Daily Answers

1-across – Tap mine in greenhouse : COCKPIT

5-across – The sort of drink to give one courage : SPIRIT

10-across – Note about one job gets a sharp reply : RIPOSTE

11-across – Girl ringing home for forgiveness : AMNESTY

12-across – To boldly go . . .? Leave home with five orbiting in it : SPLITINFINITIVE

13-across – Grotesque pile, mansion in US city : MINNEAPOLIS

15-across – Some squirrel monkeys in wood : ELM

17-across – Son, notice, is upset : SAD

19-across – Those supporting motion of UN left a rival organization : ALLINFAVOUR

21-across – Metaphors etc. used in accountant’s talk? : FIGURESOFSPEECH

23-across – Pompous golfer’s second round : OROTUND

24-across – All the players holding an ace in card game : CANASTA

25-across – Attempt to carry object in : TRENDY

26-across – Re-enter spinning region : TERRENE

1-down – Shirt scam spoiled festival : CHRISTMAS

2-down – Pelican managed to get fish : CAPELIN

3-down – Make a collection in Derby? : PASSTHEHATROUND

4-down – Connection has money that is to be invested : TIEIN

6-down – This’ll help to make writer’s point : PENCILSHARPENER

7-down – Break in ceremony involving telepathy : RESPITE

8-down – Bird on the radio suggesting a culinary herb : THYME

9-down – Stop prisoner crossing a stream : CARILLON

14-down – Friend developed ideas for defence work : PALISADE

16-down – Walk quickly, then run quickly after character encountered by Alice : MARCHHARE

18-down – Flower girl following track : DOGROSE

20-down – Supervise remaining bishop’s office : OVERSEE

21-down – Head first : FRONT

22-down – Newspaper’s written about one aspect : FACET

1-across – Holiday postponed? Give over! : LEAVEOFF

5-across – Very silly hat for a daredevil : MADCAP

10-across – Tony, say, a minor under court’s protection : AWARD

11-across – Hurricane at sea could make one more coarse : RAUNCHIER

12-across – Caught by a king : CARRICKFERGUS

14-across – Broadcast by chief, an idiot : AIRHEAD

15-across – A colonist needs to adjust, right? : SETTLER

17-across – Item used in partial payment, rated terribly fashionable : TRADEIN

19-across – Fan, mostly profound about poll : DEVOTEE

21-across – Daily worry about fair part of holiday package, perhaps : CHARTERFLIGHT

24-across – Attractive draw at home against fourth in league : APPEALING

25-across – Nimble porter? Good one inside : AGILE

26-across – Nap in cosiest armchair : SIESTA

27-across – Good man speaks, speaks haltingly : STUTTERS

1-down – Boy may bring post up : LIAM

2-down – Evergreen song about a posh vehicle : ARAUCARIA

3-down – Finish with awfully sore back : ENDORSE

4-down – Dates to be avoided? : FORBIDDENFRUIT

6-down – Very old worker drinking nice bubbly : ANCIENT

7-down – Grasp cold fish : CLING

8-down – Insecticide used in most of district, eco-friendly : PARISGREEN

9-down – Sweet girl the kid shut out : TURKISHDELIGHT

13-down – A Derby winner, a winner with children? : SANTACLAUS

16-down – Litter strewn by one over centre of Bordeaux – take no immediate action : LETITRIDE

18-down – More on court selection : EXTRACT

20-down – Opposing a gift for tramp : VAGRANT

22-down – Liberal representative, no leader : AMPLE

23-down – Famous pianist – she’s playing : HESS

1-across – Edit raunchy writer : BLUEPENCIL

6-across – Ring up over second musical composition : OPUS

9-across – Choppy, swelling at end of quay : LUMPY

10-across – Think through in study after daughter’s left son unconscious : REASONOUT

12-across – Girl, one acting in a servile way in plant : VIRGINIACREEPER

13-across – Place of great activity in region around the North : ARENA

14-across – Round of applause in Oval out of place after Surrey’s start : SALVO

18-across – Boy, James, is given nothing new : JASON

19-across – Advertise opening of trendy bar : TRAIL

22-across – A top Etruscan, I am cast in Much Ado About Nothing : ASTORMINATEACUP

24-across – Get to work on time serving temporarily? : MAKESHIFT

25-across – Caught in home game, last in series : OMEGA

26-across – Habitual grumbler in Noah’s first vessel : NARK

27-across – Supported Italian child in London district : SHOREDITCH

1-down – Black girl to note, one from La Paz? : BOLIVIAN

2-down – Relatively expensive in the city bazaar : UPMARKET

3-down – Exercises with Yanks after medical : PHYSICALJERKS

4-down – Unfortunate Russian’s catching cold in plant : NARCISSUS

5-down – Sarah’s son lives next to a Bill : ISAAC

7-down – Quick walk along seafront before gym : PROMPT

8-down – A Roman god could make it go round : SATURN

11-down – What a saloon bar may serve a saloon car owner, finally? : ONEFORTHEROAD

