Daily Answers

1-across – Previous quality reportedly drawn from stone : EXCALIBUR

6-across – Family enclosed courtyard at old city, one scheduled for a comeback? : KING

10-across – 6 20’s supporters ’adn’t gone astray in currency : ROUND

11-across – Guerrilla strike at island’s volunteers : ZAPATISTA

12-across – Ruling confined captive queen : INPOWER

13-across – Georgia artist spoke effectively, according to some : OKEEFFE

14-across – Sergeant at penal settlement is hot stuff : CAYENNEPEPPER

17-across – With a sort of cough about, a beast of a crossing around Pole is naff : CHEAPANDNASTY

21-across – Revised estimate of how long grass covered small boy … : RETIMED

22-across – … which could be as it should be : MERITED

24-across – Very amusing greeting to housekeeper’s bills : HILARIOUS

25-across – Merchant characters with mouth odour : GOBBO

26-across – Take decoration from garment : ROBE

27-across – False quantity of captains in ceremonial dress : INSINCERE

1-down – Part of phone for a note each — that’s about right : EARPIECE

2-down – Fool gets the chop : CHUMP

3-down – One having affinity with Viviane in the 6 20 tales had problem with fan : LADYWINDERMERE

4-down – Brazier’s work is weird : BIZARRE

5-down – Tick off agent and don’t stand still : REPROVE

7-down – Within limits of popular seating for artists : INSOFARAS

8-down – Extractor of fragments more important in utterance : GRATER

9-down – 6 20’s parent, topless Reformer and writer — are they never going to stop? : UTHERPENDRAGON

15-down – Sailing group in raised parking area keeping clutch out : YACHTCLUB

16-down – Report of Pakistani province and European capital with characteristic manifestations : SYNDROME

18-down – A drop-in arranged for bosses : PADRONI

19-down – Retribution for a bloomer with the wrong end : NEMESIS

20-down – See 6 : ARTHUR

23-down – See 10 : TABLE

8-across – McDonald’s splits make a high cholesterol meal : CREAMTEA

9-across – A cunning plan listened to for some time : AWHILE

10-across – Instant break : SNAP

11-across – Move towards red plant : ADDERSWORT

12-across – So virtue good for this sailor? : SINBAD

14-across – Feline decapitating people dined, then put in chains : CATENATE

15-across – 22 across 17 admitted to even one mistake? On the contrary : SIMENON

17-across – Something French, perhaps, about every third character in large city of a European country : BELGIAN

20-across – 22 across 17 impressing Italian with a great tradition : HERITAGE

22-across – Note: computer accessory detailed, so noted : FAMOUS

23-across – Shocking thing, seeing him fool around with three kings : HORRORFILM

24-across – Second ago : BACK

25-across – 22 across 17 sport peaks : RUBENS

26-across – 22 across 17 car reaching a peak : MERCATOR

1-down – Toast with port : BRINDISI

2-down – Effeminate group : CAMP

3-down – Leave thread : STRAND

4-down – 22 across 17 cross about Warhol with Mozart’s character? : VANDYCK

5-down – 22 across 17 finding fortitude in lover : MAGRITTE

6-down – Friend wraps bit of chicken in, say, something sticky : CHEWINGGUM

7-down – Vampire’s tipple? : CLARET

13-down – Grammatical term written up, I sign books : BREVIARIES

16-down – Golden hair coming down from a lady rhetorician : ORATRESS

18-down – Capital obtained when clubs invested in association : ASUNCION

19-down – Bird that is caught by marines in the briny : SERIEMA

21-down – Book departure : EXODUS

22-down – Bones a capital, that of Finland, dug up : FEMORA

24-down – Supporter’s smile : BEAM

7-across – Home student in game could be a wonder : CHINLESS

9-across – A Zionist group’s weapon : AIRGUN

10-across – Refuse good looker’s wave : BRAN

11-across – Funny business with a cheeseboard: _______________________ , Would he have 20 22 across? : HADCASSIUS

