Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Outstanding rule about dead fascist,as his friends called him? : OSWALD

5-across – Intellectual rebel has accident with car : CEREBRAL

9-across – Almost deceived at tea dance : CHACONNE

10-across – Against epithet for the four Beatles in private conversation : CONFAB

11-across – Bird entered the water the far side of the pond : DOVE

12-across – Nursing a broken knee,turn to worship now in American style : YANKEEFIED

13-across – One greeting king is servile,not unpleasant : KISSER

14-across – The centre of Bangor? : DOWNTOWN

16-across – Costing a bomb to be sceptical : AGNOSTIC

19-across – I stole Christmas,and grimace at church : GRINCH

21-across – Clamour interrupts lengthy sermon for special service : ORDINATION

23-across – Start off speaking with grit : SAND

24-across – Charge a line of waiters has announced : ACCUSE

25-across – Call to attention fifty competitors that may be drilled : OILFIELD

26-across – Figures and a piece of data applied to the rest of Jan : STATUARY

27-across – Under compulsion,you make irregular patterns : TIEDYE

2-down – School cane,a stinger,wielded across Charlie,a paradoxical creature : SCHRODINGERSCAT

3-down – Old soldiers have twinges crossing two rivers : ARCHERS

4-down – Comic part performed for three-ha’pence once : DANDYPRAT

5-down – Won everything when up,having lost everything when out : CLEANED

6-down – A survey run,and behold! : RECCE

7-down – Use live computer image of suspect with name attached : BENEFIT

8-down – That’s a threat of retaliation in chess,for example : AGAMETWOCANPLAY

15-down – Sleepers in monastery abroad losing pants : WAGONSLIT

17-down – Old bridge,not a tube : OVIDUCT

18-down – Start to cultivate non-native tree,its heart extracted for coffee substitute : CHICORY

20-down – Introduce oxygen,burning part of church : INSPIRE

22-down – Ring area of the kidneys,not large : ARENA

1-across – Burst from trumpeter? One can’t go as high as Armstrong did : JUMBOJET

6-across – See 21 : HOPPER

9-across – Vessel for wine in tiny mouth? : GOBLET

10-across – Tennis player for whom Covid jabs originally OK? That’s unlikely : DJOKOVIC

11-across – Mouthpiece,glue’s stuck around one : GUMSHIELD

13-across – Prestidigitation,smoke and mirrors initially given reflection? : MAGIC

15-across – Anything but a real swine cradling head of love bird : FALCON

17-across – Sovereign a nation recalled : REGINA

18-across – Parting shot from spinning of S. Warne : ANSWER

19-across – Old documents reviewing pay in middle of April : PAPYRI

21-across – Bouncer with velocity punching customer : SPACE

22-across – Syrian mother has a tantrum : DAMASCENE

25-across – Hard bread out at sea : OBDURATE

26-across – Gymnast: be lissome in twists : SIMONE

28-across – Franco’s money put into plant : PESETA

29-across – Fuel like crude oil in engine not half backfiring! : GASOLINE

2-down – Regular servings of bug food for a drone,probably? : UFO

3-down – See 26 Across : BILES

4-down – Black-coloured stocking is lost : JETTISONED

5-down – Teensy bit squiffy : TIDDLY

6-down – House of dance : HOOF

7-down – Shame about leader in fanzine penned by hack,say – filthy language : PROFANITY

8-down – Enlightenment in rebranding of Labour Party post-David Miliband? : EDIFICATION

12-down – Composed,as are rigid wings? : UNFLAPPABLE

14-down – Skeletal structure in Facebook address of Paul? : METATARSUS

16-down – Sinking ship proceeds to capsize,with rat running around : LOSTCAUSE

20-down – Black sheep spoiled food on farm? : BADEGG

23-down – African carrier,first of containers,A,B or C? : CAMEL

24-down – Fine wine? : CAVA

27-down – Celibate,with some frustration,understandably : NUN

8-across – By itself,the Yankee territory introduction of cruel capital punishment means nothing will be the same : THETIMES

9-across – Extremely ostentatious about unpleasant smells : ODOURS

10-across – Finally given by a cruel father: clothing,identity : NAME

11-across – See 10 : ANDADDRESS

12-across – Come up with component for main ventilator : INVENT

14-across – Answer sailor for this way of washing : ABLUTION

15-across – Last year’s pilot to start in rapid part of air show : FLYPAST

17-across – Parochial urinals in a mess : INSULAR

20-across – See 8 : THEYAREA

22-across – Beast stripped car held by church : COYOTE

23-across – Now or Christmas? : THEPRESENT

24-across – See 23 : TIME

25-across – Plaster almost stuck firm : STUCCO

26-across – See 8 : CHANGING

1-down – Quiet type of music starts off nicely,ending loud with explosive bit : SHRAPNEL

