Daily Answers

8-across – Crossword fan losing last cent in New York, not in this state? : SOLVENCY

9-across – Hostile male’s disregarded order : ALIGN

10-across – Endless hilarity over barber’s offering : TRIM

11-across – In time to stop case involving me and 15 more? : TRILATERAL

12-across – Walton did it turning the other way : ANGLED

14-across – Star’s in danger crossing square and base independently : ASTERISK

16-across – Clarinet short of one broken key : CENTRAL

18-across – Find guilty on six counts, initially, in court : CONVICT

21-across – Three lines cut from full English production in Chinese arrangement : FENGSHUI

23-across – Everything seized by Asiatic invader thrown over ravine : NULLAH

24-across – Provokes home countries hampering return of serviceman : INSTIGATES

26-across – Spike Milligan finally breaks restraint : TINE

27-across – Motion rifles to retreat : STOOL

28-across – One day bearing name of god, probably : IDARESAY

1-down – Comic raconteur heading off for dance : COURANTE

2-down – Mother’s basic contribution, boundless love? I’m not sure : OVUM

3-down – One team’s sobriquet for college bear? : UNITED

4-down – Enthusiastic players regularly dropped, one briefly impassive : LYRICAL

5-down – Dope somewhat backward : DATA

6-down – How Italian, going back, ran into French scorer? : TIMETRAVEL

7-down – Records left in high priest’s possession : ANNALS

13-down – Tailor got initial work for barrister : LITIGATION

15-down – Deuce likewise announced : TWO

17-down – Nameless architect remains : ASH

19-down – Forceful cutter, batting after tea, was out : CHAINSAW

20-down – Pub’s standard drink leads to trouble, ducks : PINTAIL

22-down – Boy from East enthralled by surrealist : ERNEST

23-down – Fool’s gold underpinning northern capital : NASSAU

25-down – Surface with metal reflected in headlights : GILD

26-down – Our opponents ultimately lost, old boy! : THEO

7-across – Sect conceals a blow from weapon : CATAPULT

9-across – Cold river has Oxford crew in deep water : CRISIS

10-across – Keen little page : WEEP

11-across – Agile people initially take additive : SUPPLEMENT

12-across – Theologian in last stand — one wanting a lot : BIDDER

14-across – Doctor misfiles delic­ate papers : FLIMSIES

15-across – The French trial is news : LATEST

17-across – A Parisian longs for lingerie : UNDIES

20-across – Hire broken machine that’s regularly passed on : HEIRLOOM

22-across – Notices a cow’s tail swing : SEESAW

23-across – Random pile scattered by rotavator, for example : PALINDROME

24-across – Fish to European rules : CODE

25-across – River perpetually split partners : SEVERN

26-across – Man collected fortune from the oldest profession : HARLOTRY

1-down – Let Maria make up stuff : MATERIAL

2-down – Financial restriction accepted — many affected : CAMP

3-down – Prize royal officer on board : PURSER

4-down – Vegetable child of the family eats whole : SCALLION

5-down – Is girl in place of ill repute, sneering? : DISMISSIVE

6-down – Intended female to meet Scot at church : FIANCE

8-down – Inside information that gratuity’s unsatisfactory : TIPOFF

13-down – Intimidate colliery director, being resolute : DETERMINED

16-down – Spill the beans about frosty lecture : SCOLDING

18-down – Fruit tree or evergreen : STANDARD

19-down – Keep quiet about controversial plane : SMOOTH

21-down – Got rid of Red Sea problem : ERASED

22-down – Make a mistake in retiring for a drink : SHERRY

24-down – College has account for jam : CLOG

7-across – Knocking gets back Hello, sailor? Just the opposite : RATATAT

8-across – CV a university briefly chewed over without reference to anything else : INVACUO

9-across – Amongst friends in Gabon, departs for Sweden : AMID

10-across – King argued with a prince’s backing for preparatory drudgery : SPADEWORK

12-across – Quiet and noble type, one of great worth : PEARL

13-across – Dangerous women are words often repeated by priests on vacation : MANTRAPS

15-across – Something armour-plated and brown looking, essentially : TANK

16-across – Day at Georgia golf club : WEDGE

17-across – Kind of snout, extremely yellow on the inside : SORT

18-across – Hope lad’s working in plant : ASPHODEL

20-across – Sailor with alias in Asian city : OSAKA

21-across – Remove impurity in trifle? : FILTEROUT

22-across – Stops goals : ENDS

24-across – Resistance level once 80% below 500? That’s approximate : ROUNDED

25-across – Fungal growth left by old cherry : MORELLO

1-down – Old woman this setter’s hurt : MAIM

2-down – Rescuers on the way to see rescue ship find one of first pair listed for saving? : AARDVARK

