Daily Answers

1-across – Flesh is no threat to great oils: away to sea, perhaps, with 23 4’s dictum : LIFEIS

4-across – Philosopher saying: I eat to live – thus rejecting dodgy bangers : CRATES

9-across – See 1 : SHORTTHEARTLONG

10-across – Incarnation of a sailor from the Bible : AVATAR

11-across – Carry on, James! Speak vulgarly of Addington’s subsequent Devon address : SIDMOUTH

12-across – Favourite child causing hold-up in Dahomey now : BENJAMIN

14-across – Posh Spice Girl going out with young flier : SCAURY

15-across – Beard on barley’s ear is taken out : ARISTA

18-across – New balls pitched and chronicled by Walpole : CHERRIES

21-across – Sturdy beggar taking sailor right to a Middle Eastern capital : ABRAMMAN

22-across – Like a jewel in an ____’s ear : ETHIOP

24-across – What shall assuage the ____ ? : UNFORGOTTENPAIN

25-across – It is the whole flower : ALLURE

26-across – Struggled to put recipe in the cooker : STROVE

1-down – Here the French have right of entry : LEHAVRE

2-down – Prime time beneath the trees : FIRST

3-down – Doubtful merit in a breathing space : INTERIM

5-down – Screen double on a computing system : REREDOS

6-down – Lion in setback with a primitive old croc : TELEOSAUR

7-down – East-West alliance cramped by senior politician : SENATOR

8-down – Why ground support? : REASON

13-down – 1 across ____ of 18 : JUSTABOWL

16-down – Type of locust, airborne one, not… er… deformed : ROBINIA

17-down – A jolly soldier rounding on Queen’s escort : ARMIGER

18-down – Ruler tied by his feet, say? : CANUTE

19-down – The bar in which one is happiest : ELEMENT

20-down – Pollution’s effect on the City; nothing breathed, I hear : ECOCIDE

23-down – One cheer for the river creature : HIPPO

1-across – Playing a scene : SENECA

4-across – Woman delivered article : SHERIDAN

9-across – Arrest development : SARTRE

10-across – Arrest mate : STOPPARD

11-across – Stream I abandoned to Liberal leader is shiny and true : BURNISHEDSTEEL

13-across – Gambler comes second to embezzler : SPECULATOR

14-across – See 5 : BELT

16-across – Back-up for mother cat : PUMA

18-across – Exploit useful plant and journalist will produce a comforting lie : FEATHERBED

21-across – After unsteady plod, could be sole hope for me! : OLDPEOPLESHOME

23-across – Sailor who sounds a sweetheart without the commercials : LEADSMAN

24-across – Flowers for BBC man : WREATH

25-across – Second fridge? : SCHILLER

26-across – Give all you can before painful cry : BESTOW

1-down – Moderate appeal for love : SOSO

2-down – Manage climb with some adventurers to rear : NURTURE

3-down – Abrasive stuff, almost excessive in the case of a crocus : CORUNDUM

5-down – Unfair attack on The Hobbit: we tell author : HITBELOWTHE

6-down – Find a different attitude for the rest : REPOSE

7-down – Block on boat – HMS Pinafore? Can’t take a quick look : DEADEYE

8-down – Dual arrangement among the famous, with little round lumps : NODULATED

12-down – Fish on harpoon in the Home Counties : SHAKESPEARE

13-down – Fish’s swallowed minced chop : SOPHOCLES

15-down – Concerning accusation – something to do with battery? : RECHARGE

17-down – Rain-affected event gives Georgian city a bad name : MUDBATH

19-down – Insincere self-praise, with or without doctor : BOMBAST

20-down – Craft holder : VESSEL

22-down – Washout : SHAW

9-across – Guillotined, you badly need a way into a Belgian hanging : OUDENARDE

10-across – Cart a lot of straw : HAULM

11-across – Toffee-nosed and, you’ll aver, a slip of a cow for one : PRIMULA

12-across – He painted with a dry water : WATTEAU

13-across – Only Lenin, Gorbachev and, initially, this female comrade? : OLGA

14-across – Old English claimant yielding to old Welsh fervour? : CELTOMANIA

15-across – Bunthorne’s out of date? No way! : IMPASSE

17-across – Many a game hedgehog lodges thus? : MASONIC

19-across – Play with dominoes made out of square pieces : MASQUERADE

22-across – One’s into prescription-free sales, according to the auditor : OTIC

23-across – Salar held in suspense here? : KEEPNET

24-across – Rump chops in tea: it’s on the menu in Tokyo : TEMPURA

26-across – Ulster revolutionary finding job satisfaction in this : NICHE

27-across – Food apposite to cooking: but no seconds offered! : POTATOPIE

1-down – Seeking to gain our trust? Not our trust! : NONPROFITMAKING

2-down – Making sense of the accounts department? : ADDINGUP

3-down – Sloth, for some of you, a nuclear upset : UNAU

4-down – Polonius was behind it, e’en perhaps in its material : ARRASENE

5-down – Bird echoing a little timid cry : PEEWIT

6-down – Here other crossword compilers bundle me with Achilles’s old lady : THETIMES

