Daily Answers

1-across – Obtained tea using sneaky trick : GOTCHA

5-across – Ladies maybe into uncouth sort? It’s very revealing : LOWCUT

8-across – Obvious hiding place for one sick individual : PATIENT

9-across – Strengthen couple in the lead : BRACEUP

11-across – Bureau run by substantial type suited to command? : OFFICERMATERIAL

12-across – Consider cycling to find birds : EMUS

13-across – Mad family is an accident waiting to happen : BANANASKIN

17-across – Attending twice with some soothing words : THERETHERE

18-across – Wound from cleaning out septic abductor : SCAR

20-across – Hate one minister whipped up delivering such motivational guff? : THERESNOIINTEAM

23-across – Complex mix seen as source of rigid compilers’ code : XIMENES

24-across – Audacity works to build careers : GALLOPS

25-across – Announces data about Europe : STATES

26-across – Defeated and cut : SAWOFF

2-down – Flat perhaps with no air left? : OUTOFTUNE

3-down – Tightly grip uncle’s French armchair in the middle : CLENCH

4-down – Result of following US subject : AFTERMATH

5-down – Begin looking into building really attractive sign : LIBRA

6-down – Blubber when a few halt getting thrown out : WHALEFAT

7-down – Somewhat cute ritual places we’ve all been in originally : UTERI

8-down – Characteristic strain suffered when buying a house : PROPERTYTAX

10-down – Radar sees two of them : PALINDROMES

14-down – Granules I melted to make carrier : AERLINGUS

15-down – Dismissed as soon as it started : KICKEDOFF

16-down – Belt tune out when high on this narcotic stuff? : BETELNUT

19-down – Little support for home force arrival : INFLOW

21-down – Chap contributes some rising system measurements : EMMET

22-down – Only half of Cannes gets cosy housing : NESTS

1-across – Censor correspondent,a contributor to comedy show : GAGWRITER

6-across – No longer measure use of computers by youngster : CUBIT

9-across – Strange lad with pet,one a lot of money backed : ODDSONFAVOURITE

10-across – Vegetable ship brought back : LEEK

11-across – They fly around area by way of rocky peaks : AVIATORS

14-across – Submarine at first lacks rust protection : UNDERSEAL

15-across – One consuming an apple : EATER

16-across – Established pansy regularly in garden : BASED

18-across – Movingly describe united salvage effort : RESCUEBID

20-across – Domestic occupation for the woolly-minded? : KNITTING

21-across – School class in shape for months : FORM

25-across – Roller making its way through London in song : OLDFATHERTHAMES

26-across – Very much unfinished : NOEND

27-across – The way to get to the bottom of things : DOWNWARDS

1-down – Angry sound from Greek member of parliament : GROWL

2-down – Vulcan’s demise unexpectedly good news? : GODSEND

3-down – A measure of whisky not opened? It’s on the house : ROOF

4-down – Swell to maximum volume : TOFF

5-down – Powerful preacher is on exam schedule : REVIVALIST

6-down – These days going into small business American is intrepid : COURAGEOUS

7-down – Airline gets one oaf to make emergency jump : BAILOUT

8-down – Beloved certain to walk round : TREASURED

12-down – Believe spade for one to be plastic : CREDITCARD

13-down – Having cut back tree drench all around : RETRENCHED

14-down – Not recognised tossing and turning on new bunk : UNBEKNOWN

17-down – In a little less wind,let’s take someone for a ride : SWINDLE

19-down – Septuagenarian perhaps eating large loaf : BLOOMER

22-down – Old Testament figure who took the tablets as directed : MOSES

23-down – Inconclusive game that attracts a crowd : DRAW

24-down – Not many heard this sigh of relief : PHEW

1-across – Outstanding rule about dead fascist,as his friends called him? : OSWALD

5-across – Intellectual rebel has accident with car : CEREBRAL

9-across – Almost deceived at tea dance : CHACONNE

10-across – Against epithet for the four Beatles in private conversation : CONFAB

11-across – Bird entered the water the far side of the pond : DOVE

12-across – Nursing a broken knee,turn to worship now in American style : YANKEEFIED

13-across – One greeting king is servile,not unpleasant : KISSER

14-across – The centre of Bangor? : DOWNTOWN

16-across – Costing a bomb to be sceptical : AGNOSTIC

19-across – I stole Christmas,and grimace at church : GRINCH

21-across – Clamour interrupts lengthy sermon for special service : ORDINATION

23-across – Start off speaking with grit : SAND

24-across – Charge a line of waiters has announced : ACCUSE

25-across – Call to attention fifty competitors that may be drilled : OILFIELD

26-across – Figures and a piece of data applied to the rest of Jan : STATUARY

27-across – Under compulsion,you make irregular patterns : TIEDYE

2-down – School cane,a stinger,wielded across Charlie,a paradoxical creature : SCHRODINGERSCAT

