Daily Answers

9-across – Caspian, say, gets Annie’s lad off : INLANDSEA

10-across – Deck trouble with sailors : ADORN

11-across – Kings entertaining painter turn left to get fur from sheep : KARAKUL

12-across – Scottish king, an American subject, retaining award : MACBETH

13-across – We come to it, getting up for a row : DUST

14-across – See 21 : RICHARDSON

16-across – Man has a heavy defeat — listen to all he says : HEAROUT

17-across – Worry about woman in stream : FRESHET

19-across – Box in wearing fewer clothes and drawers, a work of 8 : BARCHESTER

22-across – Take back part of the sound of silence : UNDO

24-across – Talk food at naval base once : CHATHAM

25-across – Generous remarks that are defamatory about artist : LIBERAL

26-across – Unrestrainedly express feelings for quarter bit of 13 : EMOTE

27-across – Listen to water falling from roof : EAVESDROP

1-down – Turned up toes maybe spilling water : KICKEDTHEBUCKET

2-down – Pupils embracing religious instruction, a work of 21 14 : CLARISSA

3-down – Glider scotched, not killed, by 12 : SNAKE

4-down – Not quite when I am for love, on second thoughts, for David : PSALMIST

5-down – Affection for anger? : WARMTH

6-down – Moviemaker needs accountant and compère to get things straight : CAMCORDER

7-down – See 19 : TOWERS

8-down – 18 unknown to slut coming in before novelist : ANTHONYTROLLOPE

15-down – Playing his cello, Highland leader appears on the Road to the Isles : LOCHSHIEL

17-down – Nothing’s for nothing, never mind about marriage : FREELOVE

18-down – Getting nothing for being old and not being entertained : HONORARY

20-down – Concerned with Roman coin on the ground : REASON

21-down – Strong man, hiding awfully cruel one and tough, was novelist : SAMUEL

23-down – Embarrass a party? : ABASH

8-across – Monarch remains on edge in retreat, one coming from a region in Asia : KASHMIRI

9-across – Cat for far less than a pound : OUNCE

10-across – Titanic sense of foreboding? : THAT

11-across – A thousand, number entering strike, suffer the consequences : TAKETHERAP

12-across – Marley primarily in Dickens returning, that is, as dead man walking : ZOMBIE

14-across – Change number on back, 12 : NOONTIDE

15-across – Individual put in better hospital, proving success : TRIUMPH

17-across – Time to release that tension? : STRETCH

20-across – Sozzled rector in possession of Chelsea pensioner, say? : TRICORNE

22-across – Lavishly entertaining film interrupting casually announced item? : FETING

23-across – Quaint poem containing line with water on grass or lake : OLDEWORLDE

24-across – Bullet repelled by pellets? : SLUG

25-across – Moon about eating second course : EPSOM

26-across – Blinks, since revolting scoffing rubbish : NICTATES

1-down – What’s humour to you is disgusting, so please do this! : WASHYOUR

2-down – Bird’s conversation : CHAT

3-down – Tricky small title? : LITTLE

4-down – See 10 : SINKING

5-down – See 1 : MOUTHOUT

6-down – How clergyman’s dressed, as a contribution : INVESTMENT

7-down – See 18 : DEMAND

13-down – Depressed, getting bad luck when hard, which stinks : BLUECHEESE

16-down – Normandy cypher, why not f*** off? : PARDONMY

18-down – Party : CONSUMER

19-down – See 10 : FEELING

21-down – In this works outstanding charity : RELIEF

22-down – See 16 : FRENCH

24-down – See 3 : SLAM

1-across – With extraordinary charm, old capital smothers a censor : LORDCHAMBERLAIN

9-across – Liable to be detected having forty winks : NAPPING

10-across – Lumberjack’s picture? : WOODCUT

11-across – Talk of state? : GAS

12-across – Prevent passing of legislation to reduce police numbers? : KILLTHEBILL

13-across – Reduced borough with David and Richard playing a duet : ATTENUATED

15-across – Kings keeping tips on account may be taken aback : KNAP

18-across – See 15 : SACK

20-across – Actor in the front inside back : EDITHEVANS

23-across – Play throughout the season in question with everyone going down : ALLTHATFALL

25-across – Keyholder having been fired? : ASH

26-across – Artist, one writing plays for adults included : PAINTER

27-across – One in musical — The Prince and the Showgirl? : OLIVIER

28-across – I enter alliance with Lovelace’s new girl, rendering three — which includes 27 : NATIONALTHEATRE

