Daily Answers

1-across – Artillery in middle of sustained signal : HERALD

4-across – Vehicle fuel not properly guarded : CAREFUL

9-across – Small cake, favourite one with number around end of buffet : PETITFOUR

10-across – Meeting in university breaking mould : FORUM

11-across – Combine to go round in circuit : LOOP

12-across – Delayed reaction appropriate after image : DOUBLETAKE

14-across – Nun at sea? Prude, awfully old-fashioned : SUPERANNUATED

16-across – Vessel, great success, bearing north ahead of one with power and skill : CRAFTSMANSHIP

20-across – Be deceitful, getting into a state, causing estrangement : ALIENATION

21-across – Stake in card game opponent declared : ANTE

23-across – Singer back in style led appeal : ADELE

24-across – Less wide ground behind energy plant : EDELWEISS

25-across – Doctor sure about name linked to singular lack of moisture : DRYNESS

26-across – Church official against endless remorse in retirement : VERGER

1-down – Impossible exercises in pits with sulphur : HOPELESS

2-down – Excited over spicy letter with consideration of past events : RETROSPECTIVELY

3-down – Former illustration in book with page missing : LATE

4-down – Deer united below a ridge in Colorado : CARIBOU

5-down – Expressing resistance, choosing to restrict force : REFLECTING

6-down – Progressive, cross, embracing conflict with weak monarch : FORWARDTHINKING

7-down – Move awkwardly stored furniture : LUMBER

8-down – Expression of surprise, taken in by fraud in case : COCOON

13-down – Relative cheers up over first couple of nights in country : GREATNIECE

15-down – Look outside state’s borders for conciliator : APPEASER

17-down – Shreds potatoes, consuming time : TATTERS

18-down – Low revolutionary tied up : MOORED

19-down – Difficult to grasp a variable risk : HAZARD

22-down – Mawkish material lacking depth : TWEE

1-across – Ditch fish in river? On the contrary : TRENCH

4-across – Time for example consumed by random plan : STRATEGY

9-across – Protest in error about railway : OUTCRY

10-across – Eccentric joke, best around : CRACKPOT

12-across – Author of tales with exhausted villain possessing one unknown power : BEATRIXPOTTER

14-across – Famous sign of assent to protect tribe’s borders : NOTED

15-across – Brief record, hot gem mostly : EPHEMERAL

17-across – Wine waiter right after start of meal in a certain lounge : SOMMELIER

19-across – Film to follow while making jelly : ASPIC

21-across – Learner in tangled web overdrawn in dystopian novel : BRAVENEWWORLD

24-across – Private signal : INTIMATE

25-across – Move restlessly following identification and capture : FIDGET

26-across – Predicted worry about ring, antique : FORETOLD

27-across – Drink during supper, no doubt : PERNOD

1-down – Player isn’t robot designed to cover miles : TROMBONIST

2-down – Passage further north of court : EXTRACT

3-down – Case in which vehicle goes over top of roof? : CARTRIDGE

5-down – Bought red car, newly equipped to be more powerful : TURBOCHARGED

6-down – Racecourse firm in days gone by, not soft : ASCOT

7-down – Ruler with energy, politician with heartless delusion : EMPEROR

8-down – Legendary creature still on island : YETI

11-down – Fellows supporting one in authority with a line that’s tentative : EXPERIMENTAL

13-down – Very happy about central element in inquiry detectives explained : ELUCIDATED

16-down – New mail he sorted at the same time : MEANWHILE

18-down – Medium crustacean, not large? Criminal : MOBSTER

20-down – Standard earlier name for model : PARAGON

22-down – Acknowledge commercial with mass appeal : ADMIT

23-down – Able to rise above loud argument : TIFF

1-across – Strong resistance with nothing broken : ROBUST

4-across – Inspector’s crony securing very large sale : DISPOSAL

9-across – Controlling worries, going back into loose scrum : MASTERFUL

11-across – Love nearly new dress : ADORN

12-across – Fashion outlet, bit lame? You’re not wrong : TELLMEABOUTIT

14-across – Modify early theory at regular intervals : ALTER

16-across – Phoney reproduction hard to return with ceremony : HYPOCRITE

17-across – Church retreat changed talkative type : CHATTERER

19-across – Quiet, absorbed by case, lacking time to make Japanese dish : SUSHI

20-across – Recreational facility in America that is large, brought about by modern engineers : LEISURECENTRE

