Daily Answers

8-across – : TRUEBORN

9-across – : LOCKER

10-across – : USED

11-across – : ATAVENTURE

12-across – : BIOPSY

14-across – : CALCUTTA

15-across – : EMPLANE

17-across – : ENFIELD

20-across – : FRESHMAN

22-across – : RIMINI

23-across – : IMBRANGLED

24-across – : EDEN

25-across – : LAUNCE

26-across – : THETHING

1-down – : IRISHISM

2-down – : PEND

3-down – : ROSARY

4-down – : ENHANCE

5-down – : FLUELLEN

6-down – : ECOTOURISM

7-down – : REGRET

13-down – : PALESTRINA

16-down – : NOMINEES

18-down – : LANTERNS

19-down – : INFLATE

21-down – : RAMSAY

22-down – : REDEEM

24-down – : ECHO

1-across – Maim swindler’s accomplice, being hot stuff : SCOTCH

4-across – See 1 across : BONNET

9-across – Essential information needed against politician – emphatically! : VITALSTATISTICS

10-across – Location of Hollywood idol in need of new material? : CALICO

11-across – Ljungberg, say, has reason to get excited, rounding Manchester’s No 1 to get Arsenal’s fifth : NORSEMAN

12-across – See 23 : THEBAKER

14-across – All but in the clear over Batty Bernhardt’s detailed self-introduction : NEARAS

15-across – See 14 : DAMMIT

18-across – Panther’s what’s caught by man on time : BAGHEERA

21-across – A cosmetic joke : ONELINER

22-across – I can’t find my way, but motorway has left ahead, 14 15 : ALMOST

24-across – Feminine freedom fighter acquires rock in faraway country, the gossip : FLIBBERTIGIBBET

25-across – Scores in cricket competition, it’s clear : TWENTY

26-across – See 25 : TWENTY

1-down – Small hamper containing a vegetable : SPINACH

2-down – Animal king a debut for composer describes : OKAPI

3-down – Robe that reveals bird’s round buttocks : CASSOCK

5-down – It’s not very long after love letter : OMICRON

6-down – Books on Germany found in famous cathedral : NOTREDAME

7-down – A piece to play, zero volume, extending so long : TOCCATA

8-down – Standard, forbidding one : BANNER

13-down – Beadle introducing people competing on buzzer : BUMBLEBEE

16-down – Reduce to nothing extra-terrestrial ring : ANNULET

17-down – I won’t cross the line to give the fellow a beating : TANGENT

18-down – How things get repeated up amongst the Tory backbenchers : BYROTE

19-down – City is as good in luminous appearance : GLASGOW

20-down – Reddish-brown American band getting into line : RUSSETY

23-down – Horribly numb with heartbreak after the loss of a family man with Rolls : MRBUN

1-across – Grudging approval for Rowse? : COULDBEWORSE

8-across – Conservationist advice of no avail : USELESS

9-across – City topped one caught for being a robber : HEISTER

11-across – Answer from Roger that’s keeping an appointment : RIPOSTE

12-across – Church, one that’s against drink : CHIANTI

13-across – Wild time in Florida : FERAL

14-across – 1 across with AC/DC is venerated above criticism : SACREDCOW

16-across – Officer mislaid drink – baby’s first : COLOSTRUM

19-across – Secretive about how old one is, unknown to the last : CAGEY

21-across – Converse of automobile city beginning service? : INTROIT

23-across – Head ill-treated by her having it shaved : DELILAH

24-across – Union on Kentish lines for care of young : NURSERY

25-across – Painter has to change direction over monetary arrangement : VERMEER

26-across – What’s dealt at bridge before shuffling off? : ALLOTTEDSPAN

1-down – Chick sounds rather vulgar : CHEEPER

2-down – Tool that can be turned to let us in : UTENSIL

3-down – One may take notes from former royal consort’s speech : DISPENSER

4-down – Moral principle : ETHIC

5-down – It’s nothing, if in US official’s mouth : ORIFICE

6-down – It’s wicked, some say, to stop for drinks at a nice pub : SATANIC

7-down – To install a judge over legal proceedings is rot : PUTREFACTION

10-down – Carroll’s life-threatening investment : RAILWAYSHARE

15-down – Theatrical king making a step towards Middle East agreement : CAMPDAVID

