Daily Answers

1-across – Mug and flag held by jockey : VISAGE

4-across – Peering across lake to make out bird : STARLING

9-across – Cathedral city’s organ fund : LIVERPOOL

11-across – Opening number covered by funky trio : INTRO

12-across – Emergency accommodation when the weather’s bad could be no party : ANYPORTINASTORM

13-across – Retort made by dealer, ultimately, to one after Ecstasy : RIPOSTE

15-across – Increase pace in the saddle : STEPUP

17-across – In game, cracked riddle : ENIGMA

19-across – Last longer than others where French water treated : OUTWEAR

22-across – Where bandits are likely to take your money? : AMUSEMENTARCADE

24-across – Article absorbing female drained of colour : ASHEN

25-across – Vision of gift horse put out : FORESIGHT

26-across – Novelist from Maine, close to bachelor girl : MEREDITH

27-across – Lack of interest in a course beginning in York : APATHY

1-down – French writer displaying anger after dance : VOLTAIRE

2-down – Speak about very old area of France : SAVOY

3-down – Monstrous sisters, thugs holding Greek up : GORGONS

5-down – Protestant let off scout : TALENTSPOTTER

6-down – Further publication concerning children : REISSUE

7-down – Propose appalling reduction : INTRODUCE

8-down – Dark logo to be changed – gracious me! : GLOOMY

10-down – At first glance, where are the chronometer’s hands? : ONTHEFACEOFIT

14-down – Confine drug dealer, clerical worker : PENPUSHER

16-down – Like a minister, playwright on the radio : PRIESTLY

18-down – Found out from good editor about film director : GLEANED

20-down – Happens to drink after performance : TURNSUP

21-down – Incendiary liquid mate used in Vietnam : NAPALM

23-down – Sense of anxiety in Penang state : ANGST

1-across – Short task involving one group of singers : CHOIR

4-across – Relish a TV broadcast, a Sheridan play : THERIVALS

9-across – One retaliating against English sovereign after first of attacks : AVENGER

10-across – Former partner, large in size, a model : EXAMPLE

11-across – After one chapter, praise one American novel : ICLAUDIUS

12-across – Headdress, one nicked by a despicable type on the way over : TIARA

13-across – Marksman notes owl : SHARPSHOOTER

17-across – Stupid person crossing road with compiler and dog : GORDONSETTER

20-across – Statue of sorcerer on island : IMAGE

21-across – Slander a small individual I introduced : ASPERSION

22-across – Sauce boat shattered when drop of chilli poured in : TABASCO

23-across – Popular barrister to sum up : INBRIEF

24-across – Patience has dream about beheaded spy : TOLERANCE

25-across – Keen listener describing good ending to programme : EAGER

1-down – Rascal is shaking girl : CLARISSA

2-down – Extra weight in saddle : OVERLOAD

3-down – Distinguished academic, frightful gossiper for sure : REGIUSPROFESSOR

4-down – Discoloured, one outhouse below mountain lake : TARNISHED

5-down – Not fluctuating, small odds : EVENS

6-down – Their evil banter aroused tsar : IVANTHETERRIBLE

7-down – Come on the market with a soft fruit : APPEAR

8-down – Watches wife pocketing a yo-yo : SEESAW

14-down – One who may know a lot about tents? : OENOPHILE

15-down – Hitting out : STRIKING

16-down – Extremely stiff in coach? I must leave conveyance : TRANSFER

18-down – Child upset and tense at an order that must be obeyed : DIKTAT

19-down – Caper for which doctor is put in prison : GAMBOL

21-down – A cereal with fruit : ACORN

1-across – Ruling party millions elected at home on third of August : DOMINATING

6-across – Better, deleting the last letter in the last word : AMEN

9-across – Reproduction of sound in car with disc on : AUDIO

10-across – Crooks ruined top firm : ROCKSOLID

12-across – Siren in stories, the French one : LORELEI

13-across – Man sees slack in a body : ENMASSE

14-across – Cocktails and mixed gins at either side of Pearl, so drunk : SINGAPORESLINGS

17-across – I’m Toby, cranky and eccentric, opposing local development : NOTINMYBACKYARD

