Daily Answers

9-across – A corresponding housing area that’s sweet : ASPARTAME

10-across – Jumbo’s end jumbo’s end! : OMEGA

11-across – Reel composer, heading off, leaves : SPINACH

12-across – See 18 : METHERE

13-across – Musical soldiers : GIGI

14-across – Wood with incense right for skin condition : NETTLERASH

16-across – Song left for John Lennon, perhaps : AIRPORT

17-across – Easy in gold and bronze positions, one speaking as a trier : ESSAYER

19-across – Clever man, butcher slices bird : DICKCISSEL

22-across – Car check unfinished : AUDI

24-across – Measure of land close to allotment in concern for men? : HECTARE

25-across – Wed, married, I had wife — yikes! : MIDWEEK

26-across – Source of communication that’s acidic? : PHONE

27-across – Besmirch business, VW, in The Merchant of Venice : MARCOPOLO

1-down – Practice of biltong eaters died in invention of 11 dish : SAUSAGEANDCHIPS

2-down – Spot not half, double the dog! : SPRINGER

3-down – One enthralled by conventional chord : TRIAD

4-down – Capital city in county right under one’s nose? : TASHKENT

5-down – Number theorem ends in stunt, as mathematician : FERMAT

6-down – Point made another way : NORTHEAST

7-down – Nero’s tutor offering brief kiss in the main : SENECA

8-down – Jerk from Ikea has lock to screw up : MAKEAHORLICKSOF

15-down – Not seen in public once ale downed : CONCEALED

17-down – Minister in eastern capital travelling north, always : EVERMORE

18-down – I don’t know the answer that’s in vogue, yet theorem fashionable : YOUVEGOT

20-down – Out of one’s tree one flies : CUCKOO

21-down – Second drink well hot : STEAMY

23-down – Thus I depart after initially turning up — toodle-oo! : ADIOS

1-across – Dominant media figure like Clarkson is a threat to the country : FIFTHCOLUMNIST

9-across – Retirement cover taken out with anger : NIGHTWEAR

10-across – Insist on the formal you in French language? : BANTU

11-across – Couple finally leaving trendy US tourist site : ALAMO

12-across – Surrey’s opener has wish to boast, intimidating fieldsman : SCARECROW

13-across – Back from theatre, writing about stage accents : EMPHASES

14-across – Run through Caucasian’s confession : IMPALE

17-across – Azzurri’s capital right back gets a shock : TREMOR

19-across – American’s behind learner in Lincoln after parking OK : PASSABLE

22-across – Leader of infantry overcome by lethargy, getting mobile unit : LIGHTYEAR

24-across – Artist turned over another’s tapestry : ARRAS

25-across – Film, one as sequel to novel : SHEET

26-across – German or Chinese food not quite hot : FRIEDRICH

27-across – Formed cult with no violence, murder or exaltation? : COLLECTIVENOUN

1-down – What might make you donate millions to nurture a crazy jihadist movement? : FUNDAMENTALISM

2-down – Light and stylish dandy’s clothing : FOGLAMP

3-down – Getting stolen primate across America is a delicate matter : HOTPOTATO

4-down – Master love poetry with a little uncertainty : OVERSEER

5-down – Commotion from leading Republican, one having a row : UPROAR

6-down – Peer into novel, bonkbuster that’s picked up : NOBLE

7-down – Crooned tune, up for a drink : SANGRIA

8-down – Define where USA’s deployed for so long abroad : AUFWIEDERSEHEN

15-down – Badly treat girl, forgetting second name : MISHANDLE

16-down – Arab statesman’s cry of disgust, with damp conditions reported : BAHRAINI

18-down – Artist, a noted British artist, wanting area green : ELGRECO

20-down – Bus mostly runs, or it fails to get Mexican’s fare : BURRITO

21-down – Wilde, if iconoclastic, is essentially divine : DEIFIC

23-down – Add 1 and 50 together in sum : TOTAL

8-across – Good, if one is a saint : BONIFACE

9-across – Nanny doubly immersed in cookbook, did you say? : AUPAIR

10-across – Scorer a little flabbergasted : BERG

11-across – Complain about superior line taken by Conservative in competitive association : BRIDGECLUB

