Daily Answers

1-across – : FATHOM

4-across – : WHIMBREL

9-across – : VERGES

10-across – : GRANDDAD

11-across – : JUXTAPOSITIONS

13-across – : ACHAPTEROF

14-across – : ZERO

16-across – : CUYP

18-across – : BURGLARISE

21-across – : DRANKLIKEAFISH

23-across – : NONTOXIC

24-across – : XANADU

25-across – : SEDATELY

26-across – : UNITED

1-down – : FIVE

2-down – : THROUGH

3-down – : OVERTYPE

5-down – : HORNSWOGGLE

6-down – : MINUTE

7-down – : REDROSE

8-down – : LODESTONE

12-down – : PREJUDICIAL

13-down – : ACCIDENTS

15-down – : KAUFMANN

17-down – : YEARNED

19-down – : INSTANT

20-down – : EKEOUT

22-down – : QUID

8-across – Nick has bet, having lost 7 : PECULATE

9-across – Place of learning once first to propagate growth : POLYP

10-across – One catches 15 shot : HOOK

11-across – 15er – he needs an answer when spinning : SHANEWARNE

12-across – 15er’s headgear : BOWLER

14-across – The birth of 15? : DELIVERY

15-across – The game of the century : CRICKET

17-across – 15er, the devil, collecting runs : BRADMAN

20-across – Figures so reversible carrying label in blue : OCTAGONS

22-across – 14 by royal House, Windsor : YORKER

23-across – Sore head bringing compassion : TENDERNESS

24-across – A 15ing gaffe? : SLIP

25-across – 15 shot, one clearing the way for Father Christmas? : SWEEP

26-across – 14 – piece marked Fragile? : CHINAMAN

1-down – Time for a 2? : ZEROHOUR

2-down – A failure at 15 to take evasive action : DUCK

3-down – Rope was tangled inside that lady : HAWSER

4-down – 2 away from 6 14s and a raised level : VERANDA

5-down – 12 asking a policeman out loud : APPEALER

6-down – Sad all over poor country : ELSALVADOR

7-down – 15er, 13 part two : OPENER

13-down – Two English 15ers secure under this? : LOCKANDKEY

16-down – Secured during climbing of steeple, journeys alone? : EGOTRIPS

18-down – US girl, amid mild expletive, dismissing 7 : AMERICAN

19-down – Nature cold in many quarters : ESSENCE

21-down – Might 15er leave his to stop maintaining resistance? : CREASE

22-down – With this, salute the old ship, one close to harbour : YESSIR

24-down – If 12s hit this, one’s stitched up! : SEAM

1-across – Curls connected less closely with the above : RINGLETS

5-across – Attack on the community? : CHARGE

9-across – The never ending cheese? : MOUSETRAP

11-across – One of 6 in addition from 12 : RIDER

12-across – He : LABOURLEADER

15-across – The A Team’s maybe one of evil : AXIS

16-across – Stomach is tum: lips are wrong : PSALTERIUM

18-across – The Queen before William, then, one that needs hoarding : BILLPOSTER

19-across – Starving in the party sense? : RAVE

21-across – Miss Marple’s mentor endlessly seen at classical shrines : ROMANTEMPLES

24-across – More outside? : EXTRA

25-across – Psychiatrist grasping return of satisfaction voiced during corporal punishment : LARRUPING

26-across – Commander has died outside site : LOCATE

27-across – Good lots of solvers in red, with iris not in spectrum : GREYEYED

1-down – Male, summoned, went wild : RAMP

2-down – See 19 : NOUS

3-down – Song about small rise in latitude : LEEWAY

4-down – The wrong love is two points to damnation : TORTOISESHELL

6-down – Apocalyptic 4 seem out of order in the Cape : HORSEMEN

7-down – It’s true about parent station in space : REDADMIRAL

8-down – Don’t initiate endearment : EARTRUMPET

10-down – Appropriate colour for ruler : PURPLEEMPEROR

13-down – Candidate for Miss SE5? : CAMBERWELL

14-down – Politic mad? Politic mad : DIPLOMATIC

17-down – Pit not reserved for people on stage : OPENCAST

20-down – See 13 : BEAUTY

22-down – Cairo, Istanbul, Tripoli and York, for starters : CITY

23-down – See 1 : AGED

1-across – Which blinding goddess is on a brief holiday? Give up : VACATE

4-across – Sport short dress : FROLIC

9-across – Mr Redding is on the books : OTIS

10-across – Primarily incestuous practice of having sisters as girlfriends, possibly overwhelming : INUNDATING

