Daily Answers

1-across – Brief, displaying discretion : DIRECTIONS

6-across – At the outset, ‘Terrible’ sort; aristocratic Russian! : TSAR

9-across – Heavily stomp over boundary where sportsperson may jump : TRAMPOLINE

10-across – Laid back? Don’t touch that… ! : DIAL

11-across – Following calm, canoe lost in vast watery expanse : PACIFICOCEAN

15-across – A doctor, way back, that’s describing a gland : ADRENAL

16-across – $10,149 for Banksy piece? : STENCIL

17-across – Perhaps change revolted expression on initially seeing nibbles : CASHEWS

19-across – At sea, Sea Lord primes weaponry again : RELOADS

20-across – Two moons fail to display Newtonian principles : LAWSOFMOTION

23-across – Heard, in short walk, an aquatic bird : TERN

24-across – Eccentric star is paid with indoor plant : ASPIDISTRA

25-across – Retired horse unhappy to race : DASH

26-across – Compromised? Stop seething : ENDANGERED

1-down – See what you can get from a palm tree : DATE

2-down – Money in imperialism : RIAL

3-down – Better nominate extraordinary explorer : CAPTAINNEMO

4-down – Everyman shall pass on acrimony : ILLWILL

5-down – Fools childminders : NINNIES

7-down – It has white and brown meat, bird cooked with capers : SPIDERCRAB

8-down – Stern seller sent bananas : RELENTLESS

12-down – Watching from above … or not noticing at all? : OVERLOOKING

13-down – Was divisive, perhaps premeditated : CALCULATED

14-down – This is one of those tirades : CROSSWORDS

18-down – Ultimately, Marge’s troublemaker lad? : SIMPSON

19-down – Drink some clarets inappropriately : RETSINA

21-down – Lead actor that’s over 8 on board? : STAR

22-down – The French rehashed gutted calorific ingredient : LARD

1-across – Pares back, stingy – ‘until tomorrow’? : SLEEPTIGHT

6-across – In France, quietly left duck: it’s a disaster : FLOP

9-across – Fascinating song singer composed : ENGROSSING

10-across – Perhaps Pavlova going up and down? : ANNA

12-across – Finally scrawled argument on paper describing liberal fantasies : DREAMWORLDS

15-across – ‘Everyman’s regressive, small, far from fresh’ … and hurt! : MISUSED

16-across – Led Yank about wanting wardrobe? : NAKEDLY

17-across – A little conundrum, our scandalous tittle-tattle : RUMOURS

19-across – Major African nationalist, democratically elected liberating administrator, primarily? : MANDELA

20-across – Patience: second magical creature’s getting key : SELFCONTROL

23-across – Riot Act detains this Greek character : IOTA

24-across – Europeans darn lapels in need of repair : LAPLANDERS

25-across – Standard displayed at beginning/end of National Anthem? : NORM

26-across – Awfully tense shrews run out for bulletins : NEWSSHEETS

1-down – Tournament player to give up, did you say? : SEED

2-down – A border or two in the East End? : EDGE

3-down – Round up chaps being tipsy and cocksure : PROUDASPUNCH

4-down – ‘Alternatively stained’ : INSTEAD

5-down – Executioner’s game : HANGMAN

7-down – Publicans procure facilities : LANDLADIES

8-down – Demonstrates musical skill; barely pays out : PLAYSBYEAR

11-down – Purposeful meal on foundation – but there’s no answer : WORKINGLUNCH

13-down – Monet painting might provide this depiction of Elvis? : IMPRESSION

14-down – A Winter Olympic athlete eating muesli regularly? Not right now : ASKMELATER

18-down – Father Christmas following echo somewhere in New Mexico : SANTAFE

19-down – Irregularly stains, figuratively, one’s senses : MARBLES

21-down – Told of destiny in outdoor event : FETE

22-down – Divine figure sent up agreeable Spanish expression : ISIS

1-across – Features of characters in le Carré’s dénouements? : ACUTEACCENTS

10-across – In Cologne, a restaurant that’s most convenient : NEAREST

11-across – Smaller road? Stop! : TURNOFF

12-across – Rouse rudely, offering French bread : EUROS

13-across – Top award designation Everyman’s beginning to enter … no, second-tier : NOBELIST

15-across – Presiding over pacification? : MODERATING

16-across – So, giant’s coming back : ERGO

18-across – Slurps noisily, a failing : LAPS

20-across – Top courier redirected somewhere in Caribbean : PUERTORICO

22-across – Authorising documents conflict with tirades : WARRANTS

24-across – Feeling pain as good bananas rejected : STUNG

26-across – About to appear in misguided reboot in 31 days’ time : OCTOBER

27-across – Between times, present duck in addition : THERETO

28-across – Is fast, reckless deed providing gratification? : SATISFACTION

2-down – Used grill to cook leafy veg, did you say? : CHARRED

3-down – What’s shown when terribly austere, right? Wrong : TREASURE

4-down – Topless poet wanting chips in a pot? : ANTE

5-down – Tighten one’s belt in joint confines : CUTCORNERS

6-down – Bundle of fibres in cheek : NERVE

7-down – Around India, gift-giving party’s more flamboyant : SHOWIER

8-down – Fail to get most out of what comes from lumbering Welsh poem? : UNDERMILKWOOD

