Daily Answers

1-across – Electronic fault restricting new display : EVINCE

4-across – Old bottles, emptied and preserved, hidden : OBSCURED

9-across – Revolutionary nonsense transported critic : DETRACTOR

11-across – Shy maiden, poor, left out : MOUSY

12-across – Rig vote designed to cause feeling of instability : VERTIGO

13-across – Inexpert, united, right behind a friend : AMATEUR

14-across – Important dancer having cracked rib, in alarm, pale : PRIMABALLERINA

17-across – Sense retreat, for example, brought about by champion defending north vigorously : WITHAVENGEANCE

21-across – Monk admitting naughty dance : LAMBADA

23-across – Letter, second sent round by Conservative in club : OMICRON

24-across – One day, provoked, did nothing : IDLED

25-across – Conductor using baton with energy after return : ELECTRODE

26-across – Aim to go back aboard schooner perhaps for pleasure : GLADNESS

27-across – Blunder, as edited, partly rubbed out : ERASED

1-down – Leaf vegetable? Need, in a stew, about four : ENDIVE

2-down – Vignette, proper text with odd parts missing, read : INTERPRET

3-down – Beginnings of markings usually in curve upward in skull : CRANIUM

5-down – Bird found around rocky crag, lone duck : BARNACLEGOOSE

6-down – Contrast in heart broken by politician, heart of oak : COMPARE

7-down – Speaker’s beginning course : ROUTE

8-down – Pleasant fantasy story finally penned by father on quantity of paper : DAYDREAM

10-down – Agitators break rule most recklessly : TROUBLEMAKERS

15-down – Run up with documents from debtors? Not interested : INCURIOUS

16-down – Satisfactorily located in row, good home : DWELLING

18-down – Gang ahead after a scrap : ABANDON

19-down – Top star is in remake : ALISTER

20-down – Batting, lean and mean : INTEND

22-down – Type of whisky available initially in country : MALTA

1-across – Catch pitiful vehicle with ticket in end : DISADVANTAGE

9-across – Dreams, short of rations, about jelly : ASPIC

10-across – Cruelly inexperienced, losing wicket, undone initially by cunning : CALLOUSLY

11-across – Artist, joined by number in Italian city, left without natural explanation : PARANORMAL

12-across – Follow story from speaker : TAIL

14-across – Engineers in group agreed : SQUARED

16-across – Mild chapter, part lacking energy : CLEMENT

17-across – One inclined to question power in sect not usually in charge : SCEPTIC

18-across – Landed in south, confused : SADDLED

20-across – Piece on board for bird : ROOK

21-across – Jump around front of stage with crowd captivated by famous people : STARSTRUCK

24-across – Essentially needing a bit of money before meeting : CENTRALLY

25-across – Last letter from troublesome gangster : OMEGA

26-across – Influential figure in field, mostly dull and undemanding : LEADINGLIGHT

1-down – New rule up on red gate in part of airport : DEPARTURELOUNGE

2-down – Poor judge after support : SECONDRATE

3-down – Staff upset about extremes of erratic colour scheme : DECOR

4-down – Partnerships completely ruined in case : ALLIANCES

5-down – Run temperature? Nonsense : TROT

6-down – French author, fantastic but vague, falters : GUSTAVEFLAUBERT

7-down – Mass to occupy top American college area : CAMPUS

8-down – Look at rent making small hole : EYELET

13-down – Wilful leader’s weight about right? Good : HEADSTRONG

15-down – Sporting event strangely not held outside California : DECATHLON

17-down – Bits of satire I’d cite that aren’t even accurate : STRICT

19-down – Youngster put up with tacky stuff in order : DIKTAT

22-down – Rector’s first love? University, endlessly splendid : ROYAL

23-down – Produced signal to stop following bishop : BRED

1-across – Destroy resistance, mean, without hesitation : RAVAGE

4-across – Bully in cast looking menacing : SCOWLING

9-across – Legend, about pixie and old partner with proposal and answer, easily understood : SELFEXPLANATORY

11-across – Noise with hectic air in airport as a rule : ORDINARILY

12-across – Appointment kept by lord at embassy : DATE

13-across – Tone of old photographs, religious in the main? : SEPIA

15-across – Rewarded too highly in past with power and support : OVERPAID

18-across – Strange dream about time required to make sugar : DEMERARA

19-across – Learner at home with good old jargon : LINGO

21-across – Diamonds are awfully expensive : DEAR

22-across – Music in stream’s electronic, not adventurous : RISKAVERSE

25-across – Regiment arranged rig used at sea : GRENADIERGUARDS

26-across – Work, mostly cautious, by saint, hopeful one : OPTIMIST

27-across – Sloping island, one covered with powder : ITALIC

1-down – Press one in trouble to give answer : RESPONSE

2-down – Legal volume with article on cover : VALID

3-down – Fruit in odd parts of garden with promise : GREENGAGE

5-down – Thousand, enthralled by broadcast clip, hear rare saxophonist : CHARLIEPARKER

