Daily Answers

1-across – After a little time, Lincoln backed one of very little order : AMOEBA

4-across – See 18 : SPEARS

9-across – Englishman abroad afforded quiet ceremony : POMP

10-across – Worm turned by serial criminal’s crimes : BURGLARIES

11-across – Establishment raking it in, so accountant’s in love : CASINO

12-across – Strings of beads embellishing the scalp : CHAPLETS

13-across – See 15 : TOMAKEYOU

15-across – A prophet, my boy, on a UK tour by 18 4 : BORN

16-across – Tilt jauntily at mate : COCK

17-across – Working out ably, I suit fitness : USABILITY

21-across – See 3 : MORETIME

22-across – Where Odysseus lived with a cat without wings : ITHACA

24-across – See 2 : DIDITAGAIN

25-across – Plant tissue in marrow : PITH

26-across – Fast car when stolen drove endlessly : HOTROD

27-across – Origins of Selene, Zeus and Gaia all take years to achieve celestial alignment : SYZYGY

1-down – Topless mayhem at a party : AVOCADO

2-down – Vicious dictator with gun raised in agony after two rounds by 18 4 : OOPSI

3-down – Jew’s heading off to Rome, returning after ancient kingdom has licentious leader ousted by 18 4 : BABYONE

5-down – Don’t allow for insect being upright : PILLAR

6-down – A danger to ignore English pudding, one taken in seasonally : APRILFOOL

7-down – Provide honey, perhaps, with kiss ultimately : SWEETEN

8-down – Compiles a true cryptic that in prospect is sought … : PRECIOUSMETAL

14-down – … by St Michael, possibly? : ALCHEMIST

16-down – Bill’s affectionate partner left before his cavorting, which is quite refreshing : COOLISH

18-down – Phenomenal moralist Presbyterians proved to be false : BRITNEY

19-down – Part-timers to invest pound in financial centre, as it’s understood : TACITLY

20-down – 18 4’s much vaunted sign conceals a vixen! : VIRAGO

23-down – See 15 : HAPPY

1-across – Poems appeal to location with steps : ODESSA

4-across – It’s a devil when fashion reaches America : ASMODEUS

9-across – User of air-rifle in trouble : FLIER

10-across – Woody associate’s purpose returns – to have little Ps : MIAFARROW

11-across – Transport for P among diamonds is often cut out : CARDBOARD

12-across – Note little P making P’s noise : GRUNT

13-across – Out of India matters require control : ADMINISTRATE

17-across – Topless cloth has radiance : INENGLANDNOW

20-across – The mob on duty? : HEAVY

21-across – P meat inclined to perish in Susan’s place : HAMPSHIRE

23-across – P meat belonging to the crown? They’re kidding : GAMMONERS

24-across – Daggers drawn from those going to be listed : OBELI

25-across – Looking after one’s own people the wrong way when drug is inhaled : NEPOTISM

26-across – Opposition maybe producing wise report in every other letter : SYZYGY

1-down – An aquatic animal will sound authorised : OFFICIAL

2-down – Short comments on unjust smear about P : EPIGRAMS

3-down – Cancel the cleaning process : SCRUB

5-down – Highlights? : STANDARDLAMPS

6-down – Not quite a fruit and a nut mix for the primate : ORANGUTAN

7-down – No time for sobbing when there’s so much to listen to : EARFUL

8-down – Townships with such a lot of rain on the level : SOWETO

10-down – Home service direction to low-down persons applied to puzzler as well : MEALSONWHEELS

14-down – Grandmother’s attempt at being a giver of milk : NANNYGOAT

15-down – You kill one that has no love? Wildly improbable : UNLIKELY

16-down – Affectedly pretty and idly dressed in country style : TWEEDILY

18-down – P in paper used to rule in Japan : SHOGUN

19-down – Practice for contest with 1,000 as target : WARMUP

22-down – Lie on the floor? : STORY

7-across – Our representatives shattered it, the fools! : THETHIRD

9-across – See 7 : ESTATE

10-across – Put off work on the Met Office roof? : TAKE

11-across – See 10 : ARAINCHECK

12-across – A Dickensian Berty Wooster curtailed Tod Slaughter! : BETSEY

14-across – See 12 : TROTWOOD

15-across – With which bridge players stick together? : RUBBER

17-across – See 15 : CEMENT

20-across – Glad inflation’s off course : FLOATING

22-across – See 20 : ISLAND

23-across – Shearer’s backward pass thus contrarily went to his goal: a mistake : AGAINSTTHE

