Daily Answers

1-across – On appeal, worn out clothing is taken off : SATIRISED

6-across – Sign of damage artist expunged from sacred symbol : SCAB

10-across – Great extremes of heat causing depression on the coast : BIGHT

11-across – Short work made of new setter’s content : NOVELETTE

12-across – Teacher brought back unique meat dish : RISSOLE

13-across – Lady getting round awkward snag puts on show again : REHANGS

14-across – Prime gatherer, in other words? : THEGRIMREAPER

17-across – Embracing love, Superman did nothing to change his routine : MODUSOPERANDI

21-across – Bob’s brusque, definitely withdrawn : CURTSEY

22-across – Forgot books sent over with German journalist : OMITTED

24-across – Old section of church rail, generally : ONAVERAGE

25-across – Master Latin with merit : LEARN

26-across – Cooks and serves buns? : DOES

27-across – Rates of progress back and forth between the stars : DEEPSPACE

1-down – Discontented sexy singer kicking leg for playboy : SYBARITE

2-down – Why Roman chatterboxes assembled their garments? : TOGAS

3-down – College employee raised housing rates before half-term, a negative move : RETROGRADESTEP

4-down – Ray’s students rejected support : SUNBEAM

5-down – Separate nightclub needing some work internally : DIVERGE

7-down – Skedaddle, as one might hope to do at Lord’s? : CUTANDRUN

8-down – Rook bitten by monster tit : BREAST

9-down – Radioactivity leads to to these first-rate features, written under pressure : ALPHAPARTICLES

15-down – European man overtaking me on way to get soap : EMMERDALE

16-down – Disposing of cider and bubbly? : RIDDANCE

18-down – Green grass on borders of the Blue Grass State rising : SKYWARD

19-down – One patronised before getting hold of books, say : PROTEGE

20-down – Correspondence taking a Conservative line : ACCORD

23-down – Typically refrain from extra-large portion : TRALA

7-across – Area regularly cleared, bordering Asian country : ROMANIA

8-across – Briefly, nation of bandits starts turning over European city : BOLOGNA

9-across – Extra money gained — it’s not there for teacher : PROF

10-across – Probing farm animal, point injected into swine with a sharp instrument : COPINGSAW

12-across – See 13 : GREEN

13-across – With sailor’s termination, pine perhaps about death for colourful character on board? : REVEREND

15-across – Land, safe ground for one shelled on the beach? : SAND

16-across – See 17 : UPFOR

17-across – Surprise to arrive at a literary festival? : TURN

18-across – Engineers admitting everyone in China destined never to meet : PARALLEL

20-across – Audible, quiet man : PIECE

21-across – Writers given non-alcoholic drink after a port in Florida : PENSACOLA

22-across – Some alligator fed fish : ORFE

24-across – See 1 : KNOCKER

25-across – Happy parasite was ahead of salmon : TICKLED

1-down – Gutless benefactor, one criticising Nobel, by the sound of it! : DOOR

2-down – Upset kid to deal with US president : GARFIELD

3-down – Unknown element with carbon in mineral : ZIRCON

4-down – Solver always ignorant, perhaps : YOUNEVER

5-down – Having stopped short, continue climbing to rescue old cat : MOUSER

6-down – See 4 : KNOW

11-down – Uplifting painting of chief about right for artist’s work : PORTFOLIO

12-down – Puzzling arrangement with sheep leaving, heading north around hot country : GHANA

14-down – Tender resignation finally, sure to be sacked : NURSE

16-down – Happy getting rich, transferred from a central bank? : UPLOADED

17-down – See 17 across : THEBOOKS

19-down – Medicinal plant — someone taking heart from therapy, did you say? : ARNICA

20-down – Pattern of Scots crossing cold lake : PLACID

21-down – See 25 : PINK

23-down – See 15 : FLEA

9-across – Signal for lager — the cocktail requires a drop of Pilsner : TELEGRAPH

10-across – A pretty sharp accent : ACUTE

11-across – Respond to criminal racket, deporting 1,000 : REACT

12-across – Lara Croft initially backflips with weapons and sirens : CARALARMS

13-across – Note: new heart put in here : THEATRE

14-across – 5 over 9 in, say, after 8? : EVENING

17-across – To surrender beat, The Jam finally retire underground : METRO

19-across – Nice 1 follows Special 1 : SUN

20-across – Puzzling out some jargon : LINGO

21-across – Bird’s main city : SWANSEA

22-across – Talk fast : EXPRESS

24-across – Old Norse style originally discovered between 1100 and 1100 : ICELANDIC

