Daily Answers

1-across – Optional term otherwise relating to large city : METROPOLITAN

9-across – Crush good part of orange : GRIND

10-across – Attention occupied by work in New York waterway : EASTRIVER

11-across – Delicate eastern article, not fake : ETHEREAL

12-across – Hearts captured by artist with a flower : DAHLIA

14-across – Exposes new troubles : NAILS

16-across – Maintain faltering debate, finally lifeless : INANIMATE

18-across – Source of popular fashion followed by worker? : INFORMANT

19-across – County’s southern dialect, not northern : SLIGO

20-across – Cowboy with a cough in a bad way : GAUCHO

22-across – Historic event set down by gospel writer : LANDMARK

25-across – Repose interrupted by coach in control : RESTRAINT

26-across – Improve condition in mixture of dye : EDIFY

27-across – Film from Billy Wilder’s collection with skill seen by people time after time : THEAPARTMENT

2-down – Singer showing heart of defiance in depth if suffering : EDITHPIAF

3-down – Jockey relieved to be over hesitation : RIDER

4-down – Regarding hurt, appeal to stop friend before tying the knot : PREMARITAL

5-down – Go on at the end : LAST

6-down – Small turtles, poor pair, grabbed by seabirds : TERRAPINS

7-down – Original verse during Christmas : NOVEL

8-down – Doubtful about facility, brother? Get a mechanic : GREASEMONKEY

9-down – Envious, identifies growing ability : GREENFINGERS

13-down – Expert rates stamp poorly : PASTMASTER

15-down – Cleaner in rush for additional payment : SURCHARGE

17-down – Disturbance produced by taint Iago concocted : AGITATION

21-down – Out of bed and ready for trouble : UPSET

23-down – Democrat with drive filled with energy and hope : DREAM

24-down – Drooping, walk unevenly : LIMP

1-across – Bar restricts sandwiches : BUTTIES

5-across – Instrument of Ethiopian origin : PIANO

9-across – Stand in market and play for time : STALL

10-across – Peculiar part about period custom : PATRONAGE

11-across – Holding forth with jibe about search linked to offence : DISCOURSING

12-across – Final trap : NET

13-across – Rough earth behind shelter covered with light, shiny material : PATENTLEATHER

17-across – Modern studios sadly not appreciated : MISUNDERSTOOD

19-across – Witty in speech? It’s the whisky : RYE

21-across – Busy river tour is arranged : INDUSTRIOUS

22-across – Advance point of view, being content : SUBSTANCE

23-across – Investigate pair with honour : PROBE

24-across – More recent tune we recognise partly : NEWER

25-across – Field left in wild condition for advertisement? : LEAFLET

1-down – Next to see bid going awry : BESIDE

2-down – Tour’s leader conducted groups around quiet parts of church : TRANSEPTS

3-down – Illegally acquired title long abandoned : ILLGOTTEN

4-down – Police officer’s great purpose securing result : SUPERINTENDENT

5-down – Incorrect, first off, under pressure to make projection : PRONG

6-down – Cooker fashionable once more : AGAIN

7-down – Plain vase set aside : OVERTURN

8-down – Engineer sees all in tests for alloy resisting corrosion : STAINLESSSTEEL

14-down – Dubious writings, variable in approach, confused : APOCRYPHA

15-down – Crossing last bits of slippery marsh, turned up with fuel for boat : HYDROFOIL

16-down – Put away promising reforms? Not good : IMPRISON

18-down – Agreement when posted : ASSENT

20-down – Joint venture’s ending with large yield : ELBOW

21-down – Bury regular items in tip, not near : INTER

1-across – Dry artist in Scottish town making joke : WISECRACK

6-across – Catch in revolutionary role : TRAP

10-across – Enduring hesitation, entering volcano attached to line : ETERNAL

11-across – Kitchen appliance that’s new at store : TOASTER

12-across – Explosive liquid’s origin recently worked out : NITROGLYCERINE

14-across – Look good in charge, showing sense : LOGIC

15-across – Development of main adult state : TAMILNADU

17-across – Wasn’t vigilant saint initially tempted to accept honour? : SLUMBERED

19-across – Group of eight hundred linked to fringes of tribe in part of Bible : OCTET

