Daily Answers

9-across – Quite slowly and not for a little number : ANDANTINO

10-across – The bottom line is finally stripped : INALL

11-across – At table, cut of meat is immersed in drink : NOSHING

12-across – King’s absolutely all right in the realm of live entertainment : KARAOKE

13-across – Recycling conifer with curve : ARCED

14-across – Hit the roof, breaking nose in torus : DOONESNUT

16-across – Appropriate line for Jackson Pollock? : ABSTRACTPAINTER

19-across – Desire : STREETCAR

21-across – Thief takes on father : PADRE

22-across – Island streets : STKITTS

23-across – As it is in the laboratory, it reacts in scare : ARSENIC

24-across – Man, for one, is following first division : AISLE

25-across – Menu riper for dissection when the wine is new : ENPRIMEUR

1-down – Sweet nothing : FANNYADAMS

2-down – Their top drawer partners are missing thrash, in all probability : ODDSOCKS

3-down – Confirm arrangements with daughter, not settling using money : INKIND

4-down – Start to call : RING

5-down – Queen fan resting outside hospital, opposite penguin : ROCKHOPPER

6-down – PM’s giving off airs buying unusual foods? : DISRAELI

7-down – Isolate a brownish crimson : MAROON

8-down – Chelsea fan after defeat by Arsenal? : BLUE

14-down – Detective takes slices off bird : DICKCISSEL

15-down – Get excited here with stimulating escort, 60 : THREESCORE

17-down – Take compound of neon and get a dose of rays : ROENTGEN

18-down – Cross-dressing medic touring in Tyneside, as exemplified by MASH? : TVDINNER

20-down – Like roué’s mum, after spirit : RAKISH

21-down – Birds work up bearer of message in office : POSTIT

22-down – The Sun’s beginning, not the end … : STAR

23-down – … current stops losing beginning : AMPS

8-across – See 10 : FANTUTTE

9-across – Arrival on stage from cinema? : ICEMAN

10-across – 22 down’s green food for : COSI

11-across – 22 down’s pal accepting soldier’s c-complaint : MAGICFLUTE

12-across – 22 down’s married man with pole : FIGARO

14-across – 22 down’s first building gets a new start : IDOMENEO

15-across – Point to loss of heart in the newspaper epoch? : PRESAGE

17-across – 22 down character from capital, topless, in extremis : ZERLINA

20-across – Case without a novel character that has three horns? : TRILEMMA

22-across – Physician needs Latin, I say it myself : MEDICO

23-across – Nameless novelist left in hotel in 7 : AUSTERLITZ

24-across – 22 down’s clement marshal : TITO

25-across – Wiltshire 24 down’s gone back to 7 : SENLAC

26-across – Having another go at Henley could be wronger were I involved : REROWING

1-down – Composer of Seraglio’s old light fitting : GASOLIER

2-down – Case for private tuition : ETUI

3-down – Up Guards and ___! order to revert to set speed : ATEMPO

4-down – Bird book? : PENGUIN

5-down – Tell from record have no success : DISCLOSE

6-down – Satisfactorily cobbled with brass : WELLHEELED

7-down – Play cricket, outlet for fighting : BATTLE

13-down – Ballets you dance without qualification : ABSOLUTELY

16-down – Report of boy on drug not worth much : GIMCRACK

18-down – Report of boy, 10 : NICOTINE

19-down – Report of girl aroused anger in him – against 22 down? : SALIERI

21-down – Shown how to get to being put to flight : ROUTED

22-down – Car turning up to tour distant country mentioned in relation to 1 : MOZART

