Daily Answers

1-across – One with good cause to be a fare dodger? : HUNGERSTRIKER

10-across – Home schooling makes sense : INTUITION

11-across – Low-down beam, large only at one end : INTEL

12-across – Devil of a stalemate in court : DEUCE

13-across – Info caught in material on file reveals crisis : EMERGENCY

14-across – Old AC/DC popular song covers in show : EXHIBIT

16-across – Group of motorists with articles about gas pipe? : TRACHEA

18-across – Why things go wrong in ground cabbage dish : SODSLAW

20-across – Ace fish wraps in cooker : COSTARD

21-across – Knowing where to spend a penny, then another : INTHELOOP

23-across – Better soldiers leaving in the open air : OUTDO

24-across – Primate seized by bird, nimbly from behind : INDRI

25-across – Ordered a wine list — it’s sizable for gourmands : WAISTLINE

26-across – How to make new doors fail test of reliability : BREAKONESWORD

2-down – Little nude cavorts around virgin : UNTOUCHED

3-down – Outspoken men making an appearance : GUISE

4-down – Pierre’s really ditching very dated clothes : RAIMENT

5-down – Touching line from male who’s been on sunbed? : TANGENT

6-down – Fishy product occupies schooner, say : ISINGLASS

7-down – John Bull’s back in wealthy English institution : ELTON

8-down – Nice wine and a lot of hard liquor for someone like me : KINDREDSPIRIT

9-down – Tease in literary work, not easily understood : PLAYHARDTOGET

15-down – Dancers here are in dances — she may be one of them : BALLERINA

17-down – Try to keep lithe, training to be so? : HEALTHIER

19-down – Promoters of health resort show influencers here : WHOSWHO

20-down – Flip over how big an accessory is? : CAPSIZE

22-down – Henry’s house party in revolutionary groove : TUDOR

23-down – Where nail may be caught, getting pulled : ONTOW

7-across – Within cult, I’m a target for threats : ULTIMATA

9-across – Open spaces in Asian city holding nothing eastern : AGORAE

10-across – Story about Rome’s beginning as capital of Italy some time ago : LIRE

11-across – Small ignoramus I brought before head for indecency : SMUTTINESS

12-across – Excited expression of character in Hamlet, not king or queen : YOICKS

14-across – Son thus goes into country, returning for flowers : NARCISSI

15-across – Private places in clubs, protected by present distributor : SANCTA

17-across – Priests holding mass for religious feast : LAMMAS

20-across – They work tirelessly, packing cut fruit in Gold Coast’s centre : AUTOMATA

22-across – Preserve vessel for oil : CANVAS

23-across – We want these figures about English team, right? : DESIDERATA

24-across – One part of it produces things like doughnuts : TORI

25-across – Unfinished clue I’m altering, about utopian’s head in clouds : CUMULI

26-across – It produces reaction — litmus changes before its conclusion : STIMULUS

1-down – Badly in love, is in this state : ILLINOIS

2-down – Cast objects to cut : DICE

3-down – First couple in Arizona initially leaving another part of US for a third : KANSAS

4-down – Tiny creatures European found in ancient part of central Asia : BACTERIA

5-down – Nice column represented chaps running local government in America : COUNCILMEN

6-down – In neighbourhood of Italian town I tossed off fruit drink : CASSIS

8-down – Graduates left university in a minute part of UK : ALUMNI

13-down – Fault-finding survey about old port : CENSORIOUS

16-down – They have parallels, giving thanks when receiving a prize in error : TRAPEZIA

18-down – Scaly cobras disturbed more than just me : SCABROUS

19-down – Cold unfortunately trapping one in port : CALAIS

21-down – Source of issue among computer users : UTERUS

22-down – Operated in group with lots of intelligence — they’re full of brains : CRANIA

24-down – In this way, energy’s extracted from so-called melting pot : THUS

1-across – In class this boy when ordered sat, the creep : TEACHERSPET

9-across – What makes page dirty? A sort of bonk-lit : INKBLOT

10-across – Swedish scientist is retired tennis champion : SIEVERT

11-across – Wickedness accepted by rich man: time to sell up : DISINVEST

12-across – No Tolkien character gets backing to sing : CROON

13-across – A comedy show about to drop pet cat : PUMA

14-across – Secretive, after spilling cereals without paying attention : CARELESSLY

16-across – Trick ref and get United flying — on a roll : SUBTERFUGE

19-across – Buffoons lowering the odds of seeing these? : UFOS

21-across – Inserting end of chisel, make bigger hole in sphere : REALM

22-across – Evoke birdsong, not one of the top three we hear : CALLFORTH

24-across – Port and cheese nicked, neither finished : BRISTOL

25-across – May baby’s nature appear at first unusual? : TAUREAN

26-across – Unequally carve up goose, madly merry tucking in : GERRYMANDER

1-down – Filthy carpet may eventually appear excellent : TAKESOMEBEATING

2-down – Curfew fully obeyed with no extra charges? : ALLIN

3-down – Greek goddess accepting one of her characters as mistress : HETAERA

4-down – Run over me, stopping short as a favour : ROSETTE

5-down – Child’s hero follows papa as a minister : PREACHER

6-down – Suggesting better clothes shouldn’t be put on, being drunk : THEWORSEFORWEAR