12-across – Parasites in some respectable heads causing division : SLICER

14-across – It’s in the sticks – make haste : CELERITY

15-across – Bird, facetious alternative to 24 down : GROUSE

17-across – Bones made of 12 : RELICS

20-across – Backing instrument, a broken reed, played very badly : MURDERED

22-across – Told to get hold of a salad : CAESAR

23-across – See 11 : BEENOBESER

24-across – See 10 : DISH

25-across – Tree, not from the east, in town with stress, so to speak : ASHTON

26-across – In one variation, runner-up docked in front of spacecraft : NOSECONE

1-down – One in field with knee near ground? : SHORTLEG

2-down – Cleric beheaded in due course : ANON

3-down – The vest from the west : ZEPHYR

4-down – Have I the ability to speak to the masses? : CANAILLE

5-down – Dull fellow with tree that’s queen under ground : PROSERPINE

6-down – Imposing on 22 across’s time? : AUGUST

8-down – Corrupt nobleman from abroad in diocese : SEDUCE

13-down – Business-speak needs sound inside to harmonise : COORDINATE

16-down – Middle Easterner in his element in dance : SARABAND

18-down – That must be Gloria, last work of Byrd, they say : SWANSONG

19-down – Inventor sees game end the wrong way : EDISON

21-down – Any use playing with crowned head? : UNEASY

22-down – I must also say, breaking heart and body : CORPSE

24-down – Get down from here? : DUCK

9-across – Sinner, a boring enemy of Bush, said to be badly stressed : ADULTERER

10-across – Followers maybe in tube : TRAIN

11-across – City theme in tube? : EXTOPIC

12-across – Good animal, the Manx cat – could be a killer : GRAMPUS

13-across – Mother’s name for malediction : DAMN

14-across – Film text is Lean’s with Percy co-operating : SCREENPLAY

15-across – Worship tree now added to 10 : SERVICE

17-across – Last 3s for 10 with a lot of fur in it otherwise : TERMINI

19-across – Natural and unnatural duet about vulgar City : UNAFFECTED

22-across – At the end endless love comes to nothing : ZERO

23-across – Issues about pantomimist are ahead of tautology in announcement on 10 : STATION

24-across – Killed as Brer Fox didn’t need to be? : LAIDLOW

26-across – Primate or spirit missing some electricity : ORANG

27-across – Return of Cape grapefruit maybe coming round for one on 10 : PASSENGER

1-down – Talk among experts includes changes in ardour : PANELDISCUSSION

2-down – Now 10 27 arrival includes headless bust : CUSTOMER

3-down – See 23 : STOP

4-down – Very cold and largely clear – follows time right for vehicle : TRICYCLE

5-down – Accent on foot? : BROGUE

6-down – I remove greater objects from s-shoe : STRAINER

7-down – Fish on line in part of flower : CARPEL

8-down – Russian princess out of Asia, 2B if out in English city, unpleasant character : ANASTYBITOFWORK

16-down – Cross boundary where some festivities occur : INFRINGE

17-down – Pampas is where novel girl is about to dance : TREELESS

18-down – Way of thinking supplies good lie for your head : IDEOLOGY

20-down – A tax on a right to an image : AVATAR

21-down – Has 26 the ability to snack? : CANAPE

25-down – Couple commonly suggesting they should be assaulted : ITEM

1-across – Tersely discharges soldiers’ protests about introduction of bull : DEMOBS

4-across – Off spin is a nightmare for the user : BADTRIP

9-across – Misrepresented Lewes’s present Nimby position : ELSEWHERE

10-across – Leader of scout pack : STAMP

11-across – Fish without fin provided backs off : DANCE

12-across – Woman’s so perversely into football team’s tackiness : VISCOSITY

13-across – Strong US wind section from Boston or thereabouts : NORTHER

15-across – Hard to make out with wife? Needs sex appeal, idiot! : DIMWIT

17-across – Pro hogs set broadcast : FOSTER

19-across – Brow’s first furrows : BRIDGES

22-across – Converted believers may be turned outward : EVERSIBLE

24-across – Transport quite lacking on the way back : BACON

26-across – Lyricist is after page : PRICE

27-across – Be a casual footballer; quit before top level match? : KICKABOUT

28-across – Trap energy inside object like a motorised vehicle : ENGINED

29-across – Hand out gold star : METEOR

1-down – City day quarters, ice free : DRESDEN

2-down – Mediterranean island capital: sun not hot : MASON

3-down – Sportsman – not this one failing to open personal cover : BOWLERHAT

4-down – Reduced to fit in the sack : BLESSED

5-down – Insult county club : DISCO

6-down – Turning assets into cash is on the increase, each pound to be assimilated : REALISING

7-down – Secretary has to settle on a fruit : PAPAYA

8-down – Guardian state : WEAVER

14-down – Call about England’s top sporting event being back in business? : REOPENING

16-down – Some rigging involved American appropriating book : MAINBRACE

18-down – Filled out again : REBUKED

19-down – Composer accepting note should be split : BREACH

20-down – Rock star, one turned politician? : SENATOR

21-down – Work casually on foreign article : TEMPLE

23-down – The woman, all female, topless : SHEEN

25-down – Sun up in the outskirts of Cologne : CLOSE