Daily Answers

1-across – Keen on board to win lottery : SWEEPSTAKE

6-across – Work in shop, usefully : OPUS

9-across – Tear in top worker’s trousers : CAPRIPANTS

10-across – Very nicely : WELL

11-across – Very nearly, or very well-behaved? : ASGOODASGOLD

15-across – A Conservative declaration gets praise : ACCLAIM

16-across – Nursed a poorly ballerina’s partner : DANSEUR

17-across – Warning card : CAUTION

19-across – A bridge hand easy to play? No, a pal and I suspect : PIANOLA

20-across – Something more noticeable smeared on garage exit : EXAGGERATION

23-across – Become a member of nightclub, briefly : JOIN

24-across – Director coming from Japan’s capital via Mysore, possibly : JAMESIVORY

25-across – Ring gang : BAND

26-across – Singer in study accepting a short drink : DEANMARTIN

1-down – Rifle fire : SACK

2-down – Face of estate agent’s watch : ESPY

3-down – Careful, father at home betting : PAINSTAKING

4-down – Small restaurant with rent the reverse of low : TEAROOM

5-down – Girl starts to delve into digest used for cricket : KATYDID

7-down – Start to pillory female on about flipping Captain Marvel? : PHENOMENON

8-down – Shriek catching a boy dressing : SALADCREAM

12-down – As a con man it worked, in a city near LA : SANTAMONICA

13-down – Axe 14 in severe reduction : HATCHETJOB

14-down – Calling for the seizure and control of a foreign territory : OCCUPATION

18-down – Sporting rare tan, recount events : NARRATE

19-down – Glib talk by northern model : PATTERN

21-down – Did battle, reportedly, in citadel : FORT

22-down – Girl from Brooklyn neighbourhood : LYNN

1-across – Dish cut into pieces, the old American recalled : CHOPSUEY

5-across – Large rug packed initially into battered crate : CARPET

10-across – Water creature scoundrel beheaded : OTTER

11-across – Game – card game with daughter leading diamonds : POKERDICE

12-across – Reportedly catch a contagious disease : CHOLERA

13-across – Clergyman sacrificing second one in church : MINSTER

14-across – Scan draft star prepared for a movement inspired by Ruskin : ARTSDNDCRAFTS

18-across – Where Monopoly players have had to start ever since its creation? : FROMTHEWORDGO

20-across – Admires astonishing weapon : SIDEARM

22-across – Nobleman pinning one on trailblazer : PIONEER

24-across – Girl fronting group getting ribbon for hair : ALICEBAND

25-across – Prime piece of fillet steak for dowdy woman : FRUMP

26-across – Time for morning coffee in the Spanish square? : ELEVEN

27-across – Witty remark about eastern passenger ship : ONELINER

1-down – Select sweet with no centre : CHOICE

2-down – One may be this, on and after a wayzgoose! : OUTFORAGOODTIME

3-down – Frenchman’s material : SERGE

4-down – Prom in Naples crumbling, notice, close to landing-stage : ESPLANDEE

6-down – A novel type of mullein : AARONSROD

7-down – Critical part of flight, up front, in one to Russia’s capital, possibly : POINTOFNORETURN

8-down – Kojak to be promoted? That’s conjecture : THEORISE

9-down – Quickly read through second Kipling novel : SKIM

15-down – A private conversation first of all between two Parisian heads : TETEATETE

16-down – Left flat with one before noon and called round : DROPPEDIN

17-down – In the wings, adjust to gaffes : OFFSTAGE

19-down – Right in favour of exercises before runs : PROPER

21-down – Despicable fellow injecting drug : MEAN

23-down – Waste matter spoilt a lake : OFFAL

1-across – Get up in cold wing : CLIMB

4-across – Drake, thus, spliced knot : TURKSHEAD

9-across – A worker, after advance, is to give assistance : LENDAHAND

10-across – Tracks secretive birds : RAILS

11-across – One having a relationship with a much younger partner lends character somehow : CRADLESNATCHER

13-across – Girl Irish boy recalled : NADIA

14-across – Demolishes residence and gets a standing ovation? : BRINGSTHE

15-across – See 14 : HOUSEDOWN

17-across – Individual going round eastern capital : SEOUL

19-across – Dancer, demure, attending a masquerade with the Queen in Austria’s capital : PRIMABALLERINA

