Daily Answers

1-across – Permit cry of pain in rage? No time : EMPOWER

5-across – Base linked to era producing amount of film : FOOTAGE

9-across – Delivery from popular vocalist carrying weight : INSWINGER

10-across – Get over being annoyed : CROSS

11-across – Opening achieved by one in working for diamonds : ORIFICE

12-across – Reach junction going west in Welsh town : MAESTEG

13-across – Not allowed to be hostile for example with hint, dropping name : ILLEGITIMATE

17-across – Caught by evil demon, state criticism : CONDEMNATION

20-across – Rowing boat stuck behind loud river transport : FREIGHT

22-across – Followers showing energy come together and run around : RETINUE

23-across – Correct people engaged by editor : EMEND

24-across – Silent pal bothered one involved in radio quiz? : PANELLIST

25-across – Swindled, receiving instrument reduced in strength : DILUTED

26-across – Serious about following novelist endlessly : AUSTERE

1-down – Broadcast is copied in serial form : EPISODIC

2-down – Sweet old man not moving east : PASTILLE

3-down – One can, entertained by joker, miss point in play : WAITINGFORGODOT

4-down – Lamented bird appearing on front of tabloid in colour : REGRETTED

5-down – Place for discussion in university in fashion : FORUM

6-down – Conducted groups high above small seats for audience : ORCHESTRASTALLS

7-down – Takes on commercial work, climbing street : ADOPTS

8-down – Officer among aliens ignored : ENSIGN

14-down – Notes Roman made all over the place : MEMORANDA

15-down – Important person is being excited, accepting Oscar : BIGNOISE

16-down – Upset head of state trapped by upper-class weed : UNSETTLE

18-down – Bad result hurt : OFFEND

19-down – Delight about answer let out : REVEAL

21-down – I had to support favourite, taken up without enthusiasm : TEPID

1-across – Phrase used on leaving single northern girl, initially : SOLONG

5-across – Draw strangely fashionable Australian port : DARWIN

11-across – A short record about love, then it’s arrivederci : ADIOS

12-across – Under control? No, ratings out of control : ONASTRING

13-across – Saucy dance? : SALSA

14-across – Apiarist, perhaps bitter about English preserve : BEEKEEPER

15-across – Wrote ‘False Alarm’, staggering novel : AFAREWELLTOARMS

18-across – Film of Surrey, one Loy made, unknown : FORYOUREYESONLY

21-across – His topic, a strange nut : PISTACHIO

22-across – A win once more : AGAIN

24-across – Bar, place abroad stocking soft fruit : CRABAPPLE

25-across – Previous abbot’s deputy : PRIOR

26-across – Watch cutter swing : SEESAW

27-across – Leader of expedition brought in beer to begin journey : SETOUT

2-down – Newly-built Loire college : ORIEL

3-down – Performing animal put inside one : ONSTAGE

4-down – Groomed by eccentric carpenter in novella : GOODBYEMRCHIPS

6-down – Traced odd circular letter revealing design style : ARTDECO

7-down – Wife more trendy, fashionable, a huntsman’s assistant : WHIPPERIN

8-down – Reign nervously in an African country : NIGER

9-down – Opera, Parsifal, staffer includes : FALSTAFF

10-down – Every wall oven’s shown differently in a series of books : WAVERLEYNOVELS

16-down – Rose incredibly swiftly across the Earth’s atmosphere and beyond : AEROSPACE

17-down – For example, on air, I ignored a closing remark : SAYONARA

19-down – Anthem can, carried by old girl : OCANADA

20-down – Don’t move prop, fixed : STAYPUT

21-down – Experts, after start of polka, showing steps : PACES

23-down – Cheerio to the French about to depart : ADIEU

1-across – Enthusiastic male team heading off : HEARTY

4-across – A British opera, length unusual : ABNORMAL

9-across – Derby winner in USA, possibly blazing a trail : AUSTRALIA

11-across – Good hospital entering appropriate contest : FIGHT

12-across – Fairy tale, a legend, enthrals when broadcast : HANSELANDGRETEL

13-across – A grant secured by the gymnast, perhaps : ATHLETE

15-across – One dubious name for a gaseous element : NEON

18-across – Touch brass instrument in retreat : ABUT

19-across – Erratic heir, way out : HAYWIRE

22-across – Unpredictable type, any one of the last three characters? : UNKNOWNQUANTITY

