Daily Answers

8-across – Spooner’s only visitor died : GONEWEST

9-across – Where copper needs to go to get old-school jazz fan up for relations? : INHEAT

10-across – Takes horse say, and climbs rapidly : SHOOTSUP

11-across – Develop play oddly following cross into goal : EXPAND

12-across – Awful Prime Minister is, alas, ultimately missing opposition to growth? : ANTIIMPERIALISM

15-across – Sailor into the water – wanting a river to get clean : ABOVE

16-across – See 15 : BOARD

20-across – Suit pursuing net damages somehow getting result from court : GAMESETANDMATCH

21-across – Using rag as well for ink : TATTOO

23-across – Computer equipment from any other business in recession on main road : KEYBOARD

25-across – Wrong about following number 20’s sport : TENNIS

26-across – Votes against adopting explosive candidates : NOMINEES

1-down – Times going after Foreign Office and Chancellor – they’re out for blood? : FOXHUNT

2-down – Adjusting one leg a bit on the table : NEGOTIABLE

3-down – Fed sons stew : MESS

4-down – Scientist’s flight-component placed on two birds with clipped wings : STEPHEN

5-down – Made during a concert with, say, Robin Williams essentially entering profession : LIVELIHOOD

6-down – Boots, maybe Hush Puppies’ first with zip set in : SHOP

7-down – Husband joining a navy ship under European control : HARNESS

13-down – Relocate to protect independent American cinema : MOVIEHOUSE

14-down – Make merry as poet gets a drink for everyone in shed : LARKAROUND

17-down – Wall Street’s conclusion after forging a paper : PARAPET

18-down – See 4 : HAWKING

19-down – Escape in sports car perhaps : SCARPER

22-down – Play securing new award : TONY

24-down – Politician supporting closures from January to March : YOMP

1-across – Hour saved by spinner entering a shaft, spider perhaps : ARTHROPOD

6-across – See 2 Down : TOPS

8-across – A crush on youngster briefly socialising after a run? : APRESSKI

9-across – One page on pop singer that’s heard through the grapevine : GOSSIP

10-across – 1,002 on fantastic 24 22 down? : MOTOWN

11-across – Organised riot, neat attack : TEARINTO

12-across – Fruity authoritarian stripped on Guernsey etc : CITRIC

15-across – When one might spend savings always on the ultimate in Bobby Darin compilation : RAINYDAY

16-across – Singer ending in Detroit inspired by song that’s out of this world? : MARSHTIT

19-across – See 13 Down : MYSELF

21-across – Solver finally cracks nastier sort of riddle : STRAINER

22-across – By inference, more off message? : LESSON

24-across – Island, say, where dog on lead has broken wind : RECORD

25-across – Piece by Le Bon savaged, might he ask for a little respect? : NOBLEMAN

26-across – Doctor barks back : SPAY

27-across – Gold ore so useless, one happy with silver? : GOODLOSER

1-down – ‘A’ f-for agreement : APPRO

2-down – 10 outfit, shirt, cardigan, pullover and sweater? : THEFOUR

3-down – Again take forbidden fruit for frankincense, say : RESIN

4-down – 10 group nursing dogs? : POINTER

5-down – Rubbish got said with extremes of Marxism, inflexible ideology : DOGMATISM

6-down – Show still entertaining suits from the south : TESTIFY

7-down – Isn’t bee in jade a colourful stinger? : PAINTBALL

13-down – So buffet closed for a number of 2 6 across? : ICANTHELP

14-down – Vicious pair in shower? : CATANDDOG

17-down – Dark trailer with ornate chassis? : SHADOWY

18-down – Moody Baby Love covers in North American city : TORONTO

20-down – See 4 : SISTERS

22-down – See 24 Across : LABEL

23-down – Live in Victorian office, taking lift? : ONAIR

8-across – Polish bilingual Brendan follows in US city : SANDIEGO

9-across – Name in hood for stadium : ARENA

10-across – God is object of American missions : MARS

11-across – Diva and demure megastar sharing male : PRIMADONNA

12-across – Place for events in Rome, mainly about America : CIRCUS

14-across – Lone answer for New Orleans, more for Rome, for instance? : ANAGRAMS

15-across – One bishop of Rome, like all associated with pride : LEONINE

17-across – Something created by senators, say, covering half of Utah : STATUTE

20-across – Musical politician in Latin home, mostly rebuilt : HAMILTON

22-across – Slangily eliminate Republican in company, a noted speaker : CICERO

23-across – I’ll be upset after start of conflict, since America is what produces it : CASUSBELLI

24-across – Part of Star Wars character with little time for final notice : OBIT

25-across – Reconstructed Incan material one found in Peru, say : LATIN

26-across – See 25 : AMERICAN

1-down – Name for hill in Rome in a Latin exam, initially — under pressure : PALATINE

