Daily Answers

1-across – One is bound by discretion, that’s understood : TACIT

4-across – Dimwit, obese, brought before principal : FATHEAD

8-across – Chief measure : RULER

9-across – Internees manipulated girl : ERNESTINE

10-across – Set of bells in gazebo in Beijing? : CHINESEPAVILION

11-across – Reduce the length of a card game : ABRIDGE

13-across – Old impressed by dance band : HOOP

16-across – Throw drunkard over port side of ship : TOSS

17-across – Nothing found in cabana they’d vandalised in US resort town : DAYTONA

20-across – Deplorable US retailer : RUSSIANROULETTE

22-across – Team to follow in lead away : SIDETRACK

23-across – See 17 : BEACH

24-across – Resets a broken tile : TESSERA

25-across – In fact, Eddy appeared on stage : ACTED

1-down – Renegade from Ulster after revolution? : TURNCOAT

2-down – Dog going over tracks is mine : COLLIERY

3-down – In first of teasers, language is concise : TERSE

4-down – Fish spread out across bar had to be linked to pier : FINNANHADDOCK

5-down – Irritable about boy blowing top giving evidence : TESTIMONY

6-down – The Spanish, one by one, given recipe for wonder drug : ELIXIR

7-down – Governess expected girl to be upset … : DUENNA

9-down – … upset seeing a sleazy novel : EYELESSINGAZA

12-down – After party, ring petite flower seller : DOOLITTLE

14-down – Get smaller settlement : CONTRACT

15-down – Stretch of water providing hake – lad, at sea, catches 100 : LAKECHAD

18-down – Happy days, perhaps, for model : PROSIT

19-down – Incidental remarks made by amateur teams : ASIDES

21-down – Sign left on one by supporter : LIBRA

1-across – Duke, in a wood on hack, made a striking impression : CUTADASH

5-across – A pair vandalised yard where bees are kept : APIARY

9-across – Spherical object taken from conveyor belt : ORB

10-across – Football team in easy win? Acts otherwise : SWANSEACITY

12-across – Detective in our helicopter, squirming : HERCULEPOIROT

14-across – Painter’s picture’s very good, after seeing that : PICASSO

16-across – Cat : CHEETAH

17-across – Previous title-holder, one meeting the Queen : EARLIER

19-across – Accomplished European chemist : PASTEUR

21-across – Railway official at Porthmadog, say, used to steam trains : STATIONMASTER

