old in favour of oneself : INSILENCE

14-across – Slight: ‘Trust in you? Not entirely’ : TINY

15-across – Enthusiast with excellent muscle tone : BUFF

16-across – Spooner’s curious admirer delivers a kitchen utensil : FRYINGPAN

20-across – Nightingale in the city? : FLORENCE

21-across – Writer’s voice has sounds of hesitation : SAYERS

23-across – Drunken harlot embraceth corrupted Zion, even : HORIZONTAL

24-across – I doubt that easy life is without limits : ASIF

25-across – Conservative journalist, grown up with Sun, made restitution : RIGHTEDWRONGS

1-down – Baking has a sickly spread : SAHARAN

2-down – Unlovely cravat, in part-synthetic fibre : LYCRA

3-down – Time learner’s invested in task? It’s a laugh : CHORTLE

4-down – I’ll give you that note : ISTANDCORRECTED

5-down – Crowd invasion when area lost by Liverpool striker : INRUSH

6-down – That’s me off making a contribution : IMPARTING

7-down – Monkey around, affectedly impersonating Danny Dyer? : MOCKNEY

13-down – Doomed to receive porcelain that’s leaking : INFORMING

15-down – Labour: ‘Foot could be PM’ : BALFOUR

17-down – Shunning company around urinals : INSULAR

18-down – Tentatively ask Iris to show affection : AIRKISS

19-down – Open, concealing nothing, unusually blunt : UNBOLT

22-down – At end of twelvemonth, Norse pine : YEARN