Daily Answers

1-across – Experimental version of Bible, different and great : AVANTGARDE

6-across – Projection from type of poker : STUD

9-across – Rhythm found by trainee endlessly going round enclosure : CADENCE

10-across – Service involves persuasion to some extent : VESPERS

12-across – Creator of forgery caught by altering one fruit tree : COUNTERFEITER

14-across – Playing Lear, I will show Shakespearian spirit : ARIEL

15-across – Appear to grasp full amount, ignoring a philosopher : ARISTOTLE

17-across – Target provided by colleague, after jibes, having time off : AUNTSALLY

18-across – Window that is large, with nothing right in front : ORIEL

19-across – Eminent inspector – smart, upper-class one – lost : DISTINGUISHED

23-across – Made western violent, ending in shoot-out : WROUGHT

24-across – Study sign in country : DENMARK

25-across – Diamonds gleam around enclosed area : YARD

26-across – Newspaper’s ways followed by man dividing opinion : BROADSHEET

1-down – Roguish star charismatic in part : ARCH

2-down – Notice, before speech, habit that’s hard to break : ADDICTION

3-down – Huge long stain ruined carpeting : TONGUELASHING

4-down – Spy cheers up, receiving information : AGENT

5-down – Waterbirds, unknown quantity, full of appeal and variety : DIVERSITY

7-down – Deal with indulgence : TREAT

8-down – Democrat, terribly sorry, idle and undisciplined : DISORDERLY

11-down – Words of love, unconvincing in wetness, go awry : SWEETNOTHINGS

13-down – Easily controlled, gripped by craze, not at home : FARANDAWAY

15-down – Reptile having problem climbing into a good area on hill : ALLIGATOR

16-down – Bad informer in dreadful dither : THIRDRATE

20-down – Clean comb : SCOUR

21-down – Elected, raised support for republic : INDIA

22-down – Singular outfit for piece of satire : SKIT

1-across – Drop round, breaking engagement, being wretched : DESOLATE

5-across – Some aghast at usurper’s position : STATUS

9-across – Clever type getting support with folder for incoming messages : BRAINBOX

10-across – Duty abandoned, freeze : OFFICE

12-across – Declaration in part of speech with substance that’s binding : PRONOUNCEMENT

14-across – Area of water in middle of land behind old church : OCEAN

15-across – Soldier deployed near ridge : GRENADIER

17-across – Embarrass party minute before match : DISCOMFIT

19-across – Nut about to enter enclosure : PECAN

20-across – Campaigning body urges proper reforms, holding us back : PRESSUREGROUP

23-across – Single leprechaun I question partially : UNIQUE

24-across – Area with unusual heat in north of capital city : ATHENIAN

25-across – Revolutionary encounters English judge : ESTEEM

26-across – Retired, overwhelmed by change? That’s affectation : PRETENCE

1-down – Liability in first performance, not united : DEBT

2-down – Clarity from head of state, quietly in control : SHARPNESS

3-down – Nothing upset firm line followed by new president : LINCOLN

4-down – Moving of earth around uneven road : THOROUGHFARE

6-down – Employees without leader going over odd bits of extra material : TAFFETA

7-down – Observance after time lacking originality : TRITE

8-down – Doctor grew silent, getting uncomfortably hot : SWELTERING

11-down – Detective wearing singlet on air got rattled : INVESTIGATOR

13-down – Stirring up old men – me, George Sand? : NOMDEPLUME

16-down – One working under Conservative in incompetent establishment : INCEPTION

18-down – Unknown book penned by sailor? Correct : OBSCURE

19-down – Complaint from annoying person full of rubbish : PROTEST

21-down – Be second in departure : EXIST

22-down – Joint work’s ending most of poverty : KNEE

1-across – Disrupt a program in authority : SABOTAGE

5-across – Mind tipsy cheers to some extent : PSYCHE

10-across – Trouble after confusion getting rid of hard fruit : AVOCADO

11-across – Threatening nothing, I’m retreating with common sense : OMINOUS

12-across – Artist, ironic, having look ahead : LOWRY

13-across – Information list about island with unknown culture : GENTILITY

14-across – Promise controversy, repelled by awful fur on hood : WORDOFHONOUR

18-across – Seethe about scare by one with article in wartime leader’s style : CHURCHILLIAN

