Daily Answers

9-across – Talk covers an about-turn by the head of ecumenical religious office : RABBINATE

10-across – What’s in author’s envelope is fatal, if swallowed by an old lady : HORSE

11-across – Leaves with story about making Cornish pasty : SPINACH

12-across – I am shocked with young and old extremists joining resistance unit : OHMYGOD

13-across – Slim figure at last is yours! : THINE

14-across – High level of the gender problem : NTHDEGREE

16-across – Open marriage initially helped to clean out film-maker : CINEMATOGRAPHER

19-across – Talked about less healthy lands covered in heather, bracken and trees : SYCAMORES

21-across – Stomach upset oddly not seen in school disco : COLIC

22-across – Old broken chair engulfed by current : ARCHAIC

23-across – Brush round a French officers’ mess once : GUNROOM

24-across – What may be found in the gut in ulcerative colitis : ECOLI

25-across – Jury may be missing one side : ELEVENMEN

1-down – Nitty-gritty of piles below underwear : BRASSTACKS

2-down – Ignorance of Bach’s first violin playing : OBLIVION

3-down – Academic abandons extravagant tie : LIGATE

4-down – Flog cash, reducing capital by 50% : LASH

5-down – A poo gushes out from this part of the digestive system : OESOPHAGUS

6-down – This man turned over region chasing ultimate in psychopathic monster : CHIMAERA

7-down – Urge to break into the perimeter of Kashmir’s national park : KRUGER

8-down – Grain yield report : SEED

14-down – Something from Tchaikovsky for Brazil? : NUTCRACKER

15-down – Rising affluence meant ‘China era’ not as planned : ENRICHMENT

17-down – Colonial address back in Nairobi has memories : MEMSAHIB

18-down – One theologian upset over love for cheese : HALLOUMI

20-down – Copper and cook disrupted interloper : CUCKOO

21-down – Curved kind of oven found in empty chateaux : CONVEX

22-down – Help N-Z? : ABET

23-down – Delight at the start of ‘Gimme Shelter’ : GLEE

5-across – City announced part of coastal path : BEIRUT

6-across – Complain of a foreign parent : MUTTER

9-across – Emma, born with appropriate gland : BOVARY

10-across – I don’t believe host is at party : ISTHATSO

11-across – Supposed political project at advanced stage taking in English : FEAR

12-across – Snack, not bad, fed to dogs : POTNOODLES

13-across – Easing unusual burden carried in ferry trip : SEACROSSING

18-across – Meat typically offered in mess : DOGSDINNER

21-across – Proper time for a little music : DUET

22-across – Method, say, in which to obtain backing for an artist : MANTEGNA

23-across – French pupil’s name and number : ELEVEN

24-across – Girl is turning brown : SIENNA

25-across – An obstinate type last to manifest charm : AMULET

1-down – Drop in crucial point in conflict : DISAGREE

2-down – Australian monster rabbit, gutted, very cheap : BUNYIP

3-down – Shining with desire: ours is amazing : LUSTROUS

4-down – By being executed, prophet died : ATHAND

5-down – To jeer at items performed upset stars : BOOTES

7-down – Swiftly advances strategies to snare husband : RUSHES

8-down – One metre down, plant foolish hoax : PILTDOWNMAN

14-down – Showing 11, caught what may be in one’s ears : CRINGING

15-down – Hanged man whose eye is number one : NEDKELLY

16-down – Dangerous situation traps soldiers in great numbers : MORASS

17-down – Man enters top command : BEHEST

19-down – Military account some units forward in the wrong direction : SITREP

20-down – Persian poet sounds affected by cold : RHEUMY

8-across – Unflappability of working-class men : CALMNESS

9-across – Sense of time wasted knowing no bounds : TASTE

10-across – One exploits setters about to retire : USER

11-across – Met privileged groups carrying large revolvers : SATELLITES

12-across – Lots of powerless lackeys : OODLES

14-across – Warning triangle is broken : ALERTING

15-across – Part of somebody’s Seychelles journey : ODYSSEY

17-across – Briefly anointed barbarous Boris Johnson? : ETONIAN

20-across – Male rewriting article using feet : METRICAL

22-across – French revolutionary losing clothes in US capital : PIERRE

23-across – Tory’s buccaneering plot : CONSPIRACY

24-across – Dull sound of rubbish piano : BUMP

25-across – Little growth in season once November’s gone : SPRIG

26-across – Stupid bears smell beastly : INHUMANE

1-down – Old men perhaps foil security measure : PASSWORD

2-down – First of advance military units reach river on the Russian-Chinese border : AMUR

