Daily Answers

1-across – State welcome includes a whiskey — first class! : HAWAII

4-across – Wife’s at home, the husband’s out and runs when it’s cold : WINTER

9-across – Speed is 1,000 and 100 in reverse : KNOT

10-across – Mother and boy tend to awkwardness : MALADDRESS

11-across – Nice lemon in tonic, mixed right inside : CITRON

12-across – Stomach problem from avid reader’s head going hard : HOOKWORM

13-across – For example, woman will pack extremely ginormous cases : EGGSHELLS

15-across – Old criminal carrying a burden : LOAD

16-across – Recovering abstainer leaves drink : BEER

17-across – Outstanding independent region houses 2,000 people altogether : COMMUNITY

21-across – Rejecting volunteers, politician’s swamped by mock test essays : ATTEMPTS

22-across – Missile to stun borders of Egypt : ROCKET

24-across – Unable to write 49 + 51 three times a quarter? : ILLITERATE

25-across – Second piece of bacon : BACK

26-across – Thatcher’s revolting for jailing opposition leader and the Queen : ROOFER

27-across – Get away with key? : ESCAPE

1-down – Suspended sentence? : HANGING

2-down – Attendant spills first drink : WATER

3-down – 1 + 1000 + 1000 + : IMMENSE

5-down – Cast iron contains note for use within the home : INDOOR

6-down – Demolish place over hard crossword? : THROWDOWN

7-down – Colour of restored building: timeless : ROSERED

8-down – Everybody let son and daughter cut grass on 1/11 : ALLHALLOWSDAY

14-down – Good man and woman’s life wins heart of working campaigner against apartheid : STEVEBIKO

16-down – One packaging 16 across, but not Courage? : BOTTLER

18-down – Sells millions on hot streak … : MARKETS

19-down – … unlimited by 100 pound and English sentimentality : TREACLE

20-down – Each master eats pastry : APIECE

23-down – Snake about to bite Rob to bits : COBRA

8-across – Shattering sort of news : BREAKING

9-across – Siren’s nose : HOOTER

10-across – One takes a little bite, aftertaste coming back : GNAT

11-across – Impound vessel for unpaid work : INTERNSHIP

12-across – Bread for example not fresh, but quietly accepted : STAPLE

14-across – Taking the driving seat, change gear after a short distance : INCHARGE

15-across – Tied house right behind field : RECTORY

17-across – Son enjoying a spliff, adding more to burn : STOKING

20-across – A boy’s boy? : GRANDSON

22-across – Roughly remove dressing for bad cut : ABDUCT

23-across – Moving under, can do circular steps : ROUNDDANCE

24-across – Wicket perhaps finally suggesting skulduggery : GATE

25-across – Senior cleric taking care of a junior one : DEACON

26-across – Music suggested by dejected Royal Navy? : THEBLUES

1-down – A woman of colour : BRUNETTE

2-down – Beat time in a trance : RAPT

3-down – Eat around six? Wonderful! : DIVINE

4-down – European travel: journey is a gratifying experience : EGOTRIP

5-down – Time-saving hairdo? : SHORTCUT

6-down – Astonished to be punched in the face : GOBSMACKED

7-down – King looking at what typist is doing : KEYING

13-down – Pretend to be an impresario : PUTONANACT

16-down – One booked into hotel has seen dirt all over the place : RESIDENT

18-down – Refinements that used to go with smart shirts? : NICETIES

19-down – From madness, putting out small idiotic remark : INANITY

21-down – Not the ways, we hear, to travel to this island : RHODES

22-down – A writer about myself and distant ancestors : APEMEN

24-down – Good and bad quantity of drink : GILL

1-across – Hurry to join mums in the club : MASHIE

4-across – Snack — you’ve nibbled one when entertaining Hamish? : BISCOTTI

9-across – American soldiers first to enter the lists : MENUS

10-across – Danish ace reorganised estates : HACIENDAS

11-across – It’s obvious what cricketers don’t want — to risk injury in nets? : OVERTRAIN

12-across – News stories of two couples? : ITEMS

13-across – Tiger Moth has to fly last bit of the journey : HOMESTRAIGHT

17-across – Smear son — isn’t one person without any faults apparently : PLASTERSAINT

20-across – A poor actor with nothing wandering around beach : OMAHA

21-across – Logically decide what could produce a snore : REASONOUT

23-across – Beautiful old lover, who in Paris is given designated place : EXQUISITE

24-across – Eats possibly, as some in France outside home : DINES

25-across – Tiny tree developing — it never stops : ETERNITY

26-across – Sets of opinions society rejected, socialist getting squashed : CREDOS

1-down – A thousand winged creatures seen around in the morning — they are huge : MAMMOTHS

