Daily Answers

9-across – Presenter with top-notch Republican introducing new part of speech : ANNOUNCER

10-across – Man on board in calm sound : PIECE

11-across – Ministers planting parts of it in the media : PRIESTS

12-across – Most active 11, when last becomes first : SPRIEST

13-across – Device for removing bristles from jaw, nervously : AWNER

14-across – Pure daughter is taken inside to be scolded : CHASTISED

16-across – Standard 7, such as 8, 20, 21 down, 22 down and 23 across or 3 and 18, together with 11, 12, or 22 across, possibly : STARSANDSTRIPES

19-across – Leader of army badly lamed, but proceeded on foot : AMBULATED

21-across – Shepherd and animal from herd : STEER

22-across – To continue getting coverage in papers is terrible : PERSIST

23-across – Newspaper’s turn to secure literary anthology : GARLAND

24-across – One’s found in church or part of cathedral : CHOIR

25-across – Take care of English prop most sensitive to pain : TENDEREST

1-down – Prince standing on his head, say, in lake : CASPIANSEA

2-down – Corrupt gain is in 16, for example : INSIGNIA

3-down – This is spinning plus a source of radiation : PULSAR

4-down – Marchers ignoring the odds — points of no return? : ACES

5-down – Offended, in France, very old-fashioned duke : TRESPASSED

6-down – A dubious character, this masked man in theatre? : OPERATOR

7-down – Names last of three Europeans leaving Pacific island earlier : CELEBS

8-down – What every solver thinks, initially, is the point of setting : WEST

14-down – It’s not repackaged in attractive form : CONSTITUTE

15-down – Refuses to accept right correction in records : DISCREDITS

17-down – Fighters sorry, oddly, about veteran : SOLDIERY

18-down – Source of light at night as unorthodox sleep aid : PLEIADES

20-down – Standing in stream to drink : BURTON

21-down – Stupidly pester top American player : STREEP

22-down – Nibble at food a lot : PECK

23-down – Medal held by Pentagon general : GONG

1-across – Immobilise dog or duck : PINTAIL

5-across – Lover of drama getting married? Just the opposite : ANTONYM

9-across – Top general brought back to cover cross-country leader : EXCEL

10-across – Find out by way of Cartesian integration : ASCERTAIN

11-across – Drink tea with American in plane? : CHARTREUSE

12-across – New cast play parts : ACTS

14-across – Backing too much for musicians with one knocker? : OPPORTUNITY

18-across – Heads for building opposite the Tate — one room is for old masters : BOTTICELLIS

21-across – Running through concerto in a bygone era : ONCE

22-across – Farm workers shed, if land is developed : FIELDHANDS

25-across – Number 5 comes forward to grab check material : VELVETEEN

26-across – No parking in front of club, say : UTTER

27-across – Woman turning to husband in boat : DOROTHY

28-across – Market town supplying meat on 24 and 31 December? : EVESHAM

1-down – Supporter with cigarette ends is 23 : PIERCE

2-down – Delicious drink in centre of Birmingham cheers Rex : NECTAR

3-down – A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form : ALLOTROPIC

4-down – Don’t take what’s taken on departure : LEAVE

5-down – 23 tars at sea, coming down a line? : ANCESTRAL

6-down – Wrong time or right time for starters : TORT

7-down – Denoting a region not far from Connecticut, originally in Canada : NEARCTIC

8-down – My need is desperate for fancy situation : MINDSEYE

13-down – Reckon you once must be content with ultimate in state pension : GUESTHOUSE

15-down – Abstract, see? Just so! : PRECISELY

16-down – Bad sort possessing crack is acquitted : ABSOLVED

17-down – Particular person may be second one catching trout : STICKLER

19-down – Melodic fragment is small, of course : SNATCH

20-down – Ringleader captured in a feigned retreat : ASHRAM

23-down – Cut necessitated by knight losing fortune? : LANCE

24-down – Former PM’s majority in preliminary round : HEAT

1-across – 16 across’s key broadcast : ALTAIR

4-across – Describing lavish meal, drink with drink to drink : SLAPUP

9-across – One’s hard to sway : ROCK

10-across – 9 16 across tuned back in with tour : KURTCOBAIN

11-across – Such bodily desires run through old trade route : CARNAL

12-across – 9 required to kill one, old lady : CULLINAN

13-across – Milk on order sent back, some rejected cheese : MOUSETRAP

15-across – Kiss 9 16 across — fancy immense snog? : GENE

16-across – Bending over, I’m upset to see the principal : STAR

17-across – Rope binding female, S&M back for the holiday periods : HALFTERMS

21-across – Male in club with three individuals, drunk, showing navels : UMBILICI

22-across – Naughty youngsters going topless to show boobs : ERRORS

24-across – Set to put bottom on top of items, one packing case : POSITIONED

25-across – Dirty wipes by food : GRUB

26-across – Initiation of screen goddess captivates you, seeing 16 across : SIRIUS

