Daily Answers

1-across – Import notice on empty crate,should that be possible for me to pack it? : SIGNIFICANCE

9-across – A pretence,kidnap,conduit other-worldly? : ALIEN

10-across – See 9 : ABDUCTION

11-across – Survivor of battle with prime minister leaves : LETTUCE

12-across – Somewhere in Serbia,denied entry to another country,Germany : NOVISAD

13-across – European argument’s back: radio equipment is put on for shock jock? : POLEMICIST

15-across – Muck,say,in unopened passage : ISLE

18-across – See 24 Down : MEAT

19-across – Earning gift,romantic admits that brought pain : MIDASTOUCH

22-across – Hunter of Welsh snakes : SHEWOLF

24-across – A retreat by yours truly,most uncharitable : MEANEST

25-across – Trouble seeing image ultimately,OK,focus! : EYESTRAIN

26-across – The same outrageous documentation sent back : DITTO

27-across – Local boy here,I’m crazy for Hollywood’s plutonium blonde? : BARBENHEIMER

1-down – Trace evil farmer via gossip? : SCINTILLA

2-down – Game well beyond drunk couple? : GINRUMMY

3-down – A nine,that’s one over the eight,silly : INANE

4-down – Batting accomplished as I played for country : INDONESIA

5-down – A squeeze getting a hundred in anteroom : ALCOVE

6-down – 11 bags elected for change : COINS

7-down – Bitter blow? : WALLOP

8-down – Anxious,I originally dropped grandma’s eggs : ONEDGE

14-down – Knackered in fact having caught race leader : CHIEFTAIN

16-down – Something for the wet,sweet and sour balls : SOUWESTER

17-down – Anyhow,currency the cause of fission? : ATRANDOM

18-down – Motor mogul being on another planet in old banger? : MUSKET

20-down – Bath liquid and meat in container with a lid? : HATBOX

21-down – Vessel for water I see bubbling up? : HOTTUB

23-down – Bottom on fire,up-end so be it? : ENEMA

24-down – How might one make team – and what to make of losers? : MINCE

1-across – Likes to include piece of music in gymnastic exercise : PARALLELBARS

9-across – Brought on board after failing company made a decision : OPTED

10-across – Are reckless Don and him : ADHOMINEM

11-across – Colour not on visual spectrum,one adopted by dissolute artist : FAUVIST

12-across – Playwright increasingly accepting story : MOLIERE

13-across – Places for mixologists in prison? : BEHINDBARS

15-across – City each year filled with heartless Italians? : PISA

18-across – Time right to bring in new revolutionary measure of speed : KNOT

19-across – Member of orchestra having fish served with trifle : BASSFIDDLE

22-across – Life tutor ignoring a source of green energy? : BIOTECH

24-across – Cheers monarch going to Southern gate : TAKINGS

25-across – Bar moving one supporter : BRASSIERE

26-across – Deserved to bag round in fight : JOUST

27-across – Strain to see Trump,say,having certain behaviour found in groups : PEERPRESSURE

1-down – Moving picture about husband and love? His love’s considered a handful : PETRUCHIO

2-down – Storm enveloping two-thirds of more unsettled star : REDGIANT

3-down – Minimum area,small,included in rent : LEAST

4-down – Corrupt empires imprisoning the man producing almanac : EPHEMERIS

5-down – Minor official’s bottom,pornographic,not for the refined? : BUMBLE

6-down – Fashion bringing in new collection of styles : RANGE

7-down – Discussion implying support for right-wing views? : CONFAB

8-down – Simple creature,nameless one in possession of a business degree? On the contrary : AMOEBA

14-down – Summer clothing to support accommodating every individual width : BEACHWEAR

16-down – Contract,one getting navy a lot of choppers? : INDENTURE

17-down – Animal perversion a Judge banned? Not entirely : KINKAJOU

18-down – Some glamorous babe keeps up the cooked meat : KEBABS

20-down – Substitute located in the heart of Germany? Not initially : ERSATZ

21-down – Stunning item about Pasquale’s latest puzzle : TEASER

23-down – Speak in great detail,forgetting note : ORATE

24-down – Article on limits of weakness or strength : THEWS

1-across – It’s impossible to manufacture a bird : FORGETIT

5-across – Latest fake ‘art’ may be seen here : LATTES

9-across – Removing bottom from lacy gown isn’t half irresponsible : NEGLIGENT

11-across – Bit of lightheartedness in western martial arts : TRALA

12-across – Squeezebox lost in a thousand pounds of Royal Albert Hall gear : CONCERTGRAND

15-across – Unexplained phenomena among retrograde moons of Uranus : UFOS

16-across – Bench-sitters shift buttocks : ALTERNATES

18-across – Former wife’s grip that’ll need painkiller : EXTRACTION

19-across – Went to neaten garden : WEED

21-across – One taking it to the edge fancifully guzzling rotten gin and a fifth of mulled wine? : BINGEDRINKER

