Daily Answers

1-across – Passed Peregrine a black suit : SPADES

4-across – Male star’s new suit : HEARTS

9-across – Gratuity is about right for an excursion : TRIP

10-across – In one state police rejected evidence : INDICATION

11-across – Venture round sick quarters : BILLET

12-across – August, the end of June and April I’m travelling : IMPERIAL

13-across – People agree I improved the beastly place! : MENAGERIE

15-across – Not a lot to eat? Exist without it! : BITE

16-across – Ask doctor when cold in bed : SACK

17-across – Unusually stern Goths dropping round with gifts : STRENGTHS

21-across – Man in charge of a church : BASILICA

22-across – Top worker comes back in for a doze : CATNAP

24-across – Fifty one-cent promissory notes, filthy : LICENTIOUS

25-across – Some take Epsom salts to celebrate! : KEEP

26-across – Crazy person, yet one using his head in a fight? : NUTTER

27-across – He’s handsome, but has bad back after a party : ADONIS

1-down – Benefit office where pumps may be used : SERVICE

2-down – Shock with pointless petition : APPAL

3-down – Letter from student in top European skiing area : EPISTLE

5-down – Flight departure : ESCAPE

6-down – About to go home by midnight – is coming back : RETURNING

7-down – Rate other gases differently, but they keep you warm : STORAGE

8-down – Dresses said disloyal person after commercial manager : ADMINISTRATOR

14-down – Author Archibald takes famous model to court : ARCHITECT

16-down – See 1 : STATION

18-down – Cut and drilled without a ruler : EXCISED

19-down – See 7 : HEATERS

20-down – Small library opens with new title : LITTLE

23-down – Certainly in time to obtain souvenir : TOKEN

1-across – Stop paper using old army signalling equipment : FIELDTELEGRAPH

9-across – By arrangement meant some to enter flat : APARTMENT

10-across – Sun turns it into a good conductor : SOLTI

11-across – Robin’s song with modern tune? : ADAIR

12-across – The French marine not out 0 against the Russian poet : LERMONTOV

13-across – Article about ancient city by head teacher : THEBEAST

14-across – Raincoat with its inside messed up with putty : MASTIC

17-across – Condition found in forest at eventide : ESTATE

19-across – Top child turn has fitting round back : TEETOTUM

22-across – Eastern tea mixture helps one to find one’s bearings : ORIENTATE

24-across – Behold the animal’s swallowing back tooth! : MOLAR

25-across – Encountered backward training test : TEMPT

26-across – Forger makes this minor change : IRONSMITH

27-across – Listens to Lear rambling outside after order for final run through : DRESSREHEARSAL

