Daily Answers

1-across – Tailor claims T-shirts to be what kids send Santa : CHRISTMAS

6-across – See 1 : LIST

8-across – Naive type acquitted by foreign court? : INNOCENT

9-across – See 8 : ABROAD

10-across – Comic butler needed no words to tickle audience : DOUBLE

11-across – See 10 : ENTENDRE

12-across – Crushed ice pack not quite what the doctor ordered? : IPECAC

15-across – I, for one, pressed into backing art galleries … : TRIFORIA

16-across – … gallery on its own, ignoring the odds, gets what’s left : PERSONAL

19-across – See 16 : ESTATE

21-across – Guardian’s eclipsed by broadsheet — by 3 points, or 2 after lunch : FOURTEEN

22-across – Rich little woman behind rector in church : CREAMY

24-across – Sponsors usually have it, dressed to catch the eye : VESTED

25-across – See 24 : INTEREST

26-across – Princesses had mysterious source of funds : CASH

27-across – See 26 : DISPENSER

1-down – Ready to get stuck in lavatory? Repeat that : CANDO

2-down – Like a lozenge doctor introduced to stricken choir : RHOMBIC

3-down – Retreating, for one European, is offensive in wartime : SIEGE

4-down – Uplifting piece of text set to music for annual examination : MOTTEST

5-down – Discontented social worker knowing one’s inclined to appear thus : SLANTWISE

6-down – Magnificent Medici traditions unknown in number : LORENZO

7-down – A means of getting up tail first, possibly : STAIRLIFT

13-down – He turned on blokes breaking dad’s spectacles : PHENOMENA

14-down – Alleged Tory dissent finally resolved : CONTENDED

17-down – Jail sentence to get longer : STRETCH

18-down – Plant-based food cooking almost silently : LENTILS

20-down – Case of teachers embracing core non-scientific subjects : THEARTS

22-down – Tasty dish that is served with chip topping? : CUTIE

23-down – One ponders on problem while climbing : MUSER

7-across – See 19 : DRAWERS

8-across – 12 down’s 52, old couple beyond sophisticated Cumbrian town drinking Bordeaux, say? : CHICKEN

9-across – See 6 : HALL

10-across – Lawyer, oldest professional? : SOLICITOR

12-across – Vehicle infected? : BUGGY

13-across – See 8 : VINDALOO

15-across – Bird’s unpleasant feeling in stomach : KNOT

16-across – Talks in meeting as essential? : GASES

17-across – Audible power in poor little thing : MITE

18-across – Shiny fabric worn in alluring style, ultimately : GOLDLAME

20-across – See 20 down : STRIP

21-across – Pulse rate’s extreme in cutting of internet access : BROADBEAN

22-across – Course one’s taken in river rising somewhere in Canada : NOVA

24-across – Show daughter newspaper spread : DISPLAY

25-across – See 16 down : GETTING

1-down – Region more ’irsute, did you say? : AREA

2-down – Determination slightly lacking in tense period of gradual decline : TWILIGHT

3-down – See 16 : FRISKY

4-down – Vital energy beats the bends : CHICANES

5-down – See 22 : SCOTIA

6-down – Drinking venue always heaving at first, having gatecrashed party : BEER

11-down – Close, even awkward, intimate clip : LOVESCENE

12-down – In which one is the observer of Grace? : BINGO

14-down – Readily available, Matthew and Mark etc cuddled by senior : ONTAP

16-down – 12 down’s 60 large magnets, gift awfully dangerous : GRANDMAS

17-down – Steep peak in Turkey within Armenia arguably? : MARINATE

19-down – 12 down’s 44 people animating a lethargic character? : DROOPY

20-down – 12 down’s 77 warmer places on expedition : SUNSET

21-down – Badger trapper : BAIT

23-down – Express train finally entering test : VENT

7-across – Bawdy author’s first mob, so to speak : RABELAIS

9-across – Kind of kitten or cat, one included in bill : ATOMIC

10-across – Appear vaguely in room, where one goes mad unnoticed : LOOM

11-across – Part of Atlantic’s valuable reserve that’s not yet exploited : VIRGINSOIL

12-across – Flowers return, fed with nitrogen, I detect : SENSOR

14-across – Be proud of rhubarb that Mrs Grundy’s bottled : PROTRUDE

15-across – Two blokes meeting pedlar : CHAPMAN

17-across – What is in Washington? Start to explore and gape : DEHISCE

20-across – He led miners from cliff to ravine : SCARGILL

22-across – I have no leisure — almost behind, for example, in verse : IAMBUS

23-across – Huge old quantity halved in a sort of arithmetic : MONUMENTAL

24-across – Lied about being unemployed : IDLE

25-across – For delivery to a force to be reckoned with : CAREOF

26-across – Keeping wife and Jack working, makes index : DOWJONES

1-down – Pen a note: check boxes measuring small dimensions : NANOTECH

2-down – European misses out on a new beginning : GERM

3-down – Be undecided about one claim forgone : WAIVER

4-down – I make careless mistake in feeble poem, after change of heart : PALINODE

