Daily Answers

1-across – Looking a little worse for wear betrays drunk : SHOPSOILED

6-across – Intrepid person crossing lake : BOLD

10-across – Extremely upset – extremely upset suffering setback in competition : CUTUP

11-across – Daughter lost red torch in European port : DORDRECHT

12-across – Reformed island state : NEWJERSEY

13-across – The most violent part of state : TEETH

14-across – A legend enthrals – possibly this fairy tale : HANSELANDGRETEL

17-across – Former PM attending dinner earl prepared in part of the UK : NORTHERNIRELAND

20-across – Long period of time close to Ramadan : YEARN

21-across – Bob Hope film has old film comic in fits : OFFLIMITS

23-across – To win one must employ honest manoeuvring : ONTHENOSE

24-across – Item of jewellery one found amongst Scarlett’s property? : TIARA

25-across – Girl in Fun in Acapulco : NINA

26-across – Nervously attended the Parisian plant : DEADNETTLE

1-down – Romantic revival back home? No, on holiday finally taken abroad : SECONDHONEYMOON

2-down – Being pulled along over to start of waterway : ONTOW

3-down – Chief, first to size up British Army corps : SUPREME

4-down – Dines out with couple at wits’ end : INDESPAIR

5-down – Forward almost blowing top : EARLY

7-down – Her co-star upset big band : ORCHESTRA

8-down – What some beetles spread, this male deduces, sadly : DUTCHELMDISEASE

9-down – Banger and firecracker ultimately causing a hole in the ground : CRATER

15-down – Mean boy in a Yorkshire town : NORMANTON

16-down – Doctor providing answer in a Yorkshire town : DRIFFIELD

18-down – Watch woodsman : HUNTER

19-down – Letter in English, heartlessly short, put in stack : EPISTLE

21-down – Bracing air round region : OZONE

22-down – Unsuitable home, small apartment : INAPT

1-across – Briton most caricatured? Ted Heath, perhaps : TROMBONIST

6-across – Triple acrostic’s appeal : PLEA

9-across – Polish ring for opera singer : BUFFO

10-across – Plots against king described by secret agents : CONSPIRES

12-across – A rest cut short : ABRIDGE

13-across – Alison naughtily seducing one contact : LIAISON

14-across – Discovery holiday’s over : BREAKTHROUGH

18-across – Faces sanctions : COUNTENANCES

21-across – Distraught parent embracing wife in port : ANTWERP

22-across – Total of wages paid in Scottish town collated by head : PAYROLL

23-across – From tub, sailors will supply a scented preparation : BATHSALTS

24-across – Derelict male into gin : TRAMP

25-across – Flat race, perhaps, not quite finished : EVEN

26-across – Pedlars lie about a sandal : ESPADRILLE

1-down – Boy in boat is ill : TOBIAS

2-down – Eager, individual protecting tree : ONFIRE

3-down – Ruby worries about Rex in play : BLOODBROTHERS

4-down – Hot in pleasant corner : NICHE

5-down – Wearing vest, a person not in a long-term relationship? : SINGLETON

7-down – Make mischief, given encouragement in plant : LARKSPUR

8-down – A bishop’s vice – the drink : ABSINTHE

11-down – Plain secretive type produces a hangover cure? : PRAIRIEOYSTER

15-down – Short answer involving Italian city and one in the US : ANNAPOLIS

16-down – Scratch game : SCRABBLE

17-down – Crafty to include it in caption : SUBTITLE

19-down – Extra drama before dance : NOBALL

20-down – Pass English, then blunder : ELAPSE

22-down – After a dish that’s Italian : PASTA

1-across – Combo’s leader plays soppy love song : CALYPSO

5-across – Became unwell on top of that quarry : TOOKILL

9-across – Certain garments are wet – our slacks : OUTERWEAR

10-across – Conspirator caught in José’s house? : CASCA

11-across – Brontë heroine describing one in nest : EYRIE

13-across – Poor Estonian in possession of black robe worn by heretics : SANBENITO

