Daily Answers

7-across – Chemicals like ratsbane are poisonous, so I tried swallowing ten : TRIOXIDES

8-across – Boatman’s barb: does faith leader come before source of gospel? : FLUKE

9-across – Champ for church service given mark of approval by a small number in report : MASTICATE

10-across – Heartless sinner is no angel? : SAINT

12-across – Before Man exists … before that? An article of faith : THEISM

13-across – Live test match beginning after embarrassment of real unknown getting a duck first : ORALEXAM

14-across – End of episcopate? Ask about royal job : EQUERRY

17-across – Skip eating steak at last — model : SKITTER

20-across – Contrived to admire Kofi, perhaps : MEDIATOR

22-across – Finally, faith in light brown ale is part of this : SHANDY

24-across – Brand of squash : STAMP

25-across – Schematic representation of articles of faith : CATECHISM

26-across – Fool has faith leader hold recruits’ capital : MORON

27-across – Liberation for limbo-dancing Spooner : LETTINGGO

1-down – Spin doctor covers every attempt to influence the faithful : PREACH

2-down – Change of direction: Boatman’s lost faith : DOCTRINE

3-down – Monastic order rejecting impertinent show of levity : SITCOM

4-down – Part from followers of faith over belief, not ignored : SECTION

5-down – Chopstick? : CLEAVE

6-down – Salve for concern about family : SKINCARE

11-down – See 15 : MARK

15-down – Doubt source of gospel? : QUESTION

16-down – Act of faith, if led by a woman, gets put down : RITE

18-down – It’s eaten or drunk at church in God’s first doctrine : TEACHING

19-down – What God may have done for Man, at the heart of faith : CREATED

21-down – One article of faith about what Jesus implied? : IAMGOD

22-down – Ex hypothesi est angelus: the rest you’ll get later in the day : SIESTA

23-down – Onset of doubt ends salvation in God — not what was intended : DESIGN

1-across – Cast a stone in Devon : SEATON

4-across – Those with a twitch as a leitmotif? : THEMATIC

9-across – Good scope for a crafty move? : GAMBIT

10-across – Impractical person who rigged sail in rough tide? : IDEALIST

11-across – Collision course? : CRASHPROGRAMME

13-across – For each family mem­ber to be entirely unknown as an individual : PERSONALLY

14-across – Pagan god carried by carthorse? : THOR

16-across – Sin for which diplomat has nothing to lose : ENVY

18-across – Mint for a girl and two boys : PENNYROYAL

21-across – Is it caused by a thing that goes bump? : DISTURBEDNIGHT

23-across – Other than a lion — perhaps something less concrete : NOTIONAL

24-across – Fermented grapes and rolled tobacco : GASPER

25-across – Who classically breaks a horse but a noble French lady? : MARQUISE

26-across – Fay produces old and new works : WELDON

1-down – Pudding might do as a starter, we’re told : SAGO

2-down – Lover madly married … : ADMIRER

3-down – … failing in duty beyond love : OMISSION

5-down – Extremely heavy fall over inland Spain that skimmed water : HYDROPLANED

6-down – Many a bore is barren : MEAGRE

7-down – One in ruff, hard to overcome : TRIUMPH

8-down – Church performance to lead chart : CATHEDRAL

12-down – Help to worship un­likely to be spread by ear : PRAYERBEADS

13-down – Afterthought proper to turn up on my return, having assumed title : PSEUDONYM

15-down – Reading a publication from the gutter? : DRAINAGE

17-down – Take a chair after six or one may not stay : VISITOR

19-down – Unknown party leader fell in like a fork in the road : YSHAPED

20-down – Union leader gets kudos for solving a puzzle : SUDOKU

22-down – Lawrence lost a shoestring and got the bird : WREN

4-across – Leech victim : SUCKER

6-across – Endlessly, school cat swung round in place of depravity : GOMORRAH

9-across – Integrity is working in time : HONOUR

10-across – Sort of protein attached to a poison : ATROPINE

11-across – Off limits, like an exhausted kangaroo? : OUTOFBOUNDS

15-across – Last line of Gettysburg address? : ZIPCODE

17-across – Coming unstuck, genital glue : GELATIN

18-across – Revolting bard soon causing breach of the peace — from which all hell broke loose? : PANDORASBOX