24-down – London to draw to its close : TOWN

7-across – Reversing into vehicle, bloody sweet! : SYLLABUB

9-across – Who conceals head? I do when flipping menace, ultimately! : HOODIE

10-across – Frank, given pressure, left an office so by design? : OPEN

11-across – It’s all, so it could be, describing June 21, perhaps : SOLSTITIAL

12-across – Divided into areas round back of park, all in : ZONKED

14-across – Plastered on head is the quality of a plaster! : ADHESION

15-across – Criminal that is pursued by the CID : YARDIE

17-across – E 1? : EROICA

20-across – O 1? : PASTORAL

22-across – N 1? : CHORAL

23-across – Scumbag British want newspaper, but not The Scotsman : BLACKGUARD

24-across – See 24 down : DEAD

25-across – Horse is to shoe as Jack is … as well! : TOBOOT

26-across – Prison brings depression? Yes! : HOLLOWAY

1-down – Bringing up my son affected work : SYMPHONY

2-down – See 10 : PLAN

3-down – America, through resting, taken advantage of : ABUSED

4-down – Tory leader a chick? For Denis, perhaps! : THATCHER

5-down – Supporting artist virtually admitting I’m very strong : FORTISSIMO

6-down – Creation of Mozart and Barber : FIGARO

8-down – Total cutting off number : BALLAD

13-down – What requires speed in hack, perhaps, to work? : KARATECHOP

16-down – Supply water to Irish town, not English : IRRIGATE

18-down – Rise of Indian music reproduced, which may sustain culture? : AGARAGAR

19-down – Cleaner needs boron to drain from soil : BLEACH

21-down – Beds may be providing opening for Luton during a time of prosperity : ABLOOM

22-down – Given something to chew, lady hasn’t a failing and is delightful to hold : CUDDLY

24-down – Stop being so gorgeous! : DROP

1-across – Type of 22 with forehead wrinkled by nods, lies 25 10 : JOHNBROWNSBODY

9-across – Angle for distribution of a drug by ferry here? : FISHGUARD

10-across – See 25 : GRAVE

11-across – Point to thin hardwood : EBONY

12-across – Row at home – complaint – going to restaurant : DININGOUT

13-across – Not the dry part of the puzzle : SOLUTION

14-across – Refined ordinary language – 1 across didn’t! : UPROSE

17-across – Colours may be and lie maybe, with small child : NAILED

19-across – Denomination of contract, other than Bottom’s : NOTRUMPS

22-across – Pupil actor when wicked in the Yorkshire Dales : APPLETREE

24-across – Actor’s first name or second added : ORSON

25-across – 22’s actor, having suffered, resting for good : INTHE

26-across – See 17 : TOTHEMAST

27-across – See 2 : GOESMARCHINGON

1-down – Confederate leader jives wildly about and offers change : JEFFERSONDAVIS

2-down – Unlike 1 across, show dislike of dreadful monologues about acting as bridge? : HISSOUL

3-down – Try m-mouth coming up with the French for plant : BOGMYRTLE

4-down – Objection with 13 – Scottish port sold out : OBANDSOL

5-down – End in a novel writer’s name : NADINE

6-down – Initiate request at home : BEGIN

7-down – Some bones in the face need oxygen on top : DIABOLO

8-down – Guardian’s road to knowledge: utter at speed in London area : WESTKENSINGTON

15-down – Baroque composer for piano consequently lies hammered : PERGOLESI

16-down – Row, perhaps, over movement of that building : DOMESTIC

18-down – 16 animal breaking into secret : INPETTO

20-down – Horse: 1 down ___ on a sour 22, the song says of ‘im : MUSTANG

21-down – Hence Mr and Mrs Smith’s work? : GRETNA

23-down – Woman at Poles could go either way? : EVENS

8-across – Wild flower given beauty treatment : MANICURE

9-across – 40% of 11’s problem doesn’t start with marriage : UNION

10-across – See 15 : WAGS

11-across – 26 person’s dance, back to front, in back-to-front housetop : FOOTBALLER

12-across – Scholar’s day without vehicle : SAVANT

14-across – Teach a student to be laid-back : INFORMAL

15-across – Greek character composed light ode about 11s’ 25 and 6s – defining their relationships? : THETAIL

17-across – Be subjected to German and hence Latin : UNDERGO

20-across – Extremely narrow boundary prone to recession : HAIRLINE

22-across – Diminutive drunk : TIDDLY

23-across – Architect’s frame for collection containing retrograde art : ARCHITRAVE

24-across – Arachnid’s modest contribution : MITE

25-across – Backstitch securing 4 members of 9 : WIVES

26-across – Disclose secrets about wine, putting the game first : SPORTING

1-down – Gourd puts a research establishment in the money : CALABASH

2-down – Highway’s prepared to conceal draught excluder from arachnophobe : MISS

3-down – See 2 : MUFFET

4-down – Popular detectives holding book up : DEMOTIC

5-down – It provides the extra kick of wearing headgear : TURBOFAN

6-down – Favourite filly to fling rider off? : GIRLFRIEND

7-down – Insides of rising ridge bearing North : ENTERA

13-down – Possess pudding before perfume : AFTERSHAVE

16-down – Old fool’s condition rendering one so timid : IDIOTISM

18-down – North American exclamation about : GELATINE

19-down – Pearls cast before swine ultimately causing setback : RELAPSE

21-down – Torments Cockney with darts : ARROWS

22-down – See 15 : THEDOG

24-down – Ancient account of gloomy thoughts : MYTH