Daily Answers

1-across – Jazz genre’s providing hits : BOPS

3-across – In France, thousands mobbing idiot in city on the Med : MARSEILLES

9-across – Woodwind member regularly going for broke : OBOE

10-across – Bring together, in the morning, bits of seaweed, pal : AMALGAMATE

11-across – Omit one of the Soup Dragon’s friends: goof! : DROPACLANGER

15-across – Kill 27? With tongs – that’s cold : ICECUBE

16-across – Dined and jeered : SCOFFED

17-across – Extremely vicious, insidious look expressing your enmity, primarily? : EVILEYE

19-across – Some yeti dies, tragically, being extremely trim : TIDIEST

20-across – Ghastly Double German? : DOPPELGANGER

23-across – Drunk romances eminent lawyers : HIGHCOURTS

24-across – Star in river’s reflection : NOVA

25-across – Indeed, strayed wildly in times gone by : YESTERDAYS

26-across – Demands chores when temperature’s dropped : ASKS

1-down – Attacks putting Belgium on edge, son : BROADSIDES

2-down – Camera-loving, goofy pooch: get in! : PHOTOGENIC

4-down – Having lost front of tome, fussily laminate one on bookshelves : AAMILNE

5-down – Medical supports after run’s undergone change of direction : SPLINTS

6-down – Ivanhoe, novel: almost perfect? Beats me! : IHAVENOIDEA

7-down – In report, vegetable that’s prepared by whistleblower : LEAK

8-down – Second time Everyman’s shown up: stop! : STEM

12-down – An inspiration? Bold old university radical getting dainty snack : AMUSEBOUCHE

13-down – Puddings, good and bad consumed: nice feelings later : AFTERGLOWS

14-down – Misguided idealist embracing ‘alternative’ leaders : EDITORIALS

18-down – Lengthily describe one-time currency : EXPOUND

19-down – Novelist to clasp – but regularly dropping – chihuahua? : TOLSTOY

21-down – Dairy product with drug additive: for what reason? : WHEY

22-down – Herb cycling for a long time : AGES

1-across – Son, clumsy, far from alert : SLUMBERING

6-across – Possesseth headgear, ‘tis put on horse : HATH

9-across – Pulling wrestling move that binds : DRAWINGPIN

10-across – First man to block America First : ADAM

12-across – Angry Charlotte and King Edward’s unwanted issues : HOTPOTATOES

15-across – A long, powerful harmonic object rendered naturally, principally? : ALPHORN

16-across – Tedious far side of Stromboli, disruptive smoker : IRKSOME

17-across – They describe pupils’ behaviour: explosions, gunshot, etc : REPORTS

19-across – Ripped off like a dart : SHAFTED

20-across – Euros for brioche? : FRENCHBREAD

23-across – As delivered, proper ceremony : RITE

24-across – Hoarding William’s canned food : BILLBOARDS

25-across – Nauseous, oily, not a little lugubrious : SICK

26-across – ‘Cyber-’? ‘E-’? Call out what some junk may be! : RECYCLABLE

1-down – Git given a fizzy drink : SODA

2-down – Regularly unteach Mormons found in this state : UTAH

3-down – Sweet book with Sussex setting … : BRIGHTONROCK

4-down – … agreed, that’s an extract from it : RIGHTON

5-down – Safari centre sees Everyman fatigue abrupt Scotsman after capsizing : NAIROBI

7-down – Accepting only some commands of orthodontists etc : ANDSOFORTH

8-down – Fake some deaths where people might be living : HOMESTEADS

11-down – Shrinking baked good: it’ll keep you in shape : BACKWARDROLL

13-down – Director, light-hearted fellow, equips places with milkmaids : DAIRYFARMS

14-down – Inflamed, each lech’s mostly shown involuntary movement : APOPLECTIC

18-down – Magnificent muesli in mix bachelor’s ingested : SUBLIME

19-down – Poet, husky in voice? : SHELLEY

21-down – Miserable poet on the up : DRAB

22-down – Tennis legend showing evidence of fire and energy : ASHE

1-across – Capital – African port – elevated Table overlooking waterside neighbourhoods, primarily? : CAPETOWN

5-across – Young Scout enters elite fighting force, explores underwater : SCUBAS

9-across – Approaching girl: a nasty moment : NEARMISS

10-across – Slammin’ do – orgiastic to some extent – like some fireworks? : INDOOR

11-across – Give a hand to Everyman first … it’s the best we can hope for : IDEAL

12-across – Spiritualist’s boring kind of wine : MEDIUMDRY

14-across – Fight vulgarisms in grand source of illumination : SLANGINGMATCH

17-across – Fantastic technician, pot smoker’s help in quitting : NICOTINEPATCH

21-across – Hush-hush: street cop in disguise : TOPSECRET

22-across – Conscience … ‘Golden’, you say? : GUILT

24-across – Problem: some rotting litchis : GLITCH

25-across – Jam in Cuban club – hero! – or perhaps that’s a wrap? : SANDWICH

26-across – Shrewd batsmen, regularly dismissed, suppressing disapproving expression : ASTUTE

