Daily Answers

1-across – Guardian to city of Swiss composer : WEBERN

4-across – I don’t want an article of gold : OBJECTOR

9-across – See 12 : DERBY

10-across – Farmland unfriendly, accepting sailors’ say so? : CORNFIELD

11-across – Man – island – ‘s : WHEELBASE

12-across – 3 race found in 21 : CROWN

13-across – Got to spring down river Tees : OVERWINTERED

17-across – Agree to drop a note to extreme small boy to temporary hangers on wall : GREENBOTTLES

20-across – Special poem found in 21 : SPODE

21-across – Meat keeps in wood, which is no place for a bull : CHINASHOP

23-across – It’s said being ill for a short time creates a scar : CICATRICE

24-across – Being ill like a flower? : INBED

25-across – Most of 10th, right, plus 1 and 12? : ENTHRONE

26-across – Herb added, found in 21 : MINTON

1-down – Two clubs said to be dropped by Tony in 21 : WEDGWOOD

2-down – Boat people need lawyers to get lowdown about setter : BARGEMEN

3-down – Oriental bird lay back in list found in 21 : ROYAL

5-down – Swapped wife for red deer and rabbit? : BARTEREDBRIDE

6-down – Amphibian, nice if working inside, is working well : EFFICIENT

7-down – Boy has his number increased by 995: that will shake him : TREMOR

8-down – Clothes etc around the Row when doing this? : RIDING

10-down – Labour politician and Conservative placed apart in making of domino effect : CHAINREACTION

14-down – See 3 : WORCESTER

15-down – A record has Latin letters : ALPHABET

16-down – Woodlouse’s music player goes round like this article : ISOPODAN

18-down – Revolutionary spy has revolutionary soul : PSYCHE

19-down – Carnivore of former years at sea? : BOBCAT

22-down – Defence of one ending a party : ALIBI

9-across – Criminal job – one’s driven into the ground : FENCEPOST

10-across – Before gravity, the elementary particle giving 3 20? : THEME

11-across – Time when grand ancient city almost knocked over : EVENING

12-across – Essay about getting on – read it and weep! : TRAGEDY

13-across – Entering apartment on a landing using a key : TONAL

14-across – Lurid figure’s incest most unclear? : CLOUDIEST

16-across – Simply a wild animal in the grass? I can’t tell : MYLIPSARESEALED

19-across – Importance that is with Tony Blair finally is in tatters : SENIORITY

21-across – Fairy lights initially bringing danger : PERIL

22-across – Nation at war one beginning to believe perfect, on reflection : NAMIBIA

23-across – State to arrest a disease : CHOLERA

24-across – Classical character, round and huge : OMEGA

25-across – Seafood good to throw out into the road : LANGOUSTE

1-down – Commonly, introductions to orgiastic films XX : OFTENTIMES

2-down – Hellish in Nunhead with untamed environment : INFERNAL

3-down – Reference book breaking rule remains to be edited : SERIAL

4-down – See 10 : SONG

5-down – Report still in the papers : STATIONERY

6-down – Mount starts to trouble rider in its seat : STRADDLE

7-down – Dangerous to cut wire, ultimately : SEVERE

8-down – Describing kiss in rising scream of passion? : SEXY

14-down – Helpful message about cigar butt I found in Panama : CHARITABLE

15-down – Dangerous surges laid waste to fuse, with volts passing through : TIDALWAVES

17-down – Little-brained philosopher’s verbal diarrhoea exposed : POOHBEAR

18-down – Oil finally greases wheels, which is beneficial : LARGESSE

20-down – See 3 : NUMBER

21-down – Moon, showing bum in outskirts of Paris : PHOBOS

22-down – Twelve ducks in the news : NOON

23-down – Solid figure supporting Conservative : CONE

1-across – Fellow islander has right money as cover with two pitches : MANSARD

5-across – Bond live till morning with connection in 12 space : TIEBEAM

9-across – See 21 : NIGHT

10-across – The cartoon spirit? : ANIMATION

11-across – See 21 : THINGOFTHE

12-across – See 1 : ROOF

14-across – Irritable 19 by slippery customer heard as tribute : TESTIMONIAL

18-across – Interpretive, as girl with blokes for cutie, possibly : HERMENEUTIC

21-across – Thus, I suppose, kings depart and go later into battle with suggestion of evil : SOME

22-across – Sticker, about 10 francs, relating to coeliacs’ diet : GLUTENFREE

25-across – With which one may be economical in a quote about time to turn first left : ACTUALITE

26-across – Dutch product, some of it back in Indian region : GOUDA

27-across – Visualise deposits in money : FORESEE

28-across – Beg in letter for party : ENTREAT

1-down – Note how Livingstone speaks of his pet? : MINUTE

2-down – Two drinks in one : NOGGIN

3-down – In sum, a student’s got to come up solvent : ALTOGETHER

4-down – 1 down in cold war feature : DWARF

5-down – Christian heretic in almost banal robbery : TRITHEIST

6-down – Dutch product cryptically invented? : EDAM

7-down – One poor bloke in long tale proceeding in fits and starts : EPISODIC

8-down – Multiple character : MANIFOLD

13-down – They don’t affect us as they stage play with apology for associate’s error : YOUCANTGET

15-down – The girl’s going to take to the receiver : SHELLLIKE

16-down – See 13 : THESTAFF

17-down – He won’t succeed without a fight : PROMOTER

19-down – Game causing complaint : GROUSE

20-down – Skip the orient? : LEVANT

23-down – See 13 : THESE

24-down – See 13 : DAYS

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