Daily Answers

8-across – Motion supported by gilded student : LAUREATE

9-across – Involving risks before conviction : UNSAFE

10-across – Champion needs help when returning from torpor : ACEDIA

11-across – Come close at first very quietly to fish : APPROACH

12-across – Hypocritical words have no power : CANT

13-across – Rebel freed to rebel endlessly in mountain : CADERIDRIS

15-across – Fight that is a problem for sheep : SCRAPIE

16-across – Unnatural condition for lift, say : FALSITY

18-across – Way to rebellion of California model in single room : STUDIOFLAT

19-across – Male journalist gives notice : HEED

20-across – Shakespeare’s friend back to venerate in any other place? : WHEREVER

22-across – Astronomical model or engineers on line : ORRERY

23-across – South American entertainment seen in the foregoing : SATURN

24-across – After time, have part of address : POSTTOWN

1-down – Pets surrounding small boy companion with container appear in children’s play : CATCHASCATCHCAN

2-down – Swallow eccentric female, German with German crime : CREDITCARDFRAUD

3-down – Prominent part of artist in chairman”s liqueur : MARASCHINO

4-down – Looks like an affectionate message : REGARDS

5-down – It forsakes preaching for fiction : PULP

6-down – A Virago author : ASCOLDASCHARITY

7-down – Kazan’s one among many reforming weirdo: fat chance! : AFACEINTHECROWD

14-down – Christmas dinner in the oven: go in, flower girl! : ROASTGOOSE

17-down – Greek vase featuring Doctor Love is worth little : OLDROPE

21-down – The wind indicator sounds useless : VANE

8-across – Wheel of life decapitates, say, William Blake : ZOETROPE

9-across – Former London dialing code’s a gas : OZONE

10-across – Iraqi minister’s first-class : AZIZ

11-across – A few notes have detailed little boy’s regression at coming of age : BARMITZVAH

12-across – Setter not given a quarter for his work : PUZZLE

14-across – Singers King Cole and Franklin wanting a home for Jesus : NAZARETH

15-across – Dizzy girls providing backing for rock concerts : FIZGIGS

17-across – English on their toes about Loire valley town : TRELAZE

20-across – Spanish region’s not completed a former capital of that region : ZARAGOZA

22-across – Don’t take away food for plant hormone : ZEATIN

23-across – Mistakenly ignore God and be turned to stone : GORGONIZED

24-across – A Teutonic maize protein : ZEIN

25-across – Tenor Turner : LANZA

26-across – Home game’s ending for Germany and the same for Italy and Scandinavian World Cup hero : ZINEDINE

1-down – Two universities with one book about Zorba the Greek’s instrument : BOUZOUKI

2-down – Entire range where an extremist will stop? : ATOZ

3-down – Heading from the grave; that is a snake god : ZOMBIE

4-down – Crossed with a horse, initially enormous, medium for tuna, perhaps? : ZEBRINE

