Daily Answers

1-across – Very different energy in field within harbour : POLESAPART

6-across – Prune in cold sauce : CLIP

9-across – Not well away from classes : OUTOFSORTS

10-across – Called for step : RUNG

11-across – Section of unusually rich poem : LYRIC

12-across – Frightened, interrupted by agent, turned and ran away : SCARPERED

14-across – Awkward name that is kept by popular religious community : INCONVENIENT

18-across – Everyday work, frequently rough, guarding border : RUNOFTHEMILL

21-across – Try and quit going around with delinquent, finally sincere : HEARTFELT

23-across – Visual trick’s first seen in old film : OPTIC

24-across – Count simply excluding me : RELY

25-across – Brave, keeping one settled and at ease : FACILITATE

26-across – Boring event? New approach must come about : YAWN

27-across – Short distance from stretch in middle : CENTIMETRE

1-down – Herald in place receiving expression of surprise, rising with purpose : PROCLAIM

2-down – French article full of appeal with ribald writer’s skill : LITERACY

3-down – Pass note picked up in moment for all to see in front of court : SAFECONDUCT

4-down – Schemes ending in scrap heaps : PLOTS

5-down – Devotee of ceremony is ultra excited about it : RITUALIST

7-down – Gallery and university very involved in learning : LOUVRE

8-down – Trouble opening up temple : PAGODA

13-down – Criticise protest, one surrounded by endless senseless uproar : PANDEMONIUM

15-down – Clear sign of error one found in English class : EXONERATE

16-down – Divert inspector with singular pamphlet : DISTRACT

17-down – Servant in bed mostly as a result of being punched? : BLACKEYE

19-down – Bashful about blunder offering drink : SHERRY

20-down – Roll in act up and down : WALLOW

22-down – Contamination in data in transit : TAINT

1-across – Organisations in dispute still around : SETUPS

4-across – Secret ring in compound in command : ESOTERIC

9-across – Maiden in story, delicate in glare of publicity : LIMELIGHT

11-across – Run across wanderer : ROVER

12-across – Pursue fanciful goals, having hour in event with artist with fashionable inclinations : CHASERAINBOWS

14-across – Obsession with affair : THING

16-across – Successor I hire, not bothered by resistance : INHERITOR

17-across – Inspector’s complaint about core of policy causing incredulity : DISBELIEF

19-across – Speaker’s quiet part : PIECE

21-across – Vessel for cargo designed to enrich Spain : CONTAINERSHIP

24-across – Substitute for unknown quantities : PROXY

25-across – Nordic person, one with family around east, turning communist : ICELANDER

26-across – Loud and clear, after end of appointment, getting told to go outside : STRIDENT

27-across – Reveal demon with skill : IMPART

1-down – Concern about one in lonely state : SOLICITUDE

2-down – Drums upset sleep? Endlessly nervous about that : TIMPANI

3-down – Seeds to beat : PULSE

5-down – Be indecisive after admitting one theft in error : SITONTHEFENCE

6-down – Engine in lead, up around poor ground, following northward track : TURBOPROP

7-down – Vicar is, on appeal, to consider again : REVISIT

8-down – Rude scoundrel on time : CURT

10-down – Good informer, one with answer in story giving pleasure : GRATIFICATION

13-down – Nonconformist ready to accept split with prophet coming up : FREESPIRIT

15-down – Jealous desire to possess new watch : GREENEYED

18-down – Assistance copper raised during search : SUCCOUR

20-down – Animal identified by expedition’s leader on day in country : ECHIDNA

22-down – River and wood covering area in kingdom : REALM

23-down – Love quiet American composition : OPUS

1-across – Revolutionary handles exchange : SWAP

3-across – Exiled sailor found going round islands : OSTRACISED

9-across – Perennial communist joining photo arranged by king with hesitation : REDHOTPOKER

11-across – Boring thing, litigation, beginning to end : AWL

12-across – Minister and agent in retirement keeping contact : PREACHER

13-across – Make joke about time needed to produce identification : DOGTAG

15-across – Sitcom from past, one’s noted, being broadcast : STEPTOEANDSON

18-across – Enraged by last item in puzzle book? Answer of course fitted : MADETOMEASURE

20-across – Outdated lot had to change : OLDHAT

22-across – Editor, on reflection, right to cut biblical book? Rubbish : DETRITUS

24-across – Restrain language in speech : TIE

25-across – Soldier left, given cover by popular pilot, without a supervisor : INVIGILATOR