21-across – Abandoned Hellenic truth, foolishly embracing force : LEFTINTHELURCH

24-across – Echo in endless ravine, one opening in awesome country : GEORGIA

25-across – Some against allocation set up : INSTALL

26-across – Note about love beginning for teddy bear : TOTE

27-across – Near me, rat managed to create horrific experience : NIGHTMARE

1-down – Bird in corner waking up : WREN

2-down – Apparent view on dynasty : SEEMING

3-down – Catch cross in game : CONTRACTBRIDGE

4-down – Reptile’s run under a log, tail twisting : ALLIGATOR

5-down – Fund of money provided for cat : KITTY

7-down – Wine container, not cold, overturned : RETSINA

8-down – Maintain exercises over time, cutting a tree up roughly : PERPETUATE

9-down – Star going into battle with ready song : WATERLOOSUNSET

13-down – Torch in escape broken by attack : FLASHLIGHT

16-down – Poor nag minded being vexatious : MADDENING

18-down – Candid leader of union almost immediately securing following : UPFRONT

20-down – Act badly in opera, lacking heart for musical work : TOCCATA

22-down – Prepare retinue : TRAIN

23-down – Signal containing large hint : CLUE

1-across – Transported from point after time, bearing north : ENRAPT

4-across – Sad, vocal, befuddled? That’ll be the brandy : CALVADOS

10-across – Freeloading artist with singular appeal, one protected by cover in retirement : PARASITIC

11-across – Upset in middle of plea, breaking free : RILED

12-across – Endlessly ridicule language about love and meditation : CONTEMPLATION

14-across – One exacting retribution against foe finally consumed by fury : AVENGER

16-across – Musical fashionable in the past : CHICAGO

17-across – Goat mostly inhabiting rocky lair in country : LIBERIA

19-across – Follow triumph : SUCCEED

20-across – Method of solving problems in revolutionary manner with country in panic : TRIALANDERROR

23-across – Bitterness holding good? That’s nonsense : BILGE

24-across – Odd tips recur in sacred text : SCRIPTURE

25-across – Order son to follow obligations, restricting noise : TIDINESS

26-across – Believe in sacred item : CREDIT

1-down – In particular spot, holding diamonds up above everything : ESPECIALLY

2-down – Show again some clearer understanding : RERUN

3-down – Bird, as revealed by sad page in press, gone : PASSENGERPIGEON

5-down – Old-fashioned roguish spies turned up : ARCHAIC

6-down – Vine that’s damaged receiving repair : VIRGINIACREEPER

7-down – Describe food shop smart entrepreneur’s opening : DELINEATE

8-down – Team gave expression of relief, reportedly : SIDE

9-down – Spout garbled rubbish initially in daze : STUPOR

13-down – Gained impression about king followed by me in awe : WONDERMENT

15-down – Doctor in place in Washington, first off, on day beset by difficulties : EMBATTLED

18-down – Learner when in classes disregarding right books of charts : ATLASES

19-down – Guard head of state on arrival : SENTRY

21-down – Plump for quantity of sandwiches : ROUND

22-down – Support article with stake : ABET

1-across – Air force officer’s good, playing part in a coup : GROUPCAPTAIN

10-across – US city in plan linked to a new fraud : CHARLATAN

11-across – Superior meal, not small : UPPER

12-across – Old, spoilt meat, large area turning greyish-yellow : OATMEAL

13-across – Drama company with rented theatre finally full : REPLETE

14-across – Material, extracted, put about : DENIM

15-across – Fine time to grab souvenir without resistance : DELICATE

17-across – Article about unusual cupola in Mexican resort : ACAPULCO

18-across – Go over cornfield initially during harvest : RECAP

21-across – Instrument in middle of shrine guarded by snake : MARIMBA

23-across – Treated badly, not noticed around university : MISUSED

24-across – Absolute prophet capturing hearts : SHEER

25-across – One with power consumed by warlike objective : IMPARTIAL

26-across – Sauce, out of order, bringing reprimand : DRESSINGDOWN

2-down – Flickering fire, ample guide for climbers? : RELIEFMAP

3-down – Section of account I led up to : UNTIL

4-down – Actor not bothered about line in singing voice : CONTRALTO

5-down – Fruit, soft and fleshy : PLUMP

6-down – Nice tip perhaps designed for training period : APPRENTICESHIP

7-down – Open, reserving right to be annoyed : NARKED

8-down – Grant agreement : ACCORD

9-down – Film director’s treatment of senator’s crimes : MARTINSCORSESE

15-down – Dog wagging tail and protecting mother : DALMATIAN

16-down – Opener in county’s team : CORKSCREW

19-down – Push up in battlefield deployment : PEDDLE

20-down – Commercial full of inspiration entertained : AMUSED

22-down – Customs further south : MORES

23-down – Two-wheeled vehicle was miserable : MOPED