23-across – Belief in alien reflected by trap : TENET

24-across – Gel in appropriate phase prepared : TAKESHAPE

25-across – Large number before year’s end in city inn : HOSTELRY

26-across – Section of paint entirely absorbed : INTENT

1-down – Payment, in brief hypnotic state, not right : REMITTANCE

2-down – Herb with some lamb as illustrated : BASIL

3-down – Guide about a medium item of cookware : STEAMER

5-down – Seek for public ground in Dorset area : ISLEOFPURBECK

6-down – Fake photograph? Continue to go into it : PLASTIC

7-down – Flings involving debatable charmers : SMOOTHIES

8-down – Solitary advance reported : LONE

10-down – Brush with fame’s beginning with time with crowd, united in festival : FEATHERDUSTER

13-down – Perfection about penalty shoot-out finally getting people involved : REFINEMENT

15-down – Markings on court order for men’s trial : TRAMLINES

18-down – Prickly plant in varied list in article : THISTLE

19-down – Saint manages without grand hat : STETSON

21-down – Switch craft : TRADE

22-down – State a breaking point? Not so : UTAH

1-across – Tease in habitual action? Very sad : TRAGIC

4-across – Systems of measurement for plates : SCALES

10-across – Vegetable, bruised initially, absolute enthusiasts set aside : BUTTERNUTSQUASH

11-across – Roofless old enclosure, architect’s last work : OPENTOP

12-across – Weaving of mat seen to be most skilful : MEANEST

13-across – Shabby article about studied obstruction : THREADBARE

15-across – Eccentric hobby to some extent ridiculous : RICH

16-across – Run, fit and ecstatic : RAPT

17-across – Most unusual to store data in tropical environment : RAINFOREST

20-across – Be morose, keeping away after retirement in county : SUFFOLK

21-across – Robbed, cold and angry : CHEATED

23-across – Love song, terrible trial when gloomy : MYHEARTWILLGOON

24-across – Cool and objective in test : TRENDY

25-across – Sticky substance covering spot around mineral : GYPSUM

1-down – Prohibited cheers with expression of disapproval : TABOO

2-down – Mashed potato father had without hesitation : ATTHEDROPOFAHAT

3-down – Lack of movement, batting? Time to wrap it up : INERTIA

5-down – Odd members of clan that spoil a new boat : CATAMARAN

6-down – Fruit, large quota distributed : LOQUAT

7-down – Instructions for action in raid get muddled in parts : STAGEDIRECTIONS

8-down – Speak irritably in card game : SNAP

9-down – Problem in feline gossip : CHITCHAT

13-down – Tedious occasion? Half resolved to disrupt it : TIRESOME

14-down – Put together plot involving dishonest activity : BRACKETED

18-down – Covering part of disloyal revolution up : OVERLAY

19-down – Teacher put away present : DONATE

21-down – Extract fastener : CLIP

22-down – Study one beginning to mend fabric : DENIM

1-across – Perfect demon, last of cattle caught by rope : IMPECCABLE

6-across – Practise boxing in yard? : SPAR

10-across – Correct to skirt likely trap : CAPTURE

11-across – Heart? Inquiry’s opening with account relating to it : CARDIAC

12-across – Revolutionary flag millions value : MERIT

13-across – Outlaw group with odd bits of easy money : BANKNOTES

14-across – Typical routine by retired father, absorbed by map, in charge : CHARACTERISTIC

17-across – Prickly feeling almost excessive after pressure in desert? : PINSANDNEEDLES

21-across – Hesitant number, four, entering art institution : TENTATIVE

23-across – Half of test covering fringe subject : THEME

24-across – Evil one with constant appeal against the law : ILLICIT

25-across – Loving stir, mostly, seizing moment : AMOROUS

26-across – Ruler essential to work in geometry : KING

27-across – Power in tree men treated as supreme : PREEMINENT

1-down – Money earned from popular approach : INCOME

2-down – Annoyance about place in Australia being insubstantial : PAPERTHIN

3-down – Make up for hesitation in matter and rest : COUNTERBALANCE

4-down – Sharp and brilliant, playing crib : ACERBIC

5-down – Parasites formerly having no love for authority : LICENCE

7-down – Purpose in detail : POINT

8-down – Question scoundrel raised with crook, missing contents in bag : RUCKSACK

9-down – Take on fit rider trained to be jockey : FRANKIEDETTORI

15-down – Time and energy occupied by breed of cattle, endlessly so : THEREFORE

16-down – See potency in penalty : SPOTKICK

18-down – One with unsettled life blushing, upset about estrangement : DRIFTER

19-down – Raise tax in free-for-all, ignoring leader : ELEVATE

20-down – Accommodation with debt is complicated : BEDSIT

22-down – Only broadcast new material : NYLON