Daily Answers

1-across – Worthless stone keeps prelate out of work : RUBBISHY

5-across – Absence of eruptive matter returning from legendary region : AVALON

9-across – To support love, girl, will you marry me? : PROPOSAL

10-across – Roller for pitch initially all but hidden : PLATEN

11-across – Unqualified, so not left in? : OUTRIGHT

12-across – News about wine? : REPORT

14-across – Picture rhyme for MC in MND : ILLUSTRATE

18-across – A Game Boy weapon controlled by Napoleon : ANIMALFARM

22-across – Left one of 19 that brings one up : LADDER

23-across – A 2 to refuse to spring : BRANWELL

24-across – Boy or girl regularly moving name to the end : EVELYN

25-across – Bishop’s castle campus? : BERKELEY

26-across – Melodious couple keeping small letters : DULCET

27-across – Resurrected bully, a showy fellow : FLASHMAN

1-down – Merlin, say, gives knock to right : RAPTOR

2-down – Writers’ relation to 10, maybe : BRONTE

3-down – One sort of section to be looked up to : ICONIC

4-down – 2 features of a 2 landscape : HEATHCLIFF

6-down – Balt in base, a 2 place : VILLETTE

7-down – Greats starting with viva? I’m nearly at sea : LITTORAL

8-down – De Valois has lost time in getting directions for this number : NINETEEN

13-down – A 2 called to run into therapist and ringer : CURRERBELL

15-down – End of the line for painter, one man concealed in boy : RAILHEAD

16-down – A 2’s hall getting an Oscar nearly collapsed : WILDFELL

17-down – A 2’s month on drug, one dropped from nest : JANEEYRE

19-down – Egg layers that get one down : SNAKES

20-down – Pandemonium where flowers are on strike : BEDLAM

21-down – Continue with music: words may follow : PLAYON

1-across – See 10 : FORTHE

5-across – Faces question, given fair stand : SIDESHOW

9-across – Happened to find hot dish shortly after cold in dictionary : OCCURRED

10-across – As candle’s eternal flame suggests, I must get on with it : NOREST

11-across – Drink, needing the courage to go on strike : HITTHEBOTTLE

13-across – Particular introduction ignored, as cloying : ICKY

14-across – Test line working, then make yourself at home : SETTLEIN

17-across – Heart-throb Richard laid back among a range of women, being intimate : ALTEREGO

18-across – So precise : VERY

20-across – Lifting one’s habit? : KLEPTOMANIAC

23-across – See 10 : WICKED

24-across – Upset as Irish gag unfortunately backfires on girl : AGGRIEVE

25-across – Remove from sergeant when out of order : ESTRANGE

26-across – Never wilt as last flower : ENDURE

2-down – Quick inspection, then finished : ONCE

3-down – What secretary might do to affect form : TOUCHTYPE

4-down – Unreliable individual in time makes mistakes : ERRATA

5-down – Cry of exasperation awaiting withdrawal from Afghanistan? : SODTHISFORAGAME

6-down – Aussie fools died in Britain at conclusion of operations : DINGBATS

7-down – Resilient supporter’s parade : STRUT

8-down – See 5 : OFSOLDIERS

12-down – A regular taste of Mitchell Hardy’s sweets : ICELOLLIES

15-down – A non-union issue? : LOVECHILD

16-down – Indebted, dumb blonde admits sorry? : BEHOLDEN

19-down – Advertising notes, with bells on! : JINGLE

21-down – What’s stirring about the Ashes game : POKER

22-down – See 2 : OVER

1-across – Isn’t he going to work initially, second to first, at ancient town : STOWONTHEWOLD

10-across – Number embraced by mystic don’t sing bass : SUNFISH

11-across – See 12 : BLANCHE

12-across – Hiding place includes barn let out – you can do what you like with it : CARTE

13-across – Caroller about to be punished? Don’t jump the gun! : WAITFORIT

14-across – See 19 : OPERA

16-across – Royal couple are flirting : PHILANDER

18-across – Trouble meeting 17 demands? : HELLTOPAY

19-across – Building over a soapy production of 23 down 12 : SAVOY

20-across – Settled accounts when prepared to fight : SQUAREDUP

23-across – Sound food supplier with new capital : DELHI

24-across – A 3 could be 19 : CABBAGE

25-across – A lady pilot officer arranged who and what was carried : PAYLOAD

26-across – While school is on, lines in a circle are forming union with a close relative or the opposite : INTERMARRYING

