Daily Answers

8-across – Hit it off with American poet and Irish mathematician : HAMILTON

9-across – The end of time, a brief moment recalled : OMEGA

10-across – Initially acceptable, telling inappropriate jokes finally grows old : AGES

11-across – Locals digest a bishop’s stories : NARRATIVES

12-across – Marks, Jos and Russells? : BRANDS

14-across – PM once lost face with 9th pregnancy and little ones here? : HATCHERY

16-across – Recipe for making unique lunch with asparagus tips : FORMULA

18-across – Meadow’s fine mature greenery : LEAFAGE

21-across – Cyclist’s lady exchanging ring for stiletto? : WHEELMAN

23-across – Trade item again, instrument not about to be put in tin : SELLON

24-across – Bill confused with A-minus being hidden : SUBLIMINAL

26-across – Chase knight into building : HUNT

27-across – Knocks doors electioneering – Nigel trails, Starmer leads : DENTS

28-across – Coincides with cryptic solver tackling advanced puzzle to begin with : OVERLAPS

1-down – Australian with organ failure stops climbing tree : KANGAROO

2-down – Spit out fruit 3 : PITS

3-down – During the weekend, tense individual rocks : STONES

4-down – Following acting in New York, Sly brings chaos : ANARCHY

5-down – In Boston, pop old penny into it : SODA

6-down – 500 + : DELIGHTFUL

7-down – Progress through life in a rush : CAREER

13-down – Capital supports miners close to strike 1, 2, 3 and more : NUMBERLINE

15-down – Bond releasing his boss from period in jail : TIE

17-down – Upset gentleman dropping tablet for hit : LAM

19-down – Adults in gangs steal women’s clothing : GROWNUPS

20-down – Evenly tanned pair of legs outside without end : ONANDON

22-down – Chases 1,000s, blowing top as criminal escapes : HOUNDS

23-down – Lithium twisted inside small piece of metal : SILVER

25-down – Three seconds’ growth : MOSS

26-down – Rise and relax, free of cold : HILL

9-across – Infantryman’s obscure rereading : GRENADIER

10-across – Railwayman’s uniform covered by pullover : GUARD

11-across – Finished, complete with nothing missing : THROUGH

12-across – They regard six of the Roman jugs : VIEWERS

13-across – Woman returning from Tenerife : IRENE

14-across – Furling eg rope I inserted into special coupling : COILINGUP

16-across – Ample magic spray squirted in major sporting event : PARALYMPICGAMES

19-across – Repelling goat making another attack? : REBUTTING

21-across – Star is circling in empty space : SINUS

22-across – God returned, it’s said, to America : BACCHUS

23-across – I’m undecided, with a very hesitant couple of expressions : WAVERER

24-across – Virginia for one in a flustered condition : STATE

25-across – How sniper disputed possession : OWNERSHIP

1-down – One very self-important English tourist about to travel : EGOTRIPPER

2-down – Two tries: I liked that : HEARHEAR

3-down – Sweet to swaddle an old king who didn’t rule the waves? : CANUTE

4-down – Important greeting reaching ears : HIGH

5-down – After pressure, priest beginning to succumb, but getting her own way : PREVAILING