2-down – Index heard in action under the table? : FTSE

3-down – Crash Philistine’s agreement : IMPACT

4-down – American starts to eat disgusting cold and raw banger : USEDCAR

5-down – Musician not on in London with Babyshambles : BOBDYLAN

6-down – Setter or solver’s terribly sultry : YOURSTRULY

7-down – As if by magic,Northern city’s not North : PRESTO

13-down – Trained spy team won’t take a step into the void : EMPTYSPACE

16-down – Inspector could turn very sour : SURVEYOR

18-down – Films regularly inspired by Shakespearean element : ANTIMONY

19-down – X interrupting frilly period of inactivity : LATENCY

21-down – That content is covered by this arrangement for instruments : HIHATS

22-down – Rest shows up in discrepant accounting : CATNAP

24-down – Simple wrap as temperature previously went up : TOGA

1-across – Reportedly purchase farming tool for a penny farthing? : BICYCLE

5-across – Steady earner from clubs beginning to collaborate in adult entertainment : CASHCOW

9-across – English involved in slight about Aussie football : RULES

10-across – Force once made rough bombs : HOMEGUARD

11-across – Top hack’s office tried so desperately to get joint : EDITORSHIP

12-across – Only real mugs should survive its scrutiny : FACE

14-across – See 12 : RECOGNITION

18-across – Perhaps cyborg’s faulty power unit discharged at random : PORTMANTEAU

21-across – See 18 : WORD

22-across – Having a change of heart,female sheep chasing castrated ram around area shows alert gaze : WEATHEREYE

25-across – Longing for what was left in Santiago,unfortunately : NOSTALGIA

26-across – Fling means of protection,sacrificing first rook : AMOUR

27-across – Posy heads evenly covered in mist : SPRAYED

28-across – Boy cycling in bay maybe finds lever : TREADLE

1-down – Stock gatherer seen around Suffolk,for one : BORDER

2-down – See 1 : COLLIE

3-down – Revamped Commodores launch site in Russia : COSMODROME

4-down – Distinctive character conveyed by Internet host : ETHOS

5-down – Mix with Marxist holding no good line : COMMINGLE

6-down – Company for older folk horrified,mainly over losing hospital : SAGA

7-down – Flat baked objects Dave’s mate put across majority of terrace : CHAPATIS

8-down – Ducks,say – 50% died in winter going north : WIDGEONS

13-down – Rivet up broken corroded pan : VITUPERATE

15-down – Prisoner,curt church officer and daughter came together : CONVERGED

16-down – Pressure in America superficially harms economic recoveries : UPSWINGS

17-down – Fire safety measure identified in formal part of flight : DRYRISER

19-down – Category of disastrous result in eg MSc or PhD : SECOND

20-down – See 19 : DEGREE

23-down – Diplomacy surrounding Republican’s religious pamphlet : TRACT

24-down – Pamper bishop wearing laurel : BABY

1-across – Will’s supplementary bit of fish – one caught on one line : CODICIL

5-across – One’s unfashionable cul-de-sac : IMPASSE

9-across – High-ranking woman is worthless,say,on the inside : BEGUM

10-across – Leaves set with fancy chic interior : RADICCHIO

11-across – WP feature that wizards find restricting? : SPELLCHECK

12-across – Being in favour dulls the tongue : URDU

14-across – Oxen,infected with bacteria,worsening : EXACERBATION

18-across – Brief lapse by one getting on metro is an omen,not a failing : SENIORMOMENT

21-across – Bill goes in to snack : TACO

22-across – French port cellar constructed with hole : LAROCHELLE

25-across – If testing includes an aspect of personality : PROVIDING

26-across – Composer’s boundless freedom : IBERT

27-across – Skin pierced by lice infestation … : CUTICLE

28-across – … because of that dodgy beer drunk by you once : THEREBY

1-down – Artist’s book is framed by Nick : CUBIST

2-down – Was behind but determined : DOGGED

3-down – Obsession about no. 1 mug colour : COMPLEXION

4-down – Blur challenged to cover rock : LURCH

5-down – Tastelessness of trendy colour scheme – odd,‘right off!’ : INDECORUM

6-down – All the suits put in a case : PACK

7-down – It takes a brave sort to tuck into mixed dips in the form of earth : SPHEROID

8-down – ‘Rock group,Queen,wrecked tune’ – well said! : ELOQUENT

13-down – Meal spot around one: starting point for a heavenly trip : LAUNCHSITE

15-down – Aggressive Conservative club in bad movie : COMBATIVE

16-down – Describing certain atoms,is oxygen at issue? : ISOTOPIC

17-down – Quickly produce a smash hit : KNOCKOUT

19-down – Member engaged in bitter claim? : ALLEGE

20-down – Privileged types making military leader go : GENTRY

23-down – Looked for missing top – anything at all : OUGHT

24-down – Insult club’s top circle : DISC