26-across – One studies figures : ICONS

28-across – Greek work rejects independent, backing unknown cleaner : DAILY

29-across – Celebrity ignores upper class creep : REPTATION

1-down – Leading lady first to depart flight : STAR

2-down – To entertain, spin record without difficulty : PLEASE

3-down – Troubles at giant rave around 10 on Saturday : AGITATIONS

4-down – Left in Paris? That’s awkward : GAUCHE

5-down – Number 10 welcomes new American employee hugging Tory leader : THIRTEEN

6-down – He delivered letters : MAIL

7-down – Spanish football manager abandons old league — the end of Bayern’s keeper? : GUARDIAN

8-down – Do they examine old warhorses? : VETS

13-down – B to C minus 1 returns X : TIMES

15-down – I’ll place it round or roundish : ELLIPTICAL

16-down – 19 across good to get up on 19 across and shine : GLOSS

18-down – Exchanges are down — isn’t everything volatile : TRADESIN

19-down – Fixed flag : STANDARD

22-down – The key to a jailbreak? : ESCAPE

23-down – Arrivederci to xenophobe, holding up non-native : EXOTIC

24-down – Front runner pulls out of wild motor race : INDY

25-down – Organic group manufactured from clay … : ACYL

27-down – … without science, regularly : SINE

9-across – Get ready, while attracting lots of viewers : PRIMETIME

10-across – Pilgrimage of posh bloke ends in Andhra Pradesh : UMRAH

11-across – Pretend one’s cool, entering declining years : IMAGINE

12-across – Helping discontented barista around coffee counter : ABETTAL

13-across – Time to abandon cabs for Central line : AXIS

14-across – Quite attractive guards finally stop all disruptive conduct : COMPLETELY

15-across – Short, slight Arab surrounded by water : INSULAR

17-across – Put up with some alterations to machines : STOMACH

19-across – Raving angrily? It’s cause of hoarseness : LARYNGITIS

22-across – Women going into loft backwards to make deliveries : BOWL

23-across – Airily attacked Trump’s revolutionary deeds on regular basis : STRAFED

24-across – Communist cobblers in extremely tremulous state : TROTSKY

26-across – Old fellows always lacking manners? Rubbish! : OFFAL

27-across – Development of gallstone gutted Victoria, for one : GESTATION

1-down – Over 100 Lilliputians sadly accepting love is mirage? : OPTICALILLUSION

2-down – Stellar couples sign book in advance : BINARIES

3-down – Hairy humanoid oddly ignoring my meat pie : YETI

4-down – Exit half-cut Finn with scarlet jumper upside down : FIREDOOR

5-down – Mum returns quietly after month in Split : DECAMP

6-down – Leader of Greece pricking Europe’s uneasy conscience : SUPEREGO

7-down – Summons male to move sinuously : WRITHE

8-down – Awfully shy friend stopping Bob vacillating : SHILLYSHALLYING

16-down – Refuse to be buried : LANDFILL

17-down – Nervous sibling consumes pot, mostly, and heroin : SKITTISH

18-down – A magistrate disrobed after firstly cursing, out of hearing : ACOUSTIC

20-down – Thin umpire in bit of sunshine : RAREFY

21-down – Violet’s neighbour doing somersaults round island : INDIGO

25-down – Using speech of Sadiq Khan, say, to oust PM : ORAL

7-across – Caretaker’s start-of-year rise : JANITOR

8-across – Top copper? : REDHEAD

9-across – Put a sock in it : SHOE

10-across – Revile dad horribly, being a reckless type : DAREDEVIL

12-across – Aerated bath in Don’s place : SPAIN

13-across – Heartless superstar gets speed : CELERITY

15-across – Curse as front breaks off explosive : HELL

16-across – Spell of delight : CHARM

17-across – Pawnbroker’s wife? : AUNT

18-across – Destruction is wonderful : SMASHING

20-across – Announced spaces for loading coarse cloth : BAIZE

21-across – Takes responsibility for rubbish users hold : SHOULDERS

22-across – States waistcoat is small, in check : VEST

24-across – Where fashion advice appears popular : INVOGUE

25-across – Seeing poorly, get glasses finally for book : GENESIS

1-down – Party? Try to have one : BASH

2-down – Hacking, will fear this security measure? : FIREWALL

3-down – The last to get such a spoon : WOODEN

4-down – In grandfather’s case, a regular swinger : PENDULUM

5-down – In the cold, shake and shatter : SHIVER

6-down – Carry away proceeds of robbery : HAUL

11-down – Shape of playing field a mess : RECTANGLE

12-down – Energy of son, 11 … : STEAM

14-down – … nervous energy, after 10s : TENSE

16-down – Kid almost a yob? Relax : CHILLOUT

17-down – No light opinion formed by the critical : ADIMVIEW

19-down – No spinners coming up? Absolutely right : SPOTON

20-down – Hamper such a hopeless case : BASKET

21-down – Go down its plughole? : SINK

23-down – Lampoon Saint Christopher : SKIT