Daily Answers

9-across – Annexe’s relieved state? : EXTENSION

10-across – 15 button’s capital, wanting its first letter second : SLOMO

11-across – French artist paints only the back entrance : INGRESS

12-across – Raider unfortunately behind time — becoming more so? : TARDIER

13-across – ’Orrible comic character demanding jelly : AGAR

14-across – Bridge game where players drop something — nothing this bad among lowered marks : POOHSTICKS

16-across – Rex as it’s written at the rear of mobile toilet : LATRINE

17-across – One’s quick to slip in tongue, extracting tonsils finally : FERRARI

19-across – Ylper? : ANSWERBACK

22-across – Heartless rabble’s sensational shocker? : COLD

24-across – Knowing tune backwards, movement requiring no thought : GNOSTIC

25-across – Shakespearean king established Christmas should be rejected : LEONTES

26-across – Slurring, you drink to consume : USEUP

27-across – Paramedic, say, has organ to keep safe, perhaps? : LIFESAVER

1-down – A little rash, yobbo gobbles string up to appear uninhibited : LETITALLHANGOUT

2-down – Award asbo to granny punching good man still : STAGNANT

3-down – See 21 : UNDER

4-down – Pump-action’s isolated shot : DIASTOLE

5-down – Muddy chants a little music : SNATCH

6-down – A pace into seawater, a departure from grass? : ASTROTURF

7-down – Signs up? : ZODIAC

8-down – Politician claims Leon the writer can clean up the holiday business : TOURISTINDUSTRY

15-down – Film tailless snake biting love during riotous date : VIDEOTAPE

17-down – One left feeding short figure in operation : FACELIFT

18-down – Failing to produce the intended result — a bit over, perhaps : ABORTIVE

20-down – See 22 : SHOWER

21-down – Collapse, with universal investment in US bank? : BUCKLE

23-down – Divine, breaking window seal : DOWSE

7-across – The great Dickie Bird gives India’s opener out in historic collapse : OSTRICH

8-across – Clue to where a million angels may be heap’d? : PINHEAD

10-across – Holy cardinal in non-conformist place of worship : CHAPEL

11-across – One that should be in going out due to mistake by expert : PROLAPSE

12-across – Loud explosion bags game : LUDO

13-across – Crosspiece with front for model : PERFECTION

14-across – Crosspiece : TRIALSAMPLE

19-across – Puzzles’ partial theme leads to debate : CROSSWORDS

22-across – See 6 : PLAY

23-across – News report: beast was not out for lunch? : BULLETIN

24-across – One you’d like to see on last day of weekend : FRIEND

25-across – Crosspiece found among reliquaries : MONGREL

26-across – Christian teaching takes part of the Bible back : REVERSE

1-down – Is theme pointless? Boatmen use it to cross piece of water : ISTHMUS

2-down – Theatrical entrance from lifting crosspiece : TRAPDOOR

3-down – Helps out around college with very difficult errand : SCHLEP

4-down – Smooth on the feet at 50, in love with life’s extremes: classy gent : LINOLEUM

5-down – Boatman’s crosspiece could be baffling : THWART

6-down – Theatrical crosspiece with the Father spread across Heaven : PASSION

9-down – Perhaps the Olympic Stadium can seed new beginning for athletics, embracing person with power : SPORTSARENA

15-down – Giddy Tea Party man loses head taking on satirist : ATWITTER

16-down – Did slope make play unequal? : LOPSIDED

17-down – Hammer racket outside put one in the soup : CROUTON

18-down – Folly built on crosspiece of land into water : MADNESS

20-down – Processed grass is taken up by convict on ecstasy : SILAGE

21-down – Temper is weakness ultimately possessed by Cardinal of the Cross : SOFTEN

1-across – Get one’s teeth into gold, by the way : OBITER

5-across – Pity lone composer no longer fashionable : LINOTYPE

9-across – Cultivating plots? : SCHEMING

10-across – Once confutes what otherwise feels right : REFELS

11-across – Pleasant resort : NICE

12-across – Southwest always keeps fine, unusual for disease : SWINEFEVER

13-across – Toeless sort of boot and a country in Africa : UGANDA

14-across – Spooner’s widespread profits for energy suppliers : GASMAINS

16-across – God — the one not ending where all the others are? : PANTHEON

19-across – Nerve cell freshman called for : NEURON

21-across – Please sand slippery walkways : ESPLANADES

23-across – Decrease in work by a GP : DROP

24-across – Rustic building with 5 nails : SILVAN

25-across – Get together when graduate finals are often held? : INTERMIX

26-across – Remains after chops start? : LEAVINGS

27-across – Holds forth about right to secede from Brussels : SPOUTS

2-down – Is US currency short here? : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

