Daily Answers

1-across – Foxy lady’s top in reflected light, invisible before long : VULPINE

5-across – Seduced compiler to be indecent, somehow : ENTICED

9-across – Relish looking back at an early stage : LAPUP

10-across – A university dropout to teach unique method : TECHNIQUE

11-across – Low bridges across central development in the city : MONTECARLO

12-across – Sound content to reverse some of the corruption : PURR

14-across – Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression : ACCIPITRINE

18-across – Getting clear one that’s charged is to be held inside : ACQUISITION

21-across – Like the villain of the piece : EVIL

22-across – Actor is subject to scrutiny : UNDERSTUDY

25-across – The IRA tied the ends off at the end of the month : THIRTIETH

26-across – Sheepish one to accept tiny position? : OVINE

27-across – The alternative to bury compiler back in box : CREMATE

28-across – Is youngster able to eat here? : CANTEEN

1-down – Size of knob : VOLUME

2-down – Like a wolf bearing a flower on top : LUPINE

3-down – Agent and compiler’s for acquiring eastern garb : IMPRESARIO

4-down – More old paintings put up : EXTRA

5-down – Raise it with signal about playground trees : EUCALYPTI

6-down – Regularly strip — topless any minute : TINY

7-down – Entrée de Chanel 20, as they might say in Paris : COQAUVIN

8-down – More forlorn, darling? That’s right — that’s about right : DREARIER

13-down – Wears feathers and leaves the witness box : STANDSDOWN

15-down – Elect representation to enshrine a legal right for customers : CLIENTELE

16-down – Grandmother having fun at 99 : MAJESTIC

17-down – Hooked with 24 resulting in equalisation : AQUILINE

19-down – Mousy brown hair you see Armani team finally modelled : MURINE

20-down – Externally, woman — internally, very furious dragon : WYVERN

23-down – The principle of sauce thickening : ETHIC

24-down – St Thomas regularly seen in a place of philosophical discourse : STOA

8-across – Whole of oblique triangle : INTEGRAL

9-across – Objects of contemp­lation left in parts of church : NAVELS

10-across – 101, or 99? : CONE

11-across – My darling and I intertwine with desire : ADMIRINGLY

12-across – Hollow in part of Yorkshire golf course? : TROUGH

14-across – Poorness of English team, half-heartedly shamefaced : EXIGUITY

15-across – Pain he’s suffering to get fit : INSHAPE

17-across – Wordy poetry about personal problem : VERBOSE

20-across – Flipping dreary bogs in Arctic outpost : SVALBARD

22-across – Banks leaving Barbados to move overseas : ABROAD

23-across – New product in pub getting enthusiastic reception : INNOVATION

24-across – Betting money VW finally goes west : POOL

25-across – Rodin’s The Kiss is French — and most permissive : LAXEST

26-across – Typical examples of sanctimonious writings on MDMA : EPITOMES

1-down – Accompanied by men, fled from mountain principality : ANDORRAN

2-down – 24 across and nothing more : MERE

3-down – Inhalation on entering water : BREATH

4-down – Fallen plumes arranged end to end : SLUMPED

5-down – Add life to Greene’s novel about Haiti’s nadir : ENERGISE

6-down – 2 perhaps, yet more unfeeling : EVENNUMBER

7-down – 49 to 51, time to be gloomy : ILLLIT

13-down – Sinful single nurses call for attention : UNHALLOWED

16-down – Rustic vegetables infested by insects? : PEASANTY

18-down – Rise as one, delighted to welcome veteran : SEASONED

19-down – She displays plates of meat to be probed by doctor : LDRIVER

21-down – Damager of London museum going on trial at last : VANDAL

22-down – First of attempts to free the BBC : AUNTIE

24-down – Heavy tread of diplodocus : PLOD

1-across – The Royals’ employee checking passage : PROOFREADING

8-across – With cars vandalised outside, a retired journo covered walks : ARCADES

9-across – Chief of Police’s opening criminal action : PONTIAC

11-across – Swimmers reportedly shy — packing their equipment with resistance : KOICARP

