Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – If coming back to stay, you may get warm here : FIRESIDE

5-across – Committee men don’t have a month to fill desirable job : PLENUM

9-across – Aid near perhaps for woman abandoned on Greek island : ARIADNE

10-across – Governing, takes risks showing symbols of power : INDICES

11-across – Start to cover leg and shin up : CLIMB

12-across – To lay a charge, soldiers receive a sign : INDICATOR

13-across – Inspiring figure’s French art includes later ‘Man with Sieve’ : ERATOSTHENES

17-across – Dropping Ecstasy, ease the undies off in Paris suburbs : HAUTSDESEINE

20-across – Determined on parting from black American, touring divorce hub in confidence : ENTRENOUS

22-across – Order the Chambers app? : EDICT

23-across – Cloth girl left on floor : FLANNEL

24-across – Singer naked? Blow it! : BASSOON

25-across – Most fashionable chocolates, tiny boxes : LATEST

26-across – Milk supplier in western university sacked : WETNURSE

1-down – Dictator’s father a corporal perhaps : FRANCO

2-down – No good growing tiny fruit : RAISIN

3-down – One’s bowled over by girl presented with large teapots and hair extensions : SIDEBURNS

4-down – No wild-eyed hot revolutionary! : DYEDINTHEWOOL

6-down – Playful law lord sick at heart : LUDIC

7-down – Poison several crowding one bed : NICOTINE

8-down – Street’s manifest disuse under motorway entrance to Indian reservations : MISTRUST

10-down – Vital, but not to be had from chemist? : INDISPENSABLE

14-down – Parasites in hospital get young man very annoyed : HANGERSON

15-down – Happy church, always packed out, pretty much : CHEERFUL

16-down – Remove boat parked on stretch of land : SUBTRACT

18-down – Meticulous precision of scaffolder picked up : RIGOUR

19-down – Without delay pay for catching cold : ATONCE

21-down – Birds coming in to feather nest : ERNES

1-across – Definitely wearing a suit : INSPADES

5-across – Look like getting point, holding City : ASPECT

9-across – Repeats article cost : ITERATES

10-across – Through with old lady virtually – might this help? : VIAGRA

12-across – Song’s poor? Utter phooey! : YOURETHETOP

15-across – Country’s reportedly in order : UKASE

17-across – ‘Foul, ref!’ Unai’s getting worked up over nothing : NEFARIOUS

18-across – What some airlines do with tickets is concerning affair : OVERISSUE

19-across – Russian woman foiled a raid : DARIA

20-across – Vegas gambler not good – finally gets a warning : CRAPSHOOTER

24-across – Agree to do something about church parking : ACCEPT

25-across – Approaching fifty-two – surprisingly he doesn’t want early retirement : NIGHTOWL

26-across – ‘Just like Fox,’ describing current politician : SIMPLY

27-across – Run at speed covering miles in panicked reaction : STAMPEDE

1-down – What terse youngster might say to his parents, honestly! : IKIDYOUNOT

2-down – Took a chance in Sweden and embezzled : SPECULATED

3-down – Saw lawyer in time : ADAGE

4-down – Plant manufactured panel heaters : ELEPHANTSEAR

6-down – Hit : SLIPPERED

7-down – Lippy, could you say, trying to be cool? : EDGY

8-down – ‘What I just said is rubbish,’ Hunt originally admitted : THAT

11-down – Pompous Conservative objects to this red claptrap : STUFFEDSHIRT

13-down – Engine’s shot, as bad driver might have said earlier : FOURSTROKE

14-down – Yank paid seller for something a bit ropey : ESPADRILLE

16-down – Bishop’s Stortford originally involved in great work round China : EPISCOPAL

21-down – Letters from old school hard to get into : OGHAM

22-down – Young lady going topless – very good! : LASS

23-down – Not quiet, little monster making a racket : SCAM

8-across – Major poet gathers old writer may use this : KEYBOARD

9-across – Kind of 8 for Bohemian composer : DVORAK

10-across – I’m surprised about this person’s 8 part : HOME

11-across – 8 expert in valley with old gnu running wild : GLENNGOULD

12-across – 8 part appearing oddly in duet and Lied then : DELETE

14-across – 8 part is special – great bit of music on piano : SPACEBAR

15-across – 8 experts, irrational during dates, run away : TYPISTS

17-across – Elects to jazz up a kind of 8 : CELESTA

20-across – 8 expert’s skill with Parisian you dressed in hat : ARTTATUM

22-across – Still welcoming Schubert’s prelude for 8 part : INSERT

23-across – 8 expert’s country record on the radio : FRANZLISZT

24-across – Fan recalled electronic 8 production? : TUNE

25-across – Characters on 8s playing set behind saloon? : CARETS

26-across – Surprising candour with advanced command for 8 user : UNACORDA

1-down – Place to play a bit of cricket close to Surrey, making comeback : RECOVERY

