Daily Answers

1-across – Look back at one motoring round island in 15 : OLDMANRIVER

9-across – See 19 : ROBESON

10-across – Cane from strait with no mummy, say? : MALACCA

11-across – Former system of criminal identification left in move to Berlin : BERTILLON

12-across – The one day commercial : MONAD

13-across – 19 said to get tedious : PALL

14-across – Cowberry provides notion about 1 and 5 in 9 : IDAEANVINE

16-across – Water the garden and ladder your stocking : RUNTHEHOSE

19-across – 1 across’s singer’s friend’s about turn when ceremonially dressed : PAUL

21-across – Cry of animal going to farrow – and then some : MIAOW

22-across – Religious supporter of crown without king : MONACHIST

24-across – Enter upon prescribed piece of verse : SETFOOT

25-across – Unimportant individual opposed to entering test : TRIVIAL

26-across – Trouble in store: reproduce eye test : RETINOSCOPY

1-down – Satirical cartoonist with rose baronet turned to red one : OSBERTLANCASTER

2-down – Indian politician made sailor part : DESAI

3-down – Girl on cover is a worm : ANNELID

4-down – Catholic establishment? That’s novel : ROMANCE

5-down – Victorious day with thin layer of sheaths on plants : VELAMINA

6-down – Promise of successful match, as when treating bicycle with train oil : RECONCILABILITY

7-down – Dinner is served, as pigs with truffles : GRUBUP

8-down – Mutiny in the west at mini-palatial court created by 1 down : MAUDIE

15-down – Musical for two, bosh with a difference : SHOWBOAT

16-down – At fault about girl : REMISS

17-down – See 8 : HAMPTON

18-down – Mass piece cut off, without going without : SANCTUS

20-down – See 8 : LITTLE

23-down – Atmosphere in business capital : CAIRO

1-across – Day directly after the rains : MONSOON

5-across – Oasis emerged herein as tribe out East mixed soft drink : BRITPOP

9-across – One laden with gold having sound incentive : CARAT

10-across – Work less; give it up! : DOWITHOUT

11-across – Get horse on your chest, might get strong headache! : CHASETHEDRAGON

13-across – Go-between shedding light on things : LINK

14-across – He fired Tom Brown with enthusiasm! : FLASHMAN

17-across – Spaer, a sea captain, returned from this port : CAESAREA

18-across – Bird’s airspeed indicator : KNOT

21-across – One makes emergency stop as dodgy dames lend a hand : DEADMANSHANDLE

23-across – Classified prohibition overdue with onset of drunkenness : TABULATED

24-across – King’s daughter the Italian abandoned: no hope for him! : GONER

25-across – Seaman’s goal in Prohibition America? : DRYLAND

26-across – Motorist with hood flapping and rag out : ROADHOG

1-down – The staff of Mother Church : MACE

2-down – Where Catherine Morland is bearing a baby with lots of energy : NORTHANGERABBEY

3-down – Hardly plumb stupid : OBTUSE

4-down – Original song heard : NUDITY

5-down – ‘Arry’s sonar location system : BOWBELLS

6-down – Attention that’s paid to uncle : INTEREST

7-down – The shareholder’s portion : PLOUGHMANSLUNCH

8-down – Get check, give a tip : PUTANENDTO

12-down – Told how rotten clue I formed was pass : ELUCIDATED

15-down – Malarky, you say, could be going over the rabbi’s head : YARMULKA

16-down – Stiles, Law and Charlton hooked up again on side? : REUNITED

19-down – Veil over fabulous bird, had to penetrate : CHADOR

20-down – A German mine defused at Bletchley Park : ENIGMA

22-down – Resistance to Dame Edna? : DRAG

1-across – : JABEZBALFOUR

8-across – : HOSANNA

9-across – : MARRIED

11-across – : PRODUCT

12-across – : XBODIES

13-across – : INERT

14-across – : CONDENSER

16-across – : GATHERERS

19-across – : RIKKI

21-across – : OROGENY

23-across – : VEGETAL

24-across – : STEEPTO

25-across – : LERNEAN

26-across – : QUENCHLESSLY

1-down – : JUSTONE

2-down – : BANQUET

3-down – : ZPARTICLE

4-down – : ADMIX

5-down – : FIRCONE

6-down – : UNITIES

7-down – : WHIPPINGBOYS

10-down – : DESERTISLAND

15-down – : NASHVILLE

17-down – : THOREAU

18-down – : EYEOPEN

19-down – : REGARDS

20-down – : KITTENY

22-down – : YMOTH

1-across – Passage that body needs to understand point to check in prison law : DIGESTIVETRACT

8-across – Associate that would be AWOL, say, during the morning : CRONY

9-across – Fork out to cover 51-day maintenance for buddy : PALIMONY

11-across – One drilling home run leads to start of celebration : INTROIT

12-across – Rider is poor when ordered to take 5 : PROVISO

13-across – Reptilian back is reasonably cold, say : GECKO

15-across – Firm date’s arranged quickly : STEADFAST

17-across – Do so by striking international? : TESTMATCH

20-across – Inspiring symbol to top off dam : TOTEM

21-across – Switch for sale? : ONOFFER

23-across – Twisting and turning in refusal is nonsense : TORSION

25-across – Force to have perverted love in church : VIOLENCE

26-across – Crawler’s not about to be put inside : INSET

27-across – End box : KNOCKONTHEHEAD

1-down – Plunger is what’s chewed up by royal vice, perhaps? : DUCKINGSTOOL

2-down – Spirit of great many people : GHOST

3-down – Plastic to form, say, moulding : STYROFOAM

4-down – One raising tot without preferred incentive : IMPETUS

5-down – East getting upset about east’s shape : ELLIPSE

6-down – Are reportedly in communications from lover : ROMEO

7-down – Fiction and folly not one’s close friend : CONFIDANT

10-down – No admittance when badly polluted : CONTAMINATED

14-down – What’s usually done with princess finishes off warder : CUSTODIAN

16-down – Stole stuff of judges after old yob raised limit : DETERMINE

18-down – Tractor on tobacco fields somewhere in Canada : TORONTO

19-down – Unhappy as to the uncomfortable position : HOTSEAT

22-down – Caper lacks right kind of acid : FOLIC

24-down – Children take this in dispute : ISSUE

8-across – : SYNTONIN

9-across – : HANNAH

10-across – : HOURLY

11-across – : YORKISTS

12-across – : ANIF

13-across – : INEXTREMIS

15-across – : FENELLA

16-across – : UPRIGHT

18-across – : CASHEWNUTS

19-across – : THAT

20-across – : IDREAMED

22-across – : TALLIS

23-across – : CAVERN

24-across – : CLERICAL

1-down – : MYBONNIEWASDEAD

2-down – : STAROFBETHLEHEM

3-down – : ONMYPILLOW

4-down – : ONMYBED

5-down – : CHAR

6-down – : ANTIPERISTALSIS

7-down – : LASTNIGHTASILAY

14-down – : TYPESETTER

17-down – : BURDOCK

21-down – : MING