Daily Answers

1-across – Jilted lover writes online story for financial benefit : EXPENSEACCOUNT

9-across – Seeks further profit from check clothing : REINVESTS

10-across – Lag behind army corps, gathering information for the Americans : RECON

11-across – Scales part of extremely stony, black, bare hill : SYBIL

12-across – Assistant wrapping small hands round beer and oversexed American? : SALESGIRL

13-across – Fair game to pocket diamonds, around 7 or 8? : EVENTIDE

14-across – Cut clothing for girl, one wild child : MOWGLI

17-across – Haulier short of right fare down under : TUCKER

19-across – This pace is wrong for take-off : PASTICHE

22-across – Leader from English paper: wonderful, penetrating feature : CHIEFTAIN

24-across – Love getting called a hairy beast : ORANG

25-across – Clip top from sargasso weed : SPEED

26-across – Switch contains electrical current conductor : TOSCANINI

27-across – Green area’s politicians admitted to loathing bill by Tory PM : HAMPSTEADHEATH

1-down – Leave camp’s position with terribly imprecise scout : EUROSCEPTICISM

2-down – Tending to follow Putin’s lead, possibly bent : PLIABLE

3-down – Little work requiring 15 days and lots of character? : NOVELETTE

4-down – Part of city street crossed by European on main track : EASTSIDE

5-down – Station guards left large building : CASTLE

6-down – Something in perfume has men and gentleman spinning : ORRIS

7-down – Turning in century, man in game’s making a score : NICKING

8-down – Lenin, with sigh, resolved to tour steppe, unpretentiously : INPLAINENGLISH

15-down – Doctor’s promise to squeeze writer’s back : OSTEOPATH

16-down – Lady’s boring design, flipping tasteless white stuff : MAGNESIA

18-down – It’s fabulous being rich, a poor compiler’s gathered : CHIMERA

20-down – Target for red vehicle skirting unknown, hot area : CZARINA

21-down – Knocks seaman over on junk : RATTAT

23-down – Scoffed at University Blue : FEDUP

8-across – Drink in a pub not entirely cold sent back by military commander : COCACOLA

9-across – Delight in the morning milk : AMUSE

10-across – Weapon observed during the peepshow : EPEE

11-across – Very deep saying recalled, amid praise : BOTTOMLESS

12-across – One’s emptied volume into river, the entire works : OEUVRE

14-across – Member, in being welcomed by leaders in Chinese government, on the up : CLIMBING

15-across – Infatuated with food, boy guzzles : STUCKON

17-across – Within walls of park, a bitter brought over for one of those on the gate? : PADLOCK

20-across – Drinking stout, the highlight of sainthood Brendan finally put on some weight! : HALFATON

22-across – Drug for case of zoophobia, heading for cage : PROZAC

23-across – City, capital city, one becoming nothing in endless chaos : METROPOLIS

24-across – Scotch is a weapon : FOIL

25-across – It’s rich to serve rum and coke up! : POUND

26-across – One beyond twelve brewing green tea : TEENAGER

1-down – Alcoholic drinking Pepsi sadly, most sentimental : SOPPIEST

2-down – See 25 : CAKE

3-down – One drink or two taking effect on blue fluid : DOUBLE

4-down – Framework I see in coffee : LATTICE

5-down – Pottery, a jar cut in isinglass : MAJOLICA

6-down – A singing bear going after port — uproar! : HULLABALOO

7-down – Those seven sailed, one short, one of four : SEASON

13-down – Loud, very boisterous of course, one must be restrained : VOCIFEROUS

16-down – In middle of moss, fish eating finest molluscs : OCTOPODS

18-down – Notes produced by this wine to drink at home : CLARINET

19-down – Behind the door of condominium, indulgence ultimately swell : INFLATE

21-down – Drink fizzy pop in Levantine city : ALEPPO

22-down – Curdled drink, sweetener served up like jelly : POSSET

24-down – Colours of spectral phenomena fading, each one’s ending : FLAG

8-across – Minus I, lake is imaginary : NOTIONAL

9-across – I’m going mad, ie unhinged to some extent : ADIEU

10-across – Flag’s back alongside issue number : SONG

11-across – Record first put on tape a non-starter for visionary : IDEOLOGIST

12-across – Very contrary, kill bird : OSPREY

14-across – Rocky I, fit : UNSTABLE

15-across – Tiny gap unknown in fractures close to ankle : SYNAPSE

17-across – I must secure home, in truth : HONESTY

20-across – Nothing to achieve on reflection in message — that’s the whole thing : CABOODLE

22-across – I am in debt, endlessly, as spineless : YELLOW

23-across – Main barrier takes a little time to split weaker bar that’s damaged : BREAKWATER

