Daily Answers

7-across – Emperor in cape others in Rome drag back inside : CALIGULA

9-across – Like some remedies brother turned over, central to cure : HERBAL

10-across – Cheese having fine character from its source : FETA

11-across – Repeat mistake of first woman in public television : OPENTHEBOX

12-across – As starter for lunch, tucked into game at table : WHILST

14-across – Nothing right about fake news? That’s more than fair : LOVELIER

15-across – What’s good in dish with pastry covering? : PIGEON

17-across – Place in Europe British bunglers oddly forfeited : BRUGES

20-across – Method learnt differently in North American city : MONTREAL

22-across – Get in boat at sea : OBTAIN

23-across – Impression about article by journalists being downer : DEPRESSANT

24-across – Person writing second message shortened by 60% : MEMO

25-across – Look — openers in batting order seen in pavilion : GAZEBO

26-across – Peers enjoy it — also English upper classes once : EQUALITY

1-down – Attachment from down under going astray in the mail, PS left out : MATESHIP

2-down – Family internally raised capital : LIMA

3-down – Become exhausted, so bring about dismissal : RUNOUT

4-down – Second US president, across time, was highly inaccurate in pursuing goal : SHOTOVER

5-down – Inexperienced and unimportant? Okay : GREENLIGHT

6-down – Beginning completed over a year : DAYONE

8-down – Energy put into singular achieve­ment in games — like the Olympics : AGEOLD

13-down – Settle on location for putting lime, say : LIGHTGREEN

16-down – 75% of display in public was excessive : OVERSHOT

18-down – Sailor using his head in final act on board : SHIPMATE

19-down – Hundreds initially fleeing icy enclosure in autumn, so to speak : OLDAGE

21-down – At unspecified time, not enough to raise capital? : ONEDAY

22-down – Escape from disastrous tour with global organisation : OUTRUN

24-down – So leaves person from one African country for another : MALI

9-across – Fish and fruit wonderful in Spain : LEMONSOLE

10-across – To be mad not having succeeded is foolish : INANE

11-across – Printing house that is making a gift : PRESSIE

12-across – Become fine again? Explain : CLEARUP

13-across – A team of detectives is sharp : ACID

14-across – Favouring English athlete: one came first : FORERUNNER

15-across – Extremist Rees-Mogg elected : JACOBIN

17-across – Capri: so awfully dull : PROSAIC

19-across – Free, so vacation in province : NOVASCOTIA

22-across – One may be bent back, needing to be shortened : KNEE

23-across – Hung about with protective coat, I can enter : TARRIED

24-across – Young lady repelling favourite put foot in it? : MISSTEP

26-across – Lungs not working? Not quite all : OFFAL

27-across – One attacking a holy book in speech : ASSAULTER

1-down – Joint camp launch in chaos, so many changes to be made here : CLAPHAMJUNCTION

