Daily Answers

9-across – Longing in Italian song lost in translation : NOSTALGIA

10-across – Boo Haydn piece? He might, in retrospect : YAHOO

11-across – Stick with this career, building electric organ : CLINGTO

12-across – Either way, lead soprano opens pianissimo during horn blast : TOPSPOT

13-across – In this Wagner’s at last at home with 8’s overture : RING

14-across – Corner boy and jazz leader Bilk grabs instrument : JACKHORNER

15-across – Doh! Mozart’s right for Dutch city : UTRECHT

17-across – Moi? Play vibrato in a London venue? : OLYMPIA

19-across – So 5’s last seen about to hug bodyguard, creating ill feelings : SICKNESSES

22-across – Tonight’s the last one for millions : PROM

23-across – Simultaneously in the past bum note intruded : ATONEGO

24-across – More content in 14’s sweet outstanding harp variation : HAPPIER

26-across – Crowd’s singing extract from Czech anthem : CHANT

27-across – Strange non-U murmur and honk emerging from it? : KRUMMHORN

1-down – See 25 : ANDCIRCUMSTANCE

2-down – He puts over title song and airs, moving like Italian man : ASSIGNOR

3-down – Archbishop repeatedly playing 7 tonight : LANG

4-down – Unaware 13’s remix comprised another worker : IGNORANT

5-down – Composer tonight to put in husky voice : BARTOK

6-down – My Schubert opening lifted fake US work : SYMPHONY

7-down – Cabbie’s initial invitation for composer tonight? : CHOPIN

8-down – A gent got furious with drummer in last part of 13 : GOTTERDAMMERUNG

16-down – In agreement with 13 there’s one by Liszt tonight : CONCERTO

17-down – Finished tonight’s main venue’s acoustic repairs? : OVERHAUL

18-down – Left in charge by very large, grand entrances … : PORTICOS

20-down – … about every hour in Beethoven’s Ninth 6 : CHORAL

21-down – Sorry for resurrecting heartless key — it’s weird : SPOOKY

25-down – One of tonight’s regulars makes one compact disc per annum : POMP

1-across – Explorer John heading off to the west on journey to see island : TOBAGO

4-across – See 19 : YELLOW

9-across – Still standing character, elusive beast : YETI

10-across – Stabbed from the right, a politician critical : DEROGATORY

11-across – Harsh cricket side confronting opener : OFFKEY

12-across – John’s John didn’t lie when condemned : CANDLEIN

13-across – Force of life with droopy nuts getting treatment down below : CHIROPODY

15-across – See 19 : ROAD

16-across – The biter bit : TICK

17-across – Those not out are unable to walk after bowled : BLACKLEGS

21-across – One passing on information concerned with French leader — sinner, might you say? : REFERRER

22-across – Result, finished effort : UPSHOT

24-across – Small mice at sea, scattering — seeing this? : SIAMESECAT

25-across – The assassin’s assassin in a shade of red : RUBY

26-across – John’s in deal that’s dodgy : DANIEL

27-across – Knitting pattern barely grasped, a stretch when spinning : ARGYLE

1-down – Time passed quickly, held up by the incomplete ordinal : TWELFTH

2-down – See 19 : BRICK

3-down – Unsteady on a horse, encouragement given to it? : GIDDYUP

5-down – Motor home finally, beginning to glide into square : ENGINE

6-down – Tit well off with old tailless bird : LITTLEOWL

7-down – Outstanding grammar ultimately, weirdo’s imperfect tense : WORRIED

8-down – John’s getting stick reading Reptile at every bite? : CROCODILEROCK

14-down – John’s John Glenn, perhaps? : ROCKETMAN

16-down – See 12 : THEWIND

18-down – Token reply : COUNTER

19-down – John’s Hello Emerald City? : GOODBYE

20-down – Fish starts to weaken, riding on the high seas : WRASSE

23-down – John’s most challenging word, it seems: not entirely kind, really hollow : SORRY

7-across – One not necessarily looking to buy a tanker without resistance : BROWSER

8-across – Jar from pub, steeped in exotic aroma : AMPHORA

9-across – 0.25 of a yard by 1.25 yards, being hollow : DELL

10-across – First of the invading Mohicans changing into outer wear : MACINTOSH

12-across – Tree potentially provides answer — hard growth : ACORN

13-across – Local party takes Rouen — alternative backed out slur : INNUENDO

15-across – Work round infected matter : OPUS

16-across – One that descended to inspire a physicist to invest money in booze? : APPLE

17-across – Chanel’s chief unfashionably fashionable flaw : CHIP

18-across – Explosive heard burying fighting tanks, missiles etc : HARDWARE

20-across – Utter failure, Jamie’s last dessert : BOMBE

21-across – Scruffy sitcom character wants new hospital department part : COMPONENT

