Daily Answers

1-across – After palaver, bets a rogue is to avoid dismissal : CARRYONESBAT

9-across – Reversing roles, one may keep a watch on you : STRAP

10-across – Ex-PM has kedgeree on vacation, with foreign wine and fish : KEVINRUDD

11-across – What socialite does, having Sprite with the rich : HOBNOBS

12-across – Bit of rhetoric from student, one wholly using modern language? : LITOTES

13-across – Off home, a clergyman with a stutter? : INACCURATE

15-across – Problem when walking in either side of canyon : CORN

18-across – Going over section of awesome Times article : ITEM

19-across – Refuse to go here? Trick cyclist does number on bike half-cut : WHEELIEBIN

22-across – Czech maestro in team’s playing around Albion’s wingers : SMETANA

24-across – Land owned bordering Germany’s capital : BAGHDAD

25-across – Charles’s bride-to-be exchanging cents for small vending machine : DISPENSER

26-across – Picaroon’s admitting a rubbish bard wrote these : IAMBS

27-across – Guy manipulated into sheltering criminal in hiding : FLAGELLATION

1-down – Think party needs Republican to oust Liberal : CEREBRATE

2-down – Get hold of guards for a ticking off : REPROACH

3-down – I agree to eat one thousand crumbs : YIKES

4-down – After half a month, character hasn’t finished light work : NOVELETTE

5-down – Reason for one to collar lousy youngster? : SANITY

6-down – Mostly boring attending houses with lots of sex and violence? : ADULT

7-down – Strips this off outside in monokini : ISTHMI

8-down – Maybe like a favourite child, not even taking precedence : ODDSON

14-down – Tries to enter European club for performance : REHEARSAL

16-down – Official beginning to make little bloomers in Arab land : OMBUDSMAN

17-down – Polyglot losing stone eating cool Anglo-Italian food : LINGUINI

18-down – Iranian heartlessly left, say, imprisoned : INSIDE

20-down – Day minus pants outside, practising this? : NUDISM

21-down – Scoundrel ordered goods : BADEGG

23-down – Constable used this when blocking slippery customer : EASEL

24-down – State formerly of America, with problem to the north : BURMA

1-across – Food fixed by chance : BREAKFAST

6-across – 1 across satede? : FULL

8-across – Flower blooming ultimately through warm feeling in a den? : FOXGLOVE

9-across – Warm, as a 1 across item? : TOASTY

10-across – Criminal, one finishing off something for 1 across, did you say? : SERIAL

11-across – Toy in inspection recalled, water having got in : TRAINSET

12-across – Artist in trench briefly : WARHOL

15-across – Wheels feeling rotten on set of bells : CARILLON

16-across – 1 across that’s served in jug : PORRIDGE

19-across – Lector’s failed to notice a title : MISTER

21-across – See 20 : SANDWICH

22-across – Someone gasping, almost retaining old seat : POUFFE

24-across – See 10 : KILLER

25-across – Country’s revolutionary feels pain, having poached eggs and kippers, originally : SLOVAKIA

26-across – Initially forgotten, extra obligation : ONUS

27-across – Find club jolly : DISCOVERY

1-down – Drink bringing Bronx cheers, by the sound of it? : BOOZE

2-down – See 6 across : ENGLISH

3-down – Small mound, a little hill on Kos that’s raised : KNOLL

4-down – Clean empty pocket I filled in a moment : ASEPTIC

5-down – Peg put up, coat finally secured, bringing four-letter word! : TETRAGRAM

6-down – Cleaner bilge : FLANNEL

7-down – Flexible, elastic item with holes : LITHESOME

13-down – Homage a teacher keeps in proportion : ADORATION

14-down – Romantic song and direly mushy : LADYINRED

17-down – Posers, twin daughters thrown in nettles : RIDDLES

18-down – Ancient city where relative undressed, South America : EPHESUS

20-down – Possible item for 1 across: breban gerad? : SAUSAGE

22-down – Picture tropical river banks : PHOTO

23-down – Spirit pretty holy in the end : FAIRY

1-across – See 17 : IMAGING

5-across – The late tragic Jesse Owens? : ATHLETE

9-across – Look to cover the centre of wound dressing : GAUZE

10-across – Real gold, 24 ct, I fancy : AUTHENTIC

11-across – Hapless fellow finally dines: terribly posh establishments with awful working conditions : SWEATSHOPS

12-across – See 4 : ONES

14-across – Unorthodox priest with job providing inspiration to dance : TERPSICHORE

18-across – Secret family decree in advance : CLANDESTINE

21-across – Call round : RING

22-across – One egg and one roast cooked for starters : INITIATORS

25-across – Unlikely relief at chancellor’s contribution : FATCHANCE

26-across – Grumpy pirate’s not quiet : IRATE

27-across – Permission to take off uniform in misleading nice clue : LICENCE

28-across – Jews initially hate allowing skirts to be pulled back : HASIDIM

1-down – Eat for a laugh, as they say : INGEST

2-down – Tickled by 14 for one in the current era : AMUSED

3-down – Nice small top slips — being embraced by one naked causes awkwardness : INEPTITUDE

