Author name: crosswordanswers

7-across – See 5 Down : BRITAIN

8-across – Autocracy with real subversion? : BELARUS

9-across – Give-and-take retailer was ruined,old man keeping quiet : SWAP

10-across – Obstacle in hollow filled with French earth : DETERRENT

12-across – Stern,say,man with strap-on locks : SHOCK

13-across – Old,awful wine,not half! : ONEINTWO

15-across – See 12 : JOCK

16-across – Olive briefly sheltering black bird : GREBE

17-across – Wait,old leader’s back’s gone! : BIDE

18-across – Where something latched onto about programme leaves producer? : TEAPLANT

20-across – Cast done talking? : THREW

21-across – Bunfight that’s sickening ends it a fitting way? : SAVILEROW

22-across – Grant for example cut,according to dictator? : HUGH

24-across – As cream may be,grainy? : CORNISH

25-across – Percentage of litre,a clear,sweet liquid : TREACLE

1-down – See 16 : DRAW

2-down – Copper ring in standard tap : STOPCOCK

3-down – Antelope raising twin goats : DIKDIK

4-down – Cheeky thing south of London in song on the radio? : DERRIERE

5-down – With article breaking,bear in mind it could be – ours? : MADEIN

6-down – See 17 : SUIT

11-down – Possible couch potato internalising variety of woes : TWOSEATER

12-down – See 19 : STONE

14-down – See 23 : WIDOW

16-down – Some FO-OTBALL result? : GOALLESS

17-down – Emperor’s new clothes,third stuffed into brown case : BIRTHDAY

19-down – Flag in Spain gone with TV broadcast : PAVING

20-down – Vulgar,a word that’s void in essay : TAWDRY

21-down – See 9 Across : SHOP

23-down – Might her inattentive husband be,reportedly,playing around? : GOLF

1-across – US tourist area’s carbon copy hoax : CAPECOD

5-across – Fun right to the end,like a god : MITHRAS

9-across – Could rocks darken? : CLOUD

10-across – Object about obscene gesture – finally arrested : ENGROSSED

11-across – Fit type used to be female’s kitchen aid : DISHWASHER

12-across – A killer in the main section of motorcade : ORCA

14-across – Vital sack for heater : ELECTRICFIRE

18-across – Bent on cuts in organisation,India? : SUBCONTINENT

21-across – See 6 Down : ROOT

22-across – American academic feels sad for flighty thing : ADONISBLUE

25-across – Gull menagerie’s back in British promenade : BAMBOOZLE

26-across – Brief from short officer on horseback : GENUP

27-across – It expands crude oil trade endlessly : DILATOR

28-across – Police force decline to give area in imperial terms : YARDAGE

1-down – Agents interrupted by rogue,noisy male? : CICADA

2-down – Specialist Guardian/Telegraph leader writer : PROUST

3-down – Junk and smack following fish south : CODSWALLOP

4-down – Explosive red gas without a residue : DREGS

5-down – Microwave part : MAGNETRON

6-down – Purloined jumper and tracksuit top came to be settled : TOOK

7-down – Check on stock : RESTRAIN

8-down – Like Pagliacci touching female star on date : SADFACED

13-down – On the radio,one croons ‘Darling’ which might be piped : ICINGSUGAR

15-down – Resort area lawyer’s overwhelmed by ‘pathetic zero cut’ : CÔTEDAZUR

16-down – Gave credit to a dead writer taking centre place : ASCRIBED

17-down – Wayward sailor working up marines a lot at first : ABNORMAL

19-down – Bond in southern state – he scored! : GLINKA

20-down – Like breaking outside power with English spirit : KELPIE

23-down – Poor Miss ‘Y’ : NEEDY

24-down – Wally gets told off : DOLT

1-across – First of the States to restrict new pubs : TAVERNS

5-across – Not many working early to late,say : ANTONYM

9-across – Model cake’s good in real life : COVERGIRL

10-across – Prisoner appearing in twisted feature film : LIFER

11-across – 14 to follow story : TALE

12-across – Shopping centre advertising in street outside – most people ignore it : SMALLPRINT

14-across – Pay attention – nothing’s holding French and Saunders’ finale back : LISTEN

15-across – Note planet discovered by a student is untouched by human hand : NATURAL

16-across – Film about hot American singer making a comeback : TITANIC

18-across – Nurse’s job? Get air supply : TRIAGE

20-across – One’s brilliant with Wings,Elvis and Queen on bass for example : KINGFISHER

21-across – Welshman capturing El Salvador? : DALI

24-across – Regularly attending academic lecture – it’s so long : ADIEU

25-across – Loveless marriage? Slow down and get off the phone? : UNINSTALL

26-across – Crew devoured a little exotic sea creature : MANATEE

27-across – Journalist on paper tried : ESSAYED

1-down – Understood 16 across broadcast : TACIT

2-down – He scored six with just one dropped : VIVALDI

3-down – Bloody hell – gross national product taking just seconds to bounce back : RARE