3-down – Against poetry being recited : VERSUS

4-down – Wrong to assume husband butts in here : ASHTRAY

5-down – Most inactive and poorly during Second International : STILLEST

6-down – Help idiot start to improve posture : ASSISTANCE

7-down – Lower status of French ace : DEMEAN

13-down – When all else fails, option Carry On Cleethorpes? : LASTRESORT

16-down – Gets excited over detailed porcelain plates : ETCHINGS

18-down – Bitterness of American crook, regularly missing bounty : ACRIMONY

19-down – Content to leave alcohol, rising QC consumes a lime and soda? : ALKALIS

21-down – Selfishness perhaps is in order : EGOISM

22-down – Tipsy Chechens, full of spirit : PSYCHE

24-down – Girls losing useful devices in coach seats : BUMS

1-across – What greedy types have sadly doesn’t start to go away — so, in truth, it’s disgusting! : SNOUTSIN

6-across – Endlessly rebel against exploitation — calm down! : DEFUSE

9-across – See 24 : ASHLEY

10-across – Blast out rocks — not the full amount : SUBTOTAL

11-across – Dives with power to crap — occasionally gull slightly worried tour leader : PLUTOCRAT

13-across – Be back at bottom : EBBED

15-across – Businessman with nothing? Judgment needs reversing : FATCAT

17-across – Lines in road, ones round new zone : STANZA

18-across – Began to write in reference book : OPENED

19-across – Others in work turned over very quickly : PRESTO

21-across – Financier : CRORE

22-across – Selfish speech involving quarrel over old school subject : METALWORK

25-across – Sham! Sick country, one has to conclude : ILLUSIVE

26-across – Artist reduced access : INGRES

28-across – Fruit harvest originally stops school in Provence : LYCHEE

29-across – Politician with reduced brainpower tries to spin : MINISTER

2-down – Cash needed to keep up a British institution, initially : NHS

3-down – Bright? Not when head’s gone : UNLIT

4-down – Battle of Britain? Let me think : SKYSCRAPER

5-down – A Sierra! Wrong about Clarkson’s last car : NISSAN

6-down – Leaving university, coming out with this? : DEBT

7-down – Shamefully common places giving poor support, essentially : FOODBANKS

8-down – Effort unrewarded — left in bar at party : SLAVELABOUR

12-down – Provided for Ellie splashing out — why one’s very easily led : LIFEOFRILEY

14-down – To save, I grant, was difficult with these : STARVATION

16-down – See 1 : THETROUGH

20-down – Get back from Uncle Ed’s in about eight minutes : REDEEM

23-down – See 14 : WAGES

24-down – Has meekly compromised over current British businessman : MIKE

27-down – She’s always short : EVE

1-across – CID’s possibly back in trouble with this : SLIPPEDDISC

9-across – Large ‘astral’ cast might be … : ALLSTAR

10-across – … backing Scot, singer briefly appearing in African capital : NAIROBI

11-across – Element symbolised by O, oddly : ZIRCONIUM

12-across – Duck eaten by greedy duck : AVOID

13-across – Contents of clutch bag finally found in, say, front of skip : EGGS

14-across – Voters potentially have online reader worried : ELECTORATE

16-across – One might tear along this … : DOTTEDLINE

19-across – … bank enthusiastically — eventually fishing, initially for carp : BEEF

21-across – Apart from 50% of OAPs, too lazy to go round foreign capital : ZLOTY

22-across – Informed about hard right, she changed point of entry : THRESHOLD

24-across – Most attractive female consumed by sexual desire : LUSHEST

25-across – Charge American a pound, placed on account : ACCUSAL

26-across – Chicken satay and tikka starters at lunchtime, current in the western US : YELLOWSTONE

1-down – Condemned lifeless yoghurt in holier-than-thou fashion : SELFRIGHTEOUSLY

2-down – Entry passage given coat by paint roller : INTRO

3-down – Someone adversarial, extremely biased : PARTIAL

4-down – Driving mounted policemen around a lot : DYNAMIC

5-down – Somewhat contrary parrot, a timid parrot : IMITATOR

6-down – Sweet shade of brown hair product : CHOCOLATEMOUSSE

7-down – Heading off, worn out, to laze around taking in unknown song from Chicago : RAZZLE

8-down – Do become confused, following female nonsense : FIDDLE

15-down – Sort of light source OK in the pink? : VERYWELL

16-down – See 7 : DAZZLE

17-down – Fool has broken child’s toy in half? Be forgiving : LETITGO

18-down – Opera covering polar opposites? Wisdom was famously one of them : NORMANS

20-down – See 8 : FADDLE

23-down – Painting on plaster that’s dry and firm : SECCO