Daily Answers

1-across – Secretary’s attempt to make dough : PASTRY

4-across – Gemstones in suit : DIAMONDS

10-across – Drinks drop of tea in wood in the Holy Land : PALESTINE

11-across – Such music is constant during party? : DISCO

12-across – Tonight, a telling off in a London Tube station : NOTTINGHILLGATE

13-across – Musical instruction from an eminent Florentine : ANDANTE

15-across – Sufficient to answer demand in the noughties : ENOUGH

17-across – A service attended by elderly poet : ARNOLD

19-across – Lad went swimming in marshy area : WETLAND

21-across – Golden sands – name changed in novel : ANGELSANDDEMONS

23-across – Gather in place to dine : PLEAT

24-across – Musical work, formerly spoken start to elegy : PASTORALE

25-across – Police officer gets near criminal : SERGEANT

26-across – Plans to include large models : IDEALS

1-down – Foppish type to pay a quick call on one who talks foolishly at length : POPINJAY

2-down – Part company in Adriatic port : SPLIT

3-down – USA-run lotteries, awfully chancy business : RUSSIANROULETTE

5-down – List that is full of incorrect times : ITEMISE

6-down – In the Mood a fiddler rearranged – that’s easy listening : MIDDLEOFTHEROAD

7-down – Lots again suffering homesickness : NOSTALGIA

8-down – One who points out a worthless group of people? : SHOWER

9-down – Free one individual : SINGLE

14-down – Terribly rude urge I suppressed, as required by etiquette : DERIGUEUR

16-down – Greek hero’s trek cut short by us : ODYSSEUS

18-down – Notice old man in study, poker-faced : DEADPAN

19-down – Heading for workshop that is most spacious : WIDEST

20-down – French writer penning page in college grounds : CAMPUS

22-down – Some from a haunted place in Nebraska : OMAHA

1-across – Sergeant major, breaking phone, becomes gloomy : DISMAL

4-across – Teach group to make a model railway : TRAINSET

9-across – Complain in western type of joint : WHINGE

10-across – Eastern girl, a really heartless spy : EMISSARY

11-across – Type of cricket clue with dash : TIPANDRUN

13-across – Scoffed at in course of poetic evening : EATEN

14-across – Argument over supremo with excellent liquid assets : WORKINGCAPITAL

18-across – Gaming machine in dated bar – endless money involved : ONEARMEDBANDIT

20-across – Perfect suggestion by learner driver : IDEAL

22-across – Tested public opinion, as aviator did? : FLEWAKITE

24-across – It’s fishy, comic’s temper tantrum : HISSYFIT

25-across – Clothes worn initially in pews : SWEATS

26-across – High-ranking officials decorate section of orchestra : TOPBRASS

27-across – ‘Times’term, an outstanding example : BYWORD

1-down – Duke won’t now broadcast in city centre : DOWNTOWN

2-down – Runner, representative to cut corners : SKIMP

3-down – Conductor losing son in a South American country : ARGENTINA

5-down – Firework, too large to be brought into court! : ROMANCANDLE

6-down – I prosecute after second matter : ISSUE

7-down – Clever character produces a piece of plastic that stores data : SMARTCARD

8-down – Testing hearing : TRYING

12-down – Mostly recreation, in travelling funfairs, for urchins : RAGAMUFFINS

15-down – As good as gold? Not quite, us! : RUNNERSUP

16-down – Suffering from how poor performers perform? : INABADWAY

17-down – Emphasised editor is under pressure : STRESSED

19-down – Up-to-the-minute intelligence prior to strike : WITHIT

21-down – One supplying eggs for plate? : LAYER

23-down – Mental picture of him, a goalkeeper : IMAGO

1-across – Affording great opportunities, musical wealthy businessmen produced : FATCATS

5-across – . . . we also back cowboy film : WESTERN

9-across – Talk about conclusion to bizarre con : CHEAT

10-across – Dark planet that is seen around noon : SATURNINE

11-across – Play a ragtime piece : THEENTERTAINER

13-across – Female film stars bringing agents : FACTORS

15-across – Distinguished conductor from Rome sat nervously : MAESTRO

16-across – Reportedly catch a bacterial disease : CHOLERA

18-across – Article used in part exchange rated badly at one’s place of business : TRADEIN

20-across – A second teaches differently, perhaps, depending on the particular circumstances : ASTHECASEMAYBE

