Daily Answers

7-across – Heater or cooler? : RADIATOR

9-across – Close to drop, Villa lack wingers! — cry of suffering supporter : PILLOW

10-across – Irishman delivered flower : NILE

11-across – Criminal robs quite special handles : SOBRIQUETS

12-across – With 40% cash, Dave’s other half gets the drinks : MOCHAS

14-across – Olive Oyl forgets Popeye’s 5th anniversary : OLEASTER

15-across – Afraid to grip the wedge? : FEATHER

17-across – Increase loan : ADVANCE

20-across – A mobile device promoting line for letters : ALPHABET

22-across – The girl Lois empties guts when fed 50 crusts : SHELLS

23-across – Food cooked in little cases : TORTELLINI

24-across – Rotavate earth, except underground : TUBE

25-across – IT are furious about the source of DOS attack : TIRADE

26-across – Freeze injured cartilage right away : GLACIATE

1-down – Not even Blair mistook Noel for singer : BARITONE

2-down – Good exercise channel : PIPE

3-down – Sat about with relative inactivity : STASIS

4-down – Lock trouble revealed by open door? : SPLITEND

5-down – Heavenly image could upset Catholic primate after Sunday : CLOUDSCAPE

6-down – Pop icon collects casual shirt as formal wear : BOWTIE

8-down – Start to record first bees on tape : RIBBON

13-down – Critical journalist’s article on fixing the match : HATCHETMAN

16-down – Preserved them clipped, without hair, without tips of moustache : EMBALMED

18-down – Monk might be in church, albeit tormented : CELIBATE

19-down – Series: The Saint, complete with halo : STRING

21-down – Coward uplifted by 1 down’s shooting star : LEONID

22-down – Twist succeeded — April fool! : SPIRAL

24-down – Double 2 minus 0 plus 1 number : TWIN

1-across – Cast in 10 officers : POLICE

5-across – Felon with power abused imperial crown : CRIMINAL

9-across – The mind of a sincere Brummie : CEREBRUM

10-across – Courteous and quiet Eliot composition can make poet almost ill and another inflamed within : POLITE

11-across – Come to judge brute briefly infiltrating our chaps in action : HABEASCORPUS

13-across – Articulation that is ultimately quick on the uptake and keen to change : KNEE

14-across – Section of the nursery where tennis players sleep? : SEEDBEDS

17-across – Culottes Lafayette pulled up somewhat too tight, hence his voice : FALSETTO

18-across – Tall island pine : LONG

20-across – Miss aromatic stew in food supplies : COMMISSARIAT

23-across – Looking for some cannabis, troublemaker orbits restaurant : BISTRO

24-across – All-nite dancing? Count on it : ENTIRELY

25-across – Became aware of Beryl unclothed at the metal works : SMELTERY

26-across – Women’s trouble : MALADY

2-down – Sign of fish found swimming upstream : OMEN

3-down – Rotten cheese? It’s found in Greenland : ICESHEETS

4-down – Cover provided, if born and raised within Eurozone borders : ENROBE

5-down – Olympic season at variance with feeling : COMPASSIONATELY

6-down – Devil played a role and got stuck : IMPACTED

7-down – Stepford wife takes her top off and reveals bum : IDLER

8-down – With regard to finance, capital loss is staggering : ASTOUNDING

12-down – Opposition to most angina treatment : ANTAGONISM

15-down – Dined with artist, bill’s covered for both parties : BILATERAL

16-down – Starting over, the ophthalmic surgeons manage to get the wrong instrument! : OTOSCOPE

