Daily Answers

1-across – Field covered with variety of shady shrubs : HYDRANGEAS

6-across – Inspire scorn, dropping name : SPUR

9-across – Pass westward around good island, showing sense : LOGIC

10-across – Sweet advance, seizing moment with run before work : LEMONDROP

12-across – Instrument in old saloon perhaps popular with audience initially : OCARINA

13-across – Archives in care of king seized by revolutionaries : RECORDS

14-across – Mountaineer near muddy ground around tor? : EDMUNDHILLARY

17-across – Story by bishop, weak, involving hesitation before church wine : LIEBFRAUMILCH

21-across – Potential row after daughter admitted to obsession : BUDDING

22-across – Judge in revolutionary period accepting part with resistance : ARBITER

24-across – Extended barrier in eastern capital? Not on : ELONGATED

25-across – Grand number followed by odd pieces from ballet : NOBLE

26-across – Carry toddler with energy : TOTE

27-across – Engine component about level with small handle : CRANKSHAFT

1-down – Large room, outstanding, sanctified : HALLOWED

2-down – Follow mother’s teaching : DOGMA

3-down – Dodgy gear I continue selling : AUCTIONEERING

4-down – Giant success? End up with hotel : GOLIATH

5-down – One in drama at sea left naval officer : ADMIRAL

7-down – Picture in doorway catching shaft of light : PORTRAYAL

8-down – Rest with engineers present : REPOSE

11-down – Discount large scam, coming up with goals and beginning to bear burden : NOCLAIMSBONUS

15-down – Commercial, in distortion of moral appeal, lacking skill : MALADROIT

16-down – Most acute pressure in parts over time : SHARPEST

18-down – Raised in Nazareth, gifted one with unyielding determination : FIGHTER

19-down – Lack of restraint in scrap : ABANDON

20-down – Protest? It’s a thing : OBJECT

23-down – Bone from bird endlessly conserved by volunteers : TIBIA

1-across – Understanding close to being achieved : INSIGHT

5-across – Passing movement covered by radio network : ONETWO

8-across – Flightless bird in upper region men disturbed : EMPERORPENGUIN

10-across – Endless surprise about female warrior : AMAZON

11-across – We run to fill a place, so to speak : ASITWERE

13-across – Record by one in criminal realm in denial : DISCLAIMER

15-across – Speaker’s strong salute : HAIL

17-across – Gemstone in ring father left : OPAL

18-across – Rodent getting cold in country : CHINCHILLA

20-across – Large amount in appeal involving god : PLETHORA

21-across – Fish from mass in shop : SALMON

24-across – File packed with mean tips for muddy field game : FOLLOWMYLEADER

25-across – Agreement following otherwise unpleasant experience : ORDEAL

26-across – Apparent end of great struggle dividing revolutionary pair : OUTWARD

1-down – Flower I placed on ground very softly on conclusion of ceremony : ICELANDPOPPY

2-down – One cutting part of flower, mostly brown : SEPIA

3-down – Good pattern of diamonds around old grotesque carving : GARGOYLE

4-down – Obligation to carry right flag : TIRE

5-down – Managing nothing before revenge is wrought : OVERSEEING

6-down – Momentous, losing wicket twenty short of a hundred : EIGHTY

7-down – British government, bit sorry? Absolutely : WHITEHALL

9-down – Polite source, chap with report initially in demand : WELLMANNERED

12-down – Humorist, working hard on act, set up for retirement : WITHDRAWAL

14-down – Way in which actors use sources, coming up with content that’s old : STAGEDOOR

16-down – Most inferior copy in box : CHEAPEST

19-down – Postpone research, having day off? Be quiet on that : SHELVE

22-down – Doctor aimed to provide means of communication : MEDIA

23-down – Error in faulty poll : TYPO

1-across – Sorceress with vagueness left to get lotion : WITCHHAZEL

6-across – Stubborn type in middle of discussion : CUSS

10-across – Cry of triumph about record showing first-class mark : ALPHA

11-across – Leader in retreat with old trend returning : EDITORIAL

12-across – Rush in attempt to make delicate pattern : TRACERY

13-across – Inscribe name, solemn after conclusion of service : ENGRAVE

14-across – Band’s mood, we felt, misrepresented by account : FLEETWOODMAC

18-across – Agitator, gloomier, accepting end of dream after dreadful rout : TROUBLEMAKER

21-across – Revised in the morning, wound up : AMENDED

23-across – Fancy publication popular in Italy and Spain : IMAGINE

24-across – Criminal turning curious about psychic power with time : DESPERADO

25-across – Useless sign we spot with odd bits missing : INEPT

26-across – Information, a small amount, going around : DATA

27-across – Generator of current reform met by security alliance with resistance : ALTERNATOR

