Daily Answers

1-across – One poem filled empty day after sun set : SOLIDIFY

5-across – West-facing complex of temples briefly visited by old trainspotter : ANORAK

9-across – Rainbow is beginning to shine in reflection of light source – bulb! : NARCISSUS

11-across – Better half’s other half,central? : HUBBY

12-across – Mark,cryptically intense? : DECIMALPOINT

15-across – A bargain when cap removed,great deal : HEAP

16-across – Plant seed covering trail on surface : SNAPDRAGON

18-across – I’ve day without a radio broadcast for onscreen recording of thoughts : VIDEODIARY

19-across – What might reveal a little of thief,I think? : EFIT

21-across – Heart-breaking condition caught,result of a combination of knocks? : CRICKETSCORE

24-across – A pretty oblique mark : ACUTE

25-across – Purchasing system brotherhood discussed? : MAILORDER

26-across – A seaman concerned with reversing mistakes : ERRATA

27-across – Scuffle in breach of contract in settlement of others’ costs : DEFRAYAL

1-down – Number penned by Gilbert & Sullivan,uplifting composition : SONG

2-down – Flier poet drops in : LARK

3-down – Club where loon punched by plonker at the back : DRIVER

4-down – Sucker digging weeds? : FASHIONVICTIM

6-down – Winner primarily missing in person who fails – one of those? : NOHOPERS

7-down – Removing leader in bully,house stops Trump : RUBBINGOFF

8-down – Fictional poison pretty OK in novel : KRYPTONITE

10-down – Tricky device,needle-like drill : SHARPPRACTICE

13-down – Player in pursuit of American vehicles? : CHEVYCHASE

14-down – Rough tongue picked up something alcoholic : HARDLIQUOR

17-down – One Direction welcoming drunk in,OK being most squiffy? : WONKIEST

20-down – Love dressing king in what would suit knight? : ARMOUR

22-down – Tense – as lips? : EDGY

23-down – Said right,introduction not needed : ORAL

7-across – Tatty cardi’s discarded,Morris dancing anyhow in kind of dress : MOURNING

9-across – Paper calls for bible study to be dropped : CHOIRS

10-across – Large individual’s unmatched : LOAN

11-across – One in railway station flipping going nowhere : STATIONERY

12-across – Puts a stop to cakes perhaps containing drop of rum : BREAKS

14-across – Operatic location lacking character in the end – making amends : PENNANTS

15-across – Run into the wife in shed : THROUGH

17-across – Rocker Ozzy rattled our bones : OSBORNE

20-across – Cutting short – at the outset – trial : SHEERING

22-across – Favourite kind of sandwich mostly what fuels you : PETREL

23-across – Priority being dodgy creed coming into money : PRECEDENTS

24-across – Farewell depression : VEIL

25-across – House style announced : MANNER

26-across – Number-cruncher: obsessive,quintessentially – retypes second time : ANNALIST

1-down – Dead see place with ancient school,tailless cat climbing : GOMORRAH

2-down – Head of Beeb managed serial : BRAN

3-down – ‘What goes with booze?’ That man’s hiding issues? Not half : HISSES

4-down – Aussie natives dine with cache: bananas : ECHIDNAS

5-down – Tortuous part of the fare : ROUNDABOUT

6-down – Pair of artists drawn in at arc’s endpoint : ARARAT

8-down – German hiphopper heard boos : GRAPPA

13-down – Young and olden cast off : ADOLESCENT

16-down – Drug I’ll fake for Dutch old money : GUILDERS

18-down – Tricky scene: diet’s most demanding : NEEDIEST

19-down – Litterbug and/or bottles: a state! : UGANDA

21-down – For starters: our extremely ripe brie’s almost lethal. Like some tea? : HERBAL

22-down – <span>Doing model’s work,</span><i>apropos</i><span> in nice clothes</span> : POSING

