Daily Answers

1-across – Order sponge that’s cut or a piece of cake inside cafe : GREASYSPOON

9-across – Hospital patient’s heart to pound; one in bed, perhaps is not so flat : HILLIER

10-across – Drink running water with live newt further up : BEEFTEA

11-across – Harry Potter cast shortly watching one : SPECTATOR

12-across – Stopped in Australia, mostly at large houses : FROZE

13-across – Silly me loves writing puzzles after vacation! : OOPS

14-across – Cold-blooded American being busy leader : COPPERHEAD

16-across – Does one tend to watch hot girls soon to get stripped off : HOROLOGIST

19-across – Old designer leaving Italy to make scent for Americans : ODOR

20-across – Female, not in dresses, stuns : ROCKS

21-across – With a better argument, American Mancini ultimately pens ‘keep Moon River’ : AFORTIORI

23-across – Top journalist hiding page that’s filled out : PLUMPED

24-across – Limited time to cut song during album set back : PARTIAL

25-across – Minor actor helping to win Oscar for project : EXTRAPOLATE

1-down – Badger poacher with gun dealt reward at the end : GOLDENPARACHUTE

2-down – Live in sun during retirement : EXIST

3-down – Keep to right entering last passage : STRETTO

4-down – Very neat in retrospect after biro’s beginning to dry out : SOBERUP

5-down – Topless shoot that’s red hot : OPENFIRE

6-down – Region died: toxin released poisonous gas : NITROGENDIOXIDE

7-down – Massaging sporty hip, yeah? : PHYSIOTHERAPY

8-down – Film in April, May and June? : CALENDARGIRLS

15-down – Where desires are titillated by top-shelf bust : FLESHPOT

17-down – Family man with pretty secretary : GRANDPA

18-down – Sign accordingly giving envelope for my foreign letter : SCORPIO

22-down – Arrival by alien going around Earth : TERRA

9-across – Champions can win without a back : LIVERPOOL

10-across – Inspiration for writing part of plot, a reprobate in hindsight : ERATO

11-across – Post over on one side : UPRIGHT

12-across – Champions from west side of capital cutting ace, surprisingly : CHELSEA

13-across – See 21 : CALL

14-across – Jerk refused, too confident : SUREFOOTED

16-across – Apple ending in mud behind second player? : COSTARD

17-across – Wrap sticker and ring around it : BURRITO

19-across – Work and work to guard against endless excess : OVERSUPPLY

22-across – Old Hindu in a jiffy? : JAIN

24-across – Classic saint securing soldier with longer pins : LEGGIER

25-across – Champions rise up, status inspiring hero after header from defender : REDSTAR

26-across – Birth needing attention then after labour, primarily : NATAL

27-across – Cryptically create from document sent to vendor : ORDERFORM

1-down – Home of the silly brash parasite in family, daughter : CLOUDCUCKOOLAND

2-down – Garment a minister pulled up in open-topped car : OVERALLS

3-down – Every other bit extracted, darker gas remains : DREGS

4-down – Leader of men stepped up with German champions : DORTMUND

5-down – Champions not needing extra time, man — game of two halves, perhaps? : CLICHE

6-down – Champions stuffed, striker choked up : FEYENOORD

7-down – Risk chaining animal, dog : BASSET

8-down – Outgoing leader old and new on throne better : DONALDJOHNTRUMP

15-down – Champions behind, tale-teller almost nets : MARSEILLE

17-down – See 25 : BELGRADE

18-down – Rest privy to captivating opening scenes : INACTION

20-down – Number serious, though first ignored : EIGHTY

21-down – Where one might stop champions, club and everything? : PORTOF

23-down – Dress a start in audition? : ADORN

1-across – Royal Prestige’s premier dinnerware set out to welcome head of China : PRINCE

4-across – See 1 : ANDREW

9-across – Being honest, letter written by boy on road is to appear in Telegraph : CARDSONTHETABLE

10-across – Evidence when watching big game in person? : ATTEST

11-across – Constriction of edges in this? : THLIPSIS

12-across – Glass sailing ship : SCHOONER

14-across – Mark the end of Athens, perhaps, carrying cross : STIGMA

15-across – Man, say : ISLAND

18-across – Dorothy’s dog, all dressed up for a party, wanting to make the most of it : GOTOTOWN

21-across – Mr Big is right and Dr Gould wrong : DRUGLORD

22-across – Subject to change, bilateral art removed : LIABLE

24-across – Have one tot after another? : WETTHEBABYSHEAD

25-across – An American song book might include one rough drawing : YANKEE

26-across – See 25 : DOODLE

1-down – Work on features, maybe, captures grisly changes : PLASTIC

2-down – Trendy end to this music : INDIE

3-down – Some toast stunning defeat in study : CROUTON

5-down – For no good reason sacking frontman of the Family Stone, a Scottish rock group : NEEDLES