6-down – Accepting some words of welcome, short of time : AGREEING

7-down – Uneatable breakfast daughter say slid into bin-liner : BADEGG

8-down – Commonly keeps out of sight for a day in Rome : IDES

14-down – Agent’s fee that is held by officer : COMMISSION

15-down – Entrust text of play to the mail: there’s a bit to follow : POSTSCRIPT

17-down – May it produce a child’s admission? : LATCHKEY

18-down – Harmony badly disrupted by conservative in our government : MONARCHY

20-down – Writer of adventures has a bunch translated : BUCHAN

21-down – Before noon cut flower : SEVERN

22-down – Engaged coach at terminus of railway : BUSY

23-down – Current problem for baby? : WIND

7-across – Relate where Italian author inspired by Hamlet? : RECOUNT

8-across – Messy home embraced by pig, in a way : SOMEHOW

9-across – Pig in competition to cross terrain? : LAND

10-across – Drink, plonk with fish guzzled by pig : SPARKLING

12-across – Fully matured beef, we hear? : GROWN

13-across – Training one side, I take charge? : DEIONISE

15-across – Laid-back pig makes plans : MAPS

16-across – Ring-leader almost throttling head of Mafia : CHIME

17-across – Beef sandwiches right for winger : CROW

18-across – A painful delivery? : LEGBREAK

20-across – Hollow heart in darkish sci-fi warrior : DALEK

21-across – Heart flutters, and grass skirts worn : WEATHERED

22-across – Average corps unavailable? : NORM

24-across – Where pig rider seen heading for ditch, committed : ONBOARD

25-across – Give performance originally in lacy pants : PLIANCY

1-down – Guess a second letter : BETA

2-down – Rasher drivers? : ROADHOGS

3-down – Concert, issue of educational institution? : UNISON

4-down – Husband kids lean on tragically swallowed by pig, completely : HOOKLINE

5-down – See fit boxing champions ultimately drawing : DESIGN

6-down – Sound of bell or drum curtailed : BONG

11-down – See 4 : ANDSINKER

12-down – Jar opening, finger finally poked in : GRATE

14-down – Small pig eating hybrid? : SPORK

16-down – County where treasury cut rent : CHESHIRE

17-down – 9 23 being slaughtered, its days are numbered : CALENDAR

19-down – Lighter pig fed last of cabbage : BEACON

20-down – Fleece carried out, then ring stolen from charity : DIDDLE

21-down – See 10 Across : WINE

23-down – See 9 Across : RACE

6-across – Sport, an energy-filled fight : WEAR

7-across – Jam pot’s first in hamper : CRAMP

8-across – Half a ball missing in match : TEST

9-across – Postwar children pack large underclothes : BLOOMERS

10-across – Festival you will shortly open getting closer : EYELID

11-across – I’m surprised, eating cereal, it sticks to the chin : GOATEE

13-across – I censor a depraved plot summary : SCENARIO

14-across – Lecturer gives this pain, to secure first in Italian : REPRIMAND

18-across – For Linnaeus, say, maggot active isn’t bad : BOTANIST

19-across – Learnt about income from property : RENTAL

20-across – Book Month: nothing surpasses a good book : OCTAVO

21-across – New love in the far north for a number? : NARCOTIC

23-across – Turning stomachs, dirty talk : SMUT

24-across – Young swimmer constantly circling lake : ELVER

25-across – Answer by half the people, or all of them : AMEN

1-down – One composer and another shortly visiting down under : BERLIOZ

2-down – In life, king’s vigour : BRIO

3-down – Not happy about one having to mount platform : DAIS

4-down – Mayfly makes border in record time : EPHEMERA

5-down – A short whisky say at noon that dulls the pain : ASPIRIN

7-down – Taking afternoon off, make for island : CRETE

8-down – Time to cut down forest for first book in series : THEWARDEN

12-down – Scold shedding a tear over Trump’s policy, something biblical : TERMAGANT

13-down – Shorebird from the pole : STILT

15-down – Attempted murderer maybe has a bit of respect for one old lag : PRISONER

16-down – Vain man from Apple for one with tidy hair : COXCOMB

17-down – Scientist forced to lie long ago: no good coming out of that : GALILEO

19-down – For Aristotle and Euclid to appear from the start among elements of basic education is not so normal : RARER

21-down – Its journey being through Russian city, one van avoiding periphery : NEVA

22-down – Why Norwegian king can’t relieve himself? : OLAV

1-across – Idiot husband attracted to old goddess sealing fate : CLOTHO

4-across – A theologian with hesitation about death, as shown in final notes? : ADDENDUM

9-across – Wreath made specially with a name on the front : ANADEM

10-across – Crustacean, a sort confused with fish : OSTRACOD

11-across – Mad Parisian, top bod acquiring condemnation : DISAPPROBATION

13-across – Opposing team with angry thought? : CONSIDERED

14-across – A bit of tin blocking public entrance : CENT

16-across – Power shown by lustful man in small vehicle : PRAM

18-across – Case when number one inhabitant amasses millions : NOMINATIVE

21-across – Panic? It’s over – go out to get something to eat : VICTORIASPONGE

23-across – Rector, I start with hymn, somehow showing verbal skill : RHETORIC

24-across – Newest info from the French game : LATEST

25-across – To be gripping not everyone, one put in power : ENTHRONE

26-across – Energy’s associated with enzyme : PEPSIN

1-down – Nipper gets caught – something illegally broken? : CLAW

2-down – Speech offering worship putting a daughter off : ORATION

3-down – Priest’s greeting wayward, not right : HIERATIC

5-down – Finds very big lake’s behind dance venue : DISCOVERIES

6-down – Lord, the old man turning up in a flap : EARLAP

7-down – Say no to commercial product after end of Christmas month : DECLINE

8-down – Saleswoman in eating area by motorway : MIDINETTE

12-down – Put outside theatre or inside? : PREPOSITION

13-down – Island nation in which peak always starts to delight everyone : CAPEVERDE

15-down – Bad act of wise man, imprisoning head monk heartlessly? : SABOTAGE

17-down – A new coin seen here? One held to be very old : ANCIENT

19-down – One who painted over second entrance : INGRESS

20-down – See inside enclosed area cut green? : COLOUR

22-down – Shock report finally appearing in tabloid : STUN