Daily Answers

1-across – US president with comparatively small primate : BUSHBABY

5-across – Ambassador on at head of embassy : LEGATE

10-across – Star and co-stars he’ll cast in part of theatre : ORCHESTRASTALLS

11-across – Rings back to express disdain : POOHPOOH

12-across – Giant pheasant : ARGUS

14-across – Missile’s power staggered sailor : POLARIS

16-across – Device that spins back and forth : ROTATOR

17-across – Strange noises linked to opening of special sitting : SESSION

19-across – Obsessive enthusiast meeting old actor? Hazel, perhaps : NUTTREE

21-across – Do exam again, one among the others : RESIT

22-across – Rack was knocked over by animal : SAWHORSE

25-across – Bird in rifle range once shot by foremost of pistoleers : PEREGRINEFALCON

26-across – King’s terrible dread about onset of war : EDWARD

27-across – Veteran soldier in TA, slowed remarkably : OLDSWEAT

1-down – Mostly obstruct coalition : BLOC

2-down – Disgusted by old pervert : SICKO

3-down – Idle talk from bishop, first to leave there drunk : BLETHER

4-down – Pantomime character’s single error? Keeps quiet : BUTTONSONESLIP

6-down – Withdraw from other court : EXTRACT

7-down – Reptile snapped at gorilla : ALLIGATOR

8-down – Financial security obtained by a setter? Yes, oddly : EASYSTREET

9-down – Girl with rat producing a firework : CATHERINEWHEEL

13-down – What’s always held by Sotheby’s? : APOSTROPHE

15-down – Laws start to be broken in the end? : LASTSTRAW

18-down – A whole number, for example, located in Bury? : INTEGER

20-down – Hard-working types, twenty-four at each end, with Jason, at sea : TROJANS

23-down – Plinth about to be taken in by individual : SOCLE

24-down – Shore bird in difficulty : KNOT

1-across – Garments always used by Swiss aristocracy : SARIS

4-across – Discuss terms for buying pub anticipating profit : BARGAIN

8-across – Excellent small bed in train : ROYALSCOT

10-across – Newspaper briefly covering one aspect : FACET

11-across – Word describing home heat unit : THERM

12-across – Exaggerate about condition : OVERSTATE

13-across – Tall female, Heather, about to go ashore for a dance : HIGHLANDFLING

16-across – Bars in hotel – swearing unusual : WATERINGHOLES

18-across – Demand more tea, then crackers, after winning : UPTHEANTE

20-across – Fanatical bishop in surprise attack : RABID

22-across – Garment of cloth on girl : THONG

23-across – Londoner in stormy sea on boat : EASTENDER

24-across – Clumsy and uncaring male excluded : ARTLESS

25-across – Serious novelist, not English : STERN

1-down – Withdraw money : SCRATCH

2-down – Does Humpty Dumpty exemplify it? : RHYME

3-down – Spoiled slalom set in novel : SALEMSLOT

4-down – Heading for bar, say, identifies guilty party as one who spills a lot : BUTTERFINGERS

5-down – Boy, American, supporting game female : RUFUS

6-down – Raphael’s ‘Russian Port’? : ARCHANGEL

7-down – Fool about with gunpowder ingredient : NITRE

9-down – Boasts about northern prices impressing new royal family member? : CROWNPRINCESS

14-down – Lack it? How awful during disease : GOWITHOUT

15-down – Working together, shires Ann trained : INHARNESS

17-down – I may smooth things over in deplorable club : SADIRON

18-down – Last month spent with artist, extremist : ULTRA

19-down – What may be shot on a course? : EAGLE

21-down – Emblem showing tailless animal : BADGE

1-across – German boy to take a brief look : GLANCE

4-across – Fly flag : STREAMER

10-across – A tsar upset Muslim ruler in Russian city : ASTRAKHAN

11-across – Country to help new one suffering setback : INDIA

12-across – Used in Japan, gamekeeper’s knife : PANGA

13-across – The time to bring down the curtain, taking everything into consideration? : WHENALLIS

14-across – See 13 : SAIDANDDONE

16-across – Compensate for cancelled series : OFF

18-across – See 18 : SET

19-across – Petit déjeuner or cornflakes at ten? A bit silly around noon : CONTINENTAL

22-across – See 19 : BREAKFAST

24-across – Girl showing anger, one having spurned love : IRENE

25-across – Put up with partnership : STAND

26-across – Not more than a tot drunk with meths! : ATTHEMOST

27-across – Salad dish we locals prepared : COLESLAW

28-across – Exhausted, American editor ahead : USEDUP

1-down – Energy shown by top lass playing more than one upright : GOALPOSTS

2-down – He, tantalising it, possibly brings about an unexpectedly unpleasant ending : ASTINGINTHETAIL

