Daily Answers

1-across – Don’t forget about MP : REMEMBER

5-across – Computer circuit to power : LAPTOP

9-across – Clear chance, virtually, I had : LUCID

10-across – Bellman in tricorn we jostled : TOWNCRIER

12-across – Spill the beans, as children are inclined to do? : TELLTALESOUTOF

13-across – See 12 : SCHOOL

14-across – Genuine, following team of stars : SIDEREAL

16-across – Infatuated with OT in finest edition : BESOTTED

18-across – Crazy chef reportedly needing two ducks : CUCKOO

20-across – Famous lawyer and daughter quarrel at the back of carriage : CLARENCEDARROW

23-across – Reticent person in car going through the heart of Brittany : INTROVERT

24-across – Last in tribe to capture an antelope : ELAND

25-across – Finishes checking me and makes corrections : EMENDS

26-across – Painter in card game right next to the Parisian : WHISTLER

1-down – Regret bringing in Liberal government : RULE

2-down – Play in match and be beaten : MACBETH

3-down – Central square? : MIDDLEOFTHEROAD

4-down – More in next race : EXTRA

6-down – Locates refurbished rooms very near… : ATCLOSEQUARTERS

7-down – …Partick, let out after this? : THISTLE

8-down – Large case of wine, fine mixture : PORTFOLIO

11-down – We must get harmful insect : WEEVIL

13-down – Assistant editor and writer contribute money : SUBSCRIBE

15-down – Iron clubs hidden by little girl in grass : FESCUE

17-down – Arrange to go round a US city : SEATTLE

19-down – Clever clogs on walk corrected about length : KNOWALL

21-down – Dump in Channel : DITCH

22-down – Girl on river for a month in Israel? : ADAR

1-across – Kidnap seaman by canal : ABDUCT

4-across – Fainting quickly seizing wife having gin cocktail : SWOONING

9-across – Fungus and natterjacks, say, also found by lake : TOADSTOOL

11-across – Introduce Russian president : PUTIN

12-across – One’s employed during high alert, no Walter Mitty? : REALIST

13-across – Salesman in capital turned back to get a ruler : EMPEROR

14-across – Millions in petrodollars confused certain peers : LORDSTEMPORAL

17-across – Honest description of old-fashioned blonde? : FAIRANDSQUARE

21-across – Set out from Scottish island, extremely game : ARRANGE

22-across – Former partner, fairly large model : EXAMPLE

24-across – Long narrow mark on river vessel : LINER

25-across – Freudians broadcast to get money for a good cause? : FUNDRAISE

26-across – Story one cadet concocted : ANECDOTE

27-across – Girl has little time for wine : CLARET

1-down – Last, in spite of expectations : AFTERALL

2-down – Small drop to drink before opening of Ayckbourn play : DRAMA

3-down – Conspirator has wine brought round rear of chateau : CASSIUS

5-down – Actor in Duck Soup finally brought in after change : WALTERPIDGEON

6-down – Propane exploded? In theory : ONPAPER

7-down – Bury one in a US city among other things : INTERALIA

8-down – Forms army officer left out : GENERA

10-down – Apparently some of those climbing the Eiger may be seen here : ONTHEFACEOFIT

15-down – Respect judge touring North Carolina : REFERENCE

16-down – Strong macho chaps quarantined by doctor : VEHEMENT

18-down – Failed to notice eroding ground : IGNORED

19-down – Find fault with one of 007’s allies : QUARREL

20-down – Trouble had sprung up in plant : DAHLIA

23-down – Earlier convent not completed : PRIOR

1-across – Like some terraced houses, one after the other : BACKTOBACK

6-across – What the burglar took was awfully good : SWAG

10-across – Famous cricketer, first to get run : GRACE

11-across – Odd term to describe identifying mark of artist : REMBRANDT

12-across – To accept or refuse the offer could be the thief’s dilemma : TAKEITORLEAVEIT

13-across – Brilliant essayist visiting hospital department : LAMBENT

15-across – Really try in a series of IOM races : ATHEART

17-across – Play trick on purpose : ENDGAME

19-across – Frankness, and in court! Not quite : CANDOUR

20-across – What bark beetles help to cause, causes the middle to rot : DUTCHELMDISEASE

22-across – Raw, inexperienced youth in new house on outskirts of Ripon : GREENHORN

