Daily Answers

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

1-across – Drink emptied after drink round joint, an extended skinful? : CHIPOLATA

6-across – Roman Catholic priest buried, bit of him dug up? : RELIC

9-across – See 11 : INPSYCHOKINESIS

10-across – Loud music acceptable : FAIR

11-across – US comedian Steven Wright’s challenge when anyone seeks him moving with elevation, which is hardly possible : ALLTHOSE

14-across – Wee Jan van MacDonald abandons one farm building : DUTCHBARN

15-across – Musical beginning of counterpoint, romanticism : INTRO

16-across – Plant has time in reserve : SHRUB

18-across – Cows eating heartbroken girl : KATHERINE

20-across – Bob and Benny who chased girls in grass : SHILLING

21-across – See 24 : LASS

25-across – As sovereign I should be off, gathering speed, stressing too much : OVEREMPHASISING

26-across – West set about by going west, perhaps : MAYBE

27-across – Add fertilizer to roots when dried out: end of life in three seconds : SIDEDRESS

1-down – Richard the First of France to steal short uprising : CLIFF

2-down – 1p right in coin to stamp : IMPRINT

3-down – Politician topless, then vote for the horny beast! : ORYX

4-down – Pain of unlimited distinction : ACHE

5-down – Quality of lime green vegetable cut in Italy, cooked and passed round : ALKALINITY

6-down – Gang pursued sort of lemur : RINGTAILED

7-down – Many touring capital almost miss the boat : LOSEOUT

8-down – Porter carries beheaded Egyptian leader in dish : CASSEROLE

12-down – See 11 : WHOBELIEVE

13-down – Impudent rascal jokes about a king in prison : JACKANAPES

14-down – Strong 24 with genteel ways in place of rest : DUSTSTORM

17-down – See 11 : RAISEMY

19-down – Picture puzzle with twisted ending, one upside down : IMAGINE

22-down – Utter magnitude of exasperated utterances : SIGHS

23-down – See 11 : HAND

24-down – Winch from Hurricane Agnes, you might say : WIND

1-across – A day has the potential to be continental … : AFRICAN

5-across – … as is backward fellow with top off bone : NAMIBIA

9-across – Trendy body has a 10 for revenue : INCOMETAX

10-across – A missing harridan is No. 6 : VIRGO

11-across – Little money after time holds Maidenhead’s alter ego : SOUL

12-across – Sent for something that’s irrecoverable? : WRITTENOFF

14-across – Backing, say, for small object No. 3 : GEMINI

15-across – Agreement to keep on for ever is 12 : NOONDAY

16-across – Second part of body with 10 is No. 8 : SCORPIO

18-across – Cross river with Guardian No. 2 : TAURUS

20-across – Cautious when about to deduce guided means of crossing river : CHAINFERRY

21-across – River with garden : EDEN

24-across – Party for artist No. 7 : LIBRA

25-across – Gypsum for a workshop flower : ALABASTER

26-across – Proved advertisements easy to rewrite : ASSAYED

27-across – Put one’s foot down here: change at the fifth could be sticky : TREADLE

1-down – Even the weariest river includes No. 1 : ARIES

2-down – I don’t need company for detailed adaptation of Cruel Sea : RECLUSE

3-down – Strong current under canvas? : CAMP

4-down – Modification of routine at an adventure – Landor text? Yes : NATUREILOVEDAND

5-down – See 4 : NEXTTONATUREART

6-down – De Mille, say, to struggle with cat during endless loss of fur : MOVIEMOGUL

7-down – Old maid going round for Cotswold town : BURFORD

8-down – A little room to escape in unsociable style : ALOOFLY

13-down – Log about old sailor at drugstore? : DISPENSARY

16-down – Not quite ill? I have to be ill when climbing Italian island : SICILIA

17-down – Eggs on many to weep when raised by people of 5 across : OVAMBOS

19-down – It doesn’t say when we got flooded, in short : UNDATED

22-down – Foster former union with home counties : NURSE

23-down – See 11 : MATE