12-across – Bird caught by end of bill : LINNET

14-across – Bread done, more dough for the better? : ROLLOVER

15-across – Killer instinct’s back in Asian commander : SHOTGUN

17-across – Cover very exposed lesion for starters in open wound : ENVELOP

20-across – Last of the jam with remarkably outstanding coffee : ESPRESSO

22-across – Bird with chicken’s head, chicken : CRAVEN

23-across – At sea, triple-pace vessel : TEACLIPPER

24-across – Success with organ encapsulated by member for Labour? : LEFT

25-across – Ornament journalist found in stream : BEDECK

26-across – Judges nailing down contracts : TREATIES

1-down – In disgust, leave town to thieves out to steal money : VOTEWITH

2-down – See 24 across : WING

3-down – Good reach for opening move : GAMBIT

4-down – Depravity in plain mischief : DEVILRY

5-down – Flag bearing African, not an anteater : PANGOLIN

6-down – Aesop caper rewritten as sci-fi story : SPACEOPERA

7-down – Paul’s salamander said to be microscopic : MINUTE

13-down – Bird, singularly doubly cuckoo? : NUTCRACKER

16-down – Flying bats move : UPSTICKS

18-down – See 1 : ONESFEET

19-down – Appear to claim prize money — sweet! : COMPOTE

21-down – Reportedly, a route north for the country : SWEDEN

22-down – Tilt dangerously always, when placed upside down in container : CAREEN

24-down – Behind roofing slab, roof missing : LATE

9-across – Writing in sounds — The Simpsons frame lost in translation : PHONETISM

10-across – See 2 : BOARD

11-across – School with a sound in 9? : SCHWA

12-across – They blow up both sides — died from grenades exploding : ENLARGERS

13-across – Box has repeat of old comic’s work? : CARTOON

14-across – Introduction to Krusty — where 21 and 22 across are found turning over channels? : NETWORK

17-across – Small job outside Springfield? : DUSTY

19-across – Recall comic rabbit : YAK

20-across – Need animated film to finish : USEUP

21-across – We pick off clips to cover TV series : SNIPERS

22-across – Homer Simpson’s endorsing characters? He wanted to phone home with this? : HANDSET

24-across – Thatcher with Home Secretary’s number : MAGGIEMAY

26-across – Question published in book : QURAN

28-across – Lisa Simpson’s right about slow person : SNAIL

29-across – Custom to record The Simpsons, for example : TRADEMARK

1-down – Topless American dad on American creation : OPUS

2-down – Do Bart and Homer play a bit on computer? : MOTHER

3-down – Drunk male — unknown prisoner returned to the empty cell : MELANOCYTE

4-down – Homer’s time to gorge : PIGEON

5-down – Poles protect spy — ask one to leave Russian city : SMOLENSK

6-down – Lift Simpson boy’s bottom first : TBAR

7-down – Chops tablet to get fix : CAKEHOLE

8-down – Pop in America lifted flaps : ADOS

13-down – Puts in Morse lines during Lewis? : CODES

15-down – Winding round quite tightly, primarily restricting vessel with this? : TOURNIQUET

16-down – Ask Apu? Two bottles smashed : KAPUT

18-down – TV animation artist close to pen : STINGRAY

19-down – Yankee, small child following ring on banks of skate park : YOSEMITE

22-down – A man wise in conversation around daughter on American prime time? : HEYDAY

23-down – Marge, maybe, before wearing down : SPREAD

24-down – Mum quiet in TV series : MASH

25-down – Man perhaps is on shortly : ISLE

27-down – Armani keen to show designer label : NIKE

9-across – In binary numbers, go and shape new tubes : OESOPHAGI

10-across – Sailing all over the place : ATSEA

11-across – Always 111? : EVERTON

12-across – Sauce in vessel, finished : KETCHUP

13-across – Smelt so suspicious? : FISHY

14-across – Measure of insulation wrapping effectively in bathroom robe material : TOWELLING

16-across – 23 — 24 or 25, perhaps? : CARDINALNUMBERS

19-across – Music genre really a breakthrough : DISCOVERY

21-across – With zero following, tended to dismiss a belief : CREDO

22-across – Header missed in game after trial for Roman defence : TESTUDO

23-across – Untidy bed in castle, work of the former chairman? : REDBOOK

24-across – Russian food left discarded? Italy going after it : BLINI

25-across – Wife into estate, or funny small car perhaps? : TWOSEATER

1-down – Bag containing pig, hurried to secure first of farrow, giving nothing away : POKERFACED

2-down – Judge beauty coming up to claim second after fool : ASSESSOR

3-down – Inconsistent ceiling in shrine, cracked : SPOTTY

4-down – Darn Madam Nefertiti’s stocking : DAMN

5-down – Black bat carried by tiny wings, a triangular antenna on his head : TINKYWINKY

6-down – Rare metal in brown and white powder, not carbon : TANTALUM

7-down – Connecting areas, this diverse motorway : ISTHMI

8-down – Some jazz siren? : VAMP

14-down – Avenue for traffic in diverted road, utter catastrophe, ultimately : TRADEROUTE

15-down – Kitchen equipment creaks, so go for a refit : GASCOOKERS

17-down – Native American goddess touring old capital, then leaving it : IROQUOIS

18-down – Solvers overly protected by the barking canine : EYETOOTH

20-down – Finch is in hide : SISKIN

21-down – Club member, French nobleman ascendant : CUDGEL

22-down – Name on jug for sale, less posh : TOBY

23-down – Hiding in bunk, I scream : RIOT