Daily Answers

1-across – What Scots eat is of poor quality, we hear : TATTIE

4-across – Fruit in two hands : PAWPAW

9-across – Cross about leading member of the Establishment : ZERO

10-across – Filthy talk male abandoned coming to the female domain : SUTHERLAND

11-across – Creator of Pluto — with money being spun! : DISNEY

12-across – Finish with nothing and grumble — you may have got the pip : ENDOCARP

13-across – Delight to be had for nothing in days gone by : PLEASENCE

15-across – The first person to settle in the West Country : SMEW

16-across – Wildly providing brief message that there’s nothing to worry about? : AMOK

17-across – Rate bacon bad on account of salt : CARBONATE

21-across – Sole clot messing about? He had a funny partner : COSTELLO

22-across – Don’t just nibble your food! : WOLFIT

24-across – A bit in the paper, one of about 2,000 Nelson was given? : COLUMNINCH

25-across – Huge agency makes a hospital suffer a setback : NASA

26-across – Evil place of illegal activity : SINDEN

27-across – Malodorous fluid in filthy place : STINKY

1-down – Show 6 : THEBILL

2-down – Ye began with this source of annoyance : THORN

3-down – Yeltsin getting drunk with no expense spared : INSTYLE

5-down – To be continued with, after apologies have been given : AGENDA

6-down – Officers in prison keeping order with insects invading : POLICEMEN

7-down – Opportunity around end of summer for hay being left to dry? : WINDROW

8-down – [Bend the rules or lay down a line?] : STRETCHAPOINT

14-down – A couple of brief illnesses bringing a complete change of mind : ABOUTTURN

16-down – Hot men embraced by a timid sort, inadequately : AMOROUS

18-down – Front feverish — foes finally within striking distance at Agincourt : BOWSHOT

19-down – Leaving party, dotty Irish drunk — not one needing a Guinness? : THIRSTY

20-down – Quiet organ before start of evensong : PLUNGE

23-down – Revolutionary leader gets churned up inside : LINEN

1-across – Germanium is Hobson’s choice : GEORGE

4-across – Feeder keeping transporter as raiser : BICARB

9-across – Number of measures with capacity to arrest glossy object : COFFEETABLEBOOK

10-across – Girl nearly mounted? : ASTRID

11-across – Am I to run wild? : MINOTAUR

12-across – Tooth from world’s end keeps concerning museum’s principal : PREMOLAR

14-across – Administrative bodies for county : STAFFS

15-across – Herb trinity finally stocked by new shops : HYSSOP

18-across – Beast coming in guided back by bird : DOTTEREL

21-across – Rules needing review by one in period : CRITERIA

22-across – Show up previous attitude : EXPOSE

24-across – Goat, sinner; sheep, reformed — DIY production : PARTHENOGENESIS

25-across – Not exactly amused : MEDUSA

26-across – Repeatedly set out to fly : TSETSE

1-down – More fat from provision merchant, say : GROSSER

2-down – Present more unsatisfactory? : OFFER

3-down – Cohere without tear : GRENDEL

5-down – They are surrounded by wild snails eating last of food : ISLANDS

6-down – Judge’s portion — don’t start to tell stories about it : ARBITRATE

7-down – Born to upbringing of sickness and grief : BEOWULF

8-down – Striker in fustian, maybe yellow : HAMMER

13-down – Wrongly said that girl at pictures died : MISSTATED

16-down – Man with a cart turns up on the mast : YARDARM

17-down – Essentially America? : PERSEUS

18-down – Continue when stopping would be preferable : DRAGON

19-down – Backward girl’s article first : THESEUS

20-down – Direction about clothes in bedroom facility : ENSUITE

23-down – Last of sheep on field — time to enter fold : PLEAT

1-across – Placed on rear of babies, one of these, quick! : SNAPPY

4-across – Staff facility turned over sacred text : MANTRA

9-across – Miss penny in price after a short time for slower service : SECONDCLASSPOST

10-across – Country code secreted by girl, detailed : MALAWI

11-across – Making a comeback, friend boxing? : RALLYING

12-across – Top Welsh tourist destination : CARDIGAN

14-across – Tough coating handle in wood, dropping end : ENAMEL

15-across – An item caught by journalist, treated badly : ABUSED

18-across – Swimming, notices a man in the water : CANOEIST

21-across – Dangerous woman a degree cleaner : MANEATER

22-across – Pronounced metaphor that clashes : CYMBAL

24-across – Into smacking, if I then propose shaking, the results should confirm it : THEPROOFISINTHE

