Daily Answers

1-across – Here is Grub Street: writer’s about : BISTRO

4-across – Miss Elizabeth Hill on-line, says. . . : BENNET

9-across – . . .Breck, concluding 21”s name : ALAN

10-across – Having fun qualified for chastisement : FROLICKING

11-across – Tony transfigured and translated? Wait for it! : NOTYET

12-across – It’s very exciting when the stream enters the river : THRILLER

13-across – Actor Matthew was mounted – a splendid chap outside : BRODERICK

15-across – : AUTO

16-across – Actors are like flies : CAST

17-across – See 15 : BIOGRAPHY

21-across – Bird on the wing captivating American storyteller : TUSITALA

22-across – Put on to fool both of us, so to speak? : ASSUME

24-across – Fancied filly gets to fling rider off. . . : GIRLFRIEND

25-across – . . .but he will win her love, . . . : HERO

26-across – . . .I forgot to mention, in heart and body : CORPSE

27-across – English points of view : ANGLES

1-down – 21’s David’s a degree over 54 : BALFOUR

2-down – Little boy that hasn’t got shingles? : SANDY

3-down – Judge could be true defence counsel, perhaps : REFUTER

5-down – I left the country before the fighter came in : EMIGRE

6-down – With family backing I commend a racing driver : NIKILAUDA

7-down – Put spirit into fruit : TANGELO

8-down – Pompey’s partner keeps crockery in place of junk : SOUTHCHINASEA

14-down – Scotchman not moving between princess and mother-in-law : DISTILLER

16-down – Aid to detection said to turn up murderer – could be St Bernard : CLUNIAC

18-down – Information about 9 to warm the heart : GLADDEN

19-down – It isn’t so funny to be given the elbow : HUMERUS

20-down – One man in a boat on the Tweed? : HARRIS

23-down – Revolutionary hales from Africa : SAHEL

1-across – Parts sent for repair, wings : TRANSEPTS

6-across – Redhead featured in lyric for the introduction : PROEM

9-across – Newspaper maintained by other one, daily perhaps : OFTEN

10-across – Supporter cut back on consideration for 13’s northern relative : POLARBEAR

11-across – On his demand, prompt delivery meant not being late : HIGHWAYMAN

12-across – Capital of 6 down or of Mali, strangely : LIMA

14-across – People unable to return service are threatened : MENACED

15-across – Approaching a river, a desert in 6 down : ATACAMA

17-across – Opening dismissed by those not twisting in heart : TICKERS

19-across – Greek character gains benefit around hot, wet pit : MUDHOLE

20-across – Ancient location of Hollywood? : INCA

22-across – Sick with boredom, turning tail, in recent year : MILLENNIUM

25-across – Something to cut storm, about zero : RAZOREDGE

26-across – Follow Billy literarily back to junction : TRAIL

27-across – Laughs with 20 when conspiring? : HOOTS

28-across – Vegetable for the Head of Conservation? : GREENBEAN

1-down – Emaciated, though not in chopper : TOOTH

2-down – Can I get in trouble stimulating response? : ANTIGENIC

3-down – See 8 : SANDWICHES

4-down – Pius perhaps to yield, oddly amazed : POPEYED

5-down – All entertained by a student union climbing in here in. . . : SULLANA

6-down – . . .the country for sport in general and one specifically : PERU

7-down – Daggers: Swedish chemist decapitated by one : OBELI

8-down – : MARMALADE

13-down – . . .the station, from 6 down? : PADDINGTON

14-down – Dominant woman raising the right atmosphere in contest : MATRIARCH

16-down – Love, given 30 seconds in decline, becomes hate : ABOMINATE

18-down – Show a bit of leg and enjoy the party : SHINDIG

19-down – Dramatist wants further story penned : MOLIERE

21-down – 20-n capital where copper the last business : CUZCO

23-down – Fruit of opposite halves of European capitals : MELON

24-down – Exaltation of tender love : EROS

1-across – Risk superior cast : PUSHYOURLUCK

8-across – Complaint involving risk, etc : RICKETS

9-across – Dance bringing ursine perambulation to a ticklish conclusion? : TWOSTEP

11-across – Risk taking student into the choir : CHANCEL

12-across – He took his time : EGOTIST

13-across – I’m good at location, whichever way you look at it : RADAR

14-across – Racing vehicle reversed into tree to get article of lambskin : ASTRAKHAN

