Daily Answers

1-across – When sent to Coventry, one that’s barely seen? : LADYGODIVA

6-across – Train line almost flipped over vehicle : CART

9-across – I miss place in resort: it’s a field : SPECIALISM

10-across – Growing border husband removed remains a border : EDGE

12-across – Liquid lunch with plenty of character? : ALPHABETSOUP

15-across – Side in blue seeing confused voter taken in by English Nationalist … : EVERTON

16-across – … English Nationalist against adopting promise to be green … : ENVIOUS

17-across – … ignoring some, scan ten Nationalists’ kit receiving signals : ANTENNA

19-across – Deer eating mushroom recoiled, showing blotch : SPECKLE

20-across – Activated in potion, life that’s everlasting! : INFINITELOOP

23-across – Flower girl that may be Hazel : IRIS

24-across – Not the lead horn player getting renewed energy : SECONDWIND

25-across – A day after Everyman’s age-old booze : MEAD

26-across – University becoming independent, raises limits : CONSTRICTS

1-down – Reason Titanic captain might think the unthinkable? : LISP

2-down – Thawed, 99 disappearing – a performance : DEED

3-down – Such a reduction applied to : GUILLOTINING

4-down – Aquatic being, part of Little Mermaid toy that’s caught? : DOLPHIN

5-down – Seen as very absurd, runs off : VISIBLE

7-down – King overcome by slithering odious boa in stories that aren’t to be read : AUDIOBOOKS

8-down – Entered private property: lock abruptly ‘died’ : TRESPASSED

11-down – R&B musician’s somewhat unchaste view on derrières : STEVIEWONDER

13-down – Assuming the worst oddly time-saving : NEGATIVISM

14-down – Primarily, what encompasses Senegal, Togo alongside fourteen republics : WESTAFRICA

18-down – Sloppily traced over ‘20s design : ARTDECO

19-down – Cars that are often seen in Westerns : SALOONS

21-down – Record changing dash for cash? : DISC

22-down – Praiseful verse addressing Archbishop Tutu? : ODES

1-across – When sent to Coventry, one that’s barely seen? : LADYGODIVA

6-across – Train line almost flipped over vehicle : CART

9-across – I miss place in resort: it’s a field : SPECIALISM

10-across – Growing border husband removed remains a border : EDGE

12-across – Liquid lunch with plenty of character? : ALPHABETSOUP

15-across – Side in blue seeing confused voter taken in by English Nationalist … : EVERTON

16-across – … English Nationalist against adopting promise to be green … : ENVIOUS

17-across – … ignoring some, scan ten Nationalists’ kit receiving signals : ANTENNA

19-across – Deer eating mushroom recoiled, showing blotch : SPECKLE

20-across – Activated in potion, life that’s everlasting! : INFINITELOOP

23-across – Flower girl that may be Hazel : IRIS

24-across – Not the lead horn player getting renewed energy : SECONDWIND

25-across – A day after Everyman’s age-old booze : MEAD

26-across – University becoming independent, raises limits : CONSTRICTS

1-down – Reason Titanic captain might think the unthinkable? : LISP

2-down – Thawed, 99 disappearing – a performance : DEED

3-down – Such a reduction applied to : GUILLOTINING

4-down – Aquatic being, part of Little Mermaid toy that’s caught? : DOLPHIN

5-down – Seen as very absurd, runs off : VISIBLE

7-down – King overcome by slithering odious boa in stories that aren’t to be read : AUDIOBOOKS

8-down – Entered private property: lock abruptly ‘died’ : TRESPASSED

11-down – R&B musician’s somewhat unchaste view on derrières : STEVIEWONDER

13-down – Assuming the worst oddly time-saving : NEGATIVISM

14-down – Primarily, what encompasses Senegal, Togo alongside fourteen republics : WESTAFRICA

18-down – Sloppily traced over ‘20s design : ARTDECO

19-down – Cars that are often seen in Westerns : SALOONS

21-down – Record changing dash for cash? : DISC

22-down – Praiseful verse addressing Archbishop Tutu? : ODES

1-across – Snakes which may repel the rain, Hans tells us : VIPERS

4-across – Eldest archdeacon concealing primness : STARCH

10-across – Old fellow amid leonine noise and activity showing boisterous amusement : ROARSOFLAUGHTER

11-across – Not good, working – ingenious! – assert rights collectively : UNIONISE

12-across – Announced 007’s means for seeing tiny oriental craft : BONSAI

13-across – They’re doubly of interest to the sawmill’s bookkeeper : LOGS

14-across – Italian food:Victor, tell Inigo to take a portion : TORTELLINI

18-across – Safari’s speed? : EXPEDITION

19-across – Counterpart of doe or hen : STAG

20-across – Like water on lake? £1 : LIQUID

22-across – Duck, ablaze: this bird’s brightly coloured : FLAMINGO

25-across – In which squiffy or tight men fear retribution, finally? : THEMORNINGAFTER