27-across – From cakehole, forsakes puddings! : DESSERTS

1-down – Ancients’ brews, sharper than the rest : CANNIEST

2-down – Greek character with spinning disc hoisted piece of crockery : PLATE

3-down – Delay Spooner’s green label : TIMELAG

4-down – Times strewn about in part of London : WESTMINSTER

6-down – Usher’s behaviour : CONDUCT

7-down – Harry holds boot that’s red-tinged : BLOODSHOT

8-down – Waters some flowers : SPRAYS

13-down – Maybe sit in show : DEMONSTRATE

15-down – Never seeing use putting atomic number first : ATNOPOINT

16-down – Covers axes, since temperature’s risen : THATCHES

18-down – Manpower reduced: a short shock? : CREWCUT

19-down – In nightwear, trouble turning to deity in temples : PAGODAS

20-down – In the morning, jerk’s shown up: shame : STIGMA

23-down – At regular intervals, inclined railway’s beginning to get more frosty : ICIER

1-across – Micropalaeontologist’s hiding a gemstone : OPAL

3-across – Stemwinder repaired in Central America? : MIDWESTERN

9-across – Few assets periodically offering direction : EAST

10-across – British genius’s drunk natural gin : ALANTURING

11-across – Friend of Oliver King has nickel-iron tool : STANLEYKNIFE

15-across – What William came to do with horse chestnut, you say? : CONQUER

16-across – Hamper with feathers from Siam, we’re told : TIEDOWN

17-across – Pieces of doom-laden rag edited in a fury : ENRAGED

19-across – Monster in a fairy tale? : WHOPPER

20-across – Office ‘allies’ differing in everyday scene : ASLICEOFLIFE

23-across – Bouncer or 10 at Northern Ireland’s dance : TENNISBALL

24-across – That man’s going to somewhere very hot : HELL

25-across – Checked in to hotel and did sink in : REGISTERED

26-across – Bolt, horse : STUD

1-down – Duck, swans and egret – cold, not good – and everyone knows it! : OPENSECRET

2-down – Teetotallers ordering teas in bars : ABSTAINERS

4-down – Everyman competes – with, in final stages, prize winner – in BBC shows : IPLAYER

5-down – What implement niftily gyrates, nearing ultimate tightness primarily? : WINGNUT

6-down – Dealt a bad hand, left this mortal coil? : SHUFFLEDOFF

7-down – In uprising, be malevolent : EVIL

8-down – Badgers and horses : NAGS

12-down – Relaxes, taking in clubs perhaps in informal attire : LOUNGESUITS

13-down – Praise remark describing snarled lip : COMPLIMENT

14-down – Son enrolled uncertainly having invested £1,000, and explored underwater : SNORKELLED

18-down – What a very young footballer might do, repeatedly? : DRIBBLE

19-down – BMX trick from Jonathan Ross: honestly! : WHEELIE

21-down – Upset, curses celebrity : STAR

22-down – Poles’ uniform, grand and tight-fitting : SNUG

1-across – Crazy long tale about saloon, perhaps, somewhere in Indian Ocean … : MADAGASCAR

6-across – … eastern image in long tale : EPIC

9-across – Sterilise : PASTEURISE

10-across – File’s one showing fellows by university : MENU

12-across – Freak’s metal bananas in second-hand stalls : FLEAMARKETS

15-across – Primarily Spanish in etymology: ranges, rising apexes serrated? : SIERRAS

16-across – Cold – wearing summer footwear – disgrace! : SCANDAL

17-across – Dope and rye – wasted – this’ll help you see straight : EYEDROP

19-across – Some confront a rioter in Canadian province : ONTARIO

20-across – Bug … bear … cricket, perhaps : STICKINSECT

23-across – Flipping prison sentence to throw out : EMIT

24-across – Everyman is unable to express ‘dunno’ : ICANNOTSAY

25-across – Care for a round number? 500? : TEND

26-across – Concerning school to escape being reviewed: make a new plan : RESCHEDULE

1-down – Before start of evening, clean the floor that’s pine : MOPE

2-down – Soupçon of fly : DASH

3-down – Attacks poor and gambles the lot : GOESFORBROKE

4-down – Presents – or hides from view? : SCREENS

5-down – Believes in counterfeits : ASSUMES

7-down – President concealing ‘legal’ cash for those seeking power : PRETENDERS

8-down – In conversation, parish representative’s advisor : COUNSELLOR

11-down – Robert skates erratically: it’s a way of crossing the water : BREASTSTROKE

13-down – Fools’ son intended to lose heart in test : ASSESSMENT

14-down – Echoing intemperate petitioner : REPETITION

18-down – Criticise a revolutionary style : PANACHE

19-down – Incredibly wide, rustling up cocaine : OCEANIC

21-down – Old Testament figure seen in chocolate sauce : ESAU

22-down – Use a keyboard, and strain : TYPE