Daily Answers

1-across – French writer reversing endless nonsense on theology : SARTRE

4-across – Bricks exist to stop possible splashback? : ADOBES

9-across – See 15 : EYED

10-across – Polish sign features in books : GLOSSARIES

11-across – Local love in action, how alluring you are! : PHWOAR

12-across – Current times in pieces one’s read : NEWSITEM

13-across – Character upright, as client awfully stiff : INELASTIC

15-across – Looking troubled, like Mississippi, might you say? : FOUR

16-across – Denounce grand sporting feat : SLAM

17-across – Rig out sweetheart with very old dresses, getting upset : AGGRIEVED

21-across – Person setting light rocks around a very heavy rock : MEGALITH

22-across – A boring cocktail? : GIMLET

24-across – After tramp, father separated to find second mother, say? : STEPPARENT

25-across – Nature observes possible sign-off? : KIND

26-across – Old player finding minimum of peace in dove … : COOPER

27-across – … as dog circling tree caught by artist : BARREL

1-down – Witnessed female drinking last of Chardonnay — how much? : SAYWHEN

2-down – See 20 : RADIO

3-down – See 25 : REGARDS

5-down – Reject is punching floor : DISOWN

6-down – Cradling baby initially, voice calmer : BARBITONE

7-down – Huge female goddess inhabiting tiny island, briefly : SHEBEAR

8-down – Bedtime exercise making a difference on submissive types : COUNTINGSHEEP

14-down – Dog has head on armchair in comfortable place like that : LHASAAPSO

16-down – Poisoned cups clean originally, I doubt : SCEPTIC

18-down – Sports event, on gun this always starts : REGATTA

19-down – Constant lack of leadership in one winger tackling another : ETERNAL

20-down – Taken off air twice, opted for clandestine transmitter : PIRATE

23-down – See 27 : MAKER

1-across – Social climber: posh, I forgot to say, and caustic : UPSTART

5-across – V range isn’t varied : AGAINST

10-across – Something sharp, chilled starter fed to vegetarian? : MEAT

11-across – Old people in love, I gathered, something in it for a performer? : VIOLINCASE

12-across – Doctor eating a dish that sounds moreish? : TAGINE

13-across – Change poles in reversal of Whistler painting : TRANSFER

14-across – Not natural, headless youth I see on horseback? : INORGANIC

16-across – Brief second coffee : LATTE

17-across – Utilise drag to play — this? : SLIDE

19-across – Surrounded by ladies, rowing team steps up : HEIGHTENS

23-across – Hurried, having to walk, perhaps, round capital in Estonia : CARELESS

24-across – Suddenly nothing is beyond Bangladesh’s opener in match : SUBITO

26-across – Climber glaring, appearing quite sour : VINEGARISH

27-across – Cerebral part lost on British electorate originally : LOBE

28-across – Fast train’s ending somewhere in Lancashire : PRESTON

29-across – See 10 : CLEAVER

2-down – Very early man, bloody cuts : PREDAWN

3-down – African in classicist, utterly upstanding : TUTSI

4-down – One contest in road race always starts in resort area : RIVIERA

6-down – See 17 : GUITAR

7-down – Trendy twit rolling in money, never stopping : INCESSANT

8-down – Special marketing feature in cult, dubious : SUSPECT

9-down – Large vessel, or this pinnace at sea : CONTAINERSHIP

15-down – Paras brazen initially in beating up of deserter : REDBERETS

18-down – More green, apple finally borne by tree below meadow : LEAFIER

20-down – Fuel very hot, cooler outside : GASOHOL

21-down – Celebrity so listless? : NOTABLE

22-down – Try to catch lift that’s not closed — it will disappear at a lick! : GELATO

