Daily Answers

1-across – Sounds like what you might need : ATISSUE

5-across – Fingers in many pies trapped : PINKIES

9-across – Generalissimo welcomed female compiler, relaxed with the Guardian and listened to this? : CLASSICAL

10-across – See 9 : MUSIC

11-across – Success in borrowing rejected by Swiss capital option for sleeping partners : TWIN

12-across – Like the blubber in Homer’s lacy pants : LACHRYMOSE

14-across – Contacts needed for this compiler’s taking drugs without setback : MYOPIA

15-across – Visualisation of shimmering mirage at the end of the valley : IMAGERY

16-across – Smuggle in blossom, one in Africa : BURUNDI

18-across – At first, Eva Braun could be sophisticated : URBANE

20-across – It’s partly digital if learning, or life, rang in exchange : FINGERNAIL

21-across – See 11 : BEDS

24-across – City is at the cutting edge in broadcasting : LEEDS

25-across – A game English soldier’s bagged — sorry : APOLOGIES

26-across – Backwards family with sheep triggered the space race : SPUTNIK

27-across – Start to scream and shout about a horse being emaciated : SCRAGGY

1-down – A northerner, of course : ASCOT

2-down – Being stupid in a tiny way : INANITY

3-down – OK to end on Mayday : SOSO

4-down – Revolutionary Karl Marx 50% income tax! : EXCLAMATIONMARK

5-down – Beautiful people lead ridiculous hunt sabotage : PULCHRITUDINOUS

6-down – Weak passage in Vietnam by Pam Bygraves : NAMBYPAMBY

7-down – Available for purchase, now or in the future : INSTORE

8-down – Confidence in battle of the Home Counties? : SECRECY

13-down – International waters in effect from 12 August : OPENSEASON

16-down – They divert the movement of foxes : BAFFLES

17-down – A bit of 9 10’s demeanour went off without me : RONDEAU

19-down – Requiring manipulation of the audience : NEEDING

22-down – Pansy among daffodils is symbolic : SISSY

23-down – Honesty can be disregarded; that’s grim : DOUR

1-across – Pressure after vote in nearby country’s become invalid : EXPIRE

4-across – Puts on in revised version that’s clear : UNSTOP

9-across – Name the first to be knocked off : ABEL

10-across – Powerful instrument included in contents of chest buried in South by pirate : STEAMORGAN

11-across – Land in East, namely, taken back after British period : BRUNEI

12-across – Roman emperor’s endless automatic action in waters off Italy : ADRIATIC

13-across – New organ I ordered from country in Europe : NORWEGIAN

15-across – Sportsman needing to be cheered : BLUE

16-across – Has a complaint and is lambasting shopkeeper up front : AILS

17-across – Look for bill with extra length — characteristic of a healthy bird? : SLEEKNESS

21-across – Second question changed around for operational unit : SQUADRON

22-across – Dreadful cut on a bird with beautiful plumage : TOUCAN

24-across – Major cut to obsolete weapon, with political co-operation : BIPARTISAN

25-across – Having lately joined a certain choir? Absolutely : DEAD

26-across – Outline of small boat : SKETCH

27-across – Character holding rook and duck — or another bird : PARROT

1-down – Prohibit European doctor going on legendary vessel : EMBARGO

2-down – Right-winger in US, type that’s irritating about left : PALIN

3-down – Not acting on trap set up by police : RESTING

5-down – Drama with extinct bird, mostly about having ceased to be : NOMORE

6-down – Para unit deployed around line to provide protection for sailor : TARPAULIN

7-down – Pair with a bit of script that’s nutty stuff : PRALINE

8-down – Property of sheep and goats in story, in different senses : SEPARABLENESS

14-down – Certainly knowing setter and solver exist without barrier being put up : WELLAWARE

16-down – Doesn’t put in prison, even under a Conservative : ACQUITS

18-down – Oddly, it’s a volcano — even so, I land in northern Europe : ESTONIA

19-down – Revised atlases showing result of oceanic evaporation : SEASALT

20-down – Intended to arouse emotion — result, initially, of hearing organ : EROTIC