2-down – Fateful day in Senate that is ending early : IDES

3-down – Measures section of totem, possibly : TEMPOS

4-down – Destruction of Capitol that’s newsworthy : TOPICAL

5-down – Leader in Congress introducing a law about cigarette problem in fall : CATARACT

6-down – Like some senators, protest 50% of Arctic being taken over : DEMOCRATIC

7-down – Bottle used as weapon by Clint Eastwood : MAGNUM

13-down – Crazy outing in Rome or New York, say, in touching relationship : CONTIGUITY

16-down – Closely observe what’s cut in middle of Corn Belt : NOTABENE

18-down – Dulles or JFK, for example, spoke for forum, finally, in broken Latin : TERMINAL

19-down – Sam, for example, a Republican? That’s iffy : UNCLEAR

21-down – Helps a number of Romans over troubles also engulfing part of US : AVAILS

22-down – Grieves about middle of Louisiana and perilous times : CRISES

24-down – Sex in party set up for poet : OVID

1-across – Foolish investors quit without pounds? Their partners are dummies : VENTRILOQUISTS

8-across – President Macron’s rejection holds team back : NIXON

9-across – One on board red ship by isle : CHESSMAN

11-across – Mo Salah’s header caught by home team’s no. 1, a six-footer : INSTANT

12-across – One might fix a guy’s target in game, over time : TENTPIN

13-across – I appreciate that setter regularly showing discernment : TASTE

15-across – Raw bananas eaten by Indian running after a naturalist : DARWINIAN

17-across – Give up tackling problem? Hum and haw : VACILLATE

20-across – Greens periodically seen around desert region : NEGEV

21-across – General area for sufferers heading for shelter : LEEWARD

23-across – Model soldier left without energy : PARAGON

25-across – Hero apt to struggle grasping Latin Mass : PLETHORA

26-across – Irritating complaint in German written out twice? : MANGE

27-across – Excite a single scoundrel, taking Sierra for spin : TURNONONESHEEL

1-down – Very suggestively dumping American out of spite : VINDICTIVELY

2-down – Bond star turns up, engaging lover once : NEXUS

3-down – Vacuous, niggling Liberal parties seem familiar : RINGABELL

4-down – See director with Ms Blanchett on set : LOCATED

5-down – Virtuous person in funny clothing, maybe a knight : QUESTER

6-down – Playwright lives around top of Scottish mountain : IBSEN

7-down – Stepping on slope in front of Ted Heath : TRAMPLING

10-down – Two Old Testament reprobates kneel trembling in stable : ONANEVENKEEL

14-down – Frenchman’s cry as Bruce Lee almost stumbles : SACREBLEU

16-down – Topless Roman gent? A total flipping idiot : IGNORAMUS

18-down – What follows Dombey, touring round etc. : ANDSOON

19-down – Account for Essex’s banks not attractive : EXPLAIN

22-down – Don’t stop performing somewhere in west London? : ACTON

24-down – Fabulous contents of bottle that is opened by dope : GENIE

1-across – Vlad must cut in – Spooner’s call-girl makes proposal to the gullible : IHAVEABRIDGETO

8-across – Mike’s spoken message : MORAL

9-across – Not much money in bank lately : RECENTLY

11-across – Always first to get into bar … which might explain this : BEERGUT

12-across – See 1 : SELLYOU

13-across – Ultimately confusing toilets without identifying symbols : LOGOS

15-across – Board and lodging for priest in the Underworld : DIRECTORS

17-across – Like daughters, speaks about youth : SALADDAYS

20-across – Bird nightly entertains returning primate : INDRI

21-across – Fleming returned with Gallico and another author : NAIPAUL

23-across – Boring, rubbish kind of humour : DEADPAN

25-across – Hello! Are police back probing who sent this? : HATEMAIL

26-across – Rita’s broken bones : TARSI

27-across – Farce! Set right Truss’s mismanagement – it’s likely to be painful : STRESSFRACTURE

1-down – Crippling one motorway, I tell the police, is about oil giant : IMMOBILISING

2-down – Correspond with a nameless politician : AGREE

3-down – Pop Idol segue highly praised : EULOGISED

4-down – Told off sleeping judge? : BERATED

5-down – Sort of ironic about Stimpy’s original canine companion : INCISOR

6-down – Cheeky angel representation : GENAL

7-down – Unlikely end to Tory do, eh – Cleverly shouted at Hunt : TALLYHOED

10-down – Perhaps why issue’s raised in political show : QUESTIONTIME

14-down – Having lost tablets, unfortunately, late leaving for jaunt : GALLIVANT

16-down – Caught taking type of acid – I’m involved bringing about resolution : CLIMACTIC

18-down – Listening intently – debt’s twice changed hands : ALLEARS

19-down – Sister about to confuse worker in leather : SADDLER

22-down – Singer and presenter Richard getting naked : ADELE

24-down – Hidden diamonds in country : PERDU