Daily Answers

1-across – Article about enclosed space, the cosmological matter for discussion : STRING

4-across – Problem ending pain with basis of plaster : GYPSUM

9-across – Cry when onion’s brought round : BLUB

10-across – Brainwashing has genuine look if pronounced : PROPAGANDA

11-across – State with little resort on the Adriatic : RIMINI

12-across – Miserable old news people given endless credit : PATHETIC

13-across – A fan with girls excited, as tongues entwining? : FRANGLAIS

15-across – Second-rate wine? Sling away for cheese : BRIE

16-across – Pound Shop – not for her! : POSH

17-across – Reserve I show behind world leader : BANKIMOON

21-across – Partygoers given drug after little time, getting 23 : TRAVERSE

22-across – Agreement, something struck out loud? : ACCORD

24-across – Linen item with facing edges carrying blue stripe, firstly : PILLOWSLIP

25-across – Dog without lead, finished : OVER

26-across – See 1 : THEORY

27-across – See 7 : CRISIS

1-down – One going in to join fighter : SOLDIER

2-down – Butler, bisexual holy man : RABBI

3-down – Poor Paul in trouble without money, seeking marriage : NUPTIAL

5-down – Frivolous introduction to Beverley, East Yorkshire : YEASTY

6-down – Very difficult answer coming up as instrument : SNAREDRUM

7-down – Time when confidence lacking if : MIDLIFE

8-down – My topic called complex – in just that manner? : COMPLICATEDLY

14-down – Architect left in repulsive US city : NASHVILLE

16-down – Carry on forward to embrace female relation : PERSIST

18-down – Stone breaker last to crack nut : KNAPPER

19-down – Real SOS put out, as stranded on the water? : OARLESS

20-down – Upside-down pot, container : DRAWER

23-down – Bridge put out : CROSS

7-across – Less than mile, OK, when converted to be French : KILOMETRE

8-across – Finish off banquet with acceptable dessert wine : TOKAY

9-across – People so energetic they might shock you : LIVEWIRES

10-across – Disgraced president totally exposed? : NIXON

12-across – In one university, having changed mind about it : INDIUM

13-across – Edit I printed in bold : INTREPID

14-across – Constituent in third of elections soundly represented : ELEMENT

17-across – To sum up, where they make cheese that’s soft and fine : INBRIEF

20-across – At one part of US outside Indiana : ASTATINE

22-across – Kind of painter that’s repeatedly in fashion : CUBIST

24-across – Writer travelling with expedition : SWIFT

25-across – Am I with boy protected by a mother? : AMERICIUM

26-across – Without resistance, become weaker, feeble and infirm : FRAIL

27-across – Al is one welcomed by old students with hesitation : ALUMINIUM

1-down – Person that’s unusually fair, in a sense : VISION

2-down – No group of workers is concealing daggers : NOBELIUM

3-down – He makes dissenting statement when priest enters : HELIUM

4-down – As word for part of anatomy, not altogether polite : ARSENIC

5-down – I got out of period in exile : IODINE

6-down – Acknowledge worth of gold in case : VALORISE

11-down – Put in dazed state, heads turned : STUN

15-down – Ultimate authority in Zyrian, more or less : LASTWORD

16-down – Make fast payment on this without delay : NAIL

18-down – Part of being cherubic undoubtedly is having rosy cheeks : RUBICUND

19-down – Produce beam, including each measure of length for ship : SEAMILE

21-down – Result of finding a female beautiful? : AFFAIR

22-down – Shiny covering of church north of capital : CHROME

23-down – Order to stop talking else put in detention : SHUTUP

1-across – Symbols of love awards one had to enter : CUPIDS

4-across – Short warrant officer covered in hair cleaner : MRSMOP

9-across – Book about Hammer lacking start and finish : EMMA

10-across – Bird some say Fielding reproduced with two rooks : GIRLFRIEND

11-across – Primitive form of expression not right for rider : CAVEAT

12-across – Strong dislike, though there are other interpretations? : AVERSION

13-across – Gloomy yet stirring wordy history : ETYMOLOGY

15-across – One of many passed on by Mother Kelly? : GENE

16-across – Be retrogressive as a player : BACK

17-across – Car taken by one time British rock star : MINIATURE

21-across – Shell protecting the effeminate French ruler? : POLAROID

22-across – Recording Leonard’s unconscious : SINGLE

24-across – Hundred and nine, name forgotten, rambling and left alone : UNHINDERED

