Daily Answers

1-across – Figure as doctor to the sick swallowing a sad tear : QUADRILATERAL

10-across – Trees dangerous in army home : ALDERSHOT

11-across – Good notes on piano : PIOUS

12-across – See 20 down : CASES

13-across – Figure reportedly of destruction and confusion : RECTANGLE

14-across – Treason exposed in the direction of Tyneside? : NOREAST

16-across – Figure or letter : RHOMBUS

18-across – They go out in the midday sun – go on to say when cats are about : MADDOGS

20-across – Professional criminal causing society a lot of wild emotionalism : SHYSTER

21-across – Bourgeois individual to get back to : SQUAREONE

23-across – What are reptiles doing on the native American page? : CREEP

24-across – Provide point for joke : EQUIP

25-across – Dish topped continent’s spot : FRICASSEE

26-across – Standard entirely of wood covering old Greek ship’s returning figure : PARALLELOGRAM

2-down – Sculptor of nude was the father that one didn’t want : UNDESIRED

3-down – Board game turning up a fiddle : DARTS

4-down – Take from past success, holding monarch in at first : INHERIT

5-down – Motor from Dolgellau to Cardiff : AUTOCAR

6-down – Making atonement for a Conservative – that’s raised about 10p to begin with : EXPIATORY

7-down – In the middle of a day, the end of a morning : AMONG

8-down – Magnetic darns enable one to provide polish on floor : DANCINGMASTER

9-down – Menace to company or group captured by silly excursionist : ASSETSTRIPPER

15-down – An explosion has nearly concealed call for location of Susannah : APOCRYPHA

17-down – Strike water beside the Thames : BATTERSEA

19-down – Total of items for sale incomplete – should include pianoforte : SHOPFUL

20-down – Pass ecclesia to make such as 26 of 1, 13 or 16 of 26, or 21 – 1 of 13 or 16 : SPECIAL

22-down – One of you left grape outside – it’s in the mouth : UVULA

23-down – Sound of a Neolithic language : CLANG

8-across – : NIHILIST

9-across – : UBOAT

10-across – : GANG

11-across – : HERBROBERT

12-across – : KEEPER

14-across – : TRIMETER

15-across – : RESTDAY

17-across – : JELLYBY

20-across – : ZYGOMATA

22-across – : FATHER

23-across – : XPARTICLES

24-across – : VOCE

25-across – : ELMEN

26-across – : OVERVIEW

1-down – : MILANESE

2-down – : LING

3-down – : CIPHER

4-down – : ITERATE

5-down – : QUARTILE

6-down – : DOUBLEFLAT

7-down – : STARVE

13-down – : PETRODROME

16-down – : ARABIANS

18-down – : BREECHES

19-down – : WALLOON

21-down – : YIPPEE

22-down – : FOSTER

24-down – : VIVA

9-across – A doctor is on team to dissect : ANATOMISE

10-across – Range put on page for show : PROVE

11-across – Wanted to take action about teacher : DESIRED

12-across – Regarding old writer that is blue, end chewed off : SCRIBAL

13-across – Grass recovered, seizing drug, certainly! : YEAH

14-across – Pensioner’s bedside companion half unsure about support put in place : FALSETEETH

16-across – Their business tracks river birds : DEEJAYS

17-across – Weapon required to retrieve a disaster for US TV ratings? : HARPOON

19-across – Companion dressed in fragrant black and white : ACHROMATIC

22-across – A former railway charity : ALMS

24-across – A beast swallowing rivervessel : AMPOULE

25-across – Heading for launch, approaching 1, deafening, having held to this moment? : LIFTOFF

26-across – Plain sweet containing last of butter : DREAR

27-across – As Mafia victims might be buried, left interred – that’s rough : INCLEMENT

1-down – Up and down days plus a year, plus a … and so on : YADDAYADDAYADDA

2-down – Looking from below, ‘e catches sailor delivering poison : RATSBANE

3-down – See 7 : BOARD

4-down – A breeze, perhaps, with girl lifting device : WINDLASS

5-down – Three seconds with pie and mash to find presence of bacteria : SEPSIS

6-down – Find this after a blowout, extra fat! : SPARETYRE

7-down – Remark about s-s-snake inspiring foreign article in The Thunderer? : WOBBLE

