Daily Answers

1-across – Demands and obtains kiss in ultimately lamentable performances : EXACTS

4-across – The red flag or The Stars and Stripes Forever? : STANDARD

9-across – Toiler you picture inputting something thunderously, primarily? : TYPIST

10-across – Celebrated audibly in multiple flights : STOREYED

11-across – Victorian cuisine: scoff a kind of dove, very excited : MOCKTURTLESOUP

13-across – ‘Athirst’ regularly rejected, being archaic: that’s agreed : TIS

15-across – Brigade, the unruly kind : BIGHEARTED

18-across – Endlessly devour exotic tea that’s excellent : CONSUMMATE

19-across – English getting runs? One, for a long stretch : ERA

20-across – Out of Sellotape now, all of a sudden : ATONEFELLSWOOP

24-across – Alpinist’s regrettable lack of control : TAILSPIN

25-across – Socialist in Caracas: Trotskyist? : CASTRO

26-across – An absent-minded shopper might be this vacant : LISTLESS

27-across – Read third letter aloud depicting Biblical impediment : REDSEA

1-down – Guess teatime’s off? : ESTIMATE

2-down – When computer’s overwhelming Everyman’s a kind of jelly : ASPIC

3-down – Cricket match on TV: fourth of batsmen in experimental gear : TESTTUBES

5-down – Blockbuster, tall tale with orc, rebooted : TOTALRECALL

6-down – Invaders laying waste to Australian navy: they’re expected : NORMS

7-down – See our way to resort? Don’t worry : ASYOUWERE

8-down – Two posters stuck up displaying avant-garde art : DADA

12-down – Music and cakes for guttersnipes : RAGAMUFFINS

14-down – Charmers, ones that are often fruity : SMOOTHIES

16-down – Once again enthral, seeing cabbages pruned and half of fragrant sprigs : REENSLAVE

17-down – Chart with an old record climbing: it’s Spanish : PAMPLONA

21-down – A plan’s arranged, not initially paying through the nose : NASAL

22-down – Swears, finding piece of haggis in porridge earlier : OATHS

23-down – To some extent get along with other people : ETAL

1-across – Casseroles, say, old and new, Vera smashed : OVENWARE

5-across – Weak shell of elegant mollusc : LIMPET

10-across – Girl crashed hot rod approaching end of motorway : DOROTHY

11-across – Catching a chance to speak : HEARING

12-across – To back her – that’s different : OTHER

13-across – Call for attention, receiving variable information about one health expert : HYGIENIST

14-across – In which Sun has special role diminished? : SOLARECLIPSE

18-across – Cool, American, ironic? ‘Not I!’, troubled Democrat’s interrupting : AIRCONDITION

21-across – Homes, easy to manage, son: about half a mile : DOMICILES

23-across – A Highlander in a cravat : ASCOT

24-across – Exercises including a part for one released from prison : PAROLEE

25-across – Alan’s beginning to get increasingly wide. Nothing’s consumed? That’s increasingly wise : ASTUTER

26-across – Songbirds steal in before onset of spring : ROBINS

27-across – Stacks by the German cranes : DERRICKS

1-down – More than likely to give you a good run for your money? : ODDSON

2-down – Blue celestial body close to Mercury : EARTHY

3-down – Endless battle to secure first couple of points in game : WATERPOLO

4-down – Style of popular music? Butler had hymns playing : RHYTHMANDBLUES

6-down – Likeness, as Father Time might say : IMAGE

7-down – Picked up tonic, one for a woman : PHILIPPA

8-down – Continuously move up bound by rope? : TOGETHER

9-down – Film taking hour, for example, about a supermarket nearly breaking record : THEGREATESCAPE

15-down – Appear behind guard : LOOKAFTER

16-down – Primarily, spiky annual notoriously distributing seedcases. Painful underfoot? Rather! : SANDSPUR

17-down – Proper mixture of Brie and meat : PRIMERIB

19-down – Bill will have to call back for this kind of acid : ACETIC

20-down – Good man, having acquired skills, sets forth : STARTS

22-down – Pass fashionable man : COLIN

1-across – Awfully spare: chaps refuse to be seen here : SCRAPHEAPS

6-across – Ring friend, wanting gemstone : OPAL

9-across – Sells cheaply what you may be left with after division : REMAINDERS

10-across – Vietnamese money’s sound as a bell : DONG

12-across – Daredevil aunt drove us crazy : ADVENTUROUS

15-across – Del Boy and kin needing no introduction: rogues : ROTTERS

16-across – Some giant iguanas somewhere in W. Indies : ANTIGUA

17-across – Fail to be seen in curly hairdo every day : PERDIEM

19-across – City to twice enthral Ronald : TORONTO

20-across – One proving there’s honour among thieves? : ROBBERBARON

23-across – Old tenor given note? On reflection, one that sings higher : ALTO

24-across – Unwise, raging lad is … devil : ILLADVISED

25-across – Drugs, they say for freedom from discomfort : EASE

26-across – Dunces Society intended to skip a test : ASSESSMENT

1-down – Audibly rise, being angry : SORE

2-down – Premier, a Republican, going up slope : RAMP

3-down – Early parts of play: rôles include Victor, Amanda; they encounter – lucklessly, in vacation – Elyot, Sibyl! : PRIVATELIVES

