Daily Answers

1-across – Party that might be in a garage : FIESTA

4-across – Making toast, perhaps for a poet : BROWNING

9-across – In part, male ego panicked about height : APOGEE

10-across – Lingerie on hips : BRASILIA

12-across – ‘I’ve offended you’; ‘I’ve been offended by you’ : PARDONME

13-across – Bigamy heartless: good to get married one time : BYGONE

15-across – Regrettably so, I clean huge fixture in sitting room : CHAISELONGUE

18-across – Titled peer leaders of High Tories condemned? : PITTTHEELDER

21-across – Phwoar! Fancied on-and-off Latin lover : HORACE

22-across – Inaccurate description of crossword in 1995 film : CLUELESS

24-across – She pummels Everyman with wear and tear around bottom : MASSEUSE

25-across – Very agreeable to take in European tourist destination : VENICE

26-across – Sensible, at first, to peel off clothing when it’s hot : SUNDRESS

27-across – Sign that insect’s invaded shed : LEANTO

1-down – Military commander hoisted during anti-aircraft fire needing piecing together : FLATPACK

2-down – Poker face: not starting to turn green : ECOFREAK

3-down – Catholics: ‘Easter – with transfiguration, now we are safe’ : THECOASTISCLEAR

5-down – Mostly red, a little raw in the middle? : RARE

6-down – Yen posted from abroad? : WISHYOUWEREHERE

7-down – Pieces of Inuit Greenland with little rooms? : IGLOOS

8-down – Something worn by men in Indian state: short-sleeved shirt : GOATEE

11-down – Ape and flightless bird extinct : EMULATE

14-down – Home with little ones restless all night – not good : ANTHILL

16-down – Bond had criminal picked up – sound : ADHESION

17-down – Shakespeare’s one spelling ‘fare well’ at end of Othello : PROSPERO

19-down – Gland and herb reduction unpleasantly served for starters : THYMUS

20-down – Begun preparing sarnie : ARISEN

23-down – Primarily alarming, serpentine poisonous slitherers? : ASPS

1-across – A complete shambles, maybe setter’s to be given time out, quick! : DOGSBREAKFAST

8-across – Primarily, extremely meddlesome matchmaker : EMMA

9-across – Acerbic Greek character can provide pudding : TARTETATIN

10-across – Altogether where Dorothy’s dog food ended up : INTOTO

11-across – ‘Blah blah blah’: review of 48 Hours? : YADAYADA

12-across – Parliamentarian to persecute revolutionary, Spooner reports : ROUNDHEAD

14-across – Perhaps, Sergeant Major, perhaps : JOHN

15-across – Famous sportsman, ‘The Greatest’ : BEST

16-across – Stride around shopping centre making chit-chat : SMALLTALK

20-across – Print pitch for pigeonhole : TYPECAST

21-across – Dicky Benaud is one going from Vienna to Belgrade : DANUBE

23-across – Horror-movie figure harshly bullies a headless dog : BELALUGOSI

24-across – Lawyer’s not finishing cheese : BRIE

25-across – Furniture that might be rust-proofed and extremely baroque? : FOURPOSTERBED

1-down – Tenor spotted piece to include: grand! : DOMINGO

2-down – Some ragù: a nourishing substance with distinctive smell : GUANO

3-down – Promise to put a wager on US novelist : BETROTH

4-down – Parliamentary business, one May’s adroitly amended : EARLYDAYMOTIONS

5-down – Prepares sourdough loaves, perhaps: essential things : KNEADS

6-down – Nasty coat needing alteration, no matter the price : ATANYCOST

7-down – Sick, tired, essentially stoned … considered fit : TRIEDON

13-down – A fortune’s laid out for horror movie : NOSFERATU

15-down – Piece of Laurel and Hardy finally, a fable that’s funny : BAYLEAF

17-down – ‘Salud!’, dit Emile : LUDDITE

18-down – Tried to influence bid with bloke losing £1,000, sadly : LOBBIED

19-down – Adjudicator, curtly, after brief look, to increase price unfairly : GAZUMP

22-down – Bigwig to apprehend rising pong : NABOB

1-across – Tricky phrase that might produce stuttering woe? : TONGUETWISTER

8-across – Some herbal medicine? : BALM

9-across – Get below platform : UNDERSTAND

10-across – Extremely fertile cat returned to admit misdeeds : FESSUP

11-across – Burrowing creature loses daughter, runs forward to reach Texan city : AMARILLO

12-across – Piece of British landscape depicted in off-key, sad composition : OFFASDYKE

14-across – Puts on about 500 commercials : ADDS

15-across – Very good … very good … distinctly average : SOSO

16-across – Unpleasant haircut that might be seen at tea time : STICKYBUN

21-across – Alert: ‘Following boundary, Australian captain declared’ : FOREWARN

22-across – Duchess, low in rank, obtaining grand husband? : MEGHAN

24-across – ‘Executive Search’ pro haunted her disturbingly : HEADHUNTER

25-across – Extensive head of hair, we’re told : MAIN

26-across – Team Trump rent asunder, leading to explosion of rage : TEMPERTANTRUM

