Daily Answers

1-across – : JENESAIAQUOI

8-across – : LORELEI

9-across – : VIATICA

11-across – : YASHMAK

12-across – : RATTISH

13-across – : HASTO

14-across – : BIGSCREEN

16-across – : FOURKINGS

19-across – : ZAXIS

21-across – : ECTOPIC

23-across – : MYFANWY

24-across – : DRAGOON

25-across – : TEACHIE

26-across – : WHATACARRYON

1-down – : JURISTS

2-down – : NELUMBO

3-down – : STICKYBUN

4-down – : INVAR

5-down – : QUARTIC

6-down – : ORIFICE

7-down – : PLAYTHEFIELD

10-down – : ATHENESEYLER

15-down – : GASOMETER

17-down – : UNTEACH

18-down – : KEPTOUT

19-down – : ZOFFANY

20-down – : XANTHIN

22-down – : CYNIC

1-across – A nod or a sign and, classically, our victim appears : BECKET

5-across – Notes come in to my study regarding place names : TOPONYMY

9-across – The youngster is Peg Lear’s backward daughter : TEENAGER

10-across – Hammer’s cracked element with no opposition : NEMCON

11-across – See 2 : HUMOUREDNESS

13-across – Candid writer of love letter? : OPEN

14-across – Goodbye to ex-PM’s toothless lot! : EDENTATA

17-across – By the narrowest of margins, but right : ONLYJUST

18-across – Eagle secured by Goosen, returning round : ERNE

20-across – Sweet start to seduction: naughty try to get her arm around : SHERRYTRIFLE

23-across – God’s less down : BALDER

24-across – I hope it can develop a country : ETHIOPIA

25-across – No more fleeting Franco-German cheese celebration? : BRIEFEST

26-across – First of slats almost off seat : SADDLE

2-down – Placidity, indeed – numerous Shed puzzles : EVEN

3-down – Good egg! One lays it on the line : KINGHENRY

4-down – Hobbling after cross-dressing fun with tube? : TVGAME

5-down – See 22 : TURBULENTPRIEST

6-down – Change from half of nine pence for variable glasses : PINCENEZ

7-down – See 22 : NOMAN

8-down – Atom-splitting group ‘anged the old chairman : MAOTSETUNG

12-down – Top-class drink one comes in to try – undecided : UPINTHEAIR

15-down – See 3 : THESECOND

16-down – Goods thus seen in airport shop at leisure? : DUTYFREE

19-down – See 22 : OFTHIS

21-down – See 22 : RIDME

22-down – Result of this full-blown misinterpretation – murder most foul : WILL

9-across – Alternative practitioner is in love, by the way : HOMEOPATH

10-across – Failure of the cloth : CRASH

11-across – Cyanide fragments? Have one! : NICEDAY

12-across – In the old days – from about 50 million years ago – I once went off round Australia : NEOZOIC

13-across – One preselected as leader of diocese put it first : SEED

14-across – An officer takes a service, maintaining row with corporal etc : ALTARLINEN

15-across – Calm like a wise man keeping posh : ASSUAGE

17-across – Drink in combination : SIDECAR

19-across – Few drinks left here: endure article among churches on car : LASTCHANCE

22-across – Not heavy metal for jazz in concert : ZINC

23-across – Kitchen vessel more or less black and white : PIEDISH

24-across – All-in wrestling admits no fat : LANOLIN

26-across – Gag on the right to draw : RETCH

27-across – Hill goddess detailed to welcome Italian : BENVENUTO

1-down – Fatherland collapsing then? : THINGSFALLAPART

2-down – Money illegal in places : SMACKERS

3-down – See 1 : HOLD

4-down – Service down in the shade : NAVYBLUE

5-down – Turn in crockery, suffering live author of 1 : CHINUA

6-down – Trained – second half of train came first : SCHOOLED

7-down – See 19 : SALOON

8-down – See 1 : THECENTRECANNOT

16-down – Some clues entered correctly that will give illumination : ARCLIGHT

17-down – The poet seems to be a mammal : SUCKLING

18-down – Kite gets boor to relax : CHILLOUT

20-down – Hot work of W. Yeats : SWEATY

21-down – See 5 : ACHEBE

25-down – Want change of polarity in 13 : NEED

1-across – Take MI5 literally at first, which is wrong : MISTAKE

5-across – Academic department is defective without starting course : FACULTY

9-across – Cash, whereof a little is needed in inducement : LUCRE

10-across – Jagger’s monument? : HEADSTONE

11-across – Rough description of government claim? Bosh! : SHAMBOLIC

12-across – Built up, they say, but actually the reverse : RASED

13-across – An old soldier abroad is in the hunt for spoil, unless restrained : POILU

