Daily Answers

1-across – Record of things wanted is brought in whilst out : WISHLIST

5-across – Keep limited opener for Somerset at crease : SCRIMP

10-across – English resort, one on the Isle of Wight duke disregarded : RYE

11-across – See sign of support : VINDICATION

12-across – Substitute to change number at end of game : ALTERNATE

13-across – Boringly repetitive, for example, crossing Maine : SAMEY

14-across – Teach those troubled by wound to focus on what’s important : CUTTOTHECHASE

17-across – Welsh hero surprisingly wore down foe, ultimately capturing valley : OWENGLENDOWER

21-across – Boy another left out : KEVIN

23-across – More than one publican doesn’t tell the truth about ugly scene : LICENSEES

24-across – Small backers chasing underworld gang : HELLSANGELS

25-across – Reportedly purchase extra : BYE

26-across – Quiet lift gets approval : PRAISE

27-across – Hungry? Tureen is specially prepared : ESURIENT

1-down – Capital used to be chilly and damp, upon reflection : WARSAW

2-down – Show places etc abroad : SPECTACLE

3-down – Fast runner, potentially, always allowed to go round : LEVERET

4-down – Drink in country with cast : SINGAPORESLING

6-down – Remarkably typical college girl in charge : CLASSIC

7-down – Expression used by one daughter on the Isle of Man : IDIOM

8-down – Girl embarrassed producing old postage stamp : PENNYRED

9-down – Enjoy article on Victorian novelist a lot : LIKETHEDICKENS

15-down – Pleasant, a US actor ringing about European : AGREEABLE

16-down – Atelier husband found in Notts town : WORKSHOP

18-down – Book an old pop group : GENESIS

19-down – Bandy words in castle : WINDSOR

20-down – Express agreement when told to go : ASSENT

22-down – Very sick adult in holiday home : VILLA

1-across – Face endless people giving a stream of abuse : DIATRIBE

5-across – Locksmith? : BARBER

9-across – Request to see Italian and invite trouble : ASKFORIT

10-across – Plot to strike causes a state of uproar : BEDLAM

12-across – Drink after Foreign Office meeting : FORUM

13-across – Try to land : TOUCHDOWN

14-across – High tea – treat a lad, but not now : ATALATERDATE

18-across – Appropriate newspapers found in a hotel room, perhaps : TROUSERPRESS

21-across – Level with complete stick-in-the-mud : ALLSQUARE

23-across – Take it on before performance : REACT

24-across – I’d gone out for a Bible : GIDEON

25-across – Small ballistic missile, shrill : STRIDENT

26-across – Drunkard clutching soft hat : TOPPER

27-across – Batting posture is a case in point : INSTANCE

1-down – Overshadows front of dry docks, we hear : DWARFS

2-down – Canadian showman and artist in capital : ANKARA

3-down – Fellow lodgers are most fussy about order : ROOMMATES

4-down – Sherry and port, the best : BRISTOLCREAM

6-down – A help in translation of a letter in Hebrew : ALEPH

7-down – Bonnet and boot : BALMORAL

8-down – Aide-memoire concerning bodyguard : REMINDER

11-down – US actor/director’s 1988 British film Kate worked on : BUSTERKEATON

15-down – Self-control shown by others surrounding coach : RESTRAINT

16-down – Frank’s flat : STRAIGHT

17-down – Carrying a gun as well, was first in court : TOOLEDUP

19-down – Wear nothing in port : HAVEON

20-down – Figure country must import uranium : STATUE

22-down – Refer to short cut taken by tortoise at the end : QUOTE

1-across – Win and celebrate : TRIUMPH

5-across – Popular – word describing one caretaker : INTERIM

9-across – Report coarse players : BROADCAST

10-across – Awkward drunk : TIGHT

11-across – Commercial outlet in period before Christmas : ADVENT

12-across – Viceroy, first to knock male club that’s disreputable : KHEDIVE

14-across – Poisonous plant, British, brought in by her boy : HERBCHRISTOPHER

16-across – Columbian one, one drunk very rarely : ONCEINABLUEMOON

19-across – A giant, swine holding queue back : GOLIATH

20-across – Say name of Island : STATEN

23-across – Love huge Greek character : OMEGA

24-across – Not connected by marriage, a Parisian’s told : UNRELATED

25-across – Swing – net added to facility, reportedly : TRAPEZE

26-across – Where youngsters play could make one spit, perhaps : SANDPIT

1-down – Punch’s dog in play about bishop : TOBY

