Daily Answers

1-across – Uppity tramp, devout, hogging entrance to temple : BUMPTIOUS

6-across – Go mad backwards : STAB

10-across – Surfeit of blood and guts originally included : GORGE

11-across – Dubious sources of early English texts, sacred and profane : DESECRATE

12-across – Statesman swapping energy for a mystic symbol : MANDALA

13-across – Set out to be 22d by faithful steward : TRUSTEE

14-across – Hat and belt converted into shady American bit of military hardware : STEALTHBOMBER

17-across – Par for Windsor flag? : ROYALSTANDARD

21-across – Huge flop — catastrophic — no good looking on the bright side : HOPEFUL

22-across – Shed returning couple’s gesture of affection : EMBRACE

24-across – Talking dog left eating hard black dumpling : DOUGHBALL

25-across – A Parisian twosome, almost de trop : UNDUE

26-across – Wherewithal to get stoned or pissed? : WEED

27-across – Old dykes from which ship’s past can be reconstructed : SAPPHISTS

1-down – Two-timer — big-time — taking in foreign friends : BIGAMIST

2-down – Idiot and person of faith losing marbles, initially : MORON

3-down – Doth Hosea have thy date off? — well dodgy Biblical location : THEVALLEYOFTHE

4-down – See 3 : OFDEATH

5-down – Soothes twisted tongue : SESOTHO

7-down – Eatery offering up tune with egregious skill : TRATTORIA

8-down – Drink manufacturer’s little brown jug : BREWER

9-down – Onset of sudden infatuation involving frottage with bishop’s cleaning equipment : SCRUBBINGBRUSH

15-down – Delight composer, backing virgin keeping quiet, finally : ENRAPTURE

16-down – Little man’s insides corrupted by sloth? : IDLENESS

18-down – Teletubby introducing student to Poles’ dialect : LALLANS

19-down – Head lice possibly infesting cyclist’s accoutrement : TOECLIP

20-down – See 3 : SHADOW

23-down – Lofty peaks in African desert : ANDES

8-across – Intellectual finds bromine in food : CEREBRAL

9-across – American gangster entertains union leader? That’s common! : USUAL

10-across – Bottom of the barrel : BUTT

11-across – Defensive measure to tie game : DRAWBRIDGE

12-across – Partisan located outside Iraqi capital : BIASED

14-across – Former partners keep pamphlet of selected passages : EXTRACTS

15-across – Movement formed by a poet : ANDANTE

17-across – Landing area supervisor admitting insolence : HELIPAD

20-across – Unwanted sewers start to split : NEEDLESS

22-across – Nose around worker’s storeroom : PANTRY

23-across – Is this damn development random? : HITANDMISS

24-across – One Italian female pursues tons of fish : TUNA

25-across – God has a name that has a point : THORN

26-across – Employers’ leader cracked, having been fitted up : EQUIPPED

1-down – Used loin in a stew? That’s fancy! : DELUSION

2-down – Remains quiet : REST

3-down – Turkey’s dead, cooked and sold : TRADED

4-down – Charlie gets poorer daily : CLEANER

5-down – Bake buns — hate cooking : SUNBATHE

6-down – Thinking of motorway in disrepair : RUMINATION

7-down – Land on fire : ALIGHT

13-down – Bloomer makes game prolong : SNAPDRAGON

16-down – Taking steps in tango lesson : TREADING

18-down – A way to keep one’s products organised : ARRANGED

19-down – Longs for unrestrained praises : ASPIRES

21-down – Checks about a hundred Fiats : EDICTS

22-down – Ignore youngster eating a little horse : PASSUP

24-down – It’s best put on Indian’s head : TOPI

1-across – See one replacing university money in Africa : DIRHAM

5-across – Dirty and gross, the man in the family ’ome? : GRUBBY

8-across – Give an account of old flame, no oil painting? : EXPLAIN

9-across – Sound made by soldier entering hostelry : LOGICAL

11-across – Hear a low-pitched buzz around capital’s thoroughfare : WHITECHAPELROAD

12-across – Restriction no good for monarchy? : REIN

13-across – Items sold by M&S, piles — fundamental things for discussion : BRASSTACKS

17-across – Witch I behold spinning — an attempt to end worship of saints : HAGIOLATRY

18-across – An edge around star : MIRA

20-across – A master let rebel loose somewhere off Piccadilly : ALBEMARLESTREET

23-across – Thug in appropriate head covering? Slow-witted type mostly : HOODLUM

24-across – Old woman we put down as cow : OVERAWE

25-across – Group outside pub coming back for game : TENNIS

26-across – Mess around with stone to start with : TINKER

2-down – Damaging confession from politician making arrangement with opposition? : IMPAIRING

