Daily Answers

8-across – Half-hearted gospel minister’s back on with a mass : LUKEWARM

9-across – Swedish band regret turning record over the wrong way : EUROPE

10-across – Get in boat at sea : OBTAIN

11-across – Nightwear’s tight – good to go naked : INTHERAW

12-across – Live with Saint George? : BEST

13-across – Management helping to hold sledge back : REGULATION

15-across – Shocking treatment on board ship after discovering tiny woodworm, say : INSECTS

16-across – Film Lyle’s partner after hole in one : ACETATE

18-across – His other Malbec keeps at constant temperature : ISOTHERMAL

19-across – First Lady meeting resistance at all times : EVER

20-across – Hardy girl just starting to embody essence of Geordie Shore : BUTTRESS

22-across – Tom Petty originally heard round tent : TEEPEE

23-across – For starters, Ratty and Mole regularly seeing Mr Toad drive aggressively : RAMROD

24-across – Thrilling to pick most of cereal crop : ELECTRIC

1-down – Finishing off champagne with steak – making foremost amongst them question dish? : BUBBLEANDSQUEAK

2-down – Perhaps Harvey Nicks delivery expected – primarily with unopened flat pack : DEPARTMENTSTORE

3-down – Cleaning outfit – square’s removing clothes covered in coffee : LAUNDRETTE

4-down – Touch on soap’s conclusion being inspired by Dynasty – that is entertaining : IMPINGE

5-down – Clever person that set this up on time : DEFT

6-down – Seeing threat demo posed – choppers maybe prepared for combat? : ARMEDTOTHETEETH

7-down – Welcome subject of discussion – ask if vote helped out : SPEAKOFTHEDEVIL

14-down – Spots pub is hosting match : LOCALITIES

17-down – Drunk son, crazy about the girl : SMASHED

21-down – Current terms of the Grand Unified Theory : EDDY

1-across – Showing directors holding drinking vessel a place for drying out : AIRINGCUPBOARD

8-across – A famous Christian’s cycling broadcast : RADIO

9-across – European bores knock pretentious American protestors : TEAPARTY

11-across – Horny beast hurried over with young King Henry : NARWHAL

12-across – Expose fraudster, we hear, one in extreme position : OUTLIER

13-across – Kind of deck with sailor not leaving navy : TAROT

15-across – Belief Manx cat lives with Ralph Fiennes, currently : PANTHEISM

17-across – Cast’s working with 9 non-stop : INCESSANT

20-across – Part of air from soprano, grandly making comeback : ARGON

21-across – Marx’s work inspiring leader of revolution that’s uncomfortable : GROUCHO

23-across – Putting on thick coat, there’s nothing Picaroon’s too old for? : IMPASTO

25-across – The absolute best, like the House of Lords in recess : PEERLESS

26-across – Gaulish warrior wanting ten daggers : OBELI

27-across – Get no hearing in criminal case of awful offender, alas : FALLONDEAFEARS

1-down – Parting with son’s awkward, without right maternal bonds? : APRONSTRINGS

2-down – Traveller in greater need of water has head dropping : RIDER

3-down – Mobile phone’s cases yet to change for starters : NEOPHYTES

4-down – Thus Tom gets in tizzy, after answer given in court : CATFLAP

5-down – Idealist running military group : PLATOON

6-down – Choose to pen article on start of Rachel Riley’s work, say : OPART

7-down – Flogging Parisian and complaining about it : RETAILING

10-down – Heads of publicity back from fashion party : PROMONTORIES

14-down – How to get a rope for Tommy? : ROCKOPERA

16-down – Resistant to cooking hotpot, mostly, and fare that’s stewed : HEATPROOF

