Daily Answers

7-across – Had fun too,weirdly without much forethought : OUTOFHAND

8-across – Good downpour for wheat or corn : GRAIN

9-across – Averse to being shot? : CAMERASHY

10-across – Present in box that lacks plastic at the back : OFFER

12-across – Behold the stew! : SEETHE

13-across – Favoured treatment manoeuvred me in post : NEPOTISM

14-across – Trip,start to stagger,then fall : STUMBLE

17-across – Family member runs into trouble : BROTHER

20-across – Respectable,extremely tiny buildings : PROPERTY

22-across – The other 22 mostly guarding central part of Belgian border : MARGIN

24-across – Throws out various items : EMITS

25-across – Adjust behind scope : REARRANGE

26-across – Some routes to Potters Bar : ESTOP

27-across – Over-the-top,and badly organised : GRANDIOSE

1-down – Church assistant’s uniform placed in packing case : CURATE

2-down – Instant sign of hesitation provides the impetus to move forward : MOMENTUM

3-down – Utterance wears thin when uttered : PHRASE

4-down – Far edges of the tarpaulin are unable to cover hotel entrance : ENCHANT

5-down – Expert in decent shape to make money : PROFIT

6-down – Nice seat positioned for movie buff : CINEASTE

11-down – Endlessly reject encouragement : SPUR

15-down – Dessert containing coffee liqueur – or is it a rum,possibly? : TIRAMISU

16-down – Traditional wisdom is regularly also true : LORE

18-down – Top of plant eaten by land reptile : TERRAPIN

19-down – How performers often learn their lines using courage : BYHEART

21-down – Ways to embrace love and poignant quality : PATHOS

22-down – Soldier at sea,or airmen at sea : MARINE

23-down – Maybe have a drink for the lolz,say : INGEST

1-across – Conveyance for one visiting hell? : HANDCART

5-across – Rioter perhaps to replace equipment knocked over : LOOTER

9-across – The principal screen,or all of them on estate agent’s website? : HOMEPAGE

10-across – In spring,that woman he may bring to the heights : SHERPA

12-across – Coach taking workers’ association to hill : TUTOR

13-across – High-quality spinner,attractive one : TOPDRAWER

14-across – Increasing wealth of criminal gangs raiding : AGGRANDISING

18-across – At a stretch,they manage to keep things together : ELASTICBANDS

21-across – Martin’s home is the finest visited by Irish detective before noon : BIRDSNEST

23-across – Rodent is shy,backing up : COYPU

24-across – Having got up,is near collapse : ARISEN

25-across – Note oils perhaps in convenience store : MINIMART

26-across – Pursued with tenacity : DOGGED

27-across – Unnecessary thing to do to wheel? : REINVENT

1-down – Has hit varying sets of cymbals : HIHATS

2-down – A stupid person in Humpty-Dumpty rhyme : NUMPTY

3-down – Make an accurate transcription of a law : COPYRIGHT

4-down – Rig the Oscars to mess up the Cinderella theme : RAGSTORICHES

6-down – Hiding face,parent is not the same : OTHER

7-down – Shirt now changed,returns to play : THROWSIN

8-down – The fury some are driven to? : ROADRAGE

11-down – Merging ten companies from which superficial value can be extracted : OPENCASTMINE

15-down – Admission to office shows some logic : INDUCTION

16-down – Characterful feature of phone : KEYBOARD

17-down – Being pregnant,a sister at last showing emotion about it : CARRYING

19-down – Keep turning with extremely giddy speed : GYRATE

20-down – Pharaoh’s doubled shame : TUTTUT

22-down – Observed to speak in part of play : SCENE

1-across – Bully’s given a toss,a great : COWABUNGA

6-across – Great banks left corporation? : FLAB

8-across – Skirt-wearing scholar lives for the pursuit of titillation : HEDONISM

9-across – Advancement running plant : ONRUSH

10-across – Place of worship,holy building last of all visited by primate : CHAPEL

11-across – Great 17,say : STERLING

12-across – Great book reviewed,see : LOVELY

15-across – Great punishment : SPANKING

16-across – Second feather,say,one splitting hairs? : STICKLER

19-across – Reportedly,pipe suddenly went down : DUCKED

21-across – Great romance with piano in a duet? : WOOPWOOP

22-across – Great in the hinterlands? : FAROUT

24-across – Cocktail,one ruined by gin,vermouth perfect : MAITAI

25-across – Two Stalin scribbled – JS,say? : INITIALS

26-across – Amigo fed hot,hot curry : PHAL

27-across – Flag raised,white,perhaps? : HIGHLIGHT

1-down – Go over to the audience for some language : CZECH

2-down – Great band in short : WHOOPEE

3-down – Great swimmer : BRILL

4-down – Undoing last of knots I identified from below,male cuts through it : NEMESIS