19-down – Martyr men : VICTIM

21-down – A place to stay in a remote location : MOTEL

22-down – Slowly shift PC and get Apple, good but oddly deficient : PLOD

1-across – Fancy address outside the capital in Norway : ORNATE

4-across – Spot representative in stately home : PIMPLE

9-across – Son caught in trap? Retreat! : NEST

10-across – Control put forward and brought back : REINSTATED

11-across – The old man’s wife’s born a Native American : PAWNEE

12-across – Fighter to study the alternative : TOREADOR

13-across – Chastened about jailed worker : REPENTANT

15-across – Beastly home earl finds a 7 : STYE

16-across – Directed to accept a title tole : LEAD

17-across – I stay true, prepared for great self-denial : AUSTERITY

21-across – Charlie wakes up and makes merry : CAROUSES

22-across – The way tripe’s cooked shows pizzazz : ESPRIT

24-across – An uproar during applause for old Roman sportsman : CHARIOTEER

25-across – Rob finds Oscar in crowd : LOOT

26-across – Travelled to get free study : RIDDEN

27-across – Beautiful cheerleader gets distinction! See! : COMELY

1-down – Perform works by Lawrence : OPERATE

2-down – Impossible idea one’s given up : NOTON

3-down – People in the wrong producing annoyance : TORMENT

5-down – Still retaining Sunday supplement : INSERT

6-down – Give fake gold to pretentious character : PLAYACTOR

7-down – English leader agreed foreign money is a blight : EYESORE

8-down – Made out to be famous : DISTINGUISHED

14-down – In love with exotic demeanour : ENAMOURED

16-down – King conceals the hide : LEATHER

18-down – Instrument broken? O, bother! : THEORBO

19-down – Attempt to incorporate one book in a cycle : TRILOGY

20-down – Initially, amphibians stay on land : ASHORE

23-down – Food item for one’s heart-throb : PULSE

1-across – Chain dog; get collars : SECURE

4-across – Dash to wrestle with robber : BANDIT

9-across – Good company : FIRM

10-across – Best quality acting by star lacking a good costume : STRONGSUIT

11-across – Fires: temperature drops in chimneys : STACKS

12-across – One flies to Gotham criminal : GOATMOTH

13-across – Turn up with Batman at the start, relish fighting Penguin? : PUBLISHER

15-across – See 8 : BOMB

16-across – Fancy man, married, spreading seed around? : PIMP

17-across – Disaster close to border : STICKYEND

21-across – Weeping priest to turn to line : PURULENT

22-across – Head of Police: Hard to cut crime by Riddler and Catwoman? : SPHINX

24-across – Rising agent of bank said: Go away : BAKINGSODA

25-across – Went down pole, given cover : SLID

26-across – Footballer and England manager both miss their first team : ELEVEN

27-across – Guides addicts injecting heroin : USHERS

1-down – Dog dirt on park for animals picked up : SHIHTZU

2-down – Joker and Batman? : COMIC

3-down – Avoids Sun, papers put outside : RESISTS

5-down – Recall cover for a 2 book? : ANNUAL

6-down – Take from person? Some did by being wicked : DISEMBODY

7-down – One’s spinning drums and string instrument endlessly : TWINTUB

8-down – Batman and Robin met fog after exploding grenade : FRAGMENTATION

14-down – Car to remain outside flash American home : LIMOUSINE

16-down – Cat say returning to house left feathers : PLUMAGE

18-down – Small actors, Dynamic Duo on screen? : COSTARS

19-down – Mothers and partners taking in show : NANNIES

20-down – Dog in British 2 : BEAGLE

23-down – Rush hour on a street, middle of queue : HASTE

1-across – Absolute idiot on top of Ned Flanders’s place : ANTWERP

5-across – Beginning of bumpy roller coaster exposes boob : BLOOPER

9-across – Footballer in Arsenal trousers who practises first position? : BALLERINA

10-across – Tip for napping, post vacation : PRONG

11-across – Rose regularly, always welcomed light : RAYS

12-across – Junk I can’t say to leave at home : STAYCATION

14-across – Escaped frequent fines : GOTOFF

15-across – Frame Dave’s mate — relatively finished! : CHASSIS

16-across – Chap from Santander’s supply of loans : ALFONSO

18-across – Supporting position of legal hooker? : ONSIDE

20-across – Man set trap that’s crushed more than one flat : APARTMENTS

21-across – Girl’s large — you see why in audition : LUCY

24-across – A shade closer to runner wearing sporty line : OCHRE

25-across – Buffet had menu, as open : UNASHAMED

26-across – Harry and Mary — one of them works on the railway : YARDMAN

27-across – Thrill of thirteenth rally : ENTHRAL

1-down – Light warning bank’s not opened : AMBER

2-down – Demanding cyclist cycles — call to get going : TALLYHO

3-down – Senior official’s vote in chamber’s first up : EXEC

4-down – Last chance for ace? : POINTOFNORETURN

5-down – One that almost sailed may be fat with tobacco jars : BOATYMCBOATFACE

6-down – Help to raise issue? : OOPSADAISY

7-down – Impostors had to start among trapped animals : PHONIES

8-down – They’re temporarily on throne : REGENTS

13-down – Quickly finish drink by moving arm, set towards mouth : DOWNSTREAM

16-down – Vote for right representatives of love : AMATORY

17-down – Bulb one unexpectedly discovers! : FLASHER

19-down – Moon was this close to asteroid, more suspect : DRUMMER

22-down – Call when in range : YODEL

23-down – Guess marksman still finished : SHOT