Daily Answers

1-across – Look towards daughter wearing right cosmetic : FACEPOWDER

6-across – Not working, one on dole lacking nothing! : IDLE

10-across – Search for fugitive knight hiding in shed on isle : MANHUNT

11-across – Exaggerate about something done : OVERACT

12-across – Such as dates that can’t be kept? : FORBIDDENFRUIT

14-across – Snag affected church : HITCH

15-across – Girl fronting group wanting ribbon for hair . . . : ALICEBAND

17-across – . . . left group to get one during commercial : ABANDONED

19-across – I’m driven through illuminated border : LIMIT

21-across – Excited, gents in chopper leaving mall : SHOPPINGCENTRE

24-across – Ill at ease, a graduate approaching cast : ABASHED

25-across – Restrict charges to be made for weaving a carpet : RATECAP

26-across – Archer’s painful back : EROS

27-across – Bluff new blue following piece of publicity : PROMONTORY

1-down – Celebrity in Cardiff, American : FAME

2-down – Dupe kind companion : CONSORT

3-down – Experience the worst extremes, as worker in sewer might? : PLUMBTHEDEPTHS

4-down – Comedian, tired after second of shows, is taken out : WITHDRAWN

5-down – Girl writer deserted to run off with another? : ELOPE

7-down – Eccentric over at university, the French count : DRACULA

8-down – Car or inheritance tax? : ESTATEDUTY

9-down – Meat dish given duke following complaint : BEEFWELLINGTON

13-down – Miserly person embarrassed current collector : CHEAPSKATE

16-down – In Christmas period, old eccentric may show bad taste : INDECORUM

18-down – A mostly forthright party delivering fruit : AVOCADO

20-down – Leather supplied by second Italian boy : MOROCCO

22-down – Lowest point in ruptured drain : NADIR

23-down – Alert agent catching leader of ring : SPRY

1-across – Go after Asian river business : INDUSTRY

5-across – In Tolkien, Tom Bombadil’s put six feet under . . . : ENTOMB

10-across – . . . Baggins : BILBO

11-across – Embargo on ballistic missile : BOOMERANG

12-across – Produce item of jewellery found inside container : BRINGIN

13-across – Battle of New Orleans? : SALERNO

14-across – About average on violin, having committed tune to memory originally : FAIRTOMIDDLING

17-across – One altering certain features in a theatre? : PLASTICSURGEON

21-across – Hot drink required in not entirely warm French castle : CHATEAU

23-across – Terrible tsar stuck on promontory in novel : IVANHOE

24-across – PM includes this one not far away : AFTERNOON

25-across – Group’s leader brought in awful song : DIRGE

26-across – Former Scottish philosopher, the opposite of 5 : EXHUME

27-across – Knowing nothing, such a crossword can’t be solved! : CLUELESS

1-down – Drink – one tipple brought in by me : IMBIBE

2-down – From a republic in Africa, a young man’s turned up to see spiritual leader : DALAILAMA

3-down – Small lumberjack, one who toils : SLOGGER

4-down – Ornate orb connoisseur misrepresented in book : ROBINSONCRUSOE

6-down – Annoyed, wanted to catch learner driver : NEEDLED

7-down – Being broadcast from Barcelona, ironically : ONAIR

8-down – Past patron saint causes an exclamation : BYGEORGE

9-down – Legal walk : CONSTITUTIONAL

15-down – Train in club on piece of gymnastic equipment : IRONHORSE

16-down – Watch tapes etc., haphazardly : SPECTATE

18-down – Article on more complex proposition that has been proved : THEOREM

19-down – Haughty and extremely excitable man of high rank abroad : GRANDEE

20-down – Time off in bay : RECESS

22-down – A long letter : AITCH

1-across – Agree, initially, about new hotel by new motorway : AUTOBAHN

5-across – Pale china stopper : PALLID

9-across – Carry on about heading for Harwich, far off accommodation for ships : WHARFAGE

10-across – Dog’s strong point after bit of breeding : BASSET

12-across – Monk astride large beast of burden : LLAMA

13-across – Disabled, one during dash in battle : ELALAMEIN

15-across – Pessimist’s frame of mind in retreat, confronting trader : DOOMMERCHANT

