Daily Answers

9-across – 1970s clothing not very good on idiot : LOONPANTS

10-across – Coral island where first twelve characters left : ATOLL

11-across – Wild stunt by footballer taking out centre : FRANTIC

12-across – Terminations from Iago and avengement,what do we have here then? : OTHELLO

13-across – See 22 : ROOM

14-across – Charitable fund-raiser perhaps having bagged £0,mountain to climb at first : BENEVOLENT

15-across – Banks after bullion in French city : ORLEANS

17-across – Company entertained by short film from Hitchcock,pioneer of broadcasting : MARCONI

19-across – Grouse beater’s work done then? Got you! : THEGAMESUP

22-across – ‘Latest’ read by anchors reviewed – here? : NEWS

23-across – Describe Scottish island to the west,only outsiders on there : NARRATE

24-across – Undo chain? I can having escaped after wriggling,as escapologist : HOUDINI

26-across – Somewhat horny,a large antelope : NYALA

27-across – Washerwoman’s Sunset Strip strip? : LAUNDRESS

1-down – No lady really keeping warm while cold down there? : ALLFURCOATANDNO

2-down – Aunt’s loo rebuilt for population of ghost town? : NOTASOUL

3-down – Jam stain : SPOT

4-down – See 1 : KNICKERS

5-down – A positive picked up on the beach? : ASHORE

6-down – Do that and don’t talk dirty! : WASHYOUR

7-down – Rank,porky dog : COLLIE

8-down – Most gory Horrible Histories told,and brilliant after disembowelment : BLOODTHIRSTIEST

16-down – South vanishing from US state,country sawn in half – as if by magic! : ALAKAZAM

17-down – See 6 : MOUTHOUT

18-down – Row in divorce city blowing up – funny : ONELINER

20-down – Aware about mark suggesting slip,something unpleasant found in canal? : EARWAX

21-down – Flush lavatory,emptying beneath plane : EVENLY

25-down – Tongue inside your dungarees : URDU

1-across – One saluting domestic appliance : TOASTER

5-across – Displaces excited radicals : UPROOTS

9-across – Playwright messed up bins having taken drug : IBSEN

10-across – Rig total I revised for one arguing in court : LITIGATOR

11-across – Safe house Andrew keeps doctor in : HOMEANDDRY

12-across – Unusual drink : RUM

14-across – Colonel overcome by awful toothache gets soothing drink : HOTCHOCOLATE

18-across – Teaches ceramicist and nerd perhaps : TRAINSPOTTER

21-across – Receive guests regularly : GET

22-across – Offensive cold saunas destroyed : SCANDALOUS

25-across – Strengths of a flipping politician one secures : ABILITIES

26-across – Children nicked revolving piece for target : INNER

27-across – Sister upset about German cat : TIGRESS

28-across – Empty dairy next to foul house : DYNASTY

1-down – Heads of trade and industry caught hiding illegal practice from China : TAICHI

2-down – Adopt donkey and flipping bird : ASSUME

3-down – Equivalent sum found by worker after time : TANTAMOUNT

4-down – Food store upset after second bit of produce is put out : RILED

5-down – Extreme engineering tutors met : UTTERMOST

6-down – Calls heartless doctors : RIGS

7-down – Reveal holiday rash : OUTBREAK

8-down – Son has neater grass cutter : STRIMMER

13-down – Way budget shows self-restraint : MODERATION

15-down – Such panic upset monkeys : CAPUCHINS

16-down – Deer encountering initially noisy insect is motionless : STAGNANT

17-down – Distant object is old coin : FARTHING

19-down – Issues NEWS … : POINTS

20-down – Missing smoker’s accessory Henry dropped : ASTRAY

23-down – Edged in this way entering study backwards : NOSED

24-down – Summon spectacle for auditors : CITE

4-across – Container housing a paper garment : CAFTAN

6-across – Has she exploded,having swallowed explosive drug? : HASHEESH

9-across – One beating old age – ran twice! : RONALD

10-across – Plant physics unit in e.g. Dorset : SAMPHIRE

11-across – Useful home device when a person is out : ANSWERPHONE

15-across – Repeating liturgy,first to last,with a part of the Bible : ITERANT

17-across – As orderly patients may be dealt with,said US medical student : INTERNE

18-across – Behave frivolously,ditching what could be hard and onerous : HORSEAROUND

