Daily Answers

5-across – Deceive lord taking dip in Scottish river : DELUDE

6-across – Pick Enigmatist and his mum together – they’re the best … : OPTIMA

9-across – … his dad sold many clothes : OLDMAN

10-across – Question about Lord Owen, perhaps unusual hero: he doeth resuscitation! : ISTHEREA

11-across – 12 : HOME

12-across – See 10 : INTHEHOUSE

13-across – See 21 : DUNCANSMITH

18-across – Prominent pair left 12: they won’t want to draw one : SHORTSTRAW

21-across – Right behind him 12 – 22 may or may not be! : IAIN

22-across – I will shortly get round supporting left and I’m 12 : PORTILLO

23-across – See 10 : DOCTOR

24-across – In attendance, your turn : GYRATE

25-across – Some species producing a green variety : GENERA

1-down – Father’s foil a trick for lover : FLAMBEAU

2-down – Lord’s notice sen on the Great North Road : ADONAI

3-down – Currently opposed to preparation of tempuras : UPSTREAM

4-down – Playwright’s letter to the Greek Fiddler : PINERO

5-down – For pretty woman, surgeon’s work reduced lump : DOLLOP

7-down – Disinclined to some poetry : AVERSE

8-down – Protest to husband about parent’s last place of rest : SITTINGROOM

14-down – A dedicated angler may take a chance : CASTLOTS

15-down – One can’t hold the binoculars still! : TWITCHER

16-down – Strap contains resistance of crowd : THRONG

17-down – 23’s object turns out to be a flower : MIMOSA

19-down – What do I use for distillation? This must be the answer! : RETORT

20-down – Women with identification receive gizmo : WIDGET

4-across – Ruction as brother’s taken in by a fairy : AFFRAY

6-across – Accompanying to the finish in the finish : ENCLOSED

9-across – Right cultured, holding one distinctive piece : RARITY

10-across – Shameless patriotic diatribe? : FLAGRANT

11-across – Second book, including two German cries of pain : STOMACHACHE

15-across – Source of health and energy keeping volunteers in : VITAMIN

17-across – Threaten scamp, getting old money back : IMPERIL

18-across – Swim in peace, making happy finds : SERENDIPITY

22-across – Dubious retail lines in books : LITERARY

23-across – Piece of excrement in a film : PATINA

24-across – Tummy pain one ignored, beating drum : TYMPANUM

25-across – Rob King’s piercing instrument : BURGLE

1-down – Mother and aunt wandering round Italian city : MANTUA

2-down – Illness cramping student’s vocal style : INFLECTION

3-down – Help a gas to be released as industrial waste : SLAGHEAP

4-down – When without underwear, compiler’s been apt to cause friction : ABRASIVE

5-down – Desperately short of love, indeed : FORSOOTH

7-down – Power rock : SWAY

8-down – Brought up a little bit of information : DATA

12-down – Grant to house woman on the brink, going round the bend : HONORARIUM

13-down – Crosby’s to fall in, breaking head : BRAINING

14-down – Dish containing yam cooked by childhood friend : PLAYMATE

16-down – Den and Tim are upset about Bob’s faulty hearing : MISTRIAL

19-down – One famous tenor almost a failure as an aviator : ICARUS

20-down – The story of a piece of land : PLOT

21-down – Far from stern stalk : STEM

1-across – P.C. having papers with rhymes to stick on it : PICKWICK

5-across – Film addition to young conservatives’ house : PSYCHO

9-across – M.P.C., with a universal outburst against America, has fellows backing drug : AUGUSTUS

10-across – 1 and his man are identical, accepting turn to the left : SAMUEL

12-across – Housekeeper’s escape seen in colour in the cinema : LARGESCREEN

15-across – Maker of weapons giving kings increased power : KRUPP

17-across – See 9 : SNODGRASS

18-across – M.P.C. with seafood following a line other than accepted : NATHANIEL

19-across – Food for journey to the East : TRIPE

20-across – Fish in bands keep smells in drains : STENCHTRAPS

24-across – See 21 : TUPMAN

25-across – In which road is a bus expected to make a delivery? : DISABUSE

26-across – See 18 : WINKLE

27-across – Light for footballer to do all he can : VERYBEST

1-down – A railway in an old capital, the 27 with buttons : PEARLYKING

2-down – Smoking remains of clothing in which its cut is disguised : CIGARBUTTS

3-down – Uneconomic activity reported in the centre : WASTE

4-down – Pointers to heaven from rich cruise ship with two missing? : CHURCHSPIRES

