Daily Answers

1-across – Stress in the tube? : UNDERLINE

6-across – She combines with it to be poetic : COPE

8-across – Scotch perhaps about a time to bully : MALTREAT

9-across – Recorder backing work for asylum seeker? : EMIGRE

10-across – One that makes master feel inadequate? : FEMALE

11-across – Boy tries out record : REGISTER

12-across – Chuffed by story about party leader : ELATED

15-across – Revolting classic character can love America : MUTINOUS

16-across – Spice for 15 Roman character early in the week : CINNAMON

19-across – Slight arch on East Sussex shore? : CAMBER

21-across – His name gained New World prominence : VESPUCCI

22-across – Element slightly indecent in church office : CURACY

24-across – Conqueror turned to race, inter alia : ATTILA

25-across – Time read out from one side to the other : DIAMETER

26-across – What’s said or sung, but not at church : ORAL

27-across – Number turn out after emergency call and keep it going : SOSTENUTO

1-down – Decree to take Britain as English : UKASE

2-down – Take away from foreign land : DETRACT

3-down – Note girl gets to bailiff : REEVE

4-down – Plant setter’s getting for the time being : INTERIM

5-down – Lively Frenchman backed to become in charge : ENERGETIC

6-down – Watertight chamber is thus in metal shell : CAISSON

7-down – 8 in itself quaintly pleasing : PERSECUTE

13-down – Crete lies roughly somewhere between Reykjavik and Aden! : LEICESTER

14-down – Politicians find rising star come to dead end : DEMOCRATS

17-down – Like marriage taking up Latin translation : NUPTIAL

18-down – One sea and other river nymphs : NAIADES

20-down – A bit in France sounds a fortiori here : MORCEAU

22-down – Hunt with no time to be modest : CHASE

23-down – Belief being firm about colour : CREDO

7-across – Routine disguise for army scout : CUSTOMARY

8-across – Wrest apart and scatter : STREW

9-across – Keep dark for a set period : FORTNIGHT

10-across – Drink brought back by mother from holiday resort : PALMA

12-across – Search frantically for means of support : ARCHES

13-across – Business expense that has gone up? : OVERHEAD

14-across – Unscrupulous person retiring to rest, perhaps : SHYSTER

17-across – Study exam question : CONTEST

20-across – Firm left to slip into bankruptcy? : COLLAPSE

22-across – This French rebel is a red : CERISE

24-across – Legitimate student expelled with dire result : AWFUL

25-across – Clerk to confine drug pedlar : PENPUSHER

26-across – Finger the back of a book : INDEX

27-across – Complain loudly about schooltime left — it may be grinding : WATERMILL

1-down – Unusual for us to gossip : RUMOUR

2-down – Sharp pains produced by needles : STITCHES

3-down – It is included in a doctor’s rounds : AMBITS

4-down – Horace set about female — his main opponent? : ARCHFOE

5-down – New act with hat and stick : ATTACH

6-down – Of course, there’s no choice with these : SETMEALS

11-down – He goes down or rises as the star : HERO

15-down – Robin to indicate complicity in trick : HOODWINK

16-down – See key goes to the agent : ESPY

18-down – Novel is remote and tedious : TIRESOME

19-down – Old soldier — there could be a few neater characters : VETERAN

21-down – Hardy, no: evergreen, yes : LAUREL

22-down – A good conductor works on the beat : COPPER

23-down – Times of enchantment : SPELLS

1-across – Relating to written work, American cutting production of Tristan and Isolde : DISSERTATIONAL

8-across – Copper, British, in charge of the third degree : CUBIC

9-across – Passage to hypnotise : ENTRANCE

11-across – Drink, at home, one after Meistersinger’s main character protects mastery : MARTINI

12-across – See 23 : RAYTUBE

13-across – See 4 : OFTHE

15-across – Sponsor of baptism, head and priest are not capturing day : GODPARENT

17-across – Plant short arrow over on Strongbow’s left during advert : AARONSROD

20-across – Unseats ordinary American, way back : OUSTS

21-across – In file, part of script to Pixar film : LINEDUP

23-across – Part from old TV broadcast of Bayreuth act incorporating poem : CATHODE

25-across – See 4 : NIBELUNG

26-across – In the morning, Number 10’s Labour surgery? : AMNIO

27-across – Initially, dead rude: Ben Elton cracks English line about sex? : DOUBLEENTENDRE

1-down – Gloomy supporting party, Green politician: Cuts can be broken down : DECOMPOSABLE

2-down – Dry tears shed by one, half-heartedly? : SOBER

3-down – Mathematician’s set up hint — left concept on back of publication : EUCLIDEAN