18-across – Labour group on seminar : WORKINGCLASS

21-across – Picture that woman getting in pub round : LOCALHERO

22-across – Playwright from Troon? Unlikely : ORTON

23-across – Batsman’s stroke, good cut : GLANCE

25-across – Clergyman, one entering cathedral : MINISTER

26-across – Sailor needs to be given purpose : TARGET

27-across – Information on summit in bureaucratic language : NEWSPEAK

1-down – When one chooses a serge : ATWILL

2-down – Eat out, then secure the wherewithal for a drink : TEABAG

3-down – Showman from Niagara River port shown on leaflet : BUFFALOBILL

4-down – One clasping crocodile in confusion? : HUGGERMUGGER

6-down – Commander from Niagara : AGA

7-down – Star embraced by young woman in gambling centre : LASVEGAS

8-down – Set off from public school in time : DETONATE

11-down – Travelling OK, on reliable part of the London Underground : BAKERLOOLINE

14-down – Accomplices in case? Scores, I suspect : ACCESSORIES

16-down – Mean to travel round with one learner driver in the gloaming : TWILIGHT

17-down – Lacking practical expertise, member beginning to criticise musical : ARMCHAIR

19-down – Sculpted figure, say, university acquired : STATUE

20-down – Jacket in tan, or a khaki : ANORAK

24-down – Hint, hint left ignored : CUE

1-across – Singer in musical, touring : ALTO

3-across – No PR in Central American country for international award : NOBELPRIZE

10-across – Policeman left with US composer : COPLAND

11-across – Nursed a poorly man like Fonteyn’s partner? : DANSEUR

12-across – Subject to its value, how books may be bought in addition? : BYTHESAMETOKEN

14-across – Dreamlike, a 50 after county side comes up short : SURREAL

15-across – 26, perhaps, eating last of fruit cocktail : STINGER

16-across – Said about part circling a large city : ORBITAL

19-across – Mother’s broken flask : THERMOS

21-across – Generous supporter of mayor righted wrong : FAIRYGODMOTHER

23-across – Chaotic state of affairs in a Sicilian port : MESSINA

24-across – Country hotel, so in need of refurbishment : LESOTHO

25-across – Dear dessert? Pity : SWEETHEART

26-across – Fish, black when small : BASS

1-down – Mysterious man, man of the church : ARCHBISHOP

2-down – One giving better advice? : TIPSTER

4-down – Peculiar periodic social event : ODDBALL

5-down – Non-stop, but with no purpose? : ENDLESS

6-down – Christmas show character – I metamorphose spookily around end of Aladdin : PANTOMIMEHORSE

7-down – One with a cold manner in charge on English mountain : ICEBERG

8-down – Docked in good time for nobleman : EARL

9-down – Painter in quiet little avenue met Tristan unexpectedly : PAVEMENTARTIST

13-down – Betray radicals in the rank and file : GRASSROOTS

17-down – Money that is found in old wood : BRASSIE

18-down – Toboggan full of crack in suitcases : LUGGAGE

19-down – Young child in red, told off : TODDLER

20-down – Wise man’s headgear held by mother : MAHATMA

22-down – Prophet, a second son : AMOS

1-across – Thief and fence in possession of 1000, policeman recalled : PICKPOCKET

6-across – Rosemary, perhaps, in feather bed : HERB

10-across – Seat I must sit in daily : CHAIR

11-across – Incorrect ad bothers acting profession : THEBOARDS

12-across – In disarray, everywhere : ALLOVERTHESHOP

14-across – Crystal getting rid of good sword : CUTLASS

15-across – Book about English County Council described by graduate : REBECCA

17-across – Skirt around centre of Edinburgh in a taxi : MINICAB

19-across – Get hairdo in a place buzzing with activity? : BEEHIVE

20-across – Islander checks out writer : CHARLESDICKENS

23-across – Night out? Not for me! : INSOMNIAC

24-across – Correct an error in short advert recruiting soldiers : AMEND

25-across – Produced round cheese : EDAM

26-across – Wearing ceremonial garment causes speculation : INVESTMENT

1-down – Choose the best tool for breaking rocks : PICK

2-down – One of the Brontës, reportedly an impostor : CHARLATAN

3-down – Part of paper producing peculiar post : PERSONALCOLUMN

4-down – Richest somehow acquiring medieval instruments : CITHERS

5-down – One choosing to drop opener – might he make one cross? : ELECTOR

7-down – Soil shortage duke ignored : EARTH

8-down – Contestant after singer, a guitarist : BASSPLAYER

9-down – Influence, by chance, quick early business meeting : POWERBREAKFAST

13-down – Fridge that is broken by clumsy mechanic : ICEMACHINE

16-down – Customers about right to send a message, briefly : CLIENTELE

18-down – Obtains supply for a fortified place : BASTION

19-down – After duck, child tucked into cheese roll : BRIOCHE

21-down – Some of what’s eaten on the ocean : ATSEA

22-down – Tide rising? Correct : EDIT