Daily Answers

7-across – Root cause to lose heart: crumbly eclair : CELERIAC

9-across – Associate of monastery is not quite spherical : OBLATE

10-across – Almost entirely set free : QUIT

11-across – Leader of choir admits Baker,a sweary person : COVENANTOR

12-across – Thrill of subtle colour across lake : TINGLE

14-across – One tin and initially three beer bottles in Spanish resort : ALICANTE

15-across – Give a hard look round very fast : STARVE

17-across – Mastered Latin to gain respect at last : LEARNT

20-across – In middle of long play perhaps catheter failed : ACTTHREE

22-across – Speaking Italian today in the arcade : LOGGIA

23-across – Incest took place in such a room? : TWINBEDDED

24-across – Buzzer has become loud? : WASP

25-across – Inability to recognise pitch in strip oddly missing close by : TINEAR

26-across – Richard Of York … for one was a jogger : MNEMONIC

1-down – English vehicle,one with another about to block this,the height of danger in Italy : VESUVIUS

2-down – Allowed to involve son in case : LEST

3-down – <i>The Fellowship of the Ring</i> : CIRCLE

4-down – Unhappy expressions of dejection said to reduce business : DOWNSIZE

5-down – Briefly village’s terrible rainfall drowning paying guest : LLANFAIRPG

6-down – Oust team’s wingers for new formation: that’s the limit! : UTMOST

8-down – Roughly check about a reservation : CAVEAT

13-down – Custodian,energetic type,hiding key on purpose : GOALTENDER

16-down – Green supporter pens joke,ultimately one of several in column : VERTEBRA

18-down – Racist is doddery,of an age with the dinosaurs : TRIASSIC

19-down – Beautiful-sounding woman and mother? A malicious old one : BELDAM

21-down – Owner of shell company with no time to be author : COWRIE

22-down – Left snake for its opposite : LADDER

24-down – Global medical body comes to a halt : WHOA

1-across – Showing foresight,stay busy to get rid of a cold : PROPHETIC

6-across – Drunk as well as teetotal,so abandoned : HIGH

8-across – Dance passion,sergeant? : FLAMENCO

9-across – Visual colour mixing ring replaced by one : OCULAR

10-across – Very cold – about forty seconds to get inside : FROSTY

11-across – Out-of-date date? Take care : GOSTEADY

12-across – Given a lift,Australian is hugged by Ruby? : RAISED

15-across – Lime,say,ornamental button for tiny jumper : TREEFROG

16-across – Space programme at first offers venue for prospective buyers : SHOWROOM

19-across – CRAFT CAPSIZED BY COUGAR – POWER LOST SHOCK! : TRAUMA

21-across – Mince pies still not tempting at first … : ELLIPSIS

22-across – Richard’s coastal features? : CLIFFS

24-across – See 6 : ANDDRY

25-across – Hospital quota for oxygen supply? : AERATION

26-across – See 1 Down : BEAR

27-across – Satire – grr,awful,that’s official! : REGISTRAR

1-down – Panda,originally arboreal,sadly an endangered species : POLAR

2-down – Boundless universe with short relative assimilation process : OSMOSIS

3-down – Scottish woman attached to railway unit : HENRY

4-down – Considered unfinished article nothing unusual : THOUGHT

5-down – North American people’s plates showing signs of ageing : CROWSFEET

6-down – Precarious organisation has,of course,new department introduced : HOUSEOF

7-down – Shield fell over – offending soldier placed here : GUARDROOM

13-down – Nobles had to be trained for fair : ASHBLONDE

14-down – One acting without love – male for instance,a pessimist : DOOMSAYER

17-down – Stranger’s bust wired : WEIRDER

18-down – Essential to have one good horse : MUSTANG

20-down – Star American pioneering scientist : ALISTER

22-down – See 6 : CARDS

23-down – On-air bloomer often seen on Bake Off : FLOUR

7-across – Had fun too,weirdly without much forethought : OUTOFHAND

8-across – Good downpour for wheat or corn : GRAIN

9-across – Averse to being shot? : CAMERASHY

10-across – Present in box that lacks plastic at the back : OFFER

12-across – Behold the stew! : SEETHE

13-across – Favoured treatment manoeuvred me in post : NEPOTISM

14-across – Trip,start to stagger,then fall : STUMBLE

17-across – Family member runs into trouble : BROTHER

20-across – Respectable,extremely tiny buildings : PROPERTY

22-across – The other 22 mostly guarding central part of Belgian border : MARGIN

24-across – Throws out various items : EMITS

25-across – Adjust behind scope : REARRANGE

26-across – Some routes to Potters Bar : ESTOP

27-across – Over-the-top,and badly organised : GRANDIOSE

1-down – Church assistant’s uniform placed in packing case : CURATE

2-down – Instant sign of hesitation provides the impetus to move forward : MOMENTUM