1-down – One that might be brewing or poaching? : TEALEAF

2-down – Makes dull songs without hesitation : NUMBS

3-down – Pursued, trounced, commandeered : USURPED

4-down – Primarily, trendy educational disquisition to advance latest knowledge? : TEDTALK

5-down – Sort of raid, no? : INROAD

6-down – Even now, toady’s hit ferociously : TOTHISDAY

7-down – Malodorous, the French starter of snails causes vexation : RANKLES

13-down – McEwan novel, Decapitated Pet Cuckoo’s Upset : AMSTERDAM

15-down – Sit around, loiter endlessly with contemptuous expression : SHOVEIT

17-down – Little bird going round city in direction of very little one : TINYTOT

18-down – Instigator of Brexit vote: ‘Country will lose nothing’ : CAMERON

19-down – A little unwisely, skull cap removed for heavy metal : URANIUM

20-down – Lunatic overcome by boundless ocean, misrepresented? : CANUTE

23-down – Perhaps Guitar Hero fan offering a bit of Young Americans : GAMER

1-across – Swansea, rather stormy sandy area : WESTERNSAHARA

8-across – PM, less bold, in retreat : LAIR

9-across – Opt out with pain, suffering to some extent : UPTOAPOINT

10-across – Playwright grovelled, we’re told : COWARD

11-across – With backing of UN, volunteer soldiers in jet : FOUNTAIN

12-across – Church figure with shady past: he’s seen in brothel : STPATRICK

14-across – Yes, in Germany, Wenders – on the fringes – creates film : JAWS

15-across – Appreciates accommodation : DIGS

16-across – Basically not fine to manipulate fiancé? Not half : INESSENCE

20-across – Weak ale? I wobble and worry : LIEAWAKE

21-across – A learner with weapons leads to panics : ALARMS

23-across – Longed to peel off pinched kind of trousers : PINSTRIPED

24-across – Primarily: systematise / order / rank / type : SORT

25-across – Coastal, rather stormy: character of the South : SCARLETTOHARA

1-down – Crossword setters are mostly unfashionable and need replacing : WEAROUT

2-down – Some fairy stories about far-off land : SYRIA

3-down – Country dancing, caroused with seconds to spare : ECUADOR

4-down – Most of notifications: ‘New Kind of Menu, Italian!’ This won’t last long : NOTIFICANHELPIT

5-down – Upwardly mobile head of Uber takes taxi in South Africa? You can count on it : ABACUS

6-down – U-boat questionably brave to reverse direction : ABOUTFACE

7-down – Australian gets loose with relatives : AUNTIES

13-down – Aeneas’ age? It’s uncertain, but the location is somewhere around Greece : AEGEANSEA

15-down – Everyman wearing platforms and flowers : DAISIES

17-down – Nothing special and, at heart, a bit of a git : SOANDSO

18-down – A mountainous place, Cuba, a mountainous place : CUMBRIA

19-down – Is it a tree? Yes. A shrub? Also yes. Hardy? … not quite : LAUREL

22-down – Lost part of Great Seal : ATSEA

1-across – Become reconciled to US rock band : KISSANDMAKEUP

8-across – Averse to walnut oil every now and then : ANTI

9-across – Prince Andrew, say, visibly ashamed: it’s a big deal : ROYALFLUSH

10-across – Japanese discipline, computing, hard to get to highest point : ZENITH

11-across – Old drunkards hurl crockery : TOSSPOTS

12-across – Set off explosive in pursuit of bit of sediment here? : STRIPMINE

14-across – Scandinavian with some belief in Nordism : FINN

15-across – Fill up with seconds devoured? : SATE

16-across – Times of day when sight wilts almost hazily? : TWILIGHTS

20-across – Dancing seen around here drunkenly? : BEERHALL

21-across – Gestures showing respect; king, on reflection, observed around 50 : KNEELS

23-across – Timeless, warmer, quiet composition of Britten? : WARREQUIEM

24-across – Comic character landed? Not half : ALIG

25-across – Feel overwhelmed? Town begged God for release : GETBOGGEDDOWN

1-down – Almost all German children say ‘thankyou’ at first: most agreeable : KINDEST

2-down – Primarily, stories concerning imagined fantastical impacts? : SCIFI

3-down – A Hindu god, minutes later, becomes Jewish patriarch : ABRAHAM

4-down – Creating barriers, arousing any strong-willed characters : DRYSTONEWALLING

5-down – Finally, he with weight on shoulders given time : ATLAST

6-down – Covering up European cuts in Guardian’s leader : ECLIPSING

7-down – Afghan people joke about a quiet time : PASHTUN

13-down – Revamped teleprinter, ignoring the French, to decode : INTERPRET

15-down – Informed about Hebrews’ affair : SHEBANG

17-down – According to Spooner, Everyman’s dressed hurriedly : LIKEMAD

18-down – To make up tale about Khuzdul, for starters – and Sauron, in the end – he did! : TOLKIEN

19-down – Shakespearean character, Caliban, quotable to some extent : BANQUO

22-down – Muse sequester a tourbus? Not entirely : ERATO