23-down – Concluding you can find the answer below : UNDER

9-across – Distress at leaving embassy man following judge : HEARTACHE

10-across – Worthless politician, boring yet ludicrous : EMPTY

11-across – English writer hits cart track backing motor : TURBINE

12-across – First lady protects clan, roaming isolated part of country : ENCLAVE

13-across – Work of potter, dextrous, about 50 : DELFT

14-across – Messenger’s chief innovation in American contact sport : ARCHANGEL

16-across – No party? 4, 8 or 24 would do : ANYPORTINASTORM

19-across – In trouble over time, student essentially shows guts : FORTITUDE

21-across – Division ends without Liberal backing : SPLIT

22-across – Old Tory leader gains weight : WINSTON

23-across – French wine producers don’t like a copper coming round : CHATEAU

24-across – Group of settlers cutting last section of canal : COLON

25-across – Small banker getting bad service on jet : STREAMLET

1-down – Star’s very small part, theatre’s last panto role : WHITEDWARF

2-down – Clement Attlee’s initial cuts pursue justice : FAIRPLAY

3-down – Authoritarian detective’s leaving the area : STRICT

4-down – Imperial measure about to go up and down : ACRE

5-down – Two versions of scene confused in old age : SENESCENCE

6-down – Old soldiers entertaining staff at camp : REDCOATS

7-down – Second collision happened unexpectedly : SPRANG

8-down – Car component subject to inflation : TYRE

14-down – Craft making false turns at sea : ARTFULNESS

15-down – Volume turned up recently in middle of bulletin, it should be said : LEMOTJUSTE

17-down – Old hand stripped dingy bar : OMITTING

18-down – Source of crude artworks skilfully concealed : OILWELLS

20-down – Offensive Little Englander starts to cause irritation : RANKLE

21-down – Prisoner supports opening of tunnel in it : STALAG

22-down – Part of oil lamp with twinkling top removed : WICK

23-down – Archetypal Aussie briefly over limit : CURB

1-across – West Indian players with a strong all-rounder : STEELBAND

6-across – It won’t be seen as a boundary : HAHA

8-across – Main source of strength for a nation : SEAPOWER

9-across – Rewrote a score that’s lacking refinement : COARSE

10-across – One who takes great interest in business : USURER

11-across – Perhaps it’s eaten as an aperitif : ANISETTE

12-across – Himalayan girl in spring : SHERPA

15-across – Fullback sorts out and warms up : DEFROSTS

16-across – Writes one’s first letters : INITIALS

19-across – Boy and girl being pretentious : LADIDA

21-across – Man’s man, for example : ISLANDER

22-across – Girl, a student, put through toughening process : ANNEAL

24-across – Court room is lacking animation : WOODEN

25-across – Lock manufacturer? : WIGMAKER

26-across – Part of link needing a joint : KNEE

27-across – Put down action restricting newspapers : DEPRESSED

1-down – Meet private secretary for leaks : SEEPS

2-down – Penguin noted by Beethoven : EMPEROR

3-down – Scowl when let down : LOWER

4-down – Highly offensive action : AIRRAID

5-down – Unusually deft clue about one involved in fraud : DECEITFUL

6-down – He gets a command not to stop at sea : HEAVETO

7-down – Showed uncertainty as the tide went out : HESITATED

13-down – Workers get 27 easily : HANDSDOWN

14-down – Performed in a group that’s dissolute : ABANDONED

17-down – Third mate to dawdle around? Rubbish! : TWADDLE

18-down – Mismanagement results in warder appearing before the magistrate : SCREWUP

20-down – Fresh lies and disclaimers : DENIALS

22-down – Right to enter complaint in dispute : ARGUE

23-down – A capital position to be in : AHEAD

1-across – Between a man and a woman, love gets very loud very quickly! : STRAIGHTOFF

9-across – Military commander, one with things firmly in hand, it’s reported : AGRIPPA

10-across – Convert an investment in Datsun? It is expanding : UNITISE

11-across – Make haphazard money order that is to contain shilling : RANDOMISE

12-across – What poser did about stink in shoe : SABOT

13-across – Male model? : NORM

14-across – Greenish pigment to return in rotten tree : TERREVERTE

16-across – Stay in dodgy Parisian boarding house : SUSPENSION

19-across – Family’s an issue for Merkel : KIND

20-across – Robson beating Williams, for example, winning at least six games : UPSET

21-across – Toys with book bindings : NOVELTIES

23-across – Grass skirts twirling girl prepared : READIED

24-across – Film screened by rector, fit setting for religious objects : RETABLE

25-across – How to get post from Syria? : TROUBLESPOT

1-down – In terms of habits, not getting any less anti-Freudian? : SHRINKRESISTANT

2-down – Imitation gold for every Rolls : REPRO

3-down – Fancy a drink, with one compiler coming round : IMAGINE

4-down – Gallic arrogance is hard on Balzac, perhaps : HAUTEUR

5-down – Old letter not saying everything : OMISSIVE

6-down – Liar raised large drink, admitting liberal speculation and gossip : FLIBBERTIGIBBET

7-down – How you might describe an old-fashioned looker, honestly : FAIRANDSQUARE

8-down – The ref stared furious­ly, collaring United’s sweeper : FEATHERDUSTER

15-down – Rumour of recent threesome — name’s taken but one’s not charged : NEUTRINO

17-down – Edible fish with poor genetic make-up’s rejected : SANDDAB

18-down – Heads round Britain, gaining victory over Irish : OBVERSE

22-down – Exotic tulip’s made brighter : LITUP