3-down – Mothers the Spanish lady who’s in distress : DAMSEL

4-down – Painter needlessly includes one in confinement … : INTERNEE

5-down – … for this work? : LABOUR

6-down – Hide fortune, making run for Cuba : LURK

11-down – A right crazy one? LOL! Crazy one of a number hiding around here : ARMADILLO

12-down – Those carrying babies in pregnancy, reminded as morning sickness starts : PRAMS

14-down – Source of prosciutto supplied by mail, say? : PARMA

16-down – Showing great surprise on hearing reason for death : WIDEEYED

17-down – Ben’s height is measured relative to this Cork daredevil biker : SEALEVEL

19-down – Spartan/Trojan adult female : HELENA

20-down – Month before French king gets tax on goods brought into town : OCTROI

21-down – Beginning at the start of false memory : FROM

23-down – Lecturer to top up pickle ingredient : DILL

1-across – Flier shot firearm, blind : RIFLEMANBIRD

8-across – Not wholly uncorked wine, perhaps, is unusually like hard work : OPEROSE

9-across – Increase length of time : STRETCH

11-across – Arundel crumbling into Wash? : LAUNDER

12-across – Dinner, maybe, with no starter, involving bird with no end : ETERNAL

13-across – Come to pan Spain and Norway : WOKEN

14-across – Musicians’ dosh reportedly censored : BRASSBAND

16-across – Alarming disclosure of beauty : BOMBSHELL

19-across – Submission to no-good people of social standing : ENTRY

21-across – Craftsperson’s fruit keeps men right : LORIMER

23-across – Returned, say, to die, say, in Hell : GEHENNA

24-across – Right to agitate about type of cup : STIRRUP

25-across – Interval with money invested in annuity scheme : TONTINE

26-across – Medical expert to sprout in wet season? On the contrary : BRAINSURGEON

1-down – Animal turning king to solid gold : ROEBUCK

2-down – Little person brought up to adopt peculiar name — Battle? : FLODDEN

3-down – Loathsome river water-dweller gets article in Paris Match : EXECRABLE

4-down – Beer is consumed in passageway : AISLE

5-down – Former magistrate drives into empty bus : BURGESS

6-down – Barrel in middle of road smashed into building : ROTUNDA

7-down – LA district : COLLYWOBBLES

10-down – Random swipe catches smelly tourist : HOLIDAYMAKER

15-down – Snapper of everyone on list soldier’s drawn up : ALLIGATOR

17-down – Like the more when more inebriated? : MERRIER

18-down – Fighters concocting a tiramisu? Forget it! : SAMURAI

19-down – Improve space beside Chinese church : ENHANCE

20-down – Fraught atmosphere generated by headless 25s : TENSION

22-down – What experts know — their onions? : ROPES

1-across – Is he going in to discover it’s all done? : FINISHED

5-across – Oriental sailor left a mark : LASCAR

9-across – Lies in evil sins in beds : CONSISTS

10-across – Programme that may be debated a long time and amended : AGENDA

12-across – Tea and toast : DRINK

13-across – Joins forces again, disturbing listeners : REENLISTS

14-across – Shamefaced quartet of bluffers? : FOURFLUSHERS

18-across – Usury appears to be very serious : MEANBUSINESS

21-across – Banks’ permits about to expire : GRADIENTS

23-across – Kipling’s wolf emerging from a lake : AKELA

24-across – Ill stored : LAIDUP

25-across – One who hasn’t made a score in years : TEENAGER

26-across – He’s a right beast! : ROTTER

27-across – Club doctor bound leg : BLUDGEON

1-down – Commercial set in new cafe may give a false impression : FACADE

2-down – Papal ambassador about to be accepted by new union : NUNCIO

3-down – It smells awful when it goes off : STINKBOMB

4-down – Bold break-in using a jemmy? : ENTERPRISING

6-down – A spirited harpist? : ANGEL

7-down – Case of foreign wine sent up to college head : CANISTER

8-down – Soldiers on ship have to accept turbulent seas or reconsider : REASSESS

11-down – Aware of a rising sea but far from queasy : FEELINGSWELL

15-down – Spotted American inside — kept going : SUSTAINED

16-down – He ignores national customs : SMUGGLER

17-down – One who doesn’t believe a lot can be changed : FATALIST

19-down – A union measure : LEAGUE

20-down – Not a Mr mistaken as Mrs : MATRON

22-down – Get used to being in old city quarter : INURE