Daily Answers

8-across – One’s inclined to find woes breaking skin : HILLSIDE

9-across – Muslim leader harbouring Greek leader, English one settling abroad : EMIGRE

10-across – A bird fighting vigorously : ATIT

11-across – Contrived Latin epics that may be manipulated : PLASTICINE

12-across – Last runner, last : ENDURE

14-across – See 2 : MACHINES

15-across – Time the budget airline man cut back, ladies and gentlemen : TOILETS

17-across – Not entirely sincere, bravado for thinkers : CEREBRA

20-across – Prudent to mind the step these days : SPACEAGE

22-across – Old money put in something round : PESETA

23-across – Sea lane’s choice of fish or meat? : MAINCOURSE

24-across – Horseman sweet on golfer : POLO

25-across – Cruel cut ending in divorce : SEVERE

26-across – School’s head examiner turns in poor performance, ultimately : NITNURSE

1-down – Games people play in Japan to keep mean : NINTENDO

2-down – Foolishly cash lost in ’em? : SLOT

3-down – Face depression with thick stick, nothing less : DIMPLE

4-down – Bloody Mary cocktail for Russian troops : REDARMY

5-down – Ball — select it at random : TESTICLE

6-down – Vindictive quality born with irritation : BITCHINESS

7-down – Yucky stuff about right for ’80s music genre? : GRUNGE

13-down – Illegal, having nested regularly in 26’s description of a clear head? : UNLICENSED

16-down – Source of milk the intestine’s skimmed, so drier : TEATOWEL

18-down – Brutal, lying decapitated : RUTHLESS

19-down – Fish finger has it for the bride? : HERRING

21-down – See 24 across : PLAYER

22-down – Quickly put last of vinegar in sauce : PRESTO

24-down – Stop to raise drink : PLUG

1-across – Man maybe clutching piano made of wood : MAPLE

4-across – Pickle these days eaten by soldier-sailor … : MARINADE

8-across – … the body of whom, on Monday, maybe with backing of science, has four laws : THERMODYNAMICS

10-across – Being without gun is way out : EXISTENT

11-across – Summons gets man to squirm : WRITHE

12-across – It is cargo used for a rave : ORGIASTIC

15-across – Jargon of monarch who starts with early music : CANTO

17-across – See 15 : FERMO

18-across – Very happy about Spanish relative being pale : ETIOLATED

19-across – No gentleman among spies is a chirpy creature : CICADA

21-across – County embracing software finds jewel : SAPPHIRE

24-across – Blue feathers retained by landfill sites : DOWNINTHEDUMPS

25-across – Feature purloined — nothing short of criminal : UNDERLIP

26-across – Provide for Macduff? : LAYON

1-down – Down to earth stuff removed from performance : MATTEROFFACT

2-down – Film director no good in top job : PREMINGER

3-down – Insect came across setter getting up first : EMMET

4-down – Shop girl finds eating area on the road : MIDINETTE

5-down – Grade the film magnate : RANK

6-down – Heath, after miners left, gives an order : NUMERICAL

7-down – The cost of education? : DUCAT

9-down – You must be Eve! : SECONDPERSON

13-down – Escape in Paris nearly to have a ball? : AVOIDANCE

14-down – No place for bull in tree covered with sack : CHINASHOP

16-down – Crazy one and crazy many for gathering : NUTSINMAY

20-down – Bird on pole as royal symbol : CROWN

22-down – Ring round top of digit requires lever : PEDAL

23-down – Indigo is a nothing : ANIL

1-across – Endless alcohol added to the cold mixed drink : HOTCHOCOLATE

8-across – City managed to continue : RANGOON

9-across – Rose proves less than coherent speaker : RAMBLER

11-across – Get a grip on girl’s head in support of ritual murder : THUGGEE

12-across – Bitter : TRABANT

13-across – Invest last bit of revenue in cream : BESET

14-across – Tourist and prophet pursuing vision : SIGHTSEER

16-across – Home team in not entirely recent reshuffle : RESIDENCE

19-across – Bird is good in bed : PIPIT

21-across – About time to adopt compiler’s candidate : NOMINEE

23-across – One cretin floundering near the coast : NERITIC

24-across – Attempt to match bird no longer with us : EMULATE

25-across – Shed is en voyage in colour : IRIDISE

26-across – Interrogate and masticate, independently entering Devil’s Province : SASKATCHEWAN