3-down – Ecstasy? It’s smuggled into harbour : HEAVEN

4-down – Places of worship not half gripped by enthusiasm in Asian region : MANCHURIA

5-down – Girl requires a piece of music for dance : GALOP

6-down – Sort of animal with others, superior beast standing on head : UNGULATE

7-down – Young man’s all right, cheeky youngster on the up : BUCKO

8-down – Enforcer of energy saving — what about day room needing warmth? : EDWARDHEATH

10-down – Plant that a woman passes on to another? : LADYSMANTLE

14-down – Cleared up Dorset, we may surmise? : SORTEDOUT

15-down – View contrived with camera endlessly revealing matter of concern to police : CRIMEWAVE

16-down – Disinfectant for sea area : FORMALIN

19-down – Like china after the bull, shop being gutted when he’s gone : STREWN

21-down – City trader almost unable to do further business? : BROKE

22-down – Frolics in Albert Hall concerts when the piano gets moved : ROMPS

1-across – Sound unit former Russian soldier sent back to claim Sark etc : DECIBEL

5-across – As to that extent, very deep then? : INSOFAR

9-across – I ramble when flipping over tongue : MAORI

10-across – Sister feeds fish odd question : CONUNDRUM

11-across – Lover has to fight for music-maker : SQUEEZEBOX

12-across – Story that’s spun out? : YARN

14-across – Disorganised son blames him for a total mess : OMNISHAMBLES

18-across – Blondie hit song, one’s a gas : ATOMICNUMBER

21-across – Cross cut guarding a paw : MAUL

22-across – Potential financial catastrophe endured, not entirely good, unfortunately : EUROGEDDON

25-across – One’s hit a racehorse on both sides of shin : SNAREDRUM

26-across – Tree yielding oil prim­arily, as it happens : OLIVE

27-across – Zero in ten has to suffer for one in ten : TOENAIL

28-across – Government ultimately behind the privileged few — about right, one’s gathered : HARVEST

1-down – Stop to request fabric : DAMASK

2-down – Coptic leader and god in agreement : CHORUS

3-down – Union supporter depends on mother to break proposal : BRIDESMAID

4-down – Customer initially going in to draw money : LUCRE

5-down – Beefy stews obtain meat : IANBOTHAM

6-down – Green finally absorbed by blue to become greyish-yellow : SAND

7-down – Classmate, according to protocol : FORMALLY

8-down – Catholic Asians among rampant extremists : ROMANIST

13-down – Male agent head-over-heels in love for the current time : AMPEREHOUR

15-down – Back of Robin Reliant damaged, rear of Subaru caught, parked up? : INNEUTRAL

16-down – Planet invaded by second alien simian : MARMOSET

17-down – Mate welcoming cryptic Paul into bird’s home : COPULATE

19-down – Notice depravity in suggestion : ADVICE

20-down – Deposit lolly down underwear? : INVEST

23-down – Drive with speed beyond roundabouts? : OOMPH

24-down – Gargantuan gastronome gaily guzzles : MEGA

1-across – Half of misers’ donation in doubt : MISGIVING

6-across – Temper heard by the side of the road : KERB

10-across – See 26 : LINES

11-across – Swimmer to cross water first to end in elegant surroundings : SWORDFISH

12-across – Thin piece of material clutched by extremely shambolic granny : SCRAGGY

13-across – First in the valley to shine : GLISTEN

14-across – Anti-abortion or anti-reproduction is spreading : PROLIFERATION

17-across – Steer tight: one way to show determination : GRITONESTEETH

21-across – Brief reply in tough parliamentary exchanges recorded : HANSARD

22-across – Least likely to give me an estimate, having lost one friend : MEANEST

24-across – Home space designed to be pretentious, isn’t it? : NESTCEPAS

25-across – Moron’s tail replaced by moron’s head, in a manner of speaking : IDIOM

26-across – Pays less attention to face with wrinkles : SIDE

27-across – Shank used to position these : SKEANDHUS

1-down – Wimps of a type very taken by politicians : MILKSOPS

2-down – Help in finding objects on a river bed : SONAR

3-down – Badges almost intended to take a hundred: that’s being petty : INSIGNIFICANCE

4-down – Fashionable pen in outline : INSTYLE

5-down – State of the world : GEORGIA

7-down – Being naughty, entice with sex : EXISTENCE

8-down – Rupert Murdoch is old : BEHIND

9-down – Running wild isn’t held in high esteem : ADMINISTRATION

15-down – Masterminded grandiose scheme : ORGANISED

16-down – See 8 : THETIMES

18-down – Complex part ends up ideologically reversed : OEDIPUS

19-down – Collectively providing service in a particular direction : ENMASSE

20-down – Appreciation of actor’s rising moment has vanished : THANKS

23-down – Girl’s correct aspiration : EDITH