Daily Answers

1-across – Result from heated serial inflation, say? : POPCORN

5-across – One-man band’s performance over chaps who are paid for their performance : GIGOLOS

9-across – Parisian ringer’s ring from a phone card in jail : QUASIMODO

10-across – Cleft splint won’t support it : INTWO

11-across – Waste disposal with disposed of worries : EATS

12-across – 505 making it, if humanly possible : GODWILLING

14-across – Size up Jenny? : ASSESS

15-across – Shallow river in no part ebbing : NOTDEEP

16-across – Court champion by putting the shot inside : PLEADER

18-across – A score more than one’s allotment : NINETY

20-across – An element of collaboration? : VICHYWATER

21-across – See 5 down : BUSH

24-across – Time Omar broadcast with earflaps : TRAGI

25-across – Tiny thing Mrs Fawlty left off Torquay’s statistical year initially : ITSYBITSY

26-across – Single payment for tax evaders? : LUMPSUM

27-across – Youthful pulse couldn’t shoulder it, mate! : OLDBEAN

1-down – Nelson on track to lose foot, taking umbrage! : PIQUE

2-down – Playwright with small part, usual failure … : PLAUTUS

3-down – … speaking of the same poet : OVID

4-down – Doctrine of 21’s son: leaderless Americans vote madly : NEOCONSERVATISM

5-down – Why no Republican gain in the Napa Valley? It speaks for itself! : GOODWINENEEDSNO

6-down – Duplicity involving many in parliamentary restriction : GUILLOTINE

7-down – W.C. Fields providing one for visitors? : LATRINE

8-down – Makeshift plughole? : STOPGAP

13-down – 21 senior’s utterance falling on deaf ears? : READMYLIPS

16-down – Decisive celebrity toppling old chess champ : PIVOTAL

17-down – Old forty-niner’s title call : EXCLAIM

19-down – Corrosive influence in support of the Guardian : TRUSTEE

22-down – His surprise was noted : HAYDN

23-down – Lincoln died in his sleep : ABED

1-across – Policeman at seaside reported a tree : COPPER

5-across – Singer found only in wood and water : JUSTIN

8-across – Anarchic movement puts barrier round platform : DADAISM

9-across – Made a mistake and got softened up? : FLUFFED

11-across – They have openings for speculators – note: everything’s at the speed of sound among the trees : PINBALLMACHINES

12-across – The one who wins the girl’s love? : HERO

13-across – See 5 : TIMBERLAKE

17-across – Shelley’s editor edited without thinking : HEEDLESSLY

18-across – Whisky for beer : MALT

20-across – Birds get on with old king that’s admitted member of Cambridge body : ROBINSONCOLLEGE

23-across – The day before the Sabbath is a high point : EVEREST

24-across – French boy losing his head: time for something he’s got? : ACQUEST

25-across – Flower could be the same when cut : THAMES

26-across – A line that isn’t in favour : AVERSE

2-down – Poem about universal Balkan currency in action before 19 in 18 : OUDENARDE

3-down – Original border circumvented by friend : PRIMAL

4-down – One who paints modern girls in action before 2 : RAMILLIES

5-down – Cream of jest – affair’s not Irish but Orange : JAFFA

6-down – See Arthur about his father – Irish, not Orange? : SOUTHERN

7-down – Lower international organisation – I must be joking : INFUN

8-down – Paid the wrong bill to send off a sub? : DEPTHCHARGE

10-down – I don’t agree to delete another two insets : DISSENTIENT

14-down – Battle by lake with cold and hot material : BALACLAVA

15-down – Knowledge of a missing Trojan 12 about battles : AWARENESS

16-down – Apple in action before 4 : BLENHEIM

19-down – Floss wanted memorial tablet : PLAQUE

21-down – See 1 : BEECH

22-down – Polar 12’s report of grain : OATES

9-across – Haile Selassie was very distant: take wine round : RASTAFARI

10-across – 20 3’s 12 quick-fit staff nearly botched has some padding : BREAK

11-across – Jolly subject to examine outside state : VERMONT

12-across – See 22 down : HOLIDAY

13-across – Standard team? No, superior! : LIEGE

14-across – Buddhist canon shows what to do with light fantastic, less familiarly? : TRIPITAKA

16-across – Mensa member, perhaps, titillates Uncle Dicky : INTELLECTUALIST

19-across – Bill from PC World – source: northern town : GATESHEAD

21-across – This type shoots back : SERIF

22-across – One getting more distressed carrying appropriate receptacle? : MOURNER

