Daily Answers

1-across – HS2’s plans: official reports describe detailed electric transportation : BULLETTRAINS

10-across – Disney tune the French singer’s getting to at last : LETITGO

11-across – Hanover king, egregious lunatic after losing America : GEORGEI

12-across – Get on… get on… about… about… : AGREE

13-across – Final half of bowling, champ’s losing heart a lot : VERYMUCH

15-across – Rashly, he sued aunt for carelessness : UNDUEHASTE

16-across – Vain and regularly indulged : IDLE

18-across – Dutch specialty that’s made round? : EDAM

20-across – To be summarily dismissed, you might do this at the butcher’s counter : GETTHECHOP

22-across – A polenta stew requiring next to no effort : ONAPLATE

24-across – Sun god’s receiving thanks from worshipper : RASTA

26-across – Original impetus for feminist campaign : TIMESUP

27-across – Actually, half-missing dearly departed balloon : INFLATE

28-across – Atmospheric processes produced by automobiles overtaking bishop on bike : CARBONCYCLES

2-down – Spoke, and mumbled, without mumbling at first : UTTERED

3-down – Um… I’d like to have a look at that : LETMESEE

4-down – Also, knight removed from chessboard : TOOK

5-down – Taking last two slices, bistro guest ate in country, not respecting others : ROGUESTATE

6-down – Make horizontal axis the reverse of what you’d expect : IRONY

7-down – ‘Good to enter into unrestrained nudism’: big name in psychoanalysis : SIGMUND

8-down – Somehow, seaport usable for vessels used only for fun : PLEASUREBOATS

9-down – Pershing felt a worry, creating machines of war : FIGHTERPLANES

14-down – Become a success, capable of recompense : MAKEITUPTO

17-down – Enormous jerk about to commit sin with one female : TERRIFIC

19-down – American cinema, oddly uninspiring : ANAEMIC

21-down – One caught in childhood game wearing quaint socks : HOSTAGE

23-down – Behold! First half of pulpit address delivers one that’s been left behind : LOSER

25-down – Element derived from quartz in compounds : ZINC

1-across – Passage from tango and boléro’s composer : TRAVEL

4-across – Rambling, untoward rambling : DRAWNOUT

9-across – Frightfully loud neckwear for a sentimental type : SOFTIE

10-across – Roaring missiles, second becoming first : STRIDENT

12-across – Group getting around the law in America? : THEATEAM

13-across – Tell the cops about lunatic fringe : FINGER

15-across – Philosopher with urges for fatty food : BACONANDEGGS

18-across – Ludicrously citing Nando’s as stereotypical middle-class fare? : GINANDTONICS

21-across – I tear around centre of Bonn in my dreams : IFONLY

22-across – It was Byzantine, garbled, convoluted and ultimately intricate : BELGRADE

24-across – Shunned by society, stems endless desire to discuss work : TALKSHOP

25-across – Stimulating dream I like very much : ADMIRE

26-across – Hallowed figure that is the source of many mysteries : CHRISTIE

27-across – Village greens used to have these stores : STOCKS

1-down – Cricket match underground as part of an experiment : TESTTUBE

2-down – Close? Far? Out – that is, not in the house : ALFRESCO

3-down – Going over six state lines: it’s Jean-Paul Sartre and friends! : EXISTENTIALISTS

5-down – Oh no: celebrity’s on the rise : RATS

6-down – Working in restaurant, didn’t remember to open up for party, leading to drama : WAITINGFORGODOT

7-down – A dagger’s drawn, oddly: it’s tense : ONEDGE

8-down – Coaches turn to rust : TUTORS

11-down – Tom Cruise film with daredevil navy airman : RAINMAN

14-down – What’s ever-so briny? : DEADSEA

16-down – ITV with manic broadcast about dietary stipulation found in Brussels : VITAMINC

17-down – Tests idiot about uniform : ASLEVELS

19-down – Manoeuvre’s putting second section before first: sweet! : TICTAC

20-down – Sportsman with something more substantial than a cap : BOWLER

23-down – One marsh reverts to become a barren tract : GOBI

1-across – Decrepit elders recite ‘Cheese!’ : REDLEICESTER

10-across – Inaccuracy with ‘vertical’ crossword clue – get ‘horizontal’ : LIEDOWN

11-across – Corrupt cartel gets around Europe with flattery : TREACLE

12-across – Chosen few among Pre-Raphaelites : ELITE

13-across – In their oddly endless hollow time : INTERVAL

15-across – ‘Gone out to lunch’: register describes one; that’s open to question : NEGOTIABLE

16-across – ‘Cultivated’ Greece? That’s disgusting! : GREW

18-across – Feature of posh garden that I find amusing : HAHA

20-across – Disagreeable novel, Blue Vienna : UNENVIABLE

22-across – Fiendish rogue’s done for : FINISHED

24-across – Online annoyance rambles endlessly : TROLL

26-across – Revue’s act reformed, covering up nude : CABARET

27-across – ‘Atonement’ writer McEwan regularly lost, confused : PENANCE

28-across – Air essentially unchanged for centuries!? Environmental group reportedly splits : GREENSLEEVES

