Daily Answers

7-across – Pastry base for Spooner’s tinned meat : CAKESTAND

8-across – Type of cake that’s a hit : POUND

9-across – Showed cop’s note in pastry case by journalist : DISPLAYED

10-across – Pastry for tea, you say made with cunning, missing topping : TUILE

12-across – Pastry made from shortcrust mix: seconds wasted forgetting time and temperature : CHURRO

13-across – Flaky pastry is displaying lack of density : SPARSITY

14-across – Boatman returns with kilo of rock cake : BAKLAVA

17-across – Second rock cake is liable to produce vomit : SEASICK

20-across – Popular small porker with head removed close say to wings? : INSIGNIA

22-across – Messages ending bygone custom via papyri: small progress? : EMAILS

24-across – Steal quietly forward to get cake : CREPE

25-across – Track and field where his cattle wander : ATHLETICS

26-across – Boatman taken in by very much unknown type of cake : FAIRY

27-across – Six against one, humbled ultimately by head’s clarity : VIVIDNESS

1-down – Somewhat like Judo master’s pastry? : DANISH

2-down – Unboxed item – import sale material : TEMPORAL

3-down – He mapped the source of the Orinoco after raising one of London’s hospitals : STRABO

4-down – Under canvas, reportedly getting saturated? : INTENSE

5-down – They’re forbidden to eat bun’s filling in American cakes : DONUTS

6-down – Questioning limits of action: awful, yet ironic : ANALYTIC

11-down – Chai free to be served regularly here : CAFE

15-down – The ends of a journey and not getting sickness: that’s unusual : ABNORMAL

16-down – Let off steam, in consequence rejecting leader : VENT

18-down – Beginning to confess eating pastry : STARTING

19-down – Good pastry : GASTRIC

21-down – Blended mince pie with rum : IMPURE

22-down – Pastry with problematic calories? Not so! : ECLAIR

23-down – Voracious eater of filo custard slice : LOCUST

1-across – Stop key piercing skin : RESCIND

5-across – One of those on the board in ‘otel on street : STILTON

9-across – Temple say, where church dignitary originally involved in criminal trials : CHILD

10-across – See 17 Down : POLICEMAN

11-across – Where heaps could be made flabby? : OUTOFSHAPE

12-across – See 9 : STAR

14-across – Turn up for yoga class, did you say? Boo and hiss! : ONOMATOPOEIA

18-across – Like some old houses where two little boys live with socialist behind hospital : HALFTIMBERED

21-across – Titaness back on the radio? : RHEA

22-across – Playful crime fools jerks : FROLICSOME

25-across – Those increasing pace of journey narrated story with twists : TAILWINDS

26-across – Defeat finally complete after reversal, lose it : ERUPT

27-across – Country game on river recalled : NIGERIA

28-across – Naked dean back from Japan, say : EASTERN

1-down – Priest runs after page 3, for example : RECTOR

2-down – Hot under the collar, collared and cuffed? : SHIRTY

3-down – Suffering if in need, it’s endless : INDEFINITE

4-down – Huddersfield initially at bottom of division – how far down? : DEPTH

5-down – Explosive ingredient key in spirit, head of course blowing off : SALTPETRE

6-down – Island, 1/63,360 miles : INCH

7-down – Feline and little piggies guzzling a fruit of the vine : TOMATOES

8-down – Relative instructed to cover a baked food : NANBREAD

13-down – Where bishop might have to move quickly, sermons about five hundred seconds : SPEEDCHESS

15-down – Notes in old currency collected by Paul and mum : MEMORANDA

16-down – Dance bands on with the mostly funny old player : CHARLTON

17-down – Hump: cop off in the arms of Morpheus? : SLEEPING

19-down – Amount of space in book : VOLUME

20-down – See 16 : HESTON

23-down – Thread is line in middle of bulletin : LISLE

24-down – Capsizing in warfare, weakened vessel : EWER

9-across – At the heart of things, friend is after money, right? : CENTRALLY

10-across – Held back love, meeting heartless female relative : ONICE

11-across – Talked about an American city : SPOKANE

12-across – Barman maybe offering sample outside front of pub : TAPSTER

13-across – Little growth? Time to get hairpiece : TWIG

14-across – Show contempt for horrible spiders etc. : DISRESPECT

16-across – Asian folk label a diary : TAGALOG

17-across – River board offering description of water? : POTABLE

19-across – A fine female with competence and friendly disposition : AFFABILITY

22-across – Girl endlessly radiant after somersault : OLGA

24-across – Little birds with minimal energy given tags : EAGLETS

25-across – Engineers attending a rip behind : REAREND

26-across – Frost’s heard what Frost wrote : RHYME

27-across – Secret things drunkard hides in English heather : ESOTERICA

1-down – Solid figures that could be tidier with a corset – ah! : ICOSITETRAHEDRA

