Daily Answers

1-across – Cover for article in transcript : CANOPY

4-across – Chips — unknown constituents for traditional medication : PHYSIC

9-across – An artist ran word processing in the right way : STRAITANDNARROW

10-across – Some time after a service one gets rid of data : ERASER

11-across – Hero did so for rosebay? : OLEANDER

12-across – Make each pick different kind of vegetable : CHICKPEA

14-across – Pretend to be an Asian healer : SHAMAN

15-across – To cadge causes bad odour in the Home Counties : SPONGE

18-across – Figure I am in property : ESTIMATE

21-across – Credit italic letters as being decisive : CRITICAL

22-across – With time one gets out of practice, to be honest : TRUSTY

24-across – Block in basic construction : FOUNDATIONSTONE

25-across – Scramble an egg? One is getting past it! : AGEING

26-across – Supporters won’t start to provide the cash : ACKERS

1-down – Girl about to arrive shortly with a complaint : CATARRH

2-down – Tides of siestas across Spain? : NEAPS

3-down – Mine’s support when Dad’s about to trip over : PITPROP

5-down – Do conservative types sit on them? : HUNKERS

6-down – Violent Satchmo put first last : STRONGARM

7-down – Illness caused by gap in rising curve : CHOLERA

8-down – Girl kept firm in Adriatic port : ANCONA

13-down – She cheats to beat the Establishment : CONSTANCE

16-down – Assumed identity with no spare material : PERSONA

17-down – Bind by inane church regulation? : ENCHAIN

18-down – City den takes the cake : ECLAIR

19-down – Great disaster — one can’t somehow get over it : TITANIC

20-down – UN state spreading infection : TETANUS

23-down – BBC loses head, which is loose : UNTIE

1-across – Bit of dessert? Leading lady has something to chew over : CUSTARD

5-across – Manuscript about a pet dog : MASTIFF

9-across – Minister to provide free entertainment : TREAT

10-across – Celebrity redhead in pastures new : SUPERSTAR

11-across – Stern monarch has promise for rider : AFTERWORD

12-across – President backing oil company in pursuit of 14 : POSSE

13-across – Assembly given by extremely saintly head : SYNOD

15-across – Chosen one paid tip — I left change : APPOINTED

18-across – Vehicle to pick up a passenger returning from chaotic situation : MARESNEST

19-across – Pulls faces when soldiers hug sailors : GIRNS

21-across – Bottle-opener very well hidden? : NERVE

23-across – Means of stopping playboy pursuing place to stay : BANDBRAKE

25-across – Conductor has terrible constipation, broken pot taken away : TOSCANINI

26-across – Band recruits novice guitarist : SLASH

27-across – I can’t help cook eviscerated bird : DUNNOCK

28-across – Checked top worn by child : LIMITED

1-down – Stop shooting large animal with old side arm : CUTLASS

2-down – Bribe Frenchman to come back after dessert : SWEETENER

3-down – Change following demotion of head : ALTER

4-down – Put out fizzy Diet Colas : DISLOCATE

5-down – Vehicle used to be blue : MOPED

6-down – Strong support : STRAPPING

7-down – Stroke? Grimace right away : ICTUS

8-down – Prevent from crossing over marsh : FORFEND

14-down – Very old agents held up by outlaw : DESPERADO

16-down – Latin poet breaks promise : POTENTIAL

17-down – Target man flying Spitfire : TERMAGANT

18-down – Made notes about very small dog lead : MINUTED

20-down – Boiled the egg outside : SEETHED

22-down – Leave head gardener missing plant product : RESIN

23-down – Boy born on top of stretcher? : BRICK

24-down – Society embroiled by boom and bust : BOSOM

1-across – Engineer in a car plant : ARNICA

4-across – Setback after spring floods : SPATES

9-across – Bugs running risk : IRKS

10-across – Reserve disappearing with this vessel? : ICEBREAKER

11-across – Outlaw hugging a Big Apple tree : BANYAN

12-across – Toad, ignoring Jack and Edward, chewed the fat : NATTERED

13-across – Fighter pilot with boat crew : FLYWEIGHT

15-across – Accommodation like leisure centre : DIGS

16-across – Drink that’s put in the oven? : COKE

17-across – Happy state suggests one with half of Guinness : TIPSINESS

21-across – Worker not happy with reinforcement : BEEFEDUP

22-across – A lack of publicity about illness? That’s OK : NOTBAD

24-across – Order to reps in certain retail outlet : SUPERSTORE

25-across – A bit of humidity in the south of France : MIDI

26-across – An ecclesiastic high-up like a llama? : ANDEAN

27-across – Copper reported parting words : SEEYOU

1-down – Familiar ground following cut in postal service : AIRMAIL

2-down – Cockney hurried, initially revealing name and rank : NASTY

3-down – Church leader in Ireland not in favour of red : CHIANTI

5-down – Do without current correspondence : PARITY

6-down – Actor takes time reading a play : TRAGEDIAN

7-down – Cat basket finally grabbed by cardinals : STEVENS

8-down – Jellied eels for starters — seafood devoured by male model : JEANSHRIMPTON

