Daily Answers

1-across – Trump his various victories : TRIUMPHS

5-across – Put an end to northerner attending church : SCOTCH

9-across – Stand motionless a long time : STILLAGE

10-across – A quicker route? Take a special turn by river : RATRUN

11-across – Overturn revolting object : UPEND

12-across – Pole tires on Welsh river : FLAGSTAFF

14-across – Climber in brilliant red, one carrying a message : SCARLETRUNNER

17-across – Painting of distraught hapless putter : THELASTSUPPER

21-across – Essential facts given by bald doctor : BAREBONES

23-across – Severely criticise the Spanish jury : PANEL

24-across – Cat could be coolest when there’s no sun : OCELOT

25-across – Rich source of oil furthermore includes diamonds : WELLTODO

26-across – Paying close attention to something out at golf : NOTING

27-across – TV series to kick off on the subject of potassium : STARTREK

1-down – Subject for discussion after commencement of television series : TISSUE

2-down – Hostility shown by large company head : ICINESS

3-down – Play short tune, hit by American originally : MELODRAMA

4-down – Pompous drunk’s fault, breaking in : HIGHFALUTIN

6-down – Clubs girl in form : CLASS

7-down – Turtle avoiding soft piece of ground : TERRAIN

8-down – Deck conflagration? Hold back : HANGFIRE

13-down – Stuarts are assembled round top of historic Edinburgh landmark : ARTHURSSEAT

15-down – Disliked a French university cutting tree : UNPOPULAR

16-down – Dogged English painter docked on about the third of March : STUBBORN

18-down – Solemn promise : EARNEST

19-down – Managed to provoke endless bitterness : RANCOUR

20-down – Aviators crow, back on ground round centre of Ireland : ALCOCK

22-down – See 20 : BROWN

1-across – Takes for granted while South American accommodates me : ASSUMES

5-across – Tried it? Politician was first : SAMPLED

9-across – Natural at spinning, a spider : TARANTULA

10-across – First light and star’s out of bed : SUNUP

11-across – Unexpected treasures sought in reference book : ROGETSTHESAURAS

12-across – Released group without charge : SETFREE

13-across – Goods about to be placed in box : FREIGHT

15-across – Work across extremely lofty face of major mountain : OLYMPUS

17-across – Headstrong type, easily made angry by principal : HOTHEAD

19-across – US army officer in fräulein’s tent playing with it : FIRSTLIEUTENANT

22-across – Something to raise spirits? Yes, used in France and Germany : OUIJA

23-across – Worn as a penance by beast with rishi, possibly, inside : HAIRSHIRT

24-across – Go back with registrar on steamship : REGRESS

25-across – Grandmother eager to acquire cotton cloth : NANKEEN

1-down – Film star in part : ACTOR

2-down – Agile and artful seizing power? Correct : SPRIGHTLY

3-down – Security camera shows fool breaking anchor : MONITOR

4-down – Have views about awful quarters round centre of Seattle where there’s adverse possession : SQUATTERSRIGHTS

5-down – President’s address? : STATEOFTHEUNION

6-down – See 5 : MESSAGE

7-down – Cable on river vessel : LINER

8-down – Penny, old model, caught in act and put away : DEPOSITED

12-down – Last of contractors to fly over to knock down part of factory : SHOPFLOOR

14-down – Popular as an ingredient of pineapple syrup : GRENADINE

16-down – Breaking the tape, something that one especially dislikes : PETHATE

18-down – Time and cause of betrayal : TREASON

20-down – Call about superior feeling remorse : RUING

21-down – Giant bird given a name : TITAN

1-across – Where one may gamble – in clubs when in centre of Scarborough : CASINO

4-across – Very attractive talented girl inside : ADORABLE

9-across – A foe’s first attack makes one scared : AFRAID

10-across – Insinuation made by union worried about result : INNUENDO

12-across – Train in club on gymnastic apparatus : IRONHORSE

13-across – Groom’s attire : DRESS

14-across – Type of horse race female gambles on : MAIDENSTAKES

18-across – Celebrities outside bank near the seashore with a flag : STARSANDBARS

21-across – Row on river making for ship : LINER

22-across – Civic dignitary in sick room, lady, Radical’s leader : LORDMAYOR

24-across – Shirley Temple film – star, no sailor, is on tug on holiday : STOWAWAY

