Daily Answers

8-across – Old boy back on the Bordeaux with nothing for a hot meal : VINDALOO

9-across – Press home one’s advantage,or scatter to the winds : WINNOW

10-across – A rarely pretentious bunch? : POSY

11-across – Extra material in university course,and taking that is killing for an American : APPENDICES

12-across – Caution packing a fine flask : CARAFE

14-across – Upon which rabbit departs,his innings involving no runs? : ALLFOURS

15-across – Being repeatedly exercised made a bore : DRILLED

17-across – A weakness for a woman’s name in Shakespeare? : FRAILTY

20-across – Cream she churned,product of a goat : CASHMERE

22-across – Knight,seized from behind by murderer,that hangs from a tree : CATKIN

23-across – Working in black,draw companion : STABLEMATE

24-across – Creepy obsessive for one writing avoiding unfamiliar alphabet : GEEK

25-across – Jazz trombonist has a year off for time in rural area : DORSET

26-across – Assume command to get into shelter doesn’t include Charlie : TAKEOVER

1-down – Ancient relic restaurant patron spotted,some say : DINOSAUR

2-down – Nervous away from the centre : EDGY

3-down – Chopstick? : CLEAVE

4-down – Dressing up to do a sort of calypso : COSPLAY

5-down – Little star,one doing a turn round Malaysian capital : TWINKLER

6-down – Opposing the regime,native is to suffer : ANTISOVIET

7-down – One far off? Absolutely not : NOFEAR

13-down – No ordinary people get good luck : ALLTHEBEST

16-down – Basic principles of the weather : ELEMENTS

18-down – Line of verse neat and safe but lacking power : TRIMETER

19-down – Perhaps fine writer always includes regular characters in plot : PENALTY

21-down – Keep performing,securing a single engagement : ACTION

22-down – Like the side of the face to be forward? : CHEEKY

24-down – Sellers for example don’t stop : GOON

1-across – Olden : DENIER

5-across – King doing a U-turn on primary headwear : KERCHIEF

9-across – Major city’s society put up hospital with computer technology : SHANGHAI

10-across – It’s routinely filled by a minor agent with relief,perversely! : DIAPER

11-across – Cold outbreak between flights here prompts emergency action : CRASHLANDING

13-across – Reinforced housing data : INFO

14-across – Who’s bothered about mite when performance starts? : SHOWTIME

17-across – Artist’s mountain resort : WHISTLER

18-across – Look,one’s in pieces : MIEN

20-across – Stiff tongue that reveals your true feelings? : BODYLANGUAGE

23-across – Optical feature’s nucleus almost within reach – almost : CORNEA

24-across – Weight of detailed,misshapen rocks : EMPHASIS

25-across – Epic character extracted dues – so,yes,heartless : ODYSSEUS

26-across – Lionel’s cracking surface decoration : NIELLO

2-down – Newspaper essential to free choice? : ECHO

3-down – <span>If one has name and number taken by copper,ring </span><i>Guardian</i><span> – ‘Blameless!’</span> : INNOCUOUS

4-down – One in three casually put back on the burner? : REHEAT

5-down – Thousand things to be settled,going forward – that covers the whole board : KNIGHTSPROGRESS

6-down – Car part needs right sort of aid : RADIATOR

7-down – Firm confiscates ball collection : HOARD

8-down – One isn’t this emphatically less sensitive : EVENNUMBER

12-down – Human tornado with hip replacement! : ANTHROPOID

15-down – To toughen up,partook of mild : TEMPERATE

16-down – Division,about to go over Georgia,turned back : CLEAVAGE

19-down – Snake – shot it with a tracking movement : TAIPAN

21-down – ‘Theatre in the blue’ over a long time : YONKS

22-down – Fellow Brummie is going to charge : FILL

1-across – Stripped of crown, old King put back in King’s birthplace : TUPELO

4-across – Women covering courts to show sports logos : SWOOSHES

9-across – Horny beast seen in much of Auld Sod : ELAND

10-across – Proposes factions come before Yank’s holiday in report : SETSFORTH

11-across – Positive on location of closing parenthesis? : ABOVEZERO

12-across – It arrives after November and it’s 13½ inches tall : OSCAR

13-across – Worry former partner with messy separation : EXASPERATION

17-across – Interest expressed by two sailors at sea, shelled fare : STEAKTARTARE

