Daily Answers

7-across – See special instructions : BONNARD

8-across – See special instructions : ZOFFANY

10-across – See special instructions : SISLEY

11-across – See special instructions : ICEFIELD

12-across – See special instructions : JOHN

13-across – See special instructions : DIRECTIVES

14-across – See special instructions : FRAANGELICO

19-across – See special instructions : QUATERNARY

22-across – See special instructions : LEAR

23-across – See special instructions : WHATWITH

24-across – See special instructions : PATCHY

25-across – See special instructions : ENRAGED

26-across – See special instructions : VERMEER

1-down – See special instructions : MORISOT

2-down – See special instructions : ONELINER

3-down – See special instructions : XRAYED

4-down – See special instructions : NOVERCAL

5-down – See special instructions : UFFIZI

6-down – See special instructions : KNELLER

9-down – See special instructions : HIEROGRAPHY

15-down – See special instructions : AIRLINES

16-down – See special instructions : CALLTIME

17-down – See special instructions : GUSHING

18-down – See special instructions : RAPHAEL

20-down – See special instructions : TITIAN

21-down – See special instructions : YIPPEE

1-across – Well below their prediction? : DOWSERS

5-across – Fell from broken window, one’s going after the doctor : MOWDOWN

9-across – Blocked classic vessel in ground : EMBARGOED

10-across – Single ampere shedding light : GLEAM

11-across – She serves young skate or mother fish : MAID

12-across – Legwork of aunt, a limbo dancer : AMBULATION

14-across – Given time, he’d have one climbing up the wall : HEDERA

15-across – High aims rectified French sickness : MIASMAL

16-across – Ship’s boy so confined? : CABINED

18-across – Scourge leaving many sadly wrinkled : RUGOSE

20-across – A monarch abandoned caution when flying : AERONAUTIC

21-across – 24’s divisive role in 5 1 down’s tragedy : WALL

24-across – Tobacco tin discarded : SNOUT

25-across – Old Testament woman, like Solomon with a difference : OTHERWISE

26-across – Indian’s bow made with pressed palms : NAMASTE

27-across – Just a second! I’m making pink champagne for the Raj : SIMPKIN

1-down – See 5 : DREAM

2-down – www.rbrucescave.com ? : WEBSITE

3-down – The French had given up gold for this? : EURO

4-down – 21s’ old cyclic appeal: O, spend money! A tub, perhaps? : STOPMEANDBUYONE

5-down – : MIDSUMMERNIGHTS

6-down – A horse in with a double place in NSW : WAGGAWAGGA

7-down – One women’s movement for social reform : OWENISM

8-down – No bird left to say Cheep : NOMINAL

13-down – Chaps spreading tension among peace-loving Protestants : MENNONITES

16-down – An air of study about Herr Sachs : CHANSON

17-down – Service producing such ballads on tap? : BARROOM

19-down – Thrift making one, say, see red : SEAPINK

22-down – One’s in the right for the rest : LIEIN

23-down – One’s beaten the house, some say : DRUM

8-across – Horse racing? A lot of liquid gets by : GALLOPER

9-across – Undisciplined high speed is beyond the pale : WANTON

10-across – Island with powerful backing : ELBA

11-across – Sort of inn with tonic supplied, it’s true : NONFICTION

12-across – It shows one has feelings – for a second : CARESS

14-across – German writer’s second horror story? : SCHILLER

15-across – What crazy boy wants to be when grown up? : LOCOMAN

17-across – Small-time in cunning, in the nicest possible way? : SWEETLY

20-across – What’s said about contemporary music backed with a gunfight : OKCORRAL