1-down – Crave drug from receiver of kicks? : LONGGRASS

2-down – Sport that is newly put in store : REPOSIT

3-down – Smart lad’s victims of premature count? : CHICKENS

4-down – Backer of good old coin : ANGEL

5-down – Acknowledges old actor’s time with runners : BOWSTREET

6-down – Island ways being broadcast : RHODES

7-down – Event with lots of bridge? : AUCTION

8-down – Related to one’s origin in South Africa : NATAL

14-down – A mutiny to elevate atmosphere at the 28? : AUDITORIA

16-down – God’s in attitude that will give a speedy ride : POSTHORSE

17-down – Poet-parson upset Cleo : VERLAINE

19-down – Incest upsetting sick musician : CELLIST

21-down – In painting, an encore given to such as Lawrence : ARABIST

22-down – Wodehousian greeting to doctor without cover : WHATHO

23-down – Shaker when writer? : ASPEN

24-down – A fight, more or less : ABOUT

1-across – Legal principle requiring tree to be clipped : CYPRES

4-across – Make-believe incentive with promises of money to come : SPURIOUS

9-across – Frustrate the spirit : SCOTCH

10-across – Troopers will be troopers? Male duds : MENSWEAR

11-across – Garish tat’s awful on a female broadcaster, honest! : STRAIGHTASADIE

13-across – People making cuts, restricting the commun­ity? None of us can have everything : PARTOWNERS

14-across – Poet has put out superior port : ADEN

16-across – Vulgar female supporter turned back : NAFF

18-across – Work centre said to be suitable for voluntary organisation : PEACECORPS

21-across – As to Golden Calf — it’s wrong in a religious retreat! : CASTELGANDOLFO

23-across – Hidden part of the body revealed by Pearl : INNEREAR

24-across – Extremely drunk, all right, fools all falling over : STINKO

25-across – Get to spa, knackered — support needed at end of drive? : GATEPOST

26-across – Litre extracted from mixer for drinking session : BENDER

1-down – In the land of yodellers there’s huge hit : COSH

2-down – University officer reported? Gamble is associated with him : PROCTER

3-down – One chats about the end of the world : ESCHATON

5-down – Classical boy Amos on vessel coming from island : PUERTORICAN

6-down – Combat is interrupting inactivity : RESIST

7-down – Made too big a thing of old composer having died : OVERDID

8-down – Officers giving material to workers? : SERGEANTS

12-down – Writer presents piece, getting a bit of work having run into old news agency : GUNTERGRASS

13-down – Out of control, giving office assistant whipping : PANICKING

15-down – Cor! A cute flipping dress! : ACCOUTRE

17-down – Secure catch in sea area off Ireland : FASTNET

19-down – Punished a second time to be made pure? : REFINED

20-down – Destroy a game in perverse display of temper : TEARUP

22-down – Singers won’t want hard material : COIR

1-across – A basic idea is to find god : ANUBIS

5-across – Effluent blocking pipe a little bit : SCRAPING

9-across – Land taken over to strangle weed almost producing flowers : NARCISSI

10-across – Negligence evident, no clergy carrying the cross : LAXITY

11-across – Old politician drinking something up, a traditional wisdom for drinking tale : WHISKYGALORE

13-across – See 15 : BUTT

14-across – This regulates flow, given Spooner’s police funds? : STOPCOCK

17-across – If secret’s out, becoming most aggressive : FIERCEST

18-across – US exclamation about 25, which is clarified : GHEE

20-across – Half-cut pig recalling model with centre parting and her, one with a filthy mind : PORNOGRAPHER

23-across – Whatever it is to accomplish, nothing held back : DOODAH

24-across – One’s stable, though angriest when unstable : INERTGAS

25-across – One on the table? : HYDROGEN

26-across – Cutting round something to bend that’s grey : DREARY

2-down – Straight for the bull : NEAT

3-down – O₂H? : BACKWATER

4-down – Bird with runner sliding into iniquity : SISKIN

5-down – Jam? : STICKYSITUATION

6-down – Faith, that is, girl turned on : RELIGION

7-down – Choose unit, say, for unit on box : PIXEL

8-down – Ball-breaker sounding sweet? : NUTCRACKER

12-down – Study noted and barred? : MUSICOLOGY

15-down – Well, a soldier retiring through minor injury given little time, one consigned to the gutter? : CIGARETTE

16-down – Animal duck gets to corner : HEDGEHOG

19-down – Pass through the Strand : THREAD

21-down – Low point from adaptation of The King and I : NADIR

22-down – Lovely show : FAIR