Daily Answers

1-across – Either side of dayroom offering somewhere to sleep : DORM

3-across – King further imprisoning old sculptor : HENRYMOORE

9-across – Primarily, country harbouring African desert? : CHAD

10-across – Signed off work in posh coat, cultivated, heading off : FURLOUGHED

12-across – Play in a forest in a way that makes one happy : ASYOULIKEIT

15-across – Dry piece of oyster I left : STERILE

16-across – Retire in resort, a Red Sea destination : ERITREA

17-across – Stationery for origami practitioners? : FOLDERS

19-across – Politicians’ furniture : CABINET

20-across – What may make you green in the blue? : SEASICKNESS

23-across – Misguidedly stipulated inanities : PLATITUDES

24-across – Cut back parts of brooches : PINS

25-across – Compensating, adding more oil and vinegar? : REDRESSING

26-across – Requests wine containers, unopened : ASKS

1-down – Increase access to students engaged in worship : DECLASSIFY

2-down – Convenience food’s modified … Alarmed? Yes! : READYMEALS

4-down – Finally, above all, American crossword setter’s hard to understand : ELUSIVE

5-down – To once again experience entertaining earl’s release : RELIEVE

6-down – Ken, I’m in U-boat, unusual form of transport : MOUNTAINBIKE

7-down – Darts player stands here in part of Rochester : OCHE

8-down – Everyman’s beginning to get doddery, regularly in a spin : EDDY

11-down – Professional’s sin: ‘blue skies’ condemned : BUSINESSLIKE

13-down – Reorganise nuts and fruits’ location : ORANGERIES

14-down – Saint fasts, stirring visionaries : FANTASISTS

18-down – Sculptures honouring people’s laws? Not a third time : STATUES

19-down – Lawbreaking with an inhabitant of Yalta? : CRIMEAN

21-down – Blows up box : SPAR

22-down – Musicians prohibited, we’re told : BAND

1-across – Pudding wine’s giving you tremors later on : AFTERSHOCKS

9-across – Arouse a friend from Belfast? : ANIMATE

10-across – Current affecting only part of body : TOPICAL

11-across – Reportedly, beams uplift : RAISE

12-across – AI apps with an answer in African country : BOTSWANA

14-across – I get it: navy mobilised seeing dismal outlook : NEGATIVITY

15-across – Everyman finally monopolizes chaise longue, that’s clear : ISEE

17-across – Either end of shinbone hurting : SORE

19-across – So, pretence collapses – everyone knows it! : OPENSECRET

21-across – Leave unready for battle? Might you serve like this? : UNDERARM

23-across – Initially Spanish urban centre, relatively elevated? : SUCRE

25-across – Loudly regret ruffian getting ban : RULEOUT

26-across – Acrimony without end unsettled inventor : MARCONI

27-across – German girl harvesting orchids at first takes advantage of nursery’s facilities : GLASSHOUSES

1-down – Putting up with immortal : ABIDING

2-down – Burlesque party in back of downright dingy venue : TRAVESTY

3-down – Give lecherous look when rising for dance : REEL

4-down – Moving quickly to hog, if not disturbed : HOTFOOTING

5-down – Frolics, runs off in places jutting in to the sea : CAPES

6-down – First to abandon left-wingers’ parties : SOCIALS

7-down – Honest, attractive; also unfashionable : FAIRANDSQUARE

8-down – Ethical reader awkwardly defused tension : CLEAREDTHEAIR

13-down – With flag hoisted, gives a speech and disappears : EVAPORATES

16-down – Some crumble, perhaps and tense up : DESSERTS

18-down – Spooner’s hurriedly left disreputable paper, seeing sign of danger : REDFLAG

20-down – Calculates – or guesses : RECKONS

22-down – Bottled in Ontario, Japanese wine : RIOJA

24-down – Shells, perhaps, in downstream motion : AMMO

1-across – Oversee dismantling of decoration : COORDINATE

6-across – Unpleasant air bottled by cosmographer : SMOG

9-across – Socialist employee finally recruited and changed : REDESIGNED

10-across – Eye’s sore? Eyesore, by the sound of it? : STYE

11-across – Amphibian : NEWTESTAMENT

15-across – Antarctic explorer: that is, a hairy beast : SCOTTIE

16-across – So, an African country, a country in Africa : SOMALIA

17-across – Worker that’s absolutely smashing? : LUDDITE

19-across – Runt led astray, getting to move clumsily : TRUNDLE

20-across – Antipodean with fresh passion ranted madly, losing time : NEWZEALANDER

23-across – Stitch? Heck! : DARN

24-across – Chili brand getting revamp, an original idea : BRAINCHILD

25-across – Very hot, old London district : SOHO

26-across – British engineer, rather noteworthy, envisaged revolutionary structure launching electronic ecosystem, primarily? : BERNERSLEE

