Daily Answers

8-across – Seasonal air producing Bacchanalian fisticuffs among the Gods? : DINGDONG

9-across – President has introduced his country to harm : ABUSE

10-across – Don’t go for support : STAY

11-across – This is my recommend­ation, so drink would be drunk, say? : IFIWEREYOU

12-across – Man on a Scottish isle : STAFFA

14-across – Fit patient in bag : SUITCASE

15-across – Trudge past Ireland, land not visible in a storm : TRAIPSE

17-across – See 8 : MERRILY

20-across – Caring but malevolent at first, contrasting case of lady : MOTHERLY

22-across – Realigned : SLOGAN

23-across – Ahab hooking fishy sole trader : WHOLESALER

24-across – Brownish-yellow shine : BUFF

25-across – See 24 down : GESTE

26-across – Stop a bird : BUNGALOW

1-down – By the sound of it Richard has overcome King Edward the Tyrant : DICTATOR

2-down – Margaret discards top resembling a souffle : EGGY

3-down – Keen old granny’s first up to become ancient streaker : GODIVA

4-down – Another time, second time on : AGAINST

5-down – Sweet woman originally enjoyed Asian food? : WATERICE

6-down – Procure gas at sea for crew member : SUPERCARGO

7-down – Beauty squeezing nothing from a vessel : VENOUS

13-down – Loud and dark always on the ground : FLIGHTLESS

16-down – Upside-down cakes, perhaps, upset : STRESSED

18-down – African style boxing punch initially breaking limb — child’s play? : LEAPFROG

19-down – One bloody series only starting up a number of programmes : SYLLABI

21-down – See 8 : ONHIGH

22-down – Number wrapping bare middle in skirt-like garment : SARONG

24-down – Animal biting ’umongous elephant’s head in adventure story : BEAU

7-across – Unreliable boy harbours vermin : ERRATIC

8-across – Mostly we object having to turn to a friend : USUALLY

9-across – Where to find chaps undressed? : BATH

10-across – Wrongly diagnosed Pinterish condition? : NEPHRITIS

12-across – Holding device for turning leaves : STRAP

13-across – Cheer with fashionable tipple : INSPIRIT

15-across – What people expect from a famous Chancellor? : MORE

16-across – Tropical tree is about calcium, nothing 15 : CACAO

17-across – Offspring’s deceitful : KIDS

18-across – With odd shape worker becomes fair game : PHEASANT

20-across – Classic uncle, whoever’s in a state : VANYA

21-across – Trifling gets many to a committed union : DALLIANCE

22-across – Discomfort in toiletry container : ACHE

24-across – Workers hold wayward lad for local officials : BEADLES

25-across – Possibly a looser of particles endangering the ozone? : AEROSOL

1-down – Melody featured in Enigma Variations? : ARIA

2-down – Saying beef, say, can be supporting timber : SAWHORSE

3-down – Ink-pad designed for press : KIDNAP

4-down – Half-hearted energy supplier keeps media with coffee : ESPRESSO

5-down – Where eyelids join, unable to offer greeting : CANTHI

6-down – If they keeled over it would make a lot of splash! : ALPS

11-down – Charles not up to university? : PRINCETON

12-down – Sin has much to keep quiet about : SLOTH

14-down – Eastern country returns help to Ulster : INDIA

16-down – Instrument held in by Bordeaux : CLARINET

17-down – Tree keeps on about rag over jumper : KANGAROO

19-down – Refer everyone to due amendment : ALLUDE

20-down – Inspector gives opinion with hesitation : VIEWER

21-down – Perish over square meals? : DIET

23-down – Support for part of 2 on which governmental policies are made? : HOOF

1-across – Sudden wind, you said, expelled by call for very little cover : GSTRING

5-across – I’ll contain the fumes Rod L. Johnson initially kept inside : BELLJAR

9-across – MP squeezed inside tree : MAPLE

10-across – Boringly traditional supporter’s position : SQUARELEG

11-across – What about feigned sorrow in a fan who’s OTT? : HEROWORSHIPPER

13-across – State’s big town, say, not welcoming outsiders : IOWA

14-across – NUT quit insinuating false identification : INSIGNIA

17-across – Hard looking after number one, when fellow out back is a renowned labourer : HERACLES

18-across – Partner and antagonist with back-to-back theatre jobs : OPPO

21-across – A high point for South Africans : CAPEOFGOODHOPE

23-across – I smell foul Chinese political all-rounder : IMRANKHAN

24-across – Choose to build, employing the other hand : ERECT

25-across – Opener’s endless moan gets cameraman : KEYGRIP

26-across – Death by cocaine may not be to everyone’s taste? : DEMISEC

1-down – Submissive person’s hard-core yarn : GIMP

2-down – Superior women lead a salesman into vulgar form of direct marketing : TUPPERWAREPARTY