3-down – Not entirely risky engaging Arab coach : CHARABANC

5-down – Hybrid fruit – Italian chap’s after tons : TANGELO

6-down – Girl full of sex appeal in musical : EVITA

7-down – Moderate having a wide general appeal : MIDDLEOFTHEROAD

8-down – Studies marsh grasses, we hear : READS

9-down – Displayed in class – how educational : SHOWED

15-down – Looks round ship for some cosmetics : EYELINERS

17-down – A fag? I felt trip could be : FILTERTIP

20-down – Falls once more, knocked over by artist : NIAGARA

21-down – Entirely at home with Dorothy Gale’s dog : INTOTO

22-down – Simple when taken on board by writer : BASIC

23-down – Sudoku, mostly fiendish, getting credit : KUDOS

1-across – Model’s son interrupting US writer : POSE

3-across – Manual labourer, struck and manacled : HANDCUFFED

10-across – Girl declared an impostor : CHARLATAN

11-across – Panic in vehicle in middle of desert : SCARE

12-across – First to brandish a weapon shows poise : BALANCE

13-across – Last of those failing to pass : ELAPSE

15-across – If in favour, we hear, players can make a prediction : WEATHERFORECAST

17-across – Charity worker, gasbag attending crammer : ENVELOPESTUFFER

20-across – Unique description of switch saving energy : ONEOFF

21-across – More than a couple of pounds for protective garment : OVERALL

24-across – Horse play? : EQUUS

25-across – Shipworkers losing easily : HANDSDOWN

26-across – Fundamental feature on a railway : ELEMENTARY

27-across – Fewer found among sales staff : LESS

1-down – Cricketer, great in soft hat : PACEBOWLER

2-down – Box hedge : STALL

4-down – Immediately after a hotpot, had crackers : ATTHEDROPOFAHAT

5-down – Play hazardous hole : DANGEROUSCORNER

6-down – Steal the show, winning leg : UPSTAGE

7-down – Pole tires on Welsh river : FLAGSTAFF

8-down – Exploit legal document : DEED

9-down – Shy away from female lost on island : FLINCH

14-down – Only sister developed plots : STORYLINES

16-down – Arrival on river, a risky undertaking : ADVENTURE

18-down – Brief inspection made by king in relaxed ending to parade : LOOKSEE

19-down – Anxiety shown by a Parisienne when on top of edifice : UNEASE

22-down – Trouble concerning love : ADORE

23-down – Nothing more than a pond : MERE

1-across – Bishop, gruff in the morning in a carriage : BROUGHAM

5-across – Amateur team’s records : ASIDES

10-across – Cancel brief : REMIT

11-across – Etiquette demonstrated by one literary heroine in extreme : POLITESSE

12-across – Lacking purpose, ‘irsute imp? : AIRYFAIRY

13-across – Overturn revolting object : UPEND

14-across – Not sure Welsh poet is a sceptic : DOUBTINGTHOMAS

17-across – Savoury food in a fridge – see a pot, fresh : PATEDEFOIEGRAS

20-across – Row across mouth of Bulgarian river : TIBER

21-across – Nervously sit with Santa’s helper : ASSISTANT

23-across – Attendants cheer, having little time for sacked head of company : ENTOURAGE

24-across – A silly urge to quarrel : ARGUE

25-across – A tongue-lashing from one stuck in traffic : TIRADE

26-across – Sweet centre : BULLSEYE

1-down – Froth supplied with help from me? : BARMAID

2-down – Shell from window daughter removed : ORMER

3-down – Successfully start launch : GETOFFTHEGROUND

4-down – Device in palace surreptitiously snapping games played : APPLIANCE

6-down – Give details of an intention to start work at Covent Garden? : SETOUTONESSTALL

7-down – Speak disrespectfully of resort in a state of neglect : DISREPAIR

8-down – One’s regular boyfriend, not easily excited : STEADY

9-down – Page on amateur stage production : PLAY

15-down – Stupidly ban tour round the French capital : ULANBATOR

16-down – Bride’s outfit from USA, sure to being specially designed : TROUSSEAU

18-down – Defiant remark made by habitual drunkard in this place : SOTHERE

19-down – Making every allowance for British during a trial : ATBEST

21-down – Partly open a container : AJAR

22-down – Fish fork : ANGLE