Daily Answers

1-across – So it doesn’t cost the earth! : DIRTCHEAP

6-across – Articles about court proceedings : ACTA

10-across – Where Madame de Staël received her coiffeur, or vice versa? : SALON

11-across – Mortified after Switzerland somehow gained king : CHAGRINED

12-across – Bill Shakespeare’s imbibing one drink : BACARDI

13-across – The Queen’s speech to some of her people : ENGLISH

14-across – Erstwhile 27’s words sadly sum up the trend RN had among thy sailor boys : NOTHINGBUTRUM

17-across – See 14 : SODOMYPRAYERS

21-across – Question rejection of French sweetener refined with oak : QUERCUS

22-across – Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of carolus : OSCULAR

24-across – Americans accepting leave in Spain, or here in France : AQUITAINE

25-across – Black race characters turning bitter : ACERB

26-across – See 14 : LASH

27-across – Sir Joseph Porter was ordering list starboard during wet crossing : FIRSTLORD

1-down – Refuse to accept these? On the contrary! : DUSTBINS

2-down – Widow hasn’t time for Remembrance of Things Past : RELIC

3-down – Advise against treatment of direct action: an abomination : CONTRAINDICATE

4-down – Topped attractive work of art : ETCHING

5-down – Level achieved at entering appeal, you say : PLATEAU

7-down – One gaining assurance from prisoner: I’m free for rehabilitation! : CONFIRMEE

8-down – See 14 : ANDTHE

9-down – Choir agent rang changes with an air from the Vatican : GREGORIANCHANT

15-down – Making society debut, sat with with one’s food inspectors : TASTEBUDS

16-down – Blamed when journalist swallowed copy : ASCRIBED

18-down – The old woman’s pet dog : MASTIFF

19-down – Initiate one into mole catching! : PIONEER

20-down – Old American wife will be heard to yell : SQUALL

23-down – Skipper’s direction leading to some remote, illicit uprising : LIETO

8-across – : DELEGATE

9-across – : NKOMO

10-across – : RHEA

11-across – : BOMBAYDUCK

12-across – : QUELEA

14-across – : CHEYENNE

15-across – : VEINOUS

17-across – : JACKDAW

20-across – : FOLLICLE

22-across – : MARTIN

23-across – : SANDERLING

24-across – : KITE

25-across – : GREBE

26-across – : EPISODIC

1-down – : HENHOUSE

2-down – : XEMA

3-down – : ZAMBIA

4-down – : PETMICE

5-down – : INCAMERA

6-down – : WOODPECKER

7-down – : TOUCAN

13-down – : LANDLADIES

16-down – : UNCURBED

18-down – : AVIATRIX

19-down – : YEZIDEE

21-down – : ORANGE

22-down – : MAGPIE

24-down – : KNOT

1-across – Man’s cover of limb? : GARMENT

5-across – Moor’s 1 across to stream round us : BURNOUS

9-across – One across the border’s 1 across : ASCOT

10-across – Colour bar on bearing 1 across : REDINGOTE

11-across – Rigged up portion for 1 across : POURPOINT

12-across – Halo on St Benets 1 across : LOONS

13-across – 1 across that’s loose change : SHIFT

15-across – 1 across near to community carrying little weight : NIGHTGOWN

18-across – Mousey witness to taunt about 1 across : DUNGAREES

19-across – 1 across for birds : DUCKS

21-across – Dock liner to vessel’s 1 across : SLOPS

23-across – 1 across in which a coarse soldier’s fitted out? : GARIBALDI

25-across – Woolly cap or a Ted’s 1 across : DRAPECOAT

26-across – Go round 1 across : SKIRT

27-across – Rained slightly on starting point for 1 across : SPATTEE

28-across – Curse about the limits of 1 across : SWEATER

1-down – Whale’s lightweight discharge : GRAMPUS

2-down – Cutting off sound and corrupting influence that’s uplifting? : RECLUSION