6-down – Tolerate sport : WEAR

7-down – Idyll’s beginning thus with language about love and loneliness : ISOLATION

8-down – Grand view around south over river in spring : GEYSER

10-down – Private investigation initially links big names : PERSONALITIES

14-down – Stop enclosing area on large common : PREVALENT

16-down – Value plot prepared for field event : POLEVAULT

17-down – Is emperor loudly upset over chapter of scientific evidence? : FORENSIC

20-down – A soldier in trouble for slow movement : ADAGIO

23-down – Pastoral artist restricted by endless regulation : RURAL

24-down – Conflict with spymaster getting heated : WARM

1-across – Clip showing enclosure in court : DOCK

3-across – Unite in the morning before gala arranged by friend : AMALGAMATE

10-across – Tense, run away, disgraced : STAINED

11-across – Beaming, getting help back in storm : RADIANT

12-across – Settled purpose consuming odd members of sect formerly : ENSCONCED

13-across – Texture of wood, small quantity : GRAIN

14-across – Concise news hardest to broadcast : SHORTANDSWEET

18-across – Part of garment, hot in essence, displayed with revolutionary pieces with colour : SHOULDERSTRAP

20-across – Month’s resistance in westward border area : APRIL

21-across – City clubs developed big dream : CAMBRIDGE

23-across – Medium possessed by high voice? Be fearful : TREMBLE

24-across – Engineers, hurt, turned back : REWOUND

25-across – Small stations endlessly restricted by crazy plan : MASTERMIND

26-across – Speaker’s paid attention to crowd : HERD

1-down – Inspector meaning to secure quiet deal : DISPENSE

2-down – Tea, very large order? On the contrary : CHAOS

4-down – Restorative lunch perhaps disrupted by gambling? Not good : MEDICINAL

5-down – Sensational line, universal and clear : LURID

6-down – Ready to fight in war, grandad gets agitated : ATDAGGERSDRAWN

7-down – A place equipped for experiments on flower and stone : ALABASTER

8-down – Area covered by text entirely : EXTENT

9-down – Wild about online troublemaker, a bully initially protected by relative : UNCONTROLLABLE

15-down – Terrible bores with poetry lacking energy as commentators : OBSERVERS

16-down – Smoother southern group in front of club : STEAMIRON

17-down – Declines, upset, to accept advance? Brilliant : SPLENDID

19-down – Outlaw thanks farm finally for fowl : BANTAM

21-down – Stuff including English dairy product : CREAM

22-down – Put out party treat : DOUSE

1-across – Snake by water’s margins covered with dark seaweed : BLADDERWRACK

9-across – Give answer, then pull back : AWARD

10-across – Alertness from soldier joining unruly clan in struggle : VIGILANCE

11-across – Made calm declaration initially during sitting : SEDATED

12-across – Note duck around river, towards the side : LATERAL

13-across – Agreement about fashion in urban area : CONFORMITY

15-across – Worry constantly occupying outlaw anguished in retreat : GNAW

17-across – Tense, given instruction in hearing : TAUT

18-across – Speaks about church with love, and former time as pupil : SCHOOLDAYS

21-across – Carry on with revolutionary bet : WAGERED

22-across – Support, led by bishop with hesitation, becoming more uneven : BUMPIER

23-across – Skilled workers around farm sent all over the place : CRAFTSMEN

24-across – New pub, unknown quantity for buffoon : NINNY

25-across – Obtain competent conclusion from pro enthralled by obscure plant extract : VEGETABLEOIL

1-down – Novel began a trend, holding food up as symbol of Berlin : BRANDENBURGGATE

2-down – Extra commercial issue, not first : ADDITION

3-down – Psalmist showing depth, devoted : DAVID

4-down – Leave, in anger, dry old opera : RIGOLETTO

5-down – Run over story, coming up with electronic link : RELATE

6-down – Antagonistic business of country holding leading position : CONFRONTATIONAL

7-down – Strike northward, dry for long distance : PARSEC

8-down – Elf distracted sad man : FELLOW

14-down – Parrot mostly perched on barrier, one above a tree : MACADAMIA

16-down – Sweetheart and sergeant possibly dance : FLAMENCO

17-down – Change course, taking in hot western belt : THWACK

19-down – Scatters branches bearing flowers : SPRAYS

20-down – Legal document with explosive twist : WRITHE

22-down – Exclude a line lacking originality : BANAL