Daily Answers

1-across – Anger after Foreign Office provides provisions : FORAGE

4-across – Form of pollution, acrid in a resort : ACIDRAIN

10-across – Organ fund in a city with two cathedrals : LIVERPOOL

11-across – Clever, head of stock exchange : SMART

12-across – Frankly, it’s the duty of a witness giving evidence : TOTELLTHETRUTH

14-across – Homeless woman happy visiting cove : BAGLADY

16-across – Italian artist to draw game : TIEPOLO

17-across – Thug’s initial motive for crime : TREASON

19-across – Pedal in explosive missile : TRIDENT

21-across – Give an opinion without being asked, then begin to row? : STICKONESOARIN

24-across – State leaders in Illinois did, and had opposition : IDAHO

25-across – Maintain cuckoo at back of timepiece is wooden : INANIMATE

26-across – The Parisian enters showing concern for others in glade : CLEARING

27-across – A solitary Channel Island has it : HERMIT

1-down – Disintegrate if last bolt unhinged : FALLTOBITS

2-down – Bolt in iron tripod with no head : RIVET

3-down – Something of a thug, or I’ll add, an ape : GORILLA

5-down – Admitted as a barrister in Alberta, clothed in a special way : CALLEDTOTHEBAR

6-down – Merit extremely desirable present : DESERVE

7-down – Take roast out immediately : ATASTROKE

8-down – Turned up college record : NOTE

9-down – Beautiful to watch and hear at home, movement supporting US writer : POETRYINMOTION

13-down – Group good in Africa? : CONTINGENT

15-down – Dog in tea garden, barking : GREATDANE

18-down – Victim reportedly gets a helping hand : SUCCOUR

20-down – One Isolde foolishly put on a pedestal : IDOLISE

22-down – Actual leader of Moroccan kingdom : REALM

23-down – Record kept in cupboard is cracked : DISC

1-across – Part of spectacular Christmas tree : LARCH

4-across – Enraged at fancy open-air restaurant : TEAGARDEN

9-across – Metal in skull? Head’s not the same : URANIUM

10-across – Ask earnestly to go in and dine, being short of energy : ENTREAT

11-across – Blows up, having frightful set-to with dean : DETONATES

12-across – Ready to go down, with reservations, to eat first course : UNDER

13-across – See 12 : STARTERSORDERS

15-across – Overcoats in bar, unrestricted part of train : OBSERVATIONCAR

20-across – Scallywag affected by school, at first : SCAMP

22-across – Fuel that is stored in dollies abroad : DIESELOIL

23-across – Oriental festival’s name : EASTERN

24-across – A sin to devour a third of tiramisu – this one? : AVARICE

25-across – Comprehensive knowledge about working in a religious community : MONASTERY

26-across – Slip lead off dog fetching bird : EAGLE

1-down – Place of pilgrimage, terribly old? Sure : LOURDES

2-down – Something to eat in bar, almost cooked : ROASTLAMB

3-down – A woman may wear this hat touring Ireland – almost new : HAIRNET

4-down – Take an unnecessary risk in state capital, supporting draw : TEMPTPROVIDENCE

5-down – Type of treatment, a type they knock inside : AVERSIONTHERAPY

6-down – Startle a teller, firstly, entering safe : ASTOUND

7-down – Director to study fear : DREAD

8-down – Character smashed tea urn : NATURE

14-down – Counting, or estimating? : RECKONING

16-down – Speak non-stop : EXPRESS

17-down – Work in musical drama, note : OPERATE

18-down – Sappers reportedly go free : RELIEVE

19-down – High value head of expedition placed on climbing experiences : ESTEEM

21-down – Runs in a boy responsible for fire-raising : ARSON

1-across – Willing to learn from medical man, the Italian head of embryology : DOCILE

4-across – Son, violently attacked crossing Libya’s capital, ran : SMUGGLED

9-across – Tea is prepared after Sunday afternoon nap : SIESTA

10-across – Extramarital sex upset true lady : ADULTERY

12-across – Sash to wrap round body after first of wins : WINDOWFRAME

13-across – Novelist from district of London close to Pimlico : ECO

14-across – Mysterious death in a short, Hitchcock’s last film : ASHOTINTHEDARK

17-across – Nervous MP has date with former PM in a London park : HAMPSTEADHEATH

19-across – Sky broadcast : AIR

21-across – Relatives at sea? : SISTERSHIPS

23-across – One daughter, Isolde, possibly put on a pedestal : IDOLISED

24-across – Clever to bring in an English king : CANUTE

25-across – Tass, long spreading a Gorbachev initiative : GLASNOST

26-across – Understood about place causing anger : SPLEEN

1-down – Deny any connection with row about pig : DISOWN

2-down – Mo changes, changes dress : CHEONGSAM

3-down – Off the booze during card game and bingo : LOTTO

5-down – Editor, one got hold of by graduate, examines university course : MEDIASTUDIES