3-down – Preclude short bearing in wire, perhaps : ESTOP

4-down – Delay joining in rat race : TARRIANCE

5-down – Wait a while : BIDET

6-down – Deleting r from curly : RINGLETED

7-down – Nils bound book with decorative strip : OVOLO

8-down – Relative hurries when followed by it : STEPSON

14-down – Fleeting rains splashed in shelter : TRANSIENT

16-down – Way fish swallows, it’s painful to stomach : GASTRITIS

17-down – For example, diviner eye doctor keeps cut ends apart : OCCULTIST

18-down – Turfs round a wheeled seat : DOSADOS

20-down – Model induces king to hurry about : SKITTER

22-down – Part of tomahawk found in Nebraska : OMAHA

23-down – Fumble for more than a G-string? : GROPE

24-down – Meantime kept beat : BASTE

1-across – Poem about shop girl, third class, say : SCHOLAR

5-across – Old club gets a lot of support : BRASSIE

9-across – See 1 : GIPSY

10-across – Queen in leaderless municipality takes possession : OWNERSHIP

11-across – Spotted climber reprising cup role, a doddle : CLOUDEDLEOPARD

13-across – Poems’ author dropping would flower in Italy : ARNO

14-across – Street fighter from down under captures one like 1 9 or 25 rather than 7 or 19 22 : STANZAIC

17-across – Sleuth with refresher on a plate : TECTONIC

18-across – The advantageous side : EDGE

21-across – Service time followed by old talker, say: there’s the rub : MASSAGEPARLOUR

23-across – Nude’s ruin : UNINSURED

24-across – Joint head of church comes under it : MITRE

25-across – Poem is on solver’s rights : THYRSIS

26-across – Started again having grass about half the season : RESUMED

1-down – Herb sap.? : SAGE

2-down – Hands apology : HOPALONGCASSIDY

3-down – Format relating to the 22? : LAYOUT

4-down – Island ways as reported : RHODES

5-down – Commonplace quality got by including gossip with literature : BANALITY

6-down – Flying first into tree on Tyneside : AIRBORNE

7-down – Poem all about zero hour for a group with effect of disuse : SOHRABANDRUSTUM

8-down – Poem edited to suit Long John recited on a volcano : EMPEDOCLES

12-down – Virtually the same horse after reindeer man’s following leader : TANTAMOUNT

15-down – It’s sweet and slow time for girls : MOLASSES

16-down – Guns providing back-to-back text : FIREARMS

19-down – Poem, not good, about tree and some deities : BALDER

20-down – A little bit of Wales is where the Queen Mother was : GLAMIS

22-down – See 19 : DEAD

5-across – Want to get right, in conclusion : DEARTH

6-across – Greeting rogue trader, threw a punch : HITOUT

9-across – Steamy round watering hole in Australian port : HOBART

10-across – Move towards war, or make peace? : ENDANGER

11-across – Noted conclusion, backing a medic : CODA

12-across – Is such fashion, daring to fit in smallest of measurements? : HEROINCHIC

13-across – After shuffling, had led with nifty trick at cards : FINDTHELADY

18-across – Escort keeps supple, though stupid : BLITHERING

21-across – The Guardian abroad brings wisdom : NOUS

22-across – Nick put on jumper of the highest quality : TOPNOTCH

23-across – Shoot through puzzle : RIDDLE

24-across – River needs one to cut river tax : TARIFF

25-across – Cheese maker asking for money back : RENNET

1-down – Seafood proving a hit within island quietly wiped out : CALAMARI

2-down – What may be running discomfort? : STITCH

3-down – Change of mind in passing document which grinds : WINDMILL

4-down – Warming drink may go cold when lifted : COGNAC

5-down – 1950s’ music club set up work : DOOWOP

7-down – The relative doctrine : THESIS

8-down – Eastern chief punches minor, producing shiner : SEARCHLIGHT

14-down – Source of colouring agent certainly heading for trouble in useless pudding? : DYESTUFF

15-down – In which seven bells knocked out of one another? : DINGDONG

16-down – Maltose broken down – not quite thus? : ALMOST

17-down – Might this puncture a hole in the sack? : BULLET

19-down – ‘ooligan upset? It’s plain to see : TUNDRA

20-down – Supporter of an order : GARTER