Daily Answers

1-across – *O for a pageant including an alien from Leicester! : POLICESERGEANT

9-across – Falls back once more upon the Sun : NIAGARA

10-across – Exclamation canonising *the maid of all work, say : STREWTH

11-across – Walk *the first of 25’s 12 out : AMBLE

12-across – Disgusting expression among those arranging to meet *25’s : DAUGHTERS

13-across – What is chewed, set and beaten : CUDGELLED

14-across – Dame that took the first of 25’s 12? : MELBA

15-across – It’s obvious what *the maid of all work proved to be : PLAIN

17-across – Old warrior has this tough old bird in hand : BATTLEAXE

20-across – Blown fruit : RASPBERRY

22-across – There’s little character in old warfare : DWARF

23-across – Beat Jack with a flourish : TANTARA

24-across – Extend across the opening of 12 in Berlin : SPANDAU

25-across – *Major public port that’s capital : GENERALSTANLEY

1-down – *Concise eponym of the last to incur spiritual punishment – one to boast about : PENZANCEPIRATE

2-down – Page American comrade of vernal appearance : LEAFBUD

3-down – Tea with fruit, in which is the end of the colour changer : CHAMELEON

4-down – School subject, footwear, in which top of class : SCANDAL

5-down – Echo, only more so, under the bit : RESOUND

6-down – I didn’t catch what you said about painting the planet : EARTH

7-down – Accidental exposure of card demands response from FDR : NEWDEAL

8-down – *Subtitle for faulty votes he’d exposed : THESLAVEOFDUTY

14-down – Sensational affair for older characters among mothers : MELODRAMA

16-down – Characteristic of wandering mind and warming heart? : ABSENCE

17-down – Don’t allow lawyers a girl : BARBARA

18-down – Solver’s rights to states held by Greek god : THYRSUS

19-down – Bill, Maud and pal, topped not tailed : ACAUDAL

21-down – *The first of 25’s 12 may take the rap : BLAME

7-across – Be unfaithful to wife No. 3 and what she may then turn! : CHEATON

8-across – Lock cleaner so engrosses overacting Teletubby : SHAMPOO

10-across – Go down while on-line : ABSEIL

11-across – Broke off key? : NOTELESS

12-across – Contribution to a paltry allowance? : RYAL

13-across – King 22”s convenience … : THRONEROOM

14-across – … would be above this par … : BOGSTANDARD

19-across – … with suitable embarrassment on the cards? : ROYALFLUSH

22-across – 3 writer of Biggle? : JOHN

23-across – Worker’s so long coming back in one, he’s admitted : HONEYBEE

24-across – Racing certainty from Spooner bankrupted the writer : MUSTBE

25-across – Winning repeatedly in lists? : ONAROLL

26-across – Queen’s University journal backing a climber : JULIANA

1-down – See 6 : THEBOYS

2-down – Final defeat later adjusted in court : WATERLOO

3-down – W.C. Fields’s output? : TOILET

4-down – Colour Gone with the Wind, shot with extra energy : WHITENED

5-down – Slow moving thriller-writer? : AMBLER

6-down – Showing faith that could be hers, too, by following society’s nepotism : JOBSFOR

9-down – Casually sauntered around Abraham”s home and took the loot with no value? : UNTREASURED

15-down – A game like this, initially for consumption of everybody : SOFTBALL

16-down – Cronin”s remains described by epitaph in princely Indian state : RAJASHIP

17-down – Lose it, ie the clue to departmental : GOROUND

18-down – See 17 : THEBEND

20-down – We are nearly always going about, tired of old people : AWEARY

21-down – See 3 : HUMOUR

1-across – Frame for little prince and princess? : CHASSIS

5-across – Pet with the arms folded : HAMSTER

9-across – Sign lots of books : LIBRA

10-across – Mail behind taxi read the other way by Irish knight : BACKPLATE

11-across – Alchemist’s friends keep people American : PARACELSUS

12-across – Heard sound at death of little heroine? : NELL

14-across – Blunt question, but curtailed amid continuous wear and tear : ATTRIBUTION

18-across – Maker of revolver reported order on parade ground : WHEELWRIGHT

21-across – Joiner’s part of the Dream – first of Cats? : LION

22-across – Corked port once? Vicky etc won’t worry : QUEENSTOWN

25-across – Ladybird for money taking male name : GUINEAHEN

26-across – Public transport from Dover to Calais : OVERT

27-across – 24 – otherwise it’s a moment at th’ end of the play : TIMOTHY

28-across – As a producer of plays one needs one’s company : IONESCO

1-down – A speaker in church – more likely in mosque : CALIPH

2-down – Prince with watching brief starting within : ALBERT

3-down – Fur-clad listener at church within reach of engine? : SEARCHABLE

4-down – Survey ends with large number : SYBIL

5-down – Caricatured in Punch with first cigarette, not breathing properly : HICCUPING