25-across – Silly keeping piece of slipware, cracked : INSANE

26-across – Aide-memoire about bodyguard : REMINDER

27-across – Extremely clever to revise trust : CREDIT

1-down – Daily, one’s mother shows a special personal quality : CHARISMA

2-down – Lecturer – one in car’s frightfully sneering : SARDONIC

3-down – New hinge, a nicker : NEIGH

5-down – Steps associated with the grim reaper? : DANSEMACABRE

6-down – Supporter of Parliament’s plump leader : ROUNDHEAD

7-down – Girl clothed by British flag : BANNER

8-down – Girl in pop group is on Ecstasy : ELOISE

11-down – Announcement to journalists in crowd about lake facility : PRESSRELEASE

15-down – Come in and volunteers at home cheer : ENTERTAIN

16-down – In a state, see husband and daughter crossing a railway line : MARYLAND

17-down – Hungry? Tureen is prepared : ESURIENT

19-down – Constant failure is denser : CLOSER

20-down – Popular character is playing well : INFORM

23-down – Little-known part of domino rules : MINOR

1-across – Put down game : SQUASH

4-across – Bill in pub engaged in card game : BACCARAT

9-across – Large bottle in vehicle next to youth : CARBOY

10-across – Headline – ‘King on board vessel’ : STREAMER

11-across – Promising band? : ENGAGEMENTRING

14-across – Article’s helpful hint concerning an hors d’oeuvre : ANTIPASTO

15-across – Slice wedge a bit : PIECE

16-across – Fish reportedly in rear : RAISE

19-across – Forthright ditch worker : TRENCHANT

22-across – Film historic RAF foe flying : CHARIOTSOFFIRE

24-across – Printed data difficult to photostat : HARDCOPY

25-across – Charm made out of iron – it’s awfully hard : FETISH

26-across – Elected Conservative is protecting ambassador, according to the assumed facts : INTHEORY

27-across – Dozing when cover is pulled back : ASLEEP

1-down – Cabinet may disclose a confidence with a keen resentment : SECRETAIRE

2-down – Just a piano : UPRIGHT

3-down – Temporary bar opening : STOPGAP

5-down – Theme park owner last to set off : ALTONTOWERS

6-down – Get better iron out : CLEARUP

7-down – Love affair beginning in remote country church : ROMANCE

8-down – End call : TERM

12-down – Freebooter, so promoters broadcast : MOSSTROOPER

13-down – Follow article about hard work, or be dismissed : GETTHECHOP

17-down – Come into home with her and Italian : INHERIT

18-down – Incessant complaining from a girl, mostly after end of case : EARACHE

20-down – Supply of funds Conservative provides : COFFERS

21-down – Stubborn, like one elected in north-east : ASININE

23-down – Language used by Hiawatha – Iroquoian? : THAI

1-across – Take back nectar, possibly : RECANT

5-across – Second to best one causes great amusement : SCREAM

8-across – Man, perhaps, could make offer that includes gym : BIPED

9-across – Reach the required standard in test at university : MEASUREUP

11-across – US city architect meeting trouble in outskirts of Venice : NASHVILLE

12-across – Country home, one in withdrawn ad : INDIA

13-across – At one, try suspect officer, legal officer : ATTORNEYGENERAL

16-across – Formula One driver’s form of exercise? : CIRCUITTRAINING

19-across – American, long time in employment : USAGE

21-across – Steersman at sea, in a muddle : MARESNEST

23-across – Secretive contract, organised carefully : TIGHTKNIT

24-across – Pot plant : GRASS

25-across – Surveying instrument not able to highlight celestial body : PLANET

26-across – Excursion abroad in rear of tug : OUTING

2-down – Interpreter showing model round top of rotunda : EXPOSITOR

3-down – New town development also finished : ANDOVER

4-down – Language from male in the rear : TAMIL

5-down – Son caught by one trying to get his own back, a sweeper? : SCAVENGER

6-down – Social gathering in Rouen to be rearranged : REUNION

7-down – A principal forward : AHEAD

8-down – Rely on a Conservative nobleman for a possible source of funds : BANKACCOUNT

10-down – Blessed legate prays for entry to paradise : PEARLYGATES

14-down – Cafe site meant for reconstruction : ESTAMINET

15-down – Cause a noisy disturbance in lift, one in prison : RAISECAIN

17-down – Left undefeated, though bowled out? : UNEATEN

18-down – Enlightenment? In a sense : INSIGHT

20-down – Michelangelo’s financial backer : ANGEL

22-down – Allowance cut in proportion : RATIO