Daily Answers

8-across – Hotel singer keeps working round island capital : HONOLULU

9-across – See 17 : TRENCH

10-across – Port knocked back in one day : ADEN

11-across – Expression of support for Native American in trouble : UPTHECREEK

12-across – Sun puts up with 26s : SLUMPS

14-across – More worried counterfeits are in use : UNEASIER

15-across – Musical piece’s so long — over two hundred involved : TOCCATA

17-across – Aren’t working with chairman at sea — 26 : MARIANA

20-across – Nag hurt : HARRIDAN

22-across – Dismal way of working out how much vase may hold? : URNFUL

23-across – Astonish with last 26 : ROCKBOTTOM

24-across – Youngster grasping right and wrong : TORT

25-across – Like an Oompa-Loompa’s house : ORANGE

26-across – Look to win easily — Portugal going through bad patch : LOWPOINT

1-down – No way! — sound angry with lack of women around this establishment : BORDELLO

2-down – Get 4 – 26 : MOON

3-down – Prompt’s read out lines : QUEUES

4-down – Bar to promote in America that’s not your business : BUTTOUT

5-down – One clubber picked up going round the island : STHELENA

6-down – Getting upset my boss and I keep going over 26 : DEPRESSION

7-down – Master presenter about to be engaged — agree? : ACCEDE

13-down – Looking for scandal? Reverend Spooner’s causing punch-up : MUCKRAKING

16-down – Water Babies fan sold tape : TADPOLES

18-down – Arranged tour in north-east — it’s free of charge : NEUTRINO

19-down – Set up home with a little stunner? Unlikely : INSTALL

21-down – Notice swine’s been kept on : ABOARD

22-down – I’m thinking hedges close to garden have yet to be cut : UNMOWN

24-down – Someone used rifle during uprising : TOOL

7-across – Cliff diver: I’ve taken off backwards on wobbly chair : RICHARD

8-across – ’70s prog rock band books castle : CAMELOT

9-across – Sugar, part of a balanced diet? : ALAN

10-across – European husband, one in Paris again, swims across river : HUNGARIAN

12-across – Day cleaning out inter­ior of antechamber gets one in order : FRIAR

13-across – Former football manager of Villa and Forest? : SHERWOOD

15-across – To restrict opening of safe, secure with key : CAPS

16-across – Boy: Wonder about nickel, boron and gold? : ROBIN

17-across – Gas inhaled by heavy-duty criminal : HOOD

18-across – Dolls waiting in line to be delivered a meal? : BARBECUE

20-across – See 20 down : LARGE

21-across – Over 90? Badly attired? Get state support! : TAXCREDIT

22-across – Might he have starred in Carry On Up The Valley? : DALE

24-across – Southern refined claret is a brilliant red : SCARLET

25-across – Exaggerated walk after 1/20th of a pint? : FLOUNCE

1-down – Last document by Shakespeare : WILL

2-down – Solo time that’s involved in Sunday school songs : SHANTIES

3-down – Sportsman asks Russian cheats: Help expose ringleaders : ARCHER

4-down – Gardner’s head bears fine American plant : FAVABEAN

5-down – About 6, we retire to study : REVIEW

6-down – Boy heads? : JOHN

11-down – Complaint? Fans want Spoonerism : NOSEBLEED

12-down – Special style of loud hot rock : FLAVA

14-down – Some atmosphere at wizard’s postcode? : OZONE

16-down – One takes notes, one plays notes : RECORDER

17-down – Professional hitter from Edinburgh dismissed — bowled out : HIREDGUN

19-down – Fighting dogs? : BOXERS

20-down – ’80s double act taken to extremes? : LITTLE

21-down – No starter with fast food : TUCK

23-down – See 15 : LOCK

1-across – Angry bishop’s sick bird : CROSSBILL

6-across – Father first meeting detective treads carefully : PADS

8-across – Struggle endlessly to get popular anticoagulant : WARFARIN

9-across – Crosses water around the opening of Jutland’s long inlets : FJORDS

10-across – Supports brother facing champions : BRACES

11-across – More space for luggage found by fellow reversing vehicle into castle : ROOFRACK

12-across – A-Z returned to German concerned with British capital : ZAGREB

15-across – Heartless scarlet woman starts to trace ancestry in family trees : STEMMATA

16-across – Cost faced by prude drinking cold tea cocktail : PRICETAG

19-across – Strong language mostly found in grotty accommodation : STURDY

21-across – Strong EU negotiations with Scotland’s leader : STURGEON

22-across – See 14 : SQUASH

24-across – Short skirt worn by one currying favour : MINION

25-across – How to maintain advantage associated with river habitat for wildlife? : HEDGEROW

