Daily Answers

7-across – Silver complement perhaps to 23, singularly warmer : LONGJOHN

9-across – Bell of Breton origin : BRONTE

10-across – Burns’s spirit has reprised 18’s oeuvre : DEIL

11-across – Several workers’ joint occupation : TENANTSHIP

12-across – What happened nearly 130 years ago to Greek character at the end of every game – a bloomer from hell? : THETAY

14-across – See 24 : WEDDINGS

15-across – Funny fellow with dam to dam again : WEIRDO

17-across – Darling dog comes in when there’s fruit on the ground : ANANAS

20-across – Old country hero aids reform : RHODESIA

22-across – Second right for German playwright : BRECHT

23-across – With wine about, silence golden for politician : CLARESHORT

24-across – How 40s celebrate Burns week ending giddy with excitement : RUBY

25-across – See 12 : BRIDGE

26-across – Centre section on a certain island : TREASURE

1-down – Predict how to succeed cutting wood : FORESHOW

2-down – The same old bird heard to say one left : EGAL

3-down – Apt line-up of solver : WORTHY

4-down – A number in lottery at new place on Thames : ABINGDON

5-down – Read other than arts subjects with monitor : CONSCIENCE

6-down – Way to get round horses – pearls? : STRING

8-down – Nul points is proverbially encouraging : NONEWS

13-down – Michael after Lew and Leslie? : THIRDGRADE

16-down – See 12 : DISASTER

18-down – Insert fish – mine was Trout : SCHUBERT

19-down – Disburse to boy or girl with solvers’ entry : PAYOUT

21-down – Boy or girl monster reported on line : HILARY

22-down – Take first innings and field afterwards in Yorkshire : BATLEY

24-down – Former part of county – C on Y, say : ROSE

1-across – Aims to get it back within turns : MOTIVES

5-across – Cordovan article with small jet frame : LEATHER

9-across – Giving one run’s close on getting opener out : DONOR

10-across – Toast is behind drink : BOTTOMSUP

11-across – Mass uproar when gold’s in uncontrollable descent : FREEFORALL

12-across – 1817’s issue? : JOEY

14-across – Very frightened by a direction to pile on points : AWESTRICKEN

18-across – Something petty officer once announced at end of the line? : SMALLCHANGE

21-across – Vessel that carried naught to speak of : ARGO

22-across – Nothing reflected spot on lacy item without end product of flax : LINSEEDOIL

25-across – Celestine’s component symbolised by little Señor : STRONTIUM

26-across – Saw first team’s second reversal : AXIOM

27-across – New coinage that’s not 18 : NEOLOGY

28-across – 1918? : COPPERS

1-down – Setter’s having faithful dog cooped up to make 18 : MODIFY

2-down – Maker of 5 across’s 18 : TANNER

3-down – Elevating island on condition that one clergyman can be confirmed : VERIFIABLE

4-down – As judge’s robes when changing ends : SOBER

5-down – Alternatively, not very new or newish old language : LATELATIN

6-down – Greeting from a boat? : AHOY

7-down – Stop on way to Brighton’s pads : HASSOCKS

8-down – Salesman with a dark side of Chinese philosophy that’s good for making good : REPAYING

13-down – Officer’s bad idea to run off in secret : AIDEDECAMP

15-down – Background’s disturbed in the metropolis : ETHNICITY

16-down – When special force gets wrong killer : ASSASSIN

17-down – Organ developed in treeclimbing animal : KANGAROO

19-down – Arctic cap doesn’t have a right to regulate : POLICE

20-down – Animals having a set in 18 : LLAMAS

23-down – Tree rising with power from grounds of university : SUMAC

24-down – Open in Berlin and Oldenburg, initially : UNDO

7-across – See 25 : TOMORDEN

9-across – Man or woman’s name’s brought up regularly : EVENLY

10-across – Advice given when 17? Watch this space! : MIND

11-across – Advice given when 17? Odd fact: personal stereos heal suffering! : STANDCLEAR

12-across – See 10 : THEGAP

14-across – Craft of stretching hides and initially consulting sources of great wisdom : CORACLES

15-across – Accumulation of what’s wet and dry, providing vehicle for theatre performances? : DROPSY

17-across – A tower of strength accepting container for pipes : TUBING

20-across – See 25 : STATIONS

22-across – See 25 : VIATHE

23-across – See 11 : OFTHEDOORS

24-across – See 25 : BANK

25-across – A look that’s bad for environmentalist struggling for information when 17 south on … : FORALL

