Daily Answers

1-across – Song from doctor about a city, Latvia’s capital : MADRIGAL

5-across – Stabbed, king by fiend abroad : KNIFED

9-across – Reasonable grounds, mostly : RATIONAL

10-across – Figure outside broadcast’s lengthy : OBLONG

12-across – One showing endurance during adversity, coming from Barbados to Iceland : STOIC

13-across – Old Hebrew king back in one place where something important happened : ISRAELITE

14-across – Fanatical propagandist, powerful energetic type possessing charm : HOTGOSPELLER

18-across – Rude lesbians in resort, they’re not wanted : UNDESIRABLES

21-across – Collar man, criminal from Palma, perhaps : MALLORCAN

23-across – Cap removed from toy gun : RIFLE

24-across – Cultivating endless fruit : RAISIN

25-across – Has treated unseasoned leather : SHAGREEN

26-across – Want the Parisian to show pointer on dial : NEEDLE

27-across – Note making one irritable? Not quite : CROTCHET

1-down – Gloomy, seaman on board again : MOROSE

2-down – New red-top, unwelcome : DETROP

3-down – Golf club’s bridge award : IRONCROSS

4-down – Fantastic poise delivering song : AMAZINGGRACE

6-down – Magnificent old British coin : NOBLE

7-down – Following many in a bad way, a number of small ships : FLOTILLA

8-down – Foolish constable found in dreadful bog in NI district : DOGBERRY

11-down – Independent MP may be more angry about judges : CROSSBENCHER

15-down – Look at promising plant : EYEBRIGHT

16-down – Fool on ladder in rehearsal : DUMMYRUN

17-down – Queen led over, following a deputy : ADELAIDE

19-down – Far out, she floundered again : AFRESH

20-down – Note about substance used for curdling : RENNET

22-down – Rebuilt Loire college : ORIEL

1-across – Awful smell coming from small freshwater fish : STENCH

4-across – Charm, a cross, last in market : AMULET

8-across – Prepared to study unknown quantity : READY

9-across – Material wealth : SUBSTANCE

11-across – Scout, first to salute English dramatist : SPOTTER

12-across – Daughter coming in to mend broken piece : ODDMENT

13-across – Notice what’s given to departing soldiers? : MARCHINGORDERS

16-across – Come onto the stage in theatre in revised Osborne play : THEENTERTAINER

20-across – Soldier, in consequence, left umbrella : PARASOL

22-across – Figure old scam must take in mark : OCTAGON

23-across – Frozen, enter resort to make a political address : NUMBERTEN

24-across – Rouse oneself and dress : GETUP

25-across – Hard to acquire right container for animals to drink out of : TROUGH

26-across – Little boy, after short time, becomes difficult : TRICKY

1-down – Head of state rests uneasily showing strain : STRESS

2-down – Develop complex : ELABORATE

3-down – Mysterious tomb, one discovered by leader of Crusades : CRYPTIC

5-down – Bullfighter in form at a do recently : MATADOR

6-down – Knight having no chance to find weapon : LANCE

7-down – Paper in stand is English : TREATISE

9-down – Make fit for use low sort of accommodation : SERVICEFLAT

10-down – Preferred feathers delivered from London? : BROUGHTDOWN

14-down – Forceful eastern regent implicated in charge : ENERGETIC

15-down – Be quick, or set point’s lost : STEPONIT

17-down – Gathers in information over savings : NESTEGG

18-down – A whole number teeing off close to marker : INTEGER

19-down – Smart spook snatching short sleep : SNAPPY

21-down – Ladies’ man finding note in changing room : ROMEO

1-across – Food I fed to soldiers, a Chinese dish : CHOWMEIN

5-across – Ancient city, she bet, is in ruins : THEBES

9-across – Beast making social worker run away : ANTELOPE

10-across – Take to task, one way or the other : PULLUP

12-across – Pay for another nurse : TREAT

13-across – Following lift, he will complain vociferously : RAISEHELL

14-across – Thought of French emancipation : DELIBERATION

18-across – At which prices are gradually lowered for lots in Amsterdam? : DUTCHAUCTION

21-across – Character cutting, a cheat : CARDSHARP

23-across – Boredom shown by nun, I suspect, after end of service : ENNUI

24-across – Endeavour to secure one pound for a hat : TRILBY

25-across – Whistle along, then be quiet : PIPEDOWN

26-across – Followed, stubbornly determined : DOGGED

27-across – Miniature hourglass, for example – good orders brought back : EGGTIMER

