Daily Answers

1-across – One over-indulger embracing another in tap : SPIGOT

4-across – Mean to restrict a lot of fantastic YA book series? : TWILIGHT

9-across – Support adopting end to futile return to first principles : RESET

10-across – Childish game, note, adopted by a good many men having fun : STAGNIGHT

11-across – the i repeatedly upset about Guardian leader? Just a fraction : EIGHTIETH

12-across – I heard you will dismiss first Rector about student one’s observed rudely : OGLER

13-across – A lot about one King and father, perhaps – to me? : HEIRAPPARENT

17-across – Unconventional ménage – or pair in this? : OPENMARRIAGE

20-across – Editor ‘outing’ Communist performer : ACTOR

21-across – Gloomy function bringing in a performer : SATURNINE

23-across – Continue to run amok, returning after detective apprehends Nationalist or Red : PINOTNOIR

24-across – Something for everyone? Three times I must secure lowest cinema classification : TUTTI

25-across – Poet’s completed penning poem – I should check : OVERSEER

26-across – Outlaw to plunder King, say, almost entirely escaping : ROBROY

1-down – Church yard under rocks making a harsh sound : SCREECHY

2-down – Emblems and one name dropped from pub marker, I admitted initially : INSIGNIA

3-down – Chamber piece? Some Schubert etc obviously turns up here : OCTET

5-down – Meteorologist recreates thaw after storm : WEATHERCASTER

6-down – Depression after network shows farmer, perhaps : LANDOWNER

7-down – Man that’s kept programmer’s mantra – look! : GIGOLO

8-down – Expression of annoyance initially over red socks and trainers : TUTORS

10-down – Streets around Essex town – one contribution to river crossing : STEPPINGSTONE

14-down – Apparently a renegade American device : APPARATUS

15-down – ‘Rail’ is seen in ‘raillery’ : BANISTER

16-down – Rash behaviour still on the rise around desert : TEMERITY

18-down – Vital stuff – noodle soup – for poet : SAPPHO

19-down – Second tee: top player adopting new address : STANCE

22-down – After upset, rower keeping it in proportion : RATIO

1-across – Sort of stop exchanging rook for bishop: what’s left for you? : BEQUEST

5-across – Being on duty, stop light reflecting through airport : ORDERLY

9-across – Millions offered in exchange are overwhelming : SWAMP

10-across – Long to have maiden on rug shortly? Seize the chance! : CARPEDIEM

11-across – Study arousing the body by mutual agreement : CONSENSUAL

12-across – Paid less, content to be shirking : IDLE

14-across – Sounder of body? Keep it firm with pressure, squeezed into tights : STETHOSCOPE

18-across – Appear to have cried piteously for so long : ARRIVEDERCI

21-across – Eleven? You have two : LEGS

22-across – Considers turbulent times a pointer : CROSSINDEX

25-across – Wasn’t that a great fight! Have you forgotten? : WHATABOUT

26-across – Cathedral men returning to follow the faith? No way : TRURO

27-across – Dare one to blow up school : ROEDEAN

28-across – Glass, one taken after mate in one : OPALINE

1-down – What are essential pens like being gripped? : BASICS

2-down – One of several children holds a tango old-fashioned : QUAINT

3-down – Mark on score, one very obscured by coffee : ESPRESSIVO

4-down – Changes course, not a time for assaults : TACKS

5-down – Petition the family’s obese woman : OURFATHER

6-down – Act certainly in this : DEED

7-down – Soldiers doing parachuting, a bit of a shower : RAINDROP

8-down – Married before, after a month was up daughter sounded off loudly : YAMMERED

13-down – Killer I sidetrack, caught leaving plant : ASPIDISTRA

15-down – One to take to bed, I wondered idly? : EIDERDOWN

16-down – Small letter, more yellowy : SALLOWER

17-down – Cricketing medic accepting a test of acceleration : DRAGRACE

19-down – Oriental sort of bean these days unknown to British Isles : ADZUKI

20-down – In the cold, abandon trade fair, having seen half : EXPOSE

23-down – Fight over old earth : SETTO

24-down – I agree, German police not content it’s a prank : JAPE

1-across – Neighbourhood wanting police officer to be authoritarian : STRICT

4-across – Journalist is getting to grips with court rulings : EDICTS

9-across – Crust should colour artisan bread first of all : SCAB

10-across – As one actor appears occasionally – the boy’s four, see : COHESIVELY

11-across – New clue’s badly constructed using indicator, initially for ‘middle parts’ : NUCLEI

12-across – Change state of emergency, essentially – maybe Qatar’s hosting : EMIGRATE

13-across – Suffering embarrassment when skilfully taking a cast off : ABASHEDLY

15-across – Feeble Fed’s quietly pursuing cartel at last : LIMP

16-across – To begin with, ‘anon’ means in the future : AWAY

17-across – Nurse infant over advanced influenza, finally getting spicy food : ENCHILADA

21-across – Produce example Nectar card – store review all terms : HONEYDEW

22-across – Group of footballers – big characters from Tottenham Hotspur – come stripped to work out : FATHOM