2-down – Appropriate batting line-up : INORDER

3-down – Fly military aircraft across Germany and Spain : MIDGE

4-down – Sadness shown by audience coming from play : HEARTBREAKHOUSE

5-down – Saying last rites, talk so differently : ITTAKESALLSORTS

6-down – Main part, perhaps, I retell to comic : TITLEROLE

7-down – Is lying in light rough that’s deceiving : ROGUISH

8-down – Old French president needing hand with job : MITTERRAND

13-down – Rejected, we hear, in every part : THROUGHOUT

15-down – A new chair vandalised, and crockery? : CHINAWARE

17-down – Yorkshire river passing over a large crater : CALDERA

18-down – Dance on stage, saving energy : ONESTEP

21-down – Ready to drop a couple of lines home : ALLIN

22-down – This may turn up? Correct : EDIT

1-across – Identify one abbreviated US state : CONNECTICUT

9-across – Bell tower in barracks by a river in Africa : CAMPANILE

10-across – Saw a daughter decline : ADAGE

11-across – Man staff caught out : ROOK

12-across – Jazz pianist’s number I put in post : COUNTBASIE

14-across – Replace wonderful watch studded with diamonds : SUPERSEDE

15-across – Nonsense written about origins of Orkney and Shetland tidal current : ROOST

16-across – Sketch front of nightclub that’s closed : DRAWN

17-across – Music-makers playing in scarlet : CLARINETS

20-across – Flat in which Frenchman entertains girlfriend? : PIEDATERRE

21-across – Deer concealed crossing far side of plantation : HIND

23-across – Blade’s small talk : SWORD

24-across – Carry out a utensil : IMPLEMENT

25-across – More considerate, old patrolman in part of the Peak District : KINDERSCOUT

1-down – In which to make a note of run-of-the-mill reserve? : COMMONPLACEBOOK

2-down – Note organ close by : NEAR

3-down – Typical example of European religious book : EPITOME

4-down – Couple adopting tiny new child : TWEENIE

5-down – Room temperature, cool for a burgundy? : CHAMBERTIN

6-down – It’s better now you’re talking : THATSMORELIKEIT

7-down – He drowned in the Aegean, one tenor after love spurned : ICARUS

8-down – Desert fault : DEFECT

13-down – Group in golf club on first : IRONMAIDEN

16-down – Oust extremely demure model : DEPOSE

17-down – Pharmacist’s short eastern dress : CHEMISE

18-down – With reference to a shore, very large : APROPOS

19-down – Not very exciting appointment in the Kent area? : SEDATE

22-down – Freezer on? There’s nothing in it! : ZERO

1-across – Group going across river for a meal : BRUNCH

4-across – A couple watch one who’s cheating? : TWOTIMER

10-across – Train isn’t fixed en route : INTRANSIT

11-across – Artist contributing to postmodern style : ERNST

12-across – With £25 gets into Cruft’s elaborate promotional event? : DOGANDPONYSHOW

14-across – Style of interior design having red coat applied : ARTDECO

16-across – Queer Street? Phoned helpline ultimately : STRANGE

17-across – Letter from European saint found in stack : EPISTLE

19-across – Nelson’s short speech after opening of hostilities : HORATIO

21-across – A novel Holbein painting : THEAMBASSADORS

24-across – In a city of Mesopotamia, I caught Goldfinger : AURIC

25-across – Demoted socialist entertaining emissary : RELEGATED

26-across – Duke, entering a wood by canal, made a striking impression : CUTADASH

27-across – Seasoning fellow very quietly put in : PEPPER

1-down – Blasted din ruined appointments arranged by a third party : BLINDDATES

2-down – Revolting drunk may make one very tense : UPTIGHT

3-down – Child in a new series : CHAIN

5-down – Drink in fancy hotels – sweet wine, mostly : WETONESWHISTLE

6-down – Club official, more confident after revision of 8 : TREASURER

7-down – Start to move on, early in the rainy season : MONSOON

8-down – Consider a charge : RATE

9-down – As prosecutor, be prepared to expose bribe : ASOPTOCERBERUS

13-down – Have second thoughts – about Conservative party referendum, primarily : RECONSIDER

15-down – Approach daughter, hypnotised : ENTRANCED

18-down – Trendy? That girl must be with it to succeed : INHERIT

20-down – Swept to wild dance : TWOSTEP

22-down – A peculiar urge to express disagreement : ARGUE

23-down – Powder kept by hospital chemist : TALC