2-down – Levelling the score late in the day : EVENING

3-down – Was dependent on throne? King Edward finally wasn’t so : LOOKEDTO

4-down – Scandinavians barring French in hostelries : INNS

5-down – ‘Capturing in sneaky net’: fishing : ENTANGLING

6-down – Overheard: those people are in that place : THERE

7-down – Bible class to screen rally : RECOVER

8-down – Furious with unethical beef production : BLUEINTHEFACE

9-down – Cry ‘that hurt!’, with beer gut prone to wobbling : YELLOWBELLIED

14-down – Pelted by storms, Aintree ban racing : RAINBEATEN

17-down – Reserve is tackling in front with ball gaining possession : DISTANCE

19-down – Thatcher was associated with one worker getting sack : HANDBAG

21-down – Disciplined youngster with fattening food : BROWNIE

23-down – Offer up nonsense verse : SERVE

25-down – Episcopalian’s concealed precious jewel : OPAL

1-across – On postcard, she composed phrase describing America : ACROSSTHEPOND

10-across – Unpleasantly cold, a roly-poly pudding : ALOOF

11-across – Musical number requiring tenor with nifty footwear : TEAFORTWO

12-across – Kohl has row in Europe, the old rivals taking sides : EYELINERS

13-across – Samson gutted, full of anger: ‘Delilah!’ : SIREN

14-across – Nosing around, taking in north Berkshire village : SONNING

16-across – Play a game : OTHELLO

18-across – One’s in independent company, producing French playwright : IONESCO

20-across – Holy man threw up: blimey : STREWTH

22-across – Impersonating wild dingo : DOING

24-across – Full of wickedness, Lawson’s cooking for family : SONSINLAW

26-across – No matter which of you hoovers, we will be messy : WHOSOEVER

27-across – Feminist with endless desire, foremost of radicals : GREER

28-across – In part of Australia, to interbreed is epitome of bravery : VICTORIACROSS

2-down – Shorten to make tight and fashionable : CLOSEIN

3-down – Restricted, slim fit of pants : OFFLIMITS

4-down – ‘Insatiety’ describes creative Frenchman : SATIE

5-down – Photos identifying leaders: ‘laughable tosh’ : HEADSHOTS

6-down – Boat capsized in still waters : POOLS

7-down – Ant scrambled up mountain without man’s involvement : NATURAL

8-down – With trendy element, weakens story : WATERSHIPDOWN

9-down – Not working until The Telegraph’s approaching deadline : DOWNTOTHEWIRE

15-down – Ignore Brexiteer admitting defeat before start of referendum : GLOSSOVER

17-down – Bring her a sinister omen : HARBINGER

19-down – City’s ‘New Look, Old Vibe’ essentially retrograde : NAIROBI

21-down – With tweaks, could be an award-winning actress : WALTERS

23-down – Leave to become less popular : GOOUT

25-down – Coronary artery bypasses? No! : NARYA

1-across – At the end of the day, a lovable rogue : ABOVEALL

5-across – German army unit : GFORCE

10-across – Strike a pose, fabulous figure? : AESOP

11-across – Composition of quiet soul : STILLLIFE

12-across – 50 admitted to pious golf club in California suburb : HOLLYWOOD

13-across – Enormous honour’s meeting earl : OBESE

14-across – Face of donkey kissed noisily : ASPECT

15-across – Vociferously against taking pudding through to bedroom : ENSUITE

18-across – Waster, poet, communist : SPENDER

20-across – Is concerned about son, gives show of affection : CARESS

22-across – Had put robe on : OWNED

24-across – Bigot at heart, host’s without skill, dignity? : PARTRIDGE

25-across – Wasting time in Tate Modern, busy tourist spot : NOTREDAME

26-across – Early on, state administered by old New Zealander? : SAMOA

27-across – ‘Savage’!? Sorry, it’s ‘unruly’ : SADIST

28-across – What toffs shoot, short-of-height bumpkins : PEASANTS

1-down – Flatness of a route’s variable : APATHY

2-down – Old boy, solitary and square, extremely chaste date : OBSOLESCE

3-down – Folly to have run into deserted cape : EMPTYHEADEDNESS

4-down – The French bay is severely run down : LASHOUT

6-down – Tricky to anticipate surplus of rifles in mess : FULLOFSURPRISES

7-down – In her novel, there’s a valley : RHINE

8-down – Breeze drifts over Tyneside, making someone cold : EBENEZER

9-down – Even the old hippies do this : TIEDYE

16-down – Composed of sane mind, I will be a mole : INSIDEMAN

17-down – Once snared by lasso on a sierra : ASSOONAS

19-down – Parrot in old TV show : REPEAT

20-down – Train company greet stranger : CORTEGE

21-down – City’s bankrupt financiers, hard to ignore : LEMANS

23-down – Celebrated being ruggedly toned : NOTED