Daily Answers

1-across – That’s in turmoil, with something to strike about at once : POSTHASTE

6-across – Drunk is unlikely to buy a round? : TIGHT

9-across – Oriental city, huge, with this other name : OSAKA

10-across – Premier issue unable to break wind : EUANBLAIR

11-across – Trumpeter calls song thrush to Spooner : MILESDAVIS

12-across – Greek god’s wife given a hard time : HERA

14-across – Death produced by coma, we hear? : PARTING

15-across – Gospel member attends church section in recession : EVANGEL

17-across – Takes stock of the perfect chassis, perhaps? Not quite : RUSTLES

19-across – Body of soldiers overly recruited by draft : PLATOON

20-across – Fish is off, in the Queen’s Speech? : ORFE

22-across – Crude stuff is held back by coarse Cornish beast : RHINOCEROS

25-across – By the sound of it, many people to acquire time-share : ALLOTMENT

26-across – Throw out old money endlessly : EXPEL

27-across – Wise man, one embraced by bird : ERNIE

28-across – Microscopic organisms from which a pair came to mutate : PARAMECIA

1-down – Prelude for piano requiring more movement : PROEM

2-down – Limited calibre of French poet almost taken on board : SMALLARMS

3-down – Spacecraft protector manufactured from the halides : HEATSHIELD

4-down – A woman’s report on the whole thing : SHEBANG

5-down – Former African leader found in the River Test : EXAMINE

6-down – Touch up what’s a bit horny? : TUBA

7-down – Important accent : GRAVE

8-down – Jack wants me in durable canvas : TARPAULIN

13-down – Laugh about a boy’s sauce : SALADCREAM

14-down – Minister’s domicile with crime sheet passed round : PARSONAGE

16-down – Come up with, say, design of portico affected by down force : GEOTROPIC

18-down – Activate help in returned computers, then drag in Yiddish : SCHLEPP

19-down – Better to retain second joker : PUNSTER

21-down – Might one be given a lifelong stretch? : FELON

23-down – A saucy fling? : SALSA

24-down – Viewing restriction where there’s filth, it’s said : STYE

8-across – R is crabby and I’m upset about it : MISSOURI

9-across – One who steals a pound? : NICKER

10-across – R removes falsehoods from professionals’ pay : SAAR

11-across – Giving no freedom to the papers during raid from Scotland : REPRESSIVE

12-across – R has Irish setter’s exterior : MERSEY

14-across – Island of terriers : PITCAIRN

15-across – R and country lanes going round about, say : SENEGAL

17-across – Renegade’s characteristic is taking gold : TRAITOR

20-across – Little Brother grabs one before the rest : BREATHER

22-across – R for king? Solution: a s-state : KANSAS

23-across – General directions for girls being inspected by commissioner? : GUIDELINES

24-across – R’s a bird : SWAN

25-across – Ghost writer in the cooler: what’s current in Transylvania is outside : LEFANU

26-across – Get together with a rod? : CONVERGE

1-down – Roadways, English and Italian : MILANESE

2-down – R with some ferry services : YSER

3-down – R finds army deployed around ancient city : MURRAY

4-down – R drooping over ring : LIMPOPO

5-down – R is set in red for a change : DNIESTER

6-down – It is one act performed by Zebra, perhaps : ICESTATION

7-down – Bottom of R, according to the Guardian : WEAVER

13-down – R also embraced by female boat builder : SHENANDOAH

16-down – R god gives pain, unpleasant, with no end to it : ACHELOUS

18-down – R’s all right with something like a cargo? : OKAVANGO

19-down – R : ORINOCO

21-down – Woken and getting up, doctor holds R : ROUSED

22-down – R causing a stink : KISTNA

24-down – R sounding neuter : SPEY

8-across – Money for French vintage? O to quaff one! : CRUZEIRO

9-across – A female bird is one that embraces a male : PEAHEN

10-across – Having removed loud muffler, revealed ugly mark : SCAR

11-across – Deer with broken antler inside area not far from coast : HINTERLAND

12-across – Exercises turning fish into something edible : PEANUT

14-across – Someone leaving the country upsets me, admittedly : EMIGRANT

15-across – Ersatz South Africa abandoned, cutting the swine who once ran it : HERTZOG