27-across – Very petite derrière taken in series of shots : REALLY

1-down – A very bad chap in good heart, a shade of green : AVOCADO

2-down – Chip that’s passed quality control eaten by round figure : TOKEN

3-down – Test of personality I note well, consuming king a good deal : INKBLOT

5-down – Spot company cutting Israeli fliers up : LOCALE

6-down – One’s recognised in this clue by Paul, only the first, that is — it’s rubbish! : PUBLICEYE

7-down – Church leader bound to punch head : PRIMATE

8-down – Notices penny, then pound astronomical : PROCLAMATIONS

14-down – Earth’s destroyer more alarming, if accepted : SCARIFIER

16-down – See 15 : SIMMONS

18-down – Strong bloody item cast metal for 9 16 across : FREDDIE

19-down – See 18 : MERCURY

20-down – One seen in the distance, posh environment : MILIEU

23-down – 16 across US state getting set : RIGEL

1-across – With sun out, melon burst : UNSOLEMN

5-across – Dudley’s famous role: showing paintings etc by Ben? : ARTHUR

9-across – Open container for tip : OVERTURN

10-across – One lives without function as a handsome youth : ADONIS

12-across – Mismatch? Cry out That’s what 5 26’s 20 is really about! : MCCARTHYISM

15-across – See 19 : WITCH

17-across – Odd rationale for one losing the sympathy of others : ALIENATOR

18-across – Returning prophet trapping nit by old city is a comfort : REASSURES

19-across – Males turned intellect against church — meet subject matter for 5 26’s 20 : SALEM

20-across – Electric Hub variety theatre : THECRUCIBLE

24-across – 75% of talent seeking is spin : OUTING

25-across – Member, honourable, getting backing — prepare for activity : LIMBERUP

26-across – One involved in daily grind gets married : MILLER

27-across – Came upon a local alternative for what 5 26’s 20 was for 12? : METAPHOR

1-down – When I start to speak, it’s well old-fashioned! : UPONMYWORD

2-down – Recycled scrap, then, retaining temperature in the toilet U-bend? : STENCHTRAP

3-down – Following dead right : LATER

4-down – Awkward, harsh-hearted wedding officiator gets the bird : MARSHHARRIER

6-down – Tiny pigs swallowing coin, nuts and bolts : RUDIMENTS

7-down – See 19 : HUNT

8-down – John Moor gets up after the others : REST

11-down – Administrative departments giving head of Channel 4 and 1 Live employment : CIVILSERVICE

13-down – Shrill, it mutated with TB — tragic end to pregnancy : STILLBIRTH

14-down – One complaining about Mr E. coming to a death : GRIMREAPER

16-down – Uncertainty at Chinese transformation : HESITANCE

21-down – Poison injector produced by horse artist : COBRA

22-down – See 8 : ROOM

23-down – In hindsight, m’lud, it helps make web pages : HTML

1-across – Ulysses remake represented modern-day exiles : ASYLUM

5-across – Dames popular with sailors? : BROADS

8-across – One is getting skinny without essential nutrient : THIAMIN

9-across – See 1 : SEEKERS

11-across – I have ruled as tsar, haven’t I? : IVANTHETERRIBLE

12-across – Does once make orthographical mistake : DOTH

13-across – Sadly concur more than half of drugs can be found in abundance : CORNUCOPIA

17-across – They love football team’s jockstraps? : SUPPORTERS

18-across – It’s nasty, brutish, short : CRUD

20-across – Extremely dangerous and revolting, the trematode devours other’s innards : ARMEDTOTHETEETH

23-across – After essentially easeful death, poor beggar’s finally buried and returned to the ground : EARTHED

24-across – Provide new material for extremely familiar Private Eye gag : REEQUIP

25-across – Devotee starts to find Lady Gaga unbearably boring : DEADLY

26-across – Country bumpkins died for the king, making horrible noises : YODELS

2-down – Pretend group performed in theatre? : SPINALTAP

3-down – Without these I’m it : LIMITS

4-down – Bloke has to leave vegetables : MANGETOUT

5-down – Count brass : BASIE

6-down – Obsessive finds love on the web a source of pain : ONETRACK

7-down – Eejit in America taken in by weel-faur’d wee bletherskate : DWEEB

8-down – English actress’s assets for part of the political system : THIRDESTATE

10-down – Management employing waitress with PhD : STEWARDSHIP

14-down – Doctor only ignoring adult’s rather trapped wind : NORTHERLY

15-down – Constant review of university in recent study : PERPETUAL

16-down – Moved like the wind around end of haunted outhouse : WOODSHED

19-down – Amateur race which is dangerous, being over the limit in Escort : ATTEND

21-down – Diminutive, fat and married to Homer : MARGE

22-down – In the manner of 1, 9 — perhaps in a strange way : ODDLY