Daily Answers

1-across – If nobbled when following the flag, Don’t tell him, Pike! : JACKFISH

5-across – Get information on right to see one’s children : ACCESS

9-across – Italian girl’s detailed organising potential : SIGNORINA

11-across – See 1 down : MARIA

12-across – A part of the body : HALFTIMBERED

15-across – Laugh and I’ll be sunk : HAHA

16-across – Simple diet enabling one to drive safely? : SPEEDLIMIT

18-across – Shakes top off with exploding fuel: I’m so sorry : REMORSEFUL

19-across – It shows the beating was for your benefit : WEAL

21-across – No use keeping line hot after tea in the mortuary : CHARNELHOUSE

24-across – See 1 down : AZNAR

25-across – How to cope with discovering Pa can’t be favourite : PUTABRAVE

26-across – Talk about wood and walk about showily : SASHAY

27-across – See 25 : FACEONIT

1-down – Vessel containing some funny song with first and last name of former PM : JOSE

2-down – About how old are you in prison? : CAGE

3-down – Dance or fall out : FLORAL

4-down – Meal not at home, meal without sauce: keep it to 25 27 : STIFFUPPERLIP

6-down – Coming man summoning tent-dwellers to meal? : CAMPBELL

7-down – Tee up outside paintwork at bottom for hearing aid : EARTRUMPET

8-down – Puts up with cash register not moving : STANDSTILL

10-down – Giving occupant a fee I reckon a panacea : ANICECUPOFTEA

13-down – Riding crop starting on girl that’s not very good : THIRDCLASS

14-down – The best girl gets sparklers : CHAMPAGNES

17-down – Region without rain not right for the turnstone : ARENARIA

20-down – Turn black to be fit for service : USABLE

22-down – Desirous for trial, the very least of a notion : FAIN

23-down – See 22 : TEST

1-across – Making inroads as a diva in Detroit : DIANAROSS

6-across – With nothing to lose, you enter local around corner : BUYUP

9-across – Little liar walking arrogantly on the road in 14 down : WALTZINGMATILDA

10-across – Queen leaving piece of Mexico for a piece of China : YUAN

11-across – See 15 : PATERSON

14-across – Breaking law, forget that blush of satisfaction : AFTERGLOW

15-across – Stop it, Miss March! Father’s performing his 9! : BANJO

16-across – Mrs Jeremy Fisher’s issue having a hand in the tin : SPAWN

18-across – Running for cover? Hardly! : STREAKING

20-across – Corrective face-saver adopted by King of Spain : REVISORY

21-across – See 17 : FAIR

25-across – Lor! A hundred million men smashing a symbol of Washington : LINCOLNMEMORIAL

26-across – Astaire’s partner Madeleine, not Bunthorne’s! : ADELE

27-across – Backhanders part of this player’s service? : SHAMATEUR

1-down – Librarian’s eyes watering, so they say, with this classification? : DEWEY

2-down – Well, anyway ‘e’s in the charts on time : ATLEAST

3-down – With which the old joiner joins, they say : ADZE

4-down – Napoleon’s sound exists from Otranto … Inkerman … : OINK

5-down – Pottery from Armenia was shattered : SAMIANWARE

6-down – Pulse, say, in the h-head? : BUTTERBEAN

7-down – The old officer’s on good terms with Boris : YELTSIN

8-down – Gregory’s noted legacy from the Steppes? : PLAINSONG

12-down – Application required here for nose reduction? : GRINDSTONE

13-down – Show solidarity! No slackers needed! : CLOSERANKS

14-down – See 17 : AUSTRALIA

17-down – I travel Africa and USA with a diversionary alternative to 9 : ADVANCE

19-down – J.L.’s one Enigma Variation? : IMAGINE

22-down – Line manager the ultimate authority? : RULER

23-down – The pen of Zeus? : LEDA

24-down – She’s between borrower and lender : NORA

1-across – 24’s clue is frontal : METOPIC

5-across – Surviving from a scuffle, ancestor of Scottish kings : FLEANCE

9-across – Such a dish at heart of report? : TIKKA

10-across – Bearded man, missing a long time, drinks : BEVERAGES

11-across – Football club with little money? Then demand it gets new diet : SOUTHENDUNITED

13-across – Woman’s right, always : EVER

14-across – Apply it with trowel to engine of such capacity : TWOLITRE

17-across – Work hard in essays to get prizes : TROPHIES

18-across – Oriental with air force units : THAI

21-across – Race in which Gary follows on induces passive resistance : NONCOOPERATION