4-down – Part of weekend I’ve spent finding salad : ENDIVES

5-down – I ran into quiet hall, not half finding ferocious type : PIRANHA

7-down – Master craving act of delaying : PROLONGING

8-down – Support Scotswoman to run: first minister? : LEGISLATOR

11-down – Blunt implements brandished, I subvert Kent : BUTTERKNIVES

13-down – Everyman, say: somebody conforming to convention : PROPERNAME

14-down – After a time, acts of praise for properties : ATTRIBUTES

18-down – Hi-tech devices, they’re often dangled over cots : MOBILES

19-down – Raw mayonnaise dressing : TARTARE

21-down – Is the French land entirely surrounded by water? : ISLE

22-down – Correct deadlifts at regular intervals : EDIT

1-across – Once scenic – redeveloped – qualms? : CONSCIENCE

6-across – Mimicked, initially atrociously, Prince Edward : APED

9-across – 2000s Prime Minister: money’s no longer with us : BROWNBREAD

10-across – Eager howl : KEEN

11-across – By treeless zones having trouble, like falling off a log? : PLAINSAILING

15-across – Everyman’s puzzle, one that’s unwelcome : IMPOSER

16-across – Crescentic republic, one abutting the Illyrian Adriatic, primarily? : CROATIA

17-across – Showy flowers – or little ones, you say? : ORCHIDS

19-across – Some toffs identified as unable to score : OFFSIDE

20-across – Unjustly demanding, dismal posting : BLACKMAILING

23-across – Friend’s friendly? Not at first : ALLY

24-across – Opera singer, right, surrounded by swirling sitar and violin : STRADIVARI

25-across – Company pitched : CAST

26-across – Diners’ cups: I moved two places along : BRASSERIES

1-down – Bass offered amid lettuce: they’re covered in corn : COBS

2-down – 12 down – or up! : NOON

3-down – Charlie and Les getting credit for wicked thing : CANDLESTICK

4-down – Before now, more like a nobleman? : EARLIER

5-down – Timeless young lady in clinch now and again : CLASSIC

7-down – A patricide – deranged, concerning youth needing treatment : PAEDIATRIC

8-down – In cosy room, causes irritation: the writer maligns : DENIGRATES

12-down – Regularly ignore Finn’s attack, being pleasant enough : INOFFENSIVE

13-down – No panic! BLT’s toasted: here’s some wine : PINOTBLANC

14-down – Perhaps aviators’ magnificent displays : SPECTACLES

18-down – Broadcast Ella Fitzgerald? : SCATTER

19-down – Slice of inferior lean steak somewhere in France : ORLEANS

21-down – Institute and experimental facility set up in Indonesian island province : BALI

22-down – Conifers and gorse, by the sound of it : FIRS

1-across – Ruin a French party : UNDO

3-across – Fog and fuel swirling in Indian Ocean bay : GULFOFADEN

9-across – State what can be gathered from radio waves : IOWA

10-across – Fancy a plant? : ORNAMENTAL

11-across – Assemble, in ranks, grand personages; they may appear as a shower : FALLINGSTARS

15-across – Let back in to US university after study : READMIT

16-across – Right: a nurse may do this to a wound : REDRESS

17-across – Cockney’s articulated intellectual aspect of feature : EYEBROW

19-across – A starter of risotto with herb in store : ARCHIVE

20-across – They may show equals what can be found in the sports hall? : PARALLELBARS

23-across – Later, I stupidly leave a vehicle in commercial area : RETAILPARK

24-across – Snack that’s prepared … I bet! : BITE

25-across – Remove all joy from some food that’s eaten, adding a bit of rémoulade : DISHEARTEN

26-across – Measure of speed: A little kayak gets flipping 100mph! : KNOT

1-down – Ignorant, like a Boy Scout describing Norway : UNINFORMED

2-down – Sad, drunk and now on the phone? : DOWNLOADED

4-down – Utterly principled; radiating integrity; good, honest – truthful, primarily? : UPRIGHT

5-down – Fawn that’s not so exciting : FLATTER

6-down – Release Communist, one that’s initiated combustion? : FREERADICAL

7-down – Tax, perhaps like an ancient invader of Britain, did you say? : DUTY

8-down – Infielder regularly needing source of water : NILE

12-down – Fervent memorialist to enshrine with glory : IMMORTALISE

13-down – Deep thought and time invested in peace-making : MEDITATION

14-down – Everyman’s among fools, ultimately preposterous in prevalent estimation : ASSESSMENT

18-down – With hip-hop artist, one with a gift? : WRAPPER

19-down – A type of informal shirt, big and loose : ATLARGE

21-down – Produced some sombre dirges : BRED

22-down – Brief emotional outburst: ‘Sit up, lad!’ : OTIS