6-down – Gather cape’s put back in position : REAPPOINT

7-down – Women suffering introduction from Hadrian, say — hero of the Scots : WILLIAM

8-down – This coin is ancient, I say : STATER

13-down – Sounded from belfry? Oscar climbs there with an ape : ORANGUTAN

16-down – See 1 : SURGERY

17-down – Base cracking intricate codes? I see : DIOCESE

18-down – Accursed Englishman’s noonday companion’s turned up : GODDAM

19-down – Nevertheless, chum climbs into a four-in-hand : TALLYHO

20-down – See 7 : WALLACE

23-down – In a higher degree Enigmatist may be a pest : APHID

1-across – ‘Crumbling gable’ artist’s symbolic subject : ALGEBRA

5-across – Spot storyline with school setting : SPLOTCH

9-across – Living accommodation north of the border : MANSE

10-across – First-rate access to attic? : TOPFLIGHT

11-across – Secret hero, roughly sixty : THREESCORE

12-across – Figure from report incomplete : STAT

14-across – Draw with number one in league to regain control : PULLONESELF

18-across – Unit at large performing survey : TRIANGULATE

21-across – Rod’s tipple laced with unknown ingredient : AXLE

22-across – Lots such as furniture maker might bid for? : AGREATDEAL

25-across – Canadian water hounds worried by horse : HUDSONBAY

26-across – Worker using kitchen roller about to leave : BAKER

27-across – Immense distance once covered by rodents from the East : STELLAR

28-across – Times added to article about Queen using such means : THEREBY

1-down – Acknowledges obsolete currency in islands : ADMITS

2-down – Groups retrospectively brought in by fare negotiators : GENERA

3-down – Dealing with buzzers sounding alert — I’m scared to enter : BEEKEEPING

4-down – Lark averse to cold? : ANTIC

5-down – Stratford flower seller, America’s rising star : SUPERNOVA

6-down – Two gents on air possibly a wonderful thing : LULU

7-down – See 14 : TOGETHER

8-down – Mimic successfully adopting new technology to get on : HITITOFF

13-down – Cat beetled off before one’s very eyes : DETECTABLE

15-down – Lie about secure provision for the smarter patrons? : LOUNGEBAR

16-down – Joins embassy staff : ATTACHES

17-down – Get caught after police knock off : DISLODGE

19-down – Shout down my left ear at first : HECKLE

20-down – Conservative needs unusual sensitivity, ousting almost all ministers : CLERGY

23-down – Anguish at heart of alien realm : EGYPT

24-down – Fine bird, one for the table : FOWL

9-across – One manipulates very big writer back at hotel : OSTEOPATH

10-across – This writer’s mellow still : IMAGE

11-across – Revolutionary shoe is too tight to accommodate foot : TOOTSIE

12-across – Choose independent state helping pupils work? : OPTICAL

13-across – Train monkey abandoned by staff : DRILL

14-across – The dos and don’ts of cloning new bitches, about ten? : BIOETHICS

16-across – They fight invaders who libelled Scot after Reformation : WHITEBLOODCELLS

19-across – Duplicate Mediterranean city corporation : SPARETYRE

21-across – Not all of these guests proceed without a break : SEGUE

22-across – Cat left snake trapped? It’s fair game : TOMBOLA

23-across – Defenceless Unionist called about Republican : UNARMED

24-across – Bottle first of port during function : SPINE

25-across – Jailer’s means of access to fast food? : CANOPENER

1-down – Engineer shouts about broken range : SOUTHDOWNS

2-down – Chop up, stir and boil fruits of hops : STROBILI

3-down – Personal matter of dubious value is not raised online : TONSIL

4-down – Meet following first-class service : FACE

5-down – Handed down item old medics wrapped in shiny stuff : CHROMOSOME

6-down – Parliament to mention rises based on consumption : DIETETIC

7-down – Start to train first person in Berlin in excellent exercises : TAICHI

8-down – The Spanish ambassador heads list : HEEL

14-down – Seductive performance led by clean comic : BELLYDANCE

15-down – They hold up supper regularly during breaks : SUSPENDERS

17-down – Spain agreed to host entire broadcast for private viewers : EYEHOLES

18-down – Joint holder’s fast time running round a school : LIGAMENT

20-down – Hairy place where weapons may be hidden? : ARMPIT

21-down – South Carolina mounts western trophies : SCALPS

22-down – Big canine, last of eight by Welsh river : TUSK

23-down – Stubbs preserved large bone from horse’s leg : ULNA