24-across – Journalist is working with ITV before mass protest of a modern variety : HACKTIVISM

25-across – Deposit’s unreasonably small on reflection : SOOT

26-across – Busy men with a net at sea : ORNATE

27-across – Spoil hot iron with constant temperature : INFECT

1-down – Give in as say, snot’s brought up containing cold bacteria’s source : SUCCUMB

2-down – Nonconformist bishop’s breaking wind : REBEL

3-down – Someone who loves Charlie Chaplin’s debut – short act prepared with dedication : COCAINE

5-down – Film star’s fans found him wandering around middle of Luton : DUSTIN

6-down – Miss film’s opening to get model? : COVERGIRL

7-down – Separate ends of ship illuminated : SPLITUP

8-down – Instruction for division from yank – literally 3 over 3’s helping to begin with : THREELINEWHIP

14-down – Partners ask Nike to change leather : SNAKESKIN

16-down – Pavlov commands a dog using prime bits of fatty food? : AVOCADO

18-down – See 5 : HOFFMAN

19-down – Beatnik recalled poo lining old river : DROPOUT

20-down – See 3 : ADDICT

23-down – Why some like Mars being in transit regularly with Earth : TASTE

1-across – One saved by 11 giving medals? : DAMSELIN

5-across – Name of worker on Gibraltar originally missing : HANDLE

9-across – See 1 : DISTRESS

10-across – Cold drink’s rubbish – initially dismayed expression : CRUMBS

12-across – Lane around Kent introduces rule for slow mover : LORIS

13-across – Lusty Alan touched butt : AUNTSALLY

14-across – Misses following competitors at Gateshead – these should help : FIELDGLASSES

18-across – Form again on playing-field – old school head’s gone missing : RECONSTITUTE

21-across – One’s close enough, right? I start to become nervous : NEIGHBOUR

23-across – Cleaner in university getting in before rector : PURER

24-across – Is resting with Slim, naked – they may be in bed : LILIES

25-across – Being on the drink might cause it? : MALDEMER

26-across – Stop religious type going round bend : DESIST

27-across – Left Washington institute without loyalist : STALWART

1-down – Daughters benefit getting outside for walk in the park : DODDLE

2-down – Film featuring Bates Motel originally is creepy : MISERY

3-down – Material upsetting – issue about one coming out : EGRESSION

4-down – Fitting in with virile lover, having a time to visit : INSTALLATION

6-down – Embarrassed to show hanging : ARRAS

7-down – Protest with roughly fifty in total : DEMOLISH

8-down – He writes about state : ESSAYIST

11-down – Champion: ‘Good to crack original thinker’s crosswords’ : KNIGHTERRANT

15-down – Obsessive about this odd school on the other side of the world : ANTIPODAL

16-down – Argued with Republican that’s bent : WRANGLED

17-down – Desperately wants to protect suffering hero : ACHILLES

19-down – Occupied region – wrong one : CRIMEA

20-down – Say, Liam Fox and party colleague raised problem in the House : DRYROT

22-down – Horrible blokes but women like going out with them : HEELS

1-across – Hard slant’s adopted in assembly : CHAMBER

5-across – Seduced by bum with dated expression : CAJOLED

9-across – Central shipyard allows owner to build tower : PYLON

10-across – Roam around in alarm, taking everything in : PANORAMIC

11-across – A solution for stiff locks : HAIRSPRAY

12-across – Reason poles are found in a place like York? : SENSE

13-across – Rich people like us seldom have starters : PLUSH

15-across – Rugby side required to score 147? : ALLBLACKS

18-across – Difficulty getting to the top for unqualified head : SHEERNESS

19-across – Low rubbish describing heavy fellow’s chest : MOOBS

21-across – Manicheism provides a comfortable place to be : NICHE

23-across – Cleaner gets sick pensioner to eat nothing : BAROFSOAP

25-across – Move stand, then reconnect : TOUCHBASE

26-across – Message William expects to be partially rejected : EMAIL

27-across – Teams we organised are best, some say : MAEWEST

28-across – Erroneously pick up note by quiet listener : MISHEAR

1-down – Nick manages to acquire skip… : COPSHOP

2-down – … free, when retail use has been reviewed : ATLEISURE

3-down – Working in transport to get extra income : BONUS

4-down – Fulminate about common idea brought up in dispatches : REPORTAGE

5-down – Prudent to move medical facility out of food processing plant : CANNY

6-down – Occasional jade auction held in strange city : JERUSALEM

7-down – French journal removes depleted database – it’s a dud : LEMON

8-down – Writer talked about devil : DICKENS

14-down – Ripped up shores with tool that’s used to protect mounts : HORSESHOE

16-down – Tool for cutting plank supporting small part of raised concrete : LASERBEAM

17-down – Check on old company behind confectionery : CHOCOLATE

18-down – Amount political party initially tucked inside secret location : SANCTUM

20-down – Provider, when I will have gone, becomes more flexible : SUPPLER

22-down – Trough offering shelter in church : CHUTE

23-down – Wager about gold in Australia, is outstanding : BEAUT

24-down – Regularly offer eldest some meals : FEEDS