22-across – Range of former partner’s residence : EXTENT

23-across – Inexperienced boaters may – may be Rasta’s : DREADLOCKS

24-across – ‘E’s said to ‘ave a meal for you in the oven : OAST

25-across – With these off, nude is result : UNDIES

26-across – Going to Death at the Airport? : TERMINAL

1-down – Girl to fix up love with fashion designer : GALLIANO

2-down – Girl going in for wool-gathering : OLGA

3-down – Expresses the view that nothing is missing? : OPINES

4-down – American city raised in habit to desert quality : DRYNESS

5-down – Chinese province with King and Guardian – one dog : KWEICHOW

6-down – Partial payment for elm disease in a moment : INSTALMENT

7-down – Pipe to the spirit ditties of ______ : NOTONE

13-down – Sex-mad character of Old Testament Arab in period : EROTOMANIA

16-down – Sunny and showery for ship and rail travel : APRILISH

18-down – Verse on island with a flag : LINESMAN

19-down – Not the New Jerusalem? Start again amid much frivolity : OLDCITY

21-down – Decisive blow to series, one that circulates in Prague : KORUNA

22-down – See to it that blame doesn’t start : ENSURE

24-down – Row beneath the circle or in the gods? : ODIN

8-across – See 17 : HONOURED

9-across – Dog in the mouth : CANINE

10-across – Team reported to have expressed regret : SIGHED

11-across – Uproar caused by carriage : BROUHAHA

12-across – Is Hamlet’s part unreal? : SHAM

13-across – Australian bird eats some from East Quebec – I’ll pay : CHEQUEBOOK

15-across – A notice revealed the arrival of spring : ACONITE

16-across – Not in favour of commercial poetry? : ADVERSE

18-across – Using pin, escaped playing book ends : APPENDICES

19-across – Bloomer to come, one with two or three noughts : CORM

20-across – Weapons of terror almost copy junior doctors : CARBOMBS

22-across – What at San Francisco’s golden and creamy? : GATEAU

23-across – At back of b-border there’s a golden glass : MIRROR

24-across – Span for a vicar : OVERARCH

1-down – Nice girl eating : DOLICHOCEPHALIC

2-down – Weight holding dramatic companion to arms with gun raised, or naturally disposed : TOTHEMANNERBORN

3-down – Affirmed without a forecast : PREDICATED

4-down – Food : EDIBLES

5-down – Parrot for the chop : ECHO

6-down – See 17 : INTHEBREACHTHAN

7-down – See 17 : INTHEOBSERVANCE

14-down – With name at the bottom right away by mistake : UNDESIGNED

17-down – Copper enters like A Man For All Seasons – isn’t Mr Rusbridger paid? – holding the fort, Athenian bench strove agitatedly – better not go on doing it, thought Hamlet : ACUSTOM

21-down – See 17 : MORE

5-across – Rough dialect afoot? : BROGUE

6-across – One put off having to get fit : TONEUP

9-across – Under the influence, so biblical justice administered : STONED

10-across – Putting by the board : HOARDING

11-across – Cold and depressed : BLUE

12-across – Country’s to settle on alternative revolutionary for the revolutionary machine : ROTISSERIE

13-across – Bestial perversity by Guardian compiler is proven : ESTABLISHED

18-across – Make kindling, a simple piece : CHOPSTICKS

21-across – Shot to green with something 11 : CHIP

22-across – Cite more works of spectacular dimensions : METEORIC

23-across – Seize something 11 : COLLAR

24-across – Standard merchant service 11? : ENSIGN

25-across – Detective, seen initially to take weapon in back, bled : SEEPED

1-down – Noble gas at sunset, drifting : COUNTESS

2-down – Rub out something 11 : MURDER

3-down – Girl smothered in some horribly sticky stuff : MOLASSES

4-down – Push lever, say : PEDDLE

5-down – Something 11 in face : BOTTLE

7-down – Something 11, with leaden heart : PENCIL

8-down – Missile sportingly provides refuge for Ancient Briton about to be involved in hit : SHUTTLECOCK

14-down – Singer holding up actor Richard’s secondary role : ALTEREGO

15-down – Cut and run, following collapse of case : ESCALOPE

16-down – Something 11 for someone important : CHEESE

17-down – Bait with something 11 : RIBAND

19-down – If you could see lap dancing! : PLEASE

20-down – Fool requiring sound support : SUCKER