Daily Answers

1-across – Pick up line provided by team’s leader : LIFT

3-across – Vehicle with particular floor covering : CARPET

10-across – Young actress the Spanish upset during opening : STARLET

11-across – Row of houses – create changes involving first in row : TERRACE

12-across – Who, say, could be in favour of sister accepting ring offered by brother, perhaps? : RELATIVEPRONOUN

13-across – Market town in Britain, once desecrated : BRECON

14-across – Type of pate that may be got from goose fair : FOIEGRAS

17-across – I’m stopping boy identifying an element : ANTIMONY

18-across – Watch fire in western half of Bucks town : BEACON

20-across – Stopping train for girls’ college : FINISHINGSCHOOL

23-across – British writer published quite a few : RANSOME

24-across – Bridge player leads as row becomes more unpleasant : NASTIER

25-across – Senility demonstrated by magistrate imprisoning volunteers : DOTAGE

26-across – Try reflecting about giant : OGRE

1-down – Type of printer that’s turned up in fire sale : LASER

2-down – At sea, fault inelegant aide-de-camp : FLAGLIEUTENANT

4-down – Mobile busy? : ACTIVE

5-down – Accommodate person of great patience in a fix : PUTUPJOB

6-down – Body temperature, approximately : TORSO

7-down – Declared policy from rostrum : PLATFORM

8-down – Time to fulfil one’s obligations in any foreign dock after repair : DAYOFRECKONING

9-down – English poet, one avoiding stress round New York : TENNYSON

13-down – Unpleasant around river crossing industrial city : BRADFORD

15-down – Use train : EXERCISE

16-down – Police unit manhandled ten after fashionable event : INCIDENT

19-down – Urge almost gone over drink : EGGNOG

21-down – Chide son, lacking in affection : SCOLD

22-down – Generous lager poured out : LARGE

1-across – Important person of considerable size – former politician, we hear : BIGWIG

4-across – He gets in new bedding material : SHEETING

9-across – Almost all in team love the French language : CREOLE

10-across – Woman, teacher originally, is a strict disciplinarian : MARTINET

12-across – Antiperspirant, too darned smelly! : DEODORANT

13-across – Good aboard simple canal boat : BARGE

14-across – Dish was terrible when dished out round hospital : WELSHRAREBIT

18-across – Cunning stunt hurt cad in aggressive competition : CUTANDTHRUST

21-across – Put up beams, noisily : RAISE

22-across – Secretary brings in an order holding a cigar : PANATELLA

24-across – Girl falls in London station : VICTORIA

25-across – Minister in study, entertaining company after drop of alcohol : DEACON

26-across – Pay for one’s English paper : TREATISE

27-across – Judge, note, having no time for physician : JENNER

1-down – Defender unhappy to admit defeat : BACKDOWN

2-down – Greek getting close to one magnificent French city : GRENOBLE

3-down – One mostly dark house : IGLOO

5-down – Moving direction during trial : HEARTRENDING

6-down – Show form : ESTABLISH

7-down – Disregard poor region : IGNORE

8-down – First of galleons, say, in Channel? : GUTTER

11-down – Crazy about port with desserts : BANANASPLITS

15-down – Handle snake that’s got inside very warm vessel : HOUSEBOAT

16-down – Landlord’s widely known – a name : PUBLICAN

17-down – Before completion of repair, insert a different filter : STRAINER

19-down – Wager about minister getting a military commission : BREVET

20-down – Ring cleric for a change : CIRCLE

23-down – Article on extremely mundane subject : THEME

1-across – Shrub in brush : BROOM

4-across – Are they used by upwardly mobile skiers? : CABLECARS

9-across – Recent convert? That’s made clear to me : LATECOMER

10-across – Smoke good one returning in vehicle : CIGAR

11-across – Heels were broken in another place : ELSEWHERE

12-across – Council – not all gassy, no doubt : SYNOD

13-across – Locum’s posting is suspect, indicates journalist : GOSSIPCOLUMNIST

17-across – The Parisienne may be taken in by ridiculous income tax assessment!? : EXCLAMATIONMARK

