Daily Answers

1-across – Bully’s given a toss,a great : COWABUNGA

6-across – Great banks left corporation? : FLAB

8-across – Skirt-wearing scholar lives for the pursuit of titillation : HEDONISM

9-across – Advancement running plant : ONRUSH

10-across – Place of worship,holy building last of all visited by primate : CHAPEL

11-across – Great 17,say : STERLING

12-across – Great book reviewed,see : LOVELY

15-across – Great punishment : SPANKING

16-across – Second feather,say,one splitting hairs? : STICKLER

19-across – Reportedly,pipe suddenly went down : DUCKED

21-across – Great romance with piano in a duet? : WOOPWOOP

22-across – Great in the hinterlands? : FAROUT

24-across – Cocktail,one ruined by gin,vermouth perfect : MAITAI

25-across – Two Stalin scribbled – JS,say? : INITIALS

26-across – Amigo fed hot,hot curry : PHAL

27-across – Flag raised,white,perhaps? : HIGHLIGHT

1-down – Go over to the audience for some language : CZECH

2-down – Great band in short : WHOOPEE

3-down – Great swimmer : BRILL

4-down – Undoing last of knots I identified from below,male cuts through it : NEMESIS

5-down – Same absurd ideas crushed by a pro : AFORESAID

6-down – Discharge of gas leaving a system when running : FARTLEK

7-down – Literary similarity great,small issue with article penned : ASSONANCE

13-down – Manipulator moving to teashop : OSTEOPATH

14-down – Call love and desire quite fair? : YELLOWISH

17-down – Great resources : CAPITAL

18-down – Great destruction : RIPPING

20-down – Great,gee man! : CORKING

22-down – Detail stuff that’s about right : FRILL

23-down – Dark,one allowing in minimum of luminescence : UNLIT

9-across – Neat plan,exporting European metal containing zero rust : OXIDATION

10-across – Lecture lacking power and scope : REACH

11-across – Bouquets I extracted from rows : NOSES

12-across – One It Girl naughtily hanging around : LOITERING

13-across – Be off to secure current winter vehicle : SNOWCAT

14-across – Beckett play,odd piece,hobbling : ENDGAME

17-across – Top star: a record Hollywood attraction at the outset : ALPHA

19-across – Shrewd attitude honestly dismissed : FLY

20-across – King,say,runs over regarding the people being kept back : ROYAL

21-across – Shakespearean heroine the subject of US police case? : MIRANDA

22-across – Long time absorbed in long display : PAGEANT

24-across – Location of suicide? Biblical writer suppressing flowing tears : JUDASTREE

26-across – 33% Tesla employed losing place ultimately : THIRD

28-across – Black chessman dodging King : NIGHT

29-across – Company investing in exploitation of next ore showing a bit of brain : NEOCORTEX

1-down – Urban area disconcerted,with personnel leaving : TOWN

2-down – Motor-racing and horse-racing venue combined? Not wholly a failure : FIASCO

3-down – Cartel is,in time,taking on number of shops : DAISYCHAIN

4-down – Girl having bad time accepting love : VIOLET

5-down – Up to trickery,finally involving the writer? That’s inopportune : UNTIMELY

6-down – Bank of Scotland to stop releasing krone : BRAE

7-down – Californian cops apprehending one above a railway – impressive : LAPIDARY

8-down – Rough haul,including heroin : THUG

13-down – Introduction of wind into fake old wind instrument : SHAWM

15-down – Run out,ousting the Parisian from visiting group? That’s vilification : DEROGATION

16-down – Story about Conservative brought up for big effect : ECLAT

18-down – Example,note,drawn from marching millions : PARADIGM

19-down – Fellow with tirade about student event raising a stink? : FRAGRANT

22-down – Pub promoted single disinfectant : PHENOL

23-down – Noble Prince abandoning European city as well? Not entirely : ARISTO

24-down – Psychologist’s name used in prison : JUNG

25-down – Malice when barring parking spot : SITE

27-down – Party axes good-time girl : DOXY

1-across – Hide here to remove hair,and engage at last in feeble sex : LIMEPIT

5-across – News: it’s about former chess champion : TIDINGS

9-across – Dance around home regularly and grunt : GIJOE

10-across – Aching,distress me with haircut : RHEUMATIC

11-across – Misdoing career,getting involved in this : ORGANISEDCRIME

13-across – Where to build small unit,a metre short : SITE

14-across – Point dropped after men smashed and netted : ENMESHED

17-across – Shown to have been given another escalope? : REVEALED

18-across – Laurel back in several Asian republics : STAN

21-across – Entire genitals transplanted elsewhere in body : LARGEINTESTINE

23-across – Seabird’s remorse being wrong to eat most of fruit : GUILLEMOT

24-across – A little concern about a European that’s often on the card tables : BAIZE

25-across – No love for speeches,being issued food : RATIONS

26-across – Cunning insult coming to ears : SLEIGHT

1-down – Large,commonly very overweight,one goes downhill fast : LUGE

2-down – One arrived at perhaps ten to two : MAJORITYVERDICT

3-down – Supposedly temporary accommodation to be great later? : PREFAB

4-down – Swede sort of makes to flip a coin : TURNIP

5-down – Goddess of youth entertained by dancing not a comic : THEBEANO

6-down – One prosecuting spies imprisons a hundred,one with suspended death sentence : DAMOCLES

