Daily Answers

1-across – Deft men retreating into mine entrance : ADROIT

5-across – Prison officer coming back to pick another ticket : REDRAW

8-across – Poet putting priests in first : IMAGIST

9-across – Supply information about organ that’s hot : SEARING

11-across – Religious code of Butterfly State gets guys encamped : TENCOMMANDMENTS

12-across – Getting on, secured one’s rank : OLID

13-across – Something in the wardrobe provoking fury after child’s first expletive : COATHANGER

17-across – Insertions into headless French right-winger’s works of scholarship : EPENTHESES

18-across – Veer to north and look ready for bed : YAWN

20-across – Revolutionary 1 24 or not, Mao and Stalin engaged in it : TOTALITARIANISM

23-across – Turned free to shroud recess in gloom : DESPAIR

24-across – Characteristic yellow rat : TRAITOR

25-across – Drum that may contain seafood? : KETTLE

26-across – Toast, or something to put on it, mostly containing trace of rennet : CHEERS

2-down – Waist’s let out, reportedly, by one sort of trousers : DRAINPIPE

3-down – Prayer for star eclipsing sun : ORISON

4-down – Religious structure presented to another, with nothing inside : TOTEMPOLE

5-down – Product of sap to go wrong again? : RESIN

6-down – Date made off with purchase from shambles : DEADMEAT

7-down – Like a winger, one in a vehicle : AVIAN

8-down – Shy dog races round, having eaten topless outside : INTROVERTED

10-down – Bon vivant given introduction to Galileo Galilei, maybe : GASTRONOMER

14-down – Heavy drinker snaffling Scandinavian funds on time? It’s not proven : THEORETIC

15-down – Rubbish opera, La Gioconda, initially upset combatant : GLADIATOR

16-down – Dependable cooking salt applied to growth : STALWART

19-down – Cost of performer in panto receiving silver : DAMAGE

21-down – Suspicion of discrim­ination : TASTE

22-down – Clipped end of secret language : TERSE

7-across – French that’s grasped by dull artist’s model : MAQUETTE

9-across – Greek or Roman one found in island heading north : IONIAN

10-across – Ammunition centre for platoon, say : UNIT

11-across – Short charge by furry animal turning quite quickly : ALLEGRETTO

12-across – Make safe and secure at sea : RESCUE

14-across – Relieving pressure, going outside : SPELLING

15-across – Divers, after second, wet? : SUNDRY

17-across – Finally agreed bowling area’s reason to halt cricket : DRINKS

20-across – Comprehensive in which a couple of learners do run amok : ALLROUND

22-across – Sweet girl, initially sound as a bell, becoming pale : FADING

23-across – Employing number in East before the revolt : ETHERISING

24-across – Facility for communication either way in show, if I want : WIFI

25-across – Team leader filmed, that’s full of beans, perhaps : TINCAN

26-across – Mad Hatter and neighbours at table are menacing : THREATEN

1-down – Dry and dull, first off : RAINLESS

2-down – Why you are, before tea, announced in tent : YURT

3-down – Stupidly heat neon or other gas : ETHANE

4-down – Awful regal family’s on top in this tragedy : KINGLEAR

5-down – Shut up about learner, one absorbed in text : INTERLINED

6-down – Cane despicable chap — beat on bottom : RATTAN

8-down – Join forces with soldiers wanting leader on border : ENLIST

13-down – Huge concern, husband being missing, ruined match : CONGRUENCE

16-down – Meetings one ruins, being out of order : REUNIONS

18-down – Jumper found on beach, also key left nearby? : SANDFLEA

19-down – Little change once in a definitive work abridged for user : ADDICT

21-down – Endlessly delayed travelling through part of EU : LATVIA

22-down – Work out, in shape : FIGURE

24-down – Set up regulation about drug producing mark on skin : WEAL

1-across – Old boring laughter track is ancient : HOARY

4-across – Genius CGI animations, only half animated : MAGICIAN

8-across – Standard article by Tory, with mission to show England overrun by foreigners : NORMANCONQUEST