18-down – Concerned with peak I must climb defended by a savage : APOGEAN

19-down – Miserable across the Channel, drinking English port : TRIESTE

22-down – Firm hands maintaining a pale colour : CORAL

24-down – I suggest that we put up American monument : STELA

1-across – Eye-rhyme for Christmas favourite : MINCEPIE

6-across – Dear poet, let us hear a song at sunrise : AUBADE

9-across – Having trouble seeing the old photo of me : MYOPIC

10-across – Little monkey’s limb held by medic to repair break : MARMOSET

11-across – Keep on flying to fantasy island : NEVERLAND

13-across – I had taken first place and relaxed : IDLED

15-across – Why use Tinder, thus far? : TODATE

17-across – Russian once partly also Vietnamese : SOVIET

18-across – Suddenly attack someone physically attractive : TURNON

19-across – City’s grand boulevard makes a turn, not hairpin : GENEVA

21-across – Gently stroke child dressing : PATCH

22-across – Policy group’s tip for fitting out aquarium? : THINKTANK

25-across – Brings the higher floors to the standard of the others : LEVELSUP

26-across – Want day at ground : DEARTH

28-across – Breaking plates for bread, say : STAPLE

29-across – Plain guy struggles building a store : LAYINGUP

2-down – A clinging girl? : IVY

3-down – Manage to surround small thicket : COPSE

4-down – Aunt is involved with police for pilfering : PECULATION

5-down – Fur regularly dear, a source of wealth : ERMINE

6-down – Area of land a gang reduced : ACRE

7-down – Strong attack by general on team : BROADSIDE

8-down – Residential development getting public transport : DIESELTRAIN

12-down – One encouraging others to take your property : ESTATEAGENT

14-down – Adored hymn translated as ‘Back before the storm’ : HOMEANDDRY

16-down – Scandal vile, and not worth much : DIRTCHEAP

20-down – Bloke attends extremely evangelical place of worship : CHAPEL

23-down – Mark as adult visiting his very closest relative : TWAIN

24-down – An inch? I’ll say! : ISLE

27-down – Foreign character sitting in restaurant : TAU

9-across – Figure holding publication on prayer – usually about that : ONAVERAGE

10-across – Show teeth, perhaps, first one extracted in a figure of speech : SMILE

11-across – Body cut, third of league qualify : ENTITLE

12-across – 25 stem : STAUNCH

13-across – Animal, 19 with 22 down? : OTTER

14-across – Some words, on leaving model, hit hard : PARAGRAPH

16-across – Wicked spinner with Kent is still upset by cut : RUMPELSTILTSKIN

19-across – 10 from our gigolo only beginning to do this? : SAYCHEESE

21-across – Nag, 19 with 4? : FILLY

22-across – Saint imprisoned by king, say, one taking stock : RUSTLER

23-across – Birthplace of assassinated King, republic : GEORGIA

24-across – Polish collection : CLASS

25-across – True – ’s very quick, by the sound of it? : STEADFAST

1-down – Reportedly, a gallon where cars stop for petrol? : FORECOURTS

2-down – Particular corporation after old odd-jobber : FACTOTUM

3-down – 19 for restraint : FETTER

4-down – Tesla, say, on electronic charge : CARE

5-down – Tough one overcoming evil, fragile thing? : TEASERVICE

6-down – Key dialect for slow mover : ESCARGOT

7-down – Mathematician touring Hanoi finally, a capital city : VIENNA

8-down – Certainly 19 with 23 down? : YEAH

14-down – Disinfect food with a tissue, pre-cooked : PASTEURISE

15-down – Very old house nearby, squalid : HANDYNASTY

17-down – Gaps in fences regularly seen without reflection? : ECHOLESS

18-down – Metric unit I record in score that’s backed up : KILOGRAM

20-down – Unknown tag lifted, holding lead on springer spaniel : YESMAN

21-down – Inlets where jay enters shallow waters : FJORDS

22-down – Wrench in heap? : RICK

23-down – Rose coming up in flower garden : GREW

1-across – Fall of assassin that’s central to Ides : CASCADE

5-across – Casper travels a long way : PARSEC

9-across – Dance nut beginning to dance a dance without an introduction : FANDANGO

10-across – ‘You’re awful! You’re terrible! Stupid mistake!’ : BOOBOO

12-across – A singing brother by hotel, drowning in expenses in fancy area : BEVERLYHILLS

15-across – Revolutionary diarist with peak wine : CHENINBLANC

17-across – Besmirch quisling in retreat : TAR

18-across – Barrie heroine stripped off, showing rear : END

19-across – Marie’s singing brother Mel in wild brawls : DONNYBROOKS

20-across – Rap sheet torn apart with glee in terse language : TELEGRAPHESE

24-across – Pick up one teacher : SENSEI

25-across – Later, he’s active close to outskirts of Whitehall : NIGHTOWL

26-across – Tip reduced by 1/3? Crikey! : SHEESH

27-across – Great position, any way you look at it : TOPSPOT

1-down – Hit hard and take into custody : CUFF

2-down – Founder of NSYNC vocalised after Justin finally left : SINK

3-down – Around start of G7, America seceded? Nonsense, B.S. and more : ACADEMICDEGREES

4-down – Animal on which Darwin rode, starting out : EAGLE

6-down – Insane psychopath arose where chemist’s seen : APOTHECARYSSHOP

7-down – Stinking initials B.O. elicit sound of disapproval : SIBILATION

8-down – A ‘queen’ may do this with snappy ornamentation : CROSSDRESS

11-down – Unclear that king covered in Times : BLEARY

13-down – Yank, engrossed by clue for bloodhound, sits nervously for investigators : SCIENTISTS

14-down – Freed in error, Pierce is a spewer of venom : FERDELANCE

16-down – Prohibition on headgear for fowl : BANTAM

21-down – Theft of cuckoo shite : HEIST

22-down – Bear’s shown up in circus apparatus : HOOP

23-down – Stick together with fool : CLOT