26-across – … line, or time the woman in the news : NORTHERN

1-down – Expert East European leader writer : POLISHED

2-down – Promise a brief conversation : WORD

3-down – Matter brought up gets overlooked by a theologian’s tots : ADDSUP

4-down – With German uniform colour Spooner’s managing to desexualise the wife : FELDGRAU

5-down – London associate in days gone by played him and Cole : MEOLDCHINA

6-down – See 11 : PLEASE

8-down – Shade of difference one noticed in sister establishment : NUANCE

13-down – Welcome news is nothing, filling snack up with some corn : GOODTOHEAR

16-down – Like reticent one quaffing rum made so poorly? : SHODDILY

18-down – Starve two beasts going over lines : GOHUNGRY

19-down – Fainting once was funny with nothing on! : ASWOON

21-down – Able to avoid the blame on completing tuition course for foreign students : TEFLON

22-down – Religious figure seen breaking into extremely religious changing room : VESTRY

24-down – Hard to get into club, having 100 satang : BAHT

8-across – One’s composed riding sure-fire winner round after fourth of fences : CONCERTO

9-across – See 12 : CREAM

10-across – See 24 down : POST

11-across – Sort of play about, for example, pessimism : NEGATIVITY

12-across – Test ignores wrong mark to right of box, claiming old community 22 across : COFFEE

14-across – See 3 : SURPRISE

15-across – See 22 down : FONDANT

17-across – Entrance in opposite directions obstructing dog : BEWITCH

20-across – You’ll get there more quickly taking this route, suggests copper? : SHORTCUT

22-across – Focus on money initially : CENTRE

23-across – 22 across upset after male interrupts routine : RUMTRUFFLE

24-across – Pounds away as hooligan : LOUT

25-across – Coin’s head : CROWN

26-across – Ancient Italian recusant to be converted : ETRUSCAN

1-down – In a sad way, died on the sherry : DOLOROSO

2-down – Jazz is beginning to swing, man! : SCAT

3-down – Plan to revert to force after primate reaches 22 across : ORANGE

4-down – Stuff gets in disarray under the Tories : CONGEST

5-down – A temperance society should be welcoming in church leader without penalty : SCOTFREE

6-down – Is porn ever about depravity? : PERVERSION

7-down – Strikes at small, small parasites : SMITES

13-down – Order retained of alliance : FEDERATION

16-down – Short piece reportedly criticised the Ashes : NOCTURNE

18-down – One’s sent round : CIRCULAR

19-down – Set to see attacks when uprising over marsh : STIFFEN

21-down – Feeling around a buttock and thigh : HAUNCH

22-down – 22 across court, in which US player conceding second point runs instead, heading for net : CHERRY

24-down – It : LAST

1-across – Phenomenal sight that turns the girls on thus : SOUTHERNLIGHTS

9-across – Total accord when a game is held by number one : UNANIMITY

10-across – Estate with house could end up with mouse? : MANOR

11-across – Those in authority after the top money : BRASS

12-across – Breaking instrument into fragments : VIOLATION

13-across – Frozen in spring after, that is, catching cold : ICEBOUND

14-across – Proffer rich vein of iron : FERRIC

17-across – Boring cocktail? : GIMLET

19-across – Slippery snake? : MOCCASIN

22-across – Silly student act of rebellion’s caught out from early bloomer : LUDICROUS

24-across – Machine producing articles for France and England : LATHE

25-across – Rod broken by river bird : CRANE

26-across – Spicy snap of redhead : GINGERNUT

27-across – Mate binds wound with kind of acid containing highest class of drugs : PHARMACEUTICAL

1-down – Let’s select leader by rolling die : STUMBLINGBLOCK

2-down – Oblivious to a faint rising in river : UNAWARE

3-down – A drop of the hard stuff? : HAILSTONE

4-down – Make over controller’s outlet : REINVENT

5-down – Fell and went off the radar : LAYLOW

6-down – Ray’s designation of linguistic subject – not one of the R’s : GAMMA

7-down – Port’s more flavoursome : TANGIER

8-down – Superior switches and lanterns etc : TRANSCENDENTAL

15-down – First-class former living unit : EXCELLENT

16-down – Not logical to follow directions to win love : NONSENSE

18-down – Filthy conditions give bad name to city : MUDBATH

20-down – Looks at a nice piece of devilry : SATANIC

21-down – Gigolo gets end away frolicking on a balcony : LOGGIA

23-down – Far from it if as 18 part 1? : CLEAR