20-across – Coolidge escapes catastrophe for peace : AMITY

21-across – Penny, a migrant, healed bird : PTARMIGAN

23-across – Seek treasure perhaps in small island, shady place : SCUBADIVE

24-across – Section of Villanova, home to vaqueros : LLANO

25-across – Chewing on something hard: golf ball? : TEETHING

26-across – Game canine evacuated, cutting cheese : BRIDGE

1-down – Green tea brewed for Joan of Arc when executed? : TEENAGER

2-down – Where Rick played softly, bit of solid gold : PIANOBAR

3-down – Removing cap, splash in mud where Oddfellows gather : LODGE

5-down – Forgoing competition, saving time, leaving no evidence : WITHOUTATRACE

6-down – Blue, rotten apricot or salmon? : OFFCOLOUR

7-down – Odist’s dance at church : HORACE

8-down – Cleo’s killer beheaded on this spot in field : SPHERE

10-down – Fixing craps game, I’m an employer of dirty tricks : SMEARCAMPAIGN

14-down – Not much money for pair of singers : PETTYCASH

15-down – Underworld hack rejected secretive body part : GANGLAND

16-down – Figuratively, Olive Oyl, head Bialystok resident? : BEANPOLE

18-down – Operatic villain, maybe little green man, one with big ears : BASSET

19-down – Doctor issued cause of atrophy : DISUSE

22-down – Athlete coming from rear in preliminaries : MILER

1-across – Fellow, covered in fur, made Spooner utter a prayer : HAILMARY

5-across – Admitted fellow is inside and not thrown out : LEFTIN

9-across – Nasty scum I fight for vintage entertainment system : MUSICBOX

10-across – Little Scottish creature removes article for close friend : BESTIE

12-across – Nurses on mad rotation means nobody sleeps : NESSUNDORMA

15-across – Fool starts to turn white eating raw prawns : TWERP

17-across – Sextet with talent shows prospect of making it : VIABILITY

18-across – Relaxed performer’s backstage requirement making classic film : EASYRIDER

19-across – Central economic unit some say is indispensable : NOONE

20-across – Steam celery, then turn it into an empty vessel : MARYCELESTE

24-across – Novel little song sounds bare in this state : NUDITY

25-across – Ordinary artist, half cut, becomes shopkeeper : STOCKIST

26-across – Go wrong filling pastry for French chap : PIERRE

27-across – Daily ingestion of sulphur may keep skin looking healthy : CLEANSER

1-down – One of us is taking on relationship type of studies : HUMANITIES

2-down – Popular fiction genre has us on tenterhooks : INSUSPENSE

3-down – Chinese region producing rainwear with gold finish : MACAU

4-down – Driver mood is perturbed delivering mobile furniture : ROOMDIVIDERS

6-down – Delight receiving green car for promotion : ELEVATION

7-down – Sums made by heartless solicitors : TOTS

8-down – Regularly uncovers disagreeable voters : NOES

11-down – Doctor creating oral list of health problems! : ORGANRECITAL

13-down – Petty officials not so important when bidding for bridge : MINORSUITS

14-down – Sort I employed to put words together : TYPESETTER

16-down – Guideline creates safe environment for a strike : PARAMETER

21-down – Material delivered in oily crates : LYCRA

22-down – Cut up nails that are cheap : SNIP

23-down – Chopper used in evacuated annexed zone : ADZE

1-across – Face up to Tony in desperation keeping money – I don’t like it : NOTMYCUPOFTEA

10-across – Old African’s letter to boys : RHODESIAN

11-across – In retrospect, a mistake defending FA’s language : LINGO

12-across – Former Chancellor’s usual way of doing things : MORES

13-across – ‘Quiet!’ Hard to handle French nurse in pub in capital : PHNOMPENH

14-across – Mean to declare how long you’ve been here : AVERAGE

16-across – Bottom of river is experimental site : TESTBED

18-across – I don’t know Vlad’s voice : PASSIVE

20-across – You shouldn’t slip on these : LACEUPS

21-across – Relaxing wear for Hawaii? Of course : LEISURELY

23-across – Assuming one’s a little backbone : TIBIA

24-across – Cheats to get flat : CONDO

25-across – The Pope’s a Pole – look back with upright catholic : APOSTOLIC

26-across – Joke – of kind – sees Trump getting irritated? : PRESIDENTMUSK

2-down – Rarely used loos round side though seemingly hygienic : ODOURLESS

3-down – Joins baseball team touring East : MEETS

4-down – Tradesman’s shop : CHIPPIE

5-down – Seed having nightmare on green, Spooner reported : PINENUT

6-down – Sick of glamour oddly peculiar to some of Dylan’s work : FOLKMUSIC

7-down – Before being put outside, turned up in drawer initially : ERNIE

8-down – Less people from school joining force – they won’t like it : GRAMMARPOLICE

9-down – Hated escorting right away: unfortunate but don’t give up too soon! : GOTHEDISTANCE

15-down – ‘O Claudius’ is wrong? That’s harsh : ACIDULOUS

17-down – Woodland residents keeping alert in Chelsea? : BLUEBELLS

19-down – Stone me! Romeo in wood ignoring women : EMERALD

20-down – Give up on sad song : LAYDOWN

22-down – Spiritual sustenance Duke’s lacking : INNER

23-down – Cat round Egypt raised as sacred object : TOTEM