Daily Answers

1-across – Lend money to soldier for a sandwich : SUBMARINE

6-across – Biblical ruler has nothing for one’s spirit : SOUL

8-across – One who would put away other people : CANNIBAL

9-across – Reality truly overwhelms sex : VERITY

10-across – Stout from May to end of July : MIGHTY

11-across – Dramatic setting relies on rocks : ELSINORE

12-across – Deity’s oversize flag : OSIRIS

15-across – Rank insect after fabric : SERGEANT

16-across – Sleeper with composer’s visual aid? : SPYGLASS

19-across – Dot’s fitness class at free prep : PEPPER

21-across – Tolerate large, upwardly mobile, New York borough : BROOKLYN

22-across – In America it’s intended to stop partner expecting a series of games : RUBBER

24-across – Chicken’s cry that hurt : YELLOW

25-across – This exponent of spin may get fired : REVOLVER

26-across – Way to say what Boatman did? : ROAD

27-across – Old man, Greek tennis champ, holding supplement : GRANDADDY

1-down – Cavalryman advanced into ship at sea : SPAHI

2-down – Ale houses new chain: Senior Inn Member : BENCHER

3-down – It accommodates men in order to put muscle on the old governor : ABBEY

4-down – Breathes over large lens — turned cold? : ILLNESS

5-down – Spy, one right out of abandoned Verdi operas : EAVESDROP

6-down – Ecstasy ring expected to stock drug injector? : SYRINGE

7-down – Entire political party rests on English statement : UTTERANCE

13-down – Batman of Orpheus carelessly holding up sun god? : SUPERHERO

14-down – Dissolute Wally traded in heroin : SCALLYWAG

17-down – Looked up on the web: Move both ways, under direction : GOOGLED

18-down – Was a confessor given fresh air and drink? : SANGRIA

20-down – European leader, in lead, was bloody stoned! : PEBBLED

22-down – Went about reorganising, over deputy’s head : ROVED

23-down – Mere polluted with yttrium, a hard mineral : EMERY

1-across – In scientific study trip miss coach; pity! : ATOMICPHYSICS

10-across – Engineers new fabulous figures for property lists : RENTROLLS

11-across – Old mnemonic device a joke at university : QUIPU

12-across – Legume, very hot, to eat with the others … : VETCH

13-across – … guy has a way to avoid legume : MANGETOUT

14-across – Force that turns English out at a yard in town : TORQUAY

16-across – Where one may read the news, telling of traffic congestion : AUTOCUE

18-across – Led astray and misused a month back : SEDUCED

20-across – Time went fast, they say; it’s sickening : BIRDFLU

21-across – Cell for one on the staff, briefly, at Oxford college : CORPUSCLE

23-across – Needle, say, reversed to make lace : GETAT

24-across – Hesiod is truly entertaining poet : ODIST

25-across – Male deadlier when swinging the hammer here : MIDDLEEAR

26-across – Chap in key wager collapses complex mathematical construction : MANDELBROTSET

2-down – Showing a slight tinge, metal smoked, keeping temperature well up : TINCTURED

3-down – Graphically transform most of pain relief : MORPH

4-down – Lying undisturbed at first in peaceful state : CALUMNY

5-down – Cry of joy as overweight girl takes on husband : HOSANNA

6-down – Appropriate person looking for most prosperous area of the country? : SEQUESTER

7-down – Punch hole in cloth : CHINO

8-down – Grunt, adjusting corset — it’s no business of the state! : PRIVATESECTOR

9-down – Pooch! That sweet sauce!, as Spooner might do well to say : CUTTHEMUSTARD

15-down – So great a number deprived of noble title? : UNCOUNTED

17-down – This on table in diner on Level 5 : CAFETIERE

19-down – Top of loft in the morning frozen up: that’s beside the point : DECIMAL

20-down – During drinking bout, large mixer : BLENDER

22-down – India feeds pest with a cucumber preparation : RAITA

23-down – Sow chews end of one waistcoat : GILET

7-across – Gaunt son in hospital, briefly very sick : HENRYIV

8-across – Time on leave: endless misery, having bit one’s other half? : PARTTWO

9-across – Supports breaks regularly offered by 10 : BRAS

10-across – Pub to which Spooner’s working girl retired : BOARSHEAD

12-across – Page? He’s in a group : SHEET

13-across – A comic drinks one can in store : AWAITING

15-across – Ugly lump in conflict with model : WART

16-across – Witty remark, providing theme : MOTIF

17-across – Tooth fairy’s first name, inscribed in silver : FANG

18-across – Came across retired people causing trouble, coming to violent blows : TEMPESTS