23-across – It’s crucial to get a social worker from abroad : IMPORTANT

24-across – The setter as object and subject : THEME

25-across – Express regret for boy with vision : SIGHTED

26-across – Fairy has to read editor’s rubbish : MUSTARD

1-down – Fairy godmother’s piece : MOTH

2-down – Humble opinion on moth with a drink? : TAKEONEDOWNAPEG

3-down – Hair in German place going into the ears? : PLAITS

4-down – Fairy, a nut on the Internet? : COBWEB

5-down – This is 4, G-man to admit having grabbed it : FIVEDOWN

6-down – Albert losing head over heartless lady is in a bad way : ERRINGLY

7-down – Near to rubbish drinker: he’s in a film with three brothers : NIGHTATTHEOPERA

8-down – Unknown females first found in the East – go gently … : EASYDOESIT

12-down – … on the other hand, home finishes over the ocean : WESTINDIES

15-down – Religious leader that eats core 6 : THEOCRAT

16-down – Crafty as a plan to produce cloth on river in Aberdeen : DEEPLAID

19-down – Time taken in introduction, not for 13 : PROTEM

20-down – Good person to get at American position : STATUS

22-down – See 26 : SEED

1-across – Source material for Adam’s novel : AHANDFUL

5-across – See 1 : OFDUST

9-across – Will oneself to exercise? : THINKFIT

10-across – How bugs emerge new from hedge : ECLOSE

11-across – Old dress length holding in a model : ORIGINAL

12-across – Whitbread Prize winner : FATIMA

14-across – Safe harbour for a Cambridge eight : PETERHOUSE

18-across – Trailblazers take advantage roughly : AVANTGARDE

22-across – Non-starters, when the ayes have it unanimously : NONOES

23-across – Oh no!, she’s announced, Arkwright’s lad rammed a port : YOKOHAMA

24-across – Swallow returning East, partly by the same fast route : IMBIBE

25-across – Film a car on Italian part of the course : MACARONI

26-across – Oh, slick Kate! Ego shattered? Don’t stay long on the shelf! : GOLIKE

27-across – See 26 : HOTCAKES

1-down – War artist’s genre? : ACTION

2-down – Bitter psyche in a supremo : ACIDIC

3-down – Ruminant raising two offspring : DIKDIK

4-down – Broke a Latin rule, no two ways about it! : UNILATERAL

6-down – Countenance discomfort with fright : FACEACHE

7-down – Too fond of the squaw in our Sioux regiment : UXORIOUS

8-down – Classic results from aquatic parturition? : THEWATER

13-down – Desiree thus bedded by tennis ace Murphy : SEEDPOTATO

15-down – See 1 : PAINTING

16-down – Anthropophagite swapping head for heart of the Elephant Man : HANNIBAL

17-down – Creature with knobbly knees and wobbly bot : STEENBOK

19-down – Such law written in stone : MOSAIC

20-down – He abdicated a long way from old England etc : FAROUK

21-down – See 8 : BABIES

1-across – She has the majority of 9-yard vehicle back, I’m glad to say : MARTHA

4-across – 26 who fell foul of 3 20, or one with natural remedies : CULPEPER

9-across – Gorge on fruit tree with sun on it : RAVINE

10-across – 26 who fell foul of 3 20, or one who provided protection? : CROMWELL

11-across – Taking part in The School for Scandal on the football pitch? : PLAYINGSURFACE

13-across – Revolutionary who set Yard to authorise action : SAYTHEWORD

14-across – Doing nothing gives an image to the audience : IDLE

16-across – Fourth article may be Russian : IVAN

18-across – Homes for team during screenplay : RESIDENCES

21-across – Kindest characters go wrong in quarry, possibility for next year? : PRESIDENTKERRY

23-across – Debauchee to attend around monarch, returning at length : RAKEHELL

24-across – 26 who fell foul of 3 20 to base consent on returns : WOLSEY

25-across – Wife has husbands, alternative personalities? : DUTCHMEN

26-across – Zero in mathematics complicated? I’m not sure : THOMAS

1-down – 26 who fell foul of 3 20 etc : MORE

2-down – Competition between right and left, about which I’m not constant : RIVALRY

3-down – Enrolled nurse registered in Kentish town: stature head to foot meant one had trouble with unions : HENRYTHE

5-down – Licence for new nurse to be instructed at the start : UNRESTRAINT

6-down – Asian mountains: many are in couples : PAMIRS

7-down – Patchy effect of setting foot outside dance in Paris : PIEBALD

8-down – People of faith get a new start from people who take over : RELIEVERS

12-down – At this point the chap is staggering, taking drug at this point only : NOWHEREELSE

13-down – I leave painter among broken reeds, like the pantaloon of the sixth age : SLIPPERED

15-down – Whether he’s a flier or a hippo? : BEHEMOTH

17-down – 26 who fell foul of 3 second call during elevated meal : ABECKET

19-down – White robe is partly coloured on the outside : CHRISOM

20-down – See 3 : EIGHTH

22-down – They have it in the passage : AYES