Daily Answers

1-across – Writer shares out novel development : AUTHORESS

6-across – Flight path incomplete : ROUT

8-across – Successfully manage an abduction? : CARRYOFF

9-across – A man’s entitled to them, but they’re not left to son : RIGHTS

10-across – Bring the match alive with shot at goal : STRIKE

11-across – Frighten with errors and bloomers : COWSLIPS

12-across – Detectives in US agency retired, remaining sharp : ACIDIC

15-across – Put on heavy music symbolic of Ireland : SHAMROCK

16-across – The kindly feeling of its beneficiaries? : GOODWILL

19-across – This by itself is only a gradual process : LITTLE

21-across – Shadow boxing, a contest between fighters? : DOGFIGHT

22-across – Feast on one’s bed in the dormitory? : SPREAD

24-across – Italian banger unfortunately going the wrong way joining the motorway : SALAMI

25-across – Substantial list includes gin cocktail : TANGIBLE

26-across – A venerable name in our illustrious past : BEDE

27-across – Stomach is churning — but he enjoys it! : MASOCHIST

1-down – Fit girl given bodybuilding exercises : ADAPT

2-down – Delayed sailor with dire consequences : TARRIED

3-down – One’s put on weight — it’s something in the air : OZONE

4-down – Impressions left by the dead : EFFECTS

5-down – Idiot — to get tight and then dance : SCREWBALL

6-down – Soldier’s uniform? : REGULAR

7-down – Restoration play in cut that’s not normal : UNTYPICAL

13-down – Drink most commonly sold in bars : CHOCOLATE

14-down – Put hold on the picture — it’s a wrap! : CLINGFILM

17-down – Lose wind when seeking muddy shoal in Cheshire estuary : DEFLATE

18-down – T.S. Eliot play shows understatement : LITOTES

20-down – There’s merit in unhappy endings : TERMINI

22-down – Describing a boom in the travel industry once : SONIC

23-down – Share out a tax rise : ALLOT

1-across – Insect that kills fools in East European river : ASSASSINBUG

9-across – Instrument put into car in a hurry : OCARINA

10-across – Writer in favour of canonising the Queen? : FORSTER

11-across – Grotesque folk: is Cumbrian village guarded by them? : MISSHAPEN

12-across – Source of energy for second XI? : STEAM

13-across – I have a shot at playing a villain : IAGO

14-across – 10’s work in D? : HOWARDSEND

16-across – Undercover timbers produce light from shells? : HATCHBEAMS

19-across – Result of test: don’t change after all : STET

20-across – It’s splendid about the feminine element being in competition : VYING

21-across – Amid utter destruction, give audience to sincerity : TRUEHEART

23-across – Last demon to be converted to saint : ENDMOST

24-across – One crazy guy has endless love before he’s born : INUTERO

25-across – Caught by radical paper, female having had near death experience? : APPREHENDED

1-down – 10’s work has unwise translation, an idiot’s : APASSAGETOINDIA

2-down – The common man a forger? : SMITH

3-down – Southern shire loves to go ahead : SHAMPOO

4-down – Princess at home to supporter and volunteers : INFANTA

5-down – Poet to fish by his stream : BURNSIDE

6-down – Got ready for action: there’s a fly about, a male, eaten by an amphibian : GATHEREDTOAHEAD

7-down – 10’s work: people of quality and intelligence have one inside and a line outside : ROOMWITHAVIEW

8-down – Almost cure it in paved area with some necessary forethought : PREMEDITATION

15-down – Tough pre-development of sixties’ bestseller : THEGROUP

17-down – Qualify to have a bird in the French holding : ENTITLE

18-down – 10’s work has a number of golden grains : MAURICE

22-down – Small house added to German dog : HOUND

1-across – SHIFT jams — almost hit OK + CANCEL for dead icon … : MICHAELJACKSON

9-across – … spread story: icon covering head in shocking Pepsi outburst : GOSSIPPED

10-across – There’s no light here — Man United’s backing supporter … : UMBRA

11-across – … one supports this in United’s home? : CHEST

12-across – A new suggestion for wager — Ascot, firm going, Dettori finally getting his starting orders? : ANTIPASTI

13-across – Foreign news breaking: Union backing musical : UNNATIVE

14-across – See 17 : AGENDA

17-across – Ulterior motive of Häagen-Dazs? : HIDDEN

19-across – He helps priest change, we hear, by holding ring : ALTARBOY

22-across – Shell and scramble evolutional egg time : OVULATION

24-across – OK I admit partially backing Japanese drum : DAIKO

25-across – Spice girl with a soprano : MELBA

26-across – 70s’ clothing sounds like Noddy Holder’s cup of tea : KIPPERTIE

27-across – Without a run rate, almost leg before wicket, is possible match decider : DUCKWORTHLEWIS

