Daily Answers

1-across – Lace re-worked in suit by couple having love and money without sex appeal : ACCELERATION

8-across – Russian plane attaining speed in a month : ANTONOV

9-across – Material beat : WORSTED

11-across – Commander getting information : GENERAL

12-across – Utopia in this time and place? : NOWHERE

13-across – Old man deprived of all these years : GRAND

14-across – Jersey etc, for primate slightly affected by smoke : CIGARILLO

16-across – State what Greenwich sounds like when inverted : TENNESSEE

19-across – Hide 106 balls? : COVER

21-across – Playing tie near course : AINTREE

23-across – Chess player heard to do what Humpty Dumpty did to friend – some egg! : TOPALOV

24-across – Moon-dweller’s destination, largely mistaken, backed by German setter : NORWICH

25-across – Tin treated for corrosion awaiting maturity, perhaps : INTRUST

26-across – See 11 : INTELLIGENCE

1-down – Bill gets skin disease reportedly from sea anemone : ACTINIA

2-down – American money, very little of, is focused : CENTRED

3-down – Mud in your eye coming up without a lot of speed for old dandy’s curls : LOVELOCKS

4-down – Tree sharing name with primate : ROWAN

5-down – Illegal bowler in controversy’s in the right : THROWER

6-down – Surprised at a mole having to do porridge : OATMEAL

7-down – In 26 gaga characters acquire camels etc : BAGGAGETRAIN

10-down – See 1 across : DUETOGRAVITY

15-down – Minimal clothing might be partly starred : GEESTRING

17-down – Ulster river in 12, not for the press : NONIRON

18-down – Queen finds river sternutatory : ERRHINE

19-down – Put Matthews in England team as winder : CAPSTAN

20-down – Affection returned by amazingly true bird : VULTURE

22-down – Solver’s in line for solvent : ETHYL

1-across – No 10, possibly, in revolt fiasco : SCREWUP

5-across – Music combination to depend on wearing underwear : BHANGRA

9-across – Member of religion cut short god’s thanks : RASTA

10-across – Saying entire political party needs energy : UTTERANCE

11-across – Shelled sea creature getting round in chipboard buggy : BRACHIOPOD

12-across – Marshland inhabitant repulsed beast with club : REED

14-across – Injured thumb tops caught in secateurs somehow revive : RESUSCITATE

18-across – Spoilsport legal person rotten about exercise : PARTYPOOPER

21-across – See 12 : MACE

22-across – Composed clue about cinema’s altered view of Church unity : ECUMENICAL

25-across – Word with Cherry, say, at first sign of the Channel: End of the line for Brummie? : NEWSTREET

26-across – Weller well before Davis? : SAMMY

27-across – Sign of otic injury? Keep to one side! : EARMARK

28-across – See 25 : STATION

1-down – Crashing bores holding court, finally flash on and off : STROBE

2-down – Cork, not for the first time, wraps drugs in material : RESEAL

3-down – Kept open by the alert, brave investigator : WEATHEREYE

4-down – The world’s a small place – moving out : PLUTO

5-down – Shakespearean character associated with drink and toast : BOTTOMSUP

6-down – Rockers possibly creamed off church melodies : AIRS

7-down – Sort of dark grey with bluish sheen not encountered in western girl : GUNMETAL

8-down – City of Lincoln and river: a sort of Eden : ABERDEEN

13-down – Cameron Isle is out of the Pacific island group : MICRONESIA

15-down – Vet unexpectedly puts dog’s name on bridle : SPOTCHECK

16-down – Sparkling wine medium discovered in chopped peanuts : SPUMANTE

17-down – PanAm’s top aircrew broken by commercial competition : PRICEWAR

19-down – Seafood dish from Monkey Island : SCAMPI

20-down – Sportingly ignore the rain when actors are performing? : PLAYON

23-down – Dull high school sort of lesson : MATHS

24-down – Portico ermine supplier shortened : STOA

8-across – Composer’s love for battle : BORODINO

9-across – See 3 : SCOUT

10-across – A cast that’s pale : ASHY

11-across – Heartless devil to record unknown science of ethics : DEONTOLOGY

12-across – Chinese leader holding mountain and river : MAMTOR

14-across – Leave sirens struggling to exhibit bloody nature : GORINESS

15-across – Son, child to Margery : SKIDDAW

17-across – Eating place chasing leader for soup plates : SCAFELL

20-across – Leave in counterfoil – it contains hogwash : SWILLTUB

22-across – Write The Return of the Past : PENDLE

23-across – Embezzlement is a gamble – don’t start! : PECULATION

24-across – Vicar has pawn on white king’s file : POPE

25-across – Trendy setting of Globe : INGLE

26-across – Tool with large eye and no head held by giant, approved ruler : GOODKING

1-down – Chine? : HOGSBACK

2-down – Award given to American city : TONY

3-down – One doing more good turns? : KINDER

4-down – See 25 : BOROUGH

5-down – Drug and drink taker – boy’s secret : ESOTERIC

6-down – Punkah for tranquillising supporter : COOLINGFAN

7-down – Coaches that may be easy : STAGES

13-down – A girls’ duet playing? What a bore! : TIDALSURGE

16-down – Edentate, one dropping editor to mix with artist : ANTEATER

18-down – Girl has some weight, being well padded : LILYPOND

19-down – Shorten a game? : ABRIDGE

21-down – I leave message for family : WREKIN

22-down – Wing tip dropped out of view : PINION

24-down – Fish after 17 : PIKE

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