Daily Answers

1-across – Sound of the dying provides amusement for the newborn : RATTLE

4-across – Industrial waste produced mainly by the well off : EFFLUENT

9-across – Surmise that theatre cat will accept quarters : GUESS

10-across – Concerning plants restored to Caliban : BOTANICAL

11-across – Head waves to young travellers resting in dog den : CURLYHAIR

12-across – Goody would be Biblical baddy : HEROD

13-across – Conversely, no work emphasised means of finishing meal : DESSERTSPOON

17-across – Grey 7, or assortment from the corner shop : GROCERYSTORE

20-across – Included a cat going round the pole : AMONG

21-across – Check back on street for oriental in German viticultural town : NIERSTEIN

23-across – Wanting to sleep during the approach to Southampton? A thousand times no! : SOMNOLENT

24-across – During party, a non-drinker has the same again : DITTO

25-across – Leech and Peel having a sit-in : PARASITE

26-across – Partition makes headless giant internally sick : GRILLE

1-down – Two soldiers rolling dice with Cromwell, for instance : REGICIDE

2-down – Speculate: put extra money under the Ring : THEORISE

3-down – Film director may mislay young principal : LOSEY

5-down – Tense Utopian? : FUTUREPERFECT

6-down – Shun clone cooked for meals : LUNCHEONS

7-down – Chaperone : ESCORT

8-down – Also came first in Spanish city : TOLEDO

10-down – Talent show? : BEAUTYCONTEST

14-down – Outrageous example: 51 lost from among the faithful : EGREGIOUS

15-down – Anticipate being curtailed with regard to woodland : FORESTAL

16-down – Skinny chap could be an east European : BEANPOLE

18-down – Tom has risen? What sauce! : CATSUP

19-down – Active type brings servicemen in the window : DORMER

22-down – Bit of froth or sweat : SUDOR

8-across – See special instructions : BIGAPPLE

9-across – See special instructions : ABOARD

10-across – See special instructions : SHED

11-across – See special instructions : QUIDPROQUO

12-across – See special instructions : PITYME

14-across – See special instructions : VIRTUOSO

15-across – See special instructions : WEARILY

17-across – See special instructions : CRAIGIE

20-across – See special instructions : DETONATE

22-across – See special instructions : JUNGLE

23-across – See special instructions : XENOPHILES

24-across – See special instructions : MAID

25-across – See special instructions : KEDGER

26-across – See special instructions : UNSOLVED

1-down – See special instructions : FISHWIFE

2-down – See special instructions : NARD

3-down – See special instructions : OPAQUE

4-down – See special instructions : RELIEVE

5-down – See special instructions : TAMPERER

6-down – See special instructions : HOMOOUSIAN

7-down – See special instructions : GROUPS

13-down – See special instructions : YARBOROUGH

16-down – See special instructions : LEATHERY

18-down – See special instructions : ILLTIMED

19-down – See special instructions : ZEALOUS

21-down – See special instructions : ELEVEN

22-down – See special instructions : JUSTSO

24-down – See special instructions : MILK

1-across – Saddam extremely ready to organise volunteer force : DADSARMY

5-across – Inventor is back for the finish at Twickenham : EDISON

9-across – Let’s reflect after dark, like the stars : STELLATE

10-across – Not indulging in German beer, get British ale : BITTER

12-across – Points total girl achieved with basic intelligence : NEWSSUMMARY

15-across – Tries alternative services : RITES

17-across – Last vehicle held by danger signal went through : REHEARSED

18-across – Kent opener ran him out – an eminent player : IMRANKHAN

19-across – Vision of dam-busting engineer : DREAM

20-across – Rabbit’s pile? : FASTBREEDER

24-across – Vicar responsible for a little petty crime : PARSON

25-across – Music maker, one in central presentation : CLARINET

26-across – Sickness of a young man in springtime : MALADY

27-across – Courageous nobleman in band : FEARLESS

1-down – Little girl provided water and light : DISENTRAIN

2-down – They may provide extensive work for the plumber : DEEPWATERS

3-down – Laser surgery in France : ARLES

4-down – Change socks after mad team romp : METAMORPHOSE

6-down – A great many turn up to assist a farm hand : DAIRYMAID

7-down – Son in whom Adam set his hope? : SETH

8-down – Fireside bower : NERO

11-down – Parisienne, she goes to city in Great Britain – wearing a bikini? : BATHINGBELLE