22-across – Like Humpty-Dumpty, round and vacant? : OVOID

23-across – Not up to guarding 10? That’s indefensible : UNTENABLE

24-across – Aryan rule? Unfortunately, for about 354 days : LUNARYEAR

25-across – Group inside makes us high-class Japanese dish : SUSHI

1-down – Ring everybody after end of epic : CALL

2-down – Paid no attention to grid, one printed incorrectly : IGNORED

3-down – Cocktail made up by British boys : BRANDYALEXANDER

4-down – Poke fun at head of eating-house following meals : TEASE

5-down – Amend drawing to include new flag : REDENSIGN

6-down – Girl got mounts over a jumps racetrack here in New York : SARATOGASPRINGS

7-down – Descriptive phrase used by English PM about ambassador : EPITHET

8-down – After end of round, is hospital attendant confused? : DISORDERLY

12-down – Stealthily searching her plot now, surprisingly : ONTHEPROWL

14-down – Lose one’s temper and hit a female before work : BLOWAFUSE

16-down – Odd coin in vase depicting imaginary creature : UNICORN

18-down – A number of books in one vehicle : OMNIBUS

20-down – Departed on river afterwards : LATER

21-down – One was first to go round shop : DELI

1-across – Set up a partnership : STAND

4-across – Actual money to be made if top rent adjusted : NETPROFIT

9-across – Take corners well racing in Jersey? : ROLLNECKSWEATER

10-across – One male job in tax : IMPOSITION

11-across – Endlessly hinder alliance : BLOC

13-across – Powerless, locked in sauna, bleeding : UNABLE

14-across – Choose artist to illustrate a type of complex : ELECTRA

16-across – Wear out car part : EXHAUST

18-across – Lean, adult leader of group diving into lake : MEAGRE

20-across – Fine linen from Prestatyn, Wales, sent over : LAWN

21-across – Obstacles in rear by travelling cranes : HINDRANCES

23-across – Writer of musical tale, we hear, receiving top prizes : OLIVERGOLDSMITH

24-across – In succession to throne, displaced head of Tudors : ONTHETROT

25-across – Solitary type Cockney fellow dismissed : LONER

1-down – Runs in country getting injury : SPRAIN

2-down – Tolerant? Waspish? Possibly a mild rebuke is the answer : ASLAPONTHEWRIST

3-down – Cheese in buns he laid out : DANISHBLUE

4-down – Ascot’s winning margin, then dead heat? : NECKTIE

5-down – Silk from refurbished US store : TUSSORE

6-down – Part of film is serious, according to report … : REEL

7-down – … film total art fanatic misconstrued : FATALATTRACTION

8-down – Develop film showing traitor : TURNCOAT

12-down – Bone in arm, at least cracked : METATARSAL

15-down – Rich source of oil, also buried diamonds : WELLTODO

17-down – Start trip : TRIGGER

18-down – Malicious assertions over apartment in area of seaside land : MUDFLAT

19-down – Queen of Persia belonging to Xerxes, there? : ESTHER

22-down – Children on the radio give up : CEDE

1-across – Poet having rare delicacy on part of Hebridean island : CECILDAYLEWIS

9-across – Self-evident truth adult associate recalled about love : AXIOM

10-across – Team everybody boycotts : ALLBLACKS

11-across – Fruit that could make one unwell in old Moorish city : GRANADILLA

12-across – Appellation belonging to Dallaglio, naturally? : LION

14-across – Distinctive smell of European river, some say : ODOUR

15-across – Gaudy public house, good in Winter, say : GINPALACE

16-across – Formal wear in smooth clubs, perhaps : DRESSSUIT

18-across – Accumulate a large number : AMASS

21-across – Girl about right for service : ARMY

22-across – Discovers fool swallowing some : ASCERTAINS

24-across – Conductor of opera one located in pub on the way back : TOSCANINI

25-across – Ring worn by miss, unattached : LOOSE

26-across – Everything must go here : CLEARANCESALE

1-down – Musical, elegant with a vitality : CHICAGO

2-down – Found, ornate mace and a crucifix : CAMEACROSS

3-down – One may be asked by counsel in prominent matter : LEADINGQUESTION

4-down – At each stage from A to B on the London Underground? : ALLALONGTHELINE

5-down – Girl, awfully ill close to infirmary : LILY

6-down – US city with CIA involvement : WICHITA

7-down – Girl uses an eccentric knight inside : SUSANNE

8-down – Racing driver frustrated in a fog : FANGIO

13-down – Managed to explain note after Territorial Army dance : TARANTELLA

16-down – Radical doctor with a short cane : DRASTIC

17-down – All together in new manse on outskirts of Stoke : ENMASSE

19-down – Notice one model is fat : ADIPOSE

20-down – Nurse in obstetrics is terrific : SISTER

23-down – Pretty fine tune : FAIR