Daily Answers

1-across – A master of light farce with point to get across : TRAVERSE

5-across – Wrong answer for peninsula : CRIMEA

9-across – Aunt Sally, perhaps? : FAIRGAME

10-across – Dessert – seconds accepted by timid type : MOUSSE

12-across – Suffer, popular course of remedial treatment incomplete : INCUR

13-across – Malibu, drab for us surprisingly : SURFBOARD

15-across – Type of rhyme senior eleven composed : LEONINEVERSE

18-across – Novel author left out all the time, at first : FOREVERAMBER

21-across – The old one getting out of bed is a speculator : THEORISER

22-across – Daring support garment, extremely versatile : BRAVE

23-across – Spotted motorway leading to Yorkshire town : MOTLEY

25-across – Little known about Greek character, a monster : MINOTAUR

26-across – Follow notice in programme : SHADOW

27-across – Champion eight reportedly unhappy about capsizing : CRUSADER

1-down – Petty quarrel at home making midday meal : TIFFIN

2-down – A coin for each person : APIECE

3-down – Agree, oddly, with bearded man, one volunteering for extra work : EAGERBEAVER

4-down – Dickens character, strong man securing power with money : SAMPSONBRASS

6-down – Letter from Greece from air hostess : RHO

7-down – Wholesale slaughter in Israeli port after religious ceremony : MASSACRE

8-down – City, Lincoln, run by university administrator, we hear : ABERDEEN

11-down – Liqueur, one imbibed by imposing George Eliot character : GRANDMARNIER

14-down – What some violent troublemakers wear for kicks? : BOVVERBOOTS

16-down – Frequently ring two newspapers : OFTTIMES

17-down – Beverage teenager brewed : GREENTEA

19-down – False rumour an eccentric put about : CANARD

20-down – In heart of Vietnam, blunder causes extreme fear : TERROR

24-down – Italian novelist in the city centre of Bologna : ECO

1-across – Fancy cigars, ale and port : ALGECIRAS

6-across – Tighten one’s belt in spring, saving bit of money : SKIMP

9-across – Evergreen delivered by singer, half cut, during a party : AVOCADO

10-across – Constant source of exasperation, rental arrangement : ETERNAL

11-across – What’s surprisingly great as a lachrymator? : TEARGAS

12-across – Dreadful emails about son at a loose end : AIMLESS

13-across – Wrote, as agreed : CORRESPONDED

16-across – Sending coaches, all but one, on expedition : TRANSMISSION

19-across – A grant secured by the Olympian : ATHLETE

20-across – Pick out one very much behindhand : ISOLATE

21-across – Everyone taking part in trial? Most unlikely : TALLEST

23-across – A series under discussion : ATISSUE

24-across – Remain right inside, or wander off : STRAY

25-across – Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time : PIECEMEAL

1-down – Film vehicle entering at one : AVANTI

2-down – Girl must catch high ball in international : GLOBAL

3-down – What there’s likely to be in a theatre in new surroundings? : CHANGEOFSCENERY

4-down – Hotel facility may give one opportunity to go over : ROOMSERVICE

5-down – Novel, second by ambassador : SHE

6-down – Railway engine crew’s crazy thinking following onset of storm : STEAMLOCOMOTIVE

7-down – Insinuation made by union worried about closure : INNUENDO

8-down – China developed ideas for a means of defence : PALISADE

12-down – Two fools in centre of Ostend committing a murder : ASSASSINATE

14-down – Salt ain’t mistaken, it’s that lost island : ATLANTIS

15-down – Single man, composer, put up part : BACHELOR

17-down – Film dog finding dope in railway siding : LASSIE

18-down – Uncover most of red meat : REVEAL

22-down – Spinner’s cap and sweater : TOP

1-across – Think logically about a boy : REASON

4-across – Fruit in orchard’s first row : ORANGE

7-across – Charging Victoria, say, where juice is sold : FILLINGSTATION

10-across – Friar of noble birth in Spain : AUGUSTINE

11-across – Codeword, more used in front of ‘Oscar’ : ROMEO

12-across – Comment in memo : NOTE

13-across – Cabal can, as represented in film : CASABLANCA

16-across – Governor taking in surprisingly modern small London district : BERMONDSEY

17-across – Novel set in Salem, Massachusetts : EMMA

20-across – Clubs suffer defeat nearby : CLOSE

22-across – Leader in event to head into the wind on the way back – man is brilliant : EFFULGENT