1-down – Wag sending up vampiric character : CARD

2-down – What might ironically be evens? : ODDS

3-down – Horribly westernised drink that’s sweet : DESSERTWINE

4-down – Coming with formal wear and very informal wear : NIGHTIE

5-down – Worries, scratching head and hair : TRESSES

7-down – Rich supply Mike with alternative 50 words of praise : MOTHERLODE

8-down – Søren Kierkegaard, Scooby-Doo, etc? : GREATDANES

12-down – Our mad racer dashed in heavy vehicle : ARMOUREDCAR

13-down – Mounties plan a descent – that includes waterside walks : ESPLANADES

14-down – Poet’s writing having value : WORDSWORTH

18-down – Drunken general: that’s swell : ENLARGE

19-down – Round numbers and another number giving you pressure : TENSION

21-down – Seventh of connections Everyman is going to cultivate : TILL

22-down – Workshy person greatly admired, by the sound of it : IDLE

1-across – Suggests that Mr. Men‘s code should be picked apart : RECOMMENDS

6-across – Rascal’s detailed deception : SCAM

9-across – Supersonic – but faulty – instruments : PERCUSSION

10-across – Author’s ‘name’ – one’s nameless, primarily? : ANON

11-across – Having drunk a whiskey, playing for time, obstructing discussion : STONEWALLING

15-across – Move without restriction with ladder on the house : RUNFREE

16-across – Junior having yen for a bit of lazing in relaxing chair : YOUNGER

17-across – Film’s somewhat ‘artistic’: a bare torso : CABARET

19-across – With gnu and hen dancing around, I get demented : UNHINGE

20-across – Papa isn’t inwardly calm wearing flashy jewellery in team-building exercise? : PAINTBALLING

23-across – Ecoterrorists protecting doves’ home : COTE

24-across – Terribly bad luck: a right good scoundrel : BLACKGUARD

25-across – Small bother returning non-alcoholic fizz : SODA

26-across – Indiscreet, untidy – flashy? : IRIDESCENT

1-down – Solemn announcement: Everyman’s beginning to be slightly malodorous : RIPE

2-down – Central tactical unit’s announced : CORE

3-down – Ultimate destination for couples’ getaway? : MOUNTARARAT

4-down – Soul in German city church : ESSENCE

5-down – Perhaps 1 Sept 1939, according to Spooner, is an entry point : DOORWAY

7-down – Dependent group of soldiers? : CONTINGENT

8-down – I see German wandering around zoos : MENAGERIES

12-down – Fancy lung? A haggis, that’ll put a smile on your face : LAUGHINGGAS

13-down – Copper in command covered by directions for perilous situations : PRECIPICES

14-down – Twice I bantered, tipsy and tiddly : INEBRIATED

18-down – Unmotorised vehicle that boasts of a feature? : TRAILER

19-down – Not bound to be free of contamination : UNLACED

21-down – Playboy’s a tool : RAKE

22-down – Tide’s turning? Correct : EDIT

1-across – Grant’s making excuses? : ALLOWANCES

6-across – An idiot right now : ASAP

9-across – Flag-waving Irishman: a funny fellow is Mark : PATRIOTISM

10-across – Pitch in triplets regularly ignored : TILT

11-across – Following criticism, the French defend starter of ‘succulent’ spiny fish : STICKLEBACKS

15-across – Medicine’s supposed to suppress frigidity : ICINESS

16-across – Two presents that cannot be found : NOWHERE

17-across – Witch carrying hat’s deformed: it’s a sign : HASHTAG

19-across – Mediterranean port seen three times, might you say? : TRIPOLI

20-across – Lee’s jetpack’s malfunctioning, as you might see atop churches? : STEEPLEJACKS

23-across – In Paris, that woman’s twelfth letter read aloud : ELLE

24-across – They’re adjacent to S. Australians – and Georgians : VICTORIANS

25-across – Son with difficulty rejected fizzy drink : SODA

26-across – Brings in crazy reductions : INTRODUCES

1-down – Foremost points seen in altitudinous Liechtenstein, predominantly snowy? : ALPS

2-down – Supporting dated language in brief, Everyman’s beginning to be behind the times : LATE

3-down – Flitting about with topless drunk : WHISTLESTOP

4-down – Doesn’t ignore adverts : NOTICES

5-down – One’s lip quivers seeing character from Greece : EPSILON

7-down – Set off with it : SWITCHEDON

8-down – Asperities ruined cake shop : PATISSERIE

12-down – Moustachioed Jacobi’s island hotel: sign of disuse shown up : BEWHISKERED

13-down – What might describe marksmen who visit places of interest? : SIGHTSEERS

14-down – Endlessly young woman performed magic, as in Tolkein, say? : MISSPELLED

18-down – Fusty term for European: ‘befuddled, Germanic, not married’ : GRECIAN

19-down – Electrical device, one that tests for poison : TOASTER

21-down – I appreciate that Lucy oddly selected bathroom powder : TALC

22-down – Employs some house servants : USES