6-down – See supporting information about grey duck : GOLDENEYE

7-down – Belgian city, for example, in piece of fiction : LIEGE

8-down – Cold, plant where a liner may be built : DRYDOCK

11-down – Place not catering for private dining? : OFFICERSMESS

15-down – Ruling passion of old boy sitting : OBSESSION

16-down – A special characteristic, odd trait, found on Scottish island : ATTRIBUTE

17-down – Male group welcoming a court case : HEARING

18-down – Behind adult not inclined to leniency : ASTERN

20-down – German’s OK after port wine : RIOJA

22-down – Pickle’s fraudulent business scheme – Peregrine’s first : SCAMP

1-across – Cheat to secure point in game : CRIBBAGE

5-across – Watches wife chasing a wild mare : SEESAW

9-across – Frenchman wants, initially, to begin again : RENEW

10-across – Moderate consumed with rage, initially : TEMPERATE

12-across – Lengthens terms of imprisonment : STRETCHES

13-across – Implied I must be bound by discretion : TACIT

14-across – Peep’s dish her undoing? A meat dish : SHEPHERDSPIE

18-across – Both comrades badly injured : HORSDECOMBAT

21-across – Genuine about point relating to the kidneys : RENAL

23-across – It’s beside the point, a Parisian’s told : UNRELATED

24-across – Tell all to turn up fresh : COMECLEAN

25-across – Capital I invested in Chesterfield, say? : SOFIA

26-across – He painted Goliath clasping one? : TITIAN

27-across – Doctor treated Kurd, an alkie : DRUNKARD

1-down – A red used by Spencer is exquisite : CERISE

2-down – Pass by poor region : IGNORE

3-down – WC and bidet he vandalised in film : BEWITCHED

4-down – Understand what art collector might want to do : GETTHEPICTURE

6-down – Calm, the leader in trampolining competition : EVENT

7-down – Something from the watercolourist? : SEASCAPE

8-down – Sumo type in baggy trews, the Parisian on right : WRESTLER

11-down – Eliot’s young Silas bringing in iodine for merchant ship’s captain : MASTERMARINER

15-down – Unerring opener for Sussex, batting with pride? : DEADLYSIN

16-down – Wanting to pick a quicker route : SHORTCUT

17-down – Send maiden over in carriage : TRANSMIT

19-down – Group of people employed on a Hebridean island : STAFFA

20-down – King Lear, perhaps : EDWARD

22-down – Synthetic material stored in costly crate : LYCRA

1-across – Grade in form if last in history : CLASSIFY

5-across – Credit is doubled in unstable period : CRISIS

10-across – Significant event involving forgotten English monarch : SOVEREIGN

11-across – Present for don : PUTON

12-across – There’s nothing in canteen I like : NIL

13-across – Pasta dish? Gill ate bananas in story! : TAGLIATELLE

14-across – Impoverished Hebridean let on free : ONTHEBREADLINE

16-across – Game birds : DUCKSANDDRAKES

20-across – Subsidies needed to secure NY female LA apartments : GRANNYFLATS

21-across – Mother, foolish on reflection : DAM

22-across – Group of celebs in Bali, stars : ALIST

23-across – More than one hearing insult – bar involved : TRIBUNALS

24-across – Do wrong in attempt to provide drink : SHERRY

25-across – Worried, head of Abbotsleigh having to stay in school nursing it : AGITATED

1-down – Endless money in old gaming house : CASINO

2-down – Block damaged van, one on left : ANVIL

3-down – A slight injury causing one to withdraw : SCRATCH

4-down – Perks infer gifts – been worried? : FRINGEBENEFITS

6-down – Criminal erupted, it’s alleged : REPUTED

7-down – Plot involving a shop attendant : SATELLITE

8-down – Seeing that note is genuine : SINCERE

9-down – Illegal trading, daring sideline abroad : INSIDERDEALING

15-down – Fruit drink that’s delicious in the East : NECTARINE

16-down – Follows, holding trooper’s original silver identity discs : DOGTAGS

17-down – Treason involved a politician : SENATOR

18-down – A sailor reportedly set about : ASSAULT

19-down – A goddess duke entertained : AMUSED

21-down – Doctor behind plan : DRAFT