1-down – Talkative, spiteful about husband : CHATTY

2-down – Unfashionable group’s origin : OUTSET

3-down – Kids lose them, helmet and kit, carelessly : MILKTEETH

4-down – Especially popular individual : INPARTICULAR

6-down – Building hospital overlooking river in York : HOUSE

7-down – Regular newsletter round home : BULLETIN

8-down – Shortly to provide worker to take another’s place : SUPPLANT

11-down – Avoiding an issue that is dividing small Essex town : SIDESTEPPING

15-down – One male in a shelter needed to make amends : ATONEMENT

16-down – Informed cadet, due abroad : EDUCATED

17-down – Southern sailor has fish for bird : STARLING

19-down – Popular figure playing well : INFORM

20-down – Conqueror William’s initial secret : WINNER

22-down – Transaction involving black fur : SABLE

1-across – Caught parrot fish in New England resort area : CAPECOD

5-across – Transmitter in vessel : CARRIER

9-across – Duck taken from Grasmere cooked around noon : MERGANSER

10-across – Loose-limbed, Italian ambassador after end of drill : LITHE

11-across – Intense anger about new stove : RANGE

12-across – Typically, a Girl Guide’s first to wear one : ONAVERAGE

13-across – Here members salute : PRESENTARMS

15-across – American soldier freed at once, remarkably : CONFEDERATE

19-across – Starting to trap male bears in rural areas : THESTICKS

21-across – Company backed aggressive dog to take place : OCCUR

22-across – Clean frock : DRESS

23-across – Murder in the Spanish Main – it upset pirate, ultimately : ELIMINATE

24-across – Where one may see an athlete making progress as expected : ONTRACK

25-across – Encourage leading boffin : EGGHEAD

1-down – Arrived with artist and picture producer : CAMERA

2-down – Briefly peel and cut a vegetable : PARSNIP

3-down – Reptile blended on each elm : CHAMELEON

4-down – Found vet a threat on board : DISCOVEREDCHECK

5-down – County Meath carrier NHS treated : CARMARTHENSHIRE

6-down – Poet’s anger about ending in limerick : RILKE

7-down – Crying at home over split with son : INTEARS

8-down – Mention about note in jacket : REEFER

14-down – Logic suggests a nose ring is silly : REASONING

15-down – Kind, the French soldiers in court : CLEMENT

16-down – Enclosed area, extremely cool in eastern part of church : ENCLAVE

17-down – Film production company boss, one getting Oscar : STUDIO

18-down – Father on island with close companion : FRIEND

20-down – Opera cast nervous about opening in Otello : TOSCA

1-across – Programme information collected by a US prosecutor : AGENDA

4-across – British editor criticises hospital utensils : BEDPANS

8-across – Abandoned ship then devoured by monster : THESPHINX

10-across – Silly diver close to quay : LOONY

11-across – Salesman receiving a cut : REAP

12-across – Saw, on reflection, nothing untoward in capital : WASHINGTON

14-across – Understand what bidder at art auction wants to do? : GETTHEPICTURE

16-across – Hold a medal intricately inscribed with name of statesman : NELSONMANDELA

19-across – A person travelling on foot is commonplace : PEDESTRIAN

20-across – In the thick of a flipping cloud : AMID

22-across – Typical university in America, close to full : USUAL

23-across – Band of Hope member ordered teas in bar : ABSTAINER

24-across – Goddess, apparently sexless, heading off to gym : EUTERPE

25-across – Flat, retreat for English poet : DRYDEN

1-down – Very close friend to make changes to, say, opening of operetta : ALTEREGO

2-down – Refined English stage worker : ELEGANT

3-down – Information for fool with illegal drugs : DOPE

4-down – In exams, both cops failed to name every point in order : BOXTHECOMPASS

5-down – Extremely disreputable, Quinn let off, guilty of a minor offence : DELINQUENT

6-down – Advocate having job holding beer? Just the opposite! : APOSTLE

7-down – Delivering a saw : SAYING

9-down – Unsuitable home to take : INAPPROPRIATE

13-down – Vessel netting sole at sea for firm that supplies in bulk : WHOLESALER

15-down – Chap’s boldness briefly defines bureaucrat : MANDARIN

16-down – Almost certainly agree bout must be fixed : NODOUBT

17-down – The Queen brought over fabric trimmed with fur : ERMINED

18-down – Trim tree : SPRUCE

21-down – Favourite tune, not bad : FAIR