24-across – Chose – past tense shown in dictionary : OPTED

25-across – Make drunk supply a beer in it : INEBRIATE

26-across – Like a minor in short dungarees, playing : UNDERAGE

27-across – Vegetable in season, one pound : LENTIL

1-down – I agree to try and try : HEARHEAR

2-down – Seaman’s popular article is good for a drink : ABSINTHE

3-down – Brusque, in sister’s estimation : TERSE

5-down – Getting on? Put up pension : BOARDINGHOUSE

6-down – Collection made by Conservative supporting bid : OFFERTORY

7-down – Large number blowing top after start of match : MIGHTY

8-down – Agree to take off and attack : LETFLY

10-down – Outstrip lad with vast engine, surprisingly : LEAVESTANDING

14-down – Elaborate stitch : EMBROIDER

16-down – Watchful living at resort : VIGILANT

17-down – Enjoying great health? Yes : VERYWELL

20-down – Kudos involved first to unravel puzzle : SUDOKU

21-down – Fish dead? Moved on ice : SKATED

23-down – Square up holding end of lager bottle : NERVE

1-across – Living quarters round a royal residence : PALACE

4-across – Musician having grand spot close to microphone in pub : BAGPIPER

10-across – Playwright’s role hasn’t changed : ROSENTHAL

11-across – Raccoon-like animal in Japan, dangerous : PANDA

12-across – A toasted sandwich and rice our mosque unexpectedly produced around noon : CROQUEMONSIEUR

14-across – Conservative entering draw for money : LUCRE

16-across – Sponsor of daughter university rejected, surprisingly : GODFATHER

17-across – Hotly pursuing filly, run unwisely having caught cold : INFULLCRY

19-across – Sprinkle right into casserole : STREW

20-across – Use this when driving off at first? : REARVIEWMIRROR

23-across – Loaded in large Yemeni port : LADEN

24-across – Troubled by brief that’s limited : CURTAILED

25-across – Aide-memoire concerning bodyguard : REMINDER

26-across – Terrible rage after child makes accusation : CHARGE

1-down – Seen from 13, perhaps, in harbour, copper is checking lines : PORTCULLIS

2-down – Rope in young woman, opposed at first : LASSO

3-down – Eat whole amount in wafer : CONSUME

5-down – Everyone amazed, reportedly, over effort accepted as part of normal routine : ALLINADAYSWORK

6-down – A hot spice dad and I got in park abroad : PAPRIKA

7-down – Clerk in stall with drug dealer : PENPUSHER

8-down – Not quite willing to study : READ

9-down – Article on wonderful revolution in British society : THEMAGICCIRCLE

13-down – To tie game this may have been deployed in defence : DRAWBRIDGE

15-down – Record, a minute about proposal made to get a watertight structure : COFFERDAM

18-down – Spectacles – girl has lost a good number inside : LORGNON

19-down – Go round, check about a vegetable : SPINACH

21-down – King, say – one responsible for a line? : RULER

22-down – Short publisher’s puff leaves a confused impression : BLUR

1-across – Respiratory complaint in New Zealand got by adult inhaling pipe : INFLUENZA

6-across – Mack’s mate married Magwitch, maybe : MABEL

9-across – Shocking cover – ancient city featured inside : LURID

10-across – Nocturnal animal found in mall, radio broadcast : ARMADILLO

11-across – Cook Strait? P&O’s mistaken : SPITROAST

12-across – Stab leader leaving dive : LUNGE

13-across – Pupils may be examined in this branch of medicine : OPHTHALMOLOGY

16-across – British Government out of order, setting out to repress religious education : DOWNINGSTREET

19-across – Woman repelled by husband suggesting a dye : HENNA

20-across – Mum’s pie – he used a polite term : EUPHEMISM

22-across – Tries his cooking before wife produces a dish : IRISHSTEW

23-across – Fruit, old and turning bad : OLIVE

24-across – Fire-raiser’s game? : POKER

25-across – Home team in Italian city losing first three : RESIDENCE

1-down – The Italian applied sun oil to create a false impression : ILLUSION

2-down – To supply coat by noon is hard : FURNISH

3-down – Indisposed subordinate, a British subject? : UNDERTHEWEATHER

4-down – Antelope found in many a land : NYALA

5-down – Member blowing hard, renowned trumpeter : ARMSTRONG

6-down – Central square? : MIDDLEOFTHEROAD

7-down – A learner, one taken in by deceptive talk : BALONEY

8-down – Relax having free gin at the end : LOOSEN

14-down – Queen’s favourite city? : LEICESTER

15-down – Trampled on top of everyone in headlong rush : STAMPEDE

16-down – Dingy church in French port : DUNKIRK

17-down – Rabble-rousing? Head of state ignored issue : EDITION

18-down – Very small person, quiet politician touring Rhode Island : SHRIMP

21-down – Prisoners of war describing ending of captivity in Welsh county : POWYS