20-across – Large pub in capital : TALLINN

22-across – Three-pronged spear I’d found in English river : TRIDENT

23-across – Material girl : GEORGETTE

24-across – Port of Omaha, if asked : HAIFA

25-across – Travel free by Tube, ultimately : RIDE

26-across – Didn’t let on in park, kitted out : KEPTITDARK

1-down – Unerring on square, batting with pride? : DEADLYSIN

2-down – Position for cricketer around Irish golf club : MIDIRON

3-down – Somewhat unattractive description of a watercolour? : NOOILPAINTING

4-down – Awful riot described by boy in region : TERRITORY

5-down – Particularly suitable position of hotel in French resort : NICHE

7-down – Curse married girl : MALISON

8-down – Glass initially embedded in exposed elbow : NUDGE

11-down – Film title shook me badly, I admitted : SOMELIKEITHOT

15-down – Command performance : ENACTMENT

16-down – Distract team on course : SIDETRACK

18-down – Part of motel : TELFORD

19-down – A maiden, girl in West Side Story song : AMERICA

20-down – Row about golf and golfer? : TIGER

21-down – Fool about with saltpetre : NITRE

1-across – Infant born during recess : BABY

3-across – Passionate tale involving maiden : STORMY

9-across – Undergoing a state of transition at home, plotting changes involving text : INTHEMELTINGPOT

10-across – Draws on novel alibi to reveal talents : ABILITIES

11-across – A bit of cork in my French wine : MACON

12-across – English home with electronic source of power : ENGINE

13-across – Messy hit and run : SLAPDASH

16-across – General behaviour in a Manhattan street : BROADWAY

17-across – Crime writer’s killers left out : SAYERS

20-across – Attack head of sixth-form college : SETON

22-across – Available in large quantities where Carrie Watts grew up : BOUNTIFUL

23-across – Deliver free : COMETOTHERESCUE

24-across – Type of ring, reportedly for a young bird : CYGNET

25-across – River goddess : ISIS

1-down – Body of troops ordered to capture equipment : BRIGADE

2-down – Something for the beach, a bit much? Gent so embarrassed : BATHINGCOSTUME

3-down – Move by one knight to intervene : STEPIN

4-down – Boy let us out, dim-wittedly : OBTUSELY

5-down – Motive, primarily, behind very short note : MINIM

6-down – Was king around end of thirties – abdicated : RESIGNED

7-down – Constable, perhaps, getting results with tricks used in picture-making : SPECIALEFFECTS

8-down – Very unpleasant smell coming from tail of cartilaginous fish : STENCH

14-down – You’d think you’d find alligators on one, but you won’t! : PEARTREE

15-down – Overlooking man, Batman and Robin foolishly talk at length : RABBITON

16-down – Cut and dry in brief space of time : BISECT

18-down – Joins privates after one drops out : SOLDERS

19-down – Boy in game, forward : RUPERT

21-down – Dapper, some aldermen at Tynwald : NATTY

1-across – Patterns formed in part of church : TRANSEPT

5-across – Empty tin in tank : VACANT

10-across – Top forty, reportedly : EXCEL

11-across – Leaving shift : DEPARTURE

12-across – Likely to be blamed and due to receive fine right away : INTHEFIRINGLINE

13-across – Some from Redcar change liners in Russian port : ARCHANGEL

15-across – Near end of flight in the dark : NIGHT

17-across – Leading leg spinner : ONTOP

19-across – When not to supply film : ONTHETOWN

21-across – Decline road movie : SUNSETBOULEVARD

23-across – Embargo on developing a missile : BOOMERANG

24-across – Speak evil about Oscar : VOICE

25-across – Tell about past : RELATE

26-across – That woman phones for fish : HERRINGS

1-down – Strange kid, at home with comic opera : THEMIKADO

2-down – A quote’s arisen about Catholic recluse : ASCETIC

3-down – Get the answers to only about five : SOLVE

4-down – Visitor from Peru? Last to arrive in London station inn : PADDINGTONBEAR

6-down – Turn up in Scottish island church showing disdain : ARROGANCE

7-down – Article on Dynasty captivating America might be funny : AMUSING

8-down – Subject: foot-and-mouth emergency cases : THEME

9-down – A hard task given in climbing contest : UPHILLSTRUGGLE

14-down – Tap and enter if both worried about son right now : ATPRESENT

16-down – Such as Agnes Baden-Powell may have worn? : TENTDRESS

18-down – A help in the kitchen can cook one’s goose? : TINFOIL

20-down – On about correspondence address : ORATION

21-down – Frightful bores on the wagon : SOBER

22-down – Young fish always circling lake : ELVER