6-down – Beast with former rider reported fraternising with groom : STAGNIGHT

7-down – See 1 across : CLUB

8-down – Single French city to be inverted : ONLY

11-down – Reminiscent about Soviet farm? : RECOLLECTIVE

13-down – Exaggerated picture of rhotacist’s alley cat heard during treatment : CARICATURE

14-down – Skirting awful mess, agree with valuation : ASSESSMENT

16-down – Co-operates with performances at dance : PLAYSBALL

21-down – M.P.C. heard to sit up in car, if old : TRACY

22-down – Put away in point-to-point : STOW

23-down – Stretch that Eve did? : SPAN

9-across – Girlfriend seen in the morning, or at beginning of afternoon : INAMORATA

10-across – Scent of love gloomy : ODOUR

11-across – Brunel’s Great ship was English to its end : EASTERN

12-across – One producing ink endlessly put in before title : ESQUIRE

13-across – Block in sport : BRICK

14-across – Unusual if judge backed during depression : DIFFERENT

16-across – Hairy beast collecting dinner, perhaps, saw mouth ulcer as revolting : WALRUSMOUSTACHE

19-across – Proper order needed to secure Labour’s retreat to The Ride of the Valkyries, possibly? : LEITMOTIF

21-across – Sound of disgust voiced for leader : BLAIR

22-across – Old script sees old man with loose syrup : PAPYRUS

23-across – Studious lad not entirely reasonable? : BOOKISH

24-across – Before settlement, but only 20%, yours truly not given a bean! : PULSE

25-across – Dickens’ Sam’s heading off to entertain famous person, one putting coat on : ENAMELLER

1-down – Draw untidy Wombles and die! : DISEMBOWEL

2-down – Name of mountains giving a warning to mice? : CATSKILL

3-down – Knockout kiss in a Russian’s purse? : KOPECK

4-down – On the radio something blue will usually move a square? : PAWN

5-down – Say it aloud, sending ships to the Gulf was such a mistake – a build-up demanding contemplation : NAVELFLUFF

6-down – Anti the mission for military subjugation : CONQUEST

7-down – Girl, one snared by parasite : LOUISE

8-down – Pine for actor : TREE

14-down – Small vessels assisted me at sea : DEMITASSES

15-down – 3 crash, fumbling for the soap : THEARCHERS

17-down – On the expensive side has me put off about something built ages ago : UPMARKET

18-down – Hardened supporter Spike won’t start to accept John : CLAVICLE

20-down – Spike the demon drink : IMPALE

21-down – Note cow’s on the phone! : BLOWER

22-down – Poet makes another hold his head : POPE

23-down – Smile offers support : BEAM

9-across – I haven’t much of 11 16 until real trouble occurs : ILLNATURE

10-across – The entertainer’s article is a plant : HOSTA

11-across – I find folk wild and barbarian, including the generality of folk, amid the chaos – Macbeth must have spilt it! : THEMILK

12-across – Fellow in blue and red keeping one staid, they say : TARRIED

13-across – Return of the unsophisticated spa : EVIAN

14-across – Stick around – sounds uttered in China : CANTONESE

16-across – See 11 : OFHUMANKINDNESS

19-across – Boxer constructs a ginnel round a hill : NIGELBENN

21-across – The chap at the chippy reportedly has food for 24 23down’s friend : FRIAR

22-across – The lady with a piece of music was 24 23down’s enemy : SHERIFF

23-across – Cambridge University’s tough for a vicar without energy to get in : HARVARD

24-across – Wouldn’t he show his face when he stole? : ROBIN

25-across – Bird’s eggs can be moved up the side : ROOKSPAWN

1-down – 24 23down’s friend’s adaptation of the cupboard under the stairs? : LITTLEJOHN

2-down – Snapper takes the middle of the film in colour : BLUEFISH

3-down – See 8 : MARIAN

4-down – See 21 across : TUCK

5-down – Such as Calypso is wanted in dance : WESTINDIAN

6-down – Home of 24 23down, a crock about court, sick of repose : SHERWOOD

7-down – With the passage of the hours wine finds me with bad boys, for example : ASTIME

8-down – 24 23down’s friend writing awfully dim song when he’s around : MAID

14-down – Dean : CINDERFORD

15-down – Here’s Beverley, with an awkward seat on a horse : EASTRIDING

17-down – A lot of money gets meagre return when celebrity comes in : MILLIONS

18-down – English soldier turns up in hymn, close to the soil : EPIGAEAN

20-down – See 7 : GOESBY

21-down – See 6 : FOREST

22-down – The rise of love is painful : SORE

23-down – See 24 : HOOD