Daily Answers

1-across – Little time to copy record : TAPE

3-across – Fix a hotpot : STEW

6-across – Talk by consortium exposing early method of psychoanalysis : WORDASSOCIATION

10-across – In an artless way, of course : NATURALLY

11-across – Speed shown in running heats : HASTE

12-across – Questions about English politician causes furore : TEMPEST

14-across – Newsworthy subject? Capone? : TOPICAL

15-across – Hang South American writer with daughter : SUSPEND

18-across – Difficulty learner found in examination – marks? : PROBLEM

20-across – Lacking sense batting, an Englishman at first : INANE

21-across – Item of night attire, jet black, Ed left out for a change : BEDJACKET

23-across – Ruler, therefore, got hug, unexpectedly : GEORGETHEFOURTH

24-across – Large or small container in which odds and ends are kept : TIDY

25-across – Song of praise suggested by that man on the radio : HYMN

1-down – See Oscar on board cutting a card : TAROT

2-down – Couple bagging last of flour that is plain : PRAIRIE

4-down – Poet has crackers in restaurant : TEASHOP

5-down – Wish claim would fail, being fanciful : WHIMSICAL

6-down – Went in with Asti, possibly good for this? : WINETASTING

7-down – Leave resort on the Adriatic : SPLIT

8-down – Keen on pint in vault : CRYPT

9-down – Hence, met lad injured in grudge game : NEEDLEMATCH

13-down – Potter around canteen before a contest : MESSABOUT

16-down – Came from the East and joined forces : EMERGED

17-down – Payment owed one in arrears : DEBIT

18-down – Chaplain in rooms overlooking outskirts of Rome : PADRE

19-down – Speaker, last in very small chapel : ORATORY

22-down – Girl’s in black – are nuns? : KAREN

1-across – Basil, alas, poorly having eaten 500 tropical seeds : SABADILLAS

6-across – Broadcast about introduction of cigar lighter : SCOW

10-across – Non-religious clause upset rector, initially : SECULAR

11-across – Longin’ for a painkiller : ASPIRIN

12-across – Believe me, you need to get everything right concerning Italian : MAKENOMISTAKE

14-across – See 12 : ABOUTIT

16-across – Relative earning bucks : GRANNIE

17-across – Second course in preparation? Sugar’s required : SUCROSE

18-across – Most serious heading off for mountain : EVEREST

19-across – Small terrier – daughter and I mind one barking at end of street : DANDIEDINMONT

23-across – Typical of girl kept in a long time : AVERAGE

24-across – Working with sailor, I round lake : ONTARIO

25-across – Characteristic memo : NOTE

26-across – PA a chap uses in resort : AMANUENSIS

1-down – Leader of such a quiet band : SASH

2-down – As all involved agree, vulgar Conservative in Tenby’s out of order : BYCOMMONCONSENT

