Daily Answers

1-across – Student at Sheffield, perhaps, revolutionary child of noble race : LONDONMARATHON

9-across – Invar, say, used as preservative : VINEGAR

10-across – Antony’s words about health – vet it – restore fruit’s possibly fatter edge : THEEVIL

11-across – Poles outside America may get a black eye … : SUSAN

12-across – … before going in, they get one from African park : SERENGETI

13-across – Tree’s two ways to shorten letter – that’s what counts : FIRSTSTEP

14-across – Past lane without turning : ALONG

15-across – Provide English joke : EQUIP

17-across – Capital almost rhyming with … : KATHMANDU

20-across – … See 10 : THATMENDO

22-across – Pinching pink paper : THEFT

23-across – ‘e’s last in the field to get support : ENDORSE

24-across – Put pronouns in before forming request : PRITHEE

25-across – Five in a set at quarry’s what’s more for computer than playground : ADVENTUREGAMES

1-down – See 10 : LIVESAFTERTHEM

2-down – The good news, hesitantly reported – I don’t do drugs : NONUSER

3-down – Bodily dysfunction that has sound effects? : ORGANSTOP

4-down – Sequel to memento for lush impressionist : MORISOT

5-down – Let’s away from broken-down old vehicle with pedal : RATTRAP

6-down – Link with cup match at home : TIEIN

7-down – Struggle to put gold first where there’s wine : ORVIETO

8-down – Pier showing hair in the air, without qualification : FLYINGBUTTRESS

14-down – Publicity hand in glove initially with making concessions : ADMITTING

16-down – Instincts lead journalist to follow single girl on her own : UNAIDED

17-down – Giving least pain to family from the east of France? : KINDEST

18-down – I swear the actor’s had a change of heart : TROOPER

19-down – Biochemist seems to require food : NEEDHAM

21-down – Little girl on the fat side : MARGE

9-across – Pipe stuffed with opium, as seen on TV : UPPOMPEII

10-across – Cat and what it will do on seeing mouse with no head : OUNCE

11-across – See 23 : FROMTHE

12-across – Much earlier expanded silver ring : LONGAGO

13-across – Fuel substance : COKE

14-across – Unbiased, thinking in terms of swings and roundabouts? : FAIRMINDED

16-across – Issue not allowed? Now look here! : OUTCOME

17-across – Divorce? Get ready to take your horse away : UNHITCH

19-across – Hand to retreating crowd inside to get hold of an incendiary device : NAPALMBOMB

22-across – State force to secure a bit of an iceberg : CALF

24-across – One site associated oracularly with Apollo Theatre : ADELPHI

25-across – One who scored four times in a year with three short women : VIVALDI

26-across – Palpitate and pong during flipping exercise : THUMP

27-across – Enlivening drink taken with, say, backing band : GINGERING

1-down – They’ll accept a gamble, giving territory report to social workers : TURFACCOUNTANTS

2-down – Price, in electrical outlet, of an engaging piece of machinery : SPROCKET

3-down – Hit song’s opening spot : SMOTE

4-down – See 6 : SERENADE

5-down – Daisy possibly married – no better afterwards : MILLER

6-down – Do another job: be a romantic singer of 5’s theme song : MOONLIGHT

7-down – Surrounded by light, though not by the sea : INLAND

8-down – Where the forehead may be found?, as 5 co-wrote : BEYONDTHEFRINGE

15-down – Suckers, those who enjoy these popular pieces : LOLLIPOPS

17-down – Stopped being a failure as a tear-jerker : UNMOVING

18-down – Lacking a true stem, roots or leaves, it’ll do for cultivation : THALLOID

20-down – Once put in an extra one of 5’s trilogy : PLEXUS

21-down – See 23 : BRIDGE

23-down – Work of 5, as seen through a ship’s captain’s eyes? : AVIEW

1-across – Booth is keen to help knock out variation : TELEPHONEKIOSK

9-across – Wildly erring as chasing round, needing this – could be personal : ORGANISER

10-across – Main body in government or society : TORSO

11-across – Leave bird, understood? : GOTIT

12-across – Greek leader soon holds willing number : AGAMEMNON

13-across – Vibrating outside line in tiresome style : TRYINGLY

14-across – Take weapons from girl and take into boy : DISARM

17-across – Release from striking by permit : OUTLET

19-across – Poet and boxer Benn not initially included : TENNYSON

22-across – Bird needs a fight to have fun : LARKABOUT

24-across – Administration taking notes : STAFF

25-across – V is for Volunteers in prospect : VISTA

26-across – Posh gear for prisoner outside a capital : CAPARISON

27-across – Left like godmother at christening? : HOLDINGTHEBABY

1-down – See 6 : THOUGHTSOFLOVE

2-down – See 6 : LIGHTLY

3-down – Contrition demands about 1-10 coins : PENITENCE

4-down – What stops one making Close bat? : OBSTACLE

5-down – 4 to listener makes spike get bigger : EARWAX

6-down – Funny thing afoot – shy vernal youths go contemplating girls: Thus : INTHE

