Daily Answers

1-across – Man : HECUBA

4-across – Easy source of cash goes very little way when its first seized by dog : MILCHCOW

9-across – Bony cod’s head eaten by prole wandering in coastland : LITTLE

10-across – See 9 : CORPORAL

11-across – Drink and card games in river crossing : WATERLOOBRIDGE

13-across – 8 later dealt with the 9 10 at 11 : WELLINGTON

14-across – 1-0 to Indigo : ANIL

16-across – See 22 : DUKE

18-across – It’s resurrected about monarch’s regal manner, as one’s bound to notice : STRIKINGLY

21-across – Periodically could be three thousand feet : FROMTIMETOTIME

23-across – Tree on desert in Yorkshire : OAKWORTH

24-across – Cross Ulster from the east to be sheltered : INDOOR

25-across – Lament for the brethren Odysseus had lost : THRENODY

26-across – Defeated mention of cookery expert : BEATEN

1-down – He’s going to dam­nation : HELL

2-down – Yowl of disapproval : CATCALL

3-down – Shot goes home making news : BULLETIN

5-down – Picture expert using oxygen — it’s cooling : ICONOLOGIST

6-down – Saucy crimes? : CAPERS

7-down – Foot entitled to add gas to calcium : CARADON

8-down – Sir Arthur the film director’s field : WELLESLEY

12-down – Run away — I won the game when put to rights : LEGITIMATED

13-down – Fired wildly in refusal to have flanks some 15 apart? : WIDEFRONT

15-down – 1 down to beat the church by a comfortable margin : DISTANCE

17-down – Adverse critic at the door? : KNOCKER

19-down – 13 across has books on soup : GUMBOOT

20-down – Between poles, trust is scattered : STROWN

22-down – 13 across on duty initially with his country gripped by anger : IRON

1-across – Message from sovereign on currency : ERRAND

5-across – Letters go to the French and bingo! : LITTLE

8-across – Indication of extended writing about my return with cat : SYMPTOM

9-across – Management of sport in contest? : RUNNING

11-across – Public servant drunk Foster’s in small gallery : MINISTEROFSTATE

12-across – Antelope with no end vigorous style : ELAN

13-across – Needed support of the ass of the bridge unfinished in France : LEANEDUPON

17-across – Fight duel stupidly with student that’s very nice : DELIGHTFUL

18-across – Gilbertian with 17 26 and great 15s, chiefly 9 on 5 across 1s for his 11s : KING

20-across – Vote 1 — if on car it applied, example of 10? : ELECTRIFICATION

23-across – Gleam unevenly — keep boiling when drunk? : SHIMMER

24-across – Painter on top of stove to pour out the tea? : HOBBEMA

25-across – See 19 : WARREN

26-across – Jobs of the French with restrictions : DUTIES

2-down – Limit intended for French novel with everything : ROMANWALL

3-down – Certify being at match : ATTEST

4-down – Mother nested wrongly having done her best : DAMNEDEST

5-down – Broadly inadequate as foil to 5 across : LARGO

6-down – Destiny travelled east from northeast : TYNESIDE

7-down – All that’s unusual in a girl’s name : LEILA

8-down – Where someone lives, say, with lighter garment : SUMMERDRESS

10-down – Fruit, not good and bad, in the business of saving the planet? : GREENAGENDA

14-down – Fed and fed, eating original first : NOURISHED

15-down – Right to take one sixth part of course in physical education : PRIVILEGE

16-down – Sandglass, say, with tiger worried about start of meal : EGGTIMER

19-down – Much of 11 on two Scots rivers points to set of tunnels : RABBIT

21-down – Musical note on sequel to 12 left out : EVITA

22-down – Ran a mile from Khan? : IMRAN

7-across – Home news: Europe backs young actress : INGENUE

8-across – Foreign news? It’s the Observer! : WITNESS

9-across – Member of Air Force One featured in international story : TEST

10-across – Returning Guardian journalist left, say, Cameron rambling : DESULTORY