23-across – Friend in Potsdam, Igor : AMBGO

24-across – Top expert banking millions : ACME

25-across – Holy man in street, Arnold perhaps : STBENEDICT

1-down – A piece pocketed by beautiful woman in game : BAGATELLE

2-down – Work out with expert : CRACK

3-down – The enemy infiltrating the organisation in novel : THETIMEMACHINE

4-down – Fight about pot causes exhaustion : BURNOUT

5-down – Girl with accountant going round a plant : CAMILLA

7-down – Now I began swimming in Wisconsin lake : WINNEBAGO

8-down – Unfairly influenced foolish person to accept tons : GOTAT

9-down – Ordered as nightcap, beer might give one an opportunity to relax : BREATHINGSPACE

14-down – Halfway through, I’d stammer uncontrollably : MIDSTREAM

16-down – Came to be expelled : TURNEDOUT

18-down – Fish – extremely exquisite head of panchax crushed by yobbo : EELPOUT

19-down – Rhythm of exotic dance taped by church : CADENCE

20-down – Follow scholar, teaching : DOGMA

21-down – Excuse used by Mexicali billionaire : ALBII

1-across – Part of wall beginning to bow in strong wind : GABLE

4-across – Summon by a gesture, small number over by stream : BECKON

9-across – Observer getting cold during a protest abroad : SPECTATOR

10-across – Discovered nothing in reserve : FOUND

11-across – Game associated with a round? : RUSSIANROULETTE

12-across – Pirate’s reportedly crude song : CORSAIR

14-across – Revolutionary inside that camouflaged chopper : HATCHET

16-across – Large business transaction gets a scornful response : BIGDEAL

17-across – Former kingdom giving power to republic : PRUSSIA

19-across – Actor in state capital about to rise : MONTGOMERYCLIFT

22-across – Small with a delicate frame, female plunged into river on the way back : ELFIN

23-across – Viral disease initially darkened one’s mood : DISTEMPER

24-across – Very genuine, and extremely lovely : REALLY

25-across – Take care of shark : NURSE

1-down – Abdominal scar – it’s ugly following surgery in the centre : GASTRIC

2-down – Meat dish cooked for gent off-base : BEEFSTROGANOFF

3-down – Set free, former con almost at end of sentence : EXTRICATE

4-down – Mounting check on staff : BATON

5-down – Fish around my island in vessel : CARGOSHIP

6-down – Waste away by a lake : OFFAL

7-down – What Prince Charming had to do in party game? : HUNTTHESLIPPER

8-down – Notice slit in garment is good for appearance : ADVENT

13-down – Character on form, someone worthy of imitation : ROLEMODEL

15-down – Once hurt badly by entrance to nearby club : TRUNCHEON

16-down – Unusually large bouncer : BUMPER

18-down – Goddess attending feast, Artemis : ASTARTE

20-down – Information about an expressive style of music : GENRE

21-down – Easily irritated leader’s dropped, being out of practice : RUSTY

1-across – Ruin course : DISH

3-across – What playwright has to put on vessel : STAGECRAFT

9-across – She served king in original revolution : WREN

10-across – He’s in print cunningly exposing a practical training programme : INTERNSHIP

11-across – Ordinary reserve – one may be full of memorable sayings : COMMONPLACEBOOK

13-across – Onset of stress? Give encouragement to one used to working in the theatre : SURGEON

14-across – One has to be brought in to satisfy composer : SATIE

16-across – Bay on right will give shelter : COVER

17-across – Declare after a century, getting applause : ACCLAIM

20-across – Cliff Richard hit from good show : CONGRATULATIONS

22-across – Started unfolding it, organdie : ORIGINATED

23-across – Girl feeding pygmy rattlesnake : MYRA

24-across – Silly threats involving little baby : SWEETHEART

25-across – First to ring city bank : RELY

1-down – Dispirited county players : DOWNCAST

2-down – Wetsuit in vessel : STEAMER

4-down – Stupid person hung up key for a small kitchen tool : TINOPENER

5-down – Rex enters to receive a girl : GRETA

6-down – Join one section in US state : CONNECTICUT

7-down – An hotel rebuilt in Irish town : ATHLONE

8-down – Kate off to secure work in state capital : TOPEKA

12-down – Frank, composer, must attend court to discover finding : OPENVERDICT

14-down – A trifle in glass? : SMALLBEER

15-down – Young woman, in hectic year, becomes a spy : EMISSARY

16-down – Unrehearsed ending to the comic operetta : CANDIDE

18-down – Assistant in a small company, reportedly mild : ACOLYTE

19-down – A bad-tempered over : ACROSS

21-down – Find leader of travelling people : TRACE