Daily Answers

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

9-across – Land of composer entertaining fellow setter : ARGENTINE

10-across – Land – the Midi – for its year : SUDAN

11-across – Selective killing returned in kind, as maybe this would have it : ILLLUCK

12-across – Land of ours – weather English, too : UKRAINE

13-across – Land where people were addressed : YEMEN

14-across – Land, variant – Natal’s variant : TRANSVAAL

16-across – Nanny’s policy is to put flue underground where I and Salmon play : INTERVENTIONISM

19-across – Nice noises made by Brussels charlatans? : EUPHONIES

21-across – Land with activity on the other side : CONGO

22-across – Tool for prince’s use : PINCERS

23-across – Land of prohibition entering sign on pole : LEBANON

24-across – Victorian novelist and what to do with him, so to speak : READE

25-across – Drug : NEPENTHES

1-down – Goings on at home may, if I fell, change : FAMILYLIFE

2-down – A sticky object – that’s me – means one can be either too young or too old : AGELIMIT

3-down – Hospital worker, say, one after another : INTURN

4-down – See 14 : LINK

5-down – They come out from underground, given lift when poet’s about : DEBUTANTES

6-down – Telepathy leads to recipe with petrol to drink : ESPRESSO

7-down – A new identification for Currie? : EDWINA

8-down – 1 in 100? On the contrary, far less often : ONCE

14-down – Think about English girl in goal, first and last with supposed ancestor : THEMISSING

15-down – Table including a politician in the nude I attack personally : LAMPOONIST

17-down – Started again to write on love among climbing animals : REOPENED

18-down – One ninth’s infraction – leave car at Hackney pub : INNONTHE

20-down – Land of wordplay and inoculation : PUNJAB

21-down – Copper and singer changing 2 to 8, say : CUBING

22-down – See 18 : PARK

23-down – Opening for pen friend up in the far North : LAPP

1-across – 8’s thieves trapping birds, one caught, snared by Her Majesty : THEMUSICMAKERS

8-across – Romantic line in fashion making comeback : ELGAR

9-across – 8’s son dividing rivers : FALSTAFF

11-across – Instrument left to it, breaking short tool : ALTOSAX

12-across – Brisk movement leading man round two sharp corners east of South Carolina : SCHERZO

13-across – Half eat, then drink, then eat! : DIGIN

15-across – Way of talking about record’s image : DEPICTION

17-across – 8’s right – nothing is close to brass among wind : FROISSART

20-across – Leonard, one of the 1 acrosses, man in blue : COHEN

21-across – Oxygen capacity I set for the back of the head : OCCIPUT

23-across – University called to maintain resistance, though can’t do so? : UNARMED

25-across – A description here of 1 across, 9, 16 and 17? : PIECESOF

26-across – 25 2 dazzle : GLARE

27-across – Extras at the Edinburgh Festival? : FRINGEBENEFITS

1-down – enmark? Rest here : THELANDOFNOD

2-down – See 25 : EIGHT

3-down – Acts of rebellion America’s forcing through : UPRISINGS

4-down – Firmly set with home team up, sent outside : INFIXED

5-down – Drip surgery uses overhead : MILKSOP

6-down – Boat, or old chopper : KETCH

7-down – Overhaul regarding controversial habit again beginning to help : REFURBISH

10-down – Formal wear for a wedding, or for a funeral, we hear? : MORNINGDRESS

14-down – More surly, pained expression, one between royal father and daughter : GROUCHIER

16-down – 8’s male, single, clutched by girl endlessly : COCKAIGNE

18-down – Sweetheart is tempted to hug entertainer : ARTISTE

19-down – Time to put out sweet : TRUFFLE

22-down – Under great pressure, turning new nut : PECAN

24-down – Descartes’ considered conclusion passing through northern state to southern city : MIAMI