8-down – Might such guidelines comfort worker in the conclusion of nanny state? F-farcical! : HEALTHANDSAFETY

15-down – See 17 : MANOEUVRE

17-down – Tactic designed to remove lodger from home, I reveal, in much disarray : HEIMLICH

18-down – Witness, occupying throne, king and queen : ONLOOKER

20-down – Tailless beast outside pub, one in Glyn-Neath : HYPHEN

21-down – Mention US state uprising, as kind of acid : ACETIC

23-down – Present more rotten, might you say? : OFFER

1-across – Before ultimate promotion in army time zone? : PRECINCT

5-across – Increased the pain to the ear’s capacity to accept : UPTAKE

9-across – Once arrogant aims to get guns dismantled : ASSUMING

10-across – Termly this flower girl comes out : MYRTLE

12-across – Exaggerate on the subject of time : OVERSTRETCH

15-across – Like someone sleeping with insurance agent in secret? : UNDER

17-across – Corrupt party with line that’s not simply black and white? : PAINTERLY

18-across – Pope’s non-human? : ERRORLESS

19-across – See 15 : COVER

20-across – Course is very large – what’s backed in the day’s races : CHEESEBOARD

24-across – Old and new forever requiring no reciprocal action : ONEWAY

25-across – Either of two early saints suiting a change : IGNATIUS

26-across – Had tea delivered!, as triumphant hoaxer shouts : GOTCHA

27-across – Naked king and queen, read in horoscope : STARKERS

1-down – First rather than last vowel in longer pitch expert : PIANOTUNER

2-down – Soap festivals aim to provide a break : EASTENDERS

3-down – Setter’s surgeon’s feet : IAMBS

4-down – Epergnes providing aim of grandmaster’s gambit? : CENTREPIECES

6-down – See 7 : PSYCHOTIC

7-down – One intoxicated by smart books used in combating mental disorders : ANTI

8-down – Service of just a trifle : EVEN

11-down – S-some love might be described thus : ATFIRSTSIGHT

13-down – Strip out of clothing – in case I decrease in importance : TRIVIALISE

14-down – Crosses alarm shy birdies : HYBRIDISES

16-down – Interpretation of material on paper makes Thatcher cross : RORSCHACH

21-down – PM accounting for British Rail’s ruin : BLAIR

22-down – See 8 : SONG

23-down – See 16 : TEST

9-across – Terrorists first and subsequently to get back … their own : RETALIATE

10-across – Jane’s tribe on stage, with A for Antony? : ASHER

11-across – Married with no children, not being licensed : SPLICED

12-across – A target set for aquatic event : REGATTA

13-across – Engineer’s spoken question? : WATT

14-across – Fellow sentinel keeps clubs for protection of train : COWCATCHER

16-across – Take course to be at ease : RECLINE

17-across – Wizard with access to standard return : GANDALF

19-across – Building cover for recession initiated during infatuation : PEBBLEDASH

22-across – A 0.3125 lb return from sea : AZOV

24-across – Oxymoronic region where letter has dash in it : ZEELAND

25-across – Extract from clay pit to be expected : TYPICAL

26-across – Was idle student introduced to Sunday’s 1? : LAZED

27-across – Disc containing extra drink for Bible translator in Yorkshire : COVERDALE

1-down – This is curious – odds on proud being involved in deception, not I : CROSSWORDPUZZLE

2-down – Wrong half of Hellas in Greek given to 23 : ATHLETIC

3-down – See 20 : BLOCK

4-down – Extremely insensitive heart under building? : HARDCORE

5-down – Iron wheel with new base : FERRIC

6-down – Decoration for building to get reduction on the exterior : PARGETING

7-down – Which church has cover? : THATCH

8-down – Compounding regal 4, flattery is our biggest fault : GREATRIFTVALLEY

15-down – Game, not a good one, among poets : BILLIARDS

17-down – Cooker for idiot to put in cooked vegetables : GASSTOVE

18-down – Unholy verse by the poet Lewis towards the end of April : ANZACDAY

20-down – Wind brake in building? : BREEZE

21-down – Gather from leader in European countries : DEDUCE

23-down – Not the 25 play? : SPORT