2-down – Bright student gets poor grade after better ones : ABLE

3-down – Band – girl band that hasn’t succeeded : BANGLE

4-down – Releasing book, what poetaster writes is unfortunate : ADVERSE

5-down – Country deposing leader after PM is lacking bite : EDENTATE

6-down – Being miserable on drinking wine in canteen : MOROSENESS

7-down – Return of spring by city in the Spanish Main? : PAELLA

13-down – Entices changes in failing sex lives : EXISTENCES

16-down – I appreciate that fifty-one’s contained in digit in sum : TOTALISE

18-down – He’d try on pants, having mournful air : THRENODY

19-down – Squash drink bottles – this leads to a big accident : SMASHUP

21-down – Once again, study school subject, not quite prepared : REREAD

22-down – Where you could find mail train, running by railway’s terminus : INTRAY

24-down – Revolutionary wrong after revolution : TROT

8-across – Behave cruelly towards e.g. cats and dogs : WHIPPETS

9-across – Inspired article about how the Mail sees the Guardian? : AWOKEN

10-across – Current mains supply, with no problem at night : INSOMNIA

11-across – Is a surrogate parent plump, and terribly sad about it? : ADOPTS

12-across – Milliner suffering with sciatica dismisses one being critical of the cloth : ANTICLERICALISM

15-across – Sees Victor wisecracking? : VIEWS

16-across – Serenity shown by sport star : PEACE

20-across – Noble with really vacuous birthday celebrations interrupted by family clodhoppers : COUNTRYBUMPKINS

21-across – Game with racket and ball played flexibly : RUBATO

23-across – Maybe perfect party in Belfast grew fraught : TENSEDUP

25-across – Existentialist inspires head of Princeton University? : CAMPUS

26-across – The police agent from America gets stuffed : FORCEFED

1-down – We hear companion for dining is having a grouse : WHINING

2-down – Labour, at this time: work on job : OPPOSITION

3-down – Youngster driving from here north : TEEN

4-down – Dancer picked up one-step? : ASTAIRE

5-down – Unfortunately rejected wish to hug leader of County Mayo’s close cousin? : SALADCREAM

6-down – Sweet kitty raising tail : POLO

7-down – One may treat a poor canine in depression? It’s barking : DENTIST

13-down – Jersey, say, and stockings worn by posh MPs here : LOWERHOUSE

14-down – Canal worker is a hair fetishist? : LOCKKEEPER

17-down – Soft wood frames you heard getting mass approval : POPULAR

18-down – A peer who fancies men and women is not quite right : ABITOFF

19-down – Persuaded Germany to follow elected fascist leader : INDUCED

22-down – Range of artificial products? Just the wrappers : ALPS

24-down – Person shopping hurried up, back in Primark : NARK

8-across – Great charger, horse entering English battle, briefly : ELEPHANT

9-across – Take, for the auditor: 5/9 of this? : STEEL

10-across – On thoroughfare, carry empty bag : CYST

11-across – Moribund minister moved to have old flame locked up : INEXTREMIS

12-across – Warplane, one moving along quickly? : BOMBER

14-across – Cutter applied to blades, ultimately? : STRIMMER

15-across – Weak figure you love, American : TENUOUS

17-across – Tabloid fixture youth read back after study : SCANDAL

20-across – A doctor getting into cuddle: 5/9 of this? : SPADROON

22-across – Cocktail added to cooking pot: 5/9 of this? : KIRPAN

23-across – Skin primate lost initially cut by 5/9 of this? : ORANGEPEEL

24-across – Weaken stone : FLAG

25-across – Losing time, use 5/9 of this on: 5/9 of this? : SABRE

26-across – It’s me entering evidence of blade’s use: 5/9 of this? : SCIMITAR

1-down – Ductile material to a greater extent: 5/9 of this? : CLAYMORE

2-down – Raised limits, double : SPIT

3-down – Backup divided by circa 22/7: 5/9 of this? : RAPIER

4-down – Unbeliever on the scene of crime? : ATHEIST

5-down – Puzzling corset that is undone : ESOTERIC

6-down – Word such as this put off Pitman : DETERMINER

7-down – Note in hand: 5/9 of this? : GLAIVE

13-down – Tuba discovered in very rare European dance music : BLUEDANUBE

16-down – As remains ift of gift? : UNOPENED

18-down – Setter’s range with Indian music, right : AGARAGAR

19-down – Wind up, smoke emanates from it : INCENSE

21-down – Congregation quite average? : PARISH

22-down – Bacon sandwiches left for physicist : KELVIN

24-down – Stop: 5/9 of this? : FOIL