12-across – Brief virtue — I’m revising old liberal arts curriculum : TRIVIUM

13-across – At hand puppet’s last occasion to perform : NIGHT

14-across – Supply AA with rations in clinics : SANATORIA

16-across – Is pronged with spike, initially seeing urgency : HASTINESS

19-across – See 1 down : ORDER

21-across – Note alternative to flight — last stop before going? : BLADDER

23-across – Lifts nose to inhale, then drink : PULLSUP

24-across – Ten work with eleven evacuated to fill hopper : XENOPUS

25-across – Honour Parisian’s good turns, with 50% less : ENNOBLE

26-across – Minor place, like Stevenage? : ONEHORSETOWN

1-down – Kiss me, quick! — one’s relative standing in it : PECKING

2-down – Spooner’s origami? They’ve seen it all! : OLDFART

3-down – Spread alternative version of ship’s fate : FISHPASTE

4-down – Migrant’s former evacuation of Jersey? : EXPAT

5-down – One with responsibility for bridge incident is testing spans : DENTIST

6-down – Senior citizen’s centre spread creating bigger row : NOISIER

7-down – Can TV start from this? : JACKINTHEBOX

10-down – Crashed recording device on PC, pushing right down : CAMEACROPPER

15-down – Bit of armour: is familiar with rest, it’s said : NOSEPIECE

17-down – Solo breaks soon after vacation on river : SHANNON

18-down – Full pint he’d spilt : INDEPTH

19-down – Bloom that’s golden to win nothing : ORLANDO

20-down – Nudist beach opening after resort — refuse to go here : DUSTBIN

22-down – One getting up there’s Irish hosts, when climbing : RISER

1-across – Monkeys: small groups of like-minded individuals : SCAMPS

5-across – Top-notch detective capturing hearts : CHAMPION

9-across – Without alternative, as time failed to pay off house loan? : AMORTISE

10-across – Soldier returning at his time of day to light up : IGNITE

11-across – Deliver beastly baby Brown : FAWN

12-across – Capital is accessible in change, maybe : COPENHAGEN

13-across – Kept lover’s ring, see, after performance : GIGOLO

14-across – Chemical weapon — face wind : NERVEGAS

16-across – Garden flowers: the latest picture : SNAPSHOT

19-across – You, having changed just one letter, should get a medal! : SILVER

21-across – Hobo’s besotted with bling and spirits : HOBGOBLINS

23-across – Lift Democrat offensive : DOFF

24-across – Investigate former area of England : SUSSEX

25-across – Deterrent to one who’d steal a broadsheet setter, possibly not Paisley? : GUARDDOG

26-across – A tailor at times rues working in topless coat : MEASURER

27-across – Political supporter drops resistance to a new Far Eastern corporation : TOYOTA

2-down – Our Mutual Friend, say, which makes the set? : COMPANIONVOLUME

3-down – Battle ruin given energy, new energy : MARENGO

4-down – This local woven material : SAILCLOTH

5-down – Belittle mass held in NEC complex : CHEAPEN

6-down – Old poet changing start of The Hunter : ARION

7-down – Type of make-up, one in fancy pack with lace at the end : PANCAKE

8-down – For Annette, worth remaking a picture : ONTHEWATERFRONT

15-down – Proof of saint’s transfiguration in balance : RESISTANT

17-down – Brad, while on Universal set, ignoring film star group : PEGASUS

18-down – Tense construction worker set off : TRIGGER

20-down – Musical Holiday : LADYDAY

22-down – Contender who puts Jack in his place? : BOXER

1-across – Proletarian aspiration of 10? : WORKINGCLASS

8-across – Sign of cold — and what’s required, we hear? : ATISHOO

9-across – Vegetables, some Stollen and some Tilsit : LENTILS

11-across – Waifs who love rowing, reportedly : ORPHANS

12-across – Ancient king at pub — one with real ale on hand, for starters : PHARAOH

13-across – 10, when retiring, dresses : SARIS

14-across – Reckless fellow’s terrible speed on twisting road : DESPERADO

16-across – Goddess returning first-class plant : ARTEMISIA

19-across – Rival of S. Ovett? Get away! : SCRAM

21-across – Gets out of bed and makes off? : DEBUNKS

23-across – Footballers suggesting where Indian state is situated : GOALIES

24-across – Stone placed in list : ROSETTA

25-across – Base One — broken leg holding most of bone back : IGNOBLE

26-across – Bird has to put up with a couple of scraps : HOUSESPARROW

1-down – Matterhorn conqueror is heard to moan : WHIMPER

2-down – Puts back in the oven — Theresa is worried : REHEATS

3-down – Puritans press on the borders : IRONSIDES

4-down – Gail’s first dance upset Ken, initially, out for another : GALOP

5-down – Descent using rope, perhaps, taking time : LINEAGE

6-down – Shrub species — one from exotic area : SPIRAEA

7-down – Run after sheep in flight : JACOBSLADDER

10-down – The classroom in turmoil? His respons­ibility! : SCHOOLMASTER

15-down – Dicky has new girl around — a perfect situation : SHANGRILA

17-down – Pancake with some basil filling and pepper sauce : TABASCO

18-down – Wee small hours? No! : MINUTES

19-down – Small bicycle accessory — I dropped a tool : SPANNER

20-down – Illusory hope of artist wearing tie : RAINBOW

22-down – Breaks for photos : SNAPS