25-across – Ashes here including Emburey’s ultimate spin : GYRATE

26-across – Tap’s partner wasn’t him then? : WASHER

1-down – Mahler’s head squeez­ed between buttocks lifted a composer : SMETANA

2-down – Bouquet of marjoram or aniseed arising : AROMA

3-down – See 24 across : PUDDING

5-down – Free from blame for crack found under a book : ABSOLVE

6-down – With this, 24 3 : TIPSYCAKE

7-down – Want baked beans, cold, on edge of plate : ABSENCE

8-down – Old coin, gold, in cut stone : FLORIN

13-down – Disease is given little time in pre-med, unfortunately : DISTEMPER

16-down – Tight hold from Spooner’s head louse? : BEARHUG

17-down – Centre of Motown tried out — found here? : DETROIT

18-down – Top bar in restaurant to provide water flask : CARAFE

19-down – In North America, island, island, island, island capital : NICOSIA

20-down – Knife man’s wound heals into hollow scar : SLASHER

23-down – Artist to get one’s teeth into : MUNCH

1-across – Did her Hollywood swansong lack gravity? : GLORIA

5-across – Spin doctor to officer: It’s how you must behave : PROTOCOL

9-across – Kebabs in villa regularly seen in this country, so I gathered : SOUVLAKI

10-across – Nymphet laughing out loud initially at sex with adult : LOLITA

11-across – Drunken pig hit female printer : LITHOGRAPHER

13-across – French novelist’s first item for sale? : LOTI

14-across – : OILSPILL

17-across – Elite member’s old cigar crushed in left hand : OLIGARCH

18-across – Where lots idly dived outside originally? : LIDO

20-across – Middleman takes look into writhing erotic turn : INTERLOCUTOR

23-across – Pinched passage in society feature : STRAIT

24-across – Peer’s joint backs on to ground : LORDSHIP

25-across – In a 3 way, oddly collecting debts for second daughter : ODIOUSLY

26-across – Wound sound back after beginning to listen : LESION

2-down – Hero picked up zilch after winning Oscar : LION

3-down – Rebel activity to do with potential rise or fall in government : REVOLTING

4-down – One used to be suppressing occasionally dirty lies in store : AWAITS

5-down – Calmly repaired nearly loose chip in bottle, extremely luckily : PHILOSOPHICALLY

6-down – Even jovial doctor’s sick; there’s a big bit in it : OILDRILL

7-down – It’s not much work wrapping 41 flowers : OXLIP

8-down – Declining pounds illicitly banked? : ONTHESLIDE

12-down – Spread fertiliser in plot Daniel cultivated : POLLINATED

15-down – Growth in Shropshire’s recession concentrates minds : POLARISES

16-down – Wee obstacles settled during working hours : UROLITHS

19-down – Pulling up unopened broccoli heads, say, yields waxy stuff : STEROL

21-down – Time to muse : ERATO

22-down – Radio listener picked up missile launch site : SILO

1-across – A country taking a boy from the East, he being in exile : DALAILAMA

6-across – Part of London that’s extremely sexy, detailed : SOHO

8-across – Attractive catch in wizard : MAGNETIC

9-across – See 13 : TOARMS

10-across – New chapter in For Whom The Bell Tolls, taken from there : THENCE

11-across – Showing example, shortly, round back of design : PARADING

12-across – Naughty males after daughter, finding girl : DAMSEL

15-across – Hands holding nothing, nothing with both hands? These passed for support : POORLAWS

16-across – Screwed up as rubbish, in the middle I went — here! : WASTEBIN

19-across – A painter passing northern city in the East : NAGOYA

21-across – Swinger missing overture from opera after 1 down 3 5 : PENDULUM

22-across – Ship in a bottle, perhaps? : VESSEL

24-across – See 22 : DEMILO

25-across – 26 a modest residence : BUNGALOW

26-across – Advertisement as filler : PLUG

27-across – Mineral which may bend teaspoons : SOAPSTONE

1-down – 7’s faith threatened distressed 12 : DEATH

2-down – No good stuffing pancakes without topping, these on the inside : LININGS

3-down – See 1 : INTHE

4-down – Drink fizzy cola — what might bubbles do? : ALCOPOP

5-down – See 1 : AFTERNOON

6-down – Caught in shoe, might this trip dignitary up? : SCANDAL

7-down – Confine wife in the clutches of merry author … : HEMINGWAY

13-down – … whose distant source of milk left empty, filling rotten molars : AFAREWELL

14-down – Lithium compound soluble, potentially damaging : LIBELLOUS

17-down – Organisational process, it’s rising and falling : TIDYING

18-down – One entering African country with different capital — finding another? : NAMIBIA

20-down – Work at first of suspects, say, up for interrogating people : GESTAPO

22-down – Sculpture perhaps alternatively titled 13 9? : VENUS

23-down – Writer leaves girl to run away with another : ELOPE