Daily Answers

1-across – Passage that body needs to understand point to check in prison law : DIGESTIVETRACT

8-across – Associate that would be AWOL, say, during the morning : CRONY

9-across – Fork out to cover 51-day maintenance for buddy : PALIMONY

11-across – One drilling home run leads to start of celebration : INTROIT

12-across – Rider is poor when ordered to take 5 : PROVISO

13-across – Reptilian back is reasonably cold, say : GECKO

15-across – Firm date’s arranged quickly : STEADFAST

17-across – Do so by striking international? : TESTMATCH

20-across – Inspiring symbol to top off dam : TOTEM

21-across – Switch for sale? : ONOFFER

23-across – Twisting and turning in refusal is nonsense : TORSION

25-across – Force to have perverted love in church : VIOLENCE

26-across – Crawler’s not about to be put inside : INSET

27-across – End box : KNOCKONTHEHEAD

1-down – Plunger is what’s chewed up by royal vice, perhaps? : DUCKINGSTOOL

2-down – Spirit of great many people : GHOST

3-down – Plastic to form, say, moulding : STYROFOAM

4-down – One raising tot without preferred incentive : IMPETUS

5-down – East getting upset about east’s shape : ELLIPSE

6-down – Are reportedly in communications from lover : ROMEO

7-down – Fiction and folly not one’s close friend : CONFIDANT

10-down – No admittance when badly polluted : CONTAMINATED

14-down – What’s usually done with princess finishes off warder : CUSTODIAN

16-down – Stole stuff of judges after old yob raised limit : DETERMINE

18-down – Tractor on tobacco fields somewhere in Canada : TORONTO

19-down – Unhappy as to the uncomfortable position : HOTSEAT

22-down – Caper lacks right kind of acid : FOLIC

24-down – Children take this in dispute : ISSUE

8-across – : SYNTONIN

9-across – : HANNAH

10-across – : HOURLY

11-across – : YORKISTS

12-across – : ANIF

13-across – : INEXTREMIS

15-across – : FENELLA

16-across – : UPRIGHT

18-across – : CASHEWNUTS

19-across – : THAT

20-across – : IDREAMED

22-across – : TALLIS

23-across – : CAVERN

24-across – : CLERICAL

1-down – : MYBONNIEWASDEAD

2-down – : STAROFBETHLEHEM

3-down – : ONMYPILLOW

4-down – : ONMYBED

5-down – : CHAR

6-down – : ANTIPERISTALSIS

7-down – : LASTNIGHTASILAY

14-down – : TYPESETTER

17-down – : BURDOCK

21-down – : MING

8-across – It’s hard to hit aggressive person carrying empty syringe with drug : BULLSEYE

9-across – Horrid village in Hertfordshire : NASTY

10-across – Gawp in Northumberland : OGLE

11-across – Artist claiming newspaper and book fabrications : HALFTRUTHS

12-across – Former England football manager bearing critical assessment : REVIEW

14-across – Making comeback, shoot to get point in game : NINEPINS

15-across – Record one knock : EPITAPH

17-across – Entrance each way obstructs vindictive woman : BEWITCH

20-across – Happy to see first of crooks put before a heartless judge : CAREFREE

22-across – Moose head the wrong way round in North Lanarkshire : BONKLE

23-across – Wide region cultivated used to be virtually for Alsace farmer : WINEGROWER