4-down – Hint to cut some habit at the beach? : SWIMMINGCOSTUME

5-down – Throughout Los Angeles hills,ants ultimately stripped ground : ALLALONGTHELINE

6-down – Clairvoyant’s lie that collapses assuming recording caught … : TELEPATHIC

7-down – … name provided on stage quicker : NIFTIER

8-down – Ruin sex and – essentially – what’s left of marriage : MARITAL

13-down – Perhaps Olive and Ruby maybe able to hold game : STONEFRUIT

16-down – Bear advanced – I’m ready to shoot : TAKEAIM

17-down – Worry one isn’t exercising : TENSION

19-down – Player of golf round stood to make this kind of bread? : GRANARY

22-down – Italy was first after Germany did nothing : IDLED

23-down – Poses when taking smack on vacation : ASKS

8-across – Mean weapon for lectures,say : PARLANCE

9-across – Circle in a ring : ATOLL

10-across – Isle,2 down and red,essentially : SKYE

11-across – Nothing fired back,going one way in battle formation : LINEASTERN

12-across – Last of champagne put in punch before a party : FIESTA

14-across – Those getting hot as I storm off : AMORISTS

15-across – Some skinfuls necked at auditor’s anticipated error? : DEWLAPS

17-across – Out of sight,he parts : EIGHTHS

20-across – Order after toilet breaks certainly not fresher : NEWCOMER

22-across – Pick up venture where leader hidden : RESUME

23-across – Proceeds securing numerous tasty rolls for starters,alongside party dips : DOWNTRENDS

24-across – 2 down nest almost knocked over : LEWD

25-across – Reportedly pale 2 down,might that be? : STEAK

26-across – Criminality all attributed to criminal hit : THIEVERY

1-down – Part of Cambridge vision detailed – is that fundamental? : BACKSIDE

2-down – Crew member,down and dirty : BLUE

3-down – Cambridge University refitting King’s with a urinal : ANGLIA

4-down – Fancy man when in college : NEWNHAM

5-down – Penguin or peacock? : MACARONI

6-down – Measure clues in Cambridge company : FOOTLIGHTS

7-down – College student’s last drink : CLARET

13-down – AstraZeneca etc sees image through lens,if blurred : SILICONFEN

16-down – With minimum of equity to invest,financial ruin evident for Churchill College? : PEMBROKE

18-down – Returning treasure,cry stifled : HOMEWARD

19-down – College venture involves working as coder,say? : TRINITY

21-down – Bighead is overwhelmed by rare showbiz achievement : EGOIST

22-down – See 3 : RUSKIN

24-down – O dear : LOVE

1-across – Writer of prose can start to turn verse out : CERVANTES

6-across – Problem has engineers attending vehicle : REBUS

9-across – Measure copper coin : CUBIT

10-across – Our unusual day-to-day record is beginning to trouble medical expert : UROLOGIST

11-across – Point made by idiot,learner expelled : DOT

12-across – Secret agent put out in prominent position : CENTRESTAGE

14-across – Office worker about to be dismissed as member of religious group : SECTARY

15-across – New hotel bringing in a new intoxicant : ETHANOL

16-across – Examined excellent item of furniture : PLUMBED

19-across – What’s exciting for male? It’s to do with what mini reveals : FEMORAL

22-across – Mum,one of the celebs who values goods above godliness? : MATERIALIST

23-across – River settlement not quiet : CAM

24-across – Grown-up,one getting on,receiving a fan’s fawning : ADULATION

26-across – Cooked a suet dish : SAUTE

27-across – Old characters travel around to get meat : OGHAM

28-across – Most fond of outdoor life,stops delving into screen message : TWEEDIEST

1-down – Baddy captured by American agency’s chirpy types : CICADAS

2-down – Bishop into something radical,mostly very cold and inhuman : ROBOTIC

3-down – Be got hold of by a merchant working in reception area : ANTECHAMBER

4-down – Sporting contest – time for Jack to travel : TOURNEY

5-down – Curse of firm limited in growth : SCOURGE

6-down – Port imbibed by patriot : RIO

7-down – Country woman given education in statistics group : BRITAIN

8-down – Poet not to lounge? : SITWELL

13-down – Maybe like things put into boxes or chests I made specially : SCHEMATISED

16-down – Fish old fellow catches quietly in Italian river : POMPANO

17-down – Story told originally in a French book about a Moabite woman : UNTRUTH

18-down – Nobody was such a writer : DIARIST

19-down – Receiver gets hold of excellent glazed earthenware : FAIENCE

20-down – Hermit with cunning plan to eat half a cake : RECLUSE

21-down – Shining,keen to hide slightest bit of blackness : LAMBENT

25-down – This writer’s going after a goal : AIM