3-down – Old soldiers have twinges crossing two rivers : ARCHERS

4-down – Comic part performed for three-ha’pence once : DANDYPRAT

5-down – Won everything when up,having lost everything when out : CLEANED

6-down – A survey run,and behold! : RECCE

7-down – Use live computer image of suspect with name attached : BENEFIT

8-down – That’s a threat of retaliation in chess,for example : AGAMETWOCANPLAY

15-down – Sleepers in monastery abroad losing pants : WAGONSLIT

17-down – Old bridge,not a tube : OVIDUCT

18-down – Start to cultivate non-native tree,its heart extracted for coffee substitute : CHICORY

20-down – Introduce oxygen,burning part of church : INSPIRE

22-down – Ring area of the kidneys,not large : ARENA

1-across – Burst from trumpeter? One can’t go as high as Armstrong did : JUMBOJET

6-across – See 21 : HOPPER

9-across – Vessel for wine in tiny mouth? : GOBLET

10-across – Tennis player for whom Covid jabs originally OK? That’s unlikely : DJOKOVIC

11-across – Mouthpiece,glue’s stuck around one : GUMSHIELD

13-across – Prestidigitation,smoke and mirrors initially given reflection? : MAGIC

15-across – Anything but a real swine cradling head of love bird : FALCON

17-across – Sovereign a nation recalled : REGINA

18-across – Parting shot from spinning of S. Warne : ANSWER

19-across – Old documents reviewing pay in middle of April : PAPYRI

21-across – Bouncer with velocity punching customer : SPACE

22-across – Syrian mother has a tantrum : DAMASCENE

25-across – Hard bread out at sea : OBDURATE

26-across – Gymnast: be lissome in twists : SIMONE

28-across – Franco’s money put into plant : PESETA

29-across – Fuel like crude oil in engine not half backfiring! : GASOLINE

2-down – Regular servings of bug food for a drone,probably? : UFO

3-down – See 26 Across : BILES

4-down – Black-coloured stocking is lost : JETTISONED

5-down – Teensy bit squiffy : TIDDLY

6-down – House of dance : HOOF

7-down – Shame about leader in fanzine penned by hack,say – filthy language : PROFANITY

8-down – Enlightenment in rebranding of Labour Party post-David Miliband? : EDIFICATION

12-down – Composed,as are rigid wings? : UNFLAPPABLE

14-down – Skeletal structure in Facebook address of Paul? : METATARSUS

16-down – Sinking ship proceeds to capsize,with rat running around : LOSTCAUSE

20-down – Black sheep spoiled food on farm? : BADEGG

23-down – African carrier,first of containers,A,B or C? : CAMEL

24-down – Fine wine? : CAVA

27-down – Celibate,with some frustration,understandably : NUN

8-across – By itself,the Yankee territory introduction of cruel capital punishment means nothing will be the same : THETIMES

9-across – Extremely ostentatious about unpleasant smells : ODOURS

10-across – Finally given by a cruel father: clothing,identity : NAME

11-across – See 10 : ANDADDRESS

12-across – Come up with component for main ventilator : INVENT

14-across – Answer sailor for this way of washing : ABLUTION

15-across – Last year’s pilot to start in rapid part of air show : FLYPAST

17-across – Parochial urinals in a mess : INSULAR

20-across – See 8 : THEYAREA

22-across – Beast stripped car held by church : COYOTE

23-across – Now or Christmas? : THEPRESENT

24-across – See 23 : TIME

25-across – Plaster almost stuck firm : STUCCO

26-across – See 8 : CHANGING

1-down – Quiet type of music starts off nicely,ending loud with explosive bit : SHRAPNEL

2-down – Index heard in action under the table? : FTSE

3-down – Crash Philistine’s agreement : IMPACT

4-down – American starts to eat disgusting cold and raw banger : USEDCAR

5-down – Musician not on in London with Babyshambles : BOBDYLAN

6-down – Setter or solver’s terribly sultry : YOURSTRULY

7-down – As if by magic,Northern city’s not North : PRESTO

13-down – Trained spy team won’t take a step into the void : EMPTYSPACE

16-down – Inspector could turn very sour : SURVEYOR

18-down – Films regularly inspired by Shakespearean element : ANTIMONY

19-down – X interrupting frilly period of inactivity : LATENCY

21-down – That content is covered by this arrangement for instruments : HIHATS

22-down – Rest shows up in discrepant accounting : CATNAP

24-down – Simple wrap as temperature previously went up : TOGA