17-down – A taller sort of sideways : LATERAL

18-down – Donkey in exhibition almost makes a break down under : SMOKEHO

19-down – State upset drink, which was spiked : CALTROP

20-down – Vessel of old fashion all gone : GALLEON

22-down – Go on the street for an encounter : TRYST

1-across – From time to time he had vulgarly pursued the clue : THREAD

5-across – Uncommon facial adornment is bound to hurt : MUSTACHE

9-across – Alternative ways to deal with suspect lease : FREEHOLD

10-across – One deprived of chryselephantine fragments? : ORPHAN

11-across – Welsh consonantal sound : DOUBLELOCKED

13-across – See 22 : CHAT

14-across – Finished. Finished? Finished : OVERPAST

17-across – Horoscope for outstanding performers : STARCAST

18-across – This little piggy made a noise and got the chop : RUNT

20-across – Promotion of rain to cast gloom over pre-Wimbledon deliberations? : CLOUDSEEDING

23-across – Insidious effects of Kenya’s corruption : SNEAKY

24-across – Unfashionable Tory isn’t qualified : OUTRIGHT

25-across – Serpent with broken reeds is unjustly criticised : ASPERSED

26-across – They are going to the river with the ‘ounds : EXEUNT

2-down – Keep on talking about instrument : HARP

3-down – Remote and obscure textual critic : EMENDATOR

4-down – Damned villain with parachute : DROGUE

5-down – Moderate form of hold, if moderated : MIDDLEOFTHEROAD

6-down – Has the queen a duty to be hard or cold? : SHOULDER

7-down – How pretty can jelly be? : ASPIC

8-down – Is snow : HEAVENSENT

12-down – Like snow on the railways or in the 5 down : WHITELINES

15-down – Before, display of amusement during physical education got one the bird : PEREGRINE

16-down – Sect with easy option in 5 down : CATSEYES

19-down – Classical man, most of the day, has quality : VIRTUE

21-down – Top composer on point of order : UKASE

22-down – What about an island for a bird? : WHIN

1-across – Best, say, refrain of 8’s 23 26 : GEORGE

4-across – Shun amphetamines and block tobacco : ESCHEW

9-across – Foot is how Brummie introduced himself, initially? : LAMB

10-across – They brighten the gloom of age in northern lands : NEONLIGHTS

11-across – See 1 : DONTDO

12-across – Country singer, Whip, product of market gardening? : CASHCROP

13-across – Tabloid South American boat handler’s reported dispute : ARGYBARGY

15-across – Fancy reversed felt-tip, like a brush? : DAFT

16-across – Peaches, lasciviously unfastening stocking tops, gets bonus : PLUS

17-across – Removing plaque etc from wrong end – it’s disrupted test : DENTISTRY

21-across – Hoot away – but don’t be serious about it : LAUGHOFF

22-across – Old advice about concealed earthwork openings: go back! : RECEDE

24-across – Motorway lane management study by worthless type backing down : CONTRAFLOW

25-across – See 1 : THAT

26-across – How brawls might sound, put into words : PHRASE

27-across – Bridges often are in real need of water, lacking power : ARCHED

1-down – The allure of pumpkin, say, endlessly filled with endless meat : GLAMOUR

2-down – A satellite completes more than one viewer at one time : ORBIT

3-down – London Eye component – in climbing on, do laugh! : GONDOLA

5-down – Be the cause of a spat on getting place in band : SPLASH

6-down – Aristocratic group of students on drugs? : HIGHCLASS

7-down – Lacking, but not on the inside : WITHOUT

8-down – Entertainer, writer/novelist Henry pointlessly dropped dead : JOYCEGRENFELL

14-down – After play’s end, tongues wagging over rep’s lead : YOUNGSTER

16-down – Sort of fog starter? : PEASOUP

18-down – Line at the centre of the king’s pitcher : THROWER

19-down – Footballer doesn’t want to be confronted with this bloody joker : REDCARD

20-down – Slough artist covered in green stuff : MORASS

23-down – Don’t miss the musical round : CATCH