14-across – A lifeboat crew may celebrate : PUSHTHEBOATOUT

16-across – Book what the holidaymaker wants? : AROOMWITHAVIEW

20-across – Continues to squeeze hooter upon return : PRESSESON

21-across – Belief expressed by everyone initially entering marquee : TENET

22-across – The Parisian in prison is innocent : CLEAN

23-across – Where one may eat curry across channel : GRILLROOM

25-across – Hot abbreviated version, reportedly : SUMMERY

26-across – Thief taking nowt in the Highlands? : RUSTLER

1-down – Photographs miss filling mugs : CLOSEUPS

2-down – Will-o’-the-wisp’s fate : LOT

3-down – Tense cobblers in The Hunting of the Snark, say : PERFECTNONSENSE

4-down – Manage series of lines in middle of poem : OVERSEE

5-down – Boy bitten by Dorothy’s dog in major city : TORONTO

6-down – Startles scholar working in part of theatre : ORCHESTRASTALLS

7-down – Established practice in residential home : INSTITUTION

8-down – Entice one lad abroad : LEADON

12-down – Second eleven shown in book mate edited : RESERVETEAM

15-down – Couple send up unfaithful type : TWOTIMER

17-down – Learned to make fun of smart Aleck : WISEGUY

18-down – Granite ground in port : TANGIER

19-down – Special cards in boxes : SPACES

24-down – What can be extracted from half of olives treated? : OIL

1-across – Famous Russian ballerina snubbed : PAVLOV

4-across – A titled lady penning plot for novel : ADAMBEDE

9-across – List of charges resulting from quarrel about a rook! : TARIFF

10-across – Make good stock abroad : CARRYOUT

12-across – Film pub champion : LOCALHERO

13-across – Nothing charged for fruit : OLIVE

14-across – Singer’s bar number, by Otis Redding originally : COUNTERTENOR

18-across – A tart? Not this bride’s attendant, surely! : MAIDOFHONOUR

21-across – Ring any number in region : ARENA

22-across – Mend set eccentric American brought in? I can’t avoid doing it : NEEDSMUST

24-across – Tea, good, about to be gathered in before the usual time : EARLGREY

25-across – Girl full of sex appeal : LOLITA

26-across – Small tree is close to oak by river : TAMARISK

27-across – Attempt to surround target with it : TRENDY

1-down – TV programme showing trophy presented to chess player : POTBLACK

2-down – Girl on sea trip reportedly leaving Mexican port : VERACRUZ

3-down – Refuse pound to support old king : OFFAL

5-down – Act with reluctance in Grease, often worried after touch of dissent : DRAGONESFEET

6-down – Famous Venetian taking bow in second game : MARCOPOLO

7-down – Amorous Italian has broken heart, is upset : EROTIC

8-down – Respect eastern power in speech : ESTEEM

11-down – Chorus girls under bright lights : MERRYDANCERS

15-down – Battle flag a tar at sea raised, initially : TRAFALGAR

16-down – Way out of compound : SOLUTION

17-down – Composer we hear, unknown in French region : BRITTANY

19-down – Special ability revealed in story : TALENT

20-down – Embarrassed over odd Aintree winner : REDRUM

23-down – Hunt through scrub : SCOUR

1-across – Start of melodious song, one from West Side Story : MARIA

4-across – What could make row? Estate car, maybe : TWOSEATER

9-across – Order soldiers to board plane abroad, heading for terrible place housing convicts : PENALSETTLEMENT

10-across – An unwise act giving cheek about king : IMPRUDENCE

11-across – Small pale bird : SWAN

13-across – Soldiers diving into English river in flood : TORRENT

15-across – Some poplin in gaberdine for padding : LINING

17-across – Paint firm to left of us : COLOUR

18-across – Manage to survive in US city, on beer? : LASTOUT

20-across – Primate’s cross and crown : APEX

21-across – Very loud American I’ve accommodated in Ely, lavishly : EFFUSIVELY

24-across – A starter, perhaps – phone cousin for mixture around noon : FRENCHONIONSOUP

25-across – Robot making car chap’s getting round to : AUTOMATON

26-across – Lived with flipping obscene transvestite initially : DWELT

1-down – This poem unsettled the devil : MEPHISTO

2-down – Approach ladder ahead : RUNUP

3-down – No cowboy films in the pipeline? Here’s one about war : ALLQUIETON

4-down – See 3 : THEWESTERNFRONT

5-down – One can’t really see it being a trick : OPTICALILLUSION

6-down – PM from East End, surprisingly : EDEN

7-down – Martial art dan we took out : TAEKWONDO

8-down – This helps one to see girl after note’s written : RETINA

12-down – Not appointed, girl’s cross with editor : UNASSIGNED

14-down – Resolve to put out US president : ROOSEVELT

16-down – Remains with Scottish banker on board express : STAYSPUT

19-down – Fibre shown in service by one based in Florida : RAFFIA

22-down – Run away with girl after writer is ditched : ELOPE

23-down – Caught in South Africa with millions from dishonest scheme : SCAM