5-down – White or spoiled, weapon for an angled shot : HOWITZER

6-down – All the time, order turning up … on pizza? : MOZZARELLA

7-down – Runner has time once spent in Constantinople : BEZANT

13-down – Deviancy – one desperate for it! : ZIGZAGGING

16-down – Complain about the state of the Chechen capital : GROZNYAN

18-down – Show Scotsmen to be Africans : ZAIRIANS

19-down – Vitality of father beginning to abate : PAZZAZZ

21-down – Fern Scottish town uprooted : AZOLLA

22-down – See 26 : ZIDANE

24-down – My boss is sound asleep : ZEDS

1-across – See clues page : SQUARE

5-across – See clues page : PIGSWILL

9-across – See clues page : JAMTODAY

10-across – See clues page : NOTOUT

11-across – See clues page : MARSHHARRIER

13-across – See clues page : KNOT

14-across – See clues page : BELLCOTE

17-across – See clues page : ZECCHINO

18-across – See clues page : ROOT

20-across – See clues page : OFTHEWOODYET

23-across – See clues page : YONDER

24-across – See clues page : IRONICAL

25-across – See clues page : FREESHOT

26-across – See clues page : DISHED

2-down – See clues page : QUAY

3-down – See clues page : AUTOMATIC

4-down – See clues page : ENDURE

5-down – See clues page : PSYCHOBIOLOGIST

6-down – See clues page : GENIALLY

7-down – See clues page : WATER

8-down – See clues page : LAUREATION

12-down – See clues page : UNDERFLOOR

15-down – See clues page : CARSTAIRS

16-down – See clues page : TIDWORTH

19-down – See clues page : XYLOID

21-down – See clues page : HEDGE

22-down – See clues page : VALE

7-across – Steak that holds a memory : TROMBONE

9-across – Group drinking a quantity of beer : SPINET

10-across – See 22 : HORN

11-across – Verse: that which circulated among Olympians dressed to go out : CLAVICHORD

12-across – Lady on the spot : ZITHER

14-across – Blood circulating at home : CLARINET

15-across – Pig stealer gets beaten : TOMTOM

17-across – Call again? : REBECK

20-across – Exposure of spy should encompass change : PSALTERY

22-across – Rendering Shaw as critic, live, at the point where Fool enters : BASSET

23-across – Ottoman government detaining Scotsman of paradoxical type : PIANOFORTE

24-across – It can be riven : LUTE

25-across – Dip some olives in Sauterne, say : VIOLIN

26-across – Boring slow boil, say? : DULCIMER

1-down – My own dear son is the one to shield a criminal : ARSONIST

2-down – One people saying they … : AMEN

3-down – … agree with a dog : CONCUR

4-down – H as for Hook, for example : ASPIRATE

5-down – Exchanging gems with tin, His Highness is with it : MIGHTINESS

6-down – Could be a second and many of them : DEGREE

8-down – Old part of bridge ruled out? : EXARCH

13-down – My bill hung badly, so that my pride was hurt : HUMBLINGLY

16-down – Too much given to harrying of vendor : OVERFOND

18-down – King meets newsagent about the last sonata : KREUTZER

19-down – Cross high-sounding bridge? Not quite : HYBRID

21-down – A shade animated? : SPIRIT

22-down – Example of business outlet for German car? : BEETLE

24-down – Lion starts to open window at home? : LAIR

8-across – Harden after admitting brief moment of feeling self-doubt : INSECURE

9-across – The woman to change things at front of house : EDITH

10-across – Alarming heartless bird : STAR

11-across – Quality vegetable keeping quiet on trunk, perhaps : BROADSHEET

12-across – Wandered back round university to eat : DEVOUR

14-across – That’s King Cole – into booze and getting the turn off : ALIENATE

15-across – Flower in the compiler’s control : MASTERY

17-across – Take away overhauled model : DETRACT

20-across – Recant and go back without returning information : ABNEGATE

22-across – An easy matter to provide handouts about the theologian : DODDLE

23-across – How many notes for a trio? : THREESCORE

24-across – See 10 : LING

25-across – Catch Yorkshirewoman for a duck : LASSO

26-across – Dairy product turns me crazy! : EMMENTAL

1-down – Song of praise in A? On the contrary, a curse : ANATHEMA

2-down – See 24 : SEER

3-down – 6 plus 23 plus 6 = veterinary sedative : NUMBER

4-down – Agreement about miniature thrones’ dethronement : DEPOSAL

5-down – German poet accepts Wandering Lad is a bold title : HEADLINE

6-down – How much? Exorbitant charge was their undoing : SIXHUNDRED

7-down – The danger that soldiers are in : THREAT

13-down – See 3 : OFTHEBEAST

16-down – Peripatetic promotion around Sharwood : ROADSHOW

18-down – Register and clear out : CALENDAR

19-down – Get back to traveller bypassing City : RECOVER

21-down – Look for a little time off when retired? : BEHOLD

22-down – Absent from pages in empty diary : DREAMY

24-down – Painter and property surveyor : LAND