22-across – Egyptian city, Lepht? : PORTSAID

23-across – Curly hairs too generous to hide : STOOGE

24-across – Lying back in the morning, hang about and feign illness : MALINGER

25-across – Earth has little time on the surface : PLANET

1-down – Further polishing is slight : REBUFF

2-down – Figure, say, right to invade one nation : MONTENEGRO

3-down – Mammoth found death among the black stuff : COLOSSAL

4-down – Both taps low in capacity, not one for gas : SCHMOOZE

5-down – Irishman I caught climbing over hospital memorial : CENOTAPH

7-down – Among flora I need cats and dogs? : RAIN

8-down – One can’t be trusted to follow an order : HEEL

12-down – Unfortunate reliance on a great passenger service : OCEANLINER

13-down – Unyielding, as the remaining part delivered : STUBBORN

14-down – Initially ignoramus, after squeezing through, requiring more tuition? : INEXPERT

16-down – Rival GP takes poison to doctor : OPPOSING

19-down – A guiding influence, say, for serial killer : ATTILA

20-down – Health resort superior to McDonald’s for processed food : SPAM

21-down – Croft over the sea : ARAL

5-across – Governor imprisoned by a revolutionary member of tribe : APACHE

6-across – Good book for citizens : ROMANS

9-across – One stealing a pound : NICKER

10-across – Captivated by the Venus de Milo? : DISARMED

11-across – Either way it was once of some value in India : ANNA

12-across – Alan dreams about a lizard-like monster : SALAMANDER

13-across – Mushroom cultivated in earthen cell : CHANTERELLE

18-across – Light and delicate piano had us quite excited : DIAPHANOUS

21-across – It’s not down as a source of poison : UPAS

22-across – Quotation on cost shows outlay required : PRICETAG

23-across – He takes in the letters : READER

24-across – Start an uproarious din inside, resulting in brawl : SHINDY

25-across – Greek god’s head set in a ring : APOLLO

1-down – Violent reaction against corporal punishment : BACKLASH

2-down – It’s sung by numbers : CHORUS

3-down – Clear course of action after study : CONSOMME

4-down – Noble-sounding but without issue : BARREN

5-down – Mixes up signal and gets into a row : ALIGNS

7-down – Appeared to be soundly joined : SEEMED

8-down – Not even sufficient, strange as it may seem : ODDLYENOUGH

14-down – Need one tap repaired when the flow is minimal : NEAPTIDE

15-down – Excellent double comes up, demonstrating skill : LAUDABLE

16-down – Metric units Lister worked with? : LITRES

17-down – Manage somehow to produce and act at the same time : MAKEDO

19-down – Eat out of house and home : PICNIC

20-down – Little bit of butter and jam : SCRAPE

8-across – Atrocious shield ivy cut off : DEVILISH

9-across – See 4 : SIDEOF

10-across – Eclipse fell : HIDE

11-across – Takeaway, say, at home — order main from specials board? : INDIANMEAL

12-across – Having an unoriginal experience for all to see — against a Jedi’s short return : DEJAVU

14-across – Shocking riot outside, English fan restrained : RITENUTO

15-across – AC/DC left set of great gig — in Sky, high definition’s quite extensive : BIGGISH

17-across – Bird in paper with unknown weakness : FRAILTY

20-across – Live helium light attracts this beast : BEHEMOTH

22-across – Ancient internet provider, say, recalled within Germany : AGEOLD

23-across – Lens corrects against back of prism at … : ANASTIGMAT

24-across – … compound starts from any colour you like : ACYL

25-across – Intimidates US and them, having no border, unusually : DAUNTS

26-across – Go beyond how speed cameras look to record : OVERSTEP

1-down – Condition of brain damage, having dropped an ecstasy inside twice : BERIBERI

2-down – Tense withdrawing record label’s money commercially? : TIME

3-down – Setting one story about head of Man United — on the contrary : MILIEU

4-down – Took as hidden theme for work — an album, right? : THEDARK

5-down – Enquire about health of art — fake’s criminal : ASKAFTER

6-down – Unbreakable ’80s artist that is covering number : ADAMANTINE

7-down – Actor drawing in John? : BOGART

13-down – Starting argument — applying oneself to getting Jordan-like breast augmentation? : AGGRESSING

16-down – Eskimo rolls in way where it’s most difficult to breathe? : SMOKIEST

18-down – Score recorders almost speak to me in resurrecting New York line : TALLYMEN

19-down – See 4 : THEMOON

21-down – Set of nine regularly weaning elands : ENNEAD

22-down – A second on the run, ultimately like that time : ASTHEN

24-down – Besides American players of Star Wars theme : ALSO