17-across – Gets a notion of time among northern peoples : INTUITS

20-across – Apertures dismissed as futile : FISTULAE

22-across – Coup de chien, as the French say : PUTSCH

23-across – Favourite drink contains, oddly, a lot of jelly : PETROLATUM

24-across – Image by Ike to be beside the seaside? : IDOL

25-across – House expresses disapproval about artist coming back : STUART

26-across – In Germany, a stone version of Albert : EINSTEIN

1-down – Only one kind of bone in a catheter ruined several tubes : TRACHEAE

2-down – Leader’s vehicle negotiating chicane : CZAR

3-down – Military wear that’s keeping fashionable : TINHAT

4-down – Seat stretched round you, say : LOUNGER

5-down – A pastoral god goes round loop, endlessly referring to cosmic extremes : APHELIAN

6-down – Victorian boy may have worn such hearty hearts, perhaps : SAILORSUIT

7-down – Boy holds girl hostage : KEENAN

13-down – Say goodbye in the den on going up, going swimmingly! : NATATORIAL

16-down – Muse upset over reluctant material : OILCLOTH

18-down – Have eye on a drink from the building : TECTONIC

19-down – A little US money left in focus : CENTRED

21-down – A tide turning: end of pipe dream : IDEATE

22-down – Clean up on a fruity goddess : POMONA

24-down – On the pull, women left digging : INTO

9-across – A celebration with act I missed out of the Milky Way : AGALACTIA

10-across – Gamble with fire : POKER

11-across – Where to find fruit is a whale of a problem : ORCHARD

12-across – Alien’s not first fiddle, being yellow : ETIOLIN

13-across – See 21 down : DEFER

14-across – Gamble with Jolly Roger, not the thief of tarts : BLACKJACK

16-across – Identical junction – bale out : INTERCHANGEABLE

19-across – Where fuel comes from for bus being repaired in store : GASBURNER

21-across – A number of parasites returned to Salisbury : CECIL

22-across – Shrub at country house, the coach-driver’s place : BOXSEAT

23-across – Stars concealed in wheat? : THEWAIN

24-across – A fight, more or less : ABOUT

25-across – Friar I am unable to reform? : MENDICANT

1-down – Apple without an orange – deranged way of showing love : CANOODLING

2-down – Ready to play in two suits? : MATCHFIT

3-down – Extremes in Arab building for market area : BAZAAR

4-down – Gamble with 10 horses : STUD

5-down – In the film fraternity a horse will keep the wolf from the door : WAGEEARNER

6-down – Kilns prefabricated to prevent fires? : SPRINKLE

7-down – Songs inspired by Bacchus disguised as Loki : SKOLIA

8-down – St Paul’s little bird : WREN

14-down – Late buzzer keeps little boy pursuing deer : BEHINDTIME

15-down – Short of bags for the kennel – dog’s tail wagging : KNEELENGTH

17-down – Gamble and suffer, in a way : ROULETTE

18-down – Gamble on vehicle that’s raised the gold standard : BACCARAT

20-down – Male or female heavyweight grave digger : SEXTON

21-down – Gamble to c-confine delay : CHEMIN

22-down – Gamble and bluster : BRAG

23-down – Premier traveller to America? : TONY

1-across – Grown-up girl wedded to crime : BIGAMY

4-across – Descriptive of surface of leather or pelt : PEBBLE

9-across – The Highland fling : TOSSINGTHECABER

10-across – Dress right – one must have Parisian taste : RIGOUT

11-across – Attacks with shells – no retreat! : ROUNDSON

12-across – Career’s involved hard study : RESEARCH

14-across – Old boy’s lost capital in the city : EXETER

15-across – Cannon’s part responsible for reported gap in defences : BREECH

18-across – Plants take fish unloaded here, perhaps : DOCKSIDE

21-across – Form of punishment exposed by one bearing stripes : CORPORAL

22-across – Sharpness shown in a document’s contents, overlooking nothing : ACUMEN

24-across – Go flat out? : DOONESLEVELBEST

25-across – Screech or hoot? : SCREAM

26-across – Knock back drink after eating game with veg : TURNIP

1-down – Newly-wed occupied by mounting tick? That’s commonplace! : BROMIDE

2-down – Sudden burst of wind – not something that gives pleasure! : GUSTO

3-down – Assembly retaining the North, ie the Province : MUNSTER

5-down – Top businessman I see quitting : EXECUTE

6-down – RA blessed, perhaps, in not having a Vandyke : BEARDLESS

7-down – I fly high, say, to see this sight : EYESORE

8-down – Formality shown – find a way to bend : STARCH

13-down – Stir, before taking this drink : EYEOPENER

16-down – Port, in our view, makes one boisterous : RIOTOUS

17-down – Shire, say, keeping name given to a place in Yorkshire : HORNSEA

18-down – One probing Minister was first set up : DELVER

19-down – Country house serving two kinds of beverage, you say : CHATEAU

20-down – Put on fancy wear and brag? : DRESSUP

23-down – Place in South Africa, not its capital city : URBAN