2-down – Providing with gift, due after death : ENDOWING

3-down – Kitchen item in funny dream grabbed by its user? : BREAD

4-down – Transient affair involving headless runners? : FLEETING

5-down – Food eaten by boys, terrible : OYSTER

6-down – Expression of surprise about politician coming to place to see concrete? : COMPOSITE

7-down – Visitor to market, one on foot : BIGTOE

8-down – Endless alarm – why adherent suffers, making progress with difficulty : LEARNTHEHARDWAY

15-down – Beaten journalist weighed down by personal baggage : CLOBBERED

17-down – Name of massacre, with safe gents maybe hiding below : PETERLOO

18-down – Report of missile going over home : BULLETIN

20-down – Oldies in state of uncertainty? Yes, possibly : FOGEYS

21-down – Over to one side, on a roll : LISTED

23-down – See 3 : MAKER

1-across – Truck even has somewhere to sleep : FLATBED

5-across – Sinks on the wagon left covered with spots : SETTLES

9-across – Associations making line printing essentials : LINKS

10-across – Record-breaking athlete is a handy help on a flight, you say? : BANNISTER

11-across – Audience’s left with unusually great sight : STAGERIGHT

12-across – State News author : MANN

14-across – Initial boost galvanized reformer : ABOLITIONIST

18-across – Outsize builder’s ledge round room for electronic instrument : OSCILLOSCOPE

21-across – ‘Heroin kept inside’ heard from pen inmate? : OINK

22-across – It entitles board member to meet with mobster : KNIGHTHOOD

25-across – Fantastic hit with castle running a part of this : ATHLETICS

26-across – Recoiling at street drug sample : TASTE

27-across – ‘You have to watch this young wine’ notice : MUSTSEE

28-across – Reportedly, one’s smacked as a House supporter : YORKIST

1-down – Return of live Sky broadcast is quaintly traditional : FOLKSY

2-down – Frank possibly has Capone’s temper : ANNEAL

3-down – Warm yourself before ballet movement, sport! : BASKETBALL

4-down – Call at first-rate city : DUBAI

5-down – Manufactured chest with tiny adjustment : SYNTHETIC

6-down – Sleeper separators consisting of wrought iron caps in hollow train bases : TWIN

7-down – Womanizer has short length, wavy hair, too : LOTHARIO

8-down – Gents: HRT is fantastic for potency! : STRENGTH

13-down – Company making top favourite cocktail ingredient alternative for rival : COMPETITOR

15-down – French way of cooking easily with no nuts acquires name : LYONNAISE

16-down – Funny man needs a hand creating tropical island feature : COCOPALM

17-down – Plant making American tin in that way : ACANTHUS

19-down – Not for those who would mighty oaks from acorns grow? : BONSAI

20-down – Arrival one day before opening : ADVENT

23-down – After a good time, extremely sweaty and flatulent : GASSY

24-down – See 6 : BEDS

1-across – They join old singer when playing clubs : SOLDERINGIRONS

8-across – Cut green tree – it might be used for a hedge? : ECASH

9-across – Complex issue in question: board meeting with anger : QUAGMIRE

11-across – They line the arteries in time: fat essentially providing blockage : INTIMAE

12-across – Flatten out gold on layer with metal : PLATEAU

13-across – Women drunk beer: he worked on bars : WEBER

15-across – Early spin in cricket match: play shot with force : TESTDRIVE

17-across – Playing advantage to break John McEnroe – glad, ultimately at a loss for American : NONPLUSED

20-across – Traps placed outside small dens : NESTS

21-across – Partners in tight corsets : ESCORTS

23-across – Fighter is harmful when ignoring the odds: right then left from boxer : SAMURAI

25-across – I stir middle of cup vigorously drinking morning coffee in this? : TIRAMISU

26-across – One after wheels? Parking to sit in old Ford : CAPRI

27-across – Starter of gazpacho with a mostly tough mushroom: it might stop you getting more food : GASTRICBALLOON

1-down – As singer noted reviews when touring : STEVIEWONDER

2-down – Like to cut rent for poorest : LEAST

3-down – Brief here? Lap dancing to entertain this writer : EPHEMERAL

4-down – Judicial review is through: way to receive pardon for Spaniard : INQUEST

5-down – All guys round pinball machine, initially excited: American one with flipper : GRAMPUS

6-down – Rhythmic music from drum and bass put together : RUMBA

7-down – New focus for court’s set in order — they might take the kids? : NURSERIES

10-down – Great teaching out of university – son admitted avoiding 13? : SUPERSTITION

14-down – Single friend after bachelor: could be a dishy thing? : BONECHINA

16-down – Cad mainly going out full of energy : DYNAMICAL

18-down – Is mash cooked with one Japanese dish : SASHIMI

19-down – Upset detective bust criminal without resistance : DISTURB

22-down – Slam in the lamb, perhaps : ROAST

24-down – Referring to master copy : REPRO