Daily Answers

1-across – Utter nothing in between : THOROUGH

5-across – A frozen piece of water inside clinic I cleared : ICICLE

9-across – Traitor in film, shot at the start : TURNCOAT

10-across – Jurisdiction of Military Police in Ireland : EMPIRE

12-across – Important subject for children : ISSUE

13-across – Date twin and experience an illusion : SEEDOUBLE

14-across – Immediately visiting principal tourist attraction : ATFIRSTSIGHT

18-across – Steal a march on absent staff at work : OUTMANOEUVRE

21-across – Put one’s foot down, properly, in plant : SPEEDWELL

23-across – Regret there’s no rum put out : MOURN

24-across – Girl has a variety of medals : DAMSEL

25-across – Knife fight involving till that’s short : STILETTO

26-across – Artist going to bank, once in a while : RARELY

27-across – I am a nerd to be distracted, elsewhere : INADREAM

1-down – Bird pecked a dainty morsel : TITBIT

2-down – Monstrous woman therefore capsized vessel : OGRESS

3-down – Carothers formed a band : ORCHESTRA

4-down – Unseemly rag with wise words, surprisingly, for a deserted husband : GRASSWIDOWER

6-down – Search round for a small jazz band : COMBO

7-down – Sack England’s opener after home game : CRIBBAGE

8-down – Factors in fire and water, say : ELEMENTS

11-down – Short broadcast from all the bridge players round home : NEWSBULLETIN

15-down – Went on and on after spades and clubs mixed up : SCRAMBLED

16-down – Think carefully about deception by team close to walkover : CONSIDER

17-down – Vessel carrying right flag : STREAMER

19-down – Relative, free after beginning of April : AUNTIE

20-down – Popular class can make this tell : INFORM

22-down – Live with daughter in good health : DWELL

1-across – Brewing agent may be obtained from Mediterranean country shortly : MALT

3-across – Pairs a pal’s circulated for valuations : APPRAISALS

9-across – Type of broad-leaved weed in harbour : DOCK

10-across – Does a full dish of ravioli constitute this? : SQUAREMEAL

12-across – Do as promised, get rid of virtually all of blades? : KEEPONESWORD

15-across – One who buys nearly clean jumper : PURCHASER

17-across – In a week, wood flooded : AWASH

18-across – Patriarch, one rejected by church : ENOCH

19-across – Fool’s heartless gibe about one aide : ASSISTANT

20-across – Two members making a large amount of money : ANARMANDALEG

24-across – Injudicious act giving cheek about king : IMPRUDENCE

25-across – Collection of reminiscences about northern girl : ANNA

26-across – Indecisive leader in industry runs firm : IRRESOLUTE

27-across – Attempt from bunker, initially with wood : BASH

1-down – Damaging allegations over captain and fish : MUDSKIPPER

2-down – What key sportsman could use for a change? : LOCKERROOM

4-down – Indignation is shown when card game’s cut short : PIQUE

5-down – What delay motorists? Stupid arrows do round centre of Tokyo : ROADWORKS

6-down – Form of refreshment in America coeds concocted : ICECREAMSODA

7-down – Elderly French artist almost set up : AGED

8-down – Old sailor’s dry wit : SALT

11-down – To perform a social duty for others, preside at awards ceremony? : DOTHEHONOURS

13-down – Film Spaniard’s house on one of the Costas : CASABLANCA

14-down – Snapshot in public house got Harpo upset : PHOTOGRAPH

16-down – Wear still to be treated in part of building : STAIRWELL

21-down – A Caledonian racecourse : ASCOT

22-down – Married in one, a short skirt : MINI

23-down – Box in last of fights on equal footing : SPAR

1-across – Girl having a short walk : ASTRID

4-across – Knight’s weapon, auction item : LANCELOT

10-across – Cliché from first of prisoners given freedom : PLATITUDE

11-across – Imitate La Bohème female beginning to cry : MIMIC

12-across – Manage to score before Italian : CUTIT

13-across – One excluded strange isle abroad : ODDMANOUT

14-across – Line in a Henry Miller novel : TROPICOFCANCER

18-across – Court trouble having fish cooked in hot Riviera resort : SKATEONTHINICE

