Daily Answers

9-across – Engineers come back inside to have another look at the tank : RESERVOIR

10-across – See 11 : REPLA

11-across – Rejuvenation requires hard gold cash, retaining dividers: Bond must take the blame : HORMONE

12-across – See 11 : THERAPY

13-across – The little g____er : RUNT

14-across – Fish comes second to beer and tripe : CODSWALLOP

15-across – When the Levellers did their stuff? : EVENING

17-across – Muddy mark for childless masons? : SPLODGE

19-across – Not enough hours to transport milk to cafe : LACKOFTIME

22-across – Take food from the right girl : ENID

23-across – Solver’s double soon holds setter, a priest, to the means of entering Oxford University : SOMEONE

24-across – See 23 : LIKEYOU

26-across – In endless night across the water it makes one yawn : ENNUI

27-across – Sheriff’s officer’s not to miss the post : CATCHPOLE

1-down – Painting Orson embraced by Liz, destined for strawberry leaf : ARTHURWELLESLEY

2-down – Sergeant wanted to do it to faces missing the 8 thing : ESTRANGE

3-down – … patriots at heart : TRIO

4-down – My first, says my second, is an 8 thing: nothing goes cheaply : LOVESONG

5-down – Alternative to tram without the groove, producing the unkindest cut : BRUTUS

6-down – Released before autumn, The Descent of Icarus : FREEFALL

7-down – Student distorts rising proliferation of housing : SPRAWL

8-down – Iridescent mother of American city was effusive about loan : MANYSPLENDOURED

16-down – Is 4’s first subject atomically identical? : ISOTOPIC

17-down – Reproduce the state of the poor emu’s tail : SIMULATE

18-down – No boarder keeps names of subject of air on the pipes : DANNYBOY

20-down – See 11 : CEMENT

21-down – Ditch partially enclosed during raising of 11 10 20 12 : TRENCH

25-down – Ex-Chancellor was burnt, they tell me : KOHL

1-across – Possible reason for seeing US soldier in flasher’s coat giving order to the sledge-pulling friend of Winnie-the-Pooh at Marks & Spencer? : MAGICMUSHROOMS

8-across – Turner resulting in a spark, say, of colour : KHAKI

9-across – Budgie could be using stick to keep time : CAGELING

11-across – A girl can sound as if she’s in a cold state : ALASKAN

12-across – Style of trad. novel writer : ARTDECO

13-across – Close one down following unpleasant scent : HUMID

15-across – Lingual gymnastics from an overdose in shouting? : YODELLING

17-across – Sorted free mail to Portugal to see how the land lies? : RELIEFMAP

20-across – Call on half the jury not to rise? : VISIT

21-across – Seat of the ancient empire : OTTOMAN

23-across – Inclined to have zero intelligence in the Navy? : OBLIQUE

25-across – Spooner’s disposed of heart infection often caused by kissing : COLDSORE

26-across – Call me a Janus? That’s not entirely an ideal person’s name : IMAGO

27-across – Dim, then imbecilic, pilot literally ejects one for nothing? You can”t even imagine it! : THEMINDBOGGLES

1-down – Cricketer needing large number for bank holiday draw gets the runs, a century : MIKEATHERTON

2-down – Country’s dynasty lying in state : GHANA

3-down – Wobbly English deck chair not right for American bird : CHICKADEE

4-down – Weird as the profligate Scot? : UNCANNY

5-down – Rider appears exhausted : HAGGARD

6-down – Little bird becomes headless chicken on film : OWLET

7-down – Little time for grotty pieces of food at Christmas : MINCEPIES

10-down – Flowers make people into babies : FORGETMENOTS

14-down – Early developer in the north and south of London? : MILKTOOTH

16-down – Standardisation of European currency non-starter for trade : LEVELLING

18-down – Awful weather – and the weekend’s almost over! : MONSOON

19-down – Saw unwanted book on Lib-Dem policy : PROVERB

22-down – Woman hoping for a less hectic afternoon after this? : MADAM

24-down – Bird has to get cold feet : QUAIL

1-across – 18 what will 11 the Queen : PESTER

4-across – 18 forward, somewhat of the city : PERTURB

9-across – Break in time: 18 4ac when detailed : INTERRUPT

10-across – 18 inverted arrangement : UPSET

11-across – 18 doesn’t start the public address system : ANNOY

12-across – Poem with limited access to point over 18 : EPICENTRE

13-across – Away from the kerb is 24-26 : OFFSIDE

15-across – 18 for theologian embraced by drug carrier : MUDDLE

17-across – Tick for direct 18 : CREDIT

19-across – Elizabeth eats fish as well : BESIDES

22-across – Starch stirred twa or three times : ARROWROOT

24-across – Guardian’s about to make its way over ecstasy, which is unacceptable : OUTOF