3-down – Utterance wears thin when uttered : PHRASE

4-down – Far edges of the tarpaulin are unable to cover hotel entrance : ENCHANT

5-down – Expert in decent shape to make money : PROFIT

6-down – Nice seat positioned for movie buff : CINEASTE

11-down – Endlessly reject encouragement : SPUR

15-down – Dessert containing coffee liqueur – or is it a rum,possibly? : TIRAMISU

16-down – Traditional wisdom is regularly also true : LORE

18-down – Top of plant eaten by land reptile : TERRAPIN

19-down – How performers often learn their lines using courage : BYHEART

21-down – Ways to embrace love and poignant quality : PATHOS

22-down – Soldier at sea,or airmen at sea : MARINE

23-down – Maybe have a drink for the lolz,say : INGEST

1-across – Conveyance for one visiting hell? : HANDCART

5-across – Rioter perhaps to replace equipment knocked over : LOOTER

9-across – The principal screen,or all of them on estate agent’s website? : HOMEPAGE

10-across – In spring,that woman he may bring to the heights : SHERPA

12-across – Coach taking workers’ association to hill : TUTOR

13-across – High-quality spinner,attractive one : TOPDRAWER

14-across – Increasing wealth of criminal gangs raiding : AGGRANDISING

18-across – At a stretch,they manage to keep things together : ELASTICBANDS

21-across – Martin’s home is the finest visited by Irish detective before noon : BIRDSNEST

23-across – Rodent is shy,backing up : COYPU

24-across – Having got up,is near collapse : ARISEN

25-across – Note oils perhaps in convenience store : MINIMART

26-across – Pursued with tenacity : DOGGED

27-across – Unnecessary thing to do to wheel? : REINVENT

1-down – Has hit varying sets of cymbals : HIHATS

2-down – A stupid person in Humpty-Dumpty rhyme : NUMPTY

3-down – Make an accurate transcription of a law : COPYRIGHT

4-down – Rig the Oscars to mess up the Cinderella theme : RAGSTORICHES

6-down – Hiding face,parent is not the same : OTHER

7-down – Shirt now changed,returns to play : THROWSIN

8-down – The fury some are driven to? : ROADRAGE

11-down – Merging ten companies from which superficial value can be extracted : OPENCASTMINE

15-down – Admission to office shows some logic : INDUCTION

16-down – Characterful feature of phone : KEYBOARD

17-down – Being pregnant,a sister at last showing emotion about it : CARRYING

19-down – Keep turning with extremely giddy speed : GYRATE

20-down – Pharaoh’s doubled shame : TUTTUT

22-down – Observed to speak in part of play : SCENE

1-across – Bully’s given a toss,a great : COWABUNGA

6-across – Great banks left corporation? : FLAB

8-across – Skirt-wearing scholar lives for the pursuit of titillation : HEDONISM

9-across – Advancement running plant : ONRUSH

10-across – Place of worship,holy building last of all visited by primate : CHAPEL

11-across – Great 17,say : STERLING

12-across – Great book reviewed,see : LOVELY

15-across – Great punishment : SPANKING

16-across – Second feather,say,one splitting hairs? : STICKLER

19-across – Reportedly,pipe suddenly went down : DUCKED

21-across – Great romance with piano in a duet? : WOOPWOOP

22-across – Great in the hinterlands? : FAROUT

24-across – Cocktail,one ruined by gin,vermouth perfect : MAITAI

25-across – Two Stalin scribbled – JS,say? : INITIALS

26-across – Amigo fed hot,hot curry : PHAL

27-across – Flag raised,white,perhaps? : HIGHLIGHT

1-down – Go over to the audience for some language : CZECH

2-down – Great band in short : WHOOPEE

3-down – Great swimmer : BRILL

4-down – Undoing last of knots I identified from below,male cuts through it : NEMESIS

5-down – Same absurd ideas crushed by a pro : AFORESAID

6-down – Discharge of gas leaving a system when running : FARTLEK

7-down – Literary similarity great,small issue with article penned : ASSONANCE

13-down – Manipulator moving to teashop : OSTEOPATH

14-down – Call love and desire quite fair? : YELLOWISH

17-down – Great resources : CAPITAL

18-down – Great destruction : RIPPING

20-down – Great,gee man! : CORKING

22-down – Detail stuff that’s about right : FRILL

23-down – Dark,one allowing in minimum of luminescence : UNLIT