23-across – Strip of land shot in pale sun : PENINSULA

24-across – Not together in a district : APART

25-across – Actress, after having stitch in side, returned : MAEWEST

26-across – Land in Preston I acquired : ESTONIA

1-down – View of expert opposite : FACETOFACE

2-down – Article on extremely miserable topic : THEME

3-down – Against carrying on – old Shakespearean merchant : ANTONIO

4-down – Where money may be held in cliffhanging tale? : SUSPENSEACCOUNT

5-down – And the enemy bombed seaport sooner than expected : WITHTIMETOSPARE

6-down – Short game fish : SARDINE

7-down – Repent wildly about glacier where maximum damage may occur : EPICENTRE

8-down – Born and died in poverty : NEED

12-down – House plant in a pot I set out : POINSETTIA

14-down – Is working within to copy enamelware : CLOISONNE

17-down – Add to first of eggs? Hen can, conceivably : ENHANCE

19-down – Stinging insect moving many in painting : ARMYANT

21-down – Long story about last in clubhouse : YEARN

22-down – Brought up plans for junk mail : SPAM

1-across – One may get bitter if one is used : BEERPUMP

5-across – Mischievous member – is husband following one? : IMPISH

9-across – Outstanding performer, girl in plant ignoring us : CLASSACT

10-across – Son appearing in club concert : UNISON

12-across – Country producing whisky, Africa’s first : MALTA

13-across – Complex lecture by the Spanish sailor : ELABORATE

14-across – Country folk look round hydrogen plant : PHEASANTSEYE

18-across – Shared views in popular stadium : COMMONGROUND

21-across – Airman up for trial? : TESTPILOT

23-across – Friend describing university to a girl : PAULA

24-across – Young cow provided that in here somehow : HEIFER

25-across – To better score is excellent : TOPNOTCH

26-across – Piece of classical music from Brahms on at arena : SONATA

27-across – Charm one’s way in? : ENTRANCE

1-down – Grow into suit : BECOME

2-down – Make possible arrest, breaking Helen’s heart : ENABLE

3-down – Nut, as I chop it, changes shape : PISTACHIO

4-down – Famous sculptor I challenge, unwisely, in Missouri : MICHELANGELO

6-down – Fruit – piece to be consumed : MANGO

7-down – Decidedly trendy black suit : INSPADES

8-down – Impeded female deer, wild deer : HINDERED

11-down – Fashionable sophisticate, but not a woman, surprisingly : MANABOUTTOWN

15-down – Loaf of bread, key kitchen item? : TINOPENER

16-down – Female’s stretching across bed with cold drinks : SCOTCHES

17-down – Negligence round embassy : OMISSION

19-down – Station American in English college : EUSTON

20-down – Ms du Maurier had pen repaired? : DAPHNE

22-down – Gather fuel around lake : PLEAT

1-across – A way into free flight : AVIATION

5-across – Air in a small French city : AMIENS

10-across – Carved ornament from southern UK pocketed by naughty teen : NETSUKE

11-across – Light tail of gull, an aquatic bird : LANTERN

12-across – What’s left on land surrounding good American resort? : LONGBEACH

13-across – Poet sure to receive a first from Trinity : YEATS

14-across – Free hand in chapter in new tabernacle : CARTEBLANCHE

18-across – Second long night I worked – doing this? : MOONLIGHTING

21-across – Caught having joint in prison : CLINK

22-across – Nonsense about trusted adviser being a bully : TORMENTOR

24-across – Tell about swim outside : BREATHE

25-across – A soldier landed by end of runway demonstrating dexterity : AGILITY

26-across – Crude burrow close to spinney : EARTHY

27-across – Has ordered blooming sharkskin! : SHAGREEN

1-down – Runs into an aged English poet : ARNOLD

2-down – Under canvas showing purpose? : INTENT

3-down – Basic drawing fixes sailing vessel after hitch : THUMBNAILSKETCH

4-down – A diamond ring turned up in the end : OMEGA

6-down – Dishonest financial behaviour in Ireland – young men involved : MONEYLAUNDERING

7-down – Fine quality – for example, in eastern cavalry weapon : ELEGANCE

8-down – Ominous, nun going round home : SINISTER

9-down – Group of characters in river near Xanadu needing help : ALPHABET

15-down – Jointly, move up, secured by rope : TOGETHER

16-down – Fit to drink mineral, or cordial : AMICABLE

17-down – Boss around pit cutting live wire : DOMINEER

19-down – Line street, ready : STRIPE

20-down – Original piece of cotton fabric taken from drawer : CRAYON

23-down – Come to an open stretch of water : REACH