14-down – Come to play cricket for Yorkshire city : WAKEFIELD

16-down – Break a saucer? Dash it! : CAESURA

18-down – Not affected as engineers : SINCERE

19-down – Animal in revolutionary American prison : SPANDAU

20-down – It supports lots of lines in port : ODESSA

23-down – Private plaything entertaining same-sex couple? : TOMMY

1-across – Town’s serenades interrupting cook : BASINGSTOKE

9-across – Original film with old boy knocking out a US criminal : MOBSTER

10-across – Trendy person of faith has rejected cathedral impressively : INSTYLE

11-across – Bird that’s cold entering a hot nest after flying : STONECHAT

12-across – Big effort brings supreme happiness, all but : HEAVE

13-across – Little girl facing the unknown in a place of great crisis : SUEZ

14-across – No longer individual gets slated, being pronounced innocent : EXONERATED

16-across – Spread to excite gourmet and pal : PROMULGATE

19-across – Pasquale’s an artist, first to last! : MINE

21-across – Glossy boats from stern to bow : SLEEK

22-across – Oppose profits pocketed by stupid person? : GOAGAINST

24-across – Nourishment from fruit worker’s consumed : ALIMENT

25-across – Learn to have admirable scepticism when listening : FINDOUT

26-across – Andy rather than Grant providing ingredient for home-made wine? : ELDERFLOWER

1-down – See me repeatedly boo a Britney pop song that she sings : BABYONEMORETIME

2-down – Bristly bits must be regularly extracted from sweet face : SETAE

3-down – Hurried up with the cross somewhere in church? : NARTHEX

4-down – In love and almost ecstatic holding hand : SMITTEN

5-down – Cell consisting of three round objects : OOSPHERE

6-down – Baronet, hairy man, frightful beast on Greek mountain : ERYMANTHIANBOAR

7-down – One’s ending with muck around one — as a result of this? : EMESIS

8-down – Support brilliant objective : DEFEND

15-down – Spooner’s ungainly person to fix down in part of ship : BULKHEAD

16-down – Mathematician from China embracing a leading pair of scientists : PASCAL

17-down – One may produce smile, not half, going about stage being funny : GAGSTER

18-down – Emotional rugby group left after meal : TEARFUL

20-down – Car with Spanish identification, say : ESTATE

23-down – A set of directions hardly used : ASNEW

1-across – I’m leaving choir master to sort out the musicians : ORCHESTRA

6-across – See 26 : WIND

8-across – Face the music, perhaps, mixing this? : METAPHOR

9-across – Back in Yachimata, traditionally under foot : TATAMI

10-across – Where Arab goes off to acquire map : BAZAAR

11-across – Regular flow at the end of the day : EVENTIDE

12-across – Argue against the core of Rastafarian faith : BELIEF

15-across – Awkward to do then with precision : ONTHEDOT

16-across – Believer once consumed by a job : APOSTATE

19-across – Bend knees of laconic and heartless spy : CURTSY

21-across – Hippies out in the rain : DROPOUTS

22-across – Smart Egyptian leader to follow since Pharaoh : ASTUTE

24-across – A wing and a kiss in a year in Provence : ANNEXE

25-across – Saw 8, but has not come across doctrine : APHORISM

26-across – Film good person who’s 14 : GONE

27-across – Disastrous setting for both train and lines : TAYBRIDGE

1-down – Love gameplaying at last : OMEGA

2-down – Bread for man with central heating : CHAPATI

3-down – A number coming from the Netherlands — could be three : ETHER

4-down – Fuss about correct speech: English can sink a ship! : TORPEDO

5-down – Real gold following endless credit : AUTHENTIC

6-down – See 26 : WITHTHE

7-down – Mad person desperately tries to impress : NAMEDROPS

13-down – Pert nose with a cheeky tongue : ESPERANTO

14-down – Even you finally advanced with a social problem : FLATULENT

17-down – Top of the Pops up, remember? : SUPREME

18-down – Chest he put out in simple joy : ECSTASY

20-down – Gone to bed: it’s not working : RETIRED

22-down – View with disgust as most leave bathrooms in a mess : ABHOR

23-down – Little bit of discrimination : TASTE