7-down – Stables needing a day to clean and a month to labour : AUGEAN

8-down – Barman hurrying to take your suit to the cleaners. Ach! A bum steer! : AMBULANCECHASER

16-down – The French when in Kent, having right to be profligate : SQUANDER

17-down – Brood mare is, to a stallion, correct in this : MEDITATE

18-down – Not behind society, when all have equal rights : NOTRUMPS

20-down – The pong of sulphur and fish : STENCH

21-down – Return to the keyboard for tyre-changing training : RETYPE

25-down – Undertaker’s assistant married Amerindian : MUTE

8-across – See 26 : SUDDENLY

9-across – Sailor, name of Arup, in 22 across? : ABOVE

10-across – See 15 : FROM

11-across – See 19 : BUTITPOURS

12-across – Mouse taken from sucker? : MICKEY

14-across – Intrepid nobleman in heraldic band : FEARLESS

15-across – ?19 25 11 maybe hamper 7 of 9, according to the old song : PENNIES

17-across – See 26 : SINGING

20-across – See 17 : BURSTOUT

22-across – See 15 : HEAVEN

23-across – Economically – maybe not he – he’s into the top limit : ONTHECHEAP

24-across – Dweller in 22 across holds a pound, not 15 : GOLD

25-across – See 19 : RAINS

26-across – All Lundy editor’s work – stickers, all French, on wrong piece of gingerbread: they were winged : EVERYONE

1-down – Line taken from piece of traditional flooring 90 degrees apart : QUARTILE

2-down – First parent : ADAM

3-down – Point to Mr Clarke as being socially pretentious : SNOBBY

4-down – Puzzle : MYSTIFY

5-down – Actors do the dirty on one: they were deprived for the sake of 17 : CASTRATI

6-down – Effect of slight stroke disconcerting in pool game : MONOPLEGIA

7-down – Wheeler-dealer’s ending during the short days : FERRIS

13-down – Throne for two to carry one, a job at Cambridge or London? : KINGSCHAIR

16-down – Spiritual chucker out to be detaining a killer : EXORCIST

18-down – Want fish? There’s some provocation : NEEDLING

19-down – There’s perpetual drought, product of 20 pi – it’s not the gentle … 10 22across : ITNEVER

21-down – Turn and learn with turn of a wrist bone : ULNARE

22-down – Take place, maybe, in Lancashire? : HHPPEN

24-down – Hospital people in demand for 15? : GUYS

1-across – Colour question re urge to mingle : TURQUOISEGREEN

8-across – Reservists given order to return with some craft : EBOAT

9-across – That hopeful fan of Sir Edward Elgar : SANGUINE

11-across – Thief seeing some fortune in this? : TEALEAF

12-across – City knights coming from bedclothes : BEDECKS

13-across – Nigel’s behaving oddly; could he be losing his marbles? : ELGIN

15-across – One reverses current false report about man with nothing : RHEOTROPE

17-across – Gray’s tenor doesn’t sing : NOISELESS

20-across – One taking a course might attempt to get off work : INDUS

21-across – Behan’s work hot 1 6 down? On the contrary! : HOSTAGE

23-across – Where Italians accommodate Lulu’s man without proscription – nothing! : ALBERGO

25-across – A troublesome tenant, one of those born before the event : ANTENATI

26-across – Hibernal, giddy with cold : ALGID

27-across – How long will our love last? Watch out for the gallery, Robin! : FOREVERANDADAY

1-down – Globe, perhaps, to which actors hie, thunder ”n” rotate wildly : THEATREINTHE

2-down – Wine jar smashed around 10 : RIOJA

3-down – How poker players might punt with heat and energy : UPTHEANTE

4-down – Considering chains of arraignment arresting : INSOFAR

5-down – 18! 18 the Spanish that’s good for Madame : ENNOBLE

6-down – See 1 : ROUND

7-down – Androgynous duo with refined niche development : EUNUCHOID

10-down – What Christians celebrate madly in a second, say : ASCENSIONDAY

14-down – Golden Ass, going East for one, could be on the slide : GLISSANDO

16-down – Dog food container found on the back of a lorry : TAILBOARD

18-down – Uplifted English rose wine village with European advance : ELEVATE

19-down – How long can you stay with this? : STAMINA

22-down – Tree hiding hairless old African warriors : ABELE

24-down – Unyielding soldier gaining free entry : RIGID