15-across – One able to stretch tales more wildly … : ELASTOMER

18-across – … once named over being too cocky … : CONCEITED

19-across – … as Yugoslavia did in Croatia? : SPLIT

21-across – Biblical character, one rejected by church : ENOCH

23-across – Established state belonging to France : PROVENCAL

25-across – Gore with god’s backing is able to find a way in the Middle East : SUEZCANAL

26-across – Man’s given time for robbery : HEIST

27-across – Ring from alien after yearly article is dropped : ANNULET

28-across – Church regretful about witchcraft : SORCERY

1-down – Softy types in shaggy hair : MILKSOP

2-down – Cartesian settlement of religious differences : SECTARIAN

3-down – Bitter maple, a little bit : ACERB

4-down – 24, taking belt, troubled old king : ETHELBERT

5-down – Currency no longer has honest sound : FRANC

6-down – What Equity achieves stops future generations : CASTRATES

7-down – Plunders a little treasure in battle : LOOTS

8-down – His delivery may be 5 short : YIELDER

14-down – Other clue than I set is not cricket : UNETHICAL

16-down – Leo’s friend also has about 100 parts : ANDROCLES

17-down – Prophet taking note of mineral : MALACHITE

18-down – Soccer team from Cinque Port lacking victory : CHELSEA

20-down – Writer of trifle containing lost letters : TOLSTOY

22-down – Do overtime at the pictures : ODEON

23-down – Wine brought round in a large measure : PINOT

24-down – One missing from a choice of two can put you out : ETHER

1-across – Suit one into heavy breathing, as produced by impulsive strokes? : ACTIONPRINTING

8-across – Aphetic smear of negative ‘elp : NOINT

9-across – Monitor’s class pet, rail-touring round Italy : REPTILIA

11-across – Wise ruler not accompanied by second knight : SOLOMON

12-across – One who scores in bed, reserve outwardly rejected : SCRIBER

13-across – Dead easy to be a settler abroad : EXPAT

15-across – Hormone for South American type outside clubs : PROLACTIN

17-across – One always prepared to bother with capsized tug – awfully sorry about it : WORRYGUTS

20-across – Barker”s – Phwoar! Good one! : CORGI

21-across – In the royal habit of, um, getting exploited? : ERMINED

23-across – The language when one has to drive home! Agents taken aback! : ARAMAIC

25-across – All there is of a familiar place to learn lines? : UNIVERSE

26-across – Line taken by musical tenor : GIGLI

27-across – Michael, fool, has love for one drippy artist : JACKSONPOLLOCK

1-down – Wouldn’t you say that girl’s Candy : AINTSHESWEET

2-down – Material wife stifled by archaic husband : TWILL

3-down – Science that might lead to spectacular improvement of runabout-type motor : OPTOMETRY

4-down – Article about tips of roots in seed vegetable : PARSNIP

5-down – Brummie’s – too old for love, lay-it-on-thick technique : IMPASTO

6-down – One not easily giving up rank without resistance : TRIER

7-down – New Blairite movement for the anxious type : NAILBITER

10-down – With Watson, he unravelled a great scientific mystery : FRANCISCRICK

14-down – Partly emptied old Marina, fixed ignition problem : PYROMANIA

16-down – Ancient god raised to transform large place in Russia : ARCHANGEL

18-down – Endure less than try : UNDERGO

19-down – Look promising and build towards a centre : SHAPEUP

22-down – Upstart star put before King Kim, the old star : NOVAK

24-down – Threatening behaviour of one taking drink back to front : AGGRO