5-down – More than one firm Tory type rejecting Heath from tedium : CONSORTIUM

6-down – Sympathised with one sort of public house under pressure : PITIED

8-down – In predicament, fight with energy : SCRAPE

13-down – Top-class con man? : SUPERDUPER

16-down – Very inaccurate shot : AMILEOFF

18-down – Vineyard Frenchwoman runs with less compassion : CRUELLER

19-down – Some roofs are abused : SLATED

21-down – Church oversees exam for singers : CHORAL

22-down – According to judges, sons are not consanguineous : INLAWS

24-down – King cobra kills every other Russian : IGOR

1-across – Welsh 24 has criminal brothers, except Henry : ROBERTS

5-across – At the end, Number 10 mislead Britain with spirit : CONBRIO

10-across – 50 + 0 + 5 + ¼ = 0? : LOVE

11-across – Daughter’s into grooming over time, keeping up appearances : PRETENDING

12-across – Mark’s drumbeat : TATTOO

13-across – Old car, since exterior lost in jam : PRINCESS

14-across – F or M, like Marilyn Monroe? : SEXSYMBOL

16-across – Inner Hebrides partner : BRIDE

17-across – Dared to tremble with fear : DREAD

19-across – In ancient times, say, raised flower : BUTTERCUP

23-across – Football team in nasty ground winning first game : NYGIANTS

24-across – Steal about 1p’s worth : PIRATE

26-across – Published paper retires girl over nothing? Inconceivable! : OUTRAGEOUS

27-across – Torture’s not even legitimate : TRUE

28-across – Normally left Australia and America going west : ASUSUAL

29-across – Embrace internet 16? : ESPOUSE

2-down – Smelly old dog ran to ex, shaking every tail? : ODORATE

3-down – Competition rising in cost? Never! : EVENT

4-down – Prat stumbles over low bar : TAPROOM

6-down – Awkward size OK for sumo wrestlers? : OZEKIS

7-down – Shakespearean doctor’s credo: bury sick : BODYCURER

8-down – Produced positives and negatives when treated as a celebrity, going topless? : IONISED

9-down – Burning petrol joins up to produce power : JETPROPULSION

15-down – Spring day weather returns with southern Europeans : SPANIARDS

18-down – Maybe in the future Arsenal condemns Sun after Gary’s hacked : RAYGUNS

20-down – Office workers found to be tipsy, swooning over good man : TYPISTS

21-down – Abbot’s put on posh new shirt to remove ties : UNTRUSS

22-down – Decipher pointless meaning of puzzle : ENIGMA

25-down – Old fashioned mister exchanged letters underground : RETRO

8-across – Unseen decision-maker’s habit: getting drunk Earl to join clubs, maybe? : GREYSUIT

9-across – Medium, right before goodbye cut off : RADIO

10-across – Drug user represented by a police chief : ACID

11-across – Unvarnished truth that prairie dwellers need to be aware of? : PLAINFACTS

12-across – Political supporter’s note secured in advance : COMMIE

14-across – Uncontrolled movement in tempered steel nut : TESTICLE

16-across – Shakespearean character’s pieces : PISTOLS

18-across – Curios once associated with ears : EXOTICA

21-across – To encourage old men, be dishevelled! : EMBOLDEN

23-across – Understand about the month having turned, so withdraw : SECEDE

24-across – Inner Greenland is in her itinerary, being cut off : DISINHERIT

26-across – Dries out properties that are distressing to be in : DIRE

27-across – Run one of the film crowd : EXTRA

28-across – Dual power priest involved in version of Buddhism that was full of gas : ZEPPELIN

1-down – Badger king’s lacking coil-shaped vegetable : BROCCOLI

2-down – Old composer’s lark given voice? : BYRD

3-down – Place in natural shade : PURPLE

4-down – See 26 across : STRAITS

5-down – The young Thatcher’s terrible means of punishment? : IRON

6-down – Italicised twirls not practical : IDEALISTIC

7-down – Left beside a large, imposing gate : PORTAL

13-down – Church members’ ways are about its conversion : METHODISTS

15-down – It shows drug’s up times : SEX

17-down – Guided element of a type of display : LED

19-down – Cried out: Potassium in drink! : CIDERKIN

20-down – Major organisation, with Zambia in fore, oddly reacted to global warming? : UNFROZE

22-down – See 5 : MAIDEN

23-down – Exercises, that’s the thing between drinks! : SITUPS

25-down – See 10 : HEAD

26-down – Produced a tinkle, inverted and low : DEEP