2-down – 450-inch surround for round object at bottom of ring : TENORBELL

3-down – Official publication of 12 11 : WHITE

4-down – Method not given? On the contrary : NOHOW

5-down – Without a birthday, year 1 produces a cross condition : HYBRIDITY

6-down – What’s eating far right movement? They frequent the waterside : WHARFRATS

7-down – I work with string, shedding some tears : LACER

8-down – The body/mind relationship in film: the film is different without love : PSYCHOPHYSICS

9-down – They prevail in the Guardian way, almost too soon to get document signed : WESTERLYWINDS

15-down – Every other change involved a 10 : ALTERNATE

16-down – Fantasy sort of music transmitted by choirs, say : PIPEDREAM

17-down – The luck attached to the tares in the parable? : DEVILSOWN

21-down – Mythical pope? : URBAN

22-down – See 3 : PAPER

23-down – 12 could be 22 : DOYLY

8-across – 1 holding back comedian’s initial investment : SEEDCORN

9-across – Pops right in to infernal outfitters? : PRADA

10-across – Soldier given paper to present : GIFT

11-across – Clouds excited artist a lot : ALTOSTRATI

12-across – Slight protuberance of peony heads in flower : NIPPLE

14-across – Fire-power first-born turned on type of gum : AMMONIAC

15-across – Poles quite confused by examination : INQUEST

17-across – ‘appy guess secures success of divorce : UNHITCH

20-across – Tree by river in Germany : TAMARIND

22-across – Plant medics in back end : MIMOSA

23-across – Realise spy treated medical condition : ERYSIPELAS

24-across – Joint basis for proposal? : KNEE

25-across – Woody’s about to split 10 : TREEN

26-across – Ill-meant bits of advice about processing fuel : SPITEFUL

1-down – Spread rumours about Irish getting wound up by mockery : DERISION

2-down – Access secured by mad Italian : ADIT

3-down – Score with Louvre or Prado, perhaps, but ___ : NOTATE

4-down – Sent off? Welshman comes back round as substitute : INSTEAD

5-down – Badge given for composing poems in English : EPISEMON

6-down – Element of ruling on booze nice drunk’s drunk : LAWRENCIUM

7-down – Male solver in France going to a city in Italy : MANTUA

13-down – One who sold feathers and fruit to fool? That’s right : PLUMASSIER

16-down – Missing exercise : SKIPPING

18-down – Verifies turnover from trophy containing sporting spoils : CASHESUP

19-down – Painter’s interrupting passable sex slave : ODALISK

21-down – Upset if terrorists are held up : AERATE

22-down – Other-worldly setter’s jam’s unfinished : MYSTIC

24-down – Point beast raised with artist : KLEE

1-across – Tom and Jerry perform to tease the 10 : CATANDMOUSEACT

8-across – Ancient relative in China until recently : NAUNT

9-across – Where Midlanders are broaching the Solent, not with a catamaran? : SOLIHULL

11-across – Man with neck broken for introducing 1 across : MCKENNA

12-across – Reindeer’s vehicle one nearly has a fight with : CARIBOU

13-across – Name of explorer No 5 when with company : VASCO

15-across – Evidence of the French saint, first to be hermetically sealed? : DUSTPROOF

17-across – Gain order in order with border : RIOGRANDE

20-across – Russian girl of Grenadian extraction : NADIA

21-across – A huge loss : TITANIC

23-across – Find new home for the lady back on river : REHOUSE

25-across – Enough about the sick being sent back by catapult : BALLISTA

26-across – Nonsense about Russian river by unthinking functionary : ROBOT

27-across – Drama of justice minister having to remove slips from pile : PLAYJACKSTRAWS

1-down – Entice director to include maverick’s part in realistic style : CINEMAVERITE

2-down – Call in case : TRUNK

3-down – Ban on Blair’s journey – can’t start without plates – an absolute refusal : NOTONYOUR

4-down – Bad name envelops celebrity that’s keen : MUSTARD

5-down – Discloses international body’s overheads : UNLOCKS

6-down – I don’t feature in either solvent or anaesthetic : ETHER

7-down – Fish outside ancient British student circle and what circulates in it : COLDBLOOD

10-down – Would-be electors of small county fashion upstanding animals’ home : SUFFRAGETTES

14-down – A little drop of make-up required? : SHORTFALL

16-down – Leader of 10 went to prison, exchanging knight for rook in one : PANKHURST

18-down – Six counties thus : NICOSIA

19-down – Specify application by listener to gospel : EARMARK

22-down – See 3 : NELLY

24-down – Shadow leader missing, unable to talk to the Sun : UMBRA