Daily Answers

1-across – Drink emptied after drink round joint, an extended skinful? : CHIPOLATA

6-across – Roman Catholic priest buried, bit of him dug up? : RELIC

9-across – See 11 : INPSYCHOKINESIS

10-across – Loud music acceptable : FAIR

11-across – US comedian Steven Wright’s challenge when anyone seeks him moving with elevation, which is hardly possible : ALLTHOSE

14-across – Wee Jan van MacDonald abandons one farm building : DUTCHBARN

15-across – Musical beginning of counterpoint, romanticism : INTRO

16-across – Plant has time in reserve : SHRUB

18-across – Cows eating heartbroken girl : KATHERINE

20-across – Bob and Benny who chased girls in grass : SHILLING

21-across – See 24 : LASS

25-across – As sovereign I should be off, gathering speed, stressing too much : OVEREMPHASISING

26-across – West set about by going west, perhaps : MAYBE

27-across – Add fertilizer to roots when dried out: end of life in three seconds : SIDEDRESS

1-down – Richard the First of France to steal short uprising : CLIFF

2-down – 1p right in coin to stamp : IMPRINT

3-down – Politician topless, then vote for the horny beast! : ORYX

4-down – Pain of unlimited distinction : ACHE

5-down – Quality of lime green vegetable cut in Italy, cooked and passed round : ALKALINITY

6-down – Gang pursued sort of lemur : RINGTAILED

7-down – Many touring capital almost miss the boat : LOSEOUT

8-down – Porter carries beheaded Egyptian leader in dish : CASSEROLE

12-down – See 11 : WHOBELIEVE

13-down – Impudent rascal jokes about a king in prison : JACKANAPES

14-down – Strong 24 with genteel ways in place of rest : DUSTSTORM

17-down – See 11 : RAISEMY

19-down – Picture puzzle with twisted ending, one upside down : IMAGINE

22-down – Utter magnitude of exasperated utterances : SIGHS

23-down – See 11 : HAND

24-down – Winch from Hurricane Agnes, you might say : WIND

1-across – A day has the potential to be continental … : AFRICAN

5-across – … as is backward fellow with top off bone : NAMIBIA

9-across – Trendy body has a 10 for revenue : INCOMETAX

10-across – A missing harridan is No. 6 : VIRGO

11-across – Little money after time holds Maidenhead’s alter ego : SOUL

12-across – Sent for something that’s irrecoverable? : WRITTENOFF

14-across – Backing, say, for small object No. 3 : GEMINI

15-across – Agreement to keep on for ever is 12 : NOONDAY

16-across – Second part of body with 10 is No. 8 : SCORPIO

18-across – Cross river with Guardian No. 2 : TAURUS

20-across – Cautious when about to deduce guided means of crossing river : CHAINFERRY

21-across – River with garden : EDEN

24-across – Party for artist No. 7 : LIBRA

25-across – Gypsum for a workshop flower : ALABASTER

26-across – Proved advertisements easy to rewrite : ASSAYED

27-across – Put one’s foot down here: change at the fifth could be sticky : TREADLE

1-down – Even the weariest river includes No. 1 : ARIES

2-down – I don’t need company for detailed adaptation of Cruel Sea : RECLUSE

3-down – Strong current under canvas? : CAMP

4-down – Modification of routine at an adventure – Landor text? Yes : NATUREILOVEDAND

5-down – See 4 : NEXTTONATUREART

6-down – De Mille, say, to struggle with cat during endless loss of fur : MOVIEMOGUL

7-down – Old maid going round for Cotswold town : BURFORD

8-down – A little room to escape in unsociable style : ALOOFLY

13-down – Log about old sailor at drugstore? : DISPENSARY

16-down – Not quite ill? I have to be ill when climbing Italian island : SICILIA

17-down – Eggs on many to weep when raised by people of 5 across : OVAMBOS

19-down – It doesn’t say when we got flooded, in short : UNDATED

22-down – Foster former union with home counties : NURSE

23-down – See 11 : MATE

8-across – Whence camels, carrying Egyptian leader, become a health and hygiene issue : BACTERIA

9-across – Fish drinks on both sides of the Channel … : ALEVIN

10-across – … at the sign of the Submariner’s Return : OMEN

11-across – Must come to an arrangement that’s perfect : CONSUMMATE

12-across – Backed examinations about King Penguins, for instance : SNACKS

14-across – Ocean dweller’s hoard includes bits of rock and frozen ice : STARFISH

