Daily Answers

8-across – Bearing thanks, King George departed to tour Thailand : ATTITUDE

9-across – Be no longer in the lead? : EXIST

10-across – Support the other side : BACK

11-across – One day in seven I’ll eradicate ragwort, primarily with this? : WEEDKILLER

12-across – Determined supporter boring Sylvester Stallone : STEELY

14-across – Gary isn’t cast in 1960s’ TV series : STINGRAY

16-across – E-lation? : ECSTASY

18-across – Drunk pinches copper and metal : MERCURY

21-across – A British party is caught after doing a U-turn, sharp : ABRASIVE

23-across – Sturgeon’s playing a bugle : BELUGA

24-across – Everton gutted — thumps in dodgy penalty : PUNISHMENT

26-across – Leaders of Newcastle usually taunt Sunderland fans : NUTS

27-across – Swimmers swim on vacation, including exercise by river : SPERM

28-across – Everybody loves a posh royal, one who’s an old predator? : ALLOSAUR

1-down – Local network installed in loft by the ocean : ATLANTIC

2-down – 10 : MINK

3-down – Move around the Tube, essentially underground in America : SUBWAY

4-down – I serve differently to conclude Federer’s final game : REVERSI

5-down – Bill’s old schoolmaster : BEAK

6-down – Every other Briton’s reasonable and related by blood : BIOLOGICAL

7-down – In Judea, the nativity reveals deity : ATHENA

13-down – Delivers suspect walk-on part? I’d stumble over scenery : EXTRADITES

15-down – Announcement: 50% off diamonds! : ICE

17-down – Runner is climbing over the summit of Kilimanjaro : SKI

19-down – Just terrible losing crown : RIGHTFUL

20-down – Common soldier : GENERAL

22-down – Having no immediate use, king leaves in musical style : BLUESY

23-down – Adult abandons fight over oxygen container : BOTTLE

25-down – Opening of honeypot? I’m not sure — tip from Pooh Bear : HUMP

26-down – Feature of numbers with natural base : NOSE

1-across – Reporting to police recent disturbance in retail park : SHOPPINGCENTRE

8-across – Men cut the deck : ORLOP

9-across – Queue consists of two ends : TAILBACK

11-across – Make oneself amusing, which camper may need at night : BEDROLL

12-across – Optimistic as a Taurean? : BULLISH

13-across – Shoot singular Puritan : SPRIG

15-across – After payment one may let you in, at a push : TURNSTILE

17-across – Perhaps Shorty and Chalky commit identity theft? : NICKNAMES

20-across – Grub freed from unpopular VAT : LARVA

21-across – Something to secure psalter that’s falling apart? : STAPLER

23-across – Advised to be in underwear? : BRIEFED

25-across – City has a key assistant : ADELAIDE

26-across – Furthest limit of fire in the mountains : RANGE

27-across – Instruct a claim must fail, given such evidence : CIRCUMSTANTIAL

1-down – Demonstration by company for entertainment : SHOWBUSINESS

2-down – Nothing I put forward is drunk : OILED

3-down – Orange pip damaged musical instrument : PIPEORGAN

4-down – TV off? Time for a short letter : NOTELET

5-down – One may be at a peak after ropy performance : CLIMBER

6-down – Prize book received by Christmas : NOBEL

7-down – One putting right European in terrific mess : RECTIFIER

10-down – Not be straight in driving a bargain? : WHEELANDDEAL

14-down – Dicky play, not the first from the Bard : RICHARDII

16-down – Solo diner forced to plough through : SOLDIERON

18-down – Political theory of some zany brothers? : MARXISM

19-down – A British citizen is the theme : SUBJECT

22-down – Some smell I lack, required to appreciate this? : LILAC

24-down – Plants gun, if deceitful : FUNGI

1-across – Person fiddling with cold radiator : CHEATER

5-across – Handed-down information with name recalled : GENETIC

9-across – Criminals direct round over a Fed’s head : MAFIA

10-across – Stress about computing electronic score : REITERATE

11-across – Blue tick’s lost? Start to tweet series of unsatisfied experiences : BUCKETLIST

12-across – Queen after prince: very deviant : PERV

14-across – Risking death by offending : ENDANGERING

18-across – Physical movement of body from Viagra? Not excited with it : GRAVITATION

21-across – Boy sent back hospital food : NOSH

22-across – It’s painful on tablet: patient that’s on bed : PILLOWCASE

25-across – One in on scam set free? He can’t get off : INSOMNIAC

26-across – Even couple in orgy aroused … : RANDY

27-across – … almost grasp buttocks, controlling bodies : SENATES

28-across – Jumper is one for man covering large belly in FaceTime : ATHLETE

1-down – Get times to arrive first : COMEBY

2-down – Swear allegiance at the front, church getting cross out : EFFACE

3-down – Artist from Royal Academy caught viewer in Tate Modern, initially with it : TRACEYEMIN