9-down – Fast food galoot’s cooked with no end of fries: that’s not helping : AFATLOTOFGOOD

14-down – Truss with truce, uneasy arrangements : STRUCTURES

17-down – Most rambunctious, TS Eliot’s preface is one about … about uprising : NOISIEST

19-down – Wicked sailors taking exercise, swapping hands : PIRATES

21-down – Indication naming unborn through esoteric Roman obstetrics, primarily? : INUTERO

23-down – Senior religious figure, a bold social-media nuisance : ABBOT

25-down – Pet names including something fiery and Italian : ETNA

1-across – English figurehead scrapped segregation : SAINTGEORGE

9-across – Dozen or more deliveries before English finally secure run : OVERSEE

10-across – Aristocrat to avoid: awful cad with allure regularly lacking : DRACULA

11-across – Harry, graduate, assembled doctrine : DOGMA

12-across – Memory’s nudger, edifying, maybe one neatly inducing commemoration using initial letters? : MNEMONIC

14-across – U.S. novel in translation defeats one : EASTOFEDEN

15-across – Cattle and duck kiss, seen on-and-off : OXEN

17-across – What follows tango in hotel? : ECHO

19-across – True tale I adapted about rector for serious reading : LITERATURE

21-across – After Stella, tipsy Lord Lieutenant spills the beans : TELLSALL

23-across – Where a film is made : ONSET

25-across – It’s boos, regrettably, for woodwind players : OBOISTS

26-across – Having lost bronze, Farah in Mediterranean city? : PALERMO

27-across – Ruthless interrogation for Ph.D.? : THIRDDEGREE

1-down – Winter transport conveying butchers to the audience : SLEIGHS

2-down – Rinse a songbird’s stuffing that’s fit to be eaten : INSEASON

3-down – Gather up rain, intensely : TEEM

4-down – Threatened over suppressing fury : ENDANGERED

5-down – Switching sides near the end, give new weapons to kingdom : REALM

6-down – In the end, Don Quixote wasting time, roaming when season ends : EQUINOX

7-down – Essential part of successful wedding: four bars, perhaps : GOODRECEPTION

8-down – ‘No, Bond: act nice’ wavering in faulty phone line : BADCONNECTION

13-down – Appearing at regular intervals, unhinged idealisers : SERIALISED

16-down – Festive entertainer, children’s author, runs off with hesitant expression : CAROLLER

18-down – Last offer : HOLDOUT

20-down – Prosperous periods, yen showing rise : UPSURGE

22-down – S. American chain regularly offering rice-based dish : SUSHI

24-down – Everyman’s beginning to go under: a quiet bit of snoozing in part of church : APSE

1-across – Importunes sadly for a new beginning : RESUMPTION

6-across – Starters of appetising soups in Fontainebleau? I think not : ASIF

9-across – In retreat, massage, good lingerie and fine wines : BURGUNDIES

10-across – Everyman’s after snack every so often, and wine : SAKI

12-across – Shivering, cold, threw up: it happens every four years : THEWORLDCUP

15-across – Title is stirring for him? : ELITIST

16-across – About time, forces retreating: that’s more intelligent : SMARTER

17-across – Enlightenment in, we’re told, theguardian.com? : INSIGHT

19-across – Clues go pear-shaped, sugar : GLUCOSE

20-across – Experimental facility with artist drawing dog : LABRADOODLE

23-across – Second person in French Resistance, note, to become revolutionary : TURN

24-across – In this puzzle, one is – and isn’t – this! : HORIZONTAL

25-across – Others snooze : REST

26-across – Settler working with map: it provides illumination along the way : STREETLAMP

1-down – Kids’ barbecue staple : RIBS

2-down – Furious as god of love is brought up : SORE

3-down – Masculine fellow abandoning jet to attack resident of high altitudes : MOUNTAINGOAT

4-down – Coati dies, tasting a little spruce? Ever so much : TIDIEST

5-down – Regularly poaches many wildcats : OCELOTS

7-down – At any cost I organised a kind of holiday : STAYCATION

8-down – Perspire if consuming trifles : FRIPPERIES

11-down – So, a reputable resort offering vehicle for fun : PLEASUREBOAT

13-down – Showing some leg, Isla to rankle regulator : LEGISLATOR

14-down – Oldest and shattered, little deer : FIRSTBORNS

18-down – Reiterate call for Communist to leave? : TROTOUT

19-down – Grand Old Duke with story about York, ultimately divine : GODLIKE

21-down – Evil Typhon’s necropolitan abode, primarily? : ETNA

22-down – Panic in part of aircraft : FLAP