Daily Answers

7-across – Incandescent satellite, commandeered by Rufus, reversed mostly : FURIOUS

8-across – Araucaria’s Life-force Bank: secure and electronic : CHILEAN

9-across – Smith’s predecessor to make Logodaedalus news : WORD

10-across – Appliance of mechanics principally associated with Brummie – old students beware getting out of line! : MICROWAVE

12-across – Wedge foreign article in scanning equipment : CLEAT

13-across – Like a drink offered by one having flutter in the Parrot : LIBATORY

15-across – Bent tibias – sex rejected and abandoned : BIAS

16-across – Pasquale’s hogging card partner and dance partner of Paul : JONES

17-across – See 8 : PINE

18-across – The very last in the queue despite expectations? : AFTERALL

20-across – Maybe Bunthorne’s in musical entertainment as an Irish saint? : BRIDE

21-across – Whipped round with pile to be laundered : PURLOINED

22-across – Vein on Latin lines : LODE

24-across – See 23 : PURPOSE

25-across – One ideally situated to muddle on with Taupi : UTOPIAN

1-down – Orlando tips uranium : OUZO

2-down – They separate the good from the bad, Enigmatist and his ilk : RIDDLERS

3-down – Something vulgarly dull after Quantum, not specific : SUMMAT

4-down – Clot, daft as brush, Tom : THROMBUS

5-down – Flexible machinery etc contains one : PLIANT

6-down – Discouraged? Shed/Gordius cooked fish : DACE

11-down – Chifonie clone, different league involved – an honorary title only : COLONELIN

12-down – : CHIEF

14-down – Move at will: Rover might follow in a vehicle : RANGE

16-down – Janus, teaming with Losey : JEALOUSY

17-down – Insert pike into seeds and sort of screw : PHILLIPS

19-down – Parent dealt in ecstasy : ENRAPT

20-down – Bathroom fixtures, dead expensive, finally in pieces : BIDETS

21-down – Maybe Auster’s other Guardian pseudonym : PAUL

23-down – Pop! Audreus rallied round Lendl’s lead, producing a double service : DUAL

1-across – Travel North to Edinburgh, Scotland, seeking work: redden with excitement finding this 24 there : THEREVEREND

9-across – English sailors clad in duck never changing : ETERNAL

10-across – Heavenly sound puts theology in lower place : THUNDER

11-across – See 1 : SKATINGON

12-across – Leave bed — it means more money : ARISE

13-across – Sound of instrument suitable for the blues? : SAXE

14-across – First time up — see if the stairs are OK? : TESTFLIGHT

16-across – Gunners surround African country unable to wait, as they say : RARINGTOGO

19-across – Anxiety for the return of liberal Tories? : STEW

21-across – Flier with explosive dip : BATHE

22-across – Passageway ahead: Reagan not having died, enter turncoat : ROOTCANAL

24-across – Sir Henry gets audience back on-stream : RAEBURN

25-across – Max gets worse, they say, rendering Samson’s weapon : JAWBONE

26-across – Argentine peeler has medal to flog : SILVERBIRCH

1-down – Cross-border article missing from Scottish port about unknown queen’s jesters : THEMARXBROTHERS

2-down – Genuine heart afflicted by languor : ENNUI

3-down – Pastoral defect in some clergy heading off villain : ECLOGUE

4-down – Message to home number, first to last, is no longer with us : EXTINCT

5-down – Ready for school with due reform being on message : EDUCABLE

6-down – See 1 across : DUDDINGSTONLOCH

7-down – Facilis descensus Averno – keeping count? : CENSUS

8-down – Description of Abraham going to press? : URGENT

15-down – Platonic nexus scattered – turn first left : UNSEXUAL

16-down – See 1 across : ROBERT

17-down – Old comedian demolishing Centrepoint? : TERENCE

18-down – Profitable employment is just as well : GOODJOB

20-down – See 1 across : WALKER

23-down – What Burns’s mouse did to homecoming beast? Not sure : COWER

9-across – Upset with tat in woollies? Call me, uh? : ITWILLALL

10-across – That old speechifying Burgundian banker : YONNE

11-across – See 9 : COMEOUT

12-across – Designer current in metrical patterns : VERSACE

13-across – Sweden yielding Norway’s or Denmark’s overtures to the Council of Ministers : SYNOD

