Daily Answers

4-across – No fighting allowed in this old gentlemen’s club? : BUFFER

6-across – Girl shrinks and gets lighter in bad relationship : MISMATCH

9-across – Old Norse fright masquerading as a work of literature : LORDOF

10-across – See 9 : THERINGS

11-across – Norman, perhaps, forbids importing oriental vegetables : FRENCHBEANS

15-across – Flock to see Charlie Sheen in Hollywood : CLUSTER

17-across – Hitman going straight? It’s touching : TANGENT

18-across – Her felony? To be taken wrongly : HELENOFTROY

22-across – They are weaselly followers of heartless, powerful conspirators : PLOTTERS

23-across – Leave city’s wet environment : DECAMP

24-across – Church’s induction of Reverend Jenny perhaps causes deep division : CREVASSE

25-across – Failing to turn away lost student : DEFECT

1-down – Showing courage he finally leaves, waving cheerio : HEROIC

2-down – Girl’s artful radiance causing dismay : DISHEARTEN

3-down – Leading Italian politician having regular orgies and about to be put in jail : IMPRISON

4-down – Type showing impudent effrontery : BOLDFACE

5-down – Intense pressure, then noxious discharge of gas : FORCEFUL

7-down – Mucus is brought up in large quantities : TONS

8-down – When the pope eats stew? : HASH

12-down – Blair urges unstable American to carry out illegal invasion for gain : BURGLARISE

13-down – Ignoring his intermittent treacheries, unwisely reproduce : RECREATE

14-down – Refuses to leave corset on couch : STAYSPUT

16-down – South Sea islander’s expression of pleasure captured by European artist : TAHITIAN

