Daily Answers

1-across – Mechanic about to return on locomotive : ENGINEER

5-across – Outcome of increased exposure : UPSHOT

9-across – Intricate patterns in wing of church : TRANSEPT

10-across – Delay robbery : HOLDUP

12-across – First-rate golfer turned back in corridor : AISLE

13-across – Release one rodent into river : EXONERATE

14-across – I restrict others exercising a dog : SCOTTISHTERRIER

16-across – Eccentric etcher resettles in a Durham town : CHESTERLESTREET

19-across – Childish supporter wearing trendy hat : INFANTILE

21-across – Modest receiving second prize : PURSE

23-across – Sign for reference book he’s taken out : TAURUS

24-across – Secret assembly may become depressed with pound involved : CONCLAVE

25-across – Chat with French artist, one dropping out : NATTER

26-across – Adulation adroitly put in a new light : IDOLATRY

1-down – Another bit player : EXTRA

2-down – Statesman, happy one seen crossing street : GLADSTONE

3-down – Just beginning climb after noon : NASCENT

4-down – This should get you there quicker from state school : EXPRESSTRAIN

6-down – Hebridean isle almost rounded by fellow explorer : PIONEER

7-down – Monster in Hardy novel : HYDRA

8-down – Private has to respect changes : TOPSECRET

11-down – So that the facts are clear, keep report about ambassador : FORTHERECORD

14-down – Sexton’s article supporting racists, unfortunately : SACRISTAN

15-down – What may bar and tinnie, if drunk, provide? : INEBRIANT

17-down – Hairstyle in fashion? Certainly : TONSURE

18-down – Newsworthy subject, a leader in London : TOPICAL

20-down – Opera, big round the States : FAUST

22-down – Foe in Yemen beaten : ENEMY

1-across – Struggle in street, teeming : STRIFE

4-across – US port bombed in blackout : STUPOR

8-across – Argue violently about extremely bizarre tavern : AUBERGE

10-across – Surgical instrument causing panic, initially, in the services : FORCEPS

11-across – Daughter and partner dawdle : DALLY

12-across – Info given by staff about mature garden plant : GOLDENROD

13-across – Nobody showing anxiety about the Welsh crew : FEATHERWEIGHT

16-across – Climbing plant may give gypsies pleasure : TRAVELLERSJOY

19-across – Transfers DS inside royal house : HANDSOVER

21-across – Enlisted US soldier, good one – ordinary bloke : GIJOE

22-across – A month round Connecticut – temperate, no sun : OCTOBER

23-across – Dram in brandy glass : SNIFTER

24-across – Judge newly headed this large organisation : EMPIRE

25-across – Pass up rubbish : REFUSE

1-down – Put up with bad rugby player : STANDOFF

2-down – Polish girl’s contagious disease : RUBELLA

3-down – Bush’s note about changing history : FORSYTHIA

5-down – Quartermaster-sergeant, somewhat brusque : TERSE

6-down – Clown making mistake almost breaks mine : PIERROT

7-down – Live in one end of Poplar, East End? : RESIDE

9-down – Enthusiastic worker brewed average beer : EAGERBEAVER

10-down – Cries of wolf as a ram fell awkwardly on top of Sinai : FALSEALARMS

14-down – Troop member showing guile with grid construction? : GIRLGUIDE

15-down – Exclamation made by pop star dropping round : BYGEORGE

16-down – Sleeveless garment in basin by cap : TANKTOP

17-down – It’s featured in fetish for unarmed combat : JUJITSU

18-down – Select church on river, reportedly : CHOOSE

20-down – Flowing robes, muted in colour : SOBER

1-across – Page one, suggestive of plagiarism : PIRACY

4-across – Swindle rascal detailed : SCAM

8-across – Guildhall and gutted tollhouse building in a London street : LUDGATEHILL

10-across – Firmly fixed, including a dicky red rear lamp : TAILLIGHT

11-across – Member brought in beer, more than enough : AMPLE

12-across – Side’s advantage : EDGE

13-across – Worker about to bury 50 in a remote country region : HINTERLAND

16-across – Drunk, he hints elf is actually present! : INTHEFLESH

17-across – Catch that female pinching article : HEAR

19-across – Small haven inside amphitheatre : HITHE

20-across – House members, ordinary people : COMMONERS

21-across – Geyser – veteran’s getting close : OLDFAITHFUL

22-across – Forward’s second goal : SEND

23-across – Split a piece of rubber in outhouse : SHARED

1-down – If cutting classes, schools may be turned into these occasionally : POLLINGSTATIONS