7-down – See 6 : SPRINGA

8-down – See 6 : YOUNGMANSFANCY

15-down – No charge for accommodation for Yeats? : INNISFREE

16-down – Fellow at location of eruption? : HEATSPOT

18-down – See 6 : TURNSTO

20-down – New as new as new city : SWANSEA

21-down – Heard pair preserve bird : TOUCAN

23-down – Prize for one in chancery? : AWARD

1-across – Songs about academic retiring from the council : SYNODAL

5-across – Nazi embracing 2 with warmth : HOTNESS

9-across – Loutish altercation disheartened dandy : ROWDY

10-across – Book about a Teletubby, one with a musical instrument : BALALAIKA

11-across – Legendary thief’s incomplete course covering corrosion : PROCRUSTES

12-across – Scratch wild calling, say? : CARD

14-across – Almighty gasp and 6er catches cold : PANTOCRATOR

18-across – She takes care of reporters swallowing nonsense about investigator : PROTECTRESS

21-across – Novel sequence of Returning Officers : SAGA

22-across – 1 down said to get wasted by waster : DISSIPATER

25-across – See 8 : DEVIATION

26-across – Similative drunk in a casino composed Genius : ISAAC

27-across – Killer trapping 2 in hold : CONTAIN

28-across – Pardon encompassing 2’s thingamajig : WHATNOT

1-down – Mark of punishment or promotion : STRIPE

2-down – See 26 : NEWTON

3-down – Passing visitor upset tray in The Plough : DAYTRIPPER

4-down – Behold Elizabeth’s truncated subdivisions! : LOBES

5-down – Lily takes fourth rider’s train from York to Spain : HELLEBORE

6-down – Stimulant keeping student up for lecture : TALK

7-down – 21 cut short by unpleasant tendency to curve downward : EPINASTY

8-down – It measures dispersion of varied data in dots : STANDARD

13-down – Fly flag, bearing south before hailstorm : DROSOPHILA

15-down – Sister catches musicians devouring one sort of square meal, perhaps : NUTRITION

16-down – Bugger! Compiler interrupts 21 in fits : EPISODIC

17-down – Redeemed 4 in fake 2 : FORGIVEN

19-down – Purify the race : STRAIN

20-down – Knitwear for Icelandic extremists breaking revolutionary’s heart : TRICOT

23-down – Cyst is elevated to power : SINEW

24-down – Priest beheaded beast : LAMA

8-across – Walker round house follows doctor all the way : WHOLEHOG

9-across – See 1 : FORTEA

10-across – Contributor to crossword finds alternative to reason at its top : RHYMER

11-across – Patterns used in church : TRANSEPT

12-across – Ideal spot for the dentist : EDEN

13-across – Would-be re-purchaser of books – ___ like a ___ in bleak midwinter : WATERSTONE

15-across – Fliers and swimmers don’t seem respectable : RAFFISH

16-across – End of Jewish sentence for a female re-admitted : ALREADY

18-across – Putting into post not as good as expected, dismissing : APPOINTING

19-across – Things combined to express accusation of folly : UNIT

20-across – Search noisily around water for cause of tsunami : SEAQUAKE

22-across – See 1 : TRIFLE

23-across – It’s drawn from the bar : BREATH

24-across – Is odd room at pub the same shape? : ISOMORPH

1-down – Howdah dissipated derisive sound, bagatelle before a strong piece : WHOHADRASPBERRY

2-down – See 3 : OLDMANOFTORQUAY

3-down – The first plate from Alrewas, an almond cocktail, at ground level on alternative stage : THEREWASAN

4-down – Stir a fool 9, perhaps : AGITATE

5-down – Mercian’s present sound : OFFA

6-down – Problem arising among Christian symbols – make fateful decision : CROSSTHERUBICON

7-down – Philosophies : HEOPENEDHISLIPS

14-down – Downward movement concerning diplomatic staff : RELEGATION

17-down – It’s very cold in S-Spain : SIBERIA

21-down – Bill’s the man that’s suffering : ACHE