26-across – See 24 : ORDER

27-across – A fen in 18 during creature’s celebration : BEANFEAST

28-across – Prophetic gift reported by Saga : FORSYTE

29-across – Volunteers left in heaven had literary company : STALKY

1-down – My friend from Panama is an ordinary : PAISANO

2-down – 18 maker took a pew and a pole : SATAN

3-down – Helicopter reportedly wouldn’t start, which was a lark : EARLYBIRD

4-down – 200-year-old political creed had Florentine picture palace’s number : PITTISM

5-down – Wake up running through York : ROUSE

6-down – Not a colony to be 18-ed : UNSETTLED

7-down – Fly female 18 : BOTHER

8-down – Unusual demand to investigate as before : QUAERE

14-down – Turf out artist and colour up pelt-monger : FURTRADER

16-down – 18 makes hell sweet : DISCOMFIT

18-down – The French minstrel’s half on top of the problem : TROUBLE

19-down – Give away money staked on fish : BETRAY

20-down – Musically lower than your first – about forte – should be safe for children : SOFTTOY

21-down – Don’t hedge! : LAYOFF

23-down – 18 has a line each way : WORRY

25-down – Be losing the way : TRAIL

1-across – Comeback for old black Sunday hats : STRAWS

5-across – ¿alking in Oz – a Disney animation : WALTZING

9-across – A red one, for example : CARDINAL

10-across – Becker used something with strings : REBECK

11-across – Ceremony accompanying Elgar’s Pomp : CIRCUMSTANCE

13-across – Ahab’s father brought in kingdom rituals : OMRI

14-across – Hole 13 made up part of the Wentworth inheritance, say : HEIRLOOM

17-across – Rival can upset this festive occasion : CARNIVAL

18-across – Heartless Chloe teased a nymph : ECHO

20-across – Saw property that could make a baby cry : CUTTINGTEETH

23-across – Cut I had, or ordered : HAIRDO

24-across – A criminal dish : RECEIVER

25-across – Attached to gold and been corrupted : BELONGED

26-across – One who cuts out banter! : DIETER

2-down – Drop speed : TEAR

3-down – Habit for someone on horse? : ADDICTION

4-down – Guard heartlessly sent to Coventry : SENTRY

5-down – Fat, with plenty of stuffing : WELLUPHOLSTERED

6-down – Nobles with joint authority : LORDSHIP

7-down – Equus produced in black and white : ZEBRA

8-down – They muffle the scruffs : NECKCLOTHS

12-down – Spotless -and spot on : IMMACULATE

15-down – Chile leek cooked in the old doctor’s manner : LEECHLIKE

16-down – Service featuring plainchant : EVENSONG

19-down – Hedged and edged : FENCED

21-down – Old Algerian soldier serving a foreign court : TURCO

22-down – Sounds like top dog : PEKE

8-across – Hickey’s obit : LOVEBITE

9-across – Bring forth English dictator : EDUCE

10-across – Percentage-wise, you must do as much as me, darling : IDOL

11-across – A pass that’s impossible to roll? : SQUAREBALL

12-across – Church shows a weakness in the head : TEMPLE

14-across – Reported higher flaw in the mind : UPSTAIRS

15-across – Blimey vicar, there’s no alternative? That’s right! : CORRECT

17-across – Some time in prison for informant? : ALITTLE

20-across – Nick holding pad, non-starter for bellringing : CARILLON

22-across – Be economical with small wave : SCRIMP

23-across – Turn into one place, which overlooks Rome : CAPITOLINE

24-across – See 17 : BIRD

25-across – Board game won by lethal mastery : HALMA

26-across – With which there’s no riding of a bicycle : CELIBACY

1-down – Chow said to need time for dog mess, but no pees! : TOODLEOO

2-down – Sound of cat, or sound of donkey : MEWL

3-down – Cleaner pack of lies : TISSUE

4-down – Paul in France for nearly a month? I’m not sure I should : JEJUNUM

5-down – Opposing sides to gather praise when moving counter : REPRISAL

6-down – Stupid person expecting to stand for the fare : DUMBWAITER

7-down – I’m a lumberjack, though my gender is under discussion : FELLER

13-down – One penny piece passed round, broken, for instance : PARTICIPLE

16-down – Cab to hire on ring road : CALLOWAY

18-down – Composition with a fruity twist? : LIMERICK

19-down – Suspicion doesn’t begin about murder, but divorce : UNHITCH

21-down – Father in pain must be brave : APACHE

22-down – Lager girl, losing head, hammers the wrong way : STELLA

24-down – Invention is kind of grand : BABY