24-across – Invitation word Don expressed? : WHERE

25-across – Deep-sea swimming,both directions,for sunken gem : SEEDPEARL

26-across – Rover was one sort of dog : SETTER

27-across – Top Android,say,goes after toxic element in hazardous material : ASBESTOS

1-down – Almost slice up rat : FINK

2-down – Joplin composition: a Bollywood soundtrack tune : RAGA

3-down – Tesla rival is done screwing around : EDISON

4-down – Photo edges cropped from crude close-up pictures of ephemeral art : ICESCULPTURES

6-down – Sophocles heroine in favour of sticking around? : ANTIGONE

7-down – Genteel affairs in which pirates ate bats : TEAPARTIES

8-down – Get out of way of bear chased by first-string team? : STANDASIDE

10-down – Wise monkeys count dogs in long baskets : THREEPOINTERS

13-down – Great Hooters contests,stateside : SUPERBOWLS

14-down – Able to contain it with internal force? It’s conditional : CONTINGENT

17-down – You can see Venus with this device externally held by eccentric Yankee : NAKEDEYE

20-down – Part of the head’s religious centre : TEMPLE

22-down – Lisa’s brother is a spoiled brat! : BART

23-down – Chains raised in child’s play : ALPS

1-across – Frightfully rich rhapsodist and musician : HARPSICHORDIST

8-across – Espionage and assassination in Japan partly his job : NINJA

9-across – Line that could have solved the issue in 1 down : BAKERLOO

11-across – They say Philistine puts on glasses or contact lenses : EYEWEAR

12-across – As a localised disease regularly seen by trained medic : ENDEMIC

13-across – Deport next spy cell,essentially : EXPEL

15-across – Fertiliser covered by offensive will : TESTAMENT

17-across – Difficult age is following obsessive medicine : ANALGESIA

20-across – Badger inconsiderately : RATEL

21-across – Not at home,predator returns for discharge : OUTFLOW

23-across – Listener gets advert for wax,perhaps : EARPLUG

25-across – Function with therapy in a cushy job : SINECURE

26-across – Bond type sarcastic? That’s not right : IONIC

27-across – What covers the 1st and 2nd of 10 as judgment day? : ESCHATOLOGICAL

1-down – Stated reason for sacking a baker? The man had to go! : HENEEDEDAPOO

2-down – Corrupt insider without papers becoming clean : RINSE

3-down – Take action and say nothing on potential leakage : SHAKEALEG

4-down – Rubbish etc about a tavern,place with live music : CABARET

5-down – Most of New York’s scattered islands not called this by their inhabitants : ORKNEYS

6-down – Challenged father to hold radioactive shell : DARED

7-down – Among saints,Rome somehow admitted one that’s least clement : STORMIEST

10-down – A Scot awkwardly making sense of the joke in 1 down? : SCATOLOGICAL

14-down – Design isn’t a different version of bananas : PLANTAINS

16-down – Broadcasting about sauté as cooking style : AIRFRYING

18-down – Result of carpentry that’s a feature of some pubs : SAWDUST

19-down – We shall mature first,as fine wine will do : AGEWELL

22-down – Scrounger and cad heading north having stolen cash to begin with : LEECH

24-down – Fell in action protecting what speeds up particles : LINAC

1-across – Comical descent of creatures that fly around house : BATHOS

5-across – Defiant,having capsized off England’s south coast? : INSOLENT

9-across – People who fall for footwear : SLIPPERS

10-across – Beggar can expose housing secret : ARCANE

11-across – Carrot and thyme salad with round fruit? : CHERRYTOMATO

13-across – Part of blind alley,perhaps,outside city : SLAT

14-across – ‘Funny business’ as sad colleagues of sacked police commissioner are heard to say? : MISCHIEF

17-across – Way one’s stricken with primarily genetic cause of disease : PATHOGEN

18-across – Bananas turning bowl over : NUTS

20-across – As usual,ice cracks and splits vessel – not a tragedy : JULIUSCAESAR

23-across – <span>Passage from </span><i>A Meeting Place</i> : AVENUE

24-across – Engrave council official’s initials on mountain top device : INTERCOM

25-across – Famous person’s not finished wearing kid’s jewellery : BRACELET

26-across – Sea-monster,Komodo dragon outwardly,swallowing playboy : KRAKEN

2-down – Cross borne by bitter Rod? : AXLE

3-down – Child’s play,so bound to be on the booze : HOPSCOTCH

4-down – Spike senior snatching week off : SKEWER

5-down – Player’s agent having celebrity status : INSTRUMENTALIST

6-down – Pain getting dimwit to be a wiseacre : SMARTASS

7-down – Almost mad Greek character stood up for deputy : LOCUM

8-down – Clubhouse extension of course? : NINETEENTH

12-down – Everyone needs a means of holding flights when quite trembly : ALLAQUIVER

15-down – Voluntary fees from ‘Little Darling’ : HONORARIA

16-down – Say Green Sapphire tops Fire and Brimstone as a paint option : EGGSHELL

19-down – Two jobs and one’s left both – dearie,dearie me! : TSKTSK

21-down – In desperation I curse like the Greeks of old : IONIC

22-down – See 8 : HOLE