Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Concerning discrimination that may be experienced following a meal : AFTERTASTE

6-across – Best to have tricky situation reversed : TOPS

9-across – Tearing apart camel bone : METACARPAL

10-across – Norman city’s best loved? Not entirely : STLO

11-across – Test consists of loud conflict, outcome of a duel : SATISFACTION

15-across – Joanna’s decent? : UPRIGHT

16-across – Fruit pie – the last – it’s his : COBBLER

17-across – One who hesitates verbally, missing intro; she takes a nosedive : TUMBLER

19-across – Stuffy, with no issues, you say? : AIRLESS

20-across – In Venice, orator rambling: it’s too much : OVERREACTION

23-across – Innovative virtuoso eschewing simplicity, primarily? : IVES

24-across – Asians’ river basin turbulent including old delta : CAMBODIANS

25-across – Cut into German tree : GASH

26-across – Miss redeye, rerouted to area by Irish Sea : MERSEYSIDE

1-down – It gets loaded in the morning moment : AMMO

2-down – In Paris, you twice assembled a short skirt : TUTU

3-down – Sounding drunk, Ms Merkel’s not quite square? : RECTANGULAR

4-down – ‘Sentient’ tech runs alternative to stairs that’s used in an emergency : AIRLIFT

5-down – Buying and selling ingredients for jam? : TRAFFIC

7-down – Cricketer’s futile redo botched … : OUTFIELDER

8-down – … as polar bear is to dismiss a couple of batsmen? : SPOONERISM

12-down – In which money : CYBERMONDAY

13-down – Having a lot to offer? : AUCTIONING

14-down – Swans: they have some brass : TRUMPETERS

18-down – All are reeling before end of stale beer : REALALE

19-down – Taking some chianti, besotted, somewhere on the Riviera : ANTIBES

21-down – Everyman’s after a hostelry in Italian port : BARI

22-down – Lives with the French; no one can walk away from here : ISLE

1-across – Some artists use these small boat homes : SKETCHPADS

6-across – Somewhat eastwards, on and off : ATAD

9-across – Far-off beasts found in a Paris slum, upsetting : MARSUPIALS

10-across – Flower from flipping digital assistant : IRIS

11-across – Force entertaining government to become re-elected : STAYINGPOWER

15-across – Spotted something that includes good tenor performer : DOMINGO

16-across – Flimsy song, a metaphor for nothing : THINAIR

17-across – One’s starting out as initially low wage recipient : LEARNER

18-across – Endlessly marketed daft insurance mascot? : MEERKAT

19-across – Oh, even Luther converted in final moments : ELEVENTHHOUR

23-across – Ill-natured help catching cold : ACID

24-across – Fail to prepare to fire cartridge with no bullet : DRAWABLANK

25-across – Not quietly, removes skin from fish : EELS

26-across – Wildly eviscerate group holding gunpowder? : TEASERVICE

1-down – Home match : SEMI

2-down – Nobleman seen in rear light : EARL

3-down – Brook’s features : COUNTENANCE

4-down – Informed of second loo, did you say? : PRIVYTO

5-down – Initially didactic young lyricist : DYLAN

7-down – Those two torture devices – for Spooner – they belong to bygone times : THROWBACKS

8-down – Soldiers run away: traitors! : DESERTRATS

12-down – 20 isn’t one – but here it is! : PRIMENUMBER

13-down – After period of maturity, fruit and cheese finally rot : ADULTERATE

14-down – Everyman’s jokes? Of no significance : IMMATERIAL

18-down – Second aggressive fellow’s punky hairdos : MOHAWKS

20-down – Ether, quaint number : THREE

21-down – Globalism overwhelming island : BALI

22-down – Island where you once sat next to small king : SKYE

1-across – Charts showing me origins of shipping forecast areas: peril at sea : RELIEFMAPS

6-across – Ceremony, ponderous pronouncement crashes pips regularly : POMP

9-across – Bloody bell sounded by Spooner lookalike : DEADRINGER

10-across – Fish eaten by Martha Kearney : HAKE

12-across – See 20d : IHAVENTACLUE

16-across – Marian welcomes Tara’s tip, one that’s out of this world : MARTIAN

17-across – Bohemian radio’s dead air : DROPOUT

18-across – Intros to Loose Ends interrupting journalists: they rise in irritation : HACKLES

20-across – Fashionable panellist on the radio, one putting you in stitches? : INJURER

21-across – Mysteries arisen: bears with start of Things Fell Apart? : BRAINTEASERS

24-across – Award describing second letter from Soul Music producer : OBOE

25-across – Powerful man alongside Nick Robinson at the start and end, dancing about? : CHARLESTON

27-across – Check third character in Just One Thing’s heading off : STEM

28-across – Artist had yarn with owl, taking part in Ramblings : ANDYWARHOL

1-down – For starters, Roger Allam didn’t attend … ____! : RADA

2-down – Start with the French on In Our Time : LEAD

3-down – One drawn in by last two pieces in The Skewer, getting attention : EAR

4-down – Vehicle’s comics; genial Evans at centre : MINIVAN

5-down – Before concluding parts of episode, Reardon : PREENED

7-down – Crawling about salon with flour : ONALLFOURS

8-down – Hosts, quietly bitter ones : PRESENTERS

11-down – Mum, child rattle container : MASONJAR

13-down – Herc’s head, aviation firm that’s slim : HAIRLINE

14-down – A politician greeting Webb finally promises – on the waves – to become grounded? : AMPHIBIOUS

15-down – Caught by Jake Yapp’s second character: rock out and amuse : CRACKAJOKE

19-down – Fry rank chicken? : STEPHEN

20-down – Show what hapless crossword setter admitted : IMSORRY

22-down – Initially, Everyman’s trusting Claudia Hammond to make impression : ETCH

23-down – Brian Aldridge, somewhat obsessive : ANAL

26-down – Woman’s Hour, yes, covered one who laughs : ENA