Daily Answers

1-across – Deny increase, for example : GAINSAY

5-across – Drink cola, possibly, with shot added : ALCOPOP

9-across – Name a song about an antelope : NYALA

10-across – Association to raise flag : UNIONJACK

11-across – Many, in a series, in single file : ONEAFTERANOTHER

12-across – Ray opted out, or in? : TORPEDO

14-across – Damage what sounds like guide’s tent : MARQUEE

16-across – Patent medicine, in no way unusual : NOSTRUM

18-across – Soldier, getting married, allowed small cocktails : GIMLETS

20-across – Boat, ketch, sabotaged – tense film : BACKTOTHEFUTURE

22-across – National park – greenest foreign one : SERENGETI

23-across – Top copper back inside? That’s easy to understand : LUCID

24-across – Severe, the south wind close to shore : AUSTERE

25-across – Keep an eye on screen : MONITOR

1-down – Explosive piece on top of bed with 100 underneath : GUNCOTTON

2-down – How movie ends is silly : INANE

3-down – Illicitly take a bit : SNAFFLE

4-down – Comment to chauffeur on reaching destination? I don’t know what to say : YOUVEGOTMETHERE

5-down – Physical attractiveness of a polar bear? : ANIMALMAGNETISM

6-down – Honesty, too, in block of flats? Not quite : CANDOUR

7-down – What little girls often do in a theatre? : PLAYHOUSE

8-down – Game – fine cuts for each : POKER

13-down – What convalescent home offers the others – parish priests : RESTCURES

15-down – Londoner in stormy sea on boat : EASTENDER

17-down – Train always holding one up : RETINUE

19-down – Mawkish girl left home : MAUDLIN

20-down – Arabs rebuilt Iraqi port : BASRA

21-down – A French record, not shortened : UNCUT

1-across – Steal eastern gown : ROBE

3-across – Concealed directly below shelter : UNDERCOVER

10-across – Volume so varied around large oil terminal : SULLOMVOE

11-across – Moved up once reins loosened : RISEN

12-across – Economist worries unduly about Hebridean island where the rich live : MILLIONAIRESROW

13-across – Choice delicacy : DAINTY

14-across – Piece of music Harpo’s playing extremely dramatically : RHAPSODY

17-across – Attempt to secure a sleeveless garment results in farce : TRAVESTY

18-across – Unaccustomed, being new : UNUSED

20-across – Be like Dr Jekyll, or traitorous spy? : LEADADOUBLELIFE

23-across – Initially it covered it – nice gateau : ICING

24-across – Crustaceans in catch caught by coastal vessels heading away : LANDCRABS

25-across – Deceased bellman’s double : DEADRINGER

26-across – Catch that woman palming Ace : HEAR

1-down – Carried on giving summary before head of department : RESUMED

2-down – Instrument found in Welsh lake by dog : BALALAIKA

4-down – Actor assuming name for good : NIVEN

5-down – Sense agreement among rowing crew : EYESIGHT

6-down – Agreement in writing : CORRESPONDENCE

7-down – Eyeshade? Tourist doesn’t need it : VISOR

8-down – Where plane comes down carrying a fugitive : RUNAWAY

9-down – Drink them after party to irritate spoilsport : DOGINTHEMANGER

15-down – Stubborn stain to be specially treated : OBSTINATE

16-down – Stumped by corset? There’s a surprise! : STROLLON

17-down – Agreed, tome originally bound : TALLIED

19-down – Actor’s assistant, a help in the theatre : DRESSER

21-down – Girl over in Latin America : ANITA

22-down – Head? Head of Balliol, formerly : BONCE

1-across – Polish last of jewellery, a precious stone : RUBY

3-across – Amateur demanding expenses, no matter what : ATALLCOSTS

10-across – This musical instrument could be graduate’s shortly : BASSOON

11-across – Large animal seen in stream in Indian state : GORILLA

12-across – Bulb lit up unexpectedly : TULIP

13-across – Felon aims at sea for a British Crown possession : ISLEOFMAN

14-across – Think about chapter on model : CONTEMPLATE

16-across – Am leaving city on the Trent for ailing part of London : NOTTINGHILL

21-across – One gets them in Scottish town, right away, mostly : INTHEMAIN

23-across – Girl in French city : NANCY

24-across – Plan revealed railway track : OUTLINE

25-across – Leader of outfit helping to make a speech : ORATION

26-across – Flat harlot refurbished, notwithstanding : FORALLTHAT

27-across – Son thrown in fountain for a joke : JEST

1-down – Dubious beer at a discount : REBATE

2-down – Quartz, perhaps, used in bar of a magnificent Roman building : BASILICAN

