Daily Answers

1-across – Neptune has been leaking? Hope your trip is safe! : GODSPEED

5-across – Bad habits, clinging to old opinions : VOICES

9-across – Refuses to play against every international team : ALLBLACKS

11-across – Pack round a US resort : TAMPA

12-across – Leave me alone, teacher foolishly bids tutor : DONOTDISTURB

15-across – One working in bed offers noth­ing for woman to embrace : HOER

16-across – Indulgent secretary leaves hard copy letter : PERMISSIVE

18-across – Titled lady no one associated with a lord, somehow : LORNADOONE

19-across – Out loud, not many will be encouraging : FUEL

21-across – Run taken from excellent ball by youngster? That’s routine : SONGANDDANCE

24-across – Asian native suggesting his phone was silent? : ORANG

25-across – Limit on height of church is to stimulate new ideas : REINSPIRE

26-across – Vital to carry card with name to donate this? : KIDNEY

27-across – O boy! Mink’s fantastic for me : INMYBOOK

1-down – Pet jumps up to grab a stick : GOAD

2-down – With spirit lacking, heart lost at the expected time : DULY

3-down – Whiteness of cloud tipped with gold : PALLOR

4-down – Sealed instruction for some severe brothers : ENCLOSEDORDER

6-down – Stub toes carelessly: most stupid : OBTUSEST

7-down – Example of punctuation almost unprecedented in official statement : COMMUNIQUE

8-down – One insect, or another with small mark on, let free : STAGBEETLE

10-down – Process for making rock, a fatal day used up thinking : SEDIMENTATION

13-down – Hawks wine round hospital showing war damage : SHELLSHOCK

14-down – Gained hair untidily that’s on the side of the head : HEARINGAID

17-down – Eccentric dispute in delta region : CAMARGUE

20-down – Playwright’s agreed a firm rise : OCASEY

22-down – King’s imprimatur lends organ­isation at first a certain weight : KILO

23-down – Like hens, eat a quantity of grain : PECK

7-across – A lot of meat to keep moist in pan : LAMBASTE

9-across – Be averse to getting into pedalo at headland : LOATHE

10-across – Rabbit or donkey : GOON

11-across – Counterpart of Dancing Queen? It keeps John twirling : EQUIVALENT

12-across – Soldiers at front of unit take seditious action : REVOLT

14-across – Informed old coin is found in river to the west : EDUCATED

15-across – Oppose always following one Pole, then another : NAYSAY

17-across – Reporter’s rising to give agreement : ASSENT

20-across – Foreign lady not starting books in a blissful state? : IGNORANT

22-across – Draw in net at sea, getting chill : ENTICE

23-across – Having no character drinking tea loudly, like seven pairs of solutions here : ANTONYMOUS

24-across – Come to a stop in lake in Panama, say : HALT

25-across – Think a lot of diamonds get hidden in a bog : ADMIRE

26-across – Record penned in Brussels is getting English acclaim : EULOGISE

1-down – Emperor is to keep sleeping, interrupted by lion : NAPOLEON

2-down – Oscar turned up collar in Scottish resort : OBAN

3-down – Feature a group of extremists seizing power : ASPECT

4-down – Bitter and sour, say, from Left cutting benefits : FLAVOURS

5-down – Old man perhaps accepting post up in assembly : PARLIAMENT

6-down – Wife with joint which may be beef : WHINGE

8-down – Avoided having erroneous beliefs, losing head : ELUDED

13-down – Like the living dead with axes? There’s nothing silly about that : OXYMORONIC

16-down – Examinations of any sales subject to corruption : ANALYSES

18-down – Lacking delicacy, time to be more passive? : TACTLESS

19-down – Kind of light garment under servant’s coat : STROBE

21-down – Gallivants around playing organs, which will generate issue : GONADS

22-down – Stands in line and moves gently around it : EASELS

24-down – Uttered greeting on horse? : HIGH

1-across – Restructure due — can’t lay off senior Scottish lawyer : DEANOFFACULTY

10-across – Discontinues for a time supporting scoundrels : PROROGUES

11-across – School temperature drops : TRAIN

12-across – Old enough to finally smoke drugs : OFAGE

13-across – Snap after Prince’s angry words : PHILIPPIC

14-across – Impalers drinking Irish whiskey and brandy? : SPIRITS

16-across – Important lesson — change sides : SEMINAL

18-across – End fuel crisis as required : NEEDFUL

20-across – Cross about dates with duke — not thinking clearly : MUDDLED

21-across – Be a high street stationer — it’s a stable job : LIVERYMAN

23-across – Spirit? Sounds like it : DJINN

24-across – I help part of UK initially during recession : INDIA

25-across – ‘Not original’ — university musical reviewed by Independent : IMITATIVE