15-down – House on the River Lune : LANCASTER

16-down – Knowing, in one quarter, to provide campaign funds : WARCHEST

17-down – Couple of strikes, disorganized : SLAPDASH

20-down – Comic strip character, a servant : BATMAN

21-down – The writer to arouse bit of revulsion : STOKER

23-down – Native to Erin, flower found on top of hill : IRISH

1-across – Manservant, extremely jealous about Frenchman, reportedly : JEAVES

5-across – Thanks poet for sleeveless tunic : TABARD

10-across – Result of burning wood? : ASH

11-across – Petty to conceal TV : SMALLSCREEN

12-across – Religious ceremony, in US state capital, cut short : SACRAMENT

13-across – Spotted back there tipping her refuse : WASTE

15-across – Irresponsible friends knocked over dwarf : SLAPHAPPY

17-across – Solicitor catching river fish : TROUT

18-across – Bishop imprisoned by one of Adam’s sons in hut : CABIN

19-across – He tears up choppy river : EUPHRATES

22-across – Almost typical of girl : NORMA

23-across – US actor arrived in past accompanied by extra : BARRYMORE

25-across – Bilbao, for example, a capital city : PORTOFSPAIN

27-across – The head, eccentric type : NUT

28-across – Lack of interest in a course at start of year : APATHY

29-across – Pay offers unfortunately rejected on railway : SALARY

2-down – Ring and check warning light in part of recording studio? : ECHOCHAMBER

3-down – View held by recidivist, alarmingly : VISTA

4-down – Come along with figure on horseback : SHAPEUP

5-down – Writer changed lots in play : TOLSTOY

6-down – Second Adam’s ale in isolated spot : BACKWATER

7-down – Type of whisky or vintage port? : RYE

8-down – Some Alaskans associated with another state : KANSAS

9-down – Batting order in cricket, perhaps : INSECT

14-down – Free hit in game from tight angle : SHORTCORNER

16-down – Suspend a fight? Wait a minute! : HANGABOUT

18-down – Parrot circling an awning : CANOPY

19-down – English singer inside my diplomatic residence : EMBASSY

20-down – Patrols ground and gates : PORTALS

21-down – Detective is quiet about playing lute : SLEUTH

24-down – Film still capturing knight on lake : YENTL

26-down – Sort of music that gets one spellbound? Not quite : RAP

1-across – Devastated as rich mother makes personal appeal : CHARISMA

5-across – A place attended by unruly mob – coolness is required : APLOMB

10-across – Act of bravado involving a single slug? : RUSSIANROULETTE

11-across – Deliberately set fire to church by rocky peak : TORCH

12-across – Republic created by Romanians following revolution : SANMARINO

13-across – Sailor only gets one shellfish : ABALONE

14-across – Noble Italian family associated with very laid back girl loved by Pip : ESTELLA

16-across – Terribly ironic about son cutting tooth : INCISOR

18-across – Famous actor, one appearing in musical! : OLIVIER

20-across – A tripper crashed heading for yonder county : TIPPERARY

22-across – Poet in Pembroke, at shop : KEATS

23-across – Declaration about split in government agency : STATEDEPARTMENT

25-across – French girl requires doctor, we hear, after onset of yaws : YVETTE

26-across – Treachery by Earl at battles? : BETRAYAL

1-down – Restrain, for the most part, surly mongrel dog : CUR

2-down – For instance, country in ancient kingdom : ASSYRIA

3-down – Seaweed girl and husband found by bog : IRISHMOSS

4-down – Bird that might give ram/ewes anthrax : MANXSHEARWATER

6-down – US president has a dance : POLKA

7-down – Old special train driver, inexperienced on the road, is being tested : ONTRIAL

8-down – Awful noise abuser in capital : BUENOSAIRES

9-down – Modern laywomen going off into the past? : DOWNMEMORYLANE

11-down – Thai so tasty – specially cooked, in other words : THATISTOSAY

15-down – Conman, rotten critter going round Kansas : TRICKSTER

17-down – Two coppers with fish, head cut off – baked item : CUPCAKE

19-down – I may, concealing German statues etc. : IMAGERY

21-down – Affair in flat with leader of Tories : EVENT

24-down – Chess champion held by Italian : TAL