12-across – Sports editor first to enter fights : WEARS

13-across – Delight for one appearing in centre spread : ENTRANCE

15-across – Exclusive report on popular music : SOUL

16-across – Something extra with Society & Culture : MORES

17-across – Inside pages: return of alternative column : PROP

18-across – Main headline: Unknown actor finds a terrier : SEALYHAM

20-across – See 9 : PILOT

21-across – Edit Nice art on chest? : CONTAINER

22-across – High point: leading article about Middle East : ACME

24-across – Front page report on man of cloth : PRELATE

25-across – Ancient columnist covers it with panache : STYLITE

1-down – Formerly appearing in concert : ONCE

2-down – Spooner hit shops for food : MEATBALL

3-down – Directs boy to catch fish : GUIDES

4-down – Interferes with instrument prior to set up : VIOLATES

5-down – Country where cloth changes hands : ANGOLA

6-down – Top off fine word game : ISPY

11-down – Pilot drops cattle on island : STEERSMAN

12-down – Wife’s pickle is perfect! : WHOLE

14-down – Influence strike : CLOUT

16-down – Princely Indian turns up oil and meat : MAHRATTA

17-down – 23p to fit concrete : PALPABLE

19-down – Cobblers! Thread left by fire! : LINGLE

20-down – Copy pastry with animal filling : PIRATE

21-down – Bear mostly seen in boggy ground : CARR

23-down – China winning? Check! : MATE

8-across – Disease of horses in Belgium : GLANDERS

9-across – Muslim scholars’ rule may be disclosed : ULEMA

10-across – Leave clothes : QUIT

11-across – Beast’s owner gets a sovereign and a penny : LORDCOPPER

12-across – Wave tree : WILLOW

14-across – One with lute, B playing — that would be B flat : BLUENOTE

15-across – Condense bird : CHICKEN

17-across – Denial of nearly failing mind : DEMENTI

20-across – Pirate doesn’t finish nasty beer : VILLAGER

22-across – Particular arrest : DETAIL

23-across – Rising and tapering, saying No to 11 : UPTOAPOINT

24-across – Measure in Lorraine : METZ

25-across – Son of Welsh expert on test to see if wanted : APPRO

26-across – Southern states news: a horse given a girl’s name : SUSANNAH

1-down – Student comes in about teatime with a showy gesture : FLOURISH

2-down – Join one : KNIT

3-down – Cowardly cry : BELLOW

4-down – Attribute : ASCRIBE

5-down – Flat point : JUNCTURE

6-down – Divorcee maybe down : DESPONDENT

7-down – Visible invisible : PATENT

13-down – Connections with exchanges: see phone conversation — I shouldn’t have said that! : LOCALLOOPS

16-down – Spur to cuddle little helper at breakfast : EGGSPOON

18-down – Knight of romance on reported date with male : TRISTRAM

19-down – Regretful agreement of doctor is a requirement : FRAIDSO

21-down – With marquetry feature, keeping quiet, being out of touch? : INPLAY

22-down – Hate of foreign international : DETEST

24-down – Setter’s saucebox : MINX

1-across – Shakespearean wind-up : BELCH

4-across – Catalogue not allowed, dead : TABULATE

8-across – Those under trousers, though not under discussion? : UNMENTIONABLES

10-across – Come on, it’s miserable — so get smiley? : EMOTICON

11-across – See 5 : BUSTER

12-across – Musician’s heartbreak? : ORGANSTOP

15-across – Odd bits from bush by this compiler’s feet : IAMBS

17-across – Partially motorised, a nursing chair carried : SEDAN

18-across – Plant short grass alongside earth, perhaps : PLANETREE

19-across – Touring players given starter of ravioli in endless syrup : TROUPE

21-across – Poor child’s heading off to fill barrel to the sound of a cash register! : KERCHING

24-across – Optical illusions with anagram — pathos, I gathered : PHANTASMAGORIA

25-across – Pay to drink ale? On the contrary, don’t pay! : FREEBOOT

26-across – Romantic gift excites, but not you : ROSES

1-down – Octogenarian performer requiring check-up — perhaps he’s forty? : BRUCEFORSYTH

2-down – Born premier in Messiahs, encapsulated by animal : LAMBOFGOD

3-down – Fringes of party banned language : HINDI

4-down – Bald tyre initially at­tached, in suggestion work needed : THINONTOP

5-down – Novel where it’s not entirely nuts to squeeze breasts? : BONK

6-down – I trouble a revolutionary to become possible socialist? : LABOURITE

7-down – Comment from budgie to swallow, said swiftly? : TWEET

9-down – In confusion, forgets to collect daughter and young lady? It’s not clear : FROSTEDGLASS

13-down – A few coppers agreeable, imprisoning Gateshead writer : NINEPENCE

14-down – Possible arrangement to eat fish at Muslim’s property : PRAYERMAT

16-down – Party like gunmen in war : MARDIGRAS

20-down – Different native beheaded : OTHER

22-down – Cloth, I see, going up in smoke : CIGAR

23-down – County date that should appear as April 30? : MAYO