26-across – Stop, son! Dad ordered a drink : SCOTCHANDSODA

2-down – Reminiscent of detective finally addressing case : EVOCATIVE

3-down – Snare pointless — change of heart required : NOOSE

4-down – Nothing winning about kiss, a second indiscretion : FAUXPAS

5-down – Trump’s behind troubles and torments : ASSAILS

6-down – Not yet attempted taking on males in need of grooming : UNTRIMMED

7-down – Covering miles — some flipping walk! : TRAMP

8-down – US writer ruins platonic arrangement : UPTONSINCLAIR

9-down – Jointly capitulated : KNUCKLEDUNDER

15-down – Rat in castle biting servant : INFORMANT

17-down – Offset due — fill in form : NULLIFIED

19-down – Current head of government turning into wino — that’s awkward! : LUMPISH

20-down – Report to me in Barking North : MENTION

22-down – Largely failing to save edition of holy books : VEDIC

23-down – Pulls grass up : DRAWS

1-across – Part-time ambassador, having to do housework, failed : BITTHEDUST

6-across – Exchange of prisoners rejected : SWOP

9-across – Dissolute master joining ship that’s changed sides : PROFLIGATE

10-across – Works poorly after end of term : MILL

12-across – Proposing eco-friendly links, to some extent? : PUTTINGGREEN

15-across – Brewing empire’s leading wine opened first : PREMIERED

17-across – Recalled part of Wagnerian opera being broadcast : ONAIR

18-across – Secondary proposition from man docked on lunar module : LEMMA

19-across – Manchester ground not cameraman’s last picture : THESCREAM

20-across – Merlot best in mixed drinks : BITTERLEMONS

24-across – Doing less than : UPTO

25-across – Horse died — Sue admits boundless regret : DAPPLEGREY

26-across – The necessary spot of sweetener in tonic : DOSH

27-across – Plant grew further behind ditch : DESERTROSE

1-down – Snack bar’s offering primarily beans and pork sausages : BAPS

2-down – Change of heart in right-wing city of old : TROY

3-down – Achilles’ aunt in play sees visions : HALLUCINATES

4-down – Any number have a liking for sex : DIGIT

5-down – Assault force becoming excited : SETONEDGE

7-down – Clear standard breached by training policy proposals by government : WHITEPAPER

8-down – Daughter invested in Italian china, apparently, for mum or dad? : PALINDROME

11-down – How old prisoner is transported, when one can agree to act : AGEOFCONSENT

13-down – Hitchcock film sure to follow interval : SPELLBOUND

14-down – Doctor met diarist to make superficial complaint : DERMATITIS

16-down – Rising when expected, I subsequently hit back : RETALIATE

21-down – Dad chopping tree up for timber : MAPLE

22-down – Serving men very roughly : ORSO

23-down – Defence ultimately presented by bank employee : DYKE

1-across – Persistent animal gets exercise daily, using leads : DOGGED

5-across – A whale of a book : MOBYDICK

9-across – Lets out, or lets out again : RELEASES

10-across – Fancy a nut? Go for this sweet : NOUGAT

11-across – Little Bo-Peep is cursory, for one? : NURSERYRHYME

13-across – Piece of luggage, one for Sherlock? : CASE

14-across – In the middle, putting very cheap item of jewellery : CENTRING

17-across – Move quickly to secure prison : DARTMOOR

18-across – Matter hard to press forward : PUSH

20-across – Admitted a record holds information : ACKNOWLEDGED

23-across – Two strips of beach : BIKINI

24-across – Stars sit around, no lovers of red revolution : TSARISTS

25-across – Ruin some poor Frenchman : MONSIEUR

26-across – Cut like a baby? : TEETHE

2-down – Old writer is generally accessible : OPEN

3-down – Be gentler when developing this? : GREENBELT

4-down – Want to get rid of Dad? : DESIRE

5-down – Craftsman sadly cremates partner : MASTERCARPENTER

6-down – Discussing informally how to insist on remaining alive : BANDYING

7-down – Money to make; not nice : DOUGH

8-down – Unpleasantly damp feeling of tunnels with shellfish about : CLAMMINESS

12-down – Liqueur seen to spoil a small cloth : MARASCHINO

15-down – Such relentless questioning of machine gun’s capability : RAPIDFIRE

16-down – Nobody accepts a little piece in any colour : NONWHITE

19-down – Horrified as a good speed is cut : AGHAST

21-down – Little spikes: personally, I have 20 : NAILS

22-down – Snag: first horse is missing and must be scratched : ITCH