11-across – Preserve to some degree penetrating wood : EMBALM

12-across – Spend little time in ring and might one get slated? : HOUSETOP

13-across – Delighted women’s liberation doubly evident in advert seeking buxom lady? : ENCHANTED

15-across – What’s to contend with the 1 down 3? : BONE

16-across – Port – what’s between you and drinking it? : CORK

17-across – Bloody savage strangles river bird : REDBREAST

21-across – Nellie or Rocky has fewer friends? : LONELIER

22-across – Schooner as both glass and ship? : VESSEL

24-across – Tin, say, containing a fish 15 : METACARPAL

25-across – 15 found in Dublin Bay every so often : ULNA

26-across – Quiet singer’s 15 : PELVIS

27-across – Hit on plot, which is chaotic : BEDLAM

1-down – Essential compound has energy to squeeze half of tank in : VITAMIN

2-down – Damage a 15 : COSTA

3-down – In growth, I am indebted to 1 down : THIAMIN

5-down – 15 spoke? : RADIUS

6-down – Tree shelters the very agile : LITHESOME

7-down – Comfort the panel : CONSOLE

8-down – Catch this! The corrupt member hit hard, as source of gossip : BUSHTELEGRAPH

14-down – Mixture of soil and earth for plant : HORSETAIL

16-down – Miss features in prize photo : CLOSEUP

18-down – Oyster, perhaps, one born up against how it’s eaten heartlessly? : BIVALVE

19-down – Front 15 I’m not sure under back : STERNUM

20-down – African capital has no name for the crowned heavyweight champion? : KIGALI

23-down – 15 in 22, say : SKULL

1-across – It has a brush with destiny of mortal and immortal : DUSTPAN

5-across – Miraculous execution with potential dangers : HANGING

9-across – Grub – hot stuff’s about right : LARVA

10-across – Amazing mark on goldfish? I’m not sure : MAUSOLEUM

11-across – Cornering movement catching no coppers at first : MONOPOLISATION

13-across – Relative to return after ‘er death : AUNT

14-across – Stuff for puffer in small station without a name : INHALANT

17-across – Return of prizes measure as check to swinging : DOORSTOP

18-across – Voice trial – took part : ALTO

21-across – Such as Cotman and Corot rule out being in the middle : WATERCOLOURIST

23-across – Setter’s thought about six counties being protected : IMMUNISED

24-across – Customary title for primate is a cover : DRAPE

25-across – See 5 : GARDENS

26-across – Eyed sewers near fresh water? : NEEDLES

1-down – Fool gets told off : DOLT

2-down – Legal writer possibly heard as operator with money and gold watch : SIRJOHNMORTIMER

3-down – Oprah’s transformation was astonishing : PHAROS

4-down – Hunter of game getting stick : NIMROD

5-down – Heralds’ coming up for air over the Channel high – nothing in it : HAURIENT

6-down – Pre-Christian revivalist finds a space to rise into light : NEOPAGAN

7-down – In English, six tables per room follow mighty Must from Princess Ida : INEVITABLESHALL

8-down – Doubling stone for single people : GEMINATION

12-down – Having acres on map missing page with street on it : LANDOWNING

15-down – Act unfriendly in the sergeant’s mess : ESTRANGE

16-down – Phenomenal firm, one sadly missed by the States : COLOSSUS

19-down – Capital game preferred by Sir Roger de Coverley to 5 25, 10, 3, 16 and 22 : LONDON

20-down – See 19 : BRIDGE

22-down – Backwater with stupendous statue : ZEUS