7-down – Despite marking,brave to slip through : NOTWITHSTANDING

8-down – Following one GCSE dunce struggling : SUCCEEDING

12-down – Predictably a star analyst : ASTROLOGER

15-down – One making rolls : BAKERLOO

16-down – Under pressure,man seen to rewrite such as Saki and Mark Twain : PENNAMES

19-down – Hospital in wartime facilities perhaps that are placed just past the point : TENTHS

20-down – Baby Jesus not getting rocked here? : STABLE

22-down – Garment seen in volume over time in New York : VEST

7-across – So,Tutu’s Q&A challenged how things are : STATUSQUO

8-across – Writing ‘Happy Birthday’ or something else that’s sweet : ICING

10-across – Having disrobed,Bea Arthur lit wee pipe : URETHRA

11-across – Start to consume last of fine Rioja : EATINTO

12-across – Confers great honour upon what foreign actor does : DUBS

13-across – Lie about where the booze is stored: that’ll get the message across : FIBREOPTIC

15-across – Quiche Eaters Society included Amol Rajan etc? : NEWSMEN

16-across – A little diaphanous top,gaping: that’ll do now : STOPGAP

18-across – Protective material later found to be explosive? : BUBBLEWRAP

21-across – <span>Lead character in </span><i>Zorba</i><span>?</span> : ZETA

23-across – ‘Aviatrix’,very cancelled,needing replacement – but what’s she piloting? : AIRTAXI

24-across – <span>Regular characters in </span><i>Jamaican On Ice</i> : CANONIC

25-across – Italian madam said something like ‘sheesh’ : DONNA

26-across – Fluid words to live by,bold in retrospect: ‘Let’s drink!’ : BOTTOMSUP

1-down – Pâtissiers’ moral conduct,as expressed by the Reverend: bravo! : TAKEABOW

2-down – Unkempt,like a US president on two separate occasions? : BUSHY

3-down – Part of the problem: workshop inquorate without rector : EQUATION

4-down – One who’ll have to share is strangely heroic : COHEIR

5-down – Against welcoming riotous rowdy musicians : VIRTUOSOS

6-down – Singer allowed in pub? Quite the reverse : LINNET

7-down – One listening to ideas yawning audibly? : SOUNDINGBOARD

9-down – Grilling technique in which heat regularly turned up? : GOODCOPBADCOP

14-down – Have doubts and cover entirety of ‘Bad’ spa town that’s upwardly mobile : SMELLARAT

16-down – This may put you on edge: small Tex-Mex pancake stuffed with inappropriate meat : STACCATO

17-down – Somewhat naive,like softening Net Zero targets : GREENISH

19-down – I’m surprised to be in large buildings supplying financiers : BARONS

20-down – Welsh struck by Yorkshire seaside town : WHITBY

22-down – One day in Paris,scratching rear that’s pear-shaped : ANJOU

1-across – Hoity-toity boy Indian ignored now and again : LADIDA

4-across – E.g. Gen Z or Millennials in Peru,agog when travelling : AGEGROUP

9-across – Stylish girl wearing coat for ceremony : CLASSY

10-across – Requirement to enter castle tower,submerged to a certain extent : KNEEDEEP

11-across – Hint Stewart Lee adapted Shakespeare play : THEWINTERSTALE

13-across – Voyager,say,to stride sporting special dress : SPACEPROBE

14-across – American doctor’s rounds : AMMO

16-across – Caesar’s fateful day that is in Latin,mostly : IDES

18-across – <span>Perhaps Hazel in </span><i>Watership Down </i><span>has no time for religious Bigwig</span> : CHIEFRABBI

21-across – Crow casually drew in parrot after temperature drops : COCKADOODLEDOO

23-across – Supposed Dynamo crazy,ingesting alcohol and drug : IMAGINED

24-across – A bit of a looker dressed in beret in Arles : RETINA

25-across – Ruby perhaps gets on with me badly : GEMSTONE

26-across – Dark time,we hear,for man on board : KNIGHT

1-down – Some public exposure for bloodsuckers : LICE

2-down – Old Athenian’s money starts to cause havoc in play : DRACHMA

3-down – Rejected terrible downside : DISOWNED

5-down – Spice Girl given money and sweet food : GINGERBREAD

6-down – John Travolta was in this part of Europe,it’s said : GREASE

7-down – Way of bowling six balls,ready for combat : OVERARM

8-down – After vegetable,I refuse to put up with starter of Italian sausage : PEPPERONI

12-down – Maybe Kim,Karen and Ron,hot when dancing : NORTHKOREAN

13-down – English pop singer admits longing for some needlework : STITCHING

15-down – Empty tin filled with cigarette containing cannabis plant from a wood : TREEFERN

17-down – Cry out with energy before wild climax : EXCLAIM

19-down – What anti-monarchist might do,making reservation : BOOKING

20-down – Cruel person is miserable first : SADIST

22-down – Silly bit of publicity around newspaper : DAFT