Daily Answers

1-across – Old man, the Holy One, attends a place of worship : PAGODA

4-across – Deputy UN Secretary-General, not hot, put on a dinner jacket : ADJUTANT

9-across – When short, no longer see how to become a dwarf! : GOBLIN

10-across – Spooner says he separates clearish yellow liquids, though this may seem greenish-blue : SEAWATER

11-across – Expression, perhaps too cryptically? : FIGUREOFSPEECH

13-across – Rave about one record following another that is incompatible : DISCREPANT

14-across – Dickens’s love for a fool : BOZO

16-across – Pressure maintained by runner to get by : COPE

18-across – Capitalist side Dali wouldn’t have portrayed? : REALMADRID

21-across – Unravelling great plot, be in a theatrical scene? : OPERATINGTABLE

23-across – No way back after question stands : WHATNOTS

24-across – Vicious murderer a wonderful thing : RIPPER

25-across – Single-minded old bag on the shelf : ONETRACK

26-across – Current students : STREAM

1-down – Work up energy to jump up and down : POGO

2-down – Flaw showing up, discards various things : GUBBINS

3-down – Cocktail dress’s introduction immaculate, the papers having omitted the last one : DAIQUIRI

5-down – Member underlines serious charge, taking Lord’s position? : DEEPFINELEG

6-down – Building went up, though not shed : UNWEPT

7-down – Evenly narrated Italian author’s style : ARTDECO

8-down – 13 down spin-off : TORCHWOOD

12-down – But it should be ‘G’ for ‘Guru’, you say, expressed mildly : EUPHEMISTIC

13-down – Show, to show how cryptically? : DOCTORWHO

15-down – One believing in destiny, rich and very famous : FATALIST

17-down – Bishop on time? : PRELATE

19-down – Going back the other way, ‘e’s looking more ill – expecting this? : RELAPSE

20-down – Cyclist possibly taking gamble round fourth of corners : WAGNER

22-down – Plant needing a drink : ARUM

1-across – Motion follows test supporter’s sound academic qualification : INTERNATIONAL

10-across – Supporter wants gold for team needing 50 for record, not 500 : AUXILIARY

11-across – Old coin for Goldie – about turn for Cal : HALFA

12-across – See 11 : CROWN

13-across – It comes, as push to shove, when apothecary centre has to manage church : THECRUNCH

14-across – Retreat for a time to cattle market shelter : LAIRAGE

16-across – Hand for one who loses it? : FLIPPER

18-across – It’s abandoned Nehru to his end in Uttar Pradesh – keep climbing on it : UPANDUP

20-across – Row about nose job giving judges a holiday? : DIESNON

21-across – Not much interest in exchange for old rope? : EASYMONEY

23-across – Players in tune with puff for nostalgia? : STEAM

24-across – See 23 : TRAIN

25-across – Samson’s past wrongdoing brought back when group brought back : AGONISTES

26-across – So long, singer! As hormonal test shows, such as Mick won’t get such as Kate : AROLLINGSTONE

2-down – Stimulant for 1116-0 crash in semi-nuanced case : NUXVOMICA

3-down – Girl in cartel lending money : ELLEN

4-down – First person in France to follow bit of navy painting with a little orange : NAARTJE

5-down – Felt shy revealing Pope’s recommended object of knowledge : THYSELF

6-down – To put up a lot of herb : OTHERWISE

7-down – Wholly committed to suffering exhaustion : ALLIN

8-down – See 1 : BACCALAUREATE

9-down – See 26 : GATHERSNOMOSS

15-down – Belly laugh starts after rating for Latin mistress : ABDOMINAL

17-down – Eye fastening for curtain, say? : PINKERTON

19-down – Indian making quiet thrust into higher education? : PUNJABI

20-down – Gadabout outside topless tower going on for 24 hours? : DAYLONG

22-down – Sacred melody takes flight : STAIR

23-down – Move to get something to wear : SHIFT

1-across – Boasted about grub missing last crop : CREWCUT

5-across – Rural spelling bee, you see? Oh ‘ell, I see! : BUCOLIC

9-across – Fleeced Irishman in Blarney? : SHORN

10-across – Quango is so badly cut with needle : UNELECTED

11-across – Only line omitted by Guardian’s second old president? Get outta here! : ONYOURBIKE

12-across – Produce held back by nail guns : UGLI

14-across – Evil one quits wife-beating? : MALEVOLENCE

18-across – Bear’s face : COUNTENANCE

21-across – Compound soulless LP : ALUM

22-across – Bill enacted by this statesman : ROBERTPEEL

25-across – Inability to move capital stopped by a sly transfer : PARALYSIS

26-across – Two letters delivered in county : ESSEX

27-across – Duet sees review that evens out merit : DESERVE

28-across – A garden location comes in to spoil the antithesis of hippy philosophy : MAKEWAR