3-down – Fight and kill to begin chiller : ICEBOX

4-down – $1,000 capital won restriction of output : GOSLOW

5-down – Brutal bullies in Big Sur : BRUISING

6-down – Tough Victorian partiality not complete without accepted rights : LARRIKIN

7-down – They joke about Los Angeles Games having no energy — they’re really not cool! : JALAPENOPEPPERS

8-down – Philosophical scientist understood graduate’s trick : ROGERBACON

12-down – Slight neck spasm for Spooner that may raise a list of options : RIGHTCLICK

15-down – Check rather round sherry glass : SCHOONER

16-down – Get quite down to earth: he has opposite views about Tony Hall’s work : HEDGEHOP

19-down – Great to catch a French composer : GOUNOD

20-down – Pub on map exuding a quiet calmness : PHLEGM

22-down – Trimming review from a listener : OTIC

1-across – Animal to have a meal tucking into fruit : GREATAPE

5-across – Complain persistently of Yankee’s drive ’ome : YAMMER

9-across – Prospector keeps sick retailer : MILLINER

10-across – Money for drums : POUNDS

12-across – Composer’s final letter found in inventory : LISZT

13-across – Film sad defeat : SHOOTDOWN

14-across – Misconception about fallen woman going west is an example : ILLUSTRATION

18-across – Major was once a skilled craftsman : CABINETMAKER

21-across – Intrepid maiden interrupts unknown Greek king : AGAMEMNON

23-across – Shot a scene : DRAMA

24-across – Union member embraces girl in game : BRIDGE

25-across – A drug creates a a heavenly body : ASTEROID

26-across – The French rejected uniform for soccer team : ELEVEN

27-across – Supporter, on the whole, is temperate : TEETOTAL

1-down – Squall keeps doctor in a flutter : GAMBLE

2-down – Players have catalogue for recruit : ENLIST

3-down – Art Hilton devised a sports event : TRIATHLON

4-down – Smooth over hurtful published piece : PRESSCUTTING

6-down – Take responsibility for fuss over gymnastics : ADOPT

7-down – Norma Jean almost got through African capital : MONROVIA

8-down – Rich senator upset about a bit of news : RESONANT

11-down – Parmesan’s not unusual in Paris : MONTPARNASSE

15-down – American cure meant heartless correction : AMENDMENT

16-down – Clambers awkwardly in rough ascent : SCRAMBLE

17-down – Supporter is upset in the street? That’s irritating! : ABRASIVE

19-down – Stew gives soldier illness : RAGOUT

20-down – Museum student is a delinquent : VANDAL

22-down – Dog beheaded bird : EAGLE

1-across – Unseen and unenvied object has crazy upper class fool disappearing with cry of pain : PURPLECOW

6-across – Strike-breaker and poet concealing weapon : SCAB

10-across – Sculptor with pickle? : RODIN

11-across – All my life — and that’s a lot — is about a Bond production : MANANDBOY

12-across – Shelter in shady spot after end of March : HARBOUR

13-across – Look both ways to circumvent the tragedy : OTHELLO

14-across – Not a chance for Mick with Kate then? : AROLLINGSTONE

17-across – See 14 : GATHERSNOMOSS

21-across – Payment to pope or crown — either way girl has setback : ANNATES

22-across – Lighter dined with little stranger : NEONATE

24-across – Home for deer since dispersal : RESIDENCE

25-across – Entered with precious lump? : INGOT

26-across – See 6 : BARD

27-across – All matter, including outback, is rich and splendid : SUMPTUOUS

1-down – Leave with greeting by an archer leaving? : PARTHIAN

2-down – Additional comment being carried : RIDER

3-down – Parallel point in floor covering for 24 — it’s due for renewal : LINEOFLATITUDE

4-down – Photographer endlessly performing? : CAMERON

5-down – They shed light on computing frames : WINDOWS

7-down – Horsey gent caught having a good time with Love unfinished : CABALLERO

8-down – Children’s writer left in near heavyweight : BLYTON

9-down – Collector of poems etc sees right to work retained by our student? : ANTHROPOLOGIST

15-down – Device for managing, correcting or erasing : ORGANISER

16-down – Dangerous stuff preferably used during an emergency call : ASBESTOS

18-down – Ascetics found everywhere but the West? : ESSENES

19-down – Title on the side, which is enlightening : SUNBEAM

20-down – Capital of South Africa with tailless bird : ZAGREB

23-down – A horse, say, or other cause of trouble : AGGRO