Daily Answers

8-across – Sort out items : TITMOUSE

9-across – Epee with edges trimmed : PEEWIT

10-across – Head of large vessel : LARK

11-across – Wheatears fluttering : SHEARWATER

12-across – Cornish river trick : FALCON

14-across – Sailor in support : STARLING

15-across – Hollow pipe with a tap : PEACOCK

17-across – TV doctor with knotted rope : WHOOPER

20-across – Holster designed after Ford’s model : THROSTLE

22-across – Sloppy kissin’ : SISKIN

23-across – Streetwalker in a hurry? : ROADRUNNER

24-across – Queen in fresh setback … : WREN

25-across – … Princess in sports car … : GANNET

26-across – … caught in exhaust : SHELDUCK

1-down – A house at Bray : VICARAGE

2-down – A tailless donkey in a frenzy : AMOK

3-down – Explorer using hounds : HUDSON

4-down – Turn round behind the Queen’s Head : REVERSE

5-down – Means applied to fish : APPROACH

6-down – Cuts of meat served with honour and pride : MEDALLIONS

7-down – Homer’s gone astray after one of his letters : PIGEON

13-down – Playing around in cod Gluck composition : CUCKOLDING

16-down – Costumes fit for a Lloyd Webber musical? : CATSUITS

18-down – The height of distinction : EMINENCE

19-down – Cardinal property : REDNESS

21-down – Inhaler in a Turkish bath? : HOOKAH

22-down – It’s easy for the rich : STREET

24-down – Extra broad : WIDE

4-across – Hobbyists who sit ‘n’ pray and use forms : SUNDAY

6-across – See 4 : PAINTERS

9-across – How would bumptious Johnny come to be left at sea, say? : LATELY

10-across – Journey’s End restaged for 25’s traveller? : DEATHOFA

11-across – Sat in a bar with a book; or perhaps Sunday’s Observer : SABBATARIAN

15-across – What Democritus propounded, Plato mismanaged somewhat : ATOMISM

17-across – Observe sphere of confrontation? : EYEBALL

18-across – Hitting snag, dishing dirt, coming to a bad end – feeling worried? : ANGSTRIDDEN

22-across – Condition induced mainly by pressure of work? : THEBENDS

23-across – Something of Bloody Mary’s mother, seen in toto : TOMATO

24-across – Entire and high in Jerusalem : STALLION

25-across – Setter’s sick at heart with King Arthur : MILLER

1-down – Father Fitzgerald getting panned in Pamplona? : PAELLA

2-down – Harmful? Left iceman melting : MALEFICENT

3-down – New saint might be supported by the Church, say : INSTANCE

4-down – See 10 Across : SALESMAN

5-down – Journalist’s aid to be slumped in a corner : NOTEBOOK

7-down – London landmark found with ruler and map : EROS

8-down – Tickle with this make-up? : SLAP

12-down – A jolly old fellow from the final showdown : ARMAGEDDON

13-down – Subsidence sighted from the crow’s-nest? : LANDFALL

14-down – Sound making some Scots turn primitive : CLANGOUR

16-down – She was a devil to heretics, but an angel to Columbus : ISABELLA

19-down – Dry and smooth, I see : IRONIC

20-down – Sorry, can’t lunch! Miss her lift, did she? : OTIS

21-down – The pen of Zeus? : LEDA

8-across – Some roasted beef produces fruity flesh : MESOCARP

9-across – Means of making rate assessment, reverse of profound and so accommodating : SPEEDO

10-across – Passionate woman with plenty of hair but no heart : FURY

11-across – Gave Spurs 100: that’s how long we’ve lasted, ultimately? : ENCOURAGED

12-across – British inscribed in watchful old timer’s chain : ALBERT

14-across – Dry undercover for 747? : AIRLINER

15-across – A little tinned fly? : SMIDGEN

17-across – They can’t do without theologian, one dipping into one of his books : ADDICTS

20-across – Facing forward, but often far removed : AFFRONTE

22-across – Terrapins kept in academy desalinator : EMYDES

23-across – Way for bee or crow to avoid connections : DIRECTLINE

24-across – Fellow to observe correct stamp : MARK

25-across – Oddly this is about time in Staffs : THYRSI

26-across – Look after drunk’s outstanding feature : HIGHSPOT

1-down – Version of Sequel A: compere’s about to appear in court : EEQUALSM

2-down – Too many drugs taken in by the constitution : BODY

3-down – Mourn for morning in Church season : LAMENT

4-down – Sort of delivery for which you sign on the circled line at ‘4’ – it’s in from bank : SPECIAL