1-down – Get really cross at barber’s carelessness! : FOAMATTHEMOUTH

2-down – Arise from name brought up at first encounter : EMANATE

3-down – Aid to cleanliness to put a chap off? : DETERGENT

4-down – Observe with gravity girl through telescope, perhaps : EYEGLASS

5-down – Gain by violence from old wrong : EXTORT

6-down – Motown singer to love Italian red : ROSSO

7-down – Wan child in loose overcoat : PALETOT

8-down – Utter immorality spoils man as high flier : AIRVICEMARSHAL

15-down – Plant meets disaster in song : ARTEMESIA

16-down – Great beast seen by the two people round eastern border : BEHEMOTH

18-down – Political opportunist has apparently lost weight : TRIMMER

20-down – Agrees with point composer accepts : TALLIES

21-down – Weapon standard rising? That’s right! : RAPIER

23-down – Remarks of a financial nature, perhaps : NOTES

8-across – Backsliding, rumoured to hold Scripture in scorn : DERISION

9-across – Solver’s penetrated the Spanish alcohol base : ETHYL

10-across – No point, darling : LOVE

11-across – Big break for Roman Stoic : ASTRONOMIC

12-across – Concluding remark in central body : CORPSE

14-across – Excessive force putting band round racket : GRINDING

15-across – Is 10 dead, being cut off? : ISOLATE

17-across – Graduate to pierce scales : BALANCE

20-across – Silver and jade, like Yeatsian midnight : AGLIMMER

22-across – Endlessly lusting for something rude : INSULT

23-across – Having control over prose, hid it away : EDITORSHIP

24-across – Point to boring routine – Return To Go : TURN

25-across – 2 24 across’s 6 to 8, Our 10s into 12s or ____ : WIVES

26-across – Nation eating national food : RACLETTE

1-down – Silly moo in 10 proves spiteful : VENOMOUS

2-down – Spell occasion : TIME

3-down – Outlaw dish containing vermin : PIRATE

4-down – One keeping male in view : ONSTAGE

5-down – Cooking oil means food : SEMOLINA

6-down – Hold steady for an allegedly good 2 : THEOLDDAYS

7-down – Britain sets charge on holy vestment : ALBION

13-down – Soothing parent in person about to follow up : PALLIATIVE

16-down – French husband going into labour produces plant : TAMARISK

18-down – Pace of heartless star : CELERITY

19-down – Man brought in to carry out shooting : ARCHERY

21-down – Mosaic injunction to Eastern warehouse? : GODOWN

22-down – Blow to make brat behave : IMPACT

24-down – Dainty little junction ahead : TWEE

7-across – Given protection, being cautious : GUARDED

8-across – Individually observed description of Polyphemus : ONEEYED

10-across – Ecclesiastical vestments may hide them : CALVES

11-across – Angry about sails that get wet : IRRIGATE

12-across – Where cricketers practice catches : NETS

13-across – Describing a school at play? : SCANDALOUS

14-across – Assemble for a meeting : GETTOGETHER

19-across – In which the reserves run out : SECONDTEAM

22-across – Island needing second rescue vessel : SARK

23-across – It”s very hard, yet maths revision is essential : AMETHYST

24-across – Having all-round defence in depth? : MOATED

25-across – Fashion city : BRISTOL

26-across – Visibly unaffected by sorrow : DRYEYED

1-down – Ice-covered railway station in the south of France : SUGARED

2-down – Ground rent at high level? : CREVASSE

3-down – It checks the growth of population : CENSUS

4-down – Unusual doctrine of deferred payment : ONCREDIT

5-down – Sort of Indian bangle of odd design : BENGAL

6-down – Omitted to describe the right-hander’s boxing stance? : LEFTOUT

9-down – Give treat in providing salad dressing : VINAIGRETTE

15-down – 1950s’ delinquent to bear a son : TEDDYBOY

16-down – Turn and sneer when trapped : ENSNARED

17-down – Study currency of the country : DENMARK

18-down – Given command : ORDERED

20-down – Angle of density : OBTUSE

21-down – One won”t remember losing it : MEMORY

1-across – I am having fish with the Queen for supper : IMBIBER

5-across – Question making small couch in pine : DISPUTE

9-across – Reward Penny with food : PRICE

10-across – Experimentee keeps book for loyal kinsman : TRIBALIST

11-across – 5 across 9 for our 12 : WORDSWORTH

12-across – 28 11 e.g. keeps key in jar : POET

14-across – Ticket to enter loft of 28 11’s 24 in 17 : DOVECOTTAGE

18-across – Drug pusher unwanted at Appleby Fair – or not? : HORSEDEALER

21-across – Money missing from hidden fund? It’s right under one”s nose! : TASH

22-across – Garment left in Ascot’s new development : SPORTSCOAT

25-across – Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile : CHELONIAN

26-across – It’s of concern when living matter loses temperature : ISSUE

27-across – Statesman gives off a piece of his mind here : PRESENT

28-across – He makes a choice at the earliest hour : WILLIAM

1-down – Pledge rascal a heartless victory : IMPAWN

2-down – Dog rose died : BRIARD

3-down – Bishop exceptionally desperate, being up to his armpits : BREASTDEEP

4-down – Separationist has covert relationship : RATIO

5-down – I mostly remain in agreement in believing in God : DEISTICAL

6-down – Bob ate fish : SHAD

7-down – In tune with society in league with a sovereign : UNISONAL

8-down – Let Ted in new development. That’s allowed : ENTITLED

13-down – Bloomer haunts 28, they say : STORKSBILL

15-down – Contend with cricketer”s stance : VIEWPOINT

16-down – Wave”s speed rising under westerly blow : WHITECAP

17-down – Nameless older relatives common in 14’s location : GRASMERE

19-down – Oban is fashionable for minimalist art : BONSAI

20-down – Burn gas when touring Romania : STREAM

23-down – Continue when the Queen is overthrown and loses her head : RENEW

24-down – Ex-Prime Minister’s seat : HOME