2-down – Liable to forget one’s problem : AMNESIAC

3-down – Soldiers, perhaps: GI avoids huge types : ANTS

4-down – Reduce intensity? No we don’t, unfortunately : TONEDOWN

5-down – After short pause, signal recovery : RESCUE

6-down – Musical direction we hear written out badly : RITENUTO

7-down – Said noble is without hope of heir : BARREN

8-down – People in SUVs? Ones like Virginia — heavens! : JEEPERSCREEPERS

16-down – Be outside a quiet prison : BASTILLE

17-down – Most prudish minister receiving medal : PRIMMEST

18-down – Mark up article not consumed : ANNOTATE

20-down – Check five fiery bursts : VERIFY

21-down – Athletic team’s out-of-date meat : OLDHAM

25-down – Whisky cocktail perhaps disagreeable : SOUR

9-across – Wildfowlers besiege a French plant : SUNFLOWER

10-across – Heron, say, on top of tree : EGRET

11-across – One cold diver turns over chunk of glacier : ICEBERG

12-across – Feature in garden party with superb sandwiches : DOGWOOD

13-across – Whitish yellow growth that climbs walls : IVORY

14-across – Plant English or Greek character in plot : BEEORCHID

16-across – TV documentary strand animating a rather dull town : THENATURALWORLD

19-across – A Dubliner’s about to take in dress for tiny bodies : ANAEROBES

21-across – Briefly recognise lakes and hillock : KNOLL

22-across – Problem in 8 for possibly blocking sound of 25? : HOOFROT

23-across – Crew unknown yacht that’s docked in Douglas? : MANXCAT

24-across – Hard woman rejected cosmetic : HENNA

25-across – It flies Times into oil well at sea : LITTLEOWL

1-down – Wasp I distracted circling plant : ASPIDISTRA

2-down – They progress in leaps and bounds before eating cane up : ANTELOPE

3-down – Small miner strips vertical end of quarry : SLEEPY

4-down – Grasp front of tartan rug : TWIG

5-down – What ass does to curb lazy women’s rides : BRIDLEWAYS

6-down – How to shelter border road initially? This’ll do it : HEDGEROW

7-down – Clasp ring found in ancient tower : BROOCH

8-down – Union probing phone system’s boss : STUD

14-down – Fly low with daring : BLUEBOTTLE

15-down – Vet books inspired by excited toddler : DRDOLITTLE

17-down – A Greek heretic dealing with land : AGRARIAN

18-down – Councillor’s wearing jumper and vest for Swedes, maybe : ROOTCROP

20-down – Nuts like tackling digital problem : ACORNS

21-down – Stimulate class left without paper : KINDLE

22-down – Ditch one hectare after another : HAHA

23-down – Flyer’s second article abridged : MOTH

1-across – Fine under hat, one invisible : SUBTLE

4-across – Brand magistrate crooked after waiving of charge : STIGMA

9-across – See 19 : FEED

10-across – Birdsong, perhaps, in worst dungeon, by the sound of it? : BESTSELLER

11-across – German slimmer : DIETER

12-across – US politician in priest turned rotten : INEDIBLE

13-across – Champ leaves hirsute character : CHEWBACCA

15-across – Those contraptions would judder as he worked aboard loco : BONE

16-across – One enjoying a drink eats nuts in season : WINE

17-across – Dimmer student finally admitted to county town after pretty low grade : DIPSWITCH

21-across – Numbers coming up, split spoils including deposit : PLAYLIST

22-across – Foreign helper in middle of room, might you say? : AUPAIR

24-across – Measure girl, OK after reviewing contrary novel : KILOGRAMME

25-across – Book search in Birmingham? : LUKE

26-across – Work out the other royal title : SUSSEX

27-across – Behind schoolmaster, necking drinks : ASTERN

1-down – European vegetable’s ending in Cornish pasty, possibly? : SWEDISH

2-down – Tool securing unloaded device behind washer : BIDET

3-down – Country in deceit more fuelled by alcohol, reportedly? : LIBERIA

5-down – See 16 across : TASTER

6-down – Medicine served up in prison, one in disastrous campaign : GALLIPOLI

7-down – Round rings, circle left in region on base of nipple : AREOLAE

8-down – What man in essence and woman in effect both have proverbially to solve the problem immediately? : ASTITCHINTIME

14-down – Result of pat on baby’s back, turn remarkably soppy : WINDYPOPS

16-down – Cryptic was like exercise for setter, say? : WALKIES

18-down – See 15 : SHAKERS

19-down – Small potatoes or peanuts, nibbles for hen party? : CHICKEN

20-down – Enter king, say, carrying head of Republican : PIERCE

23-down – Seed perhaps mine, though not a tree, ultimately : PULSE

1-across – Young Bengal tigers skirting lake? They’re used to exercise : INDIANCLUBS

9-across – The hardest thing before match — it’s achieved years later : DIAMOND

10-across – See 9 : WEDDING

11-across – Large-scale course briefly a focus for seismologist : EPICENTRE

12-across – Continental banker, extremely rich individual : RHONE

13-across – Flipping insect bite! : TANG

14-across – Declared start of amnesty during forecast : PREDICATED

16-across – Singles-only holiday? : ONEWAYTRIP

19-across – Unladen long-range spaceships taking off : LESS

21-across – Mammal : CAMEL

22-across – Hardy female graduates framing article about mum : BATHSHEBA

24-across – Parisian who joins the marines aboard feels awkward : SQUIRMS

25-across – One’s played two blues oddly rejected by British university : UKULELE

26-across – Pass card to successor, swearing? : HANDONHEART

1-down – Lastly, shake anti-viral fluid before opening it : ITALIANVERMOUTH

2-down – Queen’s mate cheated, taking queen in : DRONE

3-down – Examiner’s car upset bull : AUDITOR

4-down – Chicken he brought in for a farmhand : COWHERD

5-down – Play with reserve, in accordance with law : UNDERACT

6-down – 21 run off in pursuit of junk shop thief : SHIPOFTHEDESERT

7-down – Commercial dressings primarily frustrate nurses : ADVERT

8-down – A European king’s missing daughter’s OK : AGREED

15-down – Aged Scots in hag’s bottomless cooking pot? : CAULDRON

16-down – General charges with sergeant perhaps to stop army heading off : ONCOST

17-down – Hot sauce, like cold, served in fancy boat : TABASCO

18-down – Where Naomi’s tale’s told — about time, really : INTRUTH

20-down – Bill’s rushed round, forcibly removed from ground? : SPADED

23-down – Adult in blazer needing a bath : SAUNA