25-across – See 22 : LENS

26-across – Substitute, er, rested, with a bit of a snore : ERSATZ

27-across – World star, a sport, making a comeback : URANUS

1-down – Function after short contest : COMPACT

2-down – Tragic poet losing home : PLATE

3-down – Appreciate computing and stuff? A life initially is needed! : DIGITAL

5-down – See 22 : REFLEX

6-down – Electric supply energy stored in the switching, which facilitates a nautical manoeuvre : MAINSHEET

7-down – Leg space : PINHOLE

8-down – Revolutionary street entertainers in rags circling Miller : ORGANGRINDERS

14-down – Two centuries since one in battle footwear : MOCCASINS

16-down – Before 1 PM and a quarter : BROWNIE

18-down – No outdoor type’s pub drink, by the sound of it : INSIDER

19-down – Decisions that result in lined paper? : RULINGS

20-down – Stop – just gin, no vermouth! : HOLDIT

23-down – Material is short and only to be ordered : NYLON

1-across – Greeting to bishop : HIPBATH

5-across – The relative proposition : THESIS

9-across – See 29 : RATTIGAN

10-across – He ran off with ex-king entering German river : ARNOLD

12-across – Shirley’s boy with root vegetables: am I going to interrupt? : LADYWILLIAMS

15-across – University man to disturb the peace with some power : HERIOTWATT

17-across – See 19 : OUR

19-across – Talk of the spirit of the Guardian : RUM

20-across – English father accepts French call to desk : ESCRITOIRE

22-across – Lilliputian, one of ten eliminated one by one if I replace energy : LITTLEENDIAN

26-across – Little girl is in Parliament and pays calls : VISITS

27-across – The odd one? : SINGULAR

28-across – Rat in the sand : DESERT

29-across – Cigarette? Tanner would get it for him : TERENCE

1-down – Hearts are associated with March : HARE

2-down – Arrange for your head to be contending with Ruth : PITY

3-down – I caused a stir with A Fool on a Hill : AGITATOR

4-down – Violent character not easy to read : HEAVY

6-down – 1 down’s right about former drink coming to him : HAROLD

7-down – That’s right about climber with a break he spends on addiction : SHOPAHOLIC

8-down – Byway, small, that is OK, say Geordies : SIDESTREET

11-down – See 6 : PINTER

13-down – Ephemeral revolts hid problem : SHORTLIVED

14-down – 1 down, 9, 11, 16, 21 and 29, having a drink, ordered ‘Sit!’, sat : DRAMATISTS

16-down – See 10 : WESKER

18-down – Canonised forester’s new baby? : STRANGER

21-down – See 24 : PLATER

23-down – Both sides of door have 12 inches leeway : DRIFT

24-down – He will make a plan in due course : ALAN

25-down – Such and 2 was said of Hamlet’s madness, giving time to repent : TRUE

7-across – Split atom in garden turned by worm : NEMATODE

9-across – Start with the in crowd? Hardly : OUTSET

10-across – Perforate flower : PINK

11-across – Home to bird holding back infestation of the bowel : INTESTINAL

12-across – Sea dweller’s far from generous about seafarers : MERMAN

14-across – Palette devised to capture Manet’s first model : TEMPLATE

15-across – Colour in cartoon character : TINTIN

17-across – Sunny on departure from resort : BRIGHT

20-across – Current keeping river hot : TROPICAL

22-across – Beer to please foreign king : BITTER

23-across – Hexed but healthy, taking lead, covering length : SPELLBOUND

24-across – Young mammal with a young insect : PUPA

25-across – Group relations offensive in Vietnam? : SEXTET

26-across – Difficult or easy to make squirm : TICKLISH

1-down – Hemmed in, receiving coin for crowning feature : PEDIMENT

2-down – Note in the old money : MARK

3-down – Cream’s to turn up in the cat : LOTION

4-down – Delicate but lively character securing return of service : GOSSAMER

5-down – Rude remark about Journey to Illumination : STRIPLIGHT

6-down – Historical meal? : REPAST

8-down – Being – supreme one – not beginning to absorb books about himself? : ENTITY

13-down – Handle partner holding a flower up : MANIPULATE

16-down – 10-1 debacle involving island brood : INCUBATE

18-down – It’s a sin to put hair in the bath? On the contrary! : TRESPASS

19-down – Relative was active before display : FLAUNT

21-down – See 22 : RIPPER

22-down – Dancer imprisoning gambler on island in racy novel : BODICE

24-down – What the ALF might do to fur? : PELT