22-across – Symbol, which a fraudster might own : ICON

24-across – Rocky argued about Penny being a better model? : UPGRADE

25-across – Leave head’s unwelcome visitors outside NEC complex : LICENCE

1-down – Forfeit, not attack, fish : ORFE

2-down – Birds roll from side to side in swaying sycamore tops : SWALLOWS

3-down – Broken arm nursed by blokes he’s tailed : MERMAN

4-down – Controversial artist with little money, powerless to achieve distinction : EMINENCE

5-down – Plate showing Church of Rome losing half of its members, consecutively : CHROME

6-down – Cheeky formality — no way : ARCH

11-down – Crepe woven with article-free Milan fabric : CRIMPLENE

12-down – As a most radiant star might be pursued by male : ALPHA

14-down – Rubbish left out for chauffeur : DRIVE

16-down – Moreover, securing a prisoner with a snake : ANACONDA

17-down – Crossword setter? Agreeable type switching two adjacent letters : COMPILER

19-down – Affectedly modest object : DEMURE

20-down – Nevertheless, can interrupt : BUTTIN

21-down – Elevated room without energy limits : CAPS

23-down – Topless beefcake poser’s wear that hurt? : OUCH

1-across – Rock turning to fragments: new pictures : BIGSCREEN

6-across – In which good shots come out with boodle and girl, and poor with hearse : HORSE

9-across – See 6 : OPERA

10-across – Junction where Brits get back with Italian 6 9 : SPAGHETTI

11-across – Short run on 22 part 1 at home among sorrows : MINISERIES

12-across – 4 due to give tongue : URDU

14-across – Pinch a bit : SNAFFLE

15-across – Being larger than 1 across there’s room for cuts here : THEATRE

17-across – Quiet quirky queer student in sort of flashback : PREQUEL

19-across – See 10 : WESTERN

20-across – I agree with article about myself : AMEN

22-across – Fight for chocolate cake with picture maker : BOXBROWNIE

25-across – Physician, posh one with a degree, one for 1 across or 22 part 1 : DOCUDRAMA

26-across – What happens to English when blower is French : EVENT

27-across – Stop inside : COLON

28-across – Ill and without a bit of energy, superseded and with nowhere to go? : DRESSEDUP

1-down – Cleaner shrub : BROOM

2-down – G-give job back for fruit : GREENGAGE

3-down – Father Christmas notes the Guardian’s death warrant to privatisation : CLAUSEFOUR

4-down – Railway cut short road in place of 1 across : ELSTREE

5-down – Kin to engineers being eaten by kine : NEAREST

6-down – Defence? You must be joking! : HAHA

7-down – Moving part will make gold perish : ROTOR

8-down – Pleasure-seeking but heartless film no Scots get upset about : EPICUREAN

13-down – Writer’s one among teachers to put another type of 9 head to tail : PENSIONERS

14-down – Jewish variety of spice with tough inside : SEPHARDIC

16-down – Perturbed spirits needing time on top, including nude option : THEUNDEAD

18-down – Spotted one form of 9 between 5s with noughts : LEOPARD

19-down – Accessible file born in back seat before time : WEBPAGE

21-down – Score more than 40, say : EXCEL

23-down – Don’t permit 11 to play a part : ESTOP

24-down – God of peace? : ODIN

9-across – Noted great support returning by the dawning of 16 7, finally! : BEETHOVEN

10-across – Game of betrothal, marriage : HALMA

11-across – 9’s moderate pro missing both headers : EMPEROR

12-across – Free credit attached to weapons, non-starter : UNSTICK

13-across – Outspoken claims addressed initially in book : VOCAL

14-across – Cut gains for East London area : DOCKLANDS

16-across – High above London, Britain hasn’t one ugly side : BRIGHTONANDHOVE

19-across – Conductor, in waiting, took the bus, perhaps : ELECTRODE

21-across – Doctor on call seeking overnight accommodation : MOTEL

22-across – Bear shot, bizarrely, stealing computer : STOMACH

23-across – 9’s effortlessly moving poem recalled : FIDELIO

24-across – State money reserve : CACHE

25-across – See 8 : LAWRENSON

1-down – Order to keep incredibly brave leaders from last season in sight : OBSERVABLE

2-down – Explorer among scorers Charles and Giacomo? : VESPUCCI

3-down – 9’s hot in the shade : CHORAL

4-down – Declare a clergyman should stand : AVER

5-down – Proclaim queen should keep a tunic that’s ornate : ANNUNCIATE

6-down – What the ref did as the game went ahead? : WHISTLED

7-down – See 16 : ALBION

8-down – Workman learns about old footballer : MARK

14-down – Fruit fly making aphis drool : DROSOPHILA

15-down – Make J-U-M-P in wonder : SPELLBOUND

17-down – Trouble letting off steam? : HOTWATER

18-down – Better, having dismissed students : OUTCLASS

20-down – 9’s heart lifted, I gathered, over 7’s opener : EROICA

21-down – Sheep slow rearing little one : MIDGET

22-down – Boot camp’s first to cut benefit, though not entirely : SACK

23-down – Bird, why ref has 6 aloud? : FOWL