Daily Answers

1-across – Swap made by singular magician : SWITCH

4-across – Time reportedly taken by boy to find a spice : TURMERIC

10-across – Flower girl used by setter, perhaps : DOGVIOLET

11-across – The Parisienne cut fur for part of collar : LAPEL

12-across – Jack, an unprincipled person : KNAVE

13-across – Left a depressed NI town : PORTADOWN

14-across – Extras trained by French city police force : TEXASRANGERS

18-across – Former PM hides from view in Tyneside town : NORTHSHIELDS

21-across – Quick survey made by small company on passable English river : COOKSTOUR

23-across – Temporary accommodation, very large, in decay : ROOST

24-across – One about to marry duke in area of northern France : BRIDE

25-across – Typically, one gets hold of a very English newspaper : ONAVERAGE

26-across – File official list : REGISTER

27-across – A boy is becoming a handsome young man : ADONIS

1-down – Kudos involved, connected with first to unravel puzzle : SUDOKU

2-down – With it, aim between the posts : INGOAL

3-down – Game in which spies sneer alarmingly : CHINESEWHISPERS

5-down – Perfect state : UTTER

6-down – Fellow counsel, Ferdinand, merely fudged : MYLEARNEDFRIEND

7-down – Reprimanded, salesman travelled constantly : REPROVED

8-down – Settler on island collected by horse : COLONIST

9-down – Sloppy friends turned up to race : SLAPDASH

15-down – Something eaten brought up, we hear, after whiskey : RYEBREAD

16-down – Fire engulfing new pub and food outlet : SNACKBAR

17-down – Smartening up man getting married in Ghana’s capital : GROOMING

19-down – Prepare major for field : DOMAIN

20-down – Quickly disposing of note causing emotional tension : STRESS

22-down – Invigorating air round area : OZONE

1-across – Type of music from the South side : SWING

4-across – King in America meeting important stars : URSAMAJOR

9-across – Amputation scare turned out to be much ado about nothing : ASTORMINATEACUP

10-across – Tell untruths about e.g. praise, reportedly for a feudal superior : LIEGELORD

11-across – Son’s term for a weapon : SWORD

12-across – Training out in it abroad : TUITION

14-across – Royal Marines, first-rate, captivated by sea siren : MERMAID

16-across – One of us behind bars beginning to reform : INSIDER

18-across – Arrived at film studio to make a musical : CAMELOT

19-across – Tree evident in Colorado ski resort : ASPEN

20-across – Blockhouse’s value in a Texas city : FORTWORTH

22-across – Novel’s fantastic a poet’s said again : APASSAGETOINDIA

23-across – Cry, cut biting fruit : SHEDATEAR

24-across – Some process engineering in German industrial city : ESSEN

1-down – Italian composer exposed in trial, acts strangely : SCARLATTI

2-down – At the start, leading article’s suppressed : INTHEFIRSTPLACE

3-down – Golfer’s opener – Rose possibly in the furze : GORSE

4-down – A French counterfeit coin carrying head of Richelieu and a mythical animal : UNICORN

5-down – Mad sort, eccentric achieving fame : STARDOM

6-down – Distinguished conductor describing Latin mass in turmoil : MAELSTROM

7-down – A daft joker’s call upset handyman : JACKOFALLTRADES

8-down – Swift attack round centre of Tripoli : RAPID

13-down – Ones imprisoned by one country or another : INDONESIA

15-down – Wife and child avoiding one in farm building : DUTCHBARN

17-down – Free of jungle yet? Every second counts for displaced person : REFUGEE

18-down – Artist in court worried guardian : CURATOR

19-down – Collect a million as head of security : AMASS

21-down – Chess player with involved ending in game : WHITE

1-across – Rum Serbian, volatile Nautilus crewman? : SUBMARINER

6-across – Mark’s sudden attack of fear out East : SCAR

9-across – Writer from Inverness : VERNE

10-across – Sordid material and Ecstasy secured by bloke for next to nothing : DIRTCHEAP

12-across – Climber extremely embarrassed by athlete? : SCARLETRUNNER

14-across – Not yet arrived, extra owed : OVERDUE

15-across – Most friendly commander needing short afternoon nap : COSIEST

17-across – Officer, not specific as to detail : GENERAL

19-across – Guardian almost rude returning cycle : CURATOR

20-across – Lean and solemn, foreign statesman : NELSONMANDELA

23-across – Paddy had a meal, neither very hot nor very cold : TEMPERATE

24-across – Soot, ghastly at back of fireplace : GRIME

25-across – Implement put back in sack : LOOT

26-across – Worn-out, like an old shoe? : DOWNATHEEL

1-down – Free bar : SAVE

2-down – He conducted in Swiss capital, good man, a German : BERNSTEIN

3-down – Poet and bandleader meeting parish priest : ALEXANDERPOPE

4-down – Please have a drink : INDULGE

5-down – Unstable boy holding sailor up : ERRATIC

7-down – Fresh chapter on English film director : CLEAN

8-down – Putting things right in private school once head’s dismissed? : REPARATORY

