Daily Answers

1-across – Create Ye Glum Old Sailor? Somehow he did! : SAMUEL

4-across – Spike one’s dram? : SCOTCH

9-across – See 1 : TAYLORCOLERIDGE

10-across – But it is! : OBJECT

11-across – Bible reformer with the old stony face imprisoned : WYCLIFFE

12-across – Did the late Yorick top himself with it? : SKULLCAP

14-across – Forgers at work here in El Greco’s view : TOLEDO

15-across – Hothead’s class of yacht : DRAGON

18-across – Home ground for strictly personal development? : BACKYARD

21-across – Rare find uncovered beyond the rainbow’s end : INFRARED

22-across – Memorials here to the Queensland Terriers? : CAIRNS

24-across – Composer recalled one to gory accident : COLERIDGETAYLOR

25-across – The Spanish O’Connor taking time with first-born : ELDEST

26-across – Post-1989 activities here extramural? : BERLIN

1-down – Jesuits get frenzied without a bishop and hide cat! : SJAMBOK

2-down – Film director’s note: Hold everything! : MALLE

3-down – Capricious apostate! Idle bounder! : ERRATIC

5-down – Crop of redundancies at Henley? : CREWCUT

6-down – Idly examine one bottle left within : TRIVIALLY

7-down – Well-nourished senior G-man : HIGHFED

8-down – Would speak of return to work with the backing of the Mills Brothers : DOOWOP

13-down – Man of fashion fled in panic after royal rebuff : LAGERFELD

16-down – Children’s author at the end of the road without a new series : RANSOME

17-down – Nymphs’ names around before Psyche : NEREIDS

18-down – Grew old and died raising wine for sale here : BODEGA

19-down – En which to cook oeufs tart? : COCOTTE

20-down – What cereal smugglers do on the Manchester Ship Canal? : RUNCORN

23-down – Tennyson wrote the same lines about Journey’s End : IDYLL

1-across – The punter’s oxymoron? : ANTEPOST

5-across – Set by J. Louis – odds applied to 20 : STYLUS

9-across – Backer for 14? Solution could be a belt : TURNTABLE

11-across – Deadly boring item about half full : AWFUL

12-across – What happened to old solvers is in view: is this a 20? : SEVENTYEIGHT

15-across – 26 grass : NARK

16-across – Traditional number in Indian dress is a fiddle : STRADIVARI

18-across – Overhead support for Turkish bath in which beer is drunk : HAMMERBEAM

19-across – No use doing nothing : IDLE

21-across – Apple drink for singer, an educational oxymoron? : PUPILTEACHER

24-across – Key first two notes for worship : ADORE

25-across – Designer belief still backed, keeping sign on 20 : TELEOLOGY

26-across – Eyed article on 14 : NEEDLE

27-across – Football field below St Lawrence? : GRIDIRON

1-down – A drink for the fastidious : ASTI

2-down – The port could be flat : TYRE

3-down – Would-be wizard at the wheel : POTTER

4-down – Thinker’s oxymoron dependent on protest : SUBJECTOBJECT

6-down – Figures gin’s not so much trouble, so to speak : TRAPEZIA

7-down – Figures lad could be horse : LIFEGUARDS

8-down – Big stones give it exposure, piercing bottoms of feet : SOLITAIRES

10-down – Chastened by car tax, valuer’s not drawing blood : EXTRAVASCULAR

13-down – Maximum Spanish rainfall here, maddening lion and panther right away : INTHEPLAIN

14-down – For revolver, provide new rag for cleaner that’s not paid before binder : GRAMOPHONE

17-down – Another rhyme for helter-skelter : PELLMELL

20-down – See 14 : RECORD

22-down – Guardian’s reported time : HOUR

23-down – 24 male voices? : HYMN

1-across – Liberties taken after the match? : CONJUGAL

5-across – Reflective selection first to last : ECHOIC

9-across – Removes the assembly surrounding ‘unt protests : DEMOUNTS

10-across – See 1 : RIGHTS

12-across – Three times with mutual docking idea, I run wild search for us here! : WWWGUARDIAN

15-across – Iberian poet banishing sickness from his island : LORCA

17-across – See 12 : UNLIMITED

18-across – Hero cast in stone could be more of the same : OTHERONES

19-across – Man hiding shirt of a kind made of fibre : ISTLE

20-across – Meddle with, fumble ‘n’ break it? Out! : TINKERABOUT

24-across – Heroin freely available : ONHIRE

25-across – Desert ship’s master having punch-up in car : CAMELEER

26-across – Camera one’s carried to Bear Island : KODIAK

27-across – One appraises American bases thus: right? : ASSESSOR

1-down – Fish consume most of power in the bilge : CODSWALLOP

2-down – Distinguished Tory he-man with malformation : NAMEWORTHY

3-down – Freedom of Hard Right to infiltrate three universities : UHURU

4-down – Turbine ran G-force wildly, producing thrust from this : AFTERBURNING

6-down – Successive Chinese leaders grabbing one for nothing in Thailand : CHIANGMAI

