Daily Answers

1-across – The Spanish father tucking into fat : BELPAESE

5-across – Port and rum does it : ODESSA

10-across – Girl with mother is about five : MAVIS

11-across – One wearing rough one? Right article for an ascetic : HAIRSHIRT

12-across – Aunt Sally, the last to fuss about two animals : SCAPEGOAT

13-across – Crowd of journalists : PRESS

14-across – Rough strip search involving writer and board member? : SHIPSCARPENTER

18-across – Cosmetic applied by Wells’s scientist? : VANISHINGCREAM

20-across – Language used by beginner in ring breaking hooter : NORSE

22-across – Liam, a lad worried about a spiritual leader : DALAILAMA

24-across – Not expressing genuine feelings, some boffins in ceremony : INSINCERE

25-across – Sing version with a different opening : YODEL

26-across – Cry of joy about king visiting EU area : EUREKA

27-across – Cosmetic? Look at range at end of counter : EYELINER

1-down – Bewilder male, American, during social gathering : BEMUSE

2-down – Biblical character, with another, beheaded sea monster : LEVIATHAN

3-down – Is surrounded by beer in passageway : AISLE

4-down – Pupils translated old chronicles about Hungary’s capital : SCHOOLCHILDREN

6-down – Policeman and soldier, crossing top of Alps, go missing : DISAPPEAR

7-down – Team going round second of cliffs, slip : SLIDE

8-down – Stair repaired with effort and skill : ARTISTRY

9-down – Film king in kitchen where paintings are on show : PICTUREGALLERY

15-down – Ask parent about Russian writer : PASTERNAK

16-down – Beastly Great Dane in open-air restaurant : TEAGARDEN

17-down – Endless thought follows incident in the latter part of the day : EVENTIDE

19-down – One may suit you : TAILOR

21-down – Part of stair I serviced, upright portion of step : RISER

23-down – Lily, worried about daughter, makes up a poem : IDYLL

1-across – Half of answer covered by forceful political publication : HANSARD

5-across – Marsh bird from intensely cold north : BITTERN

9-across – Send in the Clowns – those two hum song off-key : THESHOWMUSTGOON

10-across – This could be up to one to become more communicative : OPENOUT

11-across – Tenor has money in annuity scheme : TONTTNE

12-across – Relish latest of paintings placed in gallery : TASTE

14-across – Two girls after original of toy of little value : TENAPENNY

16-across – Australian brings in good books for binding : STRINGENT

17-across – Confidential information about extremely unusual flower : TULIP

19-across – Popular, more robust gas mask : INHALER

21-across – Soiled article found by relative : UNCLEAN

23-across – Beeswax? Ruin most of upholstery, if badly applied : FURNITUREPOLISH

24-across – Rectified awful deed involving servants : EMENDED

25-across – Modeller, American, caught in a dust storm : TUSSAUD

1-down – Recently stolen on the base, with all possible speed : HOTFOOT

2-down – Relative, over-particular about everything initially : NIECE

3-down – A quiet spot overlooking a northern museum : ASHMOLEAN

4-down – Entirely where a lift may be going : DOWNTOTHEGROUND

5-down – Frank, an agent with a weapon, perhaps : BLUNTINSTRUMENT

6-down – Person of great strength beat Italian inside : TITAN

7-down – Moving out of island motel that’s shabby outside : EMOITONAL

8-down – Theatre director visiting new Rye convent : NUNNERY

13-down – Swell cleaner pocketed an additional amount : SURCHARGE

15-down – Spell out what the voter should do? : PUTACROSS

16-down – Likes dancing to include very loud 50’s music : SKIFFLE

18-down – Haggard, parking, moved slowly : PINCHED

20-down – I must interrupt fat Scottish landowner : LAIRD

22-down – English girl in musical : EVITA

1-across – London district admired by many : POPLAR

4-across – Bird eating head of worm attracts dear French bird-watcher : TWITCHER

9-across – Cut in snooker ball with bent cue : REDUCE

10-across – Horse, one attached to stable at first : STALLION

11-across – The German station hand’s pistols : DERRINGERS

14-across – Box blows over : SPAR

16-across – The two ensigns at sea whispered words of affection : SWEETNOTHINGS

18-across – Two numbers, on occasion, demonstrating such rhythm : THREEFOURTIME

20-across – Bend over English film director : LEAN

21-across – Type leader upset, again and again : REPEATEDLY

23-across – Mean to go outside with the Italian in the gloaming : TWILIGHT

24-across – Feature involving work of composer : CHOPIN

26-across – Plan to study structure on top of church tower, perhaps : CONSPIRE

27-across – Trips I organised to find a supernatural being : SPITIT

1-down – Burlesque in a bar in the outskirts of Paisley : PARODY

2-down – Flat pack : PAD

3-down – Mathematician rang during a short break : ARCHIMEDES

5-down – Poor creature, sow, in stream : WATERCOURSE

6-down – Story’s end read aloud : TALE

7-down – I may be found on a track from musical – quiet one, note, to finish : HAIRPINBEND