13-down – Rise of an establishment holding exotic dances : ASCENDANCE

14-down – Foreshadows one being speechless over old council tax : ADUMBRATES

16-down – Ford gains in performance – real cool : SANGFROID

21-down – Fear getting topped by mistake : ERROR

22-down – Upset plans to provide wartime diet : SPAM

23-down – It’s said to be wrong, dropping one at the millennium : ORAL

1-across – Farming editors need to be changed : TRANSMOGRIFIED

9-across – Goaded to ensure want had priority : NEEDLED

10-across – Painter or composer missing a green opening : ELGRECO

11-across – Island where business comes first? : IBIZA

12-across – Post-historical period after 2 became 14 down : AFULLSTOP

13-across – Trombonist’s place for alfresco drinking : TEAGARDEN

14-across – Welsh house party gets into the groove when reorientated : TUDOR

15-across – Having eye trouble because badly housed? : STYED

17-across – Holy man takes the blame when his house gets round to torture : STRAPPADO

20-across – 10p newspaper piece on the meson : XPARTICLE

22-across – Give as portion of vote without leader : ALLOT

23-across – He should get the job of a setter with another one outside : NOMINEE

24-across – He finds Haig unhappily married in Broadland potter’s village : HEIGHAM

25-across – Model dictator in … in his shirt sleeves is still pure : UNCONTAMINATED

1-down – Reform of tax is still at hand next year, ending with … : TENSIXTYSIXAND

2-down – … the Queen in some friendly country 14 down : AMERICA

3-down – … 1,19’s authors dispose of a lecherous oriental divine : SELLARAND

4-down – Love would pass to the expert : OLDHAND

5-down – Painter to hold up vase : RAEBURN

6-down – Thematic presentation of air that’s close to the top line : FUGAL

7-down – Picked up instruction to strike out and 19 is included : ELECTED

8-down – Reliable policeman prospered quickly without taking the pledge : COPPERBOTTOMED

14-down – Inn with potato being cooked is world leader : TOPNATION

16-down – See 3 : YEATMAN

17-down – Painter doing not so well with model : SICKERT

18-down – Broadland village made her change : REEDHAM

19-down – See 1 : ALLTHAT

21-down – It takes 2 to make sunburn disappear : TANGO

9-across – Celebration in the first act, a problem not experienced by Miss 20 : AGALACTIA

10-across – Offensive Australian on the left-hand page from the start : ABOVO

11-across – * The sea takes a smack at Hope and Crosby : FISHING

12-across – * Opening time gong: spirit tips off Matthew to ask at pub for a mixed one : TOBEGIN

13-across – See 12 : ATTHE

14-across – See 12 : BEGINNING

16-across – A cut from Hobbema’s work accepted by Joan or Jean Harlow : BLONDEBOMBSHELL

19-across – Sandglasses, say, for a little boy in French department : EGGTIMERS

21-across – * Turn in pipe that was blind at night : HOUSE

22-across – Spoken initially, or spoken by a relative : SORORAL

23-across – See 11 : BOBBING

24-across – Some opening for an artist with words and music : OPERA

25-across – Jester to the Queen’s kept on account of having the 14 down : COALOWNER

1-down – Scots have, taking in variety of ebb and flaw, their own farthing? : HALFBAWBEE

2-down – Artificial pitch makes the flower of Cornwall fight : FALSETTO

3-down – The sea’s near and I’m off : MARINE

4-down – Beast leading nation to zero growth : STAG

5-down – 4 may perform what are played there? : PARTYGAMES

6-down – Surgeon upset by a new boss : SAWBONES

7-down – Jungle dweller gives Dr Grace a pound : MOWGLI

8-down – * Low pole, none at town tonight … : MOON

14-down – * … which is returning about the first and second bell, possibly : BIBLEBLACK

15-down – Long girdle going round 16? : GOLDENGIRL

17-down – * I have two wives and fear keeping one in the place : DAIBREAD

18-down – Hungry for Le Mesurier’s part that’s not to be shortened : ESURIENT

20-down – * Polly for the stocking she hasn’t got : GARTER

21-down – Be familiar spirit for aristocrat : HOBNOB

22-down – * The sea was so 14 down : SLOE

23-down – See 11 : BOAT