11-down – Boxer in vessel with crew : CRUISERWEIGHT

13-down – Pleasant about debt ultimately inherited : CONGENITAL

16-down – Return for trial diet? Amazingly, more put on! : EXTRADITE

18-down – Head of plant is absent from plant with back pain : LUMBAGO

19-down – A case of cutlery, and where it may be used : CANTEEN

21-down – Dance with member, Oscar : LIMBO

22-down – Spring in English city lacking sun : WELL

1-across – Celebrity’s sweetheart left shed : FAME

3-across – Tearful, complete killjoy : WETBLANKET

9-across – On which a VIP may walk in resort with dog, for example : REDCARPET

11-across – Settlement mostly in Costa Rican currency : COLON

12-across – European with question about king – he may be able to answer it : EQUERRY

13-across – In time to come a doyen must change : ONEDAY

15-across – An uplifting act in a theatre? : COSMETICSURGERY

17-across – We, say, in New Orleans on run with pop : PERSONALPRONOUN

20-across – Scruffy, a French cartoonist : UNTIDY

21-across – Pages unwell after drill – stimulant required : PEPPILL

23-across – Detached, a goose flying back : ALOOF

24-across – A red alert worried one who has a gallery, maybe : ARTDEALER

25-across – Fast food dish finished by baker abroad, first in bistro : DONERKEBAB

26-across – Dogs, perhaps, restricted by this leash : ISLE

1-down – Steps outside? : FIREESCAPE

2-down – Agencies for spiritualists? : MEDIUMS

4-down – Insincere, some unkempt yobbos : EMPTY

5-down – Cheers weaver and son, winning : BOTTOMSUP

6-down – Tape-record him, invalid leaving war memorial : ARCDETRIOMPHE

7-down – Taken out on express, reportedly, in Irish county : KILDARE

8-down – Head brought over a large fish : TUNA

10-down – A welcome suggestion involving police officer – end argument amicably? : AGREETODIFFER

14-down – Generally, any garbled composition : BYANDLARGE

16-down – In New York must wear a suit no matter what : INANYCASE

18-down – Managed to continue in Burma’s capital : RANGOON

19-down – Baltimore baseball team ring positions I occupied : ORIOLES

21-down – Ancient city, favourite with artist : PETRA

22-down – Body ring : BAND

1-across – Widely admired tree round university : POPULAR

5-across – Wear out short military overalls : FATIGUE

9-across – Bird in farmhouse larder : OUSEL

10-across – George, with trendy friend, meeting one in gaudy bar : GINPALACE

11-across – What’s bound to put an end to children’s game? : HOPSCOTCH

12-across – Military decoration, we hear, for a compere : EMCEE

13-across – Low, perhaps, a US art critic abroad : CARICATURIST

17-across – Elephant seal, twice floundering, has to make a fresh start : WIPETHESLATE

20-across – See 17 : CLEAN

21-across – Take choir out for a kind of tea that may be served in Hanoi : ARTICHOKE

23-across – Widdicombe Fair chap pointing to fruit in book : TOMPEARSE

24-across – Brush stroke : SWEEP

25-across – Reveal former printing machine : EXPRESS

26-across – Senator solved crime : TREASON

1-down – Prediction of support by ambassador on Cyprus : PROPHECY

2-down – Free ticket left with travel document : PASSPORT

3-down – Ring up about one flowering shrub : LILAC

4-down – Reference book – author gets users confused : ROGETSTHESAURUS

5-down – The current chefs working in a London station : FENCHURCHSTREET

6-down – Goes across with dramatist touring south-east : TRAVERSES

7-down – Mineral used to make good long weapon : GLANCE

8-down – Small opening I, reportedly, must have allowed : EYELET

14-down – All the customers tell niece off : CLIENTELE

15-down – Titled lady one’s seen in pubs : BARONESS

16-down – Play safe and bowl : PETERPAN

18-down – Bushwhacker injured chest round end of July : SCYTHE

19-down – Come together in side at college : TEAMUP

22-down – Class actors close to home : CASTE