3-down – Boy, Kelvin, makes a mechanical creature : DALEK

4-down – Not Gretel’s new pair of glasses : LORGNETTE

5-down – Apprehension in Territorial Army : ALARM

7-down – I scare truculent suspect with rebukes : CURTAINLECTURES

8-down – Fabric shrink? Up until now, both ends of Terylene : WINCEYETTE

9-down – Rat from a river in Italy, say : APOSTATE

13-down – Stirred up, one in prison caused a commotion : RAISEDCAIN

15-down – Very hot local drinking drop of retsina : TROPICAL

16-down – Novice with new musical instrument : GREENHORN

20-down – Switch off short play about the East : DREAM

21-down – Mistaken about oddball : OUTRE

22-down – Person in charge in stud : BOSS

1-across – Quiet place visited by a group of policemen : PLACID

5-across – Storyteller getting adult to sit back : AESOP

8-across – Bubbly does it, and port : ODESSA

10-across – A way through unspoilt meadow : PASTURE

11-across – Actress in Oslo as warning broadcast : GLORIASWANSON

13-across – Floor show has nude appearing in kinky act : CABARET

15-across – First to tackle worker having bizarre fit of bad temper : TANTRUM

17-across – Client’s ordered copy : STENCIL

19-across – Claimed to be relaxed in examination : MEDICAL

20-across – The car’s passenger, on a trip, is duped? : TAKENFORARIDE

22-across – Swing component must be put back ahead of rest, we’re told : TRAPEZE

23-across – A synopsis to think over : DIGEST

24-across – Following behind leader in race : LATER

25-across – Fairy godmother finally admitted to malice! : SPRITE

2-down – Rope left round beast inside : LASSO

3-down – I torch a clapped-out vehicle : CHARIOT

4-down – Advance payment is brought over in terminal : DEPOSIT

5-down – Sailor, instead, amazingly, went on the wagon : ABSTAINED

6-down – Suppress illegal dealings in game : SQUASHRACKETS

7-down – Groom about to be put in prison : PREEN

9-down – Terriers, say, having meal in mess : DOGSBREAKFAST

12-down – No head for details in book : ACTS

14-down – Extraordinary count, rare anecdotalist : RACONTEUR

16-down – Fist fight in factory : MILL

18-down – Animal no less uneasy about one : LIONESS

19-down – Wind more vicious round centre of Cadiz : MEANDER

20-down – Very young child, alone, drops one that’s full : TOTAL

21-down – Block of gold I obtained around noon : INGOT

1-across – One leaving order for artillery : ORDNANCE

5-across – A female in posh car getting more reckless : RASHER

10-across – Japanese dog biting contralto in opera : TOSCA

11-across – Nickname for resolute men in club teams : IRONSIDES

12-across – Use to perform surgery : OPERATE

13-across – A President Ford car : LINCOLN

14-across – Deceptively prim, I ran centre with accomplice : PARTNERINCRIME

17-across – So craftier plot hatched in jungle : TROPICALFOREST

21-across – Two lines of verse produced by associate, last in sonnet : COUPLET

23-across – Snake, excellent specimen : RATTLER

24-across – Sailing boat can crossing a West Country river : CATAMARAN

25-across – Incompetent writer rejected in it : INEPT

26-across – Cause of timeless crime? : REASON

27-across – Put off drinking tin, for bottle : DECANTER

1-down – Work? Not I, spoilt for choice! : OPTION

2-down – Outlaw peer, odd as can be : DESPERADO

3-down – A very angry upset worker in firm : ADAMANT

4-down – One may cast a shadow in Beijing plant : CHINESELANTERN

6-down – As found in vaccines radiographer brought over : ARSENIC

7-down – Doctor in Hoy rebuilt a health spa : HYDRO

8-down – Took exception to being put on after opener’s taken off : RESENTED

9-down – End argument for as opposed to against? : GOALDIFFERENCE

15-down – Rude when drinking drop of vodka on the rocks : INSOLVENT

16-down – One of the crocks at races? : STOCKCAR

18-down – At home, dance up in the air : INLIMBO

19-down – In tears having spilt wine : RETSINA

20-down – Large hole in old car beginning to rust : CRATER

22-down – Very vital to resourceful tramps : ULTRA

1-across – Fruit’s pungent – one could get peppered with it : GRAPESHOT

6-across – Fellow drinking last of Soave, good value : CHEAP

9-across – The sort of seat that may suit a lazy professor? : EASYCHAIR

10-across – Start of number trio’s playing? : INTRO

11-across – Look after a number accompanied by daughter : TEND

12-across – Avoid bullock? Sure : STEERCLEAR

13-across – More than one Dalmatian follows behind coach : CARRIAGEDOGS

17-across – In a lot at a French hotel in resort? No way! : NOTFORALLTHE

20-across – See 17 : TEAINCHINA

21-across – Primate burying Saint in recess of church : APSE

23-across – Hunting dog dropping black bird : EAGLE

24-across – Shady, until each reformed : UNETHICAL

25-across – Prevent a check pinning rook : AVERT

26-across – Holly, say, always jealous : EVERGREEN

1-down – Got the shakes in run-down part of town : GHETTO

2-down – A bishop posted elsewhere : ABSENT

3-down – Every single one kept in by schoolteacher : EACH

4-down – Compassion shown by family after interval in play : HEARTBREAKHOUSE

5-down – Ignored what Nelson did? : TURNEDABLINDEYE

6-down – Critic he upset going round cold Welsh resort : CRICCIETH

7-down – Skipping rope kept in fancy tent in warehouse : ENTREPOT

8-down – Headway made by pair chased by wicked witch : PROGRESS

14-down – Royal Navy chaps put in a spot of decking : ADORNMENT

15-down – Object of loathing and hate a man exploited : ANATHEMA

16-down – Odd having left in choke : STRANGLE

18-down – Brave, old man in pain? : APACHE

19-down – Composer in carriage in capital city : BERLIN

22-down – Former politician may be hot wearing toupee : WHIG