24-across – Intend to be cruel : MEAN

25-across – I, I kill : ISLAY

26-across – A very old revolutionary in America confesses : AVOUCHES

1-down – I: speak : COLONSAY

2-down – I, first of ideas yet to be hatched? : EIGG

3-down – Being hospitable finally, US city welcoming bird : ENTITY

4-down – Shrewd to fix duel in competition : CLUEDUP

5-down – Cry is directed at a nymph : CALLISTO

6-down – Bar selling rum seems familiar : RINGSABELL

7-down – Seafood with not as much hesitation thrown up : MUSSEL

13-down – New Orleans, and a case of blue sound : REASONABLE

16-down – Across middle, regular parts lost among rocks : SIDEWAYS

18-down – Body parts from the wielder of a hammer and hatchets : THORAXES

19-down – I, U and I deviate : WESTRAY

21-down – Skilful commercial industry initially in decay : ADROIT

22-down – Haul up fish on line in river : YARROW

24-down – I refuse : MUCK

1-across – Nuts put my daughter in hospital and put my nuts in boiled ale and brandy : HUMPTY

4-across – See 1 : DUMPTY

9-across – See 13 : FIRSTTHECHICKEN

10-across – Entrance initially ajar to receive special delivery : DOOSRA

11-across – To ignore harmful sexual partner, husband’s moved over, cover over head : SUNSHADE

12-across – Perfect description of anarchy by small force : FLAWLESS

14-across – Opening, small and round, in which university’s fitted a satellite : EUROPA

15-across – Quantifiers of liquid science : OPTICS

18-across – Sap’s complaint about entering annual regatta unprotected : ENFEEBLE

21-across – See 13 : ORTHEEGG

22-across – Band having to pass round unwelcome Tijuana tourist’s address? : GRINGO

24-across – Snipe ok to go? No, as it turns out, prematurely opening mouth : SPEAKINGTOOSOON

25-across – Nevertheless, 25% of service has been withdrawn : EVENSO

26-across – Grand Master caught by 12 pin : GNOMON

1-down – Address for one Louis XVI in shackles, wanting lubrication for locks? : HAIROIL

2-down – Case so melodramatic lawman’s stitched up : MOSES

3-down – Measure strength of restraint collaring diminutive Italian diner : TITRATE

5-down – Create imbalance painting house anew — but not, strangely, patios : UNHINGE

6-down – Hack, supply secured with tight ropes? : PACKHORSE

7-down – Relinquish possession of institute, set in rolling, sweet grassland : YIELDUP

8-down – Mrs English repeatedly ignored by Courier and Herald? : MESSRS

13-down – A question of life priorities : WHICHCAME

16-down – Popeye Doyle feature? One investigating chips in poker game : PORKPIE

17-down – Coins : SPECIES

18-down – Attract plum work lifting and separating : ENGAGE

19-down – Nautical warning for new mists over rising mercury : FOGHORN

20-down – Perhaps height’s lost without straw hat : LEGHORN

23-down – Whatever the total is, minus rubbish : INSUM

1-across – Pound loss with a new drop in ounces : SNOWLEOPARDS

9-across – Article, pretty sharp : ACUTE

10-across – Drinking loads, fish has a drink : CREAMSODA

11-across – University central to artier Bohemian region of old Italy : ETRURIA

12-across – Is in the past defining present, however? : WHEREAS

13-across – Skiing gear for Shropshire dance troupe? : SALOPETTES

15-across – Test period complete : OVER

18-across – Feeling party heading for government, politician not beginning to embrace it : ORGY

19-across – Old actions right after western in American broadcast : CRIMEANWAR

22-across – Confused mixture coming from newspaper published in the Algarve? : FARRAGO

24-across – Double agent finally caught by spy, then daughter spotted : MOTTLED

25-across – Scrooge broke banks in US state : SKINFLINT

26-across – Firm rear : STERN

27-across – Large mammals eating duck, bloody little one, less than excited : BOREDTOTEARS

1-down – Position dinosaur’s taken on stage : SQUARELEG

2-down – I reprove wrinkly, as going to seed : OVERRIPE

3-down – Material heading for comet in small constellation : LYCRA

4-down – However unlikely, lame odds for defeat : OVERWHELM

5-down – After uprising, I’m inspired by belligerent god, fighting multitudes : ARMIES

6-down – Queen’s partner cooked outstanding royal starter : DRONE

7-down – Light touch for a lady driver? : CARESS

8-down – Egyptian leader participating in revolution, as serene : NASSER

14-down – Sin is in midst of battle, as enemy of freedom? : TERRORIST

16-down – Myth is so very old, old actor beginning to slumber : VOWELLESS

17-down – Wonderful work ending for magician in land of huge, huge proportions? : FANTASIA

18-down – Stupid remark after online discovery? : OAFISH

20-down – Unpleasant noise breaking gear on a bike : RIDING

21-down – Spirit phenomenal, when up for puzzle : BAFFLE

23-down – Greek character welcoming home a pachyderm : RHINO

24-down – Ultimate in excitement in bubbly composition : MOTET