15-across – Pole bedecked with lurid trimmings : GARNISH

17-across – Celebrate getting drug for hospital in Jericho organised : REJOICE

20-across – Agent given signal to impound student’s building block : MOLECULE

22-across – All in a muddle about dead letter dealing death : LETHAL

23-across – Looking forward from the deck? : CARTOMANCY

24-across – Bottom of the barrel : BUTT

25-across – Express disapproval about stray returning to tower : TURRET

26-across – A postgraduate diatribe by hothead is an all-time bloomer : AMARANTH

1-down – Island that’s the obsession of part-timers : TASMANIA

2-down – Page Three Girl, perhaps and what she’s supposed to do? : STUN

3-down – Winter garment given up without a fight : FRACAS

4-down – Make use of composer aboard hospital ship : HARNESS

5-down – Spotted couple holding a Frenchman up : MACULATE

6-down – Two hairdos on the way to the frozen base : PERMAFROST

7-down – Break strike involving a superpower : HIATUS

13-down – Work wonders without shocking treatment? It’s a hypothesis : CONJECTURE

16-down – Kindred spirit, turning somersault, spilled guts : SOULMATE

18-down – No sex but lots of speed in the City : CHASTITY

19-down – Ask to take an arty qualification in Casual Seating : BEANBAG

21-down – Ring and memorial plate missing? It’s unclear : OPAQUE

22-down – Priest adopting unknown name is no priest : LAYMAN

24-down – Pound, or what gets pounded? : BEAT

1-across – 6 1dn’s image first during break : HOSPITAL

5-across – Infant rumoured to be a hole in the head : ANTRUM

9-across – Emergency partner for police coming into a little money : ACCIDENT

10-across – Riding hat not hard on Dame Thora : ATHIRD

11-across – Break in 1ac task ruined when people start to discuss work : TALKSHOP

12-across – Reverse of 12ac in heaven : ZODIAC

14-across – Top 1ac? If not, do an U-turn : FOUNDATION

18-across – 1ac’s local authority is prodigal: holding back is the 8 man : WARDSISTER

22-across – Prompter’s back cover of Elements : EUCLID

23-across – Part of 25 is one part of 18: when? : INUNDATE

24-across – Servant of one being married, say, : GRUMIO

25-across – Lots of lots during getaway exposed : FLOODLIT

26-across – Scrape the bottom of 1 in 100 generally : DREDGE

27-across – Principal in 14 of 6 1dn with note about the old Eastern front : NYEBEVAN

1-down – See 6 : HEALTH

2-down – In poor 1dn when the King and I swap an island : SICKLY

3-down – Painfully treat 10 on the other side : IODISE

4-down – Hardly any use concealing what Santa says in Northamptonshire mansion : AYNHOHOUSE

6-down – Race to heal disease and halt corruption in the service : NATIONAL

7-down – Problem with 5? It is sequential to a cut flower : RHINITIS

8-down – Alberta hat for 1dn? : MEDICINE

13-down – How 1ac worker and friend could be marketed? : INTERNALLY

15-down – Ambivalent model stuck without love : TWOEDGED

16-down – Break time during renderings of brother priest : FRACTURE

17-down – 8 good for the ambitious? : ASPIRING

19-down – Some insect studies at B-Bury? : ENTOMB

20-down – Reactionary scientist starting reactionary book on gas? : PAVLOV

21-down – Dead ringer for Blake? : SEXTON

1-across – Having mismanaged rent, say, money collected from deposits : SEDIMENTARY

9-across – Swamp with cricketing terminology? : OVERRUN

10-across – To meddle in Germany incorrect? : INTRUDE

11-across – See 6 : OFPHYSICS

12-across – Fashion in gangsters sound : CRAZE

13-across – Winger, footballer Newcastle’s secured : ERNE

14-across – One holding back device that filters again? : RESTRAINER

16-across – Former African nation finished, for each potential unit having advanced : UPPERVOLTA

19-across – A spinner is on : ATOP

20-across – To be at this is on the whole great : LARGE

21-across – Hates to be working in trade where doing so is exploitative : SWEATSHOP

23-across – More flavoursome port? : TANGIER

24-across – Eleven arms here : ARSENAL

25-across – Sole with wheels : ROLLERSKATE

1-down – Bedfellow representing lap dancing : SLEEPINGPARTNER

2-down – Hat with two close sides? : DERBY

3-down – Male kin resolved to be so? : MANLIKE

4-down – Leveller reforms salient : NAILSET

5-down – Paul extols sacred oath: Hearts only for a tyrant : AUTOCRAT

6-down – Star Trek theory disproved by shifty, hapless cow? : YOUCANNOTCHANGE

7-down – Half-arrogant doctor’s no longer widely accepted article many held to be an issue for Anglicans? : HOMOSEXUALITY

8-down – Daily newspaper, The European, upright in communications : TELEGRAPHPOLE

15-down – Luxury contains, on reflection, little choice : FREEWILL

17-down – One tennis shot non-starter, then another gaining respect : OBSERVE

18-down – See 6 : THELAWS

22-down – Oral examiner covering for seed : TESTA