5-down – See 1 : CSQUARED

6-down – See 4 : RELATIVITY

7-down – Stick Great puzzles by Enigmatist at 7 down : ADHERE

13-down – Source of wine causes slip during Real-Atletico match? : ELDERBERRY

16-down – The great man’s thirsty: his in this! : EINSTEIN

18-down – See 4 : THEORYOF

19-down – Please observe curfew! : DELIGHT

21-down – Strong hint for Sally : FLIGHT

22-down – Go horribly green with envy, ultimately : ENERGY

24-down – Bumble’s Third Law – it was likened to such a 2 : MASS

1-across – H’s work at vice removal is affecting the brain : PSYCHOACTIVE

8-across – Small child holding a speaker wins the palm : TALIPOT

9-across – Holy person deserves to precede Eliot, the poet : STEARNS

11-across – Morning on film, going into Mexican port : TAMPICO

12-across – Grace in films became increasingly wet : RAINIER

13-across – Pester the prince : HARRY

14-across – Moderated and went on changing, keeping back eccentric : TONEDDOWN

16-across – H’s direction, its first part having got by : NORTHWEST

19-across – Do business with the wind : TRADE

21-across – One pound unit may be integral to the structure : INBUILT

23-across – Unquiet is the city, South American to North American : RIOTOUS

24-across – Droppings from an unknown create problem : EXCRETA

25-across – Roy, the golden beast of the prairie : ORBISON

26-across – Deceleration depends on gravity and air resistance : FALLINGSPEED

1-down – Royal resort between rivers in compound : POLYMER

2-down – Make over for heartless solvers, very quietly if you begin : YUPPIFY

3-down – Comforter in bed, consumption much exaggerated in space : HOTBOTTLE

4-down – Backwater for Irish and Norse gods : AESIR

5-down – Singular work of H getting hissed off stage : THEBIRD

6-down – H’s work naturally makes me turn green : VERTIGO

7-down – ‘Oly H, enemy of fashion, doesn’t lose 9, they say : STITCHINTIME

10-down – H’s work for arrogant interns, as composed : STRANGERSONA

15-down – Some note or notes on H’s work : NOTORIOUS

17-down – H’s 23 girl : REBECCA

18-down – Parasitic worm, caddish type, holding its breath? : HAIREEL

19-down – Time and money with 13 is H’s work : TROUBLE

20-down – Enraged maybe by diabolical road use : AROUSED

22-down – See 10 : TRAIN

8-across – 22 down was without faith in God, but converted : DOUBTING

9-across – 22 down, Welsh speaker for England : GEORGE

10-across – 22 down, poet, briefly going round and round : EDDY

11-across – 22 down Ñ you canÕt give his TLC : TANKENGINE

12-across – Growth promoter fills English church with Scottish water : CLOCHE

14-across – … which follows the said fruit, in no hurry : SLOWNESS

15-across – Scruffy nut, dishevelled without much of 19 : UNKEMPT

17-across – Mime artist among offspring could have people in transports : STATION

20-across – Enterprising affair beginning with about £1,000 : STARTREK

22-across – Six foot or so is the musical 22 down : TALLIS

23-across – See 3 : BLACKSAMBO

24-across – 22 down, the magic mountaineer : MANN

25-across – 22 down on call with maybe 20 character : BECKET

26-across – Where I saw Jeanie marinade fruit : INADREAM

1-down – Singer gives a shilling to 22 down, poet : BOBDYLAN

2-down – Take orders for decoration before you start : OBEY

3-down – Cat bit small bloke Ñ incorrect version of incorrect story? : LITTLE

4-down – Time keeping on islands causes worry : AGONISE

5-down – Note in Beethoven overture near St Bees : EGREMONT

6-down – Sympathetic about time from oneÕs birth : CONGENITAL

7-down – Spies obtain information among old women at war : AGENTS

13-down – Food requiring checker: Ray, possibly? : CHERRYCAKE

16-down – Live-in companion for knock-up, as it is with 18 : PARASITE

18-down – Poor relation from the realms of sunrise? : ORIENTAL

19-down – 22 down, Christian writer and politician, is supporting the end of 13 : AKEMPIS

21-down – Director of course in agriculture? : TILLER

22-down – Something of a concession to MummyÕs boy : THOMAS

24-down – Another 22 down : MORE