18-across – Run after pass from Maradona? : DIEGO

19-across – Nuts in batch seem unsavoury : BEECHMAST

22-across – Bill artist for port : ACCRA

23-across – Vehicle, say, entering race that’s written about : ESTATECAR

24-across – Novel cricketing term for a Gothamite : NEWYORKER

25-across – Louts destroyed plant : LOTUS

1-down – Bird dog biting a lord : BALDEAGLE

2-down – Porridge, we hear, for conspirator : OATES

3-down – Parrot beginning to mimic a sound associated with a crow : MACAW

4-down – One may interrupt a programme popular on holiday : COMMERCIALBREAK

5-down – Touch Queen’s favourite sheep? : BORDERLEICESTER

6-down – Six menace bewildered former government agent : EXCISEMAN

7-down – Conductor beheaded in a South American country : ARGENTINA

8-down – Cut up rough at first, in lean-to : SHRED

14-down – Saying about Conservative in the belief one’s above criticism? : SACREDCOW

15-down – Italian lover, in his capital, turned up at opening of Othello : INAMORATO

16-down – To transport acts, share the driving, say : TAKETURNS

18-down – Sewer, initially dry, before the wet weather : DRAIN

20-down – Place to say, new, on outskirts of Eccleshall : HOTEL

21-down – Company in a street in Berkshire : ASCOT

1-across – Responsible for worker being late : BEHINDHAND

6-across – Content of the picture Ben Hur, say : EPIC

10-across – What movement of timer could be worth : MERIT

11-across – Gourmet may be tense after examination in German city : BONVIVANT

12-across – Drink wine second : SUPPORT

13-across – End of the article, in part, backed girl : ELEANOR

14-across – Pop song, ‘Dead End Street’? : ROADTONOWHERE

17-across – Male with two small sons entering such a state, possibly the Bay State : MASSACHUSETTS

21-across – Bird, duck, included in list : ROOSTER

23-across – Paint a picture of fish by harbour : PORTRAY

24-across – Not the sort of drink you’d want in the jungle? : SNAKEBITE

25-across – Plant in southern border : SEDGE

26-across – Adult novel develops in a different way : ANEW

27-across – King muttered mysteriously about large percussion instrument : KETTLEDRUM

1-down – Confuse married American during social gathering : BEMUSE

2-down – Her book on capital generated by plant : HERBPARIS

3-down – Is one expected to stand for it? : NATIONALANTHEM

4-down – Home from a short spell in Panama? : HABITAT

5-down – Fabric having a fine edge after Anns embroidery : NANKEEN

7-down – Simple map I found enclosed : PLAIN

8-down – Exclusive groups, terribly esoteric : COTERIES

9-down – Novel rich wise editor revised : CIDERWITHROSIE

15-down – Film good-natured jockey : EASYRIDER

16-down – Delicious food in bar? I am so mistaken : AMBROSIA

18-down – Emma, for example, needs two drugs : HEROINE

19-down – Sip neat rum – that’s wise? : SAPIENT

20-down – My clue involved a college : LYCEUM

22-down – A hero around Chicago airport : OHARE

1-across – Very fine one, a capital city : SOFIA

4-across – Occasionally available in a little Square in New York City? : SOMETIMES

9-across – Spoil artist put in lodgings for festival : MARDIGRAS

10-across – Element causing trouble among our sailors : RADON

11-across – End endless pain, getting treatment for complaint : PINSANDNEEDLES

13-across – Poem and piece of music heard : RONDEAU

15-across – Get the better of other ranks in the open air : OUTDOOR

16-across – One used by downhill racers on their way to the top? : SKILIFT

18-across – Most of team must, suffering changes : MUTATES

20-across – Film barrister attending hostile meeting : BRIEFENCOUNTER

23-across – Well-known record, Dylan’s first : NOTED

24-across – Dance master, a bright star : BOSSANOVA

25-across – More than one itinerant in street waves : STROLLERS

26-across – Western city to avoid : DODGE

1-down – House over in Lime Street : SEMI

2-down – Senior politician from abroad, clergyman : FOREIGNMINISTER

3-down – A series under discussion : ATISSUE

4-down – Father’s name for a fascinating woman : SIREN

5-down – Give incorrect gen to short schoolgirl in class : MISINFORM

6-down – Una drops out of sporting competition in agony : TORMENT

7-down – Moderate fielder had to do, running after last of them : MIDDLEOFTHEROAD

8-down – Female singer showing tension, appearing after boy, leader of group : SONGSTRESS

12-down – A warning sign? Meet with doctor : CROSSBONES

14-down – Let a nun be maltreated? That’s indefensible : UNTENABLE

17-down – Sceptical in chess federation over Lasker’s opening : INFIDEL

19-down – Terriers drank rum with pot : TANKARD

21-down – Drop of ouzo when one’s in watering hole : OASIS

22-down – About to take off cloak : CAPE