20-across – Spy eating a French sandwich : BLUNT

21-across – As a turn is played in Haydn and Schubert? : AUSTRIANS

22-across – Power bills for flats : PADS

24-across – 8’s not begun, surprisingly, with glass completely empty? : ATWORST

25-across – Queen getting weak, beheaded at once : QUICKLY

1-down – Evil originally seen in Jack the Ripper’s work? : TEAR

2-down – View of the 18 protagonist getting caught, not run out : PROSPECT

3-down – Fool commonly eats guts of fat bird as delicacy : TITBIT

4-down – Flower seller’s first flower show in Covent Garden? : FALSTAFF

5-down – In drunken state outside 10, with glass full to the brim? : ATBEST

6-down – Acting on day lost for words : AWED

11-down – Film horrible short adult that’s incontinent : ANASTASIA

12-down – Gin topless dancer’s drunk without coke : SNARE

14-down – Small number in 10 upset group of players : NONET

16-down – Bit on the side? Lock phone card up first : MISTRESS

17-down – Guardian secretary in KFC ordered two items less than perfect order, stomach-wise? : FOURPACK

19-down – Rod, after a great deal to drink, falls over : PISTOL

20-down – Quarrel where vehicle gets rammed? : BUSTUP

21-down – Book of plays : ACTS

23-down – Toy Manx sheep? : DOLL

1-across – School flooded by water — an event on a special day there? : SPEECH

4-across – Plain course of action read out : STEPPE

9-across – Care for less than a shilling in old money : TEND

10-across – Hide male in a foul cage after beating : CAMOUFLAGE

11-across – Calling someone concerned about recreational drug : CAREER

12-across – Legal right allowing oriental fellows to occupy their quarter : EASEMENT

13-across – Speed with which wine goes to head after end of lunch : HASTINESS

15-across – Ear’s twitching after second bit of gossip : OTIC

16-across – Firm doing better as result of masterstroke : COUP

17-across – How we count, see, showing passion : INTENSELY

21-across – Try to recruit leader, one for Everest expedition : HEADHUNT

22-across – Spirit a Parisian gets before feast : UNDINE

24-across – Crude weapon that could be nasty problem to British : PETROLBOMB

25-across – Birds making sad noises, any number gone : MOAS

26-across – Host in minimal attire outside front of restaurant : THRONG

27-across – Farming complex needs good stretch of country : GRANGE

1-down – Unusual sonata, nothing to be missed, this person’s penned? : SMETANA

2-down – US singer’s CD reached No 1, surprisingly : EDDIE

3-down – See 2 : COCHRAN

5-down – What’s obviously right is repressed by president endlessly : TRUISM

6-down – All-round experts in HE establishment no longer having single academic discipline : POLYMATHS

7-down – Brussels officer in charge of a controversial selection procedure : EUGENIC

8-down – What may come from inane impostor? : IMPERSONATION

14-down – The reporter initially has to keep working for the Times : THUNDERER

16-down – Cold time of austerity with me put in as PM : CLEMENT

18-down – Sign up to introduce honoured member producing a European code : ENUMBER

19-down – Row, given time, leads to blood : LINEAGE

20-down – Dark, ’orrible place to the north hiding bright light — quite the opposite : SULLEN

23-down – Baddie having a brief time in wicked place? : DEMON

1-across – It can be wrapped round head or neck, but not heart or part of hand : BANANA

5-across – Again inflict broken promise on sweetheart : REIMPOSE

9-across – Hill discovered the right glands : HIGHLAND

10-across – A poet describes love on a ship : ABOARD

11-across – Hide potential accident after 1 : SKIN

12-across – Perhaps even orgies get supervision : OVERSEEING

13-across – Altogether Dorothy’s dog food ends up here : INTOTO

14-across – Boozer in antiquity after 1 unstable state : REPUBLIC

16-across – Perhaps charm is a manifestation of it : CHARISMA

19-across – Praise for reforming ugly, heartless ogre : EULOGY

20-across – The end of Jacques Tati’s movements in numbers : STATISTICS

22-across – Leave exotic bird after 1 : QUIT

23-across – Heard of television offering breakfast? : CEREAL

24-across – Really unfortunate start in current score : ACTUALLY

25-across – Formal greeting in tweet I composed : WHITETIE

26-across – Stretch to live long, they say : DILATE

2-down – The kitchen Katie designed is a terrible disappointment : AKICKINTHETEETH

3-down – Like female to be pale : ASHEN

4-down – Similar opening about a trademark : ANALOGOUS

5-down – Horny creatures for Spooner’s numb bum : REDDEER

6-down – Some 16 miracles served up by preachers : IMAMS

7-down – Saw dog in empty pub : PROVERB

8-down – Wallflower flower _flower : SHRINKINGVIOLET

15-down – That can be riveting for media macho man : PRESSSTUD

17-down – Once more give and withdraw : RETREAT

18-down – A contemptible fool swallowed shake : AGITATE

21-down – Port and pudding after 1 : SPLIT

22-down – Flinch from game : QUAIL