1-down – Artist enters accompanied by ghost : WRAITH

2-down – Hot tap dancing in musical film : TOPHAT

3-down – Stars? Bad ones behave idly : HEAVENLYBODIES

4-down – Great design, first off, with neon gas : ACETYLENE

5-down – Banish team, dividing it? Not half : EXILE

7-down – Protesting vigorously, I spur man to change : UPINARMS

8-down – Unfamiliar clubs in south-east coming to prominence : SALIENCE

9-down – Collection, large, in country with people retaining proportion : CONGLOMERATION

15-down – Boring sport, one followed by a few? : WEARISOME

16-down – Element editor abandoned : STRANDED

17-down – County very ready to conserve most of lake : SOMERSET

19-down – Personal aim : DIRECT

20-down – Dry hill area : SECTOR

22-down – Slow way of speaking line at end of extract : DRAWL

1-across – Job with club for instance providing communication : POSTCARD

5-across – Thrust cable into place : PROPEL

9-across – Inspire some vigorous exercise : ROUSE

10-across – Inhabitants are found, right away? Rubbish : OCCUPANTS

12-across – Sensitive novel varies in power : CONTROVERSIAL

14-across – Oppressed in US city before retreat : LADEN

16-across – Musician with universal appeal, revolutionary artist in essence : GUITARIST

17-across – Examiner, one with new part accepting pressure : INSPECTOR

19-across – Saint in denial? Not nice : NASTY

20-across – People in battle hiss corrupted institution : ESTABLISHMENT

23-across – Anger, apprehending name as false : INSINCERE

24-across – Paved area with odd parts for plants I love : PATIO

25-across – Sense of taste? Mate scoffed : PALATE

26-across – Extend popular line : INCREASE

1-down – Grating remark added to letter about criminal court badly set up : PORTCULLIS

2-down – Incentive none initially reject : SPURN

3-down – V-shaped mark? There’s one in tail of exotic bird : CHEVRON

4-down – Swede perhaps in love with Greta to be confounded : ROOTVEGETABLE

6-down – Agent left in charge with author’s first copy : REPLICA

7-down – Write a line on obligations and sanctions : PENALTIES

8-down – Survive after all others : LAST

11-down – Creature with message in horror film, quietly breaking equipment over time : CARRIERPIGEON

13-down – Unadventurous treatment of hot meat, say : STAYATHOME

15-down – Distribution, rapid, less organised : DISPERSAL

18-down – Alien clutching unknown metal, cold and dead : EXTINCT

19-down – Drama, musical drama, mostly unsuccessful type : NOHOPER

21-down – More taking part in next rally : EXTRA

22-down – Without firmness proceed unsteadily : LIMP

1-across – Eager demon before a match not lacking heart : IMPATIENT

6-across – Front of ship supporting weight : PROW

8-across – Barriers broken by real pest involved in deceptive behaviour : FALSEPRETENCES

10-across – Sign changes, losing volume : ARIES

11-across – Horse in endless action after record back in time of greatest achievement : GOLDENAGE

12-across – Items as arranged for artist : MATISSE

14-across – Saint surrounded by snakes and crows : BOASTS

17-across – Difficult hearing : TRYING

18-across – Audibly dismissed, revolutionary pair left : OUTLOUD

20-across – Strengthen control, following evil creature east : REINFORCE

22-across – Diving bird black in colour apart from tail : GREBE

23-across – Doubts, even if temporary initially, harboured by assistants : SECONDTHOUGHTS

24-across – Happy tips in general accepted : GLAD

25-across – Critic’s article in German about time with performer : DETRACTOR

1-down – Format mainly designed to be provocative : INFLAMMATORY

2-down – Friend not clear about right method of fortune-telling : PALMISTRY

3-down – Strain without opening lock : TRESS

4-down – Tea before the usual time holding amount of work up : EARLGREY

5-down – Gossip, tons and tons in story : TATTLE

6-down – Write note on amount paid for festival : PENTECOST

7-down – Musical drama in old age retaining power : OPERA

9-down – Shrewd sellers newly disposing of large piece of furniture : WELSHDRESSER

13-down – Cool gains for excited Democrat : SANGFROID

15-down – Bird coming from south to north, swallow around church : STONECHAT

16-down – Plant, cut by me, covering a bit : SOMEWHAT

19-down – Hero, dedicated, partly undermined : ERODED

21-down – One understanding dream : IDEAL

22-down – Fuss raised about last item of menu after good cheese : GOUDA