22-across – The fellow surprisingly genial as a philosopher : HEGELIAN

23-across – Brazilian dance seeing off a Greek character : LAMBDA

24-across – Skilful mum unsmilingly disposing of last of children : MASTERLY

25-across – Some rock in church service,followed by a poem : MASSIF

1-down – Fellow hugging the Parisian tree : MALLEE

2-down – Mineral from Spanish region found in mine,bottom of mine : PARAGONITE

3-down – Goods trendy chaps dumped in street : SHIPMENT

4-down – Column has one Scottish flower put up in club maybe : CARYATID

5-down – Ruined female occupying one outbuilding : FINISHED

7-down – Irishman taking a very long time to cross island : EOIN

8-down – See 16 : HEEL

12-down – Model wasting time with friend acting as old man : PATERNALLY

13-down – Ancient weapon with which a Scottish detective protects Queen : ARQUEBUS

14-down – Star about to confront theologian,fighting fellow : REDDWARF

16-down – Sick,beset by pains,the chap with little energy left showing fatal weakness : ACHILLES

19-down – See 9 Across : REAGAN

20-down – One companion and another having hesitation : CHUM

21-down – English and American soldiers providing protection in Washington : EGIS

1-across – Fast food once thought to be under threat from Trump? : MEALSONWHEELS

10-across – Leftie carrying reading matter is excited again : REKINDLED

11-across – Prettier hair-stylist somewhat disheartened : CUTER

12-across – ‘Shark eating raw beginner’ could be metaphor : TROPE

13-across – Unfinished line awful – writer finally stops complaining : QUERULOUS

14-across – He wouldn’t fight against non-feminine boss : CONCHIE

16-across – Saw what plain cake was? : NOTICED

18-across – Flash wearing leather in street : INSTANT

20-across – Choice of routes east round perimeter of Sahara Desert : FORSAKE

21-across – Horror film star,one you said flipped over female : NOSFERATU

23-across – See queens’s backside? That’s vulgar : CRASS

24-across – Has clocked stunner in hat : SHAKO

25-across – Please,what can you do in Victoria? One right to leave : ENTERTAIN

26-across – If camouflager’s clever,some may not recognise its existence : GULFOFAMERICA

2-down – Incredible Hulk’s done for hunters : ELKHOUNDS

3-down – Impaler – Vlad’s second name in one : LANCE

4-down – Maybe obtuse old adult’s bored by intellect : OBLIQUE

5-down – Glamorgan opener cracking poor delivery to leg – duck! : WIDGEON

6-down – Meet nitpicking accountant British and American separately ignored : ENCOUNTER

7-down – Drunk bishop lost gambling game : LOTTO

8-down – Charge for coition,pet – Mrs Trump’s economic policy : PROTECTIONISM

9-down – Annoyed by Band-Aid,could be TV Paul’s subject matter : CROSSDRESSING

15-down – He helped one going round before fellows left : HEADEDOFF

17-down – Cleaner turned around to catch a bus : CHARABANC

19-down – Where to drive taking gangster to centre of Sleaford – not an honest person : TEALEAF

20-down – Bucket shape made by French-American corporation : FRUSTUM

22-down – United supporters upset – it’s a cock-up! : SNAFU

23-down – Nurse having no time for president : CARER

9-across – Record on prowler after probing thus has army finally dropping investigation? : SCATOLOGY

10-across – Money one might charge : RHINO

11-across – Cruel sea rolling back in drift : MEANDER

12-across – Tool within Shaw novel? : HANDSAW

13-across – First of all one’s blasted,or else one’s blown : OBOE

14-across – Hymn I’m fanatic about,good parts : MAGNIFICAT

15-across – Emotional time before reprimand : TEARFUL

17-across – Yards away from cypress,and poplar removed from popular new trees : SPRUCES

19-across – Pillock,new money ultimately spent before business done? : NINCOMPOOP

22-across – Corridor linking capitals of Switzerland and Austria? : STOA

23-across – See 4 Down : THELINE

24-across – Tempted to have hospital department decorated : ENTICED

26-across – Dark – otherwise with second opening? : UNLIT

27-across – Armed criminal in twist has become comic book hero : SPIDERMAN

1-down – See 4 : ISIMPORTANTTOUS

2-down – Romeo,as captured by sculptor : CASANOVA

3-down – See 4 : HOLD

4-down – Awful pity a lout and misanthrope couldn’t care less when customer initially cut off – ‘Hello? I … ’ : YOURCALL

5-down – Passing round pub,predator has cut a dash : HYPHEN

6-down – Move,on wind coming up round both poles : TRANSFER

7-down – Head on couch after shows,a bit of a breather? : AIRSAC

8-down – All the same,only if all sit? : NOTWITHSTANDING

16-down – Sellers of bunches,fifty however in bunch of five items? : FLORISTS

17-down – Nothing’s broken as in rebuilt country : SLOVENIA

18-down – Where a corpse originally buried in a crypt beneath surface of chamber? : CATACOMB

20-down – Hand,or spleen? : NEEDLE

21-down – See 4 : PLEASE

25-down – River kid mentioned? : TEES