8-down – Girl in posh car is kind initially to take chances : RUNARISK

12-down – Putting aside a misgiving : RESERVATION

13-down – Husband leaves poor quarter to fetch that girl for a meeting : GETTOGETHER

15-down – Savings and Loan above awfully posh second-hand store : THRIFTSHOP

17-down – Strong and lithe cat abroad : ATHLETIC

19-down – Sound of seal and young swan : CYGNET

22-down – Without energy in final, I’m pulverised : LIMP

25-down – Mean to split up? Not quite : PAT

1-across – Horse has a pole over : ARAB

4-across – Craftsman, old master, hasn’t finished article : ARTISAN

10-across – When most TV is watched? Seven, say, on occasion : PRIMETIME

11-across – Evil spirit, right, in a well : AFRIT

12-across – Girl exercised daily : LYDIA

13-across – Drink outside foremost of hotels, then round edge of pool – Hilton’s paradise! : SHANGRILA

14-across – Just quandaries RAF sorted out : FAIRANDSQUARE

17-across – More than one theatre employee amazes a star back inside : STAGEMANAGERS

18-across – Told a joke at college and burst into laughter : CRACKEDUP

21-across – Burglar, one entering the front of factory : THIEF

23-across – Musical – girl takes it in : EVITA

24-across – Drugs in car cost criminal : NARCOTICS

25-across – Precious stone, red, male might present : EMERALD

26-across – Band in the south has re-formed : SASH

2-down – Look again at ex-marine at sea on stern of barge : REEXAMINE

3-down – Composer in seventh heaven : BLISS

4-down – Girl, one leaving Egyptian port : ALEXANDRA

5-down – Nasal tone, Welsh in flavour : TWANG

6-down – The rub before one gets the needle? : SURGICALSPIRIT

7-down – Obsessive enthusiast on trial with madman : NUTCASE

8-down – Love friend’s gemstone : OPAL

9-down – Heavenly warbler? Yes and no : BIRDOFPARADISE

15-down – Left group, one featured in commercial : ABANDONED

16-down – Interrogates searching parties about one, short one : QUESTIONS

17-down – Hide in SE Mediterranean island : SECRETE

19-down – Knock out, with a left, a small bear : KOALA

20-down – Pairs off in capital : PARIS

22-down – Don’t eat quickly : FAST

1-across – Require last of wine in study to be brought over : NEED

3-across – Run away from stalker on cycle : TURNTAIL

7-across – Old shoes for those collecting shellfish? : WINKLEPICKERS

10-across – Antony’s wife in new coat, by the way : OCTAVIA

11-across – Excessively optimistic, girl at conclusion of programme : ROSEATE

12-across – Teach painting back home : TRAIN

14-across – A pound in one country or another : AUSTRALIA

16-across – County type pair confused crossing river : TIPPERARY

17-across – Organised tour round duke’ house : TUDOR

19-across – Doctor receiving one cable about a peruke : PERIWIG

21-across – Type of marsupial – very large number seen across Italian river : OPOSSUM

23-across – Achieve one’s full potential using it in meeting : GETITTOGETHER

24-across – Alienate corrupt sergeant : ESTRANGE

25-across – Initially one blows on each instrument : OBOE

1-down – Now for the first time, left IOW town : NEWPORT

2-down – Painter from southern state : ERNST

3-down – Finest fruit for most important person : TOPBANANA

4-down – Come back with extremely rare dog : RECUR

5-down – A reserve tutor somehow makes a valuable discovery : TREASURETROVE

6-down – Put in, batting, played for time : INSTALLED

8-down – Terribly relevant, read about women’s perfume : LAVENDERWATER

9-down – Wager over a Greek character : BETA

13-down – A second page on pheasant eating a vegetable : ASPARAGUS

15-down – It speaks for itself, one mayor’s in difficulty : SAYNOMORE

16-down – Characters in class : TYPE

18-down – Deep regret about son breaking in again : REMORSE

20-down – Agree fare : GETON

22-down – Form of address used in India has upset one bishop : SAHIB