24-down – Disgusting sick’s all gone at last : VILE

1-across – Justice created hold-up in charity : PROBITY

5-across – Cider’s a novel form of cocktail : SIDECAR

9-across – Bundle ambassador into almost secure housing : SHEAF

10-across – Found her a way out that’s without precedent : UNHEARDOF

11-across – Live with stroke that’s happened earlier? : BEFOREHAND

12-across – Reportedly vote against revealing wife’s former title : NEE

14-across – I assure you,I don’t want it : TAKEITFROMME

18-across – Demand placed on trial witness would shame devil : TELLTHETRUTH

21-across – Worry penalty is oddly deficient : EAT

22-across – Psycho’s hospitality business Seattle mob destroyed : BATESMOTEL

25-across – Are so many able to provide pets? : CANOODLES

26-across – Cutting short recording is an easy goal : TAPIN

27-across – Sailed from the centre to get royal’s lunchtime schedule : YACHTED

28-across – Computer hacker initially takes on risk for play : MACBETH

1-down – Qualify on times but keep going : PASSBY

2-down – Individual not working? It won’t happen again : ONEOFF

3-down – Workers performing well as tellers : INFORMANTS

4-down – Minor solver that is 50% out : YOUTH

5-down – Unusual Cretan ship lacks a muscular sealing system : SPHINCTER

6-down – Disorder erupts as dance starts late : DEAD

7-down – Arrived holding old study that reveals spy’s secret identity : CODENAME

8-down – Instinctive responses touching cables : REFLEXES

13-down – Subject I’m chattier about : ARITHMETIC

15-down – I screeched aloud when examined : EYEBALLED

16-down – Nearly throw up visiting farm building that’s plastic : STRETCHY

17-down – Ideal stimulant to support mountain climbing : PLATONIC

19-down – It’s essential to keep documents together : STAPLE

20-down – Simple job to acquire large land : CLINCH

23-down – Derby location covered in sheep sometimes : EPSOM

24-down – Fur old pet swallowed : COAT

1-across – Navy shop supplying country music : BLUEGRASS

6-across – Get aggressively physical when criminal Ray dips into till : PLAY

8-across – Go east in Northern Line for a nutty filling : CRACKNEL

9-across – Limp extremely drunkenly,nursing bad back : DROOPY

10-across – English climber’s foot caught in level rope ladder : ETRIER

11-across – Disallowed opportunities,not having a roof over your head? : OUTDOORS

12-across – Christmas-time drink,say,before flipping dinner alert? : EGGNOG

15-across – Currently cold,needing doctor – anything – at end of day : DRAUGHTY

16-across – Tilting executed by quirky spoiled duke : LOPSIDED

19-across – Scupper King and I? Nonsense! : KIBOSH

21-across – Check on melody : RESTRAIN

22-across – Like Laurel is Hardy,to some extent? : RELISH

24-across – Pulp,Queen united in band : SQUASH

25-across – Horse has one in heap : MOUNTAIN

26-across – Turn over board to see gander : PEEK

27-across – Nothing in research involved a runner : RACEHORSE

1-down – Brook’s on time but gets fired : BURNT

2-down – Do without strong ointment : UNCTION

3-down – One who’s certain to pass on £1001 : GONER

4-down – Tall bats on the way out – nothing more to add : ALLTOLD

5-down – Tried dancing in fire to create a diversion : SIDETRACK

6-down – Paid player to ache and stretch : PROLONG

7-down – Government system one mixed up with Sparta : APPARATUS

13-down – Bizarre Greek quotes about conserving energy : GROTESQUE

14-down – Topping contractor,this boss? : GODFATHER

17-down – Reverse bet’s off – in the bag : SETBACK

18-down – Candy twists containing note: ‘full of beans’ : DYNAMIC

20-down – Out of control horse gobbling small pillow? : BOLSTER

22-down – See 6 Across : ROUGH

23-down – Lace from southern Lakeland mountain : SPIKE

1-across – Buckle is not commonly something potential combatants wear : WARPAINT

5-across – A model lives in these conditions : ASITIS

9-across – A client is terribly inflexible : INELASTIC

11-across – Extremely rough on East river : RHONE

12-across – They require a hand when performing : GLOVEPUPPETS

15-across – Central tribes hide in the same place : IBID

16-across – Regulations blocked by alien figures : STATUETTES

18-across – Slippery politician’s career path? : GREASYPOLE

19-across – Celtic language employed in Somerset : ERSE

21-across – House representatives get at Senate’s corruption : ESTATEAGENTS

24-across – Something bloggers hope to get,being all the same : ALIKE

25-across – Decide where to go for whatever food’s available : SETCOURSE

26-across – Butcher with tin fork becomes farmer : TILLER

27-across – It’s good form to make first pass : PROTOCOL

1-down – Fancy that chap going after women : WHIM

2-down – <i>S</i><span>ound shocked by Republican stench</span> : REEK

3-down – Story lacking intro can still yield results : ARABLE

4-down – Spy a vital tiny modification needed for seasonal pageants : NATIVITYPLAYS

6-down – Small change that can do widespread damage : SHRAPNEL

7-down – Sports cars with no room for third wheel? : TWOSEATERS

8-down – Frantically resists pet becoming something acquired following divorce? : STEPSISTER

10-down – One renting London accommodation – it follows a period in USA : CAPITALLETTER

13-down – Consort with mariner supplying Spooner with alcohol : SINGLEMALT

14-down – Dismiss a material military order : FIREATWILL

17-down – Sweater I unravelled in a way : ASITWERE

20-down – Funding source doesn’t regularly make this,the upper limit : ATMOST

22-down – Reptile found when bottom of jar removed : CROC

23-down – Starts to find every little lesion to be malign : FELL