26-across – Interlocking pattern seen in some shapes : MESH

27-across – Swollen stomach beginning to extrude — and smell! : TUMESCENT

1-down – One making a contribution to cleaner furniture? : CHAIR

2-down – Policewoman, maybe, in charge during proposal : OFFICER

3-down – Setter wearing beheaded emperor’s garments : SARIS

4-down – Faulty drains blocked by new entrails : INNARDS

5-down – Partners without English paper have food that’s not eaten : LEFTOVERS

6-down – Instructions for computer supporting good memory : PROGRAM

7-down – Devoted doctor died before animal given drug departed : DEDICATED

13-down – Offensive tunes found on children’s transport : AIRSTRIKE

14-down – Fans of a dairy product set aside veget­ables : BUTTERNUT

17-down – Grain is given to husband from Penzance : CORNISH

18-down – Fabric lining bulging hamper : GINGHAM

20-down – British university left with half of 11’s instrument : UKULELE

22-down – Factions meet in confused island uprising : SIDES

23-down – Sunday drink leads to fun and games : SPORT

1-across – Most people get to try Beaujolais Nouveau round the beginning of March : ABSOLUTE

5-across – Fox starts to frolic freely in hay? : BAFFLE

9-across – Ridiculous nylon trousers, earrings, necklaces and tops in shocking blue : UNTENABLE

11-across – Monsters switching hands and eyes : OGLES

12-across – Disappointed Ed — his wench wanted to go topless : DISENCHANTED

15-across – Steer straight : NEAT

16-across – Imitate round dance, finally leads to disaster : APOCALYPSE

18-across – Starting up or down round pole, steer away from tradition : UNORTHODOX

19-across – Sometime soon, back home : SEMI

21-across – Group has no right to change sides as paintings in a gallery burn : GOUPINFLAMES

24-across – Type of gas that is never right to get promoted : NERVE

25-across – At a loose end, but not as loose as a possessor of natural magnetism : LODESTONE

26-across – Substitute queen took her place on the throne last : ERSATZ

27-across – See 1 : MAJORITY

1-down – Maladie de la guerre : AGUE

2-down – Almost see faint light at the end of the tunnel : SETT

3-down – Discombobulated, half intelligible and in the soup? : LENTIL

4-down – This measure proposes having fun, swimming where one can : TABLESPOONFUL

6-down – Delightful and productive drinks party : ADORABLE

7-down – Writer considered trading in Porsche, originally open-topped : FELTTIPPEN

8-down – Be careful playing with seaside toy : EASYDOESIT

10-down – Assistant comes up bearing clean copy version for reference : ENCYCLOPAEDIA

13-down – Folly of cause interrupted by extremely long explanation : INDULGENCE

14-down – Exercises can make me ravenous : MANOEUVRES

17-down – Dispatched to cover up gossip that’s demanding to be heard : STRIDENT

20-down – Dismisses junction 11 to turn round? Come on! : LETSGO

22-down – Points raised in public office : FOCI

23-down – Girls Aloud drink : BEVY

9-across – Result of Republican fighters entering race? That’d be telling : NARRATION

10-across – Healthy dessert — small piece of pineapple per person : PEACH

11-across – Whopping six-footer in US army? : GIANT

12-across – Bar snack 14 had? : CHOCOLATE

13-across – Nervous model heading off wearing jersey inside out : JITTERY

14-across – Chump or pork pie served after fish : CHARLIE

17-across – See 24 : MRFOX

19-across – Software for visual effects, unpleasant type : CAD

20-across – Wavy line marking flow of water across lake : TILDE

21-across – Tipping back over edge, cat comes a cropper : SLIPSUP

22-across – Apparently unknown constituent works : FACTORY

24-across – Mobile traffic man’s to cross 26 27’s hero : FANTASTIC

26-across – One line written during course had repelled another 29 : ROALD

28-across – Shilling put back in old accounts : TALES

29-across – Weapon maker hasn’t succeeded, another having mightier armoury : WORDSMITH

1-down – Hitch end of chain in sink : SNAG

2-down – Tub-thumper’s cycling, always on the move : ERRANT

3-down – British PM briefly abolishes bills : BATTLEAXES

4-down – Uncharitable characterisation of a female setter? : BITCHY

5-down – Insisted on backing church to stop closure : ENFORCED

6-down – Workmate’s potty, bouncing up and down : OPPO

7-down – Like to jump up without slowing down : PARALLEL

8-down – Saying scat!, you put your foot in it : SHOE

13-down – 26 27’s protagonist fixes housing shortage, ultimately : JAMES

15-down – Supremely evil influence in Chartist reforms : ANTICHRIST

16-down – Plaint on ousting enemy’s mounted men : ELEGY

18-down – Genial father casually welcoming in Parisian : FRIENDLY

19-down – Better public school’s secured with foreign capital : CAPETOWN

22-down – Fluorine scare created problems : FACERS

23-down – Middle Easterners like wives out of bounds : OMANIS

24-down – Outdoor celebration in Tenerife terminated : FETE

25-down – Too large to fit into a small circle : ALSO

27-down – See 26 : DAHL