24-across – Leaping in front of sailor pointing to a firework : JUMPINGJACK

25-across – Bird found in hedge, mutilated : EMU

26-across – A female in vehicle getting more reckless : RASHER

27-across – Order changed for cashmere? I don’t know : SEARCHME

1-down – Policeman arresting old criminal, hard lout : CLODHOPPER

2-down – Row across mouth of busy river : TIBER

3-down – Talk about throwing contest, last in Olympics : DISCUSS

4-down – Son with girl getting on with a recreational activity : SKATEBOARDING

6-down – Couple bagging last of flour that is plain : PRAIRIE

7-down – I so rattle foreign philosopher : ARISTOTLE

8-down – Toy – headless one cartwheeled twice : YOYO

11-down – Drop scone and alcoholic drink on landing? Sort of : SCOTCHPANCAKE

13-down – Plan to once again consume a Carthusian liqueur : CHARTREUSE

15-down – Miserable March – its second festival : CHRISTMAS

18-down – Picture from one publication in the East : IMAGINE

20-down – A kiss for a pound : SMACKER

22-down – Note the manoeuvres demonstrating genuine power : TEETH

23-down – A container, slightly open : AJAR

1-across – Has good intentions? Excellent, excellent! : MEANSWELL

6-across – South American tree producing a good deal of resin : BALSA

9-across – Drive in Beverly Hills? Went on horseback heading for ocean : RODEO

10-across – Go on stage and show them one’s back! : TURNROUND

11-across – Prophet and saint’s on film : JEREMIAHJOHNSON

12-across – A reservoir worker refusing to be persuaded : ADAMANT

14-across – More than one teacher has changed on Hebridean island : MULLAHS

16-across – A group on leave : ABANDON

18-across – Brag about doctor in pretentious speech : BOMBAST

19-across – Memorable remarks made on the way out? : FAMOUSLASTWORDS

21-across – Mostly learned tricks in the Badger State : WISCONSIN

22-across – Jumping bail? I must give a reason : ALIBI

23-across – One held by flower girl : ROSIE

24-across – Film noir too involved : NOTORIOUS

1-down – Pot made by Spanish girl, broken by Spanish boy : MARIJUANA

2-down – Snake in plant? Make off : ADDER

3-down – Slogan bandied about – ‘spend money’ : STOPMEANDBUYONE

4-down – Remove from other court : EXTRACT

5-down – Noble judge, one with millions in book : LORDJIM

6-down – Boy, moderately good in play : BARTHOLOMEWFAIR

7-down – Girl cuddling boy in a state : LOUISIANA

8-down – A university study of British-born poet : AUDEN

13-down – Scaremongers unfortunately suppressing right film : ALARMISTS

15-down – Meets French composer touring island with fine son : SATISFIES

17-down – Opera singer’s sad loss in seedy inn : NILSSON

18-down – Beast in jazzy helmet : BASINET

19-down – Not as many in Recife, we reckon : FEWER

20-down – This beast may charge one for lolly : RHINO

1-across – Deliberately purchase, on the phone, a selection : BYCHOICE

5-across – Quarrels with son going to dice game : SCRAPS

9-across – Close to girl in strong wind : NEARGALE

10-across – Prepare extensive area : DOMAIN

12-across – What poet had to say, on about obvious statement from Douglas? : NOMANISANISLAND

13-across – Take off from runway : STRIP

15-across – Typically, a Girl Guide initially wears one : ONAVERAGE

16-across – Reportedly studied island attracting alien fish : REDMULLET

18-across – Mites in mattress covers : TICKS

21-across – Poet, for example, taken aback by our cheery caff, surprisingly : GEOFFREYCHAUCER

23-across – Show signs of improving appearance at Oxford? : LOOKUP

24-across – Leave empty : CLEAROUT

25-across – Say no to litter : REFUSE

26-across – Stone circle in outskirts of Chester, by old elm set back by church : CROMLECH

1-down – Fruit and nuts : BANANAS

2-down – One playing with snake daily, almost bare : CHARMER

3-down – Agency that’s good, located in Algerian port : ORGAN

4-down – Cut some lamb, yesterday’s roast? : COLDSHOULDER

6-down – Birds settle in elevated lookout platform : CROWSNEST

7-down – The kind of book that may be read upside-down? : AGASAGA

8-down – Denise and I abroad indefinitely : SINEDIE

11-down – Especially popular item : INPARTICULAR

14-down – Old golfwear, extra loud, belonging to us : PLUSFOURS

16-down – Full-time soldier’s uniform : REGULAR

17-down – In decline, fall asleep : DROPOFF

19-down – Ride a bike, holding on in tropical storm : CYCLONE

20-down – Withdraw with a minor injury : SCRATCH

22-down – Danger warning received by Territorial Army : ALARM

1-across – Outlaw and traitor shown up by Irish novelist : JAMESJOYCE

6-across – One’s holding large tailless bird : IBIS

9-across – Second tea or coffee : MOCHA

10-across – Aggressive woman in fight, cut down : BATTLEAXE

12-across – Bay window in an Oxford college : ORIEL

13-across – Informal stroll made by sailor during strike : WALKABOUT

14-across – Have a thriving business at Longleat? : DOAROARINGTRADE

17-across – Film set hands, heavily built : THELADYVANISHES

18-across – Imp could make vagrant virtually lose sight? Not completely : HOBGOBLIN

21-across – Animal lows close to fence : MOOSE

23-across – Relative’s partner, target of abuse : AUNTSALLY

24-across – Extract petrol : JUICE

25-across – Green and white flower? : NILE

26-across – Parents see grotesque monster : SEASERPENT

1-down – Boss giving support to judge in plane : JUMBO

2-down – Friend involving another in scheme : MACHINATE

3-down – A greengrocer might sell them an insignifant amount : SMALLPOTATOES

4-down – Steer front of vessel out of bend : OXBOW

5-down – Left wearing a coat in a torrid region of Spain : CATALONIA

7-down – Head, round for a celebration : BEANO

8-down – Plants pleasant-tasting vegetables : SWEETPEAS

11-down – Terribly tall twin : LLANTWITMAJOR

14-down – Language used by outlaw hiding right where hay is stored : DUTCHBARN

15-down – Colour of laurel boy misread : ROYALBLUE

16-down – Goddess atrophied, astonishingly : APHRODITE

19-down – Prohibit almost everything in flat : BANAL

20-down – English poet’s reported row : NOYES

22-down – Social occasion in flat, ending in conflict : EVENT