7-down – Pinochet’s missile launch site : OCHE

8-down – Reckon when caught out : CAST

11-down – Bluebeard’s taking a breather; ‘e’s sired a failure : GILLESDERAIS

13-down – London guild preceding the Queen Victoria Society : STATIONERS

14-down – Speculator’s a debtor accepting a bet : ADVENTURER

16-down – Our base in Cyprus piped up a group of Greek ornaments : ACROTERIA

21-down – Mischief maker snatching Sapper’s crest : ARETE

22-down – See 12 : COUK

23-down – Compiler of 8 : SHED

1-across – Atrocious acts on WWI battle site, riots perhaps : MONSTROSITIES

10-across – In the locality about 2.10 am : AMBIENT

11-across – King takes Middle Easterner to a European country : ROMANIA

12-across – Soil taken from mountain top : TAINT

13-across – Deserved response to bottom-pinching: criticism for unsophisticated humour : SLAPSTICK

14-across – Cook in pan : ROAST

16-across – Lace with speed for a plant : SPIKERUSH

18-across – Similarity of compounds, one part solid with lead removed : ISOMERISM

19-across – No entrance to farm or house : TUDOR

20-across – Carriers soundly sleep on beds : KNAPSACKS

23-across – Fight in ditch : SCRAP

24-across – Actress Julia Roy to rest anyway : ROBERTS

25-across – Washing powder required for one top : SURFACE

26-across – 1 pi? Not to suspect 8, for example : IMPRESSIONIST

2-down – Essential to score goal with rabbit : OBBLIGATO

3-down – The smell of money, say : SCENT

4-down – Turns taken with these turners, audibly : ROTAS

5-down – 9’s musical technique? : SERIALISM

6-down – I set theme, spinning record when work’s done : TIMESHEET

7-down – Lack of interest evident, though 9 could be around the bend : ENNUI

8-down – Artist demanding women, having to metamorphose, getting more twisted, suspect finally suggested to have been… : WALTERSICKERT

9-down – … using cipher, kept in jug : JACKTHERIPPER

15-down – Crime not on for artist, non-starter, though he keeps the money : TREASURER

16-down – Match examples, those taken away? : SUITCASES

17-down – When given general anaesthetic, I don’t know the way to avoid traffic : UNDERPASS

21-down – For the record, white short by two points : ALBUM

22-down – Food which makes us hiccup to some extent : SUSHI

23-down – Father has pole for seductress : SIREN

1-across – Leaves a quid : TOBACCO

5-across – Was bent on giving the setter an outrageous kickback : MEANTTO

9-across – Comrades! A revolution here in pop! : CREAMSODA

10-across – Corrupt man from Spithead, as it were : GOBAD

11-across – Take in food : TUCK

12-across – Nothing to do with dishing the dirt? : IDLEGOSSIP

14-across – German chap heard to perform work of Sassoon : HAIRDO

15-across – Who’s heard in musical partnership? : CAHOOTS

16-across – The soft touch that purifies the soul, say : DOORMAT

18-across – See 27 : DOBSON

20-across – Where the slate is used and when it is not : ONTHEHOUSE

21-across – Brief briefs maker? : SILK

24-across – Ring the wife! One earned a buck : ORIBI

25-across – Up sticks and pack m’ bare essentials! : BREAKCAMP

26-across – Distant daughter supplants wife of electromagnetic Michael : FARADAY

27-across – Beerbohm drowned her suitors in polluted bio-lake. Zounds! : ZULEIKA

1-down – It’s assumed flyer accepts current : TACIT

2-down – A Slav rising, with Langley’s support, in Italy : BRESCIA

3-down – How potential winners go back to front : COME

4-down – Rock singer’s prayer upsetting Ebenezer Scrooge: No good! My old BMW’d ‘aunt you! : OLORDWONTYOUBUY

5-down – See 4 : MEAMERCEDESBENZ

6-down – No lover of shopkeepers? : ANGLOPHOBE

7-down – Something of Bloody Mary Tudor’s opener: Down with French pacifist! : TABASCO

8-down – Dictionary work: nothing going for one solver of the Sphinx’s riddle : OEDIPUS

13-down – See 3 : FROMBEHIND

16-down – Set down traveller to reach the Land of Nod? : DROPOFF

17-down – Loner who’d tell more porkies than others, right? : OUTLIER

19-down – I’m a popular banker, coming up with the folding! : ORIGAMI

22-down – Greek character heard to tell better jokes? : KAPPA

23-down – Lok Sabah recessing with a toast to the Rikstag : SKOL