Daily Answers

1-across – About hundred in expanded team at airport : GROUNDCREW

6-across – Speaker’s manner, one entitled to succeed : HEIR

9-across – In solitaire get nice round number : INTEGER

10-across – Curving in a circle around church : ARCHING

12-across – Introductory remarks from peer, similar in broadcast : PRELIMINARIES

14-across – Reconfigured base conserving energy : RESET

15-across – Question about husband with name in claim : CHALLENGE

16-across – Release inspector’s accusation : DISCHARGE

18-across – Tent torn initially by sword : TEPEE

20-across – King in end has got son prepared? What a relief : THANKGOODNESS

23-across – Prohibition as it affected coffee shop worker : BARISTA

24-across – Assist in scripting ceremony after scare : COWRITE

25-across – Aims for extremities : ENDS

26-across – Trauma? Pay attention to temperature and rest : HEARTBREAK

1-down – Once more missing a profit : GAIN

2-down – Company up above leading American ink producer : OCTOPUS

3-down – Giant with terrible hate asks after knight? Not very good : NOGREATSHAKES

4-down – Dog appearing to be otherwise in animated graphics? : CORGI

5-down – Destroy order, losing time after time : ERADICATE

7-down – Incitement to riot? No small issue : EDITION

8-down – Indicated substance on middle of fern, cutting plant : REGISTERED

11-down – Quantity in map on distribution of bees around west in children’s book : CHARLOTTESWEB

13-down – Revolutionary appeal in line deserving praise : CREDITABLE

15-down – Shared nothing expert raised in case : CORPORATE

17-down – Played leading role and looked about right : STARRED

19-down – Father with odd items required for hobby : PASTIME

21-down – Expression of surprise, following tips for divine colour scheme : DECOR

22-down – Guard, rising, giving sly look : PEEK

1-across – Objection with pressure losing initial support : BUTTRESS

5-across – Pair with one child in place of captivity : PRISON

9-across – Satisfied about arrangement of nice easy job : SINECURE

10-across – Parts of barrels, tons in stores : STAVES

12-across – Put down narrative poem : LAY

13-across – Revolutionary book in harmony with a line that’s cool : UNEMOTIONAL

14-across – Shout by old man in stand, great for football club : CRYSTALPALACE

17-across – Complete reconstruction of barn to do with farm : ROOTANDBRANCH

21-across – Contrast in excellence : DISTINCTION

22-across – Speak softly? Successful move in hearing : COO

23-across – Beginning to rig inquiry partially : ORIGIN

24-across – Vibrant instinct reflected in angry speech : RESONANT

25-across – Cheers ruler is receiving : TAKING

26-across – Alienate sergeant in disorder : ESTRANGE

1-down – Church building I left, entering unadorned area : BASILICA

2-down – Plant becomes brown and crinkly, finally : TANSY

3-down – Describe requirement after close vote : RECOUNT

4-down – Call universe complicated, making observation : SURVEILLANCE

6-down – Temperature wrong in most of actual wine : RETSINA

7-down – Number watched gripping episode : SEVENTEEN

8-down – Edges of notice, somewhat loose, curl up : NESTLE

11-down – Mock actor’s words about struggle with singular lack of courage : COWARDLINESS

15-down – Standard criticism after cart overturned : YARDSTICK

16-down – Device controlling engine’s power in time, hot and dry in part : THROTTLE

18-down – Work, fashionable one concerning belief : OPINION

19-down – Conducted tribunal without ending bitterness : RANCOUR

20-down – Run into trouble, then appeal? That’s clever : ADROIT

22-down – Series about hospital patient with odd parts omitted : CHAIN

1-across – Film area held by group back in the news : TOPICAL

5-across – Account by bishop in cold fury turning bitter : ACERBIC

9-across – Average young salmon, reportedly : PAR

10-across – In command, one man, thinking : INTELLIGENT

11-across – Troublemakers in hour in gaol so out of order : HOOLIGANS

12-across – Some complain anecdote’s fatuous : INANE

13-across – Crude, corrupt rag is read once : COARSEGRAINED

16-across – Old man with good name, admitting small swindle, scared : PANICSTRICKEN

20-across – Run into extremely quiet band : TROOP

21-across – Indicator of change, portent endlessly disrupting trade : BAROMETER

22-across – Court studies page with nothing about award for loser : WOODENSPOON

23-across – Cut and run, missing finish : LOP

24-across – House in yard, on reflection, unpleasant : DYNASTY

25-across – Day after day seer’s unusually attired : DRESSED

1-down – Western journalist after time and work getting maximum price : TOPWHACK

2-down – Runners on a loop, struggling under pressure? That could be us : PERSONALPRONOUN