21-across – Working together in criminal ring, messy : SYNERGISM

22-across – All express annoyance with appeal overturned : TUTTI

23-across – Book with endless range, not at all for young child : BAMBINO

24-across – Find university close to author’s heart : UNEARTH

25-across – See art newly produced for festival : EASTER

26-across – Cleric taking tea, not elaborate : CHAPLAIN

1-down – Accepts summer visitors : SWALLOWS

2-down – One keen on reading new work in progress rapidly : BOOKWORM

3-down – Notice, in play, fawn : TOADY

4-down – Sheer roar going to shake one subjected to Beatlemania : GEORGEHARRISON

6-down – Odds on one ceremony being religious : SPIRITUAL

7-down – Writer of music cut out? On the contrary : CHOPIN

8-down – Attempts to rise in busy assembly : ESSAYS

9-down – Party win, then blundering on entrance? Not happy : DOWNINTHEMOUTH

15-down – Sensible to support parent, miles away, in different circumstances : OTHERWISE

16-down – Monarch in charge on hill breaking through : VICTORIA

17-down – Husband in pain not disposed to make response : ANTIPHON

19-down – Working underground, initially dark : USABLE

20-down – Problem in area raised hostility : ANIMUS

22-down – Connection that is found among sheep : TIEUP

1-across – Novelist and son out of order : AMISS

4-across – Published title without qualification : OUTRIGHT

10-across – Preoccupied, write riddle with no middle : PENSIVE

11-across – Foam very good for skin : SURFACE

12-across – Upright piano in club with interior redesigned : INCORRUPTIBLE

14-across – King with work in store around westward citadel : ACROPOLIS

16-across – Time and inclination for long walk : TRAMP

17-across – Changes course, strain being audible : TACKS

19-across – Tired pair in situation without a winner : STALEMATE

21-across – Fashionable families worried about revolutionary element very little : INFINITESIMAL

24-across – Capital account without pound in it is abandoned : TBILISI

25-across – Practical approach exists inside domain : REALISM

26-across – Search occupying French father with English ancestry : PEDIGREE

27-across – Employ glam rock band with energy coming back : EXERT

1-down – Candidates in place in a film supported by workers? : APPLICANTS

2-down – Order from one operating in charge : IONIC

3-down – Rouse resistance and raise support : STIRRUP

5-down – Poor saint, moving among us, works : UNSATISFACTORY

6-down – Unusual enticement, not a savoury dish : RAREBIT

7-down – United team playing in festive event for country : GUATEMALA

8-down – Connection on right level : TIER

9-down – Note star, rebel after quite staggering drink : TEQUILASUNRISE

13-down – Prepare simple diet for maximum rate by law : SPEEDLIMIT

15-down – Put right about distortion of deficit : RECTIFIED

18-down – Uncertainty during smart screening : SIFTING

20-down – Some mice ran sneakily over trap : ENSNARE

22-down – Grain, one in middle of confusing system : MAIZE

23-down – Finish second best : STOP

1-across – Player’s skill changed his aims in cup : MUSICIANSHIP

9-across – Headdress and odd items from trip abroad : TIARA

10-across – Persistent soldier perhaps following royal female, ignoring public relations : INCESSANT

11-across – Ordinary article in house : VANILLA

12-across – States Spain opposed : AVERSE

14-across – Cross, missing northern resort : SPA

16-across – Supercilious in charge, having fresh food sent round : TOFFEENOSED

17-across – Bit of wood used for mending fences? : OLIVEBRANCH

18-across – Vegetable from month back : YAM

20-across – Songbird is able to change, leaving out verse : CANARY

21-across – Lines about entering into legal actions : CREASES

24-across – Promise prize, late in being arranged : POTENTIAL

25-across – Scene caused by saint breaking through : VISTA

26-across – Fashion in a sense is tragic : HEARTRENDING

1-down – Doctor with obligations guarding against inducements : MOTIVES

2-down – Produce small puppet : SPAWN

3-down – Novelist’s plan involving group on river and volcano mostly written up : CHARLOTTEBRONTE

4-down – Revised main warning about force in allegory : ANIMALFARM

5-down – Dry time for religious group : SECT

6-down – Rapturous vein then has to be modified to keep calm : INSEVENTHHEAVEN

7-down – Room in church designed as crypt is lacking power : SACRISTY

8-down – Escort at first in touch with purpose : ATTEND

13-down – Unravel oddly absorbing account, ending in your everyday language : VERNACULAR

15-down – Lose support of knight, put away after a deception : ALIENATE

17-down – Interest people hold : OCCUPY

19-down – Insect problem upset horse : MUSTANG

22-down – Japanese food coming in pleases us highly : SUSHI

23-down – Support lord in speech : PIER