24-across – See 23 : WOOL

25-across – Vocation of one tending to go out East : CAREER

26-across – The Bible that is second to scripture in Scotland : AVIEMORE

1-down – Man and goddess in conflict with flier : WHEATEAR

2-down – A spot of shuteye? : STYE

3-down – Ring twice for sin with great little woman : BIGAMY

4-down – One supports runner with a long drink of water : BEANPOLE

5-down – Where St Catherine turned to driving : ATTHEWHEEL

6-down – Overcoat thus keeping body of unionists cold : STUCCO

8-down – Want what shall have no dominion outside the king : DEARTH

13-down – Numbers air essential to this voyager : SUBMARINER

16-down – Recording giant’s run-in, say, with agent : EMISSARY

18-down – With which Indian chefs make an entrance: is it holding up? : TANDOORI

19-down – Tell it not in ____ with two articles about her : AGATHA

21-down – Deadlock being Napier’s preserve? : LOGJAM

22-down – Pacific island could be nicer : IRENIC

24-down – Wimbledon commoners ignoring the foreign child care unit : WOMB

1-across – With apprehension raised by 1 over 8? : UPTIGHT

5-across – Queen Bee : OVERBID

9-across – Song of praise composed by an ape … : PAEAN

10-across – … which has 9s : APENNINES

11-across – One organ did another’s job in the human body – removes from table : CLEARSAWAY

12-across – Strip for footballer that has lost heart : GAZA

14-across – Make a mistake – I have to – in essay describing an army : TERRITORIAL

18-across – Designed to advertise a concert, one with no alto playing : PROMOTIONAL

21-across – Food for Shakespeare at Stratford : EATS

22-across – Learner displayed in paper etc : APPRENTICE

25-across – 7 8’s party in Grammar School not far away … : CONINGSBY

26-across – … his story ends with unfinished account of 5 down doubled … : SYBIL

27-across – … his 2 crusade starts taking South African party to the left : TANCRED

28-across – Lighter with its bow in front of the fleet : LANTERN

1-down – Dismantle international selection? : UNPICK

2-down – Subtitle of 25, then we turn into a green mess : THENEW

3-down – See 2 : GENERATION

4-down – Headpiece for Island in the Sun? On the contrary, quite the reverse : TIARA

5-down – 8’s style of his party producing anteversion in a vegetable : ONENATION

6-down – Bird of the wilderness : ERNE

7-down – Premier associated with Primrose Hill: a jailer confused when intelligence is imprisoned : BENJAMIN

8-down – See 7 : DISRAELI

13-down – Trouble descends upon caricaturist : ROWLANDSON

15-down – Italian river in French city: editor must have it put back : REIMPOSED

16-down – Meal with no starter deleted – that’s a blow : UPPERCUT

17-down – Begin to grasp the reel is ready? : COTTONON

19-down – Six strong? That’s OK : VIABLE

20-down – Magic bird, the blackbird, nearly home : MERLIN

23-down – Reverse of what the fairy-tale goose did, like the swan? : ROYAL

24-down – Divorce scene is upset by a single blow : ONER

1-across – Cry from the 8, perhaps: Bosom OK! Is m’ behind guilty? : DOESMYBUMLOOK

10-across – Head-to-head link for burning issues : HOTLINE

11-across – Old, cold Bostonian, who speaks only to God, returning to Virginia : TOBACCO

12-across – Born, die, unknown, bereft : NEEDY

13-across – Tired out, chaps? Take time handicap! : DETRIMENT

14-across – Issue from Abraham’s tax-free investment account : ISAAC

16-across – De Brunhoff’s elephantine ignorance? : BARBARISM

18-across – If good for hard investment, could be delighted with money-back guarantee : GILTEDGED

19-across – Decimation of congregation’s the duty of the church : TITHE

20-across – Graces Roman sent packing : ORNAMENTS

23-across – Born under cross : BLESS

24-across – Morpheus’s murderer? : MACBETH

25-across – Citizen demanding one’s right to a priest : ISRAELI

26-across – Not the most fitting abuse, as little changes : LEASTSUITABLE

2-down – All eyes, all eyes are here at Lord’s : ONTHEBALL

3-down – The setter’s cunning without being ingratiating : SLIMY

4-down – Defer one’s return : YIELD

5-down – Illiterate members of NUT routed : UNTUTORED

6-down – Speaking of loo brush head, right? I can’t find a smoother! : LUBRICANT

7-down – One arresting copper at the right time : ONCUE

8-down – One of the BBC’s trying habits here : CHANGINGROOMS

9-down – Pi? Look at it this way; its Hell! : BOTTOMLESSPIT

15-down – Madly macerates sustenance from Devon? : CREAMTEAS

16-down – See 1 : BIGINTHIS

17-down – Pussy’s place with Ellen Marshal? : INTHEWELL

21-down – Anacreon’s interior decoration material : NACRE

22-down – Namely, a poem: one from Wells’s pen? : SCIFI

23-down – Here Hebrideans run in to back a horse : BARRA