14-across – See 9 : INTHEWASH

16-across – He’s back! In the BBC sound archives! : ITSTHATMANAGAIN

19-across – Speaking of evidently old couples, 9 11 14 : GREATOUSE

21-across – Tournament? The King of Troy will give you one for nothing : PROAM

22-across – The marque to irritate a winner of races : BUGATTI

23-across – That’s all ____ good! : WELLAND

24-across – Motorist’s approach to arrest : RUNIN

25-across – 23’s bird of ill omen pranging about Worthing : NIGHTCROW

1-down – Moulding Caesar’s reflection on the Rubicon? Moulding I can digest : DIECASTING

2-down – In which David Willetts therefore vacillates? : TWOMINDS

3-down – Depiction of Mona Lisa originally with many fruit : ALMOND

4-down – Conflict transitive with Cromwell, on the face of it! : WART

5-down – Wilberforce’s issue averted as Liberal dissented : SLAVETRADE

6-down – Poor Doctor! You’ve nothing to lose among adults seeking alternative medicine : AYURVEDA

7-down – Inexpert, as it were, at a conference in Zululand : INDABA

8-down – Measures up : NENE

14-down – Encroachments stir Unison members : INTRUSIONS

15-down – Poor men had blue suit from previous owner … : HANDMEDOWN

17-down – … and that’s sadly put the lid on it! : HATSTAND

18-down – Gassy hypothesist giving the Bible a right good bashing : AVOGADRO

20-down – Man had European inheritance factor : EUGENE

21-down – Wine taster’s friend brewing tea : PALATE

22-down – Then articulate the appearance of a tiger : BARD

23-down – Make war with decrepitude : WAGE

1-across – : JACKTHERIPPER

10-across – : UNCLEAR

11-across – : MEATIER

12-across – : ZOOKS

13-across – : XENOGRAFT

14-across – : ILIAD

16-across – : FARANDOLE

18-across – : GREENTREE

19-across – : YAGER

20-across – : LUBRICANT

23-across – : CONIC

24-across – : SCHERZO

25-across – : NATTIER

26-across – : VICTORIACROSS

2-down – : ANCHORITE

3-down – : KNEES

4-down – : HYRAX

5-down – : ROMANYRYE

6-down – : PLANGENCY

7-down – : ERICA

8-down – : QUIZZINGGLASS

9-down – : WRITTENRECORD

15-down – : DANDIPRAT

16-down – : FORVALOUR

17-down – : ORGANDIES

21-down – : BAHAI

22-down – : TONGA

23-down – : CATER

1-across – Setter’s speciality is highly dangerous : MINEFIELD

6-across – Female with dead expression, past her prime : FADED

9-across – Direct recourse to 11 before plastic : LETTERSOFCREDIT

10-across – See about a back door key : YALE

11-across – What most of the fish aboard may fetch : SMACKERS

14-across – Tell a pint — poured out it’s sparkling : PETILLANT

15-across – Scene of bush fire is in a turmoil : SINAI

16-across – Roger embraced by girl — like a monkey : LORIS

18-across – Article about Brook is highly emotive : THRILLING

20-across – Kingsley wearing old king’s garment? : CAMISOLE

21-across – Hits back in altercation : SPAT

25-across – Fabrication of famous last words? : CURTAINMATERIAL

26-across – Steward concerned with a girl : REEVE

27-across – All goes before it at the start of November : SAINTSDAY

1-down – The Way to the Stars? : MILKY

2-down – Brief communication not seen over the box : NOTELET

3-down – Macbeth’s intended victim abandons party to escape : FLEE

4-down – 27 possibly loses head but keeps direction : EAST

5-down – Fed up with loving, though it could be leading one to court : DEFAMATORY

6-down – Warning — a man on board, somewhere on the ship : FORECASTLE

7-down – Like a damp squib, gone off in resentment : DUDGEON

8-down – Hating to upset, Hughes gets in turmoil : DETESTING

12-down – Cul-de-sacs have a narrow escape : CLOSESHAVE

13-down – Real things unlikely to be from outer space : EARTHLINGS

14-down – One’s used to picking up the bill : POLICECAR

17-down – Endeavour by soldiers to show compunction : REMORSE

19-down – One member misled by not being told : IMPLIED

22-down – Score went out, all substituted, score remained : TALLY

23-down – One youngster set up as an artist : DALI

24-down – Attend for police duty : BEAT