1-down – Picking up fun guy that could make your head spin? : MAGICMUSHROOMS

2-down – Head for lavatory — is tension breaking into location of hadron collider? : CISTERN

3-down – Philosopher unconventional to realist : ARISTOTLE

4-down – This stops kissers getting chaps lap dancing with Elvis : LIPSALVE

5-down – Ford’s early model passed by German manufacturer’s checks : AUDITS

6-down – Two kings turn to pawns for weapons producer : KRUPP

7-down – Singer has straight daughter — alternatively the opposite? : ORBISON

8-down – To insert Always, perhaps? : SANITARYTOWELS

15-down – Protector of plant’s opening job for warder : GUARDCELL

16-down – Set to grow weed in this? : PLANTPOT

18-down – Bed for 20 — he needed it to check out university? : DOUBLEU

20-down – Bullseye … regains it — Sid Waddell initially going over to darts player : BRISTOW

21-down – Good to go over writing material for Chinese Tree : GINKGO

23-down – In the style of Calvin Klein — sadly no longer in use : ALACK

1-across – Bishop, a laconic wit, makes one rock : BASALT

4-across – Long to have an architectural feature : ASPIRE

9-across – 9 or 10 : ONEOVERTHEEIGHT

10-across – Bowled before game gets tight : BLOTTO

11-across – Suffering to grasp edge of plant : AGRIMONY

12-across – Show recent changes in gym : PRETENCE

14-across – Clear the French weed : NETTLE

15-across – Roué’s demolished éclair, finally getting more tart : SOURER

18-across – Swap urban myth for wisdom : SAGACITY

21-across – Supplement, if it included cocaine, would be habit-forming : ADDITIVE

22-across – It’s a certainty sovereign lacks good table linen : NAPKIN

24-across – Imprisoned owing to sentence made at the critical moment : INTHENICKOFTIME

25-across – Boy and girl becoming pretentious : LADIDA

26-across – Article covered by bolt is a washer : BATHER

1-down – Incompetent musician stifles note : BUNGLER

2-down – Bearing solicitor’s drink : STOUT

3-down – Prevaricated to have a rest : LIEDOWN

5-down – I answer differently when put under oath : SWEARIN

6-down – Foolish when keeping mum? That’s colloquial! : IDIOMATIC

7-down – Let Noah produce mood-modifying drug : ETHANOL

8-down – Calm after having drinks in A&E : ATEASE

13-down – Water I discarded is contaminated : TARNISHED

16-down – Service book for German Standards spoken about : ORDINAL

17-down – Was in power and stoical when son left : REIGNED

18-down – Drawing a small boat : SKETCH

19-down – Died in lagoon swimming from boat : GONDOLA

20-down – Implement used in garden? It’s in better order! : TRIMMER

23-down – The importance of receiving Tory manifesto : PITCH

1-across – Pulp featured in this newly remixed chart-topper : SMASHHIT

5-across – Not a catering school, this measure of hard knocks? : OCTANE

9-across – Naturally lost: abstract female : OFCOURSE

10-across – Dodgy tum my nemesis? : IMMUNE

12-across – Leaving home at one, southern Englishman acquired painting : POINTILLISM

15-across – Lines about film venue : ODEON

17-across – Pass reader a squirrel : COLLECTOR

18-across – Where actor may be found, never turning into a married man : GREENROOM

19-across – Fruit of Borneo one put in mouth : TARAP

20-across – Up to no good with Eric, ran from Caribbean island : PUERTORICAN

24-across – See 5 : RATING

25-across – What has me pinned back by the two large animals? One only : BEHEMOTH

26-across – See 10 : SYSTEM

27-across – Part of letter read out by a man in Post Office? : ASCENDER

1-down – Winter vehicle presently parking in Berkshire town : SNOWPLOUGH

2-down – Principled Greek Olympian’s agreed to interrupt : ARCHIMEDES

3-down – Frequent adviser offering tip with a chance of success? : HAUNT

4-down – New to CBS TV show, serial killer admits mass 13s approach! : ITSBLACKOVER

6-down – Whip arrests MP somewhere in Normandy : CAMEMBERT

7-down – Objection lodged on American border : ABUT

8-down – My point is often hidden from life peers : EPEE

11-down – See 4 : WILLSMOTHERS

13-down – Warning issued from slur.com? : STORMCLOUD

14-down – Lie up, as medicine man looking down on soldiers besieging Villa? : DROPANCHOR

16-down – The right change? : NINEPENCE

21-down – He had a tale to tell about the First Lady : REEVE

22-down – Love is Tender, heading for the top : EROS

23-down – I can confirm the end of inflammatory condition : ITIS