26-across – Runs over, sits back for Alpine dish : ROSTIS

27-across – Less important songs lacking energy as well : BSIDES

1-down – Preposterously arty, evil ritual in which other worlds are ‘seen’ : VIRTUALREALITY

2-down – Misbehaving act in animated film trousering £1,000 : PLAYINGUP

3-down – Sap about to stray : RESIN

5-down – Snare’s component set up : TRAP

6-down – In fancy car, duke carries silver playthings : RAGDOLLS

7-down – Primarily: hideously detailed, titanic, verisimilous screens? : HDTVS

8-down – With components reversed, run away to find branch : OFFSHOOT

9-down – Leaving chief execs exhausted where knives are out? : DRAININGBOARDS

15-down – Meandering topless, provoking reactions : TROLLING

16-down – National Trust supported by Everyman: donated, tipped, droned on : INTONATED

17-down – Mentors giving Bill protection from sun : ADVISORS

21-down – Unusual powerful chesspiece, itself taking its own knight : QUEER

23-down – Nasty and small, the wherewithal : MEANS

24-down – Against – alternately, ‘gainst – independence : ANTI

1-across – Hairline fractures finally seen in window that’s not new – tip! : WIDOWSPEAK

6-across – He’s in the OT in biblical tower, scratching head : ABEL

9-across – Short trousers and red heels on, dancing : LEDERHOSEN

10-across – Clothing to boast about : GARB

11-across – It’s almost always off the charts : ONEHITWONDER

15-across – Constituents of saliva in play area? : SANDPIT

16-across – André’s denounced, to some extent, somewhere on the Elbe … : DRESDEN

17-across – … French president losing energy in part of Benelux : HOLLAND

19-across – He ignores issues over case of suet that’s fattening : OSTRICH

20-across – What you expect with cricket: below lifeless : SIXFEETUNDER

23-across – Brother repulsed by small globes : ORBS

24-across – Greatest parts of capitals etc with carbon reduction : MAJORITIES

25-across – 50 / 50 = odd? No : EVEN

26-across – Even so, sentences that depict fruit etc : STILLLIFES

1-down – Aha! Somewhere to get a drink! : WELL

2-down – Twice act the fool : DODO

3-down – Pa, can we read novel – a big one? : WARANDPEACE

4-down – Forecaster making net gains in speech : PROPHET

5-down – Warned: treadle malfunctioning : ALERTED

7-down – Small bird illegally traded? I bet : BEARDEDTIT

8-down – Sadly hit by snarl where dead ends abound : LABYRINTHS

12-down – Clear at the outset, Everyman’s on rugby pitch, unwell and too old : OVERTHEHILL

13-down – Bob Marley song I Shot the Sheriff’s intro, live, remastered : ISTHISLOVE

14-down – In line? I nearly ran, being obstinate : INFLEXIBLE

18-down – Diminish empty, desolate expanse : DETRACT

19-down – Characters from Tinseltown go along to see player’s worst fear : OWNGOAL

21-down – Proudly impenitent artiste française, primarily! : PIAF

22-down – River goddess : ISIS

1-across – Suit as may be worn by wealthy : DIAMONDS

5-across – Walk – gosh – flipping healthy : HOOFIT

9-across – That’s a nit I see – just a bit – get clean! : SANITISE

10-across – Where a waltz started in ‘80s pop hit : VIENNA

11-across – It spins forward – and backward? : ROTOR

13-across – Studying again, finally, Oscar Wilde: where was his Gaol? : REREADING

15-across – Climbing down, band pick legal high : BACKPEDALLING

17-across – Top politicians, decadent French-born set : FRONTBENCHERS

21-across – Where lands steepen, in shelters, the writer’s going to sleep : HILLSIDES

22-across – In favour of second ad : PROMO

23-across – That man is smothered by right-wing presumption : THEORY

24-across – Getting to Italy, M. le Président will eat a kind of pasta : MACARONI

26-across – Primarily, man espousing strange ‘magnetism’ – especially restoratively? : MESMER

27-across – Bridled, noise of downpour heard : REINEDIN

1-down – Paint picture of Claude’s crib, expertly ignoring parts : DESCRIBE

2-down – Live-in childminder saving skin … her name? : ANN

3-down – Rock, passé, cut … : OUTCROP

4-down – … record by Queen censored having fallen from favour : DISCREDITED

6-down – Not fashionable, friendless originally: is Everyman folding? : ORIGAMI

7-down – Evidence of shark; men doing badly in fishy film : FINDINGNEMO

8-down – A little faint, wan gynaecologist with nasal tone : TWANGY

12-down – Flatus scent – moved: discretion : TACTFULNESS

14-down – After components switched, Wills’s missus’s posh car is fun way to get about : ROLLERSKATE

16-down – Public schoolboy sheltering second old Soviet : ESTONIAN

18-down – With ceremony, keep watch : OBSERVE

19-down – Naval officer, a little indolent, put in ill-considered catnap : CAPTAIN

20-down – Time to go with the Blues? : RHYTHM

25-down – Peculiar to regularly ignore ‘Howdy-do?’ : ODD