Daily Answers

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

1-across – LA Times first with leader on silly municipal regulations : BYLAWS

4-across – Father Ted’s Jewish counterpart went on? : RABBITED

9-across – This restaurant’ll advertise tasty tapenades, olives, ricotta – Italian antipasti – you’ll want the starters! : TRATTORIA

11-across – Plain and somewhat porcellanous : LLANO

12-across – One rambling, greeting king and queen once : HIKER

14-across – Powerful scent: a billionaire’s characteristic? : MUSKINESS

15-across – Small Houyhnhnm, one hiding actual intentions? : STALKINGHORSE

18-across – An entrée with cured cod announced where soldiers get fit? : ASSAULTCOURSE

20-across – Many like a society without aristocrats : COUNTLESS

22-across – Replace a partner’s copper vessel : CUTIN

23-across – Outcast’s check rejected : LEPER

24-across – Exotic tanginess getting act of approval : ASSENTING

26-across – Procure leverage : PURCHASE

27-across – Nearer the end : CLOSER

1-down – Most of rear end and pecs area is maximally macho : BUTCHEST

2-down – We’re told of shelter in a field : LEA

3-down – Kit swears wildly, has fun on a lake? : WATERSKIS

5-down – Irrational, as the nastiest numbers? : ANAESTHETISTS

6-down – Modern experimental facility sent back curry : BALTI

7-down – Swap short amount of time – about time! – for confidential info : TRADESECRET

8-down – Most of words rejected; Everyman’s beginning to get tired : DROWSE

10-down – In sum, I might be one of these? : ROMANNUMERALS

13-down – City playing United, twice – plural – a matey kickaround, at first : KUALALUMPUR

16-down – No coal tar involved in type of surgery : ROOTCANAL

17-down – Green tea brewed for youngster : TEENAGER

19-down – Carry, with difficulty, a little kitsch leprechaun : SCHLEP

21-down – Kind of song that brings illumination : TORCH

25-down – Sit fast, regularly dismissing uncertainties : IFS

1-across – Jocose friend trashed United : JOINEDFORCES

10-across – Somewhere in Bolivia, personal assistant coming back with illuminating insights : APERCUS

11-across – One that’ll take a drink, or one that’s had too many? : TUMBLER

12-across – Joint enterprise finally getting large yield : ELBOW

13-across – A nasty aquatic creature. One’s nature? Drowning animals, primarily! : ANACONDA

15-across – Underlying – put another way, having long-term effect : ENDURINGLY

16-across – Ribbons arranged, we’re told, for fancy man : BEAU

18-across – Most common Scrabble tiles gathered, bringing comfort : EASE

20-across – Tries to get a ride from ship’s company: it’s torturous! : THUMBSCREW

22-across – Displays gluttony having consumed tea before end of cricketing encounters : OVEREATS

24-across – Fraudulent old girl taking public transport? : BOGUS

26-across – Ecstasy tablets and C illegally acquired at source in Baltic state : ESTONIA

27-across – Uranium record held by source of wine: cunning! : VULPINE

28-across – Proved highly amusing? : RAISEDALAUGH

2-down – Taking some cover, Biden poorly estimated risk : OVERBID

3-down – Wine – cork removed – bravo! : NICEWORK

4-down – Tear and shatter : DASH

5-down – Where a nest egg may be found to be at risk : OUTONALIMB

6-down – Initially chatty, Everyman’s accepted by company that’s put up with one trying to amuse : COMIC

7-down – Quiet, because around the French : SILENCE

8-down – One-time occupier of dark room who’s been relatively immature? : LATEDEVELOPER

9-down – When graduates trained hoi polloi : GREATUNWASHED

14-down – Then where might I have packed those items? : INTHATCASE

17-down – Being twisted, I’ll abase Catholic monarch : ISABELLA

19-down – Armpit often seen in leisurewear : SWEATER

21-down – Arranging – in a bad way – support for masts and sails : RIGGING

23-down – Feeling fed up with starters of escargots nightly, night in Paris cut short : ENNUI

25-down – Somewhat nouveau – that includes Iris : UVEA