Daily Answers

1-across – Felt for shipmate at sea collared by journalist : EMPATHISED

6-across – Chief stud : BOSS

9-across – A boost to self-esteem achieved on English horse that’s inferior : EGOTRIP

10-across – Anteater chained, maltreated : ECHIDNA

12-across – 14 or 25 : POISSONDAVRIL

14-across – 12 or 25 : APRILFOOL

15-across – Old article penned by that woman novelist : HEYER

16-across – Wooden old actor-manager close to Goldwyn : TREEN

18-across – Wife is at home nursing prisoners of state : WISCONSIN

21-across – Still together : ATTHESAMETIME

23-across – Nearing resort, hittable : INRANGE

24-across – Camping item perhaps missent abroad : MESSTIN

25-across – 12 or 14 : GOWK

26-across – Scathing when gang housed in portable shelter : ASTRINGENT

1-down – Still the same : EVEN

2-down – Get on with Miranda’s father? Mostly : PROSPER

3-down – Made for Hallowe’en, watch number later, outside, at onset of night-time : TURNIPLANTERN

4-down – One meeting member regarding painting technique : IMPASTO

5-down – Unknown number fired from outside, non-stop : ETERNAL

7-down – Neat hospital attendant : ORDERLY

8-down – A trap for the unwary consumer in shopping area in a rush? : SMALLPRINT

11-down – Cartoonist having hour in the bar, soon worse for wear : HEATHROBINSON

13-down – No longer bothered over looking after people : PASTCARING

17-down – Actor we cast – admit we were wrong : EATCROW

18-down – Wife stands seeing small furry creatures : WEASELS

19-down – Pilot going about a mile in vessel : STEAMER

20-down – Ghost commanding a form of respect : SPECTRE

22-down – Section without lights learner driver avoided : UNIT

1-across – A farmer finally fit, fit for ploughing : ARABLE

4-across – Property propositions : PREMISES

9-across – Cry of lady swimming in a residential enclave in Nassau : LYFORDCAY

11-across – Bread, and what’s used to make it : DOUGH

12-across – A charming French accent : ACUTE

13-across – Boy, a youth who drowned saving ten : ALEXANDER

14-across – Irritable about intelligence surrounding large ship : CANTANKEROUS

18-across – Old English weapon found in barracks by Welsh river : QUARTERSTAFF

21-across – Dropped charges causing one to cry : SHEDTEARS

22-across – One identifies bishop and rook pocketed by child : MITRE

23-across – Some characters in healthy Droitwich spa : HYDRO

24-across – Deteriorate? Manage to consult foremost of doctors : RUNTOSEED

25-across – Beginning to ask one about new lead for dog : AIREDALE

26-across – Note from voice on the radio : TENNER

1-down – Wanting marriage, daughter drops out of amorous relationship : ALLIANCE

2-down – A female, articulate and rich : AFFLUENT

3-down – Big freight vessel left for Britain : LARGE

5-down – So marry her, one moved, displaying logic : RHYMEORREASON

6-down – A fellow, surrounded by kinky US dames, complained : MADEAFUSS

7-down – Read about king, well-built : STURDY

8-down – Circle province : SPHERE

10-down – American rustic – fine example by pub on line : CRACKERBARREL

15-down – Maturity shown by a deckhand originally guarding hold out at sea : ADULTHOOD

16-down – Harshly criticise article on a building that was built to honour gods : PANTHEON

17-down – Bid to imprison complete delinquent : OFFENDER

19-down – When this is not shown, old lady makes a complaint : ASTHMA

20-down – Kind offer : TENDER

22-down – Animal lows close to byre : MOOSE

1-across – Expectation of the man taking work on board : HOPE

3-across – Trying on red heels and short trousers : LEDERHOSEN

10-across – Ready examples of rehearsed moves : SETPIECES

11-across – Dexterous lady primarily brought in to make earthenware : DELFT

12-across – Smart choice crossing river : PRICK

13-across – Look at key and wonder? : EYEOPENER

14-across – Key issue in 2011, say : PRIMENUMBER

18-across – A Muse could make poets richer : TERPSICHORE

21-across – Play tune no end, hit by Armstrong originally : MELODRAMA

23-across – Respond emotionally about turn : REACT

24-across – Extremist in Kabul, traitor : ULTRA

25-across – Special revolutionary character : REDLETTER

26-across – It may bring comfort to a child, receiving love if throaty, suffering : TOOTHFAIRY