3-down – The restraint, which it contains … : THEREIN

4-down – … put on the body politic to restore what’s been lost? : REINSTATE

5-down – Falling behind with winter weather precautions : LAGGING

6-down – Carer is out at sunrise, perhaps : NURSE

7-down – Old president keeps iron and a more delicate material : TAFFETA

8-down – Scientist — one gone all too crazy in bygone times? : PALAEONTOLOGIST

15-down – Wickedness — it’s completely keeping us bunged up : SINUSITIS

17-down – Gentleman’s gentleman rises at 4 in the Middle East : TELAVIV

18-down – Simpletons perish amid approving gestures : NODDIES

20-down – Dicky urged on to suffer : UNDERGO

22-down – Material for a negligee — some wouldn’t be seen in one : NINON

1-across – Late boss to tidy 5 : DEADHEAD

5-across – See 18 : FLOWER

9-across – Applause for bowler at place to race : GOODWOOD

10-across – A supplier of milk at sea? : AFLOAT

11-across – Miss one’s train, the last having gone, unhappily : SENORITA

12-across – Sense personified by 5 turning to gold : ELINOR

14-across – Think about setting task for aquatic insect : PONDSKATER

18-across – What is 6? 2 says fruit and veg : MELANCHOLY

22-across – Village drama society’s production? : HAMLET

23-across – Return of food without tear from land of lucky finders : SERENDIP

24-across – Marks heard in Surrey : STAINS

25-across – Painter, one into movement of light : RADIANCE

26-across – Quoted poet sounds like Mary’s garden : SHELLY

27-across – English bird to Italian unknown for ever : ETERNITY

1-down – Summary of what stomach does : DIGEST

2-down – A catch in the neighbourhood : AROUND

3-down – Housekeeper for Norfolk? : HOWARD

4-down – Frequently unwarranted intruder presenting a job for the right workman? : APOSTROPHE

6-down – Realistic precursor of a dome of many-coloured glass : LIFELIKE

7-down – Musical sound in court to end dispersal : WOODNOTE

8-down – Part of car or tram or distributor : ROTORARM

13-down – Corrupter of mature queen by worker : ADULTERANT

15-down – M’s extract from A for ’orses causes stress : EMPHASIS

16-down – Picnic that puts the meat into sweetmeat : CLAMBAKE

17-down – Gather nuts and lichen initially from hell : INFERNAL

19-down – Stocking unit I say didn’t happen? : DENIER

20-down – Lord hasn’t finished the poem involved in 6 : ADONAI

21-down – Swift agent keeping 5 upside down : SPEEDY

7-across – Drug man injected into meat : VERONAL

8-across – Drunk needs drink that doesn’t inebriate : HIGHTEA

9-across – Staff dim, sacked finally : WAND

10-across – Time off fixed : BREAKFAST

12-across – Article discharged by motorboat : LUNCH

13-across – Loner about to get taken in hand and signed up : ENROLLED

15-across – Employ too much effort providing instruction for six undefined clues here : MAKE

16-across – See 15 : AMEAL

17-across – See 15 : OFIT

18-across – Girl in pink beginning to serve drinks : CORDIALS

20-across – Newcastle’s rejected snob : SNOOT

21-across – Beans at the top of their poles? They didn’t get first prize : RUNNERSUP

22-across – Vestment with a type of rose : ALBA

24-across – Nameless fellow harbouring spy in battle : MAGENTA

25-across – Quits sport having bagged record : DEPARTS

1-down – Time submerged in water — it’s hairy : SETA

2-down – Digest of two studies some found empty : CONDENSE

3-down – Citadel built by airline with external money : CASBAH

4-down – Choose new form of reel for small fish : PICKEREL

5-down – Feeling of excitement when one’s a serf : THRALL

6-down – It’s best to get rid of each expert : DEFT

11-down – Foreign student pries, missing nothing : ELEVENSES

12-down – Plain refusal after everyone’s upset : LLANO

14-down – Writer offers priest set of religious books : ELIOT

16-down – A short drink : ANALECTA

17-down – Tree requires repeated work with a chopper in America : OPOPANAX

19-down – Devil not bad inside : DINNER

20-down – Head of school taking stimulant : SUPPER

21-down – Heartless competitor in for the money : RIAL

23-down – Daft attempt to ascend : BATS