6-down – Chart on page associated with Caribbean saint by Benson : MAPP

7-down – Figures with some parallels – gin sounds less trouble! : TRAPEZIA

8-down – Drink from river – that’s one with gin : RIESLING

13-down – Exactly as the fair fool gets round to performing : JUSTASSOON

15-down – This is defective and more or less completely obsolete : THROUGHLY

16-down – Drunk about half the wine at the top of the list before nightfall : TWILIGHT

17-down – Two fellows mistreated in La Dolce Vita? : HEDONISM

19-down – People who draw structures that sound defective on TV : TOWERS

20-down – Now I’ll get my ball back that’s gone into net, won’t I? : ONETWO

23-down – Is this the feeling that corrupts the genuine heart? : ENNUI

24-down – The Guardian way is golden : WEST

8-across – Conservative and Lib-Dem leaders paid on the nail : CASHDOWN

9-across – Oil changed into wine in French fiddle : VIOLIN

10-across – Nod off when holding medal, more than likely : ODDSON

11-across – Mink, coypu, etc rage round the river? That’s right : FURRIERY

12-across – Report of marsupial mixing fat and flour : ROUX

13-across – Pestering of donkey and humans among deer : HARASSMENT

15-across – Ensure obedience to the Queen for ceremonial purposes : ENFORCE

16-across – See 2 : THEBELL

18-across – How many varieties? F-five? Ten? Yes, possibly, but no point : FIFTYSEVEN

19-across – See 5 : COAT

20-across – Man : MAILCLAD

22-across – Number attached to Australian rock strata : LAYERS

23-across – Sept, Nov and Dec are fiery : EMBERS

24-across – Apply poison to make dog stand up : CURARISE

1-down – A cannonball took his legs off, so he _______ : LAIDDOWNHISARMS

2-down – They went and told the sexton and _______ : THESEXTONTOLLED

3-down – Husks of maize – commonplace stuff – I’m embarrassed : CORNSHUCKS

4-down – The love that loves a scarlet coat should be more ____ : UNIFORM

5-down – Gloss for cold weather? : OVER

6-down – Kirby Dynamo can’t play anywhere else : NOTINMYBACKYARD

7-down – Source of oil, thick, keeping Italian boy and girl on a string : CITRONELLAGRASS

14-down – Doesn’t let student entrant pay attention after science film : SCHINDLERS

17-down – Roman poet cut off in tube : OVIDUCT

21-down – See 14 : LIST

1-across – Early 6 with 9 24 16 : MODELT

4-across – Saw Little Richard in Wales with Little Mary : DICTUM

9-across – The 1across 4: Alas! Auto’s lacking cool tints. Henry: So what? B____ off! : ANYCOLOURTHATHE

10-across – Beer’s a barrier to work : WALLOP

11-across – Decorator’s suspension : EMULSION

12-across – Attachment of a theologian to the last expressed uncertainty : ADDENDUM

14-across – Garden ought to yield an elegant sufficiency : ENOUGH

15-across – Composer left one to gain another : LIGETI

18-across – Euthanasia author”s final blow: Let’s restore ‘er! : KOESTLER

21-across – Alumnus with short fuse to yield obedience in Scotland : OBTEMPER

22-across – Anti-Renaissance type arrived here once : GOTHIC

24-across – See 9 : WANTSSOLONGASIT

25-across – Good shape from Scottish sartor? : KILTER

26-across – Society’s upper crust? Munch on this? : SCREAM

1-down – Roof piece touching around radius : MANSARD

2-down – Do Everton call Arsenal, League leaders, for a transfer? : DECAL

3-down – Langtry’s apartment in Monet’s garden? : LILYPAD

5-down – 1 across ruined in crash! : INTRUDE

6-down – Perhaps a Tolpuddle Martyr’s ecstasy? : TRANSPORT

7-down – Game speech from Erica’s mother : MAHJONG

8-down – You can rest here, old thing! : MUSEUM

13-down – Smattering of such strategy lacked by General Stanley : ELEMENTAL

16-down – See 9 : ISBLACK

17-down – I’m through with this. No, I’m not! : IMPASSE

18-down – Period in Malaysia’s capital for a Malayalam state : KERALA

19-down – Selectively reproduced info from Brussels, I see : EUGENIC

20-down – Snooty detachment making priest sit up before Mass : ELITISM

23-down – Thentient Thcottish Thuperior : THANE