27-across – Cold, and sore throat : CRAW

1-down – Weed round front of semi with instrument, gardening aid : HOSEPIPE

2-down – Girl, aristocratic? Not quite : PATRICIA

4-down – Former cashier, we hear, in a royal treasury : EXCHEQUER

5-down – Follow unseen, mostly in disguise : ENSUE

6-down – Reportedly conceal Scottish explorer, with difficulty, in a West End location : HYDEPARKCORNER

7-down – Famous lawgiver given good farewell : SOLONG

8-down – Kind disposition : NATURE

9-down – Highly amused, choose the odd tale to be broadcast : TICKLEDTODEATH

15-down – Onlooker before with rest shivering outside : BYSTANDER

16-down – Talk idly about award? It doesn’t make any difference : NOMATTER

17-down – How earth may be turned into an airport : HEATHROW

19-down – Size of a horse used for riding : AMOUNT

20-down – Bachelor by house, extremely drunk : BLOTTO

22-down – Vessel from Kenya or Tanzania : AORTA

1-across – At top speed, even in the shops : FLATOUT

5-across – Sit near suspect, crying : INTEARS

9-across – Nuts about English short-story writer : BATES

10-across – Very simple? Yes, ape, as I set out : EASYASPIE

11-across – Habitual convict amongst female employees in a place in Arizona : FLAGSTAFF

12-across – Daggers drawn? : OBELI

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

16-across – Betray Lorraine, for example : DOUBLECROSS

19-across – Derelict carriage broken into by male : TRAMP

21-across – Forked out, defeated at college : STUMPEDUP

23-across – Petersham, perhaps, seen in outstanding film : GREATCOAT

24-across – No mixer in Martell one requested : LONER

25-across – Quite old, small tree on both banks of Liffey : ELDERLY

26-across – Crazy, bishop leaving after year in a city on the Hudson River : YONKERS

1-down – Deceitfully appease fellow, old boy on holiday : FOBOFF

2-down – Pulled political pamphlet showing wrong date on the outside : ATTRACTED

3-down – Old unaltered haven : OASIS

4-down – She told me a dreadful lie, an often-repeated situation : THESAMEOLDSTORY

5-down – I can do what I like, Italian secretary of UN snarled : ITSAFREECOUNTRY

6-down – A few trot out love song from No, No, Nanette : TEAFORTWO

7-down – Member brought in beer, more than enough : AMPLE

8-down – Type, mostly for money : SPECIE

14-down – Musician, loud-voiced bird : TRUMPETER

15-down – Decree nisi after one leaves unhappy home : RESIDENCE

17-down – Cheap cigar egoist smoked : STOGIE

18-down – Electrician’s gear on board steamship : SPARKS

20-down – Alter the last word, sixth letter in ‘regards’ : AMEND

22-down – Steel structure only demolished under pressure : PYLON

1-across – Escape for holiday abroad : BREAKOUT

5-across – Stretch of lake twists to the west : SPRAWL

9-across – Lottery could cause son to shed tears : SWEEP

10-across – Support worker accused : DEFENDANT

12-across – Hospital doctor injecting substance right into bottom : REGISTRAR

13-across – Total, say : UTTER

14-across – Considered striking after spring, so planned carefully : WELLTHOUGHTOUT

18-across – Need MOT? GT somehow not right, please understand : DONTGETMEWRONG

20-across – Fighter plane hit? One’s lost power : MIGHT

22-across – Diver with net revealing explosive device : BOOBYTRAP

24-across – Thug’s hairy pet : ROUGHNECK

25-across – Actress in part of Dumas heroine : ASHER

26-across – Former name of Ottawa, according to name on tug : BYTOWN

27-across – Girl’s back at school to get a laxative : SENNAPOD

1-down – Writer eating only half of stew in restaurant : BISTRO

2-down – Star anise, say, always growing : EVERGREEN

3-down – Reportedly drops off a novel : KIPPS

4-down – Drunk carried out secretly : UNDERTHETABLE

6-down – Clerical worker in dock, drug dealer : PENPUSHER

7-down – A bit to one side : APART

8-down – Able to read and write Latin? Say again : LITERATE

11-down – Chinese restaurant speciality? Chef brought in fourteen I fancy! : FORTUNECOOKIE

15-down – Fine sight, a kaleidoscopic display : LIGHTSHOW

16-down – Title of new wine shop across river : OWNERSHIP

17-down – Film barmaids working : ADAMSRIB

19-down – Thin daughter did without : SPARED

21-down – Drawn, relative after onset of gout : GAUNT

23-down – Long story about Egypt’s leader : YEARN