20-across – Result of fine jump : OFFSPRING

22-across – Operatic heroine not quite of sound mind : NORMA

23-across – Heading for marina in carriage, a vagrant : TRAMP

24-across – A settler from abroad, I’m male with one permit : IMMIGRANT

25-across – A guiding principle on credit is shown to be misplaced : DOCTRINE

26-across – Famous composer – Her Majesty is among supporters : BRAHMS

1-down – Animal from mountain, a cat with no tail : ALPACA

2-down – First-class crumble and pie over in restaurant : TRATTORIA

3-down – I do it foolishly, being a fool! : IDIOT

5-down – FIFA’s president, for example, is in an advantageous position : AHEADOFTHEGAME

6-down – Return with pardon? : COMEAGAIN

7-down – Member’s introduction to old dance : LIMBO

8-down – Saying little, volunteers about one opportunity : TACITURN

9-down – Released from nick, unfit : OUTOFCONDITION

15-down – One who enticed children in Dieppe with rip off? : PIEDPIPER

16-down – See pest rock violently on board single-decker : COCKROACH

17-down – Miscellaneous trades, so varied : ASSORTED

19-down – New stakes in French football club : NANTES

21-down – Boy is missing a Swiss coin : FRANC

22-down – Turbulent reign in African country : NIGER

1-across – Gas let off by a politician : FIREDAMP

5-across – A plank on a yacht maybe : ABOARD

10-across – Month in America below zero : MINUS

11-across – Poverty’s end is seen in reform : NEEDINESS

12-across – Excite them with incredible nursery rhyme : THREEBLINDMICE

14-across – Tar at sea with sail and ropes : LARIATS

15-across – Quite a few cut off by a lake : SEVERAL

17-across – Order to desist, so visit cancelled : CALLOFF

19-across – Choice of words found in short stories beginning differently : DICTION

21-across – Fictional lawyer and policeman row pointing to boundary : MASONDIXONLINE

24-across – Playing air twice : RURITANIA

25-across – Stroll back, then head off : AMBLE

26-across – Notice, on inlet, a large number of ships : ARMADA

27-across – Clergyman never terribly overdrawn? : REVEREND

1-down – Celebrity in stage musical : FAME

2-down – Hacienda owner sprinted and caught the woman : RANCHER

3-down – Criminal element mostly after speed abroad : DESPERADO

4-down – Dog fends tribesman off : MANSBESTFRIEND

6-down – Screen idol, at the end, crashing bore : BLIND

7-down – A row about the Spanish studio : ATELIER

8-down – Send in lady to reform theme park : DISNEYLAND

9-down – Son was sent up by barrister, one provoking debate : DEVILSADVOCATE

13-down – Miserable girl in police van : BLACKMARIA

16-down – Be unsteady, unwell during leave : VACILLATE

18-down – Odd having passionate desire over a period of five years : LUSTRUM

20-down – Soldier taken over impressive base : IGNOBLE

22-down – Well-known record, Donovan’s first : NOTED

23-down – Guide boy round centre of Amsterdam : LEAD

1-across – Cheerful bishop’s flexible : BLITHE

4-across – Get down to nudism, astonishingly : DISMOUNT

9-across – Liqueur price list outrageous – expensive, ultimately, for one : TRIPLESEC

11-across – English textile town, to the west a university : KEELE

12-across – Against carrying on, old Italian chap : ANTONIO

13-across – Recall one hundred odd swallowing drop of special medicine? : NOSTRUM

14-across – E.g. neck ends? : CLOSEFINISH

16-across – Exactly how rent is paid? : TOTHELETTER

20-across – Note journalists keep back : REPRESS

21-across – A group working in desert : ABANDON

23-across – Model, keeping one’s balance : POISE

24-across – Dissolute peer loves to get up late? : OVERSLEEP

25-across – A boozy bender touring eastern city up north : ABERDEEN

26-across – Gambler in cap : BETTER

1-down – Comic strip character, a valet : BATMAN

2-down – Stupid, one point put about one in charge : IDIOTIC

3-down – Girl’s broken heel close to pavilion : HELEN

5-down – Behind bars having committed swindle – judge intolerant : INCONSIDERATE

6-down – Rough and ready model needing dress : MAKESHIFT

7-down – Excavate part of chateau near there : UNEARTH

8-down – Louise’s partner playing Hamlet : THELMA

10-down – Area in which pollution is controlled, not good for the kipper house? : SMOKELESSZONE

15-down – Recovering, continuously ingesting them : ONTHEMEND

16-down – Leader in Premiership, a cut above the others? : TOPSIDE

17-down – Flush? Reportedly posted a trivial amount of money : REDCENT

18-down – Doctor’s entertaining chat over a brandy : GRAPPA

19-down – Even row about card game : ONAPAR

22-down – Some Beaujolais left in passageway : AISLE