25-down – Wood — a large part being uprooted : BALSA

1-across – A long time undercover : LEONID

4-across – Gypsy chosen to take part in film : PSYCHO

9-across – Shakespeare’s work initially making a comeback : ILYA

10-across – Athlete collapsed on narrow strip : FELLRUNNER

11-across – County boundary area : TAMARA

12-across – Cloth with pattern astrologer first worked out in secret : DEEPLAID

13-across – A fight, not vicious — that’s sweet : ASPARTAME

15-across – Amputee’s situation? : OLEG

16-across – As owned by tiny delivery company? : IVAN

17-across – Remarkably great pics that show extent of the damage : PRICETAGS

21-across – Run indoors to grab good sort of seat : RINGSIDE

22-across – A word that links religious education with me, subjectively : ANDREI

24-across – Pupils I gave dinner to around one in secret : CLASSIFIED

25-across – Tax collectors once full of energy : IGOR

26-across – Spies infiltrating very Liberal party : SOCIAL

27-across – Forbidding alcohol around US university : DMITRY

1-down – Language completely covered by networks : LALLANS

2-down – Hence, perhaps, Japanese sailor: his other name is? : OSAKA

3-down – Actually accepting plaster at last for break : INFRACT

5-down – Teacher — homosexual, say : SERGEI

6-down – Like a romantic dinner-dance till shattered : CANDLELIT

7-down – Love writing, but missing a new opportunity : OPENING

8-down – In villa, minder murdered : VLADIMIRLENIN

14-down – It brings relief at one’s rear, say, turning over : ANALGESIC

16-down – Eavesdroppers with silent transport, we hear, heading off : ICICLES

18-down – Autocratic state unknown to interfere with eccentric order : CZARDOM

19-down – Pope’s blood in short supply and in pale shade : GREGORY

20-down – In Scotland, own up pinching gear : NIKITA

23-down – Stop: one son’s missing, I believe : DEIST

5-across – Get under someone’s skin, might it? : NEEDLE

6-across – Painter related to darkest shade, as he used to say? : RENOIR

9-across – Test buoyancy ultimately in fish : TRYOUT

10-across – Attack top and bottom : HEADBUTT

11-across – See 18 : NOSE

12-across – Erect using poles etc, obvious long parts : PITCHATENT

13-across – Where a bridge is bent : ONTHEFIDDLE

18-across – Go on sponsored walk primarily, middle of week taken off : POWDERONES

21-across – See 22 : DOWN

22-across – Applies oneself, like a gorilla? : KNUCKLES

23-across – One is oddly patchy : UNEVEN

24-across – Ticklish rear of lieutenant aroused : THORNY

25-across – Ursine, might you say? Just about : BARELY

1-down – Organ composition in fruit : MELODEON

2-down – Cunning clue for dump illegally : FLYTIP

3-down – Getting frisky, Catherine dated bit of a looker after divorce? : DETACHED

4-down – Ice has to remain in order : SORBET

5-down – Near catastrophe, question getting involved in hideous US-Korean war : NARROW

7-down – See 3 : RETINA

8-down – Matt, perhaps, in 5 20 : PHOTOFINISH

14-down – Little time in sport for speeding : HURTLING

15-down – Damaged by run, boy runs indeed? : LADDERED

16-down – Poetry like this half-cut poet served up : SONNET

17-down – Wet under thatched roof of the rural gentry? : TWEEDY

19-down – Who could be in court loading a revolver? : DOCTOR

20-down – See 5 : SQUEAK

1-across – Show bank book : PROVERBS

5-across – Developed castle, ultimately went down with knight taken : EDUCED

9-across – Guide for meeting people at club? : RACECARD

10-across – Mad mother turned murderer : MANIAC

12-across – Learning about name inside record : ENROL

13-across – Greeting with bow at end of day following queen’s order : HIERARCHY

14-across – Aged ten, snot loosened having swallowed cold medicine : DECONGESTANT

18-across – Run out in strip to the game : PROSTITUTION

21-across – Go with beer and spicy food : PEPPERONI

23-across – Check web address: rude one : CHURL

24-across – Head did act when ordered : ADDICT

25-across – Flight path for pilot on superjet cleared : STAIRWAY

26-across – Expression of delight finally, pay one penny to go : YIPPEE

27-across – Street covered in smoke, let me see fast car : DRAGSTER

1-down – Copper locks up idiot for a very long stretch : PARSEC

2-down – Steer at front of thing possessing wheels? : OXCART

3-down – Office data analyser that’s fast is superb : EXCELLENT

4-down – Detailed writer needs time, hard lead and a rubber for this : BIRTHCONTROL

6-down – Tot and adult play : DRAMA

7-down – Tom Thumb interrupts gossip : CHITCHAT

8-down – Does crack and cocaine lines within department store, primarily : DECRYPTS

11-down – One could do a clean with crew and Jack : WEIGHTLIFTER

15-down – Walk aimlessly in grass, having a pet : SMOOCHING

16-down – Realisation I didn’t catch that one squeezing spot : EPIPHANY

17-down – Modified Lotus regularly went faster on the outside : SOUPEDUP

19-down – Wife, not in normal position, coming first given sex trick : OUTWIT

20-down – Actor’s introduction in porn film : PLAYER

22-down – Present case for music on the radio : EMCEE