5-down – Same absurd ideas crushed by a pro : AFORESAID

6-down – Discharge of gas leaving a system when running : FARTLEK

7-down – Literary similarity great,small issue with article penned : ASSONANCE

13-down – Manipulator moving to teashop : OSTEOPATH

14-down – Call love and desire quite fair? : YELLOWISH

17-down – Great resources : CAPITAL

18-down – Great destruction : RIPPING

20-down – Great,gee man! : CORKING

22-down – Detail stuff that’s about right : FRILL

23-down – Dark,one allowing in minimum of luminescence : UNLIT

9-across – Neat plan,exporting European metal containing zero rust : OXIDATION

10-across – Lecture lacking power and scope : REACH

11-across – Bouquets I extracted from rows : NOSES

12-across – One It Girl naughtily hanging around : LOITERING

13-across – Be off to secure current winter vehicle : SNOWCAT

14-across – Beckett play,odd piece,hobbling : ENDGAME

17-across – Top star: a record Hollywood attraction at the outset : ALPHA

19-across – Shrewd attitude honestly dismissed : FLY

20-across – King,say,runs over regarding the people being kept back : ROYAL

21-across – Shakespearean heroine the subject of US police case? : MIRANDA

22-across – Long time absorbed in long display : PAGEANT

24-across – Location of suicide? Biblical writer suppressing flowing tears : JUDASTREE

26-across – 33% Tesla employed losing place ultimately : THIRD

28-across – Black chessman dodging King : NIGHT

29-across – Company investing in exploitation of next ore showing a bit of brain : NEOCORTEX

1-down – Urban area disconcerted,with personnel leaving : TOWN

2-down – Motor-racing and horse-racing venue combined? Not wholly a failure : FIASCO

3-down – Cartel is,in time,taking on number of shops : DAISYCHAIN

4-down – Girl having bad time accepting love : VIOLET

5-down – Up to trickery,finally involving the writer? That’s inopportune : UNTIMELY

6-down – Bank of Scotland to stop releasing krone : BRAE

7-down – Californian cops apprehending one above a railway – impressive : LAPIDARY

8-down – Rough haul,including heroin : THUG

13-down – Introduction of wind into fake old wind instrument : SHAWM

15-down – Run out,ousting the Parisian from visiting group? That’s vilification : DEROGATION

16-down – Story about Conservative brought up for big effect : ECLAT

18-down – Example,note,drawn from marching millions : PARADIGM

19-down – Fellow with tirade about student event raising a stink? : FRAGRANT

22-down – Pub promoted single disinfectant : PHENOL

23-down – Noble Prince abandoning European city as well? Not entirely : ARISTO

24-down – Psychologist’s name used in prison : JUNG

25-down – Malice when barring parking spot : SITE

27-down – Party axes good-time girl : DOXY

1-across – Hide here to remove hair,and engage at last in feeble sex : LIMEPIT

5-across – News: it’s about former chess champion : TIDINGS

9-across – Dance around home regularly and grunt : GIJOE

10-across – Aching,distress me with haircut : RHEUMATIC

11-across – Misdoing career,getting involved in this : ORGANISEDCRIME

13-across – Where to build small unit,a metre short : SITE

14-across – Point dropped after men smashed and netted : ENMESHED

17-across – Shown to have been given another escalope? : REVEALED

18-across – Laurel back in several Asian republics : STAN

21-across – Entire genitals transplanted elsewhere in body : LARGEINTESTINE

23-across – Seabird’s remorse being wrong to eat most of fruit : GUILLEMOT

24-across – A little concern about a European that’s often on the card tables : BAIZE

25-across – No love for speeches,being issued food : RATIONS

26-across – Cunning insult coming to ears : SLEIGHT

1-down – Large,commonly very overweight,one goes downhill fast : LUGE

2-down – One arrived at perhaps ten to two : MAJORITYVERDICT

3-down – Supposedly temporary accommodation to be great later? : PREFAB

4-down – Swede sort of makes to flip a coin : TURNIP

5-down – Goddess of youth entertained by dancing not a comic : THEBEANO

6-down – One prosecuting spies imprisons a hundred,one with suspended death sentence : DAMOCLES

7-down – Despite marking,brave to slip through : NOTWITHSTANDING

8-down – Following one GCSE dunce struggling : SUCCEEDING

12-down – Predictably a star analyst : ASTROLOGER

15-down – One making rolls : BAKERLOO

16-down – Under pressure,man seen to rewrite such as Saki and Mark Twain : PENNAMES

19-down – Hospital in wartime facilities perhaps that are placed just past the point : TENTHS

20-down – Baby Jesus not getting rocked here? : STABLE

22-down – Garment seen in volume over time in New York : VEST