4-down – Two rivers meet in country : RURAL

5-down – I sing with lads when playing what might be written in score : GLISSANDI

6-down – Root for Scottish independence, essentially over European pressure : NEEP

7-down – Deals with red stain after spillage : TRADESIN

8-down – Clue vague, having lost us — answer written in which might be revealed in front : CLEAVAGE

13-down – Set out to pry, when neighbour originally comes in for a bit : PENNYWORTH

15-down – Dua Lipa, ignoring dad, secures conditions of being in two states : DUALITIES

16-down – American spirits found in bottles around conservative offices : AGENCIES

17-down – Out-of-date tin containing old leaves : PASSESON

19-down – New form for trainees missing item in the middle: it will need filling in : SARNIE

20-down – Jaguar after run to enter again : RETYPE

23-down – Gear for cycling leisurely on vacation; car moving around : LYCRA

24-down – Bit of dirt, stomach’s upset : SMUT

1-across – Picture king amongst group of pieces leading to check : SKETCH

4-across – Attractive woman’s detailed incantation : MANTRA

9-across – Strained sound of rebuke muffling answer : TAUT

10-across – American trips taking in crumbling hall on an irregular basis : ATALLHOURS

11-across – Reveal hesitation about nationalist question : UNMASK

12-across – Extinct bird mentioned in dreary lecture : GREATAUK

13-across – Power gap filled by party leader : PRESIDENT

15-across – Rumour I ignored — it’s not sweet : BRUT

16-across – Large organ broke? Not quite : SKIN

17-across – Ministers not entirely caring about first one leaving wild party : CLERGYMEN

21-across – Fine translation of ‘sucre’ to indicate this? : FRUCTOSE

22-across – Children’s programme taking over core of series : SPROGS

24-across – It’s used for lifting things without tipping? : DUMBWAITER

25-across – Tack holding rear of carpet is a bother : STEW

26-across – Cracker show held in last third of August : SEXPOT

27-across – Stop a party I backed : PERIOD

1-down – Sign of injury, with nobody removing ring when entering hospital device : SCANNER

2-down – Congress heading off cheers about Republican addition? : EXTRA

3-down – College, stretched, failed : CRACKED

5-down – One suffers effects of sunburn, having rolled over in a doze : ASLEEP

6-down – Tense before translation of Wooster comedy finally displaying more elevated level? : TWOSTOREY

7-down – Bovine material in test mostly upheld as source of ventilation : AIRDUCT

8-down – Remarkable gains least expect­ed after damage in these constituencies : MARGINALSEATS

14-down – Electrical equipment linking birch and shrub : SWITCHBOX

16-down – Small support for hosting a composer : STRAUSS

18-down – Place for wild animals always keeping a lot of the other ones upset : RESERVE

19-down – For one Guardian leader on top teacher, it’s intellectual : EGGHEAD

20-down – Married Australian brought in character not from Oz — the fruit of love? : TOMATO

23-down – Fried potato dish — it’s golden when turned over : ROSTI

1-across – Eternal punishment of mother country : DAMNATION

6-across – Glue crown around sovereign’s head : PASTE

9-across – Unruly amateurs menaced gaming venue : AMUSEMENTARCADE

10-across – Letter isn’t vowel? : NOTE

11-across – Attractive person embracing firm master : BECOMING

14-across – Engineer melds true instrument : STEELDRUM

15-across – Article about professional protective wear : APRON

16-across – Small motorbike moved aimlessly : MOPED

18-across – Starry eyed about dropping right song : YESTERDAY

20-across – Twist on top of pie : TURNOVER

21-across – Egg on valiant ultra marathoners at the start : OVUM

25-across – Roughly appraised import as stolen : MISAPPROPRIATED

26-across – Fly across lake powered by the sun : SOLAR

27-across – Where plants grow is quiet and springy : SHRUBBERY

1-down – Closed part of hospital promoted by head of neurology : DRAWN

2-down – Short time with loose Canadian cop : MOUNTIE

3-down – Encourage sailor on film : ABET

4-down – Chilled journalist following immoral capitalist leaders : ICED

5-down – Lowest trap catching vacuum flask : NETHERMOST

6-down – Punches salesperson upset by Foreign Office charges : PERFORATES

7-down – Mark crosses river that is more terrifying : SCARIER

8-down – Appear caught in New York crisis : EMERGENCY

12-down – Axe cut by strange old peasant : CLODHOPPER

13-down – German rye breads baked for old men : GREYBEARDS

14-down – Thing returned by Carpathian in cry for help now and then : SOMETIMES

17-down – Friend covers artist thus in shade : PARASOL

19-down – Fan voted out by heads of electronic engineering : DEVOTEE

22-down – Dirty setter’s embracing posh Doctor of Divinity : MUDDY

23-down – Knocks over box : SPAR

24-down – Part of body overcome by chemical imbalance : LIMB