1-down – New scout master’s convention : CUSTOM

2-down – Titular person’s upset by setter’s emphatic refusal : EPONYM

3-down – More than able to finish off with sex : CONSUMMATE

4-down – Yes, it’s up – no, it’s down! : THUMB

5-down – What the Parisian does to 11 to be square : BREAKEVEN

6-down – Grind nut as wanted : CHEW

7-down – Dating doesn’t start ’til after work for one in suit : LITIGANT

8-down – One helping to control fish where they”re mostly coarse : CODRIVER

13-down – Indecent to flash by running stream without pausing : BLUESTREAK

15-down – Crustacean could be gelatinous without one : LANGOUSTE

16-down – Put up a fight when dumped : SCRAPPED

17-down – Whisper about USSR capturing American city once : SUSURRUS

19-down – Now and then spot this in the playground : SEESAW

20-down – Anger consumes team lifted by tonic : ELIXIR

23-down – Where to keep so many pens? : EPSOM

24-down – Slight indistinction of speech : SLUR

9-across – Hardy trainee mostly in such schools : ACADEMIES

10-across – ‘Enry’s bucket had this yellow liquid : OLEIN

11-across – See 22 down : NESTPAS

12-across – See 22 down : UNEPIPE

13-across – Fur makes female feel uncomfortable : FITCH

14-across – One officer and another into weird music and spooky practices : OCCULTISM

16-across – Act like a painstaking cruciverbalist and be tactful : CHOOSEONESWORDS

19-across – One brought in tenth possibly – to be put across counter in this? : TITHEBARN

21-across – Bank’s reception : LEVEE

22-across – Around the edge, drag computer graphics files : CLIPART

23-across – Spooner’s fellow, bumpkin making a pile in the country : HAYRICK

24-across – Mammal, one without love for another : COATI

25-across – See 16 : CAREFULLY

1-down – In fact, Magi may have been excited by words from Mary : MAGNIFICAT

2-down – Voice of loud gangster starting row : FALSETTO

3-down – At bottom of Greek valley find hard beans : TEMPEH

4-down – Again conceals a one-sided tendency : BIAS

5-down – Wounded revolutionary protected by English lad – a symbol of honour? : ESCUTCHEON

6-down – Dish provided by king’s decree : COLESLAW

7-down – Name of important family doctor coming before lunchtime? : MEDICI

8-down – Woman’s way to avoid extremes : ANNE

14-down – Branch of lexicography soon in trouble – coming across something sticky? : ONOMASTICS

15-down – Try to do this as a music student – they’ll give you many openings : MASTERKEYS

17-down – I censor a terrible plot for stage work : SCENARIO

18-down – Soldiers going to a heroic place of death heard bugle sound : REVEILLE

20-down – Pacific fish god, venomous creature : TAIPAN

21-down – Stop decider losing initial power : LAYOFF

22-down – Nice pet pin-up ceases to be funny as work of surrealist art : CECI

23-down – Fling with actress leaving you upset : HURL

1-across – Spanish chap in bedroom penetrates : HOMBRE

5-across – Two-hour shift revealed by shadow on timepiece : DOGWATCH

9-across – Something undesirable has started: lion’s feasting on sheep and half a horse : HEREWEGO

10-across – Angel cuts back on hydrogen : SERAPH

11-across – Time to seize a head in Florida : DAYTONABEACH

13-across – Reproduction of sound poem in corner square : HIFI

14-across – Still, two ducks get devoured by the wild canine : EYETOOTH

17-across – New immigrant to Hungary, Spain, Portugal and Ireland : HIBERNIA

18-across – Does old Mrs Cotton hit it off? : DOTH

20-across – With this type of application you may renew capital growth : HAIRRESTORER

23-across – Watford player’s unusual other name? : HORNET

24-across – Unexpected hitch for sports body thought to have no time at all for touring : HICCOUGH

25-across – Evening Star this fellow’s getting to read? Not quite all of it : HESPERUS

26-across – Get someone involved in the Net? : ENMESH

2-down – Moulding American’s expression of surprise : OGEE

3-down – Spooner’s taken charge of salt water subsistence level : BREADLINE

4-down – Name-dropping what’s not oddly male or female : EVELYN

5-down – Imitate Cockney while designing this particular grid? : DROPONESAITCHES

6-down – Light white china for holiday collectors : GOSSAMER

7-down – Consent to a European donating £1,000 : AGREE

8-down – Top expert holds comic actor up to qualify : CAPACITATE

12-down – Soldier to sleep all right in luxury, an unknown commitment : PIGINAPOKE

15-down – Demands here what Moneypenny provides? : ORDERFORM

16-down – It may appear to be the end for many soldiers : ANTEATER

19-down – From soak, pungent-leaved plant’s emerged in nursery : CRECHE

21-down – Hurriedly build approach : RUNUP

22-down – Wage slave takes a long time : AGES