2-down – Signs of hope with reformed businessman abandoning sin : SUNBEAMS

3-down – Picture opportunity for children to have a day off school : INSET

5-down – Belonging to Tory team, class thinking of no one else : INCONSIDERATE

6-down – Treasures former PM’s wife’s keeping shut up : CHERISHES

7-down – Asian performance said to be put in order? : TIDIED

8-down – Take a firm line with trendy little girl — end of argument : INSIST

10-down – Safety device earthed badly — struggle to get into it : HEADRESTRAINT

14-down – Leaping as non-U greeting : SALTATION

15-down – Abandoned drunk is being given shelter : DISOWNED

16-down – Pro-centralising politicians — figures not in charge : STATISTS

18-down – You may follow top cleric, a comic fellow : POPEYE

19-down – What sounds like protective layer in ship : BARQUE

22-down – Lowly soldiers embarrassed about rank : ORDER

1-across – Tasty paste from West Asia used all round Britain : WASABI

4-across – Penny finished with favourite doll : PUPPET

9-across – Juliet with nausea spewed over bag for writer : JANE

10-across – Winter vehicle currently parking in Berkshire town : SNOWPLOUGH

11-across – Pitch declared first-class for part of match : CHUKKA

12-across – Gas put a tiny bit of taste into negroni cocktail : NITROGEN

13-across – Syrup mixed in drink in garden awfully popular at the end of June : GRENADINE

15-across – Sailor leaving American navy joint : SEAM

16-across – Find out about American saints : SUSS

17-across – When sister gets to beat backside of current helper? : ASSISTANT

21-across – Vicar with ale brewed for royalist supporter : CAVALIER

22-across – Ukip leader entering vehicle getting a shock : TRAUMA

24-across – Cantankerous old person who’s against burying muck in drive : CURMUDGEON

25-across – Lad clutching top of designer group : BODY

26-across – See 9 : AUSTEN

27-across – Rotten secretary hiding intro­duction to promissory note : SEPTIC

1-down – Helium in water changing climate : WEATHER

2-down – Small vegetable is shiny : SLEEK

3-down – Bird damaged on a road : BUSTARD

5-down – Increased shame is difficult to control : UPPITY

6-down – Champion rugby player working at hospital department : PROPONENT

7-down – Label meat cooked for partners in the ring : TAGTEAM

8-down – Depressed setter with gin drunk in No 10? : DOWNINGSTREET

14-down – Gymnasts upset about source of unusual eye movements : NYSTAGMUS

16-down – Bone with small top joined to bone with no name : SCAPULA

18-down – Eager trainee losing end of decider on points : INTENSE

19-down – Mounted police meeting a member about going from place to place : NOMADIC

20-down – Go round base of col in rocky ridge : GIRDLE

23-down – Graduate set up software program for religious leader : ABBOT

1-across – Another adjustment on TV : RESET

4-across – Having exchanged parts, withdraw stage curtain : BACKDROP

8-across – Ma’s said to groan, troubling helpful neighbours : GOODSAMARITANS

10-across – Typical report on patient’s con­dition in absence of coppers? : NOCHANGE

11-across – Decadent outdoor celebration after revolutionary force cleared out : EFFETE

12-across – Motorway pull-ins: troops like to keep fixed watch here : RESTAREAS

15-across – Cowboy gear contributing to colossal turnover : LASSO

17-across – Rotating poster with illuminated frame moving back and forth : TIDAL

18-across – Burden I bear where fares are collected : TAXISTAND

19-across – Worker on short holiday showing no interest : VACANT

21-across – Muscle, bit by ear affecting the mouth : PECTORAL

24-across – Everyone here is put on by firm : PRESENTCOMPANY

25-across – Moving pictures detected evidence of arthritic joints : CREPITUS

26-across – Mast at sea trapping Nelson’s second arm : SPEAR

1-down – Refreshing change for vegan retiree : REGENERATIVE

2-down – Featured exhibit surveyed with theft in mind : SHOWCASED

3-down – Opera awkward to cast with only one tenor : TOSCA

4-down – Pray continue busy meeting, cutting in all over the place : BEMYGUEST

5-down – Brusque king tucking into chop : CURT

6-down – Where to find information, if at turning between valleys? : DATAFILES

7-down – Clubman chucking out skinned cat : OUNCE

9-down – It relays notes picked up from best-ever actor : RECORDPLAYER

13-down – Everybody having bottoms raised, hands down : ALLENDSUP

14-down – Brownie groups bagging pound coins, primarily obsolete currency : SIXPENCES

16-down – I must pack principal luggage for flight : STAIRCASE

20-down – Job avoided by single English worker with dependents : CARER

22-down – Monuments in honour of medics : TOMBS

23-down – Unwanted discharge upsetting many : SNOT