4-down – Stirring Lohengrin tune — fight encompasses live masterpiece : THERING

5-down – Guided the unholy Tannhäuser on Rome expedition — devastated, primarily : TUTORED

6-down – Adding change to Ring for female part : OVARY

7-down – US equips air conditioning — cold son grabs remote : ACCOUTERS

10-down – Cryptic setter’s not getting love tablet: something for sex drive? : TESTOSTERONE

14-down – Director and topless celebrity against denial : TARANTINO

16-down – U-turn on side : ABOUTFACE

18-down – Delight of artist with start of Parsifal — prelude not over : RAPTURE

19-down – Figure caught in The Flying Dutchman — doomed Senta : DECAGON

22-down – Daughter to pass water bottle’s top for Yankee nerd : DWEEB

24-down – Had one drawn with parts : OWNED

1-across – Merci, la Mafia! : ORGANISEDCRIME

9-across – Invigorate and put the heart back in metropolitan evil neighbourhood : ENLIVEN

10-across – A hundred compete in school squash : SCRUNCH

11-across – It’s a gem of a conference, perhaps with fifty in attendance : PEARL

12-across – Perhaps T-bone makes one look masculine : SQUAREJAW

13-across – Runs through the centre of Florence with several black cars in pursuit : REHEARSES

14-across – Tinned American : INCAN

15-across – Even board members, having dined, give a speech : ORATE

17-across – Incompetent at home, father gets entangled in flex : INCAPABLE

20-across – Typically working, say, a long time : ONAVERAGE

22-across – Haven of Love by Status Quo : OASIS

23-across – French Beaujolais, in essence: lovely fine red finally appreciated : ENJOYED

24-across – Take pies or cake — all 50% starch : TAPIOCA

25-across – Part of a lover that’s rather tight : ABITOFASQUEEZE

1-down – Not a good time to reap — some room for improvement : OTEMPORAOMORES

2-down – Philistine’s end in piggy­back : GOLIATH

3-down – Fiery stuff served up with baked beans garnish in Portsmouth? : NAVALBASE

4-down – Passages transgress on forms of employment : SINUSES

5-down – Talk about an athletic event with squad leader : DISCUSS

6-down – In some way, the poor are rich : RARER

7-down – Host welcomes military clique’s demoted leader, a beast : MUNTJAC

8-down – Coldplay’s latest hit : THEWINTERSTALE

14-down – Compiler’s on time and solver reported unprepared : IMPROMPTU

16-down – A radio personality in a hairstyle that’s a mess : ABADJOB

17-down – Supporting dissolute Floridian without taking sides : INAIDOF

18-down – Boxes boxes sweetheart makes : CREATES

19-down – Custom-made bike frame and wheel component : BESPOKE

21-down – State of mutant genotype after one gets up and leaves : EGYPT

7-across – Dry old Tory leader Attlee turned round : TEETOTAL

9-across – Hardly ever very well : RARELY

10-across – Old silver mine found at last : AGED

11-across – Schoolmasters not init­ially providing archery tips? : ARROWHEADS

12-across – Baskerville’s lead plus hound : BASSET

14-across – Dire bod’s shockingly laid bare : DISROBED

15-across – City in the Peloponnese, in the Adriatic or in Thessaly : CORINTH

17-across – People in Asia expressed discomfort : MALAISE

20-across – Ruby has lace inside out : FORTIETH

22-across – Poussins, say, given area — not where French like chicken feed : PALTRY

23-across – Maniacs fit to bust — displaying this : FANATICISM

24-across – Hammer film with decapitation : LICK

25-across – Housing in which eastern sailors drink : PERNOD

26-across – Derisively speaking with one’s mouth full? : SCOFFING

1-down – Argentinian hero left with King George to gatecrash party : BELGRANO

2-down – Debts repudiated by scholarly boss : STUD

3-down – Blunt, it may be said, is sound : STRAIT

4-down – Casually read about Bryson’s conclusion on a small island : BROWNSEA

5-down – Down-to-earth approach with soldiers in fight : FREEFORALL

6-down – Pawn toast : PLEDGE

8-down – Folks ignored Larkin poem about US city : LAREDO

13-down – Composer from Southampton, when concealing English name : SAINTSAENS

16-down – Hitchcock’s work? Be upset in parts : THEBIRDS

18-down – People brought in without armoured personnel carriers : SARACENS

19-down – Rockers, for example, providing church music : CHAIRS

21-down – Herb, not the first to have mounted wild ass : ONAGER

22-down – Cannon and Ball for decoration? : POMPOM

24-down – Storage area full of tuck boxes : LOFT