1-down – Type of degree obtained during working hours? On the contrary : HONOURS

2-down – Bright idea, albeit Diderot’s last : THOUGHT

3-down – Female’s male progeny welcoming death of Bellow’s hero : HENDERSON

4-down – He painted avian bearing right : COROT

5-down – Pan of meat and wine I dropped : LAMBAST

6-down – Farm work for the pre-senescent? : TILLAGE

7-down – It sticks out of rolled gold pipe stuck into strut : PROTUBERANCE

10-down – Cuter knitter producing something to get one thither and hither : RETURNTICKET

15-down – Novice hag wasting time where it’s monitored? : GREENWICH

17-down – A youngster, by degrees, raised drink : SAMBUCA

18-down – Country retreat given notice : DENMARK

19-down – Scope to wire up 5, ineptly : PURVIEW

20-down – Oracular snake dropping round for 1A? : PYTHIAN

22-down – Hard up? : ERECT

8-across – Cold bird, one might say, is the issue … : CHILDREN

9-across – See 10 : YOUNG

10-across – … Bird among women shortly, going to jug, each of you no good — in our 17 : WHEN

11-across – See 10 : WEWEREVERY

12-across – Sheep or goat’s royal request in 10 11 9 : BUTTER

14-across – Very good article on candied stalks : ANGELICA

15-across – Information is given by volunteers after they follow 2 with broom : GENISTA

17-across – First stage at home for the Dream? : INFANCY

20-across – Put it on trestles to make pill work : TABLETOP

22-across – Hypocrite’s movement? : CANTER

23-across – Society thief, maybe either 24 : SPECULATOR

24-across – Have 8 to tolerate : BEAR

25-across – One with swimming ability more exaggerated? : OTTER

26-across – Unique, unlike the upper house : PEERLESS

1-down – A case of up sticks, man, in old solver’s mansion — bear with monopoly : THEHOUSE

2-down – God includes student in scheme : PLAN

3-down – Author of work of reference dealing with malt etc : BREWER

4-down – Impermanent character, legendary if offensive : SNOWMAN

5-down – Bad dog Henry, periodic 20 : HYDROGEN

6-down – Exceed in wickedness : OUTVILLAIN

7-down – Mushroom made of silver has one getting a lot of money : AGARIC

13-down – Stumble on fib about pet : TRIPLICATE

16-down – Guardian’s attempt to hide note on drink going up : TUTELARY

18-down – Split in the church which holds minister an idiot : CREVASSE

19-down – Final comment serves to keep it a philosophical issue : EPITAPH

21-down – See 1 : ATPOOH

22-down – See 1 : CORNER

24-down – Sign in the centre : BULL

8-across – Dirty animal having to go off among vile waste : SEWERRAT

9-across – Incarnation putting a tax on skinned hare : AVATAR

10-across – Show off 24 across : CROW

11-across – Study of The Beast done with gloomy cryptic : DEMONOLOGY

12-across – Predatory mammal, paws taking in rivers : FERRET

14-across – Those tending mules, say — or 24 down? : COBBLERS

15-across – Caught by bat, hear this, fundamentally : ATHEART

17-across – Cat reserving books by Conservative elder statesman : CLINTON

20-across – Mongrel can live west of a European city : VALENCIA

22-across – 24 across — pig : GANNET

23-across – Product of a chicken may be blest with food, I suspect : SOFTBOILED

24-across – Creature’s time in cage : BIRD

25-across – Champion, popular horse : HEROIN

26-across – Live more like a savage fox : BEWILDER

1-down – Cow drinking last of lager set off for drinking event : BEERFEST

2-down – Comment from cat, or setter — something bit me? : MEOW

3-down – Swallow etc, 24 across less black, perhaps : CREDIT

4-down – Bear put cat in bag with tail of fish : STOMACH

5-down – Originally Hurt, obsessively tidy, screening writer’s part for The Elephant Man : HANNIBAL

6-down – Tell 9 bats about sailor getting material on board : TABLELINEN

7-down – Animal : BADGER

13-down – Members may seek this angling equipment — notice fishy on the end : REELECTION

16-down – Animals finding company in fruit, moving right to the surface : RACCOONS

18-down – Duck close to the sea, a limb short : ONEARMED

19-down – Animal, ass eating headless fish : WALLABY

21-down – Time to support one entertaining very old 24 across : AVOCET

22-down – Dog now barking, seeing drop : GODOWN

24-down – Animal’s hogwash : BULL