3-down – Attackers? Odd characters in cars in this case : CRITICS

4-down – Sluggish husband getting into scrape left upset and sick at heart : LETHARGIC

5-down – Sadly accepting expert’s conclusion in geographical book : ATLAS

6-down – Issue with electronic speech, not constant : EDITION

7-down – Insects filled in by artist on edges of notepad sketch for fun : BEERANDSKITTLES

8-down – Pretty tentative initially about large portion of meat : CUTLET

14-down – Last section of tar we newly put on road : AFTERWORD

15-down – Brave one, not losing heart, clear about record : INTREPID

17-down – Claws of crustaceans, young ones : NIPPERS

18-down – Giant that is guarding thousand people, foremost in story : IMMENSE

19-down – Street due to be packed : STOWED

21-down – Coach perhaps with past item of headgear : BUSBY

1-across – Add to enclosure containing buildings : COMPOUND

6-across – Stare at Oscar with endless joy : OGLE

10-across – Fish in perspective : ANGLE

11-across – Staff thus after end of seminar tucked into pasta and left : PERSONNEL

12-across – Pious in retreat? On the contrary, in truth : HONESTLY

13-across – Captains ignoring very quiet competitors in winter sport? : SKIERS

15-across – Monotonous style ruins good broadcast : SOULDESTROYING

18-across – Observed disc following fool with no time for UFO sighting? : CLOSEENCOUNTER

20-across – Player’s second foul allowed : LAWFUL

21-across – Consultative volume is probing trouble with railway : ADVISORY

24-across – Discovery coming from confinement with carbon instead of nitrogen : DETECTION

25-across – Rebel finally, to some extent, impish : ELFIN

26-across – Study without large merit : EARN

27-across – Meal about right with definite value : TREASURE

2-down – Old tips for restoring an instrument : ORGAN

3-down – Delighted with sale, chap ends up getting tipsy : PLEASEDASPUNCH

4-down – Crude vote, nearly held by university, dropped : UNPOLISHED

5-down – Five hundred on vessel without light : DARK

7-down – See about run, refreshed after drink and biscuit : GINGERNUT

8-down – Sign up in street topped with funny line : ENLIST

9-down – Mischief aboard vital vehicle popular during disorder : MONKEYBUSINESS

10-down – Horrified tourist’s latest story coming up, about hotel : AGHAST

14-down – Page on garden in preliminary survey getting priority : PRECEDENCE

16-down – United in due course to protect large south-western lake : ULLSWATER

17-down – Shaft of light in trick becoming stick of wax? : CRAYON

19-down – Assurance in place with advantage : PLEDGE

22-down – Upset about supporting bad proposal : OFFER

23-down – Reportedly avoided thin fog : MIST

1-across – Warning from revolutionary work in middle of argument : TIPOFF

4-across – What about politician with a muscular movement being decisive? : EMPHATIC

10-across – Time after time entering bar and beginning to yell angrily : RATTILY

11-across – Begin to deal with commercial outfit : ADDRESS

12-across – Peevish, right away, making tiny sum of money : SOU

13-across – Dry joke initially in exclusive story left by popular composer : SCOTTJOPLIN

14-across – Small item of kit assembled, including a prong and energy socket : MATINEEJACKET

17-across – Shiny material in heap later shifted outside shelter : PATENTLEATHER

21-across – Protective curtain, very large, left in artist’s possession : MOSQUITONET

23-across – Business with black swan : COB

24-across – Note less than clean : LAUNDER

25-across – Piece of mosaic put back before start of study period : TESSERA

26-across – Basic structure half of sketch revealed : SKELETON

27-across – Loose-fitting garment working, I see, in a different way : ONESIE

1-down – Abnormal rise in volume that’s annoying : TIRESOME

2-down – Offend astute pro improperly forced into retirement : PUTOUTTOPASTURE

3-down – Is child following father? That must be a thrill : FRISSON

5-down – Indicated nitrogen in substance : MEANT

6-down – Fish received on wharf : HADDOCK

7-down – Struggling to help sect, think things are getting complicated : THEPLOTTHICKENS

8-down – Nothing wrong in church function : COSINE

9-down – Colour around unknown part of Alpine region : TYROLEAN

15-down – Glen that gets spoilt eventually : ATLENGTH

16-down – Game in enclosure disrupted by band? Not on : CRIBBAGE

18-down – New deal excluding filling in actual roll : TRUNDLE

19-down – Skilled worker, prejudiced, quietly dismissed : ARTISAN

20-down – One in climbing small trees showing signs of happiness : SMILES

22-down – Trunk carried by visitor sometimes : TORSO