16-across – Not in one’s cabin, needing to be picked up? : ONTHEDECK

19-across – Hard to get your teeth into? Too bad! : TOUGH

21-across – Politicians in heaven preceded Edward VIII : SIMPSON

23-across – Miners with real problem, anything from 1 to 9? : NUMERAL

24-across – Feet where hands should be under the masthead : YARDARM

25-across – It could be the reverse of a fixer at first : ITALIAN

26-across – Risk a spirited stage production : PLAYWITHFIRE

1-down – Duck and fish in case : POCHARD

2-down – Relative of princes’ sister accepting old money : SPENCER

3-down – Sleep easy, result of being polite? : YESPLEASE

4-down – BBC’s leader dismissed and set loose : UNTIE

5-down – Overture, one or other, in US city : LEONORA

6-down – Aquarium dweller as model provided rise in money : CATFISH

7-down – Roy’s peculiar arrangement thus involving risk : PRECARIOUSLY

10-down – Risk – don’t send by road? : PUTONTHELINE

15-down – Attracted by knowledge and intelligence in cover-up : TAKENWITH

17-down – Cart whose base needs some protection from the rain : TUMBREL

18-down – Drug scene starts up – stay resolved : ECSTASY

19-down – Little boy with great fear not ended by percussion : TIMPANI

20-down – Lift and bend to get commendation : UPRAISE

22-down – Clouds not in my backiard? : NIMBI

1-across – Bread supplier on the high street? : CASHMACHINE

9-across – Old weapon that’s iron-like, left to be buried : HALBERD

10-across – Poorly-rated home kept by member of crew : ONESTAR

11-across – Lucre’s somehow made with pots – but there’s no ecstasy for the craftspeople : SCULPTORS

12-across – See 1 down : IDEAS

13-across – Endless money? Take it easy! : LOLL

14-across – Maiden with spare tyre trained as a successful athlete : MARYPETERS

16-across – Mind-benders making me stir around in confusion : MESMERISTS

19-across – What’s said to restrain crawlers here? : KERB

21-across – Characters in forge naturally turned black : NEGRO

22-across – See 1 down : FURIOUSLY

24-across – In furniture store prohibit Japanese art : IKEBANA

25-across – Storm finished? Make a dash for it! : OVERRUN

26-across – The girl going after catch meets boys around the north country : NETHERLANDS

1-down – See cluer’s use of rare, silly pseudo-lingo – absurd nonsense from 4 : COLOURLESSGREEN

2-down – See 1 : SLEEP

3-down – Idiotic fellow sitting on top of a tree? : MADRONA

4-down – Linguist and Philosopher opposed to Vietnam War writing in prison : CHOMSKY

5-down – Like phone bill, having side organised with time? : ITEMISED

6-down – Drastic action to get readings from a maximum-minimum thermometer? : EXTREMEMEASURES

7-down – Jail cut short as man’s smuggled in tool : CHISEL

8-down – Half the crew missing on the river, a desperate situation : CRISIS

15-down – Pulsating holiday centre – Nan’s knocked right out : RESONANT

16-down – Stone workers aren’t stone-deaf, reportedly : MENHIR

17-down – Popular female given overdue boost : INFLATE

18-down – Name said to be associated with fuel chaos : TURMOIL

20-down – Lines evident in cadaverous girl : BRYONY

23-down – Chemical vent without top on at home : OLEIN

1-across – : GEORGE

4-across – : THOMAS

9-across – Female is to pass fruit in sack to takeaway : FISHANDCHIPSHOP

10-across – Sloy to film buffs in Asia Minor : SMYRNA

11-across – Girl holding king to bathe in bran tub : LUCKYDIP

12-across – Crazy food at Christmas party : CRACKERS

14-across – Article on the peg to acquire first set : TEETHE

15-across – Sci-fi writer in love with Mavis? : ASIMOV

18-across – Forcibly lift surrounding setters with nostalgia : HOMESICK

21-across – A pipe of wine with fashionable entry : CLARINET

22-across – Express sorrow at unconvincing part of the Bible : LAMENT

24-across – South African custom: the person now at the wicket is on the 9 menu : SAUSAGEINBATTER

25-across – : DESERT

26-across – : ORCHID

1-down – Minimum intelligence from torch? : GLIMMER

2-down – Alternative to one about the alternative : OTHER

3-down – Report of Sally on side of deck : GUNWALE

5-down – Irish copper in cover was fatal to Samson : HAIRCUT

6-down – Add up to promotion, as on the 9 menu : MUSHYPEAS

7-down – Get drunk around the West Indies? Not so fast! : SLOWISH

8-down – Sign on the first part of 9 : SCALES

13-down – Fellow member gets up and is. . . : COMPRISES

16-down – : SALTAND

17-down – See 16 : VINEGAR

18-down – Hope it’s displayed on the 9 menu! : HOTPIE

19-down – Epilepsy a disqualification on the coast of India? : MALABAR

20-down – Fight against nurse? : CONTEND

23-down – Lighter in appropriate colour? : MATCH