23-across – Reprimand rep in hall : LECTURETHEATRE

24-across – Mimic arrives on board vessel : PARROT

25-across – Slowly fencing in a shed : LEANTO

1-down – Stop female artist wearing check : REFRAIN

2-down – Reptile flying at gorilla : ALLIGATOR

3-down – Lazy old couple housing sailor : OTIOSE

4-down – Where you can see clock’s hands, apparently : ONTHEFACEOFIT

5-down – Last, at the end of the day : AFTERALL

6-down – Good scope for stable hand : GROOM

8-down – How, stoically, to suffer the unwanted paparazzi? : GRINANDBEARIT

9-down – Painter having year in part of India : GOYA

14-down – After noon, clear up after Brown in his former home? : NUMBERTEN

15-down – Enterprising sort making torte with egg, whisked : GOGETTER

16-down – Second defender : BACK

18-down – Intricately traced round in style of interior design : ARTDECO

19-down – Charge way over the odds for wool : FLEECE

21-down – Greek character making an appearance in home game : OMEGA

1-across – Introduction to Homer, or superb Roman poet : HORACE

4-across – A crooner, fellow from an Oxfordshire town : ABINGDON

9-across – Irritable old servants : LIVERY

10-across – Awfully foul brew could make one flounce : FURBELOW

12-across – Precise, short theatre cleaner : SURGICALSPIRIT

14-across – Itinerant Romanians in an Italian-speaking country : SANMARINO

16-across – Card : KNAVE

17-across – A bye, perhaps, in over : EXTRA

19-across – Accept compassion is to be encouraged : TAKEHEART

21-across – Two pianists, drunk : BRAHMSANDLISZT

24-across – Free wood used to make a stall : LOOSEBOX

25-across – Guide by hand : MANUAL

26-across – Anxiety shown by South American writers at closing of bookstore : SUSPENSE

27-across – Small number on team backing inventor : EDISON

1-down – Relative in his flares, bullied around start of term : HALFSISTER

2-down – Right above pirate ship : ROVER

3-down – Company car is damaged making for a Mediterranean island : CORSICA

5-down – OU sportsman keeping a woman of intelligence : BLUESTOCKING

6-down – Beat writer, at first, with a club : NIBLICK

7-down – During an illness, almost over, trouble a spiritual leader : DALAILAMA

8-down – Pond creature young toad initially turns into : NEWT

11-down – Class points out what a theatre may put on : VARIETYSHOWS

13-down – Running on tenth lap in old Olympic event : PENTATHLON

15-down – Hitchcock film noir – too darned American : NOTORIOUS

18-down – A grant secured by the sportsman? : ATHLETE

20-down – Rope with which Henry gets cart hauled up : HALYARD

22-down – Problems housing 50 in wretched dwellings : SLUMS

23-down – Additional matter written about learner driver : PLUS

1-across – Long for high praise : ASPIRE

4-across – In a state, vicious hook having caught the Parisienne mother : OKLAHOMA

9-across – Is to go ashore in Tasmania, perhaps : ISLAND

10-across – Hit man when given cheek at home : ASSASSIN

11-across – First to test new footwear in musical : TEAFORTWO

13-across – Live with wife in small wooded hollow : DWELL

14-across – Fascinating period knitting together : SPELLBINDING

18-across – City in Maine has poster showing lighthouse location : PORTLANDBILL

21-across – Titled lady losing first two in game of skill : CHESS

22-across – Bananas in a hot pie for an African national : ETHIOPIAN

24-across – Culinary herb used in Spanish province, mostly : TARRAGON

25-across – Figure of speech making one inside grin : SIMILE

26-across – Tentative, male model visiting social worker : HESITANT

27-across – At which one may have served before returning? : TENNIS

1-down – A rigorous appraisal dictates changes : ACIDTEST

2-down – Greatly shocked, European given the sack : POLEAXED

3-down – Call round for drummer : RINGO

5-down – Sign of betrayal with fatal consequences? : KISSOFDEATH

6-down – Left group, one used in commercial : ABANDONED

7-down – Involved story about eastern native : OYSTER

8-down – A service provided by elderly poet : ARNOLD

12-down – A mass of feathery seeds, lots the wind scattered : THISTLEDOWN

15-down – Be quick to appear intelligent : LOOKSMART

16-down – Discord in military unit : DIVISION

17-down – Battlefield – force touches down without hesitation : FLANDERS

19-down – A short stop : SCOTCH

20-down – Bride’s lost in wreckage : DEBRIS

23-down – Express an opinion in shop in Ely : OPINE