4-down – Tenor saving money for annuity scheme : TONTINE

5-down – Fielder on by mistake : LEGSLIP

6-down – Just the levy for one with a potbelly? : CORPORATIONTAX

7-down – Auction fetches millions in state capital : SALEM

8-down – Produces small chess pieces : SPAWNS

9-down – Headlining excellent TV police series : TOPPINGTHEBILL

15-down – A rose, for example, worker planted in row : EGLANTINE

17-down – Most senseless, two homes being occupied by first letter : INANEST

18-down – Boat almost left with unstable load : GONDOLA

19-down – What a nark may do is endless : TIPOFF

20-down – Sounds like the type of ring for a young bird : CYGNET

22-down – Decisive defeat round end of August upset school : TUTOR

1-across – Cave deposit, old – work on it inside : STALACTITE

6-across – Cheerful on a trip : HIGH

10-across – Excuse a crack about bishop : ABSOLVE

11-across – Pilot coming from Ottawa, via Toronto : AVIATOR

12-across – Writer, King, with terribly fine whittling tool : PENKNIFE

13-across – Perry’s Della in the way? : STREET

15-across – Honour beloved heroine : GRACEDARLING

18-across – Yearns to meet rider dropping off son, a docker : LONGSHOREMAN

21-across – Pair left in four-seater car : COUPLE

22-across – Pop out during present sit-in : STOPPAGE

24-across – Sieve, small, lost in coach : TRAINER

25-across – Worker settled in sound city in New Mexico : SANTAFE

26-across – Uniform happening to be short : EVEN

27-across – Prince not returning for a dance : CHARLESTON

1-down – Rogue, one providing seafood : SCAMPI

2-down – Nod when ordered to go : ASSENT

3-down – Tired out, girls went swimming, freestyle : ALLINWRESTLING

4-down – Article on vote cast for act in talent show : THEXFACTOR

5-down – A drop in drink, drop of rum? : TEAR

7-down – Fearless, I printed anyhow : INTREPID

8-down – Male must leave retreat to claim birthright : HERITAGE

9-down – Cake covering – top is a spread : VICTORIASPONGE

14-down – Part of a newspaper’s title? Readers initially voted it changed : ADVERTISER

16-down – Formal or unofficial relationship : BLACKTIE

17-down – Brood at home on Caribbean island, extremely tactile : INCUBATE

19-down – Empty tin inside large container : VACANT

20-down – River cut off any number : SEVERN

23-down – Leading procession miles away : ARCH

1-across – Solicitor General, tense, attacks column in newspaper on disco and reportedly outlawed album : SGTPEPPERS

8-across – See 1 : LONELYHEARTS

11-across – See 1 : CLUBBAND

12-across – Person, for example, visiting a shop selling wine : BODEGA

14-across – He brings in soft wood : MAPLE

15-across – Tiredness when reading with damaged retina? That’s about right : EYESTRAIN

17-across – Hypocritical, some virgins in ceremonies : INSINCERE

18-across – Not included in special edition : EXTRA

20-across – Set of steps left by counter? : LADDER

22-across – Young side cut short a drink : GREENTEA

24-across – Be unable to move further at night, a lord, ill at ease : GRINDTOAHALT

25-across – Editorials about Scottish town preachers : LAYREADERS

2-down – Commando not prepared to risk protecting monarch : GREENBERET

3-down – Benefits in French country : PAYS

4-down – Emperor – he felt uneasy about a duke, perhaps : PEEROFTHEREALM

5-down – Spooky eastern lake : EERIE

6-down – Spot inhabited by American bear : SUSTAIN

7-down – Ambiguous comment, blue? Ended tenor, unfortunately : DOUBLEENTENDRE

9-down – Racket coming from small tributary of the Great Ouse : SCAM

10-down – Disturbance behind us : RUMPUS

13-down – Her career’s varied, as analyst : RESEARCHER

16-down – Shrewd, like Egyptian king, last of line : ASTUTE

17-down – Bad carrying on with a criminal : ILLEGAL

19-down – Pseudonym I omitted, unfortunately : ALAS

21-down – Cleaner in Irish house close to Killarney : DAILY

23-down – Prominent bishop, advanced in years : BOLD