Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Hours spent with GM grass : SORGHUM

5-across – Refuse to be kept uncivilised, without latitude : SALVAGE

9-across – Turn it up to secure starter for light bulb : TULIP

10-across – ‘Innocent’ gangster’s early years : CHILDHOOD

11-across – Race against sporting extra all round the country : NATIONWIDE

12-across – Atkinson but not with horse : ROAN

14-across – Intricate bin liner stuffed with hay holds tonnes : LABYRINTHINE

18-across – Once a state prosecutor, Earl starts to mete out annoyance : EXASPERATION

21-across – See 6 Down : LUCK

22-across – Rectories rebuilt including one item of corresponding furniture : ESCRITOIRE

25-across – Rose, for instance, gets worker into row : EGLANTINE

26-across – Relating to ancient people being locked up : INCAN

27-across – A wife leads one into a small island state of SE Asia : SARAWAK

28-across – Meals cooked in – wow! – sweet wine : MALMSEY

1-down – Glossy took part in protest with youth leader : SATINY

2-down – Church dignitary’s head removed – it’s Tell! : RELATE

3-down – Seahorses’ cerebral features : HIPPOCAMPI

4-down – Bird’s large open mouth devouring Bill! : MACAW

5-down – Outing on coast to see maritime phenomenon : SPINDRIFT

6-down – Dicky all ducky making fortune! : LADY

7-down – A game soldier taking on American defence : APOLOGIA

8-down – Beset by gender fluidity, one’s put at risk : ENDANGER

13-down – Seat ingrained with a dirt mixture was in the dock : STOODTRIAL

15-down – Standard court’s mark : YARDSTICK

16-down – Health of SF writer imbued with new energy source, initially : WELLNESS

17-down – Very casual, drifting right of certain vessels : VASCULAR

19-down – A sign the Church is involved in leak : PISCES

20-down – Quite small as a 16-year old, say? : TEENSY

23-down – Evidence of cold inert gas introduced to drink : RHEUM

24-down – Design a Whirl centre nibble : GNAW

8-across – Celebrity given sack, so show off : NAMEDROP

9-across – Have great fun taking in a show : REVEAL

10-across – Corruption by some police repelled autocrat : DICTATOR

11-across – Mistake about an exile : BANISH

12-across – Prestige award no. 1 to pair on exercise in tropical land : NOBELPEACEPRIZE

15-across – One pelted round small city : MINSK

16-across – Partner’s catching Papa’s disease : MUMPS

20-across – Old invader wanting ready rewards, fighting in this? : HUNDREDYEARSWAR

21-across – Fish out of water, or one on the bed : KIPPER

23-across – Among engineers, Turing failed to convince : RINGTRUE

25-across – Class contains one who is far ahead of the rest : GENIUS

26-across – Veto? It’s your choice : FREEVOTE

1-down – After bank holiday, go off to take up caring role : JANITOR

2-down – Gun on grouse moor expects to attract disapproval : GETTHEBIRD

3-down – Humour about the origin of religion that may be holy : WRIT

4-down – Role in clinic is plain : SPARTAN

5-down – Result of huge explosion, rubble can spread round area : CRABNEBULA

6-down – A month going up one of many English rivers : AVON

7-down – Overturn limit on dimensions : CAPSIZE

13-down – Make to kill germs: across your vision, in your ears : PASTEURISE

14-down – Four smashing trophies, staggering! : RHPOSITIVE

17-down – In early summer, spin round English tree : JUNIPER

18-down – Holmes is in Imogen’s farm : MYCROFT

19-down – Very incisive state of mind, or the opposite : VACUITY

22-down – Great discomfort to be expected at a French breakfast : PAIN

24-down – They don’t approve the hooter being sounded : NOES

1-across – Smooth musician’s ‘Stranger on the Shore’? Certainly not : SANDPIPER

6-across – See 26 : ROOF

8-across – Distinction of contemporary artist with cash but no power : EMINENCE

9-across – Delicate newspaper worker let off : SUBTLE

10-across – With leaders of Commons and Lords involved, cite bad language! : CELTIC

11-across – A lack of quiet song refrain in rock : SHORTAGE

12-across – Ball held by top class residence on the river? : AFLOAT

15-across – Devote time to break useless caddie’s resolve finally : DEDICATE

16-across – Crusty thing, the poet, Holder : SCABBARD

19-across – Turbulent water taking one day to fill pans : RAPIDS

21-across – Truss passed water plant : BINDWEED

22-across – Villain put away minister : CURATE

24-across – If not overcast, going topless : UNLESS

25-across – Crude oil rep, Rex, one gone for a Burton? : EXPLORER

26-across – Covering that’s unusual for a loft : FLAT

27-across – Go on, chuck final! : LASTDITCH

1-down – River of soup – no hoax! : SOMME

2-down – Far from content, at loose end? Open out : NONETOO

3-down – Headgear with fashionable insert, reversed flap : PANIC

4-down – See 2 : PLEASED

5-down – One attending emergency : RESPONDER

6-down – Like K-9 in unstable orbit, circling round and around : ROBOTIC

7-down – Bound dictionary includes ‘book with a gilt refinement’ : OBLIGATED

13-down – In fact, oil production is legendary : FICTIONAL

14-down – Crossing a line in pursuit of farceur : TRAVERSAL

17-down – Criminal goes to bed unusually on time? It’s not worth pursuing : BADDEBT