4-down – Show anger in a different way: he’s a gent, sincere at heart : GNASH

5-down – Perhaps it’s a pain having to eat trout’s head for starters : ANTIPASTI

6-down – What’s up with the Spanish setter’s instruction? : HEEL

7-down – Start of exercise with 10, repeated thus on right muscle : EXTENSOR

8-down – In finale, Johnny at last became monetised : ENCASHED

13-down – Outlines school team playing pieces regularly : SCHEMATICS

15-down – See 17 : RESONANCE

16-down – Sneering at origins of severe cases of rampant new flu variant : SCORNFUL

17-down – Way to test attractive and unusual scenario: men becoming mature! : MAGNETIC

19-down – Occasionally in the present, as well as in the past : NOWAND

20-down – Lauder mascara’s top value : ESTEEM

23-down – See 4 : TEETH

24-down – See 19 : THEN

1-across – Going too far westward in small county seat : BUTTOCKS

5-across – Graduates with billions to invest love fruitful growth : BAOBAB

9-across – What Buddhist does helps to solve conflicts over time : MEDITATES

11-across – Hymn from nonbeliever after a change of heart : PAEAN

12-across – Butterflies eat rump steak to start with : SWALLOWTAILS

15-across – Is she a bit of a looker? : IRIS

16-across – Adult set out at night, admitting very risky capers? : ADVENTURES

18-across – Misleading words prince’s penning daily — pity! : HALFTRUTHS

19-across – School training game in Pacific region : PERU

21-across – Awful calamity shook faceless or OK place to live : OKLAHOMACITY

24-across – Talk incessantly where French is spoken? : GABON

25-across – After right wheels, gets fuel supplements for vehicles : ROOFRACKS

26-across – Take paper again around centre for reusing refuse : RESIST

27-across – Meat left over is stuffed into duck : ESCALOPE

1-down – Sign one’s expecting tip for puzzle by Tramp : BUMP

2-down – After turning point, there’s zero agitation : TODO

3-down – Ortega’s extremists seizing some power back in capital : OTTAWA

4-down – Confined stranger tattoo producer : KETTLEDRUMMER

6-down – Liking Alcott’s opening page with description of Little Women : APPETITE

7-down – Holy works of bishop and cleric, one given a sign : BREVIARIES

8-down – Shares responsibility to probe British problem : BONUSISSUE

10-down – My way to fall foul of the RSPB? : STONETHECROWS

13-down – Song he composed with firm bass from this person? : FISHMONGER

14-down – Team’s defending shot, ball for Brazilian maestro : VILLALOBOS

17-down – Impressions made by winsome female going south : ETCHINGS

20-down – Area under backbones : STERNA

22-down – Hard to get bitten by green parrot : ECHO

23-down – Man perhaps gets permission to drop back : ISLE

1-across – Your tormentor is a crony in religious office : IMAMATE

5-across – Gruff personnel fitted in perfectly, surly ultimately : THROATY

10-across – Aware of chain, one’s shackled : INON

11-across – Old Olympian back on sherry, safe inside bar : MARYPETERS

12-across – Scorer, one recovering having missed header? : ETCHER

13-across – Whistler paintings observed after artist finally leaves : TREFOILS

14-across – Design of short race that’s divided into sections : ORCHESTRA

16-across – Saint has dropped in, sharp! : CRISP

17-across – Terrific increase : SWELL

19-across – Borough after female leader, young ladies on parade : MAYQUEENS

23-across – Blithering ethicist, most irritating : ITCHIEST

24-across – English flower and Egyptian spirit discovering expression? : EUREKA

26-across – Given hindsight, adults in haze, one hating marriage : MISOGAMIST

27-across – Great coup from Walkers, did you say? : FEAT

28-across – Chance initially blown, America stepping in, typically : ASUSUAL

29-across – Opposite written by poet? : INVERSE

2-down – Tremendous artist, 16’s cousin : MONSTER

3-down – See 2 : MUNCH

4-down – Qualities we hear in Frazzles poked by doctor : TIMBRES

6-down – Frog artist? : HOPPER

7-down – Courteous cooks give work to others : OUTSOURCE

8-down – Excitement when Quavers passed round hotel : THRILLS

9-down – Vermin that’s infernal, heart of Satan, get — different child? : FRATERNALTWIN

15-down – 16’s cousin in dance bands : HULAHOOPS

18-down – Which models for 16’s cousin? : WOTSITS

20-down – 16, one of 5 divided by 10, possibly? : QUENTIN

21-down – Dancin’ to reggae for flippin’ 16’s cousin! : NIKNAKS

22-down – State of Virginia invading Middle Eastern port from the south : NEVADA

25-down – Common to bandage left arm : RIFLE