19-down – He touches sensitive organ : FEELER

20-down – In my sleep I composed a long poem : EPIC

21-down – See 4 across : ZONE

1-across – Quite vain, to be blunt : POINTLESS

6-across – Work in church and you may wear it : COPE

8-across – Giant firm states no profit is taken : COLOSSUS

9-across – WWII field marshal gains military medal in new role : ROMMEL

10-across – A tense assembly of university governors : SENATE

11-across – Thumbs up for it! : APPROVAL

12-across – Beat nervous tension : STRESS

15-across – A compulsory turnout : EVICTION

16-across – Equestrian discipline is a habit that comes with time : DRESSAGE

19-across – Decorate without a central point and it becomes gaudy : GARISH

21-across – Run caused by panic in the stock market? : STAMPEDE

22-across – Judge gives fools direction : ASSESS

24-across – Burning a mark on a horse : ABLAZE

25-across – Current keeping river very warm : TROPICAL

26-across – Tax it out of frivolity : LEVY

27-across – Blow makes market reel : TRADEWIND

1-down – Be under professional scrutiny : PROBE

2-down – One extremely behind schedule in divorce : ISOLATE

3-down – Head of state moves to centre, showing discrimination : TASTE

4-down – Trap seen, ran off! : ENSNARE

5-down – Young lad subtracting initially, then multiplying : STRIPLING

6-down – Behave well — or have romp around in bed! : COMPORT

7-down – Teardrops shed for hungry animals : PREDATORS

13-down – Go on board deck : TURNTABLE

14-down – What the bank has to say of your account? : STATEMENT

17-down – Survey the whole lot with a girl : SUMMARY

18-down – Let care be arranged for tragic female : ELECTRA

20-down – A cross in Italy shows where a composer is buried : ROSSINI

22-down – Left in a unit entirely without support : ALONE

23-down – Said to have remained sober : STAID

8-across – East African 26? : THEGREAT

9-across – Courage of the artillery : HEART

10-across – Bird wasn’t emu in disguise : MUTE

11-across – West Country 26? : THEBRISTOL

12-across – Dull old farceur showing grid of data : MATRIX

14-across – Richard I badly scarred, Anjou finally claimed : CRUSADER

15-across – Building provided rocks behind shed, half removed : EDIFICE

17-across – See 11 : CHANNEL

20-across – Bone, right angle in weakness behind collar, oddly : CLAVICLE

22-across – Far from messy wood : SPRUCE

23-across – What idealistic is — as it’s fanciful? : ITALICISED

24-across – See 10 : SWAN

25-across – Wonderful to expand : SWELL

26-across – Narcotic bagged by toilet in prison, split : CLEAVAGE

1-down – Solver no longer above S&M? : THOUSAND

2-down – Fit bloke shortly entering hospital department? : AGUE

3-down – Hybrid meets with cross, which is explosive : SEMTEX

4-down – A pet shot, one dead : ATPEACE

5-down – Comprehensive school’s centre in depression : THOROUGH

6-down – 3-D imaging device, one preserving musical, might you say? : CATSCANNER

7-down – Flasher finds way to overcome the habit : STROBE

13-down – See 8 : RIFTVALLEY

16-down – Chilled, containing carbon, not entirely terrific, a drink : COCACOLA

18-down – Old coins providing conversation : EXCHANGE

19-down – Fashion icon, with some poetry, catching a cold : VERSACE

21-down – Hot-off-the-press Hollywood paper? : LATEST

22-down – Wet bit of ground covering home of the beast : SODDEN

24-down – Free husband : SAVE

1-across – People bothered about language in Mass — those devoted to the Virgin : GRAMMARIANS

9-across – Worker is about to meet Her Maj, becoming more nervy : ANTSIER

10-across – Party men wanting dull, submissive type : DOORMAT

11-across – See 5 : GATHERSNO

12-across – Wobbly toilet seat half falling off : LOOSE

13-across – Maverick has lost his heart in a dance : REEL

14-across – One decants mucky liquid : CONDENSATE

16-across – Try to engage with lunatic without saying much : TACITURNLY

19-across – See 5 : MOSS

21-across – Yield of grass around about farm cut by 75% : DEFER

22-across – Angry female’s wrath in lively exchange : CROSSFIRE

24-across – Conceited type is to get teased : EGOTIST

25-across – Issue not raised naturally : ADOPTEE

26-across – Setters we can deal with? : DOGHANDLERS

1-down – Walk after a hearty breakfast? : GOTOTHESCAFFOLD

2-down – Girl seen in college put into a story : ALICE

3-down – Dance company following society’s conventions : MORESCO

4-down – Actor’s car in colour Henry wouldn’t allow! : REDFORD

5-down – Saw why Keith couldn’t pick up Kate? : AROLLING

6-down – What could make one moan so — staginess in old play : SAMSONAGONISTES

7-down – Car registration set up for 5 23 : JAGGER

8-down – Goddess sinking into bath energetically : ATHENE

15-down – 19’s uni? : STIRLING

16-down – Bound to carry identification that’s in good order : TIDIED

17-down – Cheese in bed girl’s eaten : RICOTTA

18-down – Writer turning up to probe fat cat : LEOPARD

20-down – Wife tucks into horse, fricasséed : STEWED

23-down – See 5 : STONE

1-across – Rule about part of tube that goes underground : SUBWAY

4-across – Swindle repelled in country by alien of posh character : UPMARKET

9-across – Hidden person running religious business : OCCULT

10-across – Separate gases from magic herb in exotic teas : ATMOLYSE

11-across – Sedative for bird that’s breached order to put note into singer : PHENOBARBITONE

13-across – Different artist left single girl to instincts going the other way : DISSIMILAR

14-across – Tendency of footballer to have swapped poles with one in 8 : BENT

16-across – Substitute for bad habit? : VICE

18-across – A beast or two going round deserted village with low frequency : TIMBERWOLF

21-across – Invisible writer backs my way with quote turning into cesspool : SYMPATHETICINK

23-across – Sailor finds worthy folk a lot to stomach : ABOMASUM

24-across – Style with ornament or otherwise with 2 2s? : ROCOCO

25-across – The Spanish sheep have tangled hair : ELFLOCKS

26-across – Speculation about the sick getting lodging : BILLET

1-down – Try to get warmer than swarm? : SHOT

2-down – Audible supporters of deity? : BACCHUS

3-down – Lost land last carved up without objector : ATLANTIS

5-down – Land amid a lot of stones: it was chronicled by Potter : PETERRABBIT

6-down – Exemplar of beauty, a tonic when evil turns up : ADONIS

7-down – Surgery that’s transparent when unoccupied? : KEYHOLE

8-down – Ironic wish for food — eating shrub’s rubbish, concealing go-slow among detectives and pupil : THEBESTOF

12-down – See 8 : BRITISHLUCK

13-down – Destroy pictures of Hindu deity : DEVASTATE

15-down – Vegetable for Manx badger with species of bacterium : BROCCOLI

17-down – Be substituted and succeed — it follows with scepticism : COMEOFF

19-down – Bird covering north Indian region, 1 down in the 22 with the 22? : OWNGOAL

20-down – Attempted to be hard on a rude Latin : HADAGO

22-down – Party leader once on the ball? : FOOT