10-across – Linguist has appealing quality, university’s guaranteed : SAUSSURE

11-across – Yes, there’s trouble for head returning drunk : STINKO

12-across – Bachelor, one completely crazy for oily fruit : BUTTERNUT

15-across – I must be on time for alluring lady : HOURI

17-across – King wearing drag is a fruitcake! : TORTE

18-across – Rubbish men paid by firm for collections : COMPENDIA

19-across – Still pursuing winning result : UPSHOT

21-across – Pick fruit that’s bagged etcetera, periodically : PLECTRUM

24-across – Drippy American ex-president cut back security item : JACKSONPOLLOCK

25-across – One lacking in awareness gets punishment : SENTENCE

26-across – Monarch put on excessive fur : OTTER

1-down – Animal activist’s outburst with a hen mistreated : HUNTSABOTEUR

2-down – Imagined axe slashed a rug — it cut into screen : AIRGUITAR

3-down – Linesman scoffs, holding up end of play : YEATS

4-down – Italian dish gets cold, with Roman and local ingredients : MACARONIC

5-down – Left turn outside of Nashville : GONE

6-down – Place for trying zip in novel female attire : COURTSHOE

7-down – With p*** off, clergyman gives offence : ARSON

9-down – Person tripping over hat’s cracked a heavy blow : HOLIDAYMAKER

13-down – Heard where Apple device is charged in orbit? : EYESOCKET

14-down – Technique when shooting is utter flipping blunder : TIMELAPSE

16-down – Downtrodden, like Labour during Thatcherism : UNDERFOOT

20-down – Pan to fill has litres in : SLATE

22-down – Where crooks are beginning to organise a big fiddle : CELLO

23-down – Trouble afoot, with commander oppressing sailors : CORN

1-across – A treasonous emu I, wandering in to seduce beauty in aria : LAMOUREST

6-across – Spike Milligan’s third one : LACE

8-across – Strong singer about to go down for high singer : FALSETTO

9-across – Head carrying knock, one’s exposed : NUDIST

10-across – See 24 : SAPETE

11-across – Where fox may be, one with a camel ultimately burying head in sand? : INDENIAL

12-across – Entering finale, all three starting in sensational style, unforgettable in opera aria : NESSUN

15-across – An image awfully full of love, narcissism : EGOMANIA

16-across – Sinner finally incarcerated, calling for heavy beating : DRUBBING

19-across – Nation today and for ever containing capital in Rome : NORWAY

21-across – See 1 : UNOISEAU

22-across – When foaled, discard horse : DOBBIN

24-across – Aria where boy’s a darling in mezzo-soprano, say? : VOICHE

25-across – Happy close to death, sang about it : THRILLED

26-across – Man perhaps, one and only, lacking nothing : ISLE

27-across – Tongue in, well inside case of strawberries, beginning to eat : SINHALESE

1-down – Beast saying prayer? : LLAMA

2-down – Seafood, a smaller quantity in total that’s hauled up : MUSSELS

3-down – Top broadcaster, free : UNTIE

4-down – See 6 : EMOBILE

5-down – Terrible start and horrid end in an earlier clue made less shocking : TONEDDOWN

6-down – Youth using phone catching every second of insane aria : LADONNA

7-down – Performers very inspired by uplifting opera aria : CASTADIVA

13-down – Wrong number held by user, or otherwise : ERRONEOUS

14-down – Silent, as sizeable frame in painting breaks head : NOISELESS

17-down – With vigour, cook cut bread : BRIOCHE

18-down – Pig flying at last, heading for terminal in airport : GLUTTON

20-down – See 1 across : REBELLE

22-down – See 12 across : DORMA

23-down – Goddess of desire, Nephele : IRENE

7-across – Don’t finish course after medic’s nil by mouth expression? : DROPOUT

8-across – Hospital fellow managed as cool place for uncool visitors : SANFRAN

9-across – Sky and C4 regularly record at the same time : SYNC

10-across – Swallowing tablet after messing about with gran’s pyjamas? : NIGHTWEAR

12-across – Man, shortly this could be happening in 8 : HUMAN

13-across – TV presenter drops daughter outside hotel somewhere in Greece : THESSALY

15-across – See 12 : BEIN

16-across – Money key to study responsible for Everything I Own? : BREAD

17-across – Broadcast story of 8’s mistake : FLAW

18-across – Something smoked by old man, as Tim Rice’s opener plays : PASTRAMI

20-across – Count given before jelly finally set : TELLY

21-across – Serving as expectant mother’s second name : WAITINGON

22-across – Small, once trendy dog : SHEP

24-across – I’m getting back into black tea, where unusual people hang out : BOHEMIA

25-across – Kind of grass skirts in Tuscany? Setter’s hot, dancing in them : TIMOTHY

1-down – Trumpet player’s final appearance in 8 area? : BRAY

2-down – Some wee person, for example : SPECIMEN

3-down – Start recalling something that isn’t groovy? : TURNON

4-down – Where newspaper title shows old woman’s unexpected death : MASTHEAD

5-down – Fast broken, eating queen’s pudding : AFTERS

6-down – Pretty good light for fine, sporting show : FAIR

11-down – Something pussy guiltily ate: two starters, then a partly gutted fish : GATHERING

12-down – Discontented hippy girl that might be spotted laughing : HYENA

14-down – Wary of alternative spelling, like king or poet : LEARY

16-down – Attend primarily idealistic festival in California, getting blissed out : BEATIFIC

17-down – Weed’s pulled up after busy period in 8 : FULLSTOP

19-down – Attempts to include black people in social groups : TRIBES

20-down – Quantity of wine : TUNEIN

21-down – Court female, as a setter might : WOOF

23-down – Leader in evening newspaper? : ECHO