26-across – Is main rule altered for famous people? : LUMINARIES

27-across – Fight using force with beam : FRAY

1-down – Sentimental spot about your university : SYRUPY

2-down – Directed commercial in costume : ADDRESSED

4-down – Issues raised about superior part of day for meal : SUPPERTIME

5-down – Dissolute man in scrape : RAKE

6-down – Ecofriendly vehicle on notable run after modification : CARBONNEUTRAL

7-down – Stone sculpture for instance found : START

8-down – Hard-working inspector, given illumination, taking information in : DILIGENT

10-down – Box clever finally in speech, making arrangement : ORCHESTRATION

14-down – Set up two beers, entertaining good lawyer : LEGALEAGLE

16-down – Criminal protects a witness : SPECTATOR

17-down – Bad round that’s beginning to be memorable : IMMORTAL

19-down – Off course since attempt to skirt area : ASTRAY

21-down – Ambition about breaking barrier : DREAM

23-down – Finished up in secure vocation : OVER

1-across – Forceful machine one steered in quiet waterway : PILEDRIVER

6-across – See second best round : SPOT

9-across – House style according to declaration : MANOR

10-across – Scrambled over a dune, making an effort : ENDEAVOUR

12-across – Part of building above foundations getting great new rust remedy – about time : SUPERSTRUCTURE

13-across – Roll into hearing in court : TRIBUNAL

15-across – Dull affair having no end : MATTE

17-across – Reel around in circles : LOOPS

19-across – Final section from record, one left by villain, not right : EPILOGUE

21-across – Heat’s damaged container, perhaps, depending on circumstances : ASTHECASEMAYBE

24-across – Bed occupied by male with obvious illness : COMPLAINT

25-across – Area in pub became finally empty : INANE

26-across – Weighty book from my perspective : TOME

27-across – Sharp sequence in neat broadcast : ASTRINGENT

1-down – Quiz round avoided by learner : PUMP

2-down – Weariness in tips from orator after speech giving age away : LANGUOR

3-down – Lacy blue dress designed for dancer : DARCEYBUSSELL

4-down – Diplomacy without force supported by northern church, basically : INESSENCE

5-down – Colour that is picked up in bird frequenting coastal area : EIDER

7-down – Point about staff copper raised, getting result : PRODUCT

8-down – Aimed at gain in trade all over the place : TARGETED

11-down – Compromise? Hotel for instance offers it : ACCOMMODATION

14-down – Garland around tree’s not normally seen in city : LEICESTER

16-down – Definite corruption of cruel act : CLEARCUT

18-down – Choose centre for holiday with mother? Perfect : OPTIMUM

20-down – Universal fury about doctor causing offence : UMBRAGE

22-down – False name, sadly, one admitted : ALIAS

23-down – Garment in attractive style : VEST

1-across – Occasion of remembrance that’s made city’s air altered : ARMISTICEDAY

8-across – Decorated knight embraced by beloved : ADORNED

9-across – Follow bad decline : TAILOFF

11-across – Levels attained by performers free from pressure : LAYERS

12-across – Contrive pretence, first off, about card game : ENGINEER

14-across – Uncertainty about field set by captain initially for entertaining pair : DOUBLEACT

15-across – Hard to follow editor, coming back with point showing intensity : DEPTH

17-across – Visual work with idiosyncrasy : OPTIC

19-across – Infallible dessert with soft top : FOOLPROOF

21-across – Overdrawn? Some restraint here desirable : INTHERED

23-across – Nothing right with bargain in trial : ORDEAL

25-across – Scraps in trenches : DITCHES

26-across – Letter from saint in English collection : EPISTLE

27-across – Last moment in episode with leaders in historic hostilities, once in control, retreating : ELEVENTHHOUR

1-down – Soldier for instance carrying on, a guy trained to be an adviser : AGONYAUNT

2-down – Inorganic substance during time breaking large mass up : MINERAL

3-down – Bank’s team : SIDE

4-down – Chanting, enthusiastic about country : INTONATION

5-down – Improved condition that is seen in teddy’s stuffing : EDIFIED

6-down – Unaccompanied in general on errands : ALONE

7-down – Name elevated poem about time with care remembered : CALLEDTOMIND

10-down – Poem read as memorial with frequency here, not out of order around autumn : FORTHEFALLEN

13-down – Hold hot flannel so anxiously : HALFNELSON

16-down – One who demonstrates corruption getting into trouble : PROTESTER

18-down – Playwright in church sorry about end of talk on old verse : CHEKHOV

20-down – Left company outside one entrance to building : PORTICO

22-down – Child, a learner, unqualified : TOTAL

24-down – Network in south restricted by northward border : MESH