23-across – An essential for marriage, orgiasts state : GEORGIA

24-across – Mystic in water went with current : SWAMI

25-across – See 22 down : GOLIGHTLY

1-down – See 22 : TRAVELLING

2-down – Hungry, so certain to eat 1 in 10 stew : ESURIENT

3-down – See 20 : CAPOTE

4-down – See 10 : FAST

5-down – Unseemly kid with light he’s thrown : HIGHKILTED

6-down – An attempt to hold up influenza by a Muslim prince : ABULFIDA

7-down – An ex-colleague of mine and her anagrams : HENDRA

8-down – All right to uncork the wine? : OKAY

14-down – Lords relieve themselves in fashion? : THEPEERAGE

15-down – See 10 : ATTIFFANYS

17-down – Blowing a fuse with SA in decline : LOSINGIT

18-down – Cross, having to carry dress that’s wet : IRRIGATE

20-down – Genuine fellow with top books penned : TRUMAN

21-down – Mud-filled hollow in Berkshire : SLOUGH

22-down – 20 3’s volatile good-time girl stylishly having all : MISS

23-down – General IQ getting on for fifty, on target : GOLD

5-across – Death scene, extremely pleasant – rail off : VENICE

6-across – In league with a pupil, was a romancer : ALLIED

9-across – Home Guard pursuing wood and stone : ASHLAR

10-across – Time after crazy nut with 5 down’s garment I would remove : NATURIST

11-across – Defensive measure ensuring game finished level? : DRAW

12-across – Boswell’s first … with hero a prig? Hardly! : BIOGRAPHER

13-across – The right house to put in a family or similar group : BROTHERHOOD

18-across – Leader of group to price manual? : CHARGEHAND

21-across – Sea horse : MARE

22-across – Go up to the top of the house, say, with such change coming : CLIMATIC

23-across – Mother a gentlewoman? There’ll be trouble : MALADY

24-across – Hoist used in heist? : PETARD

25-across – Contemptuous expression uttered by Humpty : POUFFE

1-down – Blooming repeatedly further down : INFLOWER

2-down – Non-striker embracing one who paints a beetle : SCARAB

3-down – Religious reformer dropped her in dry 12 : PLUTARCH

4-down – See 16 : PIRRIP

5-down – gives the V and A a Hindu garment : VASARI

7-down – Cleaned, when all’s done? : DUSTED

8-down – Enthusiastic about cleaner work with inability to bear : INTOLERANCE

14-down – This is always happening to me: I’m my own 12 … : THESTORY

15-down – See 14 : OFMYLIFE

16-down – … I expected a lot: page to call speaker with up and down epitaphs : PHILIP

17-down – See 11 : BRIDGE

19-down – Far from meteor? : REMOTE

20-down – Mother and child in a jam? : DAMSON

7-across – English girl collects grey marine plant : EELGRASS

9-across – Feasts a non-believer endlessly rejected? : AGAPAE

10-across – Stop loan : LEND

11-across – Look after good worker after greeting all around : HIGHANDLOW

12-across – Plane, Irish-American, carrying British : AIRBUS

14-across – Going around tug, observed a non-paying passenger : STOWAWAY

15-across – Partner without children sitting by river : SPOUSE

17-across – Small protest message against O’Shanter : BANTAM

20-across – One’s written in two forms of Edward – not changed by publisher : UNEDITED

22-across – Study country society : PERUSE

23-across – Period of isolation? Auntie ran off : QUARANTINE

24-across – It’s doubly hard jumping across a ditch : HAHA

25-across – Pieces of music? Ecstasy to person entertained no end : SEGUES

26-across – Mice destroyed by what sounds like blunt instrument : DULCIMER

1-down – Dissidents before joining irregular movements : HERETICS

2-down – Old pike or luce : AGED

3-down – One of the three for all the feeling that arouses pity : PATHOS

4-down – A run with a high-arcing ball going up on a curve : PARABOLA

5-down – Arrest mad, unruly boss employed by railway : YARDMASTER

6-down – A man who painted Japanese city : NAGOYA

8-down – Most wise and godly person over a long period of time : SAGEST

13-down – Rub old goo around, type of fluid for the body : BLOODGROUP

16-down – Worship of the Devil – a transgression shown up after the Last Day! : SATANISM

18-down – Wickedness is evident after Mass – that is undermining church : MISCHIEF

19-down – Bowler Hemmings : EDDIED

21-down – Feeling of disgust upset man – male denied employment : NAUSEA

22-down – Native American will be upstanding – just some revolutionary : PUEBLO

24-down – That man and I may expect to inherit : HEIR