7-down – Dessert’s up: at last spoon out and get a move on : GIDDUP

8-down – Mean to be wasting years? Not altogether : STINGY

15-down – Newton was to emerge to get into motion : GEOMETER

16-down – What operators wear in prison? : SCRUBS

17-down – University department failing to employ Conservative : FACULTY

18-down – Festival — it lifted a Roman province : GALATIA

20-down – Turn cross, receiving hard riddle from one : SPHINX

23-down – Establish there’s nothing in cash : FOUND

1-across – I don’t care where TV actor originally worked : WHATEVER

5-across – Refuse to get secretaries drink : PASSUP

9-across – Queen always surrounded by a lot of old money : GUINEVERE

11-across – Right to live in the city though it did have strings attached : REBEC

12-across – Watch it! He’s angling for trouble : NIGHTINGALES

15-across – Hairy bloke in middle of the sauna : ESAU

16-across – Put in grave situation — people in Northern Territory being detained : INTERNMENT

18-across – Debauchery of girl condemned : PROFLIGACY

19-across – When caught only cuddling : ONCE

21-across – Unseated riders, those unfamiliar with a powerful horse initially restrained : STRAPHANGERS

24-across – Point to Sally’s dress : EQUIP

25-across – Touch wrong handle on boat, some might say : SCINTILLA

26-across – Makes dirty joke finally in second bar : SMEARS

27-across – Chain fences round square : PENNINES

1-down – Conduct was largely good at start of evening : WAGE

2-down – I doubt that oaf is about to show up : ASIF

3-down – Close to scene, police in charge encouraging evacuation : EMETIC

4-down – Plant hangers designed with petals : ELEPHANTGRASS

6-down – Superior skill keeps Josh’s associate at table : ARROGANT

7-down – Officers not the first choice to convert Poles : SUBALTERNS

8-down – New era shortly — PC state the end of white van man? : PACESETTER

10-down – Wise old head active in emergencies : EMINENCEGRISE

13-down – Go to collect new guides — they’re probably in the office : PENPUSHERS

14-down – Somewhere in LA likewise being picked up in bar — you can bet on it : BATONROUGE

17-down – Crafty old man meets a killer in the house : FLYPAPER

20-down – Risk includes rector touching Norman’s neighbour : BRETON

22-down – Clear but doesn’t have one idea : PLAN

23-down – Land of the Rising Sun holding American : LAOS

1-across – Creativity of that bloke is shown in pastry : THEARTS

5-across – Dove in America perched eyes down, primarily to take a breather … : PLUNGED

9-across – … parts of which being low, best left incomplete : LOBES

10-across – Love to follow dictator hiding in Scottish island? It’s handy! : MULTITOOL

11-across – Does cannon shot flash? : NANOSECOND

12-across – Front view partially screened : ONTV

14-across – Groomer getting fix by the Cutty Sark? : NAILCLIPPER

18-across – Treat all these as a capital : TALLAHASSEE

21-across – Bad typos scattered around the back of newspaper, some of which are here : BODY

22-across – Parties veto motion by broadcaster and writer : DOSTOEVSKY

25-across – Naughty niece after honour at last redeemed for good behaviour : OBEDIENCE

26-across – See 21 : PARTS

27-across – Naming and shaming starts and row gets worse : NASTIER

28-across – Just get rid of dad but don’t let on! : KEEPMUM

1-down – Ability to get an old coin : TALENT

2-down – Be back before Crosby’s decline : EBBING

3-down – What Jesus did for breakfast? : ROSESUNDAY

4-down – Spice up writer : SUMAC

5-down – After sporting event, kisses for high jumpers : POLONECKS

6-down – One’s continually upset to some extent : UNIT

7-down – Adults can be wrong on purpose? Nothing odd in that : GROWNUPS

8-down – Labour’s end pitch : DELIVERY

13-down – Pleasant folk found in Provence? : NICEPEOPLE

15-down – Where spiders might be up against it? : INACORNER

16-down – Difficult objections raised and delivered : STUBBORN

17-down – Slow movers ultimately suffer in misusing dope and LSD : PLODDERS

19-down – Like hotel stuff in place of seclusion : ASHRAM

20-down – See back covered in adhesive plaster : GYPSUM

23-down – Make adjustments to the bottom of chainsaw when cutting wood : TWEAK

24-down – Colette’s soldiers : GIGI