2-down – Problem with sieve : RIDDLE

3-down – Greek poorly after fish from barbecue : CHARGRILL

5-down – Check competitiveness once opener’s dismissed, and gentlemanliness : CHIVALRY

6-down – I’ll keep silent in Emerald Isle, say, troubled about power : MYLIPSARESEALED

7-down – Crooked wager involving knight : BENT

9-down – Nervously signed thirteenth novel : TENDERIS

10-down – See 9 : THENIGHT

14-down – International’s trial marriage? : TESTMATCH

15-down – Labour politician about to stop close to elite public school : BENENDEN

18-down – Chest gets tender after cold : COFFER

20-down – Fish for tea : CHAR

1-across – Married woman nursing old boy in Canadian province : MANITOBA

5-across – On the other side of a bridge : ACROSS

9-across – Thought Mike exercised : MUSED

10-across – Ensign, using rudder, set out : REDDUSTER

12-across – Evidence involving accomplished English monarch : SOVEREIGN

13-across – Go round one Italian city : TURIN

14-across – Tarzan story extremely knowledgeable lodger ordered : LORDGREYSTOKE

18-across – One’s not known for one’s bad habits? : DRESSDESIGNER

20-across – Bike was blue : MOPED

22-across – Reportedly conclude girl is in hospital : INFIRMARY

24-across – One used to telling stories managed to take in company? True, sadly : RACONTEUR

25-across – Article about female, very pale with shock : ASHEN

26-across – Clapped-out car causing bishop wrath : BANGER

27-across – Habitual repetition, mostly by private soldier, makes nonsense : TOMMYROT

1-down – Sam uneasy about one on second Buck’s Fizz : MIMOSA

2-down – Architect meets with very poorly European in a US city : NASHVILLE

3-down – Trod carelessly round posh house : TUDOR

4-down – What the fire-raiser had when setting streetcar alight? : BURNINGDESIRE

6-down – Fanny Hill, perhaps in tears, cruelly pinched by endless number : COURTESAN

7-down – Fur cap taken off scoundrel : OTTER

8-down – Southern press operator, one promising a fast run? : SPRINTER

11-down – Excited friends on about stake in film : DANTESINFERNO

15-down – I screened off home : RESIDENCE

16-down – The Lord’s Prayer, hour after changes rung? : OURFATHER

17-down – Film barmaids working : ADAMSRIB

19-down – Sound of seal and young swan : CYGNET

21-down – Nut inside Cape Canaveral : PECAN

23-down – Kingdom in actual miles : REALM

1-across – Place containing tiny back room : LEEWAY

4-across – Lead in Otello, part he developed carrying a gibus : OPERAHAT

9-across – Plant, rosy in bloom, Faith cultivated outside : FORSYTHIA

11-across – Master has little time during bad defeat to be upset : TUTOR

12-across – One who makes a bit? : LORIMER

13-across – Notice one model is fatty : ADIPOSE

14-across – A Vivien Leigh role, as Charlotte, baroque artist : SCARLETTOHARA

17-across – Magazine’s article about me in a Cheshire town : ELLESMEREPORT

21-across – Breakfast dish made by great Italian round Los Angeles : GRANOLA

22-across – Former social worker without equal, covering miles on runs : ALMONER

24-across – Country home needs help sent over : INDIA

25-across – Dame’s with German husband in siege town : LADYSMITH

26-across – Discount boy not working : MARKDOWN

27-across – Make fun of post at college : SENDUP

1-down – Flies flying round the French flat : LIFELESS

2-down – Mistake admitted by conjuror, really upset : ERROR

3-down – Shocking times, wearing a shortened mini! : ABYSMAL

5-down – Operate without assistance, as one into patience will : PLAYALONEHAND

6-down – Nastier fizzy Greek wine : RETSINA

7-down – Recently stolen on Jersey? That could be a controversial issue : HOTPOTATO

8-down – Aim at goal : TARGET

10-down – Not at all credible, bird under car being clipped : HARDTOSWALLOW

15-down – Unexpectedly relaxed about article, the leader of the band? : ALEXANDER

16-down – Sailors aboard vessel, science fiction craft : STARSHIP

18-down – US writer’s come over to be entertained by fat cat : LEOPARD

19-down – Man sees shapes in a body : ENMASSE

20-down – Discrimination shown in shocking images : AGEISM

23-down – Diana disguised as a nymph : NAIAD