Daily Answers

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

1-across – : JERRYBUILDING

10-across – : UNDYING

11-across – : POPEDOM

12-across – : LARGE

13-across – : SCATTERER

14-across – : FLORA

16-across – : HALLOWMAS

18-across – : CINCTURED

19-across – : GIRTH

20-across – : TOWNCLERK

23-across – : VIALS

24-across – : OVERACT

25-across – : ZINGARO

26-across – : YESTERDAYSMEN

2-down – : EIDERDOWN

3-down – : RAISE

4-down – : BOGUS

5-down – : IMPEARLED

6-down – : DIPHTHONG

7-down – : NADIR

8-down – : QUALIFICATION

9-down – : XMARKSTHESPOT

15-down – : ATTICSALT

16-down – : HARVESTER

17-down – : MARMALADE

21-down – : WHERE

22-down – : KEZIA

23-down – : VENUS

1-across – See 6 : METHOD

4-across – Cluster of flowers seen in spring – ten in the Luxembourg gardens : SPADIX

9-across – Remarkable person in arithmetic only, maybe? : ONER

10-across – What may involve modelling ceramics and tar? : PLASTICART

11-across – Cheeky youngster hanging around station to give trouble : PLAYUP

12-across – There’s little right in the woman with desire to be nagging : SHREWISH

13-across – Nancy restricted by wind – medicine needed : CASTOROIL

15-across – Supplies a reduced value of statistical significance : ARMS

16-across – Ship’s senior officer? : BRIG

17-across – A hindrance to teacher? : BLOCKHEAD

21-across – She may be in this store : BOOKSHOP

22-across – Unfair dealer getting rid of a year’s tat : SHLOCK

24-across – Pounds subsequently invested in fuel for security : COLLATERAL

25-across – Scrap Church festival : WHIT

26-across – It’s a new drug that you may take as a relaxant : TISANE

27-across – Funny boy? Such may be the favourite : ODDSON

1-down – Ritual power surrounding wicked metal bracelet : MANILLA

2-down – Actress’s scare, forgetting Kipling’s lines : TERRY

3-down – Assigned to the Guardian perhaps, in theory : ONPAPER

5-down – The old man wants a dish : PATERA

6-down – The Lord’s wicket? Mud! How to work out way of dealing with rain-affected game? : DUCKWORTH

7-down – Possible reason for chap giving kiss? Love is! : XEROSIS

8-down – Fellow to flash around the Oval, say, creating a story : MANSFIELDPARK

14-down – Celtic symbols of danger in forged steel frame : TRISKELES

16-down – Mean to have egg in bar – or something much more substantial? : BLOWOUT

18-down – Actors given guidance made a special move : CASTLED

19-down – Take care putting clubs down in bridge : AUCTION

20-down – Not much light to take picture before noon : PHOTON

23-down – See 6 : LEWIS