24-across – Hops associated with a place in Devon … : BEER

25-across – … and this one in Nottinghamshire : BUNNY

26-across – Gas followed by a gas endlessly in babies : NEONATAL

1-down – Man in hole under brown, smelly pile : DUNGHEAP

2-down – The sky may be low : BLUE

3-down – North Yorkshire village formerly covered by broadcast : SEXHOW

4-down – Mix contains article from Madrid in Worcestershire : BELLEND

5-down – Popular opinion, for example : INSTANCE

6-down – Theory attaching potassium compound to nitrogen : ASSUMPTION

7-down – Crusher, however, disembowelled in ring, shortly : PYTHON

13-down – See 22 : INTHEBEANS

16-down – Paints left above 24 downs : PORTRAYS

18-down – What may have contained Frenchman going the wrong way? : CULDESAC

19-down – The Guardian given nasal tone in East Riding village : WETWANG

21-down – A novel smell, widespread : AKIMBO

22-down – Leicestershire village, Hari Dickcots? : BARTON

24-down – Smile offering support : BEAM

8-across – Deceive the world by letter : DOORBELL

9-across – Son of 26 player : TOMTOM

10-across – An empty award : OBOE

11-across – Work to conceal about a hundred Romanian notes : OPHICLEIDE

12-across – Fraudulent transaction : FIDDLE

14-across – Elvis’ car crash : CLAVIERS

15-across – Game to the people of 23 : WHISTLE

17-across – Mary’s lost crew : CELESTE

20-across – At home amid blood : CLARINET

22-across – Spot the lady : ZITHER

23-across – Cor! : FRENCHHORN

24-across – Some talk of potato : TUBA

25-across – 12 : VIOLIN

26-across – Seed in sheets of glass : PANPIPES

1-down – It’s stupid to hoot at mistake when your head’s in it : BOOBYISH

2-down – Out of prison without payment : FREE

3-down – Plead for a person to leave : BEGONE

4-down – Contrive to do chalk portrait of experienced journalist? : OLDHACK

5-down – The usual help said to be for defence in the West : STOCKADE

6-down – The setter’s where the tympanum is, providing an obstacle : IMPEDIMENT

7-down – International flower scene? : BORDER

13-down – Poor girl student has no time to grieve : DISGRUNTLE

16-down – More than four inches, as penned? : LONGHAND

18-down – I’m afraid I’ll break the circuit : TREMBLER

19-down – Uncooperative agent holds up the left : STROPPY

21-down – Was the poet a home bird? : LARKIN

22-down – Tales of a Buddhist seraglio? : ZENANA

24-down – Model and success could be identical : TWIN

1-across – See 8 : SHEWAS

4-across – See 8 : HONEST

9-across – The father of Waterloo? : ABBA

10-across – Seed spilling, see! His need disturbed the Church : DEHISCENCE

11-across – Two-man quarry : VICTIM

12-across – Morse’s menage backing code with stratagems : WALRUSES

13-across – Stardust is seen in some scanner by Protestant : CALVINIST

15-across – See 8 : MANS

16-across – Poet speaking of Psyche : OVID

17-across – Ruthless order to setter on Korean diet? : DOGEATDOG

21-across – Carter’s wit, hopeless case : WAGGONER

22-across – Wholly enthusiastic without books : INTOTO

24-across – ie sloop hut constructed for steersman’s comfort : PILOTHOUSE

25-across – See 8 : GAME

26-across – Amazon in retreat from the Old Man’s island : HOYDEN

27-across – Abraham’s tomb here in the Bronx : HEBRON

1-down – The Severn Bore’s starting as rain falls around : SABRINA

2-down – Record turn in the lunar cycle : EPACT

3-down – Potentially bad sign for the corporation : ABDOMEN

5-down – Volatile girl one grabs in the market! : ONSALE

6-down – Agent surviving without pre-euro currency : EXECUTANT

7-down – They admit mates to the masters’ circle : TICKETS

8-down – Posh, his vice was her misfortune. That b__ song a mama’s woe? C-could be! : SHEWASPOORBUT

14-down – Liberal taken in by pointless bloody self-approbation : VAINGLORY

16-down – See 8 : OFARICH

18-down – No harm in looking through it? On the contrary! : EVILEYE

19-down – Seat raised bearing a device : OTTOMAN

20-down – Remove Oxford United? No, he’s reunited! : UNSHOE

23-down – Woods imitated at Harfleur? : TIGER