18-down – Odd, irregular stone’s fair feature : DODGEMS

20-down – Meaning to climb up, right and left : PURPORT

22-down – Award I had for Matchmaker role : CUPID

23-down – Effective power of the disheartened and the deranged : TEETH

9-across – Where night may be spent, dropping round when not too drunk : ONTHETOWN

10-across – News that is following the opening of Albert Hall on screen : ANNIE

11-across – Rejected this person’s official scientific expert : FERMI

12-across – Husband makes public petition for cosmetic solution : HAIRSPRAY

13-across – Cathouses like a stripper’s club : CABARET

14-across – Any of fourteen answers here having problem about current state : MUSICAL

17-across – When necessary, hospital’s toured by a person seen there? : ADHOC

19-across – After a year, year’s income : PAY

20-across – Extremely churlish female ending the mating game : CHESS

21-across – Idiot admitting a case of malpractice in court : CAMELOT

22-across – Drive east of swish area in city : CHICAGO

24-across – What metal dealer did, without energy to persevere : SOLDIERON

26-across – Workshy sort hands round European papers, at first : IDLER

28-across – Grand entertainer showing spirit : GHOST

29-across – Monsieur Macron’s refusal to back a keen old king : AGAMEMNON

1-down – A lot of rot for foolish person : GOOF

2-down – Like heart of Hobart, potentially : ATHROB

3-down – Mutual friend eating fabulous bird with cooked rice : RECIPROCAL

4-down – Work hard to don rubbish accessory for a gent : TOPHAT

5-down – Company kept by Sian Lloyd periodically without strength : INFIRMLY

6-down – Fans of jazz performers initially swapping places : CATS

7-down – Break in plot, boring in French and English : ENTRACTE

8-down – Bank run somewhere in Cambridgeshire : RELY

13-down – A lot of coke one’s snorted – it’s fun in Ireland : CRAIC

15-down – Offerings charm king provided with desserts : SACRIFICES

16-down – Two sailors losing time lifted rope : LASSO

18-down – Sailor’s mistress, I see, put up with poet : HAMILTON

19-down – Eternal child’s games provoked parent : PETERPAN

22-down – Preserve repeated 13 show : CANCAN

23-down – Weak greeting from a cockney : AILING

24-down – Turned up something fun in Lord of the Rings? : SAGA

25-down – Using computers, adult pens love letter : IOTA

27-down – What people 19 for entertainment, in part : RENT

8-across – It’s behind Brighton Rock partners introducing odd stripe : WESTPIER

9-across – Roe stripped, see her bouncing around for Hugh, reportedly? : OCHRE

10-across – Radio device’s error, dropping station : MIKE

11-across – Lavishly, all over the place, old female entertained in academia : HALLSOFIVY

12-across – In position of authority, crossword supremo ultimately gets to excel : OVERDO

14-across – Unlikely case, drier beach : SEACOAST

15-across – Amid racket cancel Bristol City’s suspension : CLIFTON

17-across – 501 advanced into pub, heading for alcoholic state : INDIANA

20-across – Film-maker entices strangely accommodating adult : CINEASTE

22-across – Busted singer in country performing following split : PARTON

23-across – What one might read about in History Today sometimes : NOWANDTHEN

24-across – In James, a uniquely hairy man : ESAU

25-across – Setter say needing master, and principles laid down : DOGMA

26-across – Have a flashback of free unclothed Johnson : REMEMBER

1-down – Yours truly, a devil in disguise, very old : MEDIEVAL

2-down – Gifts editor’s received an indication of the value of good company : FTSE

3-down – Discovered seaside town’s fine : RIGHTO

4-down – Wobbling perhaps, finally offer a parting expression of affection : BRALESS

5-down – Sailor, head of college before Oxford, from Shimla initially, on the wagon : COXSWAIN

6-down – An elegant chest that is right to cover with transparent silk : CHIFFONIER

7-down – Go first on Stephenson’s Rocket, say? : LEAVES

13-down – Winchester maybe with scope to get used here? : RIFLERANGE

16-down – A glass, old boy, is to be raised to Diana shortly : OBSIDIAN

18-down – Bundles of joy in cheeky couple, wrinkly one on top : NEONATES

19-down – Stage at which, sadly, Hugh’s retirement starts – no chicken! : LEGHORN

21-down – A peddler of ecstasy was I, legendary lover of Ireland : ISOLDE

22-down – Always centrally located, Hispanic canal’s dramatic – here? : PANAMA

24-down – Pickle, just flip the lid up, girl! : EMMA