Daily Answers

1-across – West Side Montagues on king’s square with aqua-bike : JETSKI

4-across – Food holder, say, with medal out of bed : EGGCUP

9-across – 24 left out of fabric with point – strong point – when Francesca’s about : ANYONEFORTENNIS

10-across – Prayer shock, keeping last of the … : APPEAL

11-across – … 24 with breaking landlord’s cover : HOWSTHAT

12-across – House right for starters, thank you : PROPERTY

14-across – There is some way to make money on derivatives : YONDER

15-across – Do your best to be disruptive : PLAYUP

18-across – Solitaire the opera : PATIENCE

21-across – Flying to Pole held by different international body : ONTHERUN

22-across – Fall of French gentleman in Burgundian town : AUTUMN

24-across – Hunt for spoon, it may be: does it have social benefits? : QUESTIONOFSPORT

25-across – Don’t accept responsibility for row about broadcast : DISOWN

26-across – Description of shield, old and new, after endless conflagration : BLAZON

1-down – I get through after a month making gin : JUNIPER

2-down – River reduced into drink : TROPE

3-down – Painter of king with his lady friend the queen : KNELLER

5-down – Entry : GATEWAY

6-down – Girl with attitude : CONSTANCE

7-down – Any of us could be archbishop : PRIMATE

8-down – Old carriage bringing wages, nothing for companion included : POCHAY

13-down – Article removed from 8s disturbed by relative with mental problem : PSYCHOSIS

16-down – Listless neighbours rendering the year satisfactory : LANGUID

17-down – Range of original 6 in seat : PURVIEW

18-down – Write article on G for George Town : PENANG

19-down – Sad at having fault rehashed : TEARFUL

20-down – Creator of romance in politics? : CAMERON

23-down – Firsts last, being stone : TOPAZ

1-across – Need to imprison individual, given bird for current transgressions? : CRIMEWAVE

6-across – Turn left for 18’s work : BEND

8-across – See 6 : SINISTER

9-across – Old airline approaching a country : PANAMA

10-across – See books, then a work of 18 : LOLITA

11-across – Post sack, work of 18 : PALEFIRE

12-across – Man finally after scarf to get hot : STOLEN

15-across – Watch muscle getting into condition : SPECTATE

16-across – Noble sailors in the wake of rotten stink : HIGHBORN

19-across – Field where Kipling’s Khan holds power : SPHERE

21-across – Mass killer won’t initiate search alongside a grave : ATOMBOMB

22-across – Given a very meticulous leader, I’m backing plant : MIMOSA

24-across – Enemy in action, one from Sana’a, perhaps : YEMENI

25-across – Dish bound to pong, ending at the front : KEDGEREE

26-across – Still go : SHOT

27-across – Great player has to fight in Balkan city : MOVIESTAR

1-down – Punch has old material : CHINO

2-down – First : INITIAL

3-down – More subordinate to a 27? : EXTRA

4-down – Fitting a support, large fitting : APROPOS

5-down – Shift lies with spare trainers : ESPALIERS

6-down – Use stake to secure fine tangle : BENEFIT

7-down – Miners muse over conclusion of Thatcher, appearing superior figure : NUMERATOR

13-down – Pearl divers hit their target, primarily : THIRTIETH

14-down – Economy at first breaking no record is beginning to mint fresh coinage? : NEOLOGISM

17-down – Lover of 10, one hitching from Hull, perhaps, heading for Torquay : HUMBERT

18-down – Writer brings to mouth very fine port : NABOKOV

20-down – See 17 : HUMBERT

22-down – Little thing that bites short dwarf : MIDGE

23-down – Downright thin : SHEER

1-across – Plant Araucaria with fellow : MEDICK

4-across – Where nursing is in progress : ONWARD

9-across – Girl once tender exemplifies … : ANNA

10-across – … famous Alaskan airfield, either way … : PALINDROME

11-across – … as does her longer form : HANNAH

12-across – Musician suffering roasting : ORGANIST

13-across – Girl put in light which is for boarders : SKATEPARK

15-across – Houseboy showing quality : HALL

16-across – : MARK

17-across – Portion of Genoese zabaglione cooked by crook : SLEAZEBAG

21-across – Doesn’t the Guardian exist with 2, 4, 23, 2, 4 to 22 for a 10? : AREWENOT

22-across – What retains vessel is not available as it isn’t old age : NEWERA

24-across – Unable to hear sound of love? That’s slanderous : DEFAMATORY

25-across – Drunkards should they be converted don’t talk : FISH

26-across – About 8 German joiner is rough … : UNKIND

27-across – … as by the sound of it is the yarn : CREWEL

1-down – Individual : MANJACK

2-down – Portrayed as haggard? : DRAWN

3-down – A rhyme for Nick? : COPSHOP

5-down – I leave in a single movement, not being myself : NONEGO

6-down – Gill ruined Kate and Irina : AIRINTAKE

7-down – Old girl brought up to receive prophet : DAMOSEL

8-down – Pirate captain’s story by one of the family? : BLOODRELATION

14-down – Reappearance of old 8 to do with little 25 : THROWBACK

16-down – Cent covered by extra gold piece : MORCEAU

18-down – Pest in year one having a loss : ANNOYER

19-down – Love – love in a lover”s head – produces mist : AEROSOL

20-down – Opposed to first class in pub to no effect : INVAIN

23-down – Defective part in forerunners of the Web having band of brothers at the end of the line : WEFEW

1-across – Mad deliveries appealing to differing audiences : CROSSOVER

6-across – Constable paintings at heart revealing a special sort of Christian : COPT

8-across – Whale genus and cuckoo found around island associated with an island : ORCADIAN

9-across – River cuts through energy : VIRAGO

10-across – A look round a house for sale? A thousand needed to replace two wings : VIKING

11-across – Makes public holiday a function of jungle clearing? : AIRSTRIP

12-across – Nick rejected hat : BANTAM

15-across – Not an option, eyeing rocks around the outskirts of Chamonix, overturned and separated : EXIGENCY

16-across – Standing out from others in the class when classical one-act play’s improvised : ATYPICAL

19-across – Travel writer taking year off – that is no way to describe an old hand! : NEWBIE

21-across – Support not quite given to coach before a tense game : BACCARAT

22-across – What an apron-wearer might be said to have to press down : PINION

24-across – Ruminant Richards getting hitched – twice caught out : DIKDIK

25-across – Darn bats occupying state home! : MANDARIN

26-across – Possible jacket recommendation: not black : BLUR

27-across – Clerical position, perhaps, and a ruler : RURALDEAN

1-down – An expression of appreciation: the origins of good intentions : CORGI

2-down – Following a regime taking place, answer legislative assembly : ONADIET

3-down – Round off broadcasting big-band style? : SWING

4-down – New game introduced to contest : VINTAGE

5-down – Return on one of several accounts : REVERSION

6-down – Diminutive dog’s medical scraper? : CURETTE

7-down – Cecilia styled not English after mounting space opera : PAGLIACCI

13-down – Article on possible rail cut taking note of insurance risk assessment etc : ACTUARIAL

14-down – One exposing scandal of friend concealing two kings and an ace : MUCKRAKER

17-down – Drop off going round gallery : PICADOR

18-down – One is pressed